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Here's an email I received from Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute that I thought I should pass on: Subj: Urgent Action Alert....Today Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 15:14:35 -0500 From: "Austin Ruse -- C-FAM" ---------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleague, As you read this, some U.S. Senators (Boxer and Biden), along with some in the State Department are attempting to get the U.S. to ratify one of the most dangerous and radical UN treaties ever written. We need your immediate help to stop them. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) seeks to level every single...

Liberalism: What, Whence and Whither? A Lecture by James Kalb Presented at a Telos Conference, May 20, 2001 Today I will present a very general perspective on liberalism: what it is, where it comes from, where it might go. I'm a lawyer, and after preparing my remarks I realized that they took a lawyer's point of view. What I had done was look at a series of decisions – the political changes people agree are liberal – and looked for the common principle that explained them. Then I looked at the authorities to explain the principle. Since it is ...

BBC Panorama 'Referendum Street' - online pollPlease visit, and encourage as many other people as possibleto visit, the following BBC website to cast your vote toKeep the Pound. It's essential we win this vote to show thatthe outcome of the vote on the last night's programme cannotbe extrapolated across the country as a whole.http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/voting/ballots/1180000_f.stm

Dear MIM E-Mail Newsletter Subscribers: We've received the following request from our colleagues at the American Family Association. We're passing on this information for those who might be interested in supporting this effort. Since the news of "Temptation Island" broke, MIM President Bob Peters has been interviewed on this topic by Chris "Hardball" Matthews of MSNBC, Geraldo Rivera (CNBC), "Inside Edition," Judith Regan of Fox News Channels, and BBC Television, among others. PATRICK McGRATH Director of Media Relations -----Original Message----- I need your help! "Temptation Island," the Fox network's highly promoted and rated "reality" sex series, has garnered only half ...

The Tyranny of Liberalism The disappearance of the radical left is a sign that in principle it has reached its attainable goals. While no one admits it, what we see around us is the victory of the Revolution. Politics today is radically secularist and antiparticularist. It aims to dissolve what is left of traditional society and construct a universal form of human association that will constitute a technically rational system for the equal satisfaction of desire. Religion is to be banished from public life, ethnic and gender distinctions abolished, and a worldwide order established, based on world markets and ...

What is to be done about human rights? Do ethnic war in the Balkans and the horrors of Auschwitz, the threats of racism, religious bigotry and political oppression, make necessary a single worldwide liberal regime backed by economic sanctions and bombs? Some conception of universal human rights is unavoidable today. Modern developments have shortened distances and enhanced human power, forcing peoples together and making possible acts of utter inhumanity on an unprecedented scale. Such a situation motivates moral agreement and encourages scrutiny of abuses, but also limits the possible scope of agreement. A natural response would be acceptance of a ...

The Rise of the FU Movement by Mark Steyn London SPECTATOR, Mar-4-2000 CONSERVATISM is doomed. True, in the Eastern bloc, in its conclusive demolition of the Berlin Wall, it won the battle of ideas. But in its own Western bloc, it's lost the battle of process, and that's likely to prove decisive. In the United States, George W. Bush is opposed to same-sex marriage. So is John McCain. But whichever one of them becomes president will have little say over whether or not, in Vermont and elsewhere, justices of the peace (and, indeed, clergy) find themselves uttering the words, 'I ...