Weekly Briefing

How to Sell Out Your Country With Just One Word

13 October 2008 — Vol. 10/ No. 43 The second chapter of article 417 of the recently approved Constitution of Ecuador reads: “The international treaties ratified by Ecuador will be subject to the established tenets of the Constitution. In the case of treaties and other

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Is Immigration the Answer to the Current Economic Crisis?

13 October 2008—Vol. 10/ No. 43 Writing in the Wall Street Journal’s opinion section, Lee E. Ohanian urges the U.S. to respond to the turmoil in the financial markets by opening the door to more immigrants. “We should encourage the immigration of prime-age individuals,” he

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A New Front in the Abortion Wars

  30 September 2008     Vol. 10 / No. 40 A New Front in the Abortion Wars On September 23rd, 2008, two congressmen, Trent Franks from Arizona and Jeff Fortenberry from Nebraska, introduced a bill to “prohibit discrimination against the unborn on the basis of sex

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Sarah Palin, An American Original

  19 September 2008     Vol. 10 / No. 38 Sarah Palin, An American Original On the corner of Euclid and Foothill Boulevards in Upland, California, stands a statue of a pioneer woman. She is striding forward, carrying a baby in her left arm and a

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Does Barack Obama Support Infanticide?

  08 September 2008     Vol. 10 / No. 36 Does Barack Obama Support Infanticide? “I think that whether you’re looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity is above my pay grade.” This was Barack Obama’s answer,

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