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		<title>Italian conundrum: Catholic = fascist?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 21:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Italy, says Nicholas Farrell, in Taki&#8217;s Magazine, Catholics and fascists are both keen on intervention by totalitarian higher bodies such as the state in both life and work, and they are hostile to individual freedom and the free market. And maybe not only there, if there. It goes with my tentative observations in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&#038;blog=346543&#038;post=7135&#038;subd=blithespirit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Liz Warren gaining in Mass.!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 17:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Voters in the commonwealth care not if she fibbed about Indian-ness to game affirmative action to become a Harvard prof. . . . this is a by-product of living in a liberal state. Most folks here in the Bay State not only favor affirmative action but see nothing wrong with Warren&#8217;s claims even if they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&#038;blog=346543&#038;post=7134&#038;subd=blithespirit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Liberal sound-alikes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 16:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama and Ms. Warren of Massachusetts: President Barack Obama and Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren have more in common than just their liberal political ideology, Harvard Law pedigree, and Democratic Party affiliation. Both claim Cherokee ancestry, and neither can prove it. Birds of a feathah!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&#038;blog=346543&#038;post=7133&#038;subd=blithespirit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Even liberals get violent sometimes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 02:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<title>How she had her baby</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 12:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to lower expectations for a movie you might see: What to Expect When You&#8217;re Expecting is . . . [a] timid comedy full of stock characters and clichéd humor with endings never in doubt, it wants to tell you every detail of pregnancy but none of life. You will need an epidural just to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&#038;blog=346543&#038;post=7128&#038;subd=blithespirit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Irish come out fighting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 11:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hopey changey not working out at Notre Dame.&#160; Nothing says more about this most obvious overreaching by the boy president. Give a look at some nuts and bolts of it, noting while you are at it, this pungency: The [legal] background [of the HHS mandate] is farcical. It represents administrative law brought to us by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&#038;blog=346543&#038;post=7124&#038;subd=blithespirit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chicago police</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 22:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chief McCarthy just now on Roe, WLS-AM: terrific. Police did great job with protests, his discussing it with Roe was muy impressive. Nice to win one for once, and big feather in cap of Rahm, who stayed way back and did not let himself be drawn into media commentary. Contrast it with Richie M. Huge [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&#038;blog=346543&#038;post=7121&#038;subd=blithespirit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Black studies in focus</title>
		<link>http://blithespirit.wordpress.com/2012/05/20/black-studies-in-focus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 20:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heresy: African American Studies has a leaden foot on the victimhood pedal, and its premise is rarely questioned. You can lose your job with talk like that.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&#038;blog=346543&#038;post=7119&#038;subd=blithespirit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How&#039;s this for a (delayed) Mother&#039;s Day tribute?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 17:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Not for Attribution: The eyes have it.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&#038;blog=346543&#038;post=7118&#038;subd=blithespirit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Forgive us: a meditation on clarity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 02:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Not for Attribution: God forgives sins? We hear that all the time, from hundreds of preachers. But God condemns sins and forgives sinners. Not theology or Scriptural accuracy here (hardly) but simple (not that it&#8217;s a simple thing to achieve) clarity. Or the priest or lector prays for those suffering every misfortune. No. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&#038;blog=346543&#038;post=7117&#038;subd=blithespirit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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