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For the Record…

“Human Events writer and Vice President for Communications at the Population Research Institute Joseph A. D’Agostino calls the UNFPA blitz in Mongolia, which has a dramatically falling birthrate, now at only 2.3 children per woman, as a ‘kinder, gentler genocide,’ comparing it to the one-child

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Global Monitor

Pro-Life Portuguese Fight Abortion Legalization In Portugal, the pro-abortion forces managed to prompt a new referendum on abortion. Portuguese pro-lifers are under the most massive attack ever with a coalition of-political parties fighting against them. The anti-lifers have gone so far as to hire a

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Irish Exceptionalism at an End?

In November, I went on a short speaking tour of the Republic of Ireland (not the northern bit), the first time I had been to that country, I spent a week there giving speeches at three Irish universities and visiting sonic of the sights of

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Motherless Russia

“In general, Russia suffers from a frightening poverty in the sphere of facts and a frightening wealth of all types of arguments,” wrote Chekhov in a letter to a friend. Now, Russia suffers from a destructive poverty of a sort that she has not in

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President’s Page: The Bad News from November

The bad news began right after the November elections. And on December 7, the Senate voted to confirm the nomination of Andrew von Eschenbach as Commissioner of the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA). As Acting Commissioner, Esehenbach approved the over-the-counter sale of the abortion-causing

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The Many Faces of China’s Enigmatic President

Chinese Politics in the Hu Jintao Era by Willy Wo-lap Lam (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2007), 359 pp., $29.95 Reviewed by Steven W. Mosher “Who is the President of China?” the late-night talk show hosts joked with their audiences when a Communist cadre by the

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The Real Deal

The debate on how to save Social Security from bankruptcy could heat up again over the next year or two. The below is a letter to the editor of National Review explaining the danger of hiking payroll taxes. Ramesh Ponnuru’s predictions (“Deal or No Deal?”,

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Irish Exceptionalism at an End?

December 7, 2006     Vol. 8 / No. 48 Irish Exceptionalism At an End? Last month, I went on a short speaking tour of the Republic of Ireland (not the northern bit), the first time I had been to that country.  I spent a week there giving

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For the Record…

“Human Events writer and Vice President for Communications at the Population Research Institute Joseph A. D’Agostino calls the UNFPA blitz in Mongolia, which has a

Read More »

Global Monitor

Pro-Life Portuguese Fight Abortion Legalization In Portugal, the pro-abortion forces managed to prompt a new referendum on abortion. Portuguese pro-lifers are under the most massive

Read More »

Motherless Russia

“In general, Russia suffers from a frightening poverty in the sphere of facts and a frightening wealth of all types of arguments,” wrote Chekhov in

Read More »

The Real Deal

The debate on how to save Social Security from bankruptcy could heat up again over the next year or two. The below is a letter

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