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| May 2008 |
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Newsweek Gushes
By Peter Wehner
Posted: Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Few people are fortunate enough to receive the kind of love and tenderness we find in the Newsweek story. It is especially notable for two things. The first is that Obama is portrayed as a near-mythic figure. The second thing we learn is that St. Barack must prepare himself for "the coming mud war" led by those oh-so-mean Republicans.
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'Context,' You Say?
A guide to the radical theology of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright
By Stanley Kurtz
Posted: Tuesday, May 13, 2008
What we've got here is failure to contextualize. If nothing else, Jeremiah Wright's defenders and enablers are right about that. To fully understand those "sound bites" and "snippets" calling on God to damn America, accusing the U.S. government of intentionally spreading HIV among blacks, and blaming 9/11 on America's allegedly terrorist history and foreign policy, we do need more context.
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The Realist and the Utopian
By Ernest W. Lefever
Posted: Monday, May 12, 2008
During World War II, the India question was on hold and British-trained Indian troops rallied to the call of arms. Gandhi seemed to realize that Britain's survival was at stake and muted his demands for an India free of the British raj. Despite his brief imprisonment by the British he launched several hunger strikes. After the war, his full-fledged campaign against Britain resumed.
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Let's Call This 'Terrorism' By Its Real Name
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, May 8, 2008
It's official: We're fighting . . . terrorists. You can also call them violent extremists if you like, but never use jihadist or mujahedeen or Islamo-fascist to describe our enemy. These words are deemed pejorative and offensive, according to a recent Bush administration memorandum to federal employees whose jobs involve explaining our ongoing war to the public...
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Happy Birthday
The Gathering Storm, May 8, 2008
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, May 8, 2008
It should be a joyful time for Israel this week, as the country prepares to celebrate its 60th anniversary . The air hangs heavy, however, as the reality of a nuclear Iran in the region grows closer every day. Appearing before journalists earlier this week, Israeli President Shimon Peres, one of the last members of Israel's founding generation, issued birthday wishes as well as concerns about the future of the nation.
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Trouble in Tehran
The Gathering Storm, May 6, 2008
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, May 6, 2008
As U.S. and Iraqi officials released new evidence this week of Iran's training, funding, and arming of terrorists in Iraq, Iranian Cleric Ahmad Khatami said in a Friday prayer broadcast on state radio "If maniacs in Washington or Tel Aviv seek to take (military) action, the Iranian nation will slap them so hard they will not get off the floor."
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America's Unhappiest Millionaire
Michelle Obama's gospel of misery.
By Yuval Levin
Posted: Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Barack Obama's wife Michelle has been traveling the country delivering a stump speech that lays out a deeply and relentlessly negative vision of American life, in which everyone is treated unfairly, and especially her husband. The Senator himself, of course, manages a peppier and more upbeat message, but in fact, especially when seen in light of her speeches, the same dismal view seems to underlie his rhetoric too. Both Obamas think America is bitter and deeply depressed.
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The View from the Continent
By Peter Wehner
Posted: Tuesday, May 6, 2008
The widespread view in Europe, as well as among some Americans, is that the U.S. has suffered a huge, almost incalculable, loss of "moral authority." The evidence cited is always the same: Guantanamo Bay, rendition and secret prisons, and waterboarding. They are invoked like an incantation. The effect of this is that you would think that the United States is among the leading violators of human rights in the world.
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Light From the East
By George Weigel
Posted: Tuesday, May 6, 2008
The Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) in L'viv is led by a Ukrainian-American, Father Borys Gudziak, who brings to his work a Harvard doctorate in church history, indefatigable energy, organizational skill and spiritual vision. If I had to name the 50 Catholics whose present work is most important for the future of the world Church, Father Gudziak's name would easily make the cut. What he has built in a decade in L'viv, starting from scratch, is breathtaking.
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Cliffhanger
Wright and political wrongs.
By Peter Wehner
Posted: Thursday, May 1, 2008
The extraordinary public feud between Senator Barack Obama and the Reverend Jeremiah Wright Jr. would be an enormous threat to any candidate running for president, but it is particularly dangerous to Obama. Because Sen. Obama is such a new figure on the American political scene, people's judgment about him can be easily molded and reshaped.
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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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