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| April 2008 |
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Democrats Attack
Expanding the Dionne lexicon.
By Peter Wehner
Posted: Tuesday, April 22, 2008
The truth is that both parties have admirable and dishonorable political strategists; neither political party is the exclusive home of knaves or the virtuous. To pretend that the only political "attack machine" belongs to the GOP is wrong and can't withstand a moment's scrutiny.
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The Audacity of the Real "Audacity"
What Wright said.
By Stanley Kurtz
Posted: Monday, April 21, 2008
What did the Reverend Jeremiah Wright actually say in the "Audacity of Hope" sermon that so famously led to Barack Obama's conversion. A newly discovered text raises some disturbing questions.
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Everyone Is Talking
By Christine Rosen
Posted: Monday, April 21, 2008
A new technology has disrupted the unspoken social rules that had previously governed public space, and people are left searching for ways to reinstate them -- some more effective than others. But the technology itself, of course, is more than the enemy of decorum.
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A Future Full of Hope
By Colleen Carroll Campbell
Posted: Monday, April 21, 2008
Young adults see connections, not conflicts, between their concern for the poor and their defense of the unborn, between their focus on a personal relationship with Jesus and their attraction to ancient Catholic devotions and between belonging to a hierarchical Church and embracing the universal call to holiness affirmed at the Second Vatican Council. They are buoyed to know that Benedict sees those connections, too.
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Why Conservatives Should Support McCain
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Monday, April 21, 2008
Anyone who knows me knows that I don't shy away from offering my two-cents on the issues of the day, particularly in presidential races. And anyone who has heard me talk about the presidential race over the last few months knows that I've had, shall we say, some serious reservations about John McCain's candidacy.
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The Mystery of the Missing Lawsuits
One year after the Supreme Court's partial-birth-abortion ruling.
By M. Edward Whelan III
Posted: Friday, April 18, 2008
One year after the Supreme Court's ruling on the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Act of 2003, the pro-abortion industry has not filed a single lawsuit challenging the Act's application to circumstances that supposedly threaten a mother's health. Why not? The question is worth pondering.
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A Catholic Identity Overhaul
By Colleen Carroll Campbell
Posted: Friday, April 18, 2008
Benedict reminded his audience that Catholic schools exist to advance the Church's mission of spreading the faith by helping students seek truth through faith and reason. Since students who find truth also find God, the pope said, forming students in the Catholic faith is not a tangential aspect of Catholic education. It is its raison d'etre.
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Adding Spice to the American Mix
By George Weigel
Posted: Friday, April 18, 2008
For the life of the Catholic Church in America, what the Pope says in his homilies in Washington and New York, and in his meetings with Catholic bishops, educators, priests, Religious, seminarians and young people will likely have more of an immediate impact than what he says from the green marble rostrum of the General Assembly. And what the Catholic Church in America most needs to hear from Benedict XVI is a word of encouragement.
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Two Challenges Facing America in this Century
The Gathering Storm, April 17, 2008
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, April 17, 2008
Whoever is the next President of the United States, he or she will inherit a nation positioned in a world radically different from the world of 2000 or even 2001. I'm not merely referring to the threats we now face from radical Islam and Iran, or the nexus of Iran and Latin America, though these are parts of it. I mean that the world of 2009 and beyond will be one in which the United States sees its ability to influence events diminish (comparatively), because of two particular challenges that will probably endure for the next generation.
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How Judge Posner Thinks Judges Should Think
An unpersuasive case for pragmatism.
By M. Edward Whelan III
Posted: Thursday, April 17, 2008
In his new book, How Judges Think, Seventh Circuit judge Richard A. Posner states that he aims to offer a "cogent, unified, realistic, and appropriately eclectic account of how judges actually arrive at their decisions in nonroutine cases." But his book, in the end, offers much less insight about how judges actually think than about how Judge Posner thinks judges should think, and its case for Posnerian pragmatism is unpersuasive.
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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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