‘Marvin Folkertsma’ Archives
Remember Victory-In-Europe Day
MARVIN J. FOLKERTSMA, CENTER FOR VISION & VALUES December 1941 is usually remembered by Americans as that fateful month when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, thus thrusting the United States into World War II. However, consider an alternate scenario: Adolf Hitler appears triumphantly before the Reichstag announcing the destruction of the Soviet [...]
Sick Chickens and Sick Laws
MARVIN J. FOLKERTSMA, CENTER FOR VISION & VALUES When President Obama made his famous declaration about how he was confident that “that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress,” many observers figured [...]
God and Man at CPAC
Marvin J. Folkertsma, Center for Vision and Values Amidst the hoopla, cheers, and ear-piercing whistles of enthusiastic approval for Republican presidential nominees at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, several themes emerged. The most important of these centered on the conflict between what may be titled American [...]
Remembering the Battlers of the Bulge
By Marvin J. Folkertsma, The Center for Vision and Values On December 16, 1944, the men of Lieutenant Lyle Bouck’s platoon had their all-night vigil interrupted by a pre-dawn fusillade of artillery rounds from a hundred German guns, their muzzle flashes punctuating the darkness like a volley of fireballs hurled from the pit of hell. Instead [...]
Wall Street, the Mob, and the French Connection
Dr. Marvin Folkertsma, The Center for Vision and Values In “The Wild One,” Marlin Brando plays Johnny, a leather-jacketed vagabond sporting a black-brim hat perched on his head at a rakish angle, below which lurk piercing dark eyes and a sneer of contempt in answer to the question, “What are you rebelling against?” Brando states simply, [...]
