http://www.linkedtopolitics.com/blog/4198/the_kremlins_really_bad_month_march_1983.html“It was 25 years ago this month,” notes Dr. Paul Kengor, “March 1983, that the Soviet Union went into hysterics, both realizing and arguably beginning the terminal phase in its deadly life cycle.” Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:36:29 GMThttp://www.linkedtopolitics.com/blog/4131/the_united_states_as_global_citizen.html“The reality is that we Americans have done things that have hurt our allies and/or caused them to lose trust in us.” But Dr. Hendrickson is not referring to “controversial issues such as U.S. military intervention or our periodic blunders of undiplomatic ‘diplomacy;’ rather, the focus here is on the bread-and-butter issue of economics. The track record here,” he concludes, “is not pretty.” Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:36:29 GMThttp://www.linkedtopolitics.com/blog/4130/god_and_man_at_pitt.htmlWilliam F. Buckley, Jr.Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:36:29 GMThttp://www.linkedtopolitics.com/blog/4128/william_f_buckley_jr_rip.htmlWilliam F. Buckley, Jr.Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:36:29 GMThttp://www.linkedtopolitics.com/blog/4056/audacity_of_hope_vs_audacity_of_courage.htmlChange. It’s Barack Obama’s preferred buzzword. Problem is,Dr. Marvin Folkertsma points out, … the utter vacuity of the term change, unattended by at least a few meaty predicates, has been expatiated on to the point of parody. … The mature response is, of course, sober recognition of meretricious slogans; one moves on. But, to what? Hope, Dr. Folkertsma surmises, Or, more specifically, the audacity of hope, which is the title of Obama’s book-length campaign vehicle.Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:36:29 GMThttp://www.linkedtopolitics.com/blog/4009/the_2008_primaries_and_the_‘deep_issue’_deficit.html“Exactly 218 years ago in February 1790, a group of Quaker representatives submitted petitions to the House of Representatives to end the slave trade immediately,” yet this “peculiar institution” persisted for another seven decades. As Dr. Marvin Folkertsma portrays in his latest op-ed, this was a “Deep Issue” which “meant that citizens and their leaders had to face it sooner or later.” Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:36:29 GMThttp://www.linkedtopolitics.com/blog/4008/the_faith_of_george_washington.htmlWhile Monday was Presidents Day—the federal holiday when George Washington’s birth is traditionally celebrated—his actual birthday is this Friday, February 22. Scholars often take this time to analyze certain aspects of our nation’s first commander in chief, and in his latest op-ed, Dr. Gary Scott Smith marks the occasion by discussing the faith of a man who for “a quarter of a century, … was the most important person in America.”Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:36:29 GMThttp://www.linkedtopolitics.com/blog/3966/ranking_and_timing_the_presidents.htmlAre you excited about Presidents’ Day? It’s hard to think of a less inspiring, more perfunctory ‘holiday.’ Yawn. … One of the few ritual observances marking Presidents’ Day is the publication of historians’ and pundits’ rankings of the greatest presidents. Yawn again.Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:36:29 GMThttp://www.linkedtopolitics.com/blog/3895/lessons_from_lincoln.htmlWe can learn much from Abraham Lincoln about how to apply Judeo-Christian values to political life. Governing our nation during its darkest days, …. Lincoln, like other American presidents, employed a priestly civil religion to offer God’s comfort and solace to people in the midst of tragedy and affliction. More than other presidents, however, he used a prophetic civil religion to challenge citizens’ attitudes and actions. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:36:29 GMThttp://www.linkedtopolitics.com/blog/3894/lincoln’s_faith_and_presidents_today.htmlBy emulating Lincoln’s confidence in God’s sovereignty, desire to know and implement God’s will as he understood it, recognition of sin, call for repentance, willingness to forgive his opponents, and humility, political leaders and other Americans as well can better promote justice and peace in our troubled world.Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:36:29 GMT