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	<title>Zealot Outside the Building &#187; Politics</title>
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		<title>Disappearing Middle Class in the USA</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason A. Staples</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Snyder&#8217;s recent Yahoo! Finance article points out quite a few disturbing trends that signal the disappearance of the middle class in the United States, as the gap between the &#8220;haves&#8221; and &#8220;have-nots&#8221; continues to increase: •    83 percent of all U.S. stocks are in the hands of 1 percent of the people. •    61 [...]


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		<title>Political Values and Religion: American Jews and &#8220;Anti-Israel&#8221; Policies</title>
		<link>http://www.jasonstaples.com/blog/2010/political-values-and-religion-american-jews-and-anti-israel-policies-620</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 03:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason A. Staples</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend linked me to an article the other day that asked (and tried to answer, from a right-wing perspective) the question, &#8220;Where Do Jews and Christians on the Left Get Their Values?&#8221; In the article, Dennis Prager argues that &#8220;Leftism&#8221; (which he capitalizes) should be understood as a secular religion; in essence, he argues [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.jasonstaples.com/blog/2009/pauls-conversion-or-pauls-call-40' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Paul&#8217;s Conversion or Paul&#8217;s Call?'>Paul&#8217;s Conversion or Paul&#8217;s Call?</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.jasonstaples.com/blog/2009/ten-astounding-facts-and-figures-a-reality-check-for-believers-and-atheists-105' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Ten Astounding Facts and Figures: A Reality Check for Believers and Atheists'>Ten Astounding Facts and Figures: A Reality Check for Believers and Atheists</a></li>
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		<title>Evangelicals, Scholarship, and Discrimination</title>
		<link>http://www.jasonstaples.com/blog/2009/evangelicals-scholarship-and-discrimination-490</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason A. Staples</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biblical Studies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dan Wallace's recent post at Parchment and Pen on anti-Evangelical discrimination within the biblical studies community has caused a bit of a tempest in the biblioblog teacup. My thoughts...


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<li><a href='http://www.jasonstaples.com/blog/2009/great-post-on-evangelical-polarization-between-social-action-and-evangelism-113' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Great post on Evangelical polarization between social action and evangelism'>Great post on Evangelical polarization between social action and evangelism</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.jasonstaples.com/blog/2009/an-evangelical-dilemma-wait-for-sex-and-wait-to-marry-92' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: An Evangelical Dilemma: Wait for Sex AND Wait to Marry?'>An Evangelical Dilemma: Wait for Sex AND Wait to Marry?</a></li>
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		<title>The Decline of the Dollar and other Economic News</title>
		<link>http://www.jasonstaples.com/blog/2009/the-decline-of-the-dollar-and-other-economic-news-115</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason A. Staples</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few financial/economic links to check out: The Dollar Adrift (WSJ): The dollar is getting killed, thanks to the Fed keeping the money spigot on full blast to &#8220;fight deflation&#8221; during this recession. So instead of dealing with a mere downturn, we&#8217;re setting ourselves up for a full-scale currency crisis as the rest of the [...]


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		<title>Assorted Interesting Articles</title>
		<link>http://www.jasonstaples.com/blog/2009/assorted-interesting-articles-109</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason A. Staples</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are a few interesting articles that I&#8217;ve read recently but won&#8217;t have time to give their own post. I&#8217;ll list each one and give a brief summary with each: &#8220;Why I Defend Goat Sacrifice&#8221; This is an interesting WSJ opinion piece by lawyer Eric Rassbach, who explains: The simple fact is that freedom of [...]


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		<title>The New Christian Right is Global</title>
		<link>http://www.jasonstaples.com/blog/2009/the-new-christian-right-is-global-107</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason A. Staples</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In &#8220;The New Christian Right is Global: What Mainstream Media Isn&#8217;t Telling You,&#8221; Bruce Wilson shows that the kind of charismatic (Wilson uses the more technical term &#8220;Third Wave&#8221;) Christianity embraced by Sarah Palin and often portrayed as a backwater, minority movement is fast becoming a dominant worldwide movement (especially in South America, Asia, and [...]


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		<title>Best article I&#8217;ve read on health care reform yet</title>
		<link>http://www.jasonstaples.com/blog/2009/best-article-ive-read-on-health-care-reform-yet-103</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason A. Staples</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Goldhill&#8217;s &#8220;How American Health Care Killed My Father&#8221; at the Atlantic is probably the best overall analysis of the flaws of the American health care system I&#8217;ve read so far. The teaser/abstract explains: After the needless death of his father, the author, a business executive, began a personal exploration of a health-care industry that [...]


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		<title>Closed-minded America and Changing Minds</title>
		<link>http://www.jasonstaples.com/blog/2009/closed-minded-america-and-changing-minds-100</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 05:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason A. Staples</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Maynard Keynes* once said, &#8220;When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?&#8221; It doesn&#8217;t take an expert to recognize that this this approach does not seem to be a popular one today. On that note, Rudy Ruiz has published an article on CNN.com to the effect that Americans are [...]


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		<title>More Health Care Musings</title>
		<link>http://www.jasonstaples.com/blog/2009/more-health-care-musings-94</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason A. Staples</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lots of grist for the Health Care mill the last week or two. Here are some interesting articles with various opinions and options: Wall St. Journal: John Mackey: The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare The Whole Foods CEO advocates health savings accounts, high-deductible insurance plans, competition across state lines, tort reform, and offering easy access [...]


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		<title>Health Care Reform Musings</title>
		<link>http://www.jasonstaples.com/blog/2009/health-care-reform-musings-90</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason A. Staples</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arthur Laffer has posted an opinion piece to the Wall Street Journal in which he points out several flaws with the present efforts towards health care reform. He (rightly, I think) asserts that the present suggestions, if passed, will only cause greater problems in an already flawed system.The argument? Laffer argues that the real problem [...]


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