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Misleading on Libya

by Linda Chavez October 22, 2012

President Obama gave a vigorous defense during this week’s presidential debate of his handling of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya — but his answer could come back to haunt him. The natural instinct of most Americans…

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Economy and Empowerment

by George Weigel October 19, 2012

In his 1958 book, “Reflections on America”, the great French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain (who took refuge in the United States during World War II) claimed that Americans, for all their commercial endeavors, “are the least materialist among the modern…

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The Korean War With No End

by Austin Bay October 19, 2012

The Military Demarcation Line splitting the “truce village” of Panmunjom doesn’t legally demarcate the political boundary between North Korea and South Korea. Instead, it splits a demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating two warring armies who have observed a tenuous ceasefire since…

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Joe Biden’s HHS Double-Talk

by Dr. Paul Kengor October 16, 2012

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If you were upset with Vice President Joe Biden’s defense of the Obama administration’s HHS mandate, hold on.
In the vice-presidential debate, Biden’s opponent Paul Ryan challenged the mandate, describing it as an assault on religious liberty.…

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Can Either of These Guys Govern?

by Debra J. Saunders October 16, 2012

Do Americans want to make Barack Obama a one-term president so that they can replace him with a one-term governor? My biggest beef with Mitt Romney is that he won his way into the statehouse in Boston in 2002 only…

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Ryan’s Benghazi Surprise

by Lawrence Kudlow October 15, 2012

The irony of ironies: The Biden-Ryan debate was more about foreign policy than the economy and jobs. And yet another irony: Paul Ryan, an expert on all things fiscal, revealed a much better knowledge base of foreign policy than anyone…

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Vatican II’s Golden Anniversary

by George Weigel October 15, 2012

The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, the most important Catholic event since the 16th-century Council of Trent, was solemnly opened by Pope John XXIII 50 years ago, on Oct. 11, 1962. Commentators ever since have taken that date as…

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Is the First Balkan War Really Over?

by Austin Bay October 12, 2012

Montenegro’s Oct. 8, 1912, declaration of war on the Ottoman Turkish Empire and its Oct. 9 attack on neighboring Albania, an Ottoman protectorate, stunned Europe. Montenegro, a military midget, attacking Albania, another poor and backwater Balkan nowhere? Can a tiny…

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Racial Preferences for the Privileged

by Linda Chavez October 12, 2012

The Supreme Court this week took up a case that just might put an end to race-based college admissions. The justices heard arguments Wednesday involving an affirmative action program, at the University of Texas, whose whole purpose seems to be…

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You Are At My Side

by Fr. Frank Pavone October 11, 2012

This reflection is taken from my book Pro-Life Reflections for Every Day, which is available for purchase at: ProLifeReflectionsForEveryDay.org
“You are at my side, with your rod and your staff that comfort me” (Psalm 23:4).
Reflection: Some want “living wills”…

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