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Recent Articles of Interest
Free-market conservative club's clout irritates GOP
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by Tamara Lytle
The Club
for Growth helped finance the campaigns of 16 Republicans who agreed to
support the group's platform of deep tax cuts, Social Security
privatization, and school vouchers, but angered the GOP leadership by
challenging Republican spendthrifts in the primaries. The Club for Growth
is led by Steve Moore, formerly of the Cato Institute. (02/19/01) http://chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/article/0,2669,
SAV-0102190135,FF.html
Prohibition spawned 'The Sopranos'
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by J.D. Tuccille
Where do members of organized crime like the
gangsters portrayed in "The Sopranos" come from? Doomed laws and
dense lawmakers give them business opportunities they can't refuse.
(02/20/01) http://civilliberty.about.com/library/weekly/aa021901a.htm
Reflections on Bush's Faith-Based Initiative
By Rev. Gerald L. Zandstra
From a pastor's perspective, Gerald Zandstra (the
Acton Institute's director of programs) likes the fact that a White House
Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives would give recognition to
private charities. But he sees two temptations: first, that government
would tie funding to control, and, second, that churches would allow
funding to compromise their focus.
http://www.acton.org/resources/comment/comment.html
More God,
Less Government:
Greater Role of Religion Would Keep State Out of Private Lives
by Rev. Robert A. Sirico
The conventional wisdom says that committed Christians in public life will
attempt to institute a theocracy. "That's absurd," counters
Institute President Father Sirico in Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle.
"Christians seek to propose their values, not impose them."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/
archive/2001/02/188/SC206890.DTL
Proclaiming Saint Thomas More Patron of Statesmen and
Politicians
by Pope John Paul II
On 31
October 2000, John Paul praised Saint Thomas More as an exemplar "who
distinguished himself by his constant fidelity to legitimate authority and
institutions precisely in his intention to serve not power but the supreme
ideal of justice." Read the full text of the pope's proclamation
here: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/motu_proprio
/documents/hf_jp-ii_motu-proprio_20001031_thomas-more
_en.html
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