Politics

(Mis)Reading the Tea Leaves

by Ken Connor February 4, 2010

Anyone but Bush.  This was a popular and oft-repeated phrase during the twilight of our 43rd president’s first term.  People incensed by the war in Iraq, people offended at the idea of a plain-talking Texan representing America around the globe,…

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Obama vs. The All-Volunteer Military

by Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. February 3, 2010

A battle of enormous portent is about to begin on Capitol Hill.  When the fight to fulfill President Obama’s oft-repeated commitment to repeal what he misleadingly persists in calling “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) is over, one thing is certain: …

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National Prayer Breakfast Draws Heat

by Catholic League February 2, 2010

Catholic League president Bill Donohue looks at attempts to persuade President Obama not to attend the National Prayer Breakfast:
The National Prayer Breakfast is held the first Thursday of every February, and is attended by senior members of the incumbent…

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The Relevance of Scott Brown

by Dr. Marvin Folkertsma January 29, 2010

Republicans have greeted Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts with the sort of relief expressed by Winston Churchill when he learned that Pearl Harbor had prompted America to finally enter the war; for the first time in years, he “slept the…

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Latin America: After the Left

by Dr. Samuel Gregg January 29, 2010

The left is in trouble in Latin America. Sebastián Piñera’s recent election as Chile’s first elected center-right president in decades owes much to the inability of the center-left coalition that governed Chile after 1990 to rejuvenate itself. Yet across Latin…

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Simplifying the Tax Code?

by Tom Purcell January 29, 2010

I have mixed feelings about it, if you want to know the truth.
I speak of tax-code simplification, another item on President Obama’s to-do list.
Last April, he established a committee that includes some sharp people from both sides of…

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Stopping START

by Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. January 27, 2010

Any day now, President Obama is expected to unveil a new nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia.  This so-called Strategic Arms Reduction (START) follow-on treaty will be ballyhooed as an important step towards the realization of Mr. Obama’s goal of…

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Tariq Ramadan Permitted to Enter the U.S.; Will Take Up Post at Notre Dame

by Daniel Pipes January 23, 2010

The Swiss Islamist Tariq Ramadan was about to take up a position at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana in 2004 when the U.S. government prevented him from entering the country on the grounds that he had funded two…

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Is Scott Brown Good for Us?

by Brian Burch January 23, 2010

The news is still sinking in.
The people of Massachusetts ignited a political firestorm on Tuesday by electing Scott Brown to the seat vacated by the late Senator Kennedy.
CatholicVote did not endorse Brown, nor did we urge voters to…

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Not Saying the Unsayable

by Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. January 22, 2010

Most sentient Americans had one question in the wake of the massacre at Fort Hood last November: How on earth could the Army have allowed to remain in its ranks a soldier known to espouse the supremacist, seditious ideology that…

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