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| March 2008 |
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Why the Pope Has Bin Laden Running Scared
By Colleen Carroll Campbell
Posted: Monday, March 31, 2008
Like Pope John Paul II, whose persistent reminders of the link between faith and freedom emboldened grassroots resistance to communism and enraged communist leaders, Pope Benedict has infuriated the global bullies of his day. To Islamist extremists who murder innocents in the name of their irrational and bloodthirsty god, Benedict's message about the compatibility of faith and reason undermines their efforts in a way no military campaign or secular leader could.
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The McBrien Prize
And the winner is...
By George Weigel
Posted: Monday, March 31, 2008
Americans interested in hearing what the pope actually has to say about the United States and its role in the world, and about the deeper issues of world politics, should pay particularly close attention to Benedict's remarks at the White House welcoming ceremony on April 16 and his address to the U.N. General Assembly on April 18. Far from playing Jeremiah against the Great Satan Bush, Benedict XVI is going to teach the world a lesson about moral reason as the "grammar" by which the world can have a conversation about the world's future.
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Wright Questions
What the national press should ask Barack Obama about his former pastor.
By Peter Wehner
Posted: Monday, March 31, 2008
Here are a set of 22 questions political reporters and other journalists might want to press Barack Obama to answer about his relationship with the Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., the former senior pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.
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One-Day Democrats: A Bad Idea
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Monday, March 31, 2008
The results are in. Democratic registration numbers have surged to a record four million, and an equally impressive record of an 800,000-vote advantage over Republicans in the state. Have things gotten so bad for the GOP in Pennsylvania that a stampede has begun?
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Jihad, Jew-Hatred, and Evangelicals and Jews Together
By Keith Pavlischek
Posted: Thursday, March 27, 2008
An instructive and fascinating debate has erupted over what at first glance may seem an academic point. The debate is between Matthias Küntzel, the author of Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11, and Andrew Bostom, the editor of The Legacy of Jihad and author of the forthcoming book The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History. The debate is not over whether contemporary Islamism is vehemently anti-Jewish but over the historical roots of that Jew-hatred.
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A Need for Renewed U.S. Focus on Latin America
The Gathering Storm, March 27, 2008
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, March 27, 2008
Senator John McCain's speech on foreign policy last night addressed many things, not the least of which was a concerted effort to reintegrate the Americas as a unified hemisphere of shared history and future goals. While I would agree in large part, I would caution against his all-out optimism. In recent years there has been a disturbing tendency amongst Americans to disregard our Southern neighbors as passé and irrelevant to the global scene.This stems in part from U.S. media ignoring coverage of the region to an American public that tends to see Central and South America as little more than an extension of Mexico and our "immigration problems." Arguably, Latin America affects Americans' daily lives, on issues related toimmigration, trade, the environment,and energy issues (yes, we import more oil from our neighbors than from Saudi Arabia) more than any other region of the world.
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Easter vs. Irony
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Perhaps the trouble so many highly educated people have in accepting the gift of faith today is that their spiritual faculties have been dulled by the irony in which modern and post-modern high culture abounds. Very little today is what it once was thought to be: what we once regarded as good, we are now taught was base. Innocence is ignorance; only the ironic sensibility befits a well-educated modern.
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Following the Foreign Money
With the data now public, let the targeted research and reporting begin.
By Stanley Kurtz
Posted: Wednesday, March 26, 2008
A complete list of federal records of foreign donations to American colleges and universities has just been made public. It's time to follow up these reports so as to insure against undue foreign influence at America's universities.
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Iran: A Hopeless Case?
The Gathering Storm, March 25, 2008
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, March 25, 2008
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, concluding two days of talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, said Monday that Hamas militants and their backers in Iran and Syria are sabotaging the Middle East peace negotiations. Meanwhile, the radical conservatives in Iran are set to regain control as 86 seats in the 290 seat parliament are to be decided in the second round of elections come April 25. Despite their retaining power, however, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is only barely keeping his prestige intact with this month's elections, in large part due to his populist spending policies that have triggered nation-wide inflation.
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Packer It In
Falling in the Obama trap.
By Peter Wehner
Posted: Tuesday, March 25, 2008
George Packer of The New Yorker, himself a fine writer, was deeply impressed (to say the least) with Barack Obama's speech on race. According to Packer, what we witnessed in Philadelphia a week ago was an "intimate lecture," the "greatest speech on race by an American politician in many decades."
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Faith Angle Conference -- May 2008
EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated a series of discussions in May at the semi-annual Faith Angle Conference sponsored by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and held in Key West, Florida. Transcripts of the informative talks are now available online.
 American Evangelicalism: New Leaders, New Faces, New Issues -- D. Michael Lindsay, author of Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite, describes eight fallacies or misconceptions he held as he began his book.
Religious Voters in the 2008 Election: What It Means for Democrats, Republicans -- William A. Galston, a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and an assistant for domestic policy in the Clinton administration, discusses the importance of the Catholic vote in 2008. How Our Brains are Wired for Belief -- What does brain science add to age-old debates about the existence of God and the value of religion? Can political parties and religious groups use scientific insights to influence the beliefs of others? Dr. Andrew Newberg and Mr. David Brooks raise these questions and share their insights with journalists.
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