Acton Institute is pleased to welcome Laura Ingraham, host of the Laura Ingraham Show and NYT bestselling author of Power to the People to Grand Rapids for a special evening presentation on September 17.

In addition to being the most popular female radio host in the United States and hosting the fifth largest syndicated radio program, Laura is an author, frequent columnist, and television commentator, most notably as the official guest host of the O'Reilly Factor on Fox News Channel.

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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Amway Grand Plaza Hotel
The Pantlind Ballroom
7:30pm Presentation by Laura Ingraham
Followed by a question & answer session, book signing, and dessert reception

Tickets $25
Students $15

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The staff of the Acton Institute PowerBlog have rolled out a new widget that can be added to your blog, website, or social networking page. The LOLord Acton Quote Generator is based on nearly 100 quotes from the eminent writings of Lord Acton, translated into what has become known as "LOL" text. LOL text has become an Internet phenomenon, starting with sites like those that feature LOLcats. Theologians from the history of the church have been LOL-ized (early, medieval, Reformation, modern) and now Lord Acton joins the ranks of those figures with wisdom from the past deemed worthy of communication to present generations. The purpose of the LOLord Acton generator is to introduce people in a fun way to the famous (and not-so famous) quotes from Lord Acton, encourage readers to engage these quotes in their original form, and cause them to think about the wisdom embedded in these quotes.

Kishore Jayabalan, director of the Acton Institute's offices in Rome, talks about the attempts to re-start the stalled Doha Round of WTO talks, and the importance to the developing world of access to free foreign markets, especially in regard the agriculture and manufacturing industries.

Quick Links

• China Joins Doha Talks at the World Trade Organisation - Vatican Radio
• Who’s Afraid of Free Trade? - by Michael Miller, Acton Commentary.
• A Papal Challenge to Globalization - by Bernd Bergmann, Acton Institute PowerBlog.

Presidential candidate Barack Obama has recently announced plans to continue and expand the faith-based initiative started during the Bush administration. In a piece for National Review Online, Rev. Robert A. Sirico, president of the Acton Institute, discusses the temptations faced by private charities that are offered government funding. "Charities with a religious mission shouldn't be getting mixed up in all that bureaucracy, all those regulations, and all those rules concerning their own internal management. Nor should they become dependent on taxpayers. Doing so skews the institutional mission of the charity," he writes. Read Rev. Sirico on National Review Online

Quick Links

• Rev. Sirico on National Review Online
• The Samaritan Guide
• Press Release - Acton Institute announces finalists for the Samaritan Award
• Acton PowerBlog - Round-Up: Obama and the Faith-Based Initiative

Rev. Robert A. Sirico, president of the Acton Institute, joins host Carl Zylstra to discuss the role of religious belief in the public square of society. How are believers to put their faith in action in political and policy discussions without being simply co-opted by various political interests? How has Pope Benedict XVI engaged with society? What was the role of faith in the life of William F. Buckley? These and other issues are discussed in this 48 minute interview.

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• Religion and the Vote
• The State Invades the Confessional
• Liberty Legitimately Constrained
• Free Religion