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Check out our document rebutting and responding to Michael Moore's movie. "War, Lies, and Videotape is our attempt to separate the fact from the fiction in Fahrenheit 9/11, and to provide context when Moore fails to do so," says EPPC President Ed Whelan. "Given the critical importance of the movie's focus -- the war on terrorism and America's efforts in Iraq -- viewers deserve a claim-by-claim guide to Moore's distortions."
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Leon R. Kass American Enterprise Institute
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The Faith Angle Program will hold its Conference on Religion, Politics & Public Life March 7-9 in South Beach, Florida. The series brings together a select group of nationally respected journalists and distinguished scholars for in-depth discussions of cutting-edge issues at the intersection of religion and public life.
A half century after the publication of We Hold These Truths, EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel will look closely at the legacy of John Courtney Murray's thought and its supreme relevance to the current crises in our public life in his 2010 Simon Lecture: Truths Still Held? John Courtney Murray's "American Proposition," Fifty Years Later.
On January 21, 2010 EPPC Fellow James C. Capretta testified at a hearing held by the House Budget Committee. The subject was "Perspectives on Long-Term Deficits," and Mr. Capretta focused his remarks on the implications of the health-care bills under consideration in Congress for the long-term budget outlook.
