Ideas in Action

Nov 15 2011

Cowardice and Collusion at Penn State

By Ken Connor | Posted in Featured Post, Ideas in Action | Nov-15-2011
In March 1964, New York City was rocked by the grisly murder of Kitty Genovese.  Returning home from her job at a local sports bar, ...
Nov 10 2011

Turning Up the Heat on Herman

By Ken Connor | Posted in Featured Post, Ideas in Action | Nov-10-2011
Since the beginning of his meteoric rise to political stardom, Herman Cain has worn his lack of political experience like a badge of honor.  That ...
Nov 01 2011

An Inconvenient Truth

By Ken Connor | Posted in Featured Post, Ideas in Action | Nov-01-2011
For decades now, the "pro-choice" movement has successfully distorted the abortion debate by ignoring the essential question – is an unborn child a living human ...
Oct 26 2011

Mission Accomplished?

By Ken Connor | Posted in Featured Post, Ideas in Action | Oct-26-2011
After nearly a decade of deployments, surges, and setbacks, after thousands of lives lost and over one trillion in taxpayers dollars spent, President Obama has ...
Oct 18 2011

In Politics, Money Talks

By Ken Connor | Posted in Featured Post, Ideas in Action | Oct-18-2011
They say that money is the mother's milk of politics, and now that the field of Republican presidential hopefuls has solidified, the media has locked ...
Oct 11 2011

Are Mormons Christian?

By Ken Connor | Posted in Featured Post, Ideas in Action | Oct-11-2011
"A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher.  He would either ...
Oct 04 2011

Looking for Salvation in All the Wrong Places

By Ken Connor | Posted in Featured Post, Ideas in Action | Oct-04-2011
The need to worship is hardwired into the human psyche.  Yet, as unfashionable as it's become in the last century to worship the God of ...
Oct 01 2011

A Win for Elder Advocacy

By Ken Connor | Posted in Featured Post, Ideas in Action | Oct-01-2011
Last week, the MacArthur Foundation announced the winners of their annual "Genius Grant" awards.  Among the winners is Marie-Therese Connolly, an attorney and activist who ...
Sep 21 2011

Marriage Matters

By Ken Connor | Posted in Featured Post, Ideas in Action | Sep-21-2011
In his seminal work, After Virtue,  philosopher Alisdair MacIntyre argues that the abandonment of Aristotelian ethics lies at the heart of modern society's slide into ...
Sep 13 2011

Clergy Banished from Ground Zero

By Ken Connor | Posted in Featured Post, Ideas in Action | Sep-13-2011
On Sunday, September 11, 2011, Americans across the country and around the world joined together to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks.  On ...

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