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	<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Identity Theft - Only Illegal When Citizens Do It!</title>
		<link>http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/24/identity-theft-only-illegal-when-citizens-do-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Take your blood pressure medication before heading out to NPR for this story:
Immigrant Rights Groups Challenge ID Theft Arrests : NPR
A congressional panel is meeting Thursday to look at the controversial fallout from an immigration raid on an Iowa meat-packing plant in May. Not long ago, illegal immigrants swept up in such raids faced administrative [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Identity Theft - Only Illegal When Citizens Do It!", url: "http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/24/identity-theft-only-illegal-when-citizens-do-it/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>The Failure of American Education</title>
		<link>http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/24/the-failure-of-american-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not just the ridiculous way we teach - or don&#8217;t teach - math these days that causes concerned parents to teach long division to their children on the sly.  People clearly don&#8217;t comprehend history either.
Althouse: 22% of Americans &#8220;believe any state or region has the right to peaceably secede and become an independent [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Failure of American Education", url: "http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/24/the-failure-of-american-education/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the Day</title>
		<link>http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/24/quote-of-the-day-33/</link>
		<comments>http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/24/quote-of-the-day-33/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Asides]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is going to leave a mark: 
ANTIWAR HYPOCRITES
Inhabitants of the left-wing blogosphere, have you no shame? Was your pacifism nothing more than a hipster pose? Bush is on the way out - are your principles leaving with him? Have you stopped to wonder if BHO might not be your LBJ?
You told us that &#8220;War [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Quote of the Day", url: "http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/24/quote-of-the-day-33/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>City of Slidell Donates $42k to ACLU</title>
		<link>http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/23/city-of-slidell-donates-42k-to-aclu/</link>
		<comments>http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/23/city-of-slidell-donates-42k-to-aclu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Christian Living]]></category>

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The entirely predictable outcome of the city of Slidell - just outside of New Orleans - hanging a painting of Jesus in the court. Even though they hastily added Confucius, Hammurabi and other &#8220;historical lawgivers&#8221; who appear on the walls at SCOTUS, they lost in court, of course, and had to pay the ACLU&#8217;s court [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "City of Slidell Donates $42k to ACLU", url: "http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/23/city-of-slidell-donates-42k-to-aclu/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;ve Always Been Winning In Iraq</title>
		<link>http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/23/weve-always-been-winning-in-iraq/</link>
		<comments>http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/23/weve-always-been-winning-in-iraq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been winning in Iraq all along.  Right? That&#8217;s what the media would have us think, anyway, now that it&#8217;s both inevitable and also convenient for Obama.
I am still bewildered that the media believes this is somehow proper. They went from assuming the war was unwinnable &#8212; and frequently stating that explicitly &#8212; to [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "We&#8217;ve Always Been Winning In Iraq", url: "http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/23/weve-always-been-winning-in-iraq/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Hubris (noun): excessive pride, arrogance. See: Obama, Barack</title>
		<link>http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/22/hubris-noun-excessive-pride-arrogance-see-obama-barack/</link>
		<comments>http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/22/hubris-noun-excessive-pride-arrogance-see-obama-barack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the hubris two-fer.
Over at Hot Air, it seems Obama&#8217;s staffers aren&#8217;t aware that the coronation election isn&#8217;t until November.  And that Obama will, at most, only be President for eight years.
“It is not going to be a political speech,” said a senior foreign policy adviser, who spoke to reporters on background. “When the [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Hubris (noun): excessive pride, arrogance. See: Obama, Barack", url: "http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/22/hubris-noun-excessive-pride-arrogance-see-obama-barack/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>New Orleans Flood Victims Provide Some Payback</title>
		<link>http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/22/new-orleans-flood-victims-provide-some-payback/</link>
		<comments>http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/22/new-orleans-flood-victims-provide-some-payback/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[No, not that kind of payback - they haven&#8217;t massed, armed with pitchforks and torches, outside the Corps of Engineers&#8217; offices.  I mean the good kind of payback.  Thousands - maybe tens of thousands - of volunteers have come from all over the country to help us gut houses and rebuild.  And [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "New Orleans Flood Victims Provide Some Payback", url: "http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/22/new-orleans-flood-victims-provide-some-payback/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>What Media Bias?</title>
		<link>http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/21/what-media-bias/</link>
		<comments>http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/21/what-media-bias/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pursuingholiness.com/?p=2297</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today I posted that people don&#8217;t trust the media.  Here&#8217;s reason #10,824 why:
Infantry: Troops Angry At Media Bias and Laziness
July 21, 2008: American troops in Afghanistan are not happy with how a July 13th battle with the Taliban was reported. In that action, some 200 Taliban attacked a U.S. &#8220;base&#8221; and killed or [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "What Media Bias?", url: "http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/21/what-media-bias/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Compare and Contrast</title>
		<link>http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/21/compare-and-contrast-3/</link>
		<comments>http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/21/compare-and-contrast-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Wars and Rumors of Wars]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pursuingholiness.com/?p=2294</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From Walking&#8217;s World, &#8220;one of the best I’ve seen when it comes to documenting the anti-Americanism of the radical left. Complete with an upside down flag, spitting on an Iraq War veteran and calling him a rapist, it’s sure to make your blood boil.&#8221;
My blood&#8217;s not boiling, but I&#8217;m quite depressed.  This is what [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Compare and Contrast", url: "http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/21/compare-and-contrast-3/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Shocka: People think media is biased!</title>
		<link>http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/21/shocka-people-think-media-is-biased/</link>
		<comments>http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/21/shocka-people-think-media-is-biased/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t imagine why*, but Rasmussen Reports that people don&#8217;t trust journalists!
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey found that 49% of voters believe most reporters will try to help Obama with their coverage, up from 44% a month ago.
&#8230; As for unaffiliated voters, 50% see a pro-Obama bias and 21% see unbiased coverage. Just 12% [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Shocka: People think media is biased!", url: "http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/21/shocka-people-think-media-is-biased/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq Redeployment</title>
		<link>http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/21/iraq-redeployment/</link>
		<comments>http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/21/iraq-redeployment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I agree completely:
McCain Backs Timeline to Get Obama Out of Iraq
&#8230; John McCain today for the first time said he can now support a timeline to reduce the American presence in Iraq, specifically advocating the withdrawal from Iraq of Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama, and several battalions of U.S. news anchors and reporters.
&#8230;Sen. McCain said [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Iraq Redeployment", url: "http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/21/iraq-redeployment/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Your News IQ?</title>
		<link>http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/21/whats-your-news-iq/</link>
		<comments>http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/21/whats-your-news-iq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Pew News IQ Test - To test your knowledge of prominent people and major events in the news, we invite you to take our short quiz. Then see how you did in comparison with 1,003 randomly sampled adults asked the same questions in a recent national survey conducted by the Pew Research Center.
My percentile was [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "What&#8217;s Your News IQ?", url: "http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/21/whats-your-news-iq/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Last Day To See Dr. Horrible&#8217;s Sing Along Blog</title>
		<link>http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/19/last-day-to-see-dr-horribles-sing-along-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/19/last-day-to-see-dr-horribles-sing-along-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Sharing Good Stuff]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pursuingholiness.com/?p=2284</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
I just heard about this today or I&#8217;d have been pushing it for the last week.  You&#8217;ve only got one more day to see how Joss Whedon and a bunch of other insanely talented people amused themselves during the writer&#8217;s strike. 
After that, you&#8217;ll have to do what I plan on doing, which is [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Last Day To See Dr. Horrible&#8217;s Sing Along Blog", url: "http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/19/last-day-to-see-dr-horribles-sing-along-blog/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>I will make you fishers of men?</title>
		<link>http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/19/i-will-make-you-fishers-of-men/</link>
		<comments>http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/19/i-will-make-you-fishers-of-men/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Asides]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I couldn&#8217;t resist the title, given this headline: 
Fisherman hooks drowning man, reels him in
A Maine angler used his fishing rod to reel in a man who survived a jump from a bridge and was drowning in the Kennebec River.
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		<title>As Soon As Obama Gets To Iraq, We&#8217;ll Win The War</title>
		<link>http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/19/as-soon-as-obama-gets-to-iraq-well-win-the-war/</link>
		<comments>http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/19/as-soon-as-obama-gets-to-iraq-well-win-the-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pursuingholiness.com/?p=2270</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over at Riehl World View Dan asks the question -
But seriously, now that the media will be in Iraq and things are much improved, will they genuinely report that &#8230; the way they should have been doing all along? Or, will they simply deliver the profound wisdom emanating from Obama&#8217;s teleprompter and talking points to [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "As Soon As Obama Gets To Iraq, We&#8217;ll Win The War", url: "http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/07/19/as-soon-as-obama-gets-to-iraq-well-win-the-war/" });</script>]]></description>
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