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		<title>Somehow beating RC bishops to the punch</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From CNS News&#160;about rattling the U. of Illinois cage:

The Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal group, has given the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign until the end of Friday to re-instate a professor who was relieved of his teaching duties following complaints he engaged in &#8220;hate speech&#8221; by teaching students about Catholic teaching on homosexuality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New location for Blithe Spirit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have moved again, this time to this place.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
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		<title>An idea for NBA players</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think all NBA players&#8217; salary should be placed in a trust fund until the player is 40 years old:

A Cook County judge issued an arrest warrant for one-time Chicago Bulls center Eddy Curry, who was a no-show at a hearing this month to pay what&#8217;s left in a legal settlement reached after he was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free speech in Dearborn, Mich.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 02:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Dearborn, Michigan, it&#8217;s illegal to hand out the Bible on a public street within five blocks of a Arab festival, according to this video.



A Muslim defender saw this and rebutted it, he says.&#160; (He didn&#8217;t.)
HT: NewsAlert.
Tags:  Dearborn+MI, Arab+festival, Christian+activists
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		<title>Soccer ref explains</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Koman Coulibaly, the ref that called it wrong in the U.S.-Slovenia World Cup match, has fallen in love with a wonderful guy:
&#8220;I am now sitting in my hotel room in Pretoria, South Africa, thinking about adversity. And how Nelson Mandela and I have faced so many similar struggles,&#8221; he writes on his blog.
How so?

1) We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Her pagan roots</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s hear it for Stonehenge in our post-Christian age (common era, you know):

&#8220;It means a lot to us &#8230; being British and following our pagan roots,&#8221; said Victoria Campbell, who sported a pair of white angel&#8217;s wings and had a mass of multicolored flowers in her hair.
The 29-year-old Londoner, who works in the finance industry, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mack the president</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The long-legged Mack Daddy in the White House is going to get white people so riled up, they will riot, says Pastor Manning.&#160; (HT: News Alert)
Mack Daddy?&#160; Yes, Mack Daddy.&#160; Look it up. 
This is Rev. James David Manning, who has no truck with Obama, as he vigorously demonstrated during the &#8216;08 campaign.
Among his complaints [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The summer when the sun don&#8217;t shine for Dems</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I used to say I enjoyed taking his money, but now I think he&#8217;s taking mine.&#8221; 
State Senator Bill Brady talking, about Obama the high-taxer, whom he used to play poker with in Springfield when O. too was a state senator.
&#160;
&#8220;I think I could beat the president running for governor in Illinois today,&#8221; he told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dowd vs. Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Big O. is &#8220;yet another president elevating personal quirks into a management style,&#8221; says the personal-quirk-oriented Maureen Dowd, picking on him for not coming up with her version of a good manager.
She bemoaned predecessors GW Bush, Clinton, LBJ, and Nixon&#8217;s acting out in and from the White House &#8212; no Carter, note &#8212; but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sex abuse discussed in Chi suburban parish</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My debut column for Chicago Catholic News is up.&#160;

(POSTED: 6/14/10) Our Lady of Perpetual Help parish in Glenview (OLPH) hosted a discussion of clergy sex abuse on June 7. Featured speakers were Michael Bland, a therapist and himself an abuse survivor and former priest, and Rev. Larry McBrady, a former vicar for priests in the [...]]]></description>
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