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	<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 12:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Astronomers Confirm Youngest Supernova Ever Seen</title>
		<link>http://dunningrb.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/astronomers-confirm-youngest-supernova-ever-seen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 12:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rodney Dunning</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Radio Astronomy Observatory reports the youngest supernova seen in the Milky Way.  The former star is G1.9+0.3, located about 25,000 light years from Earth.  The images below show the expanding remnants of the star over a 23-year period, from 1985 to 2008.  From the speed of the expanding gases, astronomers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>About America&#8217;s Lack of Oil Refineries</title>
		<link>http://dunningrb.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/about-americas-lack-of-oil-refineries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 12:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rodney Dunning</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[crude oil]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[high gasoline prices]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[oil refineries]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[FactCheck.org has posted an article that answers the following question:
&#8220;The lack of U.S. oil refinery capacity keeps being blamed for some of the large increases in gas prices.  Do we lack refining capacity and, if so, why?&#8220;
The short answers are below the fold.

(1) Yes, the U.S. lacks the necessary refining capacity to meet current [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hagee Apologizes to Catholics</title>
		<link>http://dunningrb.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/hagee-apologizes-to-catholics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 02:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rodney Dunning</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Catholic League]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[John Hagee]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[John Hagee has issued a written apology to Roman Catholics, addressed to Catholic League president Bill Donohue.  From Washington Wire:
&#8220;Out of a desire to advance greater unity among Catholics and Evangelicals in promoting the common good, I want to express my deep regret for any comments that Catholics have found hurtful,” Hagee wrote, according [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Will John McCain Balance the Federal Budget?</title>
		<link>http://dunningrb.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/how-will-john-mccain-balance-the-federal-budget/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 18:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rodney Dunning</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bush tax cuts]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[federal budget]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[FactCheck.org discusses John McCain&#8217;s plan to balance the federal budget while extending the Bush tax cuts.
McCain’s big promise is that he can balance the budget while extending Bush’s tax cuts and adding a few of his own. He likes to leave the impression that this can be done painlessly, for example, by eliminating &#8220;wasteful&#8221; spending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should Illegal Immigrants Be Admitted to College?</title>
		<link>http://dunningrb.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/should-illegal-immigrants-be-admitted-to-college/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 12:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rodney Dunning</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[college admissions]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[illegal immigrants]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[north carolina community colleges]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At InsideHigherEd.com, Elizabeth Redden writes about the North Carolina Community College System&#8217;s effort to develop a stable admissions policy vis-a-vis undocumented immigrants.  Last week, the NC Attorney General issued a statement saying that the state&#8217;s community college system should return to its former policy of not admitting undocumented immigrants to college-level courses.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rolling Stone: Jesus Made Me Puke (and John Hagee)</title>
		<link>http://dunningrb.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/rolling-stone-jesus-made-me-puke-and-john-hagee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 19:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rodney Dunning</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[John Hagee]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Matt Taibbi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Writing for Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi went &#8220;undercover&#8221; at John Hagee&#8217;s Cornerstone Church, a fundamentalist mega-church in San Antonio, Texas.  Taibbi writes about a spiritual retreat called &#8220;Encounter Weekend.&#8221; His article is an irreverent eye-opener for those not familiar with modern-day Christian fundamentalism.

Fundamentalists are often accused of being stupid and irrational, but Taibbi hits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Has the Price of Oil Signaled the Fall of the United States?</title>
		<link>http://dunningrb.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-united-states/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 12:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rodney Dunning</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[alternative energy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Berlin Wall]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[gasoline prices]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[oil prices]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At the History News Network (HNN), Michael Klare has penned a sobering assessment of America&#8217;s superpower status.  Basically, we ain&#8217;t got it anymore.  Klare&#8217;s thesis is that the United States&#8217; ascendancy as a superpower was fueled by cheap, abundant oil.  But with oil prices reaching record highs, our national addiction to oil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help Prevent the Spread of Malaria in Myanmar</title>
		<link>http://dunningrb.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/help-prevent-the-spread-of-malaria-in-myanmar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 12:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rodney Dunning</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Social Justice]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bed nets]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cyclone Nargis]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[You can help save lives in Myanmar.  Cyclone Nargis killed over 22,000 people 100,000 people, but thousands more are at risk from malaria.  You can help by making a donation to His Nets, a non-profit organization that provides insecticide-treated bed nets to families all over the world.  The bed nets provide a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Proposed Solutions to High Gas Prices</title>
		<link>http://dunningrb.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/on-proposed-solutions-to-high-gas-prices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 12:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rodney Dunning</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[economic crisis]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[gas prices]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[gas tax holiday]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[FactCheck.org has a new article analyzing the two proposed solutions to high gas prices offered by presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and John McCain, and President Bush.  The skinny: neither idea is going to work.  Clinton and McCain&#8217;s suggestion of rescinding the federal gas tax will likely have no effect on the price at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Separation of Church and State</title>
		<link>http://dunningrb.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/the-separation-of-church-and-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 20:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rodney Dunning</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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

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		<category><![CDATA[Christian Nation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[separation of church and state]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lauren Smith at Americans United [for Separation of Church and State] shares five lessons she learned while working for AU.   She enters law school this year.  Her observations are enlightening and illustrate why we need separation of church and state to protect our religious and civil liberties.
To me, her most important point [...]]]></description>
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