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During the campaign, Barack Obama proposed tripling AmeriCorps, the full-time community service program, at a cost of roughly $3 billion. John McCain, though less specific, also supported a large expansion in national service. That consensus had grown around national service before the economic crisis — which has only strengthened the argument for it. Franklin Roosevelt…

The New York Times’ Jason DeParle has an important piece today documenting that among the states with highest unemployment increases, half chose to cut welfare benefits rather than boosting them. During the welfare reform debates of the 1990s, governors said, in effect: take away federal requirements and we’ll do right by our folks, especially since…

Tom McClusky of Family Resaerch Council has a thoughtful post responding to my item on why many pro-life groups oppose family planning. First, he argues that I make a false assumption: that being opposed to federally-financed family planning is the same as opposing family planning. Many pro-life people support family planning, of a particular sort:…

ENCYCLICAL LETTER HUMANAE VITAE OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF PAUL VI TO HIS VENERABLE BROTHERS THE PATRIARCHS, ARCHBISHOPS, BISHOPS AND OTHER LOCAL ORDINARIES IN PEACE AND COMMUNION WITH THE APOSTOLIC SEE, TO THE CLERGY AND FAITHFUL OF THE WHOLE CATHOLIC WORLD, AND TO ALL MEN OF GOOD WILL, ON THE REGULATION OF BIRTH 1968 Honored Brothers…
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