CAMPAIGN 2008: America and the World

As the country enters the last lap of the 2008 election, Americans are primarily focused on the U.S. economy and the credit crisis. "No visitor to the gas pumps, and no investor, can doubt why," observes EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel. "Yet we also live in a globalized world in which the tectonic plates that shape international politics are shifting, often dangerously."

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Investing in Middle Class Families

Alleviating the stresses that afflict the American family should be a top priority of the next administration. EPPC Fellow James C. Capretta argues that "an increase in the federal child tax credit from $1000 to $2500 per child would greatly help."

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In Tough Times, Americans Rediscover a Forgotten Virtue

"Reeling from high gas prices, home foreclosures and plans for a taxpayer-financed $700-billion bailout of faltering financial institutions, many of us are chafing at the thrift that has been thrust upon us," observes EPPC Fellow Colleen Carroll Campbell. "The prospect of paying someone else's debts is particularly irksome for Americans who did nothing to contribute to the mortgage crisis that has convulsed our economy."

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In Defense of the House Republicans

"Like most people of the chattering classes," EPPC Resident Scholar James Bowman "was unthinkingly in favor of the bailout when it was first proposed. But then the insistence of its proponents that [the economy] would collapse became just a little too strident."

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Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools

In a Wall Street Journal essay, EPPC Senior Fellow Stanley Kurtz, continuing his investigation into Senator Barack Obama's past affiliations, uncovers more details on his relationship with Bill Ayers: "Unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers and Barack Obama were more than just neighbors. They worked together to push radical ideas on Chicago school children."

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We fly to thy patronage, O holy Mother of God;
despise not our petitions in our necessities,
but deliver us always from all dangers,
O glorious and blessed Virgin. Amen.


The Blessed Virgin Mary, under her title of the Immaculate Conception, is the patroness of the United States.

The Immaculate Conception Mosaic of the Basilica of the National Shrine
of the Immaculate Conception, Washington DC
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Great Society Redux?

"Senator Barack Obama does not represent change on economic matters," explains EPPC Fellow James C. Capretta, -- "or at least not a change toward something that hasn't already been tried before. Indeed, Senator Obama's economic ideas and outlook -- large expansions of federal entitlements and explicit efforts to redistribute income -- look little different from the failed liberal policies of the 1960s."

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Dear Mr. Obama...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4fe9GlWS8

The day we lose our will to fight is the day we lose our freedom

Life
We do not need a state that intervenes with our personal matters. Life is too important to be manipulated by political ideology. Life comes first, protected and untouchable. Issues like Abortion, Euthanasia are too important to be held in the hands of the state. McCain or Obama? No doubts whatsoever, Sir!

Economy/tax
We do not need a state that controls our personal finances, but rather promote them and assure the conditions where we - as a society - can play our part. It's called Welfare Society. In actual fact it means tax release, free market promotion and private property protection. McCain or Obama? No doubts whatsoever, Sir!

Islam
We don't need a state that bows down to Islam. They made the first move. They are the ones who hate our liberty, hate our wealth, our capacity to be free and to indulge in this freedom. They hate you because you are American. You as an American, are "infidel" and as such you deserve hell. 9/11 was an example of the very "hell" that they made American's face. McCain or Obama? No doubts whatsoever, Sir!