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How Long Will We Fight?

by Pat Buchanan February 11, 2013

“When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.”
So said Richard Nixon in his interviews with David Frost. Nixon was talking about wiretaps and surreptitious entries to protect lives and safeguard national security in a violent…

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This Sunday’s Gospel : The Transfiguration and the Cross

by Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D. February 8, 2013

Appearances can be deceiving.  After all, Jesus was just another Galilean.  His hands were the rough hands of a workman.  People in Nazareth knew his mother.  Some even remembered the man they thought was his dad.
Yet when Jesus went…

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Seven Million to be Thrown Off Health Plans

by Keith Koffler February 7, 2013

Remember when Obama promised that under his health scheme you could keep your health insurance and your doctor?

Well forget it. You can’t necessarily keep your insurance or your doctor. Period.
The Congressional Budget Office now says that, because of…

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Better Living Through Chemistry?

by Michael Cook February 7, 2013

“What a wonderful world,” sang Louis Armstrong. But how can we make sure that as many people as possible follow in the footsteps of Florence Nightingale and Mahatma Gandhi, spreading empathy and fairness wherever they go?
One way that is…

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Parents Should Allow Kids to Fail

by Carolyn Moynihan February 6, 2013

A middle school teacher in the US makes a very good point in a piece in The Atlantic magazine about the importance of failures in a child’s life. Jessica Lahey recalls a case of plagiarism in which a student’s mother…

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Actions Speak Louder Than Words

by Theodore Shoebat February 6, 2013

A young Christian boy from Pakistan was recently kidnapped, his lips cut off, his stomach ripped out, and his body burned. When his remains were found, his relatives could only recognize him by a distinct mark on his forehead.
The…

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Finding the City on a Hill

by Gary S. Smith February 5, 2013

One of the most widely employed metaphors in today’s American political discourse is that the United States is a “city on a hill.” Especially popularized by Ronald Reagan, this phrase (taken from Matthew chapter 5) has been used by countless…

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Israel’s Contraceptive Injections for Ethiopian Migrants: “Racism and Arrogance”

by Michael Cook February 4, 2013

Years of rumours that Ethiopian women were pressured into having contraceptive injections by Israeli officials have finally been confirmed. The Health Ministry has ordered immigration officials in Ethiopia and health workers in Israel to stop coercing or coaxing women into…

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What’s So Bad About Amnesty?

by Pat Buchanan February 4, 2013

On Monday, Sens. John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Jeff Flake and Marco Rubio emerged with an offer of a Republican surrender to Barack Obama.
We will accept amnesty for 11 million illegal aliens, said the four, but you must get serious…

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How to Discover the Meaning of Life

by Robert Hutchinson February 1, 2013

One thing I learned from Viktor Frankl is that there is no one, universal, abstract “meaning of life.”  Rather, the meaning of life is unique to each person.  It is in the concrete circumstances of an individual’s actual life situation…

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