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ObamaCare's Muslim Exemption

May 11, 2012  •  PJ Media

Laws almost always create unanticipated consequences. This is certainly likely to be the case when politicians bend over backwards to accommodate the currents of political correctness.

ObamaCare uses the Social Security language of the Internal Revenue Code to determine who is eligible for "religious conscience" objection to the insurance mandate. Specifically, the law provides exemptions for adherents of "recognized religious sects" that are "conscientiously opposed" to accepting benefits from any insurance, public or private.

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Israel's Reaction to Anti-Semitism on Campus

May 8, 2012  •  Family Security Matters

At long last an attempt is being made to curtail blatant anti-Semitic commentary at American universities. The Israel Law Center warns that universities "may be liable for massive damage" if they fail to prevent anti-Semitism on campus.

The center sent hundreds of letters to university presidents drawing a line in the sand. This Israel civil rights center is carrying out this campaign in response to an alarming number of incidents against Jewish and Israeli students at U.S. universities.

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The World Trade Center Site Fiasco

May 1, 2012  •  Family Security Matters

For as long as I can recall the Port Authority has been a mystical institution with enormous responsibility and with an overhang of patronage and soft money allegations. In a recent audit the Port Authority was described as dysfunctional and running up billons in cost overruns. Most significantly, the audit spoke to "insufficient cost controls" and "a lack of transparent and effective oversight."

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Ping-pong with Hilton

May 2012  •  The New Criterion

It was the early Eighties when I was invited to Washington D.C. to engage in a conversation about the National Endowment for the Arts. To my great surprise and delight I encountered two friends at this meeting, the founders of The New Criterion, Sam Lipman and Hilton Kramer. It should not be a surprise to the readers of this publication that these men of extraordinary erudition dominated the proceedings.

It was agreed that the three of us would share a cab to the airport and ultimately a flight back to New York. I was seated in a middle seat between them. The conversation reverted back to the day's events: Should the NEA receive government subventions? Is it good for the arts? Does the marketplace value genuine art?

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Religious Polarization Trumps Unity

April 24, 2012  •  NewsMax

Writing in The New York Times on April 4, Ross Douthat argues that "religious common ground has all but disappeared." The existence of a Judeo-Christian center that helped bind the teeming nation together is in retreat, he claims. In a nation as divided as ours, religious polarization is inescapable as the race to the presidency has already suggested.

The fear about radical secularism, on one hand, driving any aspect of religion out of the public square, and the specter of theocracy haunting the precincts of the liberal left, are offset by churches that are institutionally weak and fragmented.

Americans do not separate religion from politics, but they are sensitive to the manner in which they are combined.

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