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Newt Launches War on Media

by Larry Elder January 27, 2012

The Republican re-embrace of former Speaker Newt Gingrich says a lot about whom he sees as his opponent — and it isn’t just President Barack Obama. It’s the media.
If not for major media’s embrace, Obama would still be sitting…

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Why Did You Choose “Catholic?”

by George Weigel January 27, 2012

Why do adults become Catholics?
There are as many reasons for “converting” as there are converts. Evelyn Waugh became a Catholic with, by his own admission, “little emotion but clear conviction”: this was the truth; one ought to adhere to…

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Mitt vs. Newt: The Gloves Come Off

by Pat Buchanan January 26, 2012

Newt Gingrich’s surge to success in South Carolina has surely brought joy to the Obama White House.
For his 12-point victory ensures the fight for the GOP nomination will not end soon and will get nastier. Indeed, it already has.…

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Egypt’s Electoral Fraud

by Daniel Pipes and Cynthia Farahat January 26, 2012

When Egypt’s Lower House convened on Jan. 23, Islamists held 360 out of its 498 seats, or 72 percent. This astounding figure, however, reflects less the country’s public opinion than it does a ploy by the ruling military leadership to…

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Can Dignitatis Humanae Withstand Scrutiny? – A Postscript

by Louie Verrecchio January 26, 2012

Here we present a postscript to a three-part series. Be sure to check out Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
After initially intending to complete this series in three parts, it appears that it may be useful to tie…

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Mitt’s Attack on Crony Capitalism

by Lawrence Kudlow January 25, 2012

Let me build on Charles Krauthammer’s great Friday column, “The GOP’s Suicide March.” Krauthammer argues that just as President Obama’s class-warfare, soak-the-rich mantra started lagging in the polls, some Republicans on the campaign trail started making the case that Mitt…

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An End to Unprofitable Human Experiments

by Charles Colson January 25, 2012

Once again, government rushes in where business fears to tread.
Just before Christmas, the National Institutes of Health made three more lines of embryonic stem cells eligible for federal funding.
Could it possibly have anything to do with the fact…

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Don’t Underestimate Demons

by Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D. January 25, 2012

I’ve read many term papers in my day. Most of them are no more than a patchwork of quotes. That’s because college students are smart enough to know that they really can’t say much on their own authority–to make their…

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Vulture Capitalism

by Pat Buchanan January 24, 2012

“They’re vultures that are sitting out there on the tree limb, waiting for a company to get sick, and then they swoop in … eat the carcass … and … leave the skeleton.”
So Rick Perry colorfully characterized the private…

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Social Media and the March For Life

by Lisa M. Hendey January 24, 2012

This weekend, close to half a million souls descended upon Washington D.C. Teens stayed up all night Saturday, praying and praising in our national Shrine. Housewives from the south stood next to university presidents from the north in the freezing…

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