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| February 2008 |
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Pakistan Votes 'No' on the War on Terror
We should have seen it coming.
By Stanley Kurtz
Posted: Thursday, February 21, 2008
Pakistan's new leaders have declared their intention to refrain from using the military to attack Islamist terrorists in the country's northwest. This points up the problem of democratization in a country whose people oppose America's war on terror.
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Good News and Bad News
The Gathering Storm, February 21, 2008
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, February 21, 2008
It's a mixed week for the world this week, with good news coming out of the U.K. as the country starts to get serious with radical Islamists, Cuba's Fidel Castro and Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf all but leaving the halls of power, and the Iranians moving forward on their nuclear processing with new uranium enrichment centrifuges.
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How McCain Should Take On Obama
By Peter Wehner
Posted: Thursday, February 21, 2008
Barack Obama is an impressive political figure -- and he is also a completely orthodox liberal. Obama's liberalism is his chief vulnerability, and one Senator John McCain should exploit.
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Fall of the House of Clinton
And other political realities on the road to the White House.
By Peter Wehner
Posted: Thursday, February 21, 2008
The House of Clinton is falling before our eyes. Senator Barack Obama will in all likelihood be the Democratic nominee for President. Senator John McCain needs to focus like a laser beam on issues and political ideology and paint Obama as the liberal he is. The press won't like it -- but it remains the best chance McCain has for victory in November.
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Craigslist is Classifying the Unclassifiable
By Christine Rosen
Posted: Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Craigslist is not just a company; it's a philosophy. And that philosophy has many appealing qualities: a resistance to excessive advertising, a sincere commitment to making the minutiae of daily life in the wired world a little easier to manage and a sensibility that places a great deal of trust and optimism in one's fellow human beings. But the fact remains that its raison d'être is facilitating commerce, not community.
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A Revolution in Reverse
Abortion Rebellion is Rooted in Realities Feminists Ignore
By Colleen Carroll Campbell
Posted: Monday, February 18, 2008
The feminist establishment has tended to dismiss stories of post-abortion trauma as evidence of patriarchal brainwashing. That explanation may comfort pro-choice feminists who see their ranks dwindling. Yet today's young women are questioning abortion not because they know too little, but because they know too much.
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Trapped by Open-Mindedness
Britain and Multiculturalism
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Friday, February 15, 2008
With the Archbishop of Canterbury's suggestion this past week to introduce Sharia law into Britain's legislative procedure, the debate in Europe on integrating their increasing Muslim population has reached a new boiling point. In America, "multiculturalism" is akin to political correctness-a looming, amorphous zeitgeist that sugarcoats conversation-confusing terms and suppressing clear thoughts. In Great Britain, however, multiculturalism is worse. Not only is it acultural norm; it is increasingly a part of institutionalized policy and the rule of law.
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McCain's Challenge
By Peter Wehner
Posted: Thursday, February 14, 2008
If Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee, John McCain's task will not be easy. Mr. Obama will be a formidable candidate and Democrats will likely enjoy advantages in fundraising, enthusiasm and party identification. But John McCain has overcome more difficult challenges in his life.
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The Elephant in the Room: The Conservative Jury is Still out on Backing McCain
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, February 14, 2008
Conservative Republicans want "a leader who believes in his core that this race is a fight for the soul of America, her Judeo-Christian tradition, her sovereignty, her courage to defeat -- not appease or surrender to -- her enemies, her belief in capitalism and limited government, and her commitment to equality of opportunity, not result.
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God's Advocate
Dinesh D'Souza goes the distance with the atheists.
By Peter Wehner
Posted: Thursday, February 14, 2008
In recent years atheists have written a spate of bestselling anti-God books. Dinesh D’Souza has provided a powerful rejoinder in his new book What’s So Great About Christianity.
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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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