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Breaking (More) Bad Liturgical Habits

by George Weigel January 24, 2012

As I remarked late last year, the introduction of the third edition of the Roman Missal and the new translations of the liturgical texts offer the entire English-speaking Church an opportunity to correct some bad liturgical habits that have developed…

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Good News About Roe v. Wade

by Charles Colson January 23, 2012

Yesterday marked the thirty-ninth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court’s hideous decision to legalize abortion on demand in the United States. Since then, some 50 million unborn children have lost their lives. The constant killing, with the blessing…

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Obama Waffles on Gay Marriage — No News There

by Larry Elder January 23, 2012

Why does President Barack Obama enjoy a no-fly zone on gay marriage?
The Republican presidential contenders, with the exception of libertarian Ron Paul, have never supported gay marriage. Barack Obama, on the other hand, in a span of 16 years,…

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Where Are the Pro-Family Tax Policies?

by Phyllis Schlafly January 23, 2012

Why did Sen. Rick Santorum suddenly surge to the status of a leading candidate for the Republican nomination for president after having been treated like a not-to-be-taken-seriously contender in the many television debates? It’s not only because a significant segment…

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Ron Paul: A Prophet in His Own Time

by Pat Buchanan January 20, 2012

Last May, Ron Paul filed his financial disclosure form, and The Wall Street Journal enlisted financial analyst William Bernstein to scrutinize his investments.
“Paul’s portfolio isn’t merely different,” said an astonished Journal, “it’s shockingly different.”
Twenty-one percent of his $2.4…

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Teens Admire Faith — But Despise Religion

by Marybeth Hicks January 20, 2012

The subject line of the email from my daughter read, “I shudder.”
The text said only, “You won’t believe this,” and included a link to a video that my 14-year-old freshman, Amy, wanted me to see.
The video that prompted…

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Spotlight on Another Failing Company: US Government, Inc.

by Lawrence Kudlow January 19, 2012

There’s a very troubled company out there called U.S. Government Inc. It’s teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. And it badly needs to be taken over and turned around. It probably even needs the services of a good private-equity firm,…

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Securing Israel’s Zionist Future

by Daniel Pipes January 19, 2012

Between 1967 and 1993, just a few hundred Palestinians from the West Bank or Gaza won the right to live in Israel by marrying Israeli Arabs (who constitute nearly one-fifth of Israel’s population) and acquiring Israeli citizenship. Then the Oslo…

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Gehry’s Ghastly Eisenhower Memorial

by George Weigel January 19, 2012

Introducing his two-volume biography of the thirty-fourth president of the United States, Stephen Ambrose offered a simple, and accurate, judgment: “Dwight Eisenhower was a great and good man. He was one of the outstanding leaders of the Western world of…

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Media Blackmail and Tio Taco

by Larry Elder January 18, 2012

Consider the following hypothetical.
Fox News, during the 2008 presidential campaign, learns about a long-ago arrest of a relative of Sen. Barack Obama. Fox calls Obama. It makes an offer Fox assumes he cannot refuse: “Agree to appear on the…

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