Debunking Medicare Myths By James C. Capretta Posted: Thursday, September 2, 2010
Despite all of the talk about overpaid private plans in Medicare, it turns out that some private options almost certainly would beat the traditional fee-for-service program in a direct price competition.
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Britain Can Benefit from Benedict By George Weigel Posted: Tuesday, August 31, 2010
The seemingly endless stories of clerical sexual abuse and the mismanagement of these sins and crimes by Catholic bishops are not the only story to be told about the Church at the end of the first decade of the 21st century.
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In Defense of Israel's Legitimacy By George Weigel Posted: Wednesday, August 25, 2010
The "Friends of Israel" initiative is an effort to restore a measure of moral integrity to an international environment that is becoming increasingly toxic because of untruths and rank prejudices.
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Stem Cells, Life, and the Law A federal court steps into the debate. By Adam Keiper, Yuval Levin Posted: Wednesday, August 25, 2010
On August 23, a federal judge ruled that the Obama administration's stem cell policy is in violation of a federal law prohibiting taxpayer funding of embryo-destructive research. The ruling puts in sharp relief the moral debate about embryo research, and the administration's dogged refusal to defend human life from exploitation and destruction.
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The Gathering Storm: Al Qaeda Active as Ever By Rick Santorum Edited by Benjamin Kafferlin Posted: Friday, August 20, 2010
As America slowly removes herself from the predominantly Muslim and newly democratic country of Iraq, we can disagree on the wisdom of time lines; but the bigger issues is that, while the U.S. leaves a potential power vacuum, some Islamic radicals are all too willing to attempt to fill it with a global caliphate and are religiously motivated to do so. The West cannot afford to allow such a catastrophe.
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An Anniversary of Consequence By George Weigel Posted: Wednesday, August 18, 2010
The pro-life movement's most important legal victory since Roe v. Wade is jeopardized by Obamacare, and by the insouciance of some Catholics about the extension of the Hyde Amendment to future federal health care legislation.
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Hazardous Symbolism By Peter Wehner Posted: Tuesday, August 17, 2010
The call for some Republicans to change the 14th Amendment, which grants citizenship to anyone born in the United States, is bad on the merits and politically unwise.
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Obama, the Mosque, and Ground Zero By Peter Wehner Posted: Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Building the mosque run by Feisal Abdul Rauf near Ground Zero is a bad idea -- and President Obama himself has undermined the argument of those who say that doing so is a matter of high Constitutional principle.
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