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| 2010 |
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| December |
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| Christmas, Jews, and Christians |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 |
| Christmas, the annual cultural festival that perhaps most starkly distinguishes Christians from our Jewish neighbors and friends, ought to be a religious solemnity that reminds Christians of their |
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| Priorities for a New Congress |
| By James C. Capretta |
| Posted: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 |
| The Republicans' strengthened position in Congress has come at a pivotal moment in America's history. Now is not the time for small gestures. It is time to finally address the huge mismatch |
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| November |
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| Change We Can Believe In |
| By Yuval Levin |
| Posted: Monday, November 29, 2010 |
| Although the president's fiscal commission will almost certainly fail to reach agreement on a plan to reduce our deficit and debt, several its members have proposed some very constructive |
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| The Importance of Ryan-Rivlin |
| By James C. Capretta |
| Posted: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 |
| The proposal from Cong. Paul Ryan and former Clinton administration budget director Alice Rivlin is important because it is a bold bipartisan plan to move decisively away from the health entitlement |
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| Countercultural Time |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 |
| The Church as a whole ought to make a countercultural statement by the way it orders the rhythms of its life: we need more Holy Days of Obligation, not fewer. |
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| The Roadmap Lives |
| By James C. Capretta |
| Posted: Monday, November 22, 2010 |
| Congressman Paul Ryan took the courageous step of going first with a bold plan -- the "Roadmap" -- to fundamentally restructure the tax and entitlement policies that will push the federal |
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| October |
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| Democratic Delusions |
| By James C. Capretta |
| Posted: Thursday, October 28, 2010 |
| The new health law empowers an unelected board to block funding of certain treatments by Medicare. Only the most blinded enthusiasts of governmental activism don't see the potential problems with |
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| Papal Humor |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 |
| Despite the world's fascination with All Things Papal, there isn't much out there about papal humor. |
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| September |
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| The Pius Wars, Continued |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 |
| As Hubert Wolf, professor of Church history at the University of Muenster, demonstrates conclusively in Pope and Devil: The Vatican Archives and the Third Reich (Harvard/Belknap), the charge |
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| Limited Government in the 21st Century |
| By James C. Capretta |
| Posted: Thursday, September 23, 2010 |
| What's needed now is an effort to apply the enduring principle of limited government to the modern circumstances of a market-driven economy operating within a competitive global environment. That |
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| August |
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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 |
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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 |
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| The Gathering Storm: Al Qaeda Active as Ever |
| By Rick Santorum |
| 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. |
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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 |
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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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| July |
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| Getting Beyond Bainton |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 |
| Christians will best engage in the debate about the morally legitimate use of armed force if they liberate themselves intellectually from the simplistic and inaccurate schema that Roland Bainton |
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| About Schmidt |
| By James Bowman |
| Posted: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 |
| This summer James Bowman presenting on behalf of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the Hudson Institute in Washington a series of six films on the general theme of "The Pursuit |
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| June |
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| Christmas in July |
| By James Bowman |
| Posted: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 |
| This summer James Bowman is presenting on behalf of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the Hudson Institute in Washington a series of six films on the general theme of "The Pursuit of |
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| My Man Godfrey |
| By James Bowman |
| Posted: Friday, June 25, 2010 |
| This summer James Bowman is presenting on behalf of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the Hudson Institute in Washington a series of six films on the general theme of "The |
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| How to Cover Pre-existing Conditions |
| By James C. Capretta, Tom Miller |
| Posted: Thursday, June 24, 2010 |
| The problem of covering Americans with pre-existing conditions is certainly real, but the notion that the only way to solve it is through a massive and expensive government takeover of the health |
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| About Those Presidential Promises |
| By James C. Capretta |
| Posted: Thursday, June 24, 2010 |
| The president promised those with good insurance today that they could keep their plan if they wanted to and their costs would go down, not up. Just three months after enactment, it's already |
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| May |
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| The Korean Standoff |
| By Rick Santorum |
| Edited by Benjamin Kafferlin |
| Posted: Friday, May 28, 2010 |
| Although it is nice to hear strong rhetoric from President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton in support of South Korea, it is unfortunately all bark and no bite. |
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| An Immigration Debate Primer |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 |
| A few common sense considerations, courtesy of Catholic social doctrine, can bring some badly needed sanity to an immigration debate much given to bumper-sticker politics. |
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| Storm Clouds in Ukraine |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 |
| Recent developments in Ukraine bode ill for those who would see Ukraine maintain its autonomy from their neighbor to the east. |
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| April |
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| The Left Is Undoing the American Experiment |
| By Rick Santorum |
| Posted: Friday, April 30, 2010 |
| America is not predestined for eternal greatness. Every generation has to fight forces at home and abroad that want to destroy not just what America is, but what it has always strived to be -- that |
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| Money, Scandal, and Rome |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 |
| Pope John Paul II was badly deceived by Father Marcial Maciel, as were a great many others around the world. But the notion that Fr. Maciel somehow bought the Pope's silence on the issue of |
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| An Open Letter to Hans Küng |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 |
| An open letter in response to dissident theologian Hans Küng's letter of 16 April 2010, which appeared in the Irish Times. |
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| The Limits of the Papacy |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 |
| There are very real human limits on the exercise of papal power that seem almost impossible for some editors and reporters -- and indeed for some Catholics -- to grasp. |
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| March |
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| A Legal Travesty in Poland |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 |
| The judicial punishment of politically incorrect opinion -- as exemplified by a recent Polish court's ruling against a Catholic magazine -- reveals telling similarities to both the worst habits |
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| Scoundrel Time(s) |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Monday, March 29, 2010 |
| In a pattern exemplifying the dog's behavior in Proverbs 26:11, the sexual abuse story in the global media is almost entirely a Catholic story, in which the Catholic Church is portrayed as the |
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| Spreading the Big Lie |
| By George Weigel, Rev. Jay Scott Newman |
| Posted: Monday, March 29, 2010 |
| Why did the Washington Post choose Palm Sunday to publish an ignorant and malicious piece by Sinead O'Connor on abuse in the Catholic Church? |
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| On Obama’s Behavior Toward Israel |
| By Peter Wehner |
| Posted: Friday, March 26, 2010 |
| The Obama administration's effort to isolate and humiliate Israel is premeditated, indefensible, and damaging to America and its moral standing. |
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| February |
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| The Summit of Folly |
| By James C. Capretta, Yuval Levin |
| Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2010 |
| The Democrats have made it clear they plan to press ahead with their health-care bill, leaving Republicans with little choice but to restate the full indictment of Obamacare. There is certainly no |
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| Whining Russians |
| An Olympic microcosm. |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 |
| Everything about the Russian whining over Evgeni Plushenko's second place finish in Vancouver in men's figure skating neatly matches the dominant themes of much of Russian public life since |
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| January |
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| Tide Turns Against Obama |
| By Rick Santorum |
| Posted: Thursday, January 28, 2010 |
| Congressional Republicans have to respond to legitimate voter frustration by presenting a positive agenda that includes tax cuts to create private-sector jobs, spending cuts to reduce the |
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| Perspectives on Long-Term Deficits |
| By James C. Capretta |
| Posted: Monday, January 25, 2010 |
| Congress would be well-advised to take a step back and rethink its entire approach to health-care. Instead of pressing ahead with its current plan, it would be better to craft a sensible long-term |
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