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| April 2008 |
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"The Peace Pipeline"
The Gathering Storm, April 29, 2008
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad began a three-nation tour of Asia on Monday with stops scheduled for Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and India in attempts to strengthen diplomatic and trading relations with the South Asian countries.
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Defining Definitions Down
By James Bowman
Posted: Tuesday, April 29, 2008
In 1976, the British Marxist critic Raymond Williams published Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. It was a work of genuine scholarship, tracing the semantic histories of certain words that have specialized political meanings. Now comes Keywords for American Cultural Studies, modeled on Williams's work, except that editors Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler have dispensed with the scholarship and the humor.
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The End of the Caricature
Americans got to see the real Pope Benedict, not the cartoon Rottweiler.
By George Weigel
Posted: Monday, April 28, 2008
From his first moments at Andrews Air Force Base it was clear that Pope Benedict XVI was no hard-edged theological enforcer, no Rottweiler. Instead of the cartoon Ratzinger, America was introduced to a modest, friendly man with exquisite manners and full of affection and admiration for the United States.
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A Bush Success (not that he gets credit)
The Medicare drug benefit is working better than predicted.
By James C. Capretta, Peter Wehner
Posted: Friday, April 25, 2008
Now in its third year, the Medicare drug benefit's market-based design is working better than predicted. Eighty-five percent of beneficiaries are satisfied with their coverage, and costs are now expected to be 40 percent--or $244 billion--less over ten years than originally projected.
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Young Catholics Meet a Man Who Understands Them
By Colleen Carroll Campbell
Posted: Friday, April 25, 2008
At 81, Benedict understands a fundamental truth about fervent young Catholics that many of their middle-aged elders miss: Their enthusiasm for the faith is not about rejecting the world. It is about embracing a radical commitment to God that inspires them to influence the world with Gospel values.
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Remarks on the Anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's Birth
By Wilfred M. McClay
Posted: Thursday, April 24, 2008
Perhaps, in the past, we have been too prone to place our forebears on a pedestal. But it is far worse, to feel compelled always to cut the storied past down to the size of the tabloid present. Perhaps the time has come for that to change. Perhaps we are wise enough now, to know that imperfect heroes are the only kind there ever are, or can be.
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Ahmadinejad, Chavez, and a New Power in Paraguay
The Gathering Storm, April 24, 2008
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, April 24, 2008
"If we want to build the country, maintain our dignity and solve economic problems, we need the culture of martyrdom." That's the latest from Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. AFP reports that in a speech on Wednesday, Ahmadinejad described martyrdom as a "quick and shortcut way to reach the summit of salvation." Though he did not explain exactly how dying for one's religious beliefs would help the Iranian economy.
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Crooked Analysis
A shallow and uninformed look at Bush economic policy.
By Peter Wehner
Posted: Thursday, April 24, 2008
Clive Crook negelcts to mention the chief reason the nation went from a surplus to a deficit was that President Bush inherited an economy skidding toward recession (it officially began just a few months after he took office). When the dot com bubble burst so did the projected surpluses. In addition, the attacks on September 11th dealt a crippling blow to several important sectors in the economy.
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Freedom Fighters
The Gathering Storm, April 22, 2008
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Does Radio Free Europe still exist? A good yet bothersome question to ask, writes Anne Applebaum, the columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag: A History, in her latest column for Slate.
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It's the Economy, Stupid
By James C. Capretta
Posted: Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Growing anxiety about the American economy is a challenge and an opportunity for Senator McCain. His priorities should be tax cuts for parents to invest in the next generation, and tax reform for simplicity and stability.
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| Religion and the Media |
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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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