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| May 2008 |
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Global Round-Up
The Gathering Storm, May 22, 2008
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, May 22, 2008
Iran and Venezuela have announced plans to form a common bank to invest in economic development projects between the two countries. Each country will kick in $600 million for the initial capitalization. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez suggested this cooperation on economic development has other benefits as well. "The two countries' cooperation has turned into a great unity between the Iranian and Venezuelan nations and this annoys the U.S. imperialism," he said.
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A Palestinian Army?
The Gathering Storm, May 20, 2008
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, May 20, 2008
News comes that the Palestinian Authority is demanding Israel accept the establishment of a standing Palestinian army as a term in the peace negotiations taking place between the two countries. Previous accords had made clear the new Palestinian state was to be demilitarized, leaving the Israeli negotiators frustrated with the new terms.
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Left in Church
Deep inside the Wright Trumpet.
By Stanley Kurtz
Posted: Tuesday, May 20, 2008
New information about Barack Obama's relationship to Jeremiah Wright, Trinity United Church of Christ, and other radical religious figures in Chicago raises disturbing questions.
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A Papal Follow-Up
By George Weigel
Posted: Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Amidst some splendid Catholic theater, there were a lot of ideas to chew on in Benedict XVI's visit to the United States. As a master-teacher who seeks to bring his students to friendship with Jesus, Benedict XVI's answers to the basic questions of Christian faith and practice are very much worth pondering.
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Schlafly Controversy Proves Her Continuing Relevance
By Colleen Carroll Campbell
Posted: Friday, May 16, 2008
After more than four decades in the national spotlight, Phyllis Schlafly still has what it takes to generate controversy. The best-selling author and St. Louis native reprised a familiar role as the target of protests this month when officials at her alma mater, Washington University, announced their intention to award her an honorary degree at Friday's commencement ceremony.
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Judicial Activism Run Amok
By M. Edward Whelan III
Posted: Friday, May 16, 2008
On May 15, the California supreme court, by a vote of 4 to 3, invented a right to same-sex marriage under the state constitution. That same day, EPPC President Ed Whelan offered his critical comments on the court’s ruling in a series of posts on National Review Online’s Bench Memos blog.
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Indignity and Bioethics
Steven Pinker discovers the human-dignity cabal.
By Yuval Levin
Posted: Thursday, May 15, 2008
Human dignity has long been a contentious subject in American bioethics. A frequently employed if ill-defined concept in European political life, in international law, and in the ethical tradition of the West, dignity has had a particularly hard time finding its precise meaning and place in the Anglo-American sphere.
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"A Stinking Corpse"
The Gathering Storm, May 15, 2008
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, May 15, 2008
As President Bush arrived in the Middle East yesterday to help mark Israel's 60th anniversary and speak at a peace conference, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reportedly called the Jewish state a "stinking corpse," among other sentiments. "The Zionist regime is dying," Ahmadinejad said in a speech. "The criminals imagine that by holding celebrations ... they can save the Zionist regime from death."
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Jeremiah Wright's 'Trumpet'
The content of the magazine produced by Barack Obama's pastor reveals the content of his character.
By Stanley Kurtz
Posted: Thursday, May 15, 2008
Newly discovered essays by Jeremiah Wright and his church colleagues show conclusively that Wright's infamous YouTube sermon-segments are fully representative of his thoughts. In twenty years as a parishioner, Barack Obama could not have escaped this knowledge.
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Causes and Cures of "Demographic Winter"
By John D. Mueller
Posted: Thursday, May 15, 2008
The new film Demographic Winter performs a national service by outlining the biggest social, economic and strategic challenge that the United States will face in coming decades. However, it also makes the problem seem overly complex and ends without offering hope of solutions. I’d like to share with you a simpler and somewhat more hopeful analysis.
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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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