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In 1993, the Clinton White House contacted Hillary Rodham’s former thesis adviser Alan H. Schechter, informing him that the Clintons had decided not to release her senior thesis on Marxist organizer Saul Alinsky. When Schechter asked why, he was told that Hillary was working on health care now and she did not want to alienate Daniel Patrick Moynihan, whom Schechter was told she had criticized in the thesis. This puzzled Schechter, since he did not recall Moynihan being mentioned in the thesis. (Actually, the thesis does have a chapter critiquing Moynihan’s War on Poverty legislation.) Schechter argued that they should...

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While the liberal media has always criticized the late Pope John Paul II’s "conservative" views on abortion, contraception, gay marriage, and other pressing moral issues of our time, analysts are now pointing to the Pope’s moral influence in American politics. Trends indicate that millions of Catholics have changed their party affiliation from Democrat to Republican, largely influenced by the Pope's teaching on the "Culture of Life." "Pope John Paul had a very important indirect effect in moving traditional Catholics who regularly attend Mass toward the Republicans over the years of his papacy," John Green, a political scientist at the University...