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Toulouse: The Dark Side of Diversity

by Pat Buchanan March 23, 2012

As an act of pure evil it was difficult to match.
After dragging the 8-year-old by her hair across a schoolyard, the killer put a 9 mm pistol to the girl’s head and pulled the trigger.
The gun jammed. So…

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Lazarus

by Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D. March 23, 2012

Some find it hard to accept that God would love some people more than others.  That wouldn’t be fair, they say.
But God became man.  If he did not love some more than others, Jesus wouldn’t be fully human.  For…

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Obama’s not-so-mandatory and not-so-universal “healthcare”

by Dr. Paul Kengor March 22, 2012

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President Obama insists that all Americans receive mandatory/universal healthcare coverage. This mandatory/universal edict even extends to women who want abortifacients—that is, birth-control drugs that cause an abortion. Obama is so dedicated to this…

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The Asian Pivot Towards China

by Austin Bay March 22, 2012

China’s tough neighborhood has gotten just a little bit tougher for China, diplomatically and militarily, and Beijing ought to blame its own political blundering.
Consider South Korea and Vietnam, two of China’s more militarily capable neighbors. During the Vietnam War,…

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Cardinal Dolan and the New Evangelization

by George Weigel March 21, 2012

The irrepressibly effervescent personality of Cardinal Timothy Dolan may tempt some to think of the archbishop of New York and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops as the latest in a line of glad-handing Irish-American prelates, long on…

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Courting Disaster

by William Murchison March 21, 2012

The Supreme Court of the United States, whose inveterate habit is telling Americans what’s good for them, will do the honors once more after weighing the merits and demerits of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, generally and ominously…

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The Glaring Inequality of Obamaville

by Pat Buchanan March 20, 2012

Rising inequality “is the defining issue of our time,” said President Obama in his Osawatomie speech that echoed the “New Nationalism” address Theodore Roosevelt delivered in that same Kansas town a century ago. In the last two decades, the average…

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King Dollar Will Cut Oil Prices

by Lawrence Kudlow March 20, 2012

No matter how much President Obama protests, the simple fact is that he continues to oppose and mock and disparage oil and gas drilling. He is a prisoner of the environmental left, and he remains on the wrong side of…

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Put On Your Shoes: We Can Win This One

by Charles Colson March 20, 2012

The most important talking point used by those who support the HHS contraception mandate is that the Catholic Bishops and their allies are “out-of-touch” and represent a minority view.
You have no doubt heard things like “98 percent of Catholic…

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Obama Dribbles From Mandate to Man Date

by Debra J. Saunders March 19, 2012

In the heat of the Democrats’ “We Love Women” campaign, the White House took a detour to testosterone land Tuesday. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron left their wives behind in Washington as they took a road…

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