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The Tea Party and the Religious Conservative Movement

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By Deal Hudson A host of commentators on the Tea Party phenomena have mindlessly described the participants as exclusively concerned with fiscal issues.  Anyone who has attended one of these events knows better. Those who attend Tea Parties across the …

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Messing With Kenya

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By Stephen Phelan Just when faithful Catholics thought they’d heard the last of the troubled Patrick Kennedy, we find that he had one more curious public spectacle up his sleeve. As we have come to expect from the lame-duck congressman …

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Will the Catholic Health Association Support the Protect Life Act?

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Catholic Advocate has joined with eighteen pro-life organizations and leaders to request the Catholic Health Association support H.R. 5111, the Protect Life Act. As we informed our community back in April when Congressman Joe Pitts (R, PA-16) announced the introduction …

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The Catholic Health Association and the Future of Catholic Unity

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By: Stephen Phelan Five years short of its centennial anniversary, the Catholic Health Association (CHA) appears to have achieved a level of influence in American politics unsurpassed by perhaps any other health industry association, religious or secular, in history. Its …

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The Battle Over Who Controls the Internet Comes to A Head

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By: Deal W. Hudson The battle over who controls the Internet will soon come to a head.  Is it the federal government, as the Obama administration is seeking to establish, or the many private companies who collaborated to create it …

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A Catholic Lawyer Leaves the Sisters of Charity Board Over the Health Care Bill

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By: Deal W. Hudson Kevin Hall, an attorney in Columbia, SC, is a convert to the Catholic faith and has served on the board of the Sisters of Charity Foundation for eight years. He resigned from the board after the …

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D.C. Court of Appeals Rules FCC Has No Authority to Enforce Net Neutrality

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By Deal Hudson In a severe setback to the Obama administration’s push for “net neutrality,” a federal appeals court ruled the Federal Communications Commission did not have the authority to issue a 2008 citation against Comcast Corporation for inhibiting some …

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Will the Government Take Over the Internet?

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By Deal Hudson The fight over net neutrality has been dwarfed in the public square by the struggling economy, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the health-care debate. But if the FCC acts to hand control of the Internet …

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