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		<title>Philosophy of Perfection; Old/Broken as Unworthy</title>
		<link>http://newine.wordpress.com/2009/08/04/philosophy-of-perfection-oldbroken-as-unworthy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I could editorialize at length on how the so-called Cash-for-Clunkers program reveals key pillars of this administration&#8217;s worldview and how easily those could begin to inform thinking and policy in other areas (e.g., healthcare).
Since I don&#8217;t have time for that, a quick re-write of the first portion of a page one article in today&#8217;s WSJ [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newine.wordpress.com&blog=1930851&post=2076&subd=newine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;re Empty, Mr. President (Thoughts on Requiring the Blue Pill)</title>
		<link>http://newine.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/youre-empty-mr-president-thoughts-on-requiring-the-blue-pill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, my, goodness&#8230; I&#8217;m super-busy today (and doing a bit of blog-detox after a recent post-and-comment frenzy) but I can&#8217;t not blog the red-pill/blue-pill thing. (Watch for updates because there&#8217;s no way I&#8217;m going to finish in the time I have.)

&#8220;If there&#8217;s a blue pill and a red pill, and the blue pill is half [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newine.wordpress.com&blog=1930851&post=1982&subd=newine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stars Aligned (Celestial and Celebrity)</title>
		<link>http://newine.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/stars-aligned-celestial-and-celebrity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ultraguy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BHO may or may not be fully aware (yet) of who he is and/or what he&#8217;s in danger of becoming, or how and why, on a purely clinical level, he may be headed there fast already, but it&#8217;s hard to read a statement like this and look at the number and frequency of signs-in-the heavens [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newine.wordpress.com&blog=1930851&post=1979&subd=newine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Corrosive Culture of &#8216;Why Not?&#8217; &#8211; UPDATED</title>
		<link>http://newine.wordpress.com/2009/05/19/the-corrosive-culture-of-why-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 18:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s little surprise that, in a country that long ago abandoned Christianity as a compass for public morality, officials would find no basis on which to say this is wrong.
&#8230;a pregnant woman in South Sweden, who already has two girls, arrived at Mälaren Hospital and inquired whether or not she would be giving birth to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newine.wordpress.com&blog=1930851&post=1504&subd=newine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unprecedented Powers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[UPDATE: Welcome Anchoress readers! Original post below.]
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-
The following piece from this morning&#8217;s WaPo will be seen by many as a necessarily aggressive response to an unprecedented financial crisis. On one level, I can understand that reaction. The big questions I have are:
1) How do we know that existing mechanisms for remedy would be worse?
2) What [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newine.wordpress.com&blog=1930851&post=1234&subd=newine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Little Cornerstone Called Contract Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be the last one to suggest that government handouts (to individuals or businesses) are a good idea. That said, the remedy seems worse than the disease in this case.
Acting swiftly, the Democratic-led House approved a bill Thursday to slap punishing taxes on big employee bonuses at firms bailed out by taxpayers. In some cases [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newine.wordpress.com&blog=1930851&post=1204&subd=newine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alinsky-Ayers Program Unfolds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the apocalyptic tenor of many things I write here, I generally sleep pretty well. My faith is placed firmly in He who has conquered already and so much of the time it is with only a detached video-game kind of horror that I watch events unfolding according to a Biblical timeline.
Yet I was so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newine.wordpress.com&blog=1930851&post=1192&subd=newine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Financial Games; Magical Thinking</title>
		<link>http://newine.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/financial-games-magical-thinking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If shamelessly hypocritical Federal book-cooking like this is characteristic of the still-secret bail- hand-outs of to banks, how much trust can we put in their reported &#8216;profits&#8217;, news of which is largely responsible for the stock market&#8217;s recent lift?
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		<title>The Clandestine Imposition of New Faith-Truth-Moral Systems</title>
		<link>http://newine.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/the-clandestine-imposition-of-new-faith-truth-moral-systems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thought-piece alert. If you&#8217;re looking for spicy-hot scoops on today&#8217;s political headlines, this post is going to disappoint.    
As an on-again, off-again writer of fiction, a low-grade sci-fi movie buff (especially Alien and The Matrix) and a formerly voracious reader of sci-fi classics (before college), this in-depth article in Christianity Today struck a chord. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newine.wordpress.com&blog=1930851&post=1171&subd=newine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Enshrining a Cult of Personality</title>
		<link>http://newine.wordpress.com/2009/03/12/enshrining-a-cult-of-personality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having lived my entire life within a 20-minute drive of the site of the Boston Tea Party, and having spent the first 20+ years of it in the town that launched the first battle of the American Revolution, I&#8217;m left speechless about this taxation for the benefit of one particular all-too human and not-all that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newine.wordpress.com&blog=1930851&post=1159&subd=newine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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