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Acton News and Commentary -- 31 August 2005
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Acton Commentary
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August 31, 2005 |
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Today marks the 25th anniversary of the formation of
Poland’s Solidarity movement. Samuel Gregg says that
Solidarity gives us a view of a labor union whose “stand
for the truth about the human person and against the lie
of Marxism contributed immeasurably to the collapse of
one of the two great totalitarian evils that disfigured
the twentieth century.”
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Rev. Robert Sirico responds to Pat Robertson’s
highly-publicized call for the assassination of
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. “What is needed here,
I believe, is a time of reflection. Christianity is not
a national religion. It is does not regard every enemy
of the nation-state as worthy of execution. It prefers
peace to war. It chooses diplomacy over threat. It
respects the right to life of everyone, even those who
have objectionable political views,” he writes.
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This Week At Acton
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Acton Institute’s
Center for Effective Compassion is offering an
intensive one-day event in Ft. Myers, Fla., on Oct. 28,
where nonprofits and community leaders will get
practical, how-to skills to help them increase the
“return on investment” for charity programs. Foundation
grantees, grassroots community and faith-based service
providers, students and volunteers won’t want to miss
this event.
Register online today! |
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 The
Acton Essay Competition encourages scholarly reflection
on the role of religion in promoting and securing a
society of free and responsible persons. Guidelines and
article citations for this year's topic, Created imago
Dei have been announced at the
Essay Competition web page. Entries must be
postmarked by November 15th, 2005. |
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 Toward
a Free and Virtuous Society conferences are intensive
seminars for future religious leaders. See the newly
posted 2006 conference schedule, nominate a student, or
apply to attend at the
Toward a Free and Virtuous Society web page, or head
straight to the
application page. |
PowerBlog Highlights
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Et tu, Brute?
The acceptability of Google’s politics and public
persona could only insulate it from the requisite
corporate suspicion for only so long…
The Magic of Price Controls!
The price of gasoline has been going up lately
and the cry has gone up from certain quarters of society
for the government to do something about the situation…
The Matrix Anthropology
Says Agent Smith: “Human beings are a disease, a
cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the
cure.” |
Acton Newsmakers
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Kishore Jayabalan, director of the institute’s Rome
office, discussed the imposition of trade quotas by the
European Union on Chinese goods with Vatican Radio,
“The EU’s Quota Problem”
(August 29).Note: Click on the
to listen to an mp3 file. Requires an mp3 compatible
media player such as Windows Media Player or QuickTime. |
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Food For Thought
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| Relief agencies expedited personnel and
supplies to the Gulf Coast, and the Red Cross said its effort
may be its biggest U.S. mission ever. |
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| In a morning gathering in Baton Rouge, Gov.
Blanco, flanked by a number of religious leaders, asked for
peoples' prayers to help Gulf Coast residents cope with the
magnitude of the disaster. |
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Acton Bookshoppe
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 Tocqueville's
monumental book is as relevant today as when it was first
published in the mid-nineteenth century, and it remains the most
comprehensive, penetrating, and astute picture of American life,
politics, and morals ever written - whether by an American or,
as in this case, a foreign visitor. |
In the Liberal Tradition
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 “What
is freedom? It is the right to choose one’s own employment.
Certainly it means that, if it means anything; and when any
individual or combination of individuals undertakes to decide
for any man when he shall work, where he shall work, at what he
shall work, and for what he shall work, he or they practically
reduce him to slavery.”
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