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Defend Our Laws: Justice Matters

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In developing their positions on Supreme Court appointments and the Department of Justice, presidential candidates should 1) welcome the battle over the Supreme Court, 2) determine to fight hard for high-quality justices, 3) frame the argument for why abortion policy should be restored to the democratic processes, 4) support the Defense of Marriage Act, and 5) commit to select senior legal leaders who fully embrace their goals and priorities.
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Defend Marriage: Moms and Dads Matter

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Presidential candidates in the next election should uphold marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
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Protect the Weak and Vulnerable: The Primacy of the Life Issue

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Public officials—especially the President—are obligated to protect the intrinsic equal dignity of all human beings, regardless not only of sex and race, but also without regard to age, size, condition of dependency, vulnerability, or the esteem of others. Abortion and embryo-destructive research are profound and lethal violations of this principle of equality to which the law (and the President) must respond.
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Perry, Prayer, and Politics

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Rick Perry’s prayer rally engendered accusations that he wrongly crossed the church-state divide. But great leaders in American history have long held that religion is a necessary basis for public morality.
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The Balanced Budget Amendment: What Would Hamilton Say?

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The balanced budget amendment would rob the federal government of an essential power.
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Republican and Classically Conservative in 2012

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An important book from the 1980s can teach today’s Republican presidential candidates the importance of classical conservatism.
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The Debt Ceiling and the Constitution

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The attempts by both the right and the left to politicize our Constitution must be firmly rejected for the sake of our nation’s health and prosperity.
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One Man, One Woman, and the Common Good: Marriage’s Public Purpose

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The state should uphold the Defense of Marriage Act, because the state’s interest in marriage is fundamentally about public, not private, purposes for marriage. Adapted from testimony delivered before the United States Senate.
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Employment and Social Justice

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When we debate problems of social justice, we must keep our shared principles separate from the means we advocate to recognize them. Failure to do so produces unfruitful discourse and misdirected charges.
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A Realist Philosophical Case For Urbanism and Against Sprawl: Part Two

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Arguments for traditional urbanism are de facto truth claims about nature and human nature, and point to and are supported by the natural law. Why we can and should think normatively about our building patterns. Part two of two.
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A Realist Philosophical Case For Urbanism and Against Sprawl: Part One

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Arguments for traditional urbanism are de facto truth claims about nature and human nature, and point to and are supported by the natural law. Why we can and should think normatively about our building patterns. Part one of two.
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Planned Parenthood’s Lawless Policies

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Planned Parenthood must account for its disregard for the law if it wishes to retain state funding.
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Social Contracts, Human Flourishing, and the Economy

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Our current economic debates underscore the case for an approach to political economy that rejects social contract theory and embraces a robust conception of human flourishing.
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God and Democratic Diplomacy

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We can no longer afford to hang on to secularization theories as we design policy for nations from Libya to Egypt, Iran to Pakistan, Nigeria to Indonesia, and the numerous other societies being reshaped by the partisans of God in the 21st century. The second in a three-part series.
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Closing the Door on Education Innovation

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The feds are working behind the scenes to nationalize K-12 curriculum, including a national test. This would be bad for schools, and disastrous for the culture.
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Dismal Science Redeemed: Where to Go from Here

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How and why considering distribution will yield a complete economic science. The second in a two-part series.
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The Prenatal Testing Sham

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On this year's World Down Syndrome Day, Mark Leach discusses the unacknowledged effects of prenatal testing.
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Business vs. the Market

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Public employee unions aren’t the only seekers of government largesse.
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Roe to the Rescue?

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Roe v. Wade could prove an unlikely source of pro-life conscience protection.
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Obama, DOMA, and Constitutional Responsibility

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President Obama’s decision to refuse to defend DOMA is not an act of executive assertion so much as an expression of deep deference to the courts.
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Obama’s Unreasonable Abandonment of DOMA

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President Obama has dropped the defense of marriage out of political convenience rather than reasonable opposition.
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Political Responsibility and Exceptionless Moral Norms

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What exceptionless moral norms are we willing to discard for the sake of a good cause?
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Speaking Truth to Evil

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The Live Action case is very different from the Nazis-at-the-door problem, but lying is justified in neither situation.
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Now is the Time to End Taxpayer Funding of Abortion

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The history of federal abortion funding highlights the urgent need to reverse the new health care law’s assault on unborn life, and to enact a permanent, government-wide prohibition on federal funding of abortion.
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