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	<description>Conservative, Catholic, ex-newsman, Oak Parker (IL)</description>
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		<title>Catholic responses to forced insurance</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fr. Robert Barron takes Sun-Times&#8217;s Neil Steinberg and Chi Trib op-ed writer Sara Paretsky to task in his amazing relaxed and easy-going manner in this video on &#8220;the HHS contraception mandate.&#8221; The bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend in this &#8220;Catholic Resistance Must be the Response to the Unjust HHS Edict to Violate Conscience&#8221;: &#8220;We have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=346543&amp;post=6421&amp;subd=blithespirit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Puritans, Keats, Paul Ryan, and sheer nonsense</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[PURITANS AND ROMANTICS:&#160;Religion was reduced by the Puritans &#8220;to mere morality,&#8221; the Puritan imagination was &#8220;thoroughly moralized,&#8221; said H.B. Parkes and H.W. Schneider respectively, both of them quoted by Yvor Winters in his 1930 book&#160;Maule&#8217;s Curse.&#160;&#160;The &#8220;highly stimulated&#8221; Puritan, said Winters,&#160;was &#8220;no longer guided by the flexible and sensitive ethical scholarship of the Roman tradition.&#8221;&#160; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=346543&amp;post=90&amp;subd=blithespirit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Money and other matters GOP voters have to consider</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quite a nice statement of where we stand in re: GOP nomination: The conundrum: We don’t dismiss outright the notion that character is important. But the value of the current race is the chance it gives the GOP to craft the substance of its message. It’s an effort in which all four are making important contributions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=346543&amp;post=6412&amp;subd=blithespirit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Newt more than a media-basher</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read this about Newt as more than what&#8217;s advertised by Romney-ites: Tonight&#8217;s debate in Florida may be, as advertised, crucial to the outcome of the race there. But whether Speaker Gingrich knocks this one out of the park or he doesn&#8217;t, one fact stands clear. He&#8217;s survived this long against extraordinary odds and attained the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=346543&amp;post=6410&amp;subd=blithespirit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Catholics under siege</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Catholics and other Americans united in defense of religious liberty should hear what NY Archbishop Dolan has to say about the government forcing church institutions to provide insurance to cover birth control and abortion-inducing drugs. Here is Abp. Dolan on the subject: &#8220;From a human point of view, we may be tempted to surrender, when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=346543&amp;post=6408&amp;subd=blithespirit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AmSpect assumes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[American Spectator fellow on the presidential speech: Aside from the fact that the Democrats didn&#8217;t seem to enjoy being there any more than the Republicans, the address begged a number of different questions. He lost me right there.&#160; Prompted or suggested questions. I&#8217;m cranky as it is when the Obfuscator-in-Chief flaps his lips, then comes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=346543&amp;post=6406&amp;subd=blithespirit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brian Williams bit hand that feeds him</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An entertainer like Brian Williams should know better than ban applause. He&#8217;d be nothin&#8217; but a houn&#8217; dog without it, baying at the moonglow.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=346543&amp;post=6405&amp;subd=blithespirit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sun-Times make non-endorse decision in nick of time</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sun-Times endorsements no more: With this in mind, the Chicago Sun-Times Editorial Board will approach election coverage in a new way. We will provide clear and accurate information about who the candidates are and where they stand on the issues most important to our city, our state and our country. We will post candidate questionnaires [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=346543&amp;post=6403&amp;subd=blithespirit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama vs. Israel, so what?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ed Koch can&#8217;t help lovin&#8217; that guy.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=346543&amp;post=6401&amp;subd=blithespirit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Working stiffs to enviros: Get lost</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that pipeline: The Laborers International Union of North America announced today that it is quitting the BlueGreen Alliance, a major coalition group. LIUNA head Terry O&#8217;Sullivan did not mince words in explaining why they were leaving in a statement released today. &#8220;AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka recently said there was a divide in the labor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=346543&amp;post=6399&amp;subd=blithespirit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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