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| July 2008 |
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Obama, Democrats, and the Surge
They were against it before it worked.
By Peter Wehner
Posted: Thursday, July 24, 2008
This is the week that the Democratic party ran up the white flag when it comes to the surge in Iraq. Leading the surrender was none other than Barack Obama, the Democratic party's presumptive nominee for president and among the most vocal critics of the counterinsurgency plan that has transformed the Iraq war from a potentially catastrophic loss to what may turn out to be a historically significant victory.
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On the Death, and Aging, of Princes
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Cardinal Bernardin Gantin's self-effacing humility paved the way for Cardinal Ratzinger, as his replacement as Dean of the College of Cardinals, to preside over the general congregations of cardinals that followed the death of John Paul II and to be the principal concelebrant and the homilist at John Paul's funeral Mass.
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Appeasing Iran
The Gathering Storm, July 22, 2008
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, July 22, 2008
In a disappointing and abrupt reversal of policy, the Bush Administration dispatched Undersecretary of State William Burns to join envoys from France, Britain, Germany, Russia, and China, to meet with Saeed Jalili, Iran's nuclear negotiator in Geneva.
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Media Apply God-Talk Double Standard
By Colleen Carroll Campbell
Posted: Friday, July 18, 2008
For the past eight years, Americans have heard an awful lot about theocracy. The rumblings began in 2000, when Bush answered a debate query about his favorite philosopher by citing "Jesus Christ, because he changed my heart." When Obama recently trumpeted his decision to "let Jesus Christ into my life" and make "faith-based" social service a "moral center of my administration," warnings about theocracy could not be heard.
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Obama is Right to Talk Tough on a Nuclear-Armed Iran
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, July 17, 2008
Over the past weeks much has been made of Barack Obama's hard right turn toward the center of the political spectrum. There's been no greater about-face than his embrace of the Bush Doctrine on the next likely foreign policy crisis - Iran.
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An Affair to Remember
Introductory Remarks
By James Bowman
Posted: Thursday, July 17, 2008
Character is of course what keeps Alec and Laura from consummating their passion, and I think it is not possible to understand the film without understanding that this is meant to be a good thing. But their self-denial is part of a much wider complex of social obligations that includes everything from their respective marriage vows to the manners required by their brief encounter with Dolly.
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A Man of Hope
By Colleen Carroll Campbell
Posted: Thursday, July 17, 2008
The suffering Dad endured -- from the first terrifying days of his diagnosis, when he knew what lay before him, to the last day of his life, when he struggled for the strength to kiss my Mom on the cheek -- has challenged myeasy ideas about hope. Hope based on a sunny disposition or happy circumstances cannot stand in the face of Alzheimer's, and Dad's intellect and optimism could not protect him from its ravages.
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The Hate Disease
By George Weigel
Posted: Thursday, July 17, 2008
The next president of the United States should take a close look at Dr. Attah Abu Al-Subh; so should the people who will elect the 44th president. Dr. Al-Subh is not your random nutter. He is, by all appearances, a distinguished gentleman in late middle-age -- the refined face of Hamas. Beneath the surface, however, boils a cauldron of hate.
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Oil, Oil, Oil
The Gathering Storm, July 15, 2008
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, July 15, 2008
The Huffington Post, of all places, published recently an article by Doug Schoen and Michael Rowan (the former an advisor in the Clinton White House) on the coordinated efforts by Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to weaken the U.S. by inflicting a recession by manipulating the supply of oil.
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Tony Snow, Happy Warrior
R.I.P.
By Peter Wehner
Posted: Tuesday, July 15, 2008
The best contribution I made to the Bush White House was my (inadvertent) role in bringing Tony Snow on board. Tony became a key member of the team and brought to this job, as he did to all his jobs, energy, enthusiasm, a set of core beliefs, and a radiating joy.
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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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