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| March 2008 |
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McCain Must Change Views on Social Issues
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, March 13, 2008
The vast majority of the people in the conservative movement will vote for John McCain. I will. But will the people who make up the backbone of the get-out-the vote effort go to work for him? Only if he demonstrates that his vaunted pragmatism and open-mindedness will lead him to different positions on some issues.
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Faith of the Feminine
Vatican conference on women highlights the Judeo-Christian tradition's liberating power.
By Colleen Carroll Campbell
Posted: Tuesday, March 11, 2008
On the world stage, the Church defends the dignity of women in cultures where religious persecution, honor killings, genital mutilation, and forced marriages are daily realities. Such realities are ignored by many Western feminists whose fixation on abortion rights and reluctance to criticize any culture but their own have relegated them to the sidelines of these battles.
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The Dollar (and America's Enemies) Weaken
The Gathering Storm, March 11, 2008
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, March 11, 2008
With all the news of the weakening U.S. economy and the dollar , we should not fail to see the weakening of our enemies in Iraq.
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For the Love of the Game
Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, the Mitchell Report, and the adulteration of American sports.
By Eric Cohen, Leon R. Kass
Posted: Tuesday, March 11, 2008
While the Mitchell Report about steroids in major-league baseball gives voice to a widespread concern about the disturbing effects of performance-enhancing drugs on modern athletics, it also demonstrates our inability (or unwillingness) to confront the deeper sources of the trouble. We seem to know that biotechnological enhancement is a threat to the "integrity of the game," but we cannot really articulate why. The reason is that we have lost an understanding of what makes sports truly admirable, and hence worthy of our attention and our devotion.
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Obama Fatigue
The dangers of an elite celebrity candidacy.
By Yuval Levin
Posted: Saturday, March 8, 2008
Barack Obama's campaign has benefited immensely from his rock star status revivalist message. But might this strength turn out to be a weakness? Will the youth and celebrity culture that now embraces Obama turn on him? And is the great production turning off blue collar voters?
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Porn's "Liberation" Still Looks Like Objectification
By Colleen Carroll Campbell
Posted: Saturday, March 8, 2008
Remember the anti-pornography feminist movement? Remember that powerhouse alliance of such feminist leaders as Gloria Steinem, Susan Brownmiller, Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin that raged with righteous indignation throughout the 1970s and 1980s against an industry that objectifies women's bodies for profit? It's understandable if you don't.
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Latin America Simmering
The Gathering Storm, March 6, 2008
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, March 6, 2008
In response to a Colombian raid on a rebel base inside Ecuador this past weekend, Venezuelan troops took up positions on Colombia's border yesterday, while diplomats at the Organization of American States (OAS) moved closer to resolving the crisis. While the leaders of Ecuador and Venezuela cut diplomatic ties with Bogota and called for clear international condemnation of Colombia, OAS approached the issue more calmly, criticizing Colombia for its territorial encroachment without issuing an outright condemnation. Colombia has apologized to Ecuador, but did declare the raid a necessity.
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Al-Qaeda Is Losing the War of Minds
By Peter Wehner
Posted: Wednesday, March 5, 2008
The US "surge" in Iraq has been so manifestly successful that no serious person can deny that gains have been made. Even Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have (grudgingly) conceded progress. Yet both Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama are quick to add that progress has been purely on the military side and that those gains are ephemeral. This fits with their broader narrative -- that the war has been a disaster on every front.
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Sandboxes and Seminar Rooms
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Socrates "disoriented" young people with all of those probing questions in order to get them to grasp the truth of things. The basic assumption of the Harvard faculty report is that there is no truth-of-things; it's all "appearances," all the way down.
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New Iranian Sanctions and an Andean Crisis
The Gathering Storm, March 4, 2008
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, March 4, 2008
The U.N. Security Council yesterday imposed a third round of sanctions on Iran for its refusal to halt uranium enrichment. Meanwhile, Latin America is scrambling to defuse a three-nation crisis that threatens the region's stability after Venezuela and Ecuador cut diplomatic ties with Colombia and ordered troops to their neighbor's border.
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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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