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		<title>May 20 Village Board: Order in the village</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 16:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Oak Park Newspapers: At one point in the May 20 village board meeting, Village President Anan Abu-Taleb described three Oak Park business strips as each unique -- Oak Park Avenue from Van Buren to Garfield, OP Ave. south of South Boulevard, and Lake Street. This in a general discussion of zoning variances and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&#038;blog=346543&#038;post=7970&#038;subd=blithespirit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bible publisher vs. HHS mandate</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 19:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tyndale House publishers, in Carol Stream IL, west of Chicago, got temporary relief while fighting the HHS mandate. Their lawyer, Matt Bowman (no relation), is optimistic, nails Obama admin. extremism in defense of secularism: Bowman stated that, altogether, at all levels of the legal system, the Obama administration has lost 19 cases challenging injunctions in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&#038;blog=346543&#038;post=7968&#038;subd=blithespirit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Is Oak Park Hosting the Next Gosnell?&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 13:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Oak Park IL doctor will revive Kansas&#8217; abortion practice. OAK PARK, Ill., May 20, 2013 /Christian Newswire/ &#8212; There&#8217;s only one abortion clinic in the state of Kansas, and Oak Park family doctor Cheryl Chastine owns it. The clinic, South Wind Women&#8217;s Center, recently opened in the same office in Wichita where notorious abortionist [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&#038;blog=346543&#038;post=7966&#038;subd=blithespirit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Fordham graduation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 22:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Glenn Beck&#8217;s daughter was among the grads, Glenn was there. Among his thoughts: . . . there was practically no mention of God [in the ceremony]. In fact, [at] one point, you know, the dean was talking about how we should ‑‑ we should serve each other, we should help each other, we should help [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&#038;blog=346543&#038;post=7964&#038;subd=blithespirit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who says there are problems with big govt.?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 01:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These fellows, for starters: James Madison wrote, &#8220;The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.&#8221; John Adams wrote, &#8220;There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.&#8221; Thomas Jefferson wrote, &#8220;In questions [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&#038;blog=346543&#038;post=7962&#038;subd=blithespirit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Priests, money, what hurts the church</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The pontiff: “When a priest, a bishop goes after money, the people do not love him – and that&#8217;s a sign…. St. Paul did not have a bank account, he worked, and when a bishop, a priest goes on the road to vanity, he enters into the spirit of careerism – and this hurts the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&#038;blog=346543&#038;post=7960&#038;subd=blithespirit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bother the Fed!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wanna &#8220;help . . . bother the Fed, the banksters, the Wall Street fixers, and the rest of the corporatist regime that is taking us over the cliff&#8221;? And yr near One East 60th Street, 8:00–10:00 AM, next Tuesday, May 21, with $100 to spare for breakfast and signed copy of David Stockman&#8217;s new book [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&#038;blog=346543&#038;post=7958&#038;subd=blithespirit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blame it on highways, David Pope tells Democrats</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 22:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Oak Park Newspapers: At the weekly meeting of the Democratic Party of Oak Park on May 11, Sen. Don Harmon introduced David Pope, immediate past and two-term Oak Park village president, as "the first president to look outside village borders" for problems to be solved. As if to verify this allegation of extra-village [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&#038;blog=346543&#038;post=7956&#038;subd=blithespirit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ron Gidwitz mad</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 14:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[. . . at Republican conservatives. Whoa. This is the party, fractured as usual, but it goes deeper than Jim (Got Milk) Oberweis&#8217; maneuverings. It&#8217;s the nature of the beast.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&#038;blog=346543&#038;post=7951&#038;subd=blithespirit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>West Sub hospital charges more . . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 12:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Oak Park Newspapers: . . . Well, its ER expenses have to be very high because of its being cheek by jowl with high-crime Austin neighborhood. That said, the bad news, from Patch: Overall, Rush Oak Park Hospital bills Medicare on average less than the U.S. average, while the West Suburban Medical Center [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&#038;blog=346543&#038;post=7949&#038;subd=blithespirit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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