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			<title><![CDATA['Please pass the pork']]></title>
			<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/267206</link>			<enclosure url="http://www.digitaljournal.com/img/8/7/8/i/4/1/9/p-small/unitedstatesmoneydollarbill.jpg" length="2847" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure> 
			<description><![CDATA[As the “Bush Recession” tightens its grip on the American economy's windpipe, and the new Obama administration works feverishly to break its stranglehold, one term keeps popping up on the lips of Republican politicians and Right Wing pundits—pork.]]></description> 
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:29:00 -0500]]></pubDate> 
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			<title><![CDATA[Palestine: A History Lesson]]></title>
			<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/266979</link>			<enclosure url="http://www.digitaljournal.com/img/1/6/7/5/2/8/i/4/6/2/p-small/GazaLineup.jpg" length="4862" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure> 
			<description><![CDATA[One of the advantages of studying history is that it helps put today’s headlines into context and provides the information necessary to evaluate the claims made by rival factions in the news.]]></description> 
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:05:33 -0500]]></pubDate> 
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			<title><![CDATA[Joe, Betsy Sue and the Army Band learn about stimulus.]]></title>
			<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/266009</link> 
			<description><![CDATA[One day in the happy Kingdom of More Moola, Joe the pizza maker decided to make some extra pizzas, counting on the lunch shift at the local widget factory to buy up all that he had made.]]></description> 
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:01:33 -0500]]></pubDate> 
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			<title><![CDATA['The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves!']]></title>
			<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/265020</link> 
			<description><![CDATA[It is a movie classic -- someone gets hysterical, so the hero slaps them across the face and tells them to get a grip on themselves. In the movies, this tactic works. Unfortunately, real life is not like that. This is a lesson for Israel.]]></description> 
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:03:10 -0500]]></pubDate> 
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			<title><![CDATA[A Christmas Carol]]></title>
			<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/263593</link> 
			<description><![CDATA[The “Holiday Season” had come to San Francisco, cool gray city of love, bringing with it thundering rains and icy blasts from off the Pacific.]]></description> 
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:33:20 -0500]]></pubDate> 
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			<title><![CDATA[Shrimp Cocktails and Gay Marriage, The Biblical Case against Prop 8]]></title>
			<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/263106</link> 
			<description><![CDATA[The Bible is a very complex and challenging book and not even those who have devoted a lifetime to its study can say for certain exactly what it all means]]></description> 
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:08:26 -0500]]></pubDate> 
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			<title><![CDATA[America’s Pagan roots]]></title>
			<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/261777</link> 
			<description><![CDATA[As the last days of the political campaign wind down and the election draws near perhaps this is a fit time to reflect on how this process came about and the historical roots that have made our nation what it is today.]]></description> 
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:57:19 -0400]]></pubDate> 
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			<title><![CDATA[Chicken Little and the ACORN]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Chicken Little was in the woods one day when an acorn fell on her head.  It scared her so much she trembled all over.  She shook so hard, half her feathers fell out.

&quot;Help! Help!  The sky is falling!  I have to go tell the king!&quot;]]></description> 
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:23:23 -0400]]></pubDate> 
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			<title><![CDATA[Op-Ed: Renoir's Beauty Remains, Continues to Leave Impressionist Marks]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In the last years of his life, Renoir had arthritis so bad that a brush had to be strapped to his hand so that he could paint. When asked why he continued to work in such conditions he replied, &quot;The pain passes, but the beauty remains.&quot;]]></description> 
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:47:44 -0400]]></pubDate> 
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			<title><![CDATA[Op-Ed: Protecting students from literature in Illinois]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The small, but ethnically diverse, town of Deerfield, Illinois, has recently been propelled into the the spotlight by news that seniors of the local high school are being required to read an award-winning play by a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright]]></description> 
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:21:53 -0400]]></pubDate> 
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