The Supreme Court’s latest attempt to destroy republican government comes, this week, under the guise of equality. Gay marriage advocates find themselves before the highest Court, seeking to use the bench to achieve what has eluded them politically. To be successful, they will encourage the Court to overturn the past and empower itself at the […]
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The Tyranny of Gay Marriage
26 Mar 2013
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Welcome to our Facebook page!
24 Mar 2013
Bereans at the Gate now has an official Facebook page. Here is the link. Please like the page! We are going to start spreading the word about our blog soon, so this is just a start. THANKS!
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The Devolution of Abortion Rights
21 Mar 2013
While we are right to focus on the politics of the day, we too often, in our haste, forget our longstanding woes. Abortion is out of vogue in the current political climate, unless it is used as a club against its opponents. While Richard Mourdock and Todd Aiken still bear the scars of mis-statements (let […]
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None other than Fareed Zakaria wrote an editorial this past week calling on President Obama’s administration to approve the Keystone Pipeline project. Considering Zakaria’s close affiliation with the political left, this should catch the President’s attention. I am a faithful reader of Time magazine, of which Zakaria is now editor at large after a decade […]
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Teen Pregnancy as a Wicked Problem
15 Mar 2013
Policy analysts often refer to multifaceted problems, that are resistant to traditional solutions, as “wicked.” Unwed, teenage pregnancy has grown into one of those. Historically, teenage pregnancy was limited through lack of access and shame. The automobile, the pill, and shifting sexual mores have redefined the phenomenon. Now, we no longer shame unwed, teen moms, […]
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The “Randpage,” as Drudge has named it, continues. Rand Paul has decided to use one of the Senate’s most distinguished techniques, the filibuster, to state his opposition to John Brennan’s nomination, and eventual confirmation, as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Paul’s opposition stems primarily from Brennan’s willingness to allow drone strikes of American citizens, even […]
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More on Fossil-Fuel Divestment
06 Mar 2013
For those of you who want to read the second and third installment of the “Fossil-Fuel Divestment” article of March 4, 2013, go to the National Review Online for today, March 6 and you will find both yesterday’s and today’s final parts. Enjoy reading and take careful note. This is a “wedge issue” which really goes […]
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Same Song, Different Tunes
06 Mar 2013
The following longer piece is designed to bring light rather than heat to the on-going debates regarding free market institutions versus government. We hear quite a bit about the battles between conservatives (the American equivalent of classical liberals) and liberals (the American equivalent of Modern Liberals or Social Democrats). This is especially true regarding their […]
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Fossil-Fuel Divestment
05 Mar 2013
Fossil-Fuel Divestment If the reader wants to know what one particular anti-capitalist and anti-growth movement looks like, see this article. It is actually in three parts at the National Review Online. This is the first part from March 4, 2013. Radical environmental groups may be small but they are well-funded and appealing to the Millenials. […]
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Whose Economic Vision?
28 Feb 2013
Bert Wheeler Professor of Economics Berry Chair for Free Enterprise at Cedarville University When it comes to opinions on our nation’s economy, there are two opposing visions. One casts the United States as a nation based on free enterprise with minimal government involvement in business affairs. The other casts the United States as a nation […]
Bert Wheeler
Jeff Haymond
Marc Clauson
Mark Caleb Smith
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