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Feb 03 2012

Newt’s Past Doesn’t Disqualify Him

By Trevor Thomas | Posted in CJS Forum, Featured Post | Feb-03-2012
One of the most beloved men in the history of humanity is the second king of Israel, King David. The "ruddy and handsome" young man, ...
Jan 28 2012

The Problems of Prisons

By Zachary Gappa | Posted in Blog | Jan-28-2012
The New Yorker has a truly great article chronicling the current state of the prison system and laying out suggestions for improvement.  I've always been ...
Jan 24 2012

School Threatens Teen for Opposing Gay Adoption

By Zachary Gappa | Posted in Blog | Jan-24-2012
Here's another crazy public school story - the one of out Wisconsin: A 15 year old student was asked to write an op-ed on gay ...
Jan 24 2012

Newt Turns the Tables

By Ken Connor | Posted in Featured Post, Ideas in Action | Jan-24-2012
"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."  No doubt this truism was at the top of Newt Gingrich's mind as he responded to John King's ...
Jan 21 2012

Life Lessons

By Jack Beavers | Posted in CJS Forum, Featured Post | Jan-21-2012
Papaw's Life Lessons is a compilation of letters previously submitted for publication by Jack Beavers which he is now assembling into a book for his ...
Jan 06 2012

Things You Can’t Say if You Are a Conservative

By Zachary Gappa | Posted in Blog | Jan-06-2012
Thaddeus J. Kozinski writes at Ethicka Politica on the political correctness of the Right.  He makes the point (often ignored) that a kind of unspoken ...
Jan 04 2012

Cultural and Political Entropy

By Robert C. Wilson | Posted in CJS Forum, Featured Post | Jan-04-2012
According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary App, the word Entropy can be defined as “the degradation of the matter and energy in the universe to ...
Jan 03 2012

Self-Esteem in an Unhealthy Culture

By Zachary Gappa | Posted in Blog | Jan-03-2012
A controversial set of ads is running in Georgia. In the vein of recent harsh anti-smoking campaigns, these ads target childhood obesity. And they don't ...
Dec 21 2011

Kids Can’t Be Kids

By Zachary Gappa | Posted in Blog | Dec-21-2011
A troubling story comes out of Tennessee: A Rutherford County school district punished a 10 year old boy for waving around a gun at lunch... ...
Dec 13 2011

More than Dollars and Cents

By Zachary Gappa | Posted in Blog | Dec-13-2011
One of the authors I most enjoyed reading in college was German economist Wilhelm Röepke.  Röepke was a firm believer in free markets, but he ...

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