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Child Sacrifice in 21st Century America By George Weigel Friday, January 27, 2012 Thirty-nine years after Roe v. Wade created an unrestricted abortion license in the United States, and during the week when hundreds of thousands of Americans pray and march for life, all Americans ought to ponder the kind of country to which Roe v. Wade led.

A State of Denial By Yuval Levin Wednesday, January 25, 2012 President Obama's State of the Union address offered a vision of a hyperactive government with its hands in every corner of our economy while ignoring our mounting deficits and debt. It was a very bad sign about what the president would seek to do with a second term.

Populist Rhetoric Does Not a Plan Make By James C. Capretta Wednesday, January 25, 2012 The president's State of the Union message boiled down to this: if only the Republicans were willing to tax the rich, all would be well. Unfortunately for the president, there's absolutely no evidence to support this claim.

Obama�s Fictional Narrative By Peter Wehner Wednesday, January 25, 2012 Barack Obama's State of the Union address was disconnected to the needs of the nation. He's attempting to distract the public from our main threat. It's the job of the loyal opposition and honest public intellectuals to call the president out.

Obama's Final SOTU? By James C. Capretta Wednesday, January 25, 2012 Governor Mitch Daniels' Republican rebuttal to the president's State of the Union address was a masterpiece: concise, direct, optimistic, and tough.

Inside the Obamacare Spin Zone By James C. Capretta Tuesday, January 24, 2012 The White House says twenty-eight states are "on their way" to implementing Obamacare. But a fairer assessment is that fifteen states are "on their way" while the other thirty-five most definitely are not.

V�clav Havel and Us By George Weigel Friday, January 20, 2012 After his death, Václav Havel's brilliant literary deconstruction of the moral tawdriness of late bureaucratic communism, the underground essay called "The Power of the Powerless," was widely and appropriately quoted. Another Havel essay from his days in opposition also bears re-reading: "The Anatomy of a Reticence," the Czech playwright's 1985 critique of the willful blindness of western peace activists about the nature of Soviet totalitarianism.

VIDEO: Six Decades as a Worldwide Religion Watcher: Observations and Lessons Learned By Michael Cromartie Thursday, January 19, 2012 Watch selections from Dr. Peter Berger's presentation at EPPC's most recent Faith Angle Forum on Religion, Politics, and Public Life.

The Role of Sympathy and Trust in American Politics By Peter Wehner Tuesday, January 17, 2012 Our presidents must be especially careful to employ rhetoric that doesn't cut too deeply or leave wounds that will be difficult to heal.

Girl Scouts Leadership: Pro-Choice, Pro-Gay Ideologues Worlds Apart from the Families They Serve By Mary Rice Hasson Tuesday, January 17, 2012 The leadership of today's Girl Scouts is driven by a liberal ideology far out of step with the families and churches that support them. Should you support them?

Converts and the Symphony of Truth By George Weigel Friday, January 13, 2012 There are as many reasons for "converting" as there are converts. If there is one common thread among them, it may just be the enticement of what Blessed John Paul II called the "symphony of truth."

The Not-So-Weak GOP Frontrunner By Peter Wehner Wednesday, January 11, 2012 For a man who is, we're told, an incredibly weak frontrunner, Mitt Romney is doing a pretty good job disguising himself as a strong one.

New: Faith Angle Forum Videos

Dr. Peter Berger spoke at EPPC's most recent Faith Angle Forum on the topic "Six Decades as a Worldwide Religion Watcher: Observations and Lessons Learned." Watch selections from his presentation and Q&A session here.

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The Tertio Millennio Seminar on the Free Society
The Twentieth Seminar

The Tertio Millennio Seminar on the Free Society will take place this summer from July 2 to July 19 in Kraków, Poland. To learn more, visit the seminar's homepage: www.eppc.org/tms.

Why ObamaCare Is Wrong for America

In Why ObamaCare Is Wrong for America (HarperCollins), EPPC Fellow James Capretta and his co-authors show how disastrous ObamaCare will be for the health care of Americans, for the economy, and for long-term fiscal sanity. They also explain how to do health-care reform the right way.

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ObamaCareWatch.org

The 2012 election will provide a historic opportunity to repeal the massive folly of ObamaCare and to adopt sensible market-based health-care reforms that reward efficiency and innovation. To pave the way for repeal, EPPC health-care expert Jim Capretta is directing a new website, ObamaCareWatch.org, that is tracking news about Obamacare's implementation from around the country and that will be a repository of essential facts, statistics, and analysis. Read Jim's introductory essay.

Employment Opportunity

State Legislative Policy Director, American Religious Freedom Program

EPPC seeks outstanding candidates for the new position of State Legislative Policy Director for its American Religious Freedom Program. See here for more information.