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Robert P. George, J.D., D.Phil., McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, is one of America's foremost scholars in the fields of constitutional law, ethics, and political philosophy.

Dr. George has won numerous awards for his academic and civic work, including the Presidential Citizens Medal. He has served on the President's Council on Bioethics and as a presidential appointee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. He is a former Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, where he received the Justice Tom C. Clark Award.
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Promoting Religious Freedom Abroad - Is the U.S. Policy Fair? PDF Print E-mail
Written by Thomas Farr   
Thursday, 24 September 2009 09:00

Among the many obstacles faced by America's foreign policy of promoting international religious freedom (IRF) are the largely negative perceptions about that policy at home and abroad. Unfortunately, U.S. diplomacy has done little to overcome these perceptions, including the ones that are true. I was reminded of this problem in reading Margarita Mooney's fine piece on how France and Canada do not afford religious freedom to Haitian immigrants as does the United States.

One of the most damaging and deeply entrenched views about U.S. IRF policy is that the U.S. seeks to protect only Christians, and that the policy is basically a front for American missionaries. This is simply wrong. Neither the 1998 IRF Act as passed nor the policy as implemented has focused on Christians. Ironically, U.S. foreign policy has actually tended to downplay the fate of Christian minorities in places like Iraq and Israel-Palestine. Neither Arab nor domestic opponents of U.S. policy, however, seem to have noticed.

Last Updated on Monday, 28 September 2009 10:19
 
Private Insurance vs. Government Benefits PDF Print E-mail
Written by Emmett McGroarty   
Tuesday, 15 September 2009 11:49
Emmett McGroarty discusses some of the key terms, concepts and myths of the Health Care reform debate.

Washington IndependentThe President’s Healthcare Speech

The President last night seemed to blame his party’s congressional leaders for having failed to deliver a healthcare bill and for having failed to garner the support of the citizenry.  In regards to healthcare, he failed to even mention any Democratic member by name except for the deceased Senator Kennedy and Representative Dingell’s repeated re-introduction of his father’s 1943 bill. 

Several substantive points in his speech bear analysis, not the least of which is his call for a “public insurance option.”  One problem with that call is that the term “public insurance” is deceptive.  In reality it would be a benefit scheme similar to Medicare and Social Security.  But those programs have created a crisis that severely threatens the ascending elderly generation --the baby boomers.  To create another such program would exacerbate their precarious situation.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 15 September 2009 12:05
 
Robert George on the Lockerbie Bomber PDF Print E-mail
Written by Robert George   
Monday, 31 August 2009 14:34

(This article by Robert P. George originally appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Sunday, August 30th.)

Killer's release demands answers

Did U.S. get to weigh in on his fate? Most of the dead were American.

A few days before Christmas in 1988, a charming, brilliant, and strikingly beautiful young American woman boarded Pan Am Flight 103 in London bound for the United States. Her name was Valerie Canady. She was headed home to celebrate the holidays with her mom and dad.

As all the world knows, Pan Am 103 never landed. It was blown apart in the skies above Lockerbie, Scotland, when a bomb planted on the plane by Libyan terrorists exploded. All the passengers were killed. Valerie's body was never recovered. She was seated directly over the bomb. There was literally nothing left of that beautiful girl for the Scottish authorities to send home to her loved ones.

As a lawyer with the firm of Robinson & McElwee in Charleston, W.Va., I represented Valerie's family in the litigation against the Libyan regime. But my relationship with Valerie was deeper than that. She had been my friend since childhood.

Last Updated on Monday, 31 August 2009 14:39
 
APP/APIA Press Release: Obamacare & Planned Parenthood PDF Print E-mail
Written by Administrator   
Monday, 24 August 2009 10:24
----------For Immediate Release----------

OBAMACARE COULD FUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD TO TEACH SEX TO OUR SCHOOLCHILDREN

"The President's Health Reform Plan has a $50 million campaign payback for Planned Parenthood sex education", says Andy Blom. "We must stop this and protect our children!"

Among the “Other Provisions” established by Title V of President Obama’s health care plan is a program called “School-Based Health Clinics” (or “SBHCs”). This program would allow organizations such as Planned Parenthood - the largest abortion provider in the United States - to provide “on-site” services to schoolchildren. The SBHC program would receive up to fifty million taxpayer dollars in the next year alone, and the criterion for awarding these federal grants would heavily favor organizations such as Planned Parenthood. Among the “comprehensive primary health services” these SBHCs are tasked to provide are “[mental] counseling” and “social and age-appropriate health education services” -- another name for sex education.



“There is a frightening disconnect between what American parents believe their children should be taught about sex and by whom, and the liberal, even promiscuous sex education the Obama administration wishes to inflict upon our children through Planned Parenthood”, stated Andy Blom, Executive Director of the American Principles Project and American Principles in Action.  “But this goes beyond sex education. This is opening the doors of our schools and their health programs to the nation’s largest abortion provider.”

Planned Parenthood has been in the national spotlight numerous times in recent years for protecting sexual predators, violating laws designed to protect the innocence of children, misappropriating federal money and overcharging for services.

Planned Parenthood has attempted for some time to establish a presence in American schools to carry out their agenda of universal access to contraception and abortion services and has already begun to train “hundreds of teen educators” to administer these SCHCs if Obama’s health care plan passes.

“Planned Parenthood, and in fact the entire abortion industry, were major contributors to the Obama Presidential campaign”, noted Blom. “This campaign payback is nothing more than a stealth bailout of Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry. It’s shameful that the President would pay his campaign debts by sacrificing the innocence of our children, the rights of parents and the lives of the unborn babies who will fall into Planned Parenthood’s trap in this program.

“In a year of moral and economic disaster this may be the worst abuse yet of our trust and our tax money”, continued Blom. “As a nation, we owe it to our children to preserve innocence”.

“President Obama’s Health Care plan threatens babies through Government mandated, taxpayer funded abortion. It threatens parental rights, pre-teens and teenagers through Planned Parenthood SBHC sex indoctrination. It threatens the elderly and disabled through rationed health care and end-of-life “Death Panels”.

Tell the President and your Congressmen how you feel about Obamacare. Visit www.americanprinciplesinaction.org and send your free personal letter directly to the President and your Senators and Congressman.

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The American Principles Project is an organization dedicated to preserving and propagating the fundamental principles on which our country was founded - universal principles, embracing the notion that we are all, "created equal, endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, and among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 06 October 2009 10:26
 


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