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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, November 20, 2008
We can no longer afford to ignore a Castro clone who has barrels of petro-dollars at his disposal. Venezuela's Hugo Chavez has not only incited fervent anti-Americanism throughout Latin
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, November 18, 2008
A new bipartisan poll commissioned by The Israel Project (TIP) shows that 72 percent of voting Americans across the political spectrum believe "even with all the problems that America faces at
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, November 6, 2008
The verdict is in. We have a new President, a new Congress, and a new chapter in American political life. Hopes are high in some quarters, despairing in others. It remains to be seen how
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, November 6, 2008
In his 2006 book, The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama wrote: "I am new enough on the national political scene that I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, November 4, 2008
It's election day, at long, long last. The outcome will be evident by tomorrow's dawn, but perhaps of greater significance than the victor himself will be the story of why Americans voted
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Friday, October 31, 2008
Despite the widespread assumption that an Obama presidential victory on November 4 would vastly improve America's standing in the world, current enemies of the U.S. don't seem so sure.
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, October 28, 2008
This week brings a mixed report on the state of relations between the United States and Iran, as policies and provocations on behalf of both countries continue to work at cross-purposes.
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2008
Today's Washington Post has published an excellent editorial written by two former colleagues flanking opposite sides of the aisle, Senator Daniel Coats (R-IN) and Senator Charles Robb
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Russia is considering installing its S-300 air defense system in Syria as a way to counter balance a U.S. anti-missile radar in Israel military. Russia would operate the missiles as part of an
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, October 16, 2008
The activist group Human Rights First said in a report this week that Iran, Russia, China and nine other countries have supplied weapons to Sudan despite a U.N. imposed embargo. The embargo was put
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Due to a decrease in violence, Iraq may be able to double its oil production by 2012. Iraq's oil minister presented 35 foreign companies with the details for the process of applying for 20-year
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, October 9, 2008
Who's to blame in this financial crisis? We've got some popular whipping boys on Wall Street that make it easy to off-load the guilt, but the truth is that we, the ever-optimistic American
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, October 9, 2008
Russia was forced to deny that it has supplied Iran and Syria with a surface-to-air defense system called the "S-300." The denial came after Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he would
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, October 7, 2008
At an IAEA meeting in Vienna on Saturday, Israel said North Korea is supplying several countries with nuclear technology. "The Middle East remains on the receiving end of the DPRK's reckless
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, October 2, 2008
Former weapons inspector David Kay said yesterday that Iran is 80% of the way to a nuclear weapon and will only need two to five years more for it effort to be complete. He also said the U.S. should
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Hugo Chavez said over the weekend that he will accept Russia's help in developing a nuclear reactor. "In Venezuela we are interested in development of nuclear energy, of course for peaceful
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, September 25, 2008
Vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's youngest child, Trig, has brought national attention to the issue of aborting fetuses with birth defects. Over the past few months, several personal
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, September 25, 2008
Visiting China yesterday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said socialism has protected both countries' economies from financial crises, noting "In the face of the collapse of global
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, September 23, 2008
An adviser to Iran's supreme leader has warned that the country's missiles can reach ships passing through the Gulf region. Why is this so alarming? Because forty percent of the world's
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, September 18, 2008
A federal grand jury in Miami has returned an indictment against eight South Florida corporations and eight individuals charging them with selling electronic equipment to Iran that can be used to
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, September 16, 2008
In addition to growing relationships with Venezuela and Bolivia, Iran continues to find friendly new partners in South America. Last Saturday, Iranian officials agreed to offer technical support and
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, September 11, 2008
Seven years since the terror attacks on the American homeland claimed the lives of 3,000 innocents and changed the lives of countless more. Seven years of war. Seven years without a terrorist attack
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Russia will participate in its first major naval exercise close to the U.S. since the Cold War. Moscow is sending "Peter the Great," a nuclear-powered cruiser to the Caribbean for a joint
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, September 4, 2008
Iran remains defiant in its development of its nuclear capacities. This week, the country's deputy foreign minister said that 4,000 centrifuges are in operation with 3,000 more currently being
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Bolivia's leftist president, Evo Morales, spent the weekend visiting Iran and Libya to strengthen diplomatic and economic ties there. Arriving in Libya on Saturday, he told the country's news
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, August 28, 2008
Tonight, Barack Obama will accept the Democratic nomination for president. With the benefit of the TelePrompTer and impeccable choreography, the Illinois senator will bare the soul that he and his
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, August 14, 2008
Help win a state or a key voter group. Bring youth, experience or gravitas. Balance the ticket based on gender, race, region or ideology. These are some of the traditional considerations in the
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, August 14, 2008
The Russia-Georgia conflict is giving Iran's oil revenues a boost. The conflict has forced British Petroleum to close a pipeline running from Azerbaijani, forcing Turkey to increase its imports
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Hezbollah continues ambitiously to spread its influence beyond the Middle East. It has successfully penetrated pockets of Africa and South America. For example, in Venezuela and other South American
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, August 7, 2008
Following a meeting with the presidents of Argentina and Brazil, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Monday that the countries of South America are constructing a new international
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has taken delivery of 24 Russian Sukhoi fighter jets, and gave a warning to the U.S. "We've received the 24 Sukhoi aircraft," Chavez said,
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, July 31, 2008
Every politician knows Americans want relief at the pump for their own sake and the sake of the broader economy. The Senate's continued inaction on this issue provides an insight into how the two
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced on Saturday that his country now has 6,000 centrifuges, double the number previously reported and a major step forward in the country's development
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By Keith Pavlischek
Posted: Friday, July 25, 2008
"Presidential Candidate Obama's statements in and about Iraq in the past 24 hours have been nothing less than shameless and disgraceful." I couldn't have said it better.
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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
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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
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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
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By Keith Pavlischek
Posted: Wednesday, July 9, 2008
In their July 4 Washington Post op-ed columns E.J. Dionne and Michael Gerson both praised Senator Barack Obama's rhetorical embrace of President Bush's faith-based
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Despite warnings from Secretary of State Rice, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met with the head of Islamic Jihad, Ramadan Abdullah Shalah, yesterday in Damascus, to discuss efforts to
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By Keith Pavlischek
Posted: Tuesday, July 8, 2008
John Esposito is the leading voice today for those who think the likes of Samuel Huntington and Bernard Lewis make far too much of the religious and cultural differences between the West and the
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, July 3, 2008
I commend Mayor Nutter for focusing on the violence that is keeping too many Philadelphians captive in their homes. However, the first step in addressing the horrific violence in Philadelphia is to
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Andrew G. Bostom, author of The Legacy of Islamic Anti-Semitism, has called our attention to the recent murder of Iraqi Archbishop Paulos Farraj Rahho and the ongoing persecution of the
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, June 26, 2008
U .N. nuclear watchdog head Mohamed ElBaradei told Al-Arabiya television that Iran could have a nuclear weapon within six months. "If Iran wants to turn to the production of nuclear weapons, it
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Wednesday, June 25, 2008
The Washington Post published a rather revealing article on the concerns many European diplomats have about a potential Obama administration's willingness to negotiate directly with Iran about
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By Keith Pavlischek
Posted: Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Keith Pavlischek reviews Catholicism and Religious Freedom: Contemporary Reflections on Vatican II's Declaration on Religious Liberty and suggests the lessons learned have something to
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, June 19, 2008
The Treasury Department froze the U.S. assets yesterday of two suspected Hezbollah "facilitators and fundraisers"in Venezuela and accused the Chavez government of protecting the two men.
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, June 19, 2008
The day after securing the Democratic presidential nomination, Barack Obama addressed the preeminent pro-Israel group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). This mostly Jewish
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, June 17, 2008
On the National Day of Solidarity of Iranian Women last week, nine women's rights activists were arrested by Tehran security police prior to a small event planned to commemorate the day. The
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By Keith Pavlischek
Posted: Thursday, June 12, 2008
The Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Modern World at the Hudson Institute publishes a fine journal called Current Trends in Islamic Ideology. They have done us a particular
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Michael Ledeen, a well-known scholar of fascism and authority on Iran, had a must-read piece in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend, in which he asked, why, given the lessons of the
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, June 5, 2008
Americans are a practical people. We will rally to a new, compellingly communicated cause, but, after the dust settles, we tend to take a hard look at what is being pitched, who is doing the
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, June 5, 2008
Iran's Mehr news agency is reporting that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad predicted this week the "satanic powers" - Israel and the U.S. - would be destroyed. He is quoted as
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, June 3, 2008
My friend and EPPC colleague Pete Wehner has an excellent post on Commentary' s Contentions blog on the very promising transformation of sentiment in the Muslim world towards Osama bin
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, May 29, 2008
On a trip to Tehran, Hamas Supreme Leader Khaled Mashaal met with senior Iranian military officials and was told the Islamic Republic was developing advanced missiles that would be shared with Hamas.
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, May 22, 2008
Bigot! Hate-monger! Homophobe! Those were just a few of the terms hurled my way in 2003 when I said that the Supreme Court's Texas sodomy decision opened the door to the redefinition of
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, May 1, 2008
A possible Israel-Syria peace agreement brokered by the Turkish suffered an apparent set-back when the Syrians said it would not sever ties with Iran and Hezbollah as part of any deal.
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad began a three-nation tour of Asia on Monday with stops scheduled for Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and India in attempts to strengthen diplomatic and trading relations
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, April 24, 2008
"If we want to build the country, maintain our dignity and solve economic problems, we need the culture of martyrdom." That's the latest from Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Does Radio Free Europe still exist? A good yet bothersome question to ask, writes Anne Applebaum, the columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag: A History, in her latest column
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Monday, April 21, 2008
Anyone who knows me knows that I don't shy away from offering my two-cents on the issues of the day, particularly in presidential races. And anyone who has heard me talk about the presidential
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, April 17, 2008
Whoever is the next President of the United States, he or she will inherit a nation positioned in a world radically different from the world of 2000 or even 2001. I'm not merely referring to the
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Our government's attempts to dissuade or derail Iran from developing nuclear weapons-grade uranium has failed. What do we do now? Last Friday, Charles Krauthammer wrote an important column
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Wednesday, April 16, 2008
"Mission: Impossible" - that's what many called the effort to combat HIV/AIDS internationally five years ago. They had good reason. Two-thirds of those infected with HIV were in Africa,
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, April 10, 2008
Is Pope Benedict XVI coming to America to drop the hammer on the president for the Iraq war? You might think so if your gospel comes courtesy of the mainstream media. It's more likely that the
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, April 10, 2008
Hugo Chavez loves to call his political platform "21st Century Socialism," but in truth he is enacting the economic crudities proposed by 19th century socialists like Karl Marx and
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Today marks the second anniversary of the date Iran first enriched uranium on April 8, 2006. After three sets of U.N. sanctions, Iran still refuses to suspend its enrichment program. President
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, April 3, 2008
The Associated Press is reporting on a possible nuclear arms race developing in the Middle East . According to a report released by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Saudi Arabia is
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Wednesday, April 2, 2008
In February, National Intelligence Director Michael McConnell offered his testimony on the alliance between Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. He
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, March 27, 2008
Senator John McCain's speech on foreign policy last night addressed many things, not the least of which was a concerted effort to reintegrate the Americas as a unified hemisphere of shared
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By Keith Pavlischek
Posted: Thursday, March 27, 2008
An instructive and fascinating debate has erupted over what at first glance may seem an academic point. The debate is between Matthias Küntzel, the author of Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism,
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, March 25, 2008
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, concluding two days of talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, said Monday that Hamas militants and their backers in Iran and Syria are sabotaging the Middle East
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, March 20, 2008
The fifth year anniversary of the Iraq invasion was yesterday, March 19. In commemoration, President Bush delivered a dogged defense of the war's merits at the Pentagon and emphasized the
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By Rick Santorum
Posted: Friday, March 14, 2008
Surrounded by tension and unnoticed by many observers, the nations of the Middle East are building thier own kind of economic vitality. What to do with the promises and potential pitfalls of
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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
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