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	<title>Consciencebound&#187; Consciencebound to Leave the Faith</title>
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	<description>...  to Leave the Faith</description>
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		<title>Some Thoughts on Health Care Reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I caught the tail end of a show on NPR&#8217;s Marketplace on health care reform.  There is of course lots of talk about this right now with all the potential changes coming down the pike from the American Congress and President Obama.  I found this interview particularly interesting because it was with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul  Krugman</title>
		<link>http://consciencebound.com/2009/06/29/book-review-the-conscience-of-a-liberal-by-paul-krugman/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=book-review-the-conscience-of-a-liberal-by-paul-krugman</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://consciencebound.com/?p=197</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul  Krugman
I will be blogging my way through this book as I read it.  This is part 1.
A friend of mine who voted for Barack Obama ( I did not) gave me this book to read that espouses the economic policies of some of the current democratic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap</title>
		<link>http://consciencebound.com/2009/03/19/the-way-we-never-were-american-families-and-the-nostalgia-trap/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=the-way-we-never-were-american-families-and-the-nostalgia-trap</link>
		<comments>http://consciencebound.com/2009/03/19/the-way-we-never-were-american-families-and-the-nostalgia-trap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://consciencebound.com/?p=220</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[People often look back to the Leave it to Beaver 1950&#8217;s as if it was the ideal moral family setting.  As if the 1950&#8217;s society was the pure expression of God&#8217;s family values.  But was it?  This lecture which I found through my learnoutloud.com daily email, challenges this notion.  The lecture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Am I Trying To Kid?</title>
		<link>http://consciencebound.com/2008/12/22/who-am-i-trying-to-kid/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=who-am-i-trying-to-kid</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://consciencebound.com/?p=205</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, I admit it, I like to argue.  I like to debate and discuss important issues and ideas.  But in my discussions with other people about important issues and ideas I have come upon an interesting psychological phenomenon.  Have you ever been talking to someone, debating maybe, and you had a realization that you weren&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7 myths about Detroit automakers</title>
		<link>http://consciencebound.com/2008/12/09/7-myths-about-detroit-automakers/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=7-myths-about-detroit-automakers</link>
		<comments>http://consciencebound.com/2008/12/09/7-myths-about-detroit-automakers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://consciencebound.com/?p=201</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My thoughts on the bailout of the american auto makers was largely that their loss of profitability was due to their mismanaged operations and poor quality cars.  I was just having a conversation with a friend of mine yesterday about this and then last night I heard on a radio station someone going over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE DEATH OF THE AMERICAN IDEA</title>
		<link>http://consciencebound.com/2008/11/18/the-death-of-the-american-idea/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=the-death-of-the-american-idea</link>
		<comments>http://consciencebound.com/2008/11/18/the-death-of-the-american-idea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is from steynonline.com
&#8220;Give me liberty or give me death!&#8221;
&#8220;Live free or die!&#8221;
What&#8217;s that? Oh, don&#8217;t mind me. I&#8217;m just trying out slogans for the 2012 campaign and seeing which one would get the biggest laughs.
My Republican friends are now saying, oh, not to worry, look at the exit polls, this is still a &#8220;center-right&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People who might not have voted for Obama</title>
		<link>http://consciencebound.com/2008/11/07/people-who-might-not-have-voted-for-obama/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=people-who-might-not-have-voted-for-obama</link>
		<comments>http://consciencebound.com/2008/11/07/people-who-might-not-have-voted-for-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://consciencebound.com/?p=194</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;If you don&#8217;t read the newspaper
you are uninformed, if you do
read the newspaper you are
misinformed.&#8217;
-Mark Twain
Suppose you were an idiot.
And suppose you were a member of Congress&#8230;.
But then I repeat myself.
-Mark Twain
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man
standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now that Obama is President, What If&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://consciencebound.com/2008/11/06/now-that-obama-is-president-what-if/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=now-that-obama-is-president-what-if</link>
		<comments>http://consciencebound.com/2008/11/06/now-that-obama-is-president-what-if/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://consciencebound.com/?p=193</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After a long and tedious election process Barrack Obama is now elected as the 44th president of the United States of America.  It is truly historic in the sense that he is the first African-American to hold the highest office in the land and for that I am glad.  I did not vote for Obama [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Review of Ben Stein&#8217;s Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed</title>
		<link>http://consciencebound.com/2008/10/29/a-review-of-ben-steins-expelled-no-intelligence-allowed/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=a-review-of-ben-steins-expelled-no-intelligence-allowed</link>
		<comments>http://consciencebound.com/2008/10/29/a-review-of-ben-steins-expelled-no-intelligence-allowed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://consciencebound.com/?p=189</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ Thanks to Netflix.com, I was finally able to finally watch the documentary by Ben Stein called  Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed with their watch online feature(which is getting better each month by the way).  If you have not seen this movie you should see it if for no other reason than for the value of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Conservatives Should Be Supporting Gay Marriage</title>
		<link>http://consciencebound.com/2008/10/20/why-conservatives-should-be-supporting-gay-marriage/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=why-conservatives-should-be-supporting-gay-marriage</link>
		<comments>http://consciencebound.com/2008/10/20/why-conservatives-should-be-supporting-gay-marriage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://consciencebound.com/?p=186</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The issue of gay marriage is one that seems to be sharply dividing down party lines.  In general, Democrats are for it and in general Republicans are against it.  Conservative Republicans fear that allowing a redefinition of marriage at the state level will undermine their beliefs about marriage being between a man and a woman [...]]]></description>
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