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		<title>Santorum, the Duggars, and Blogmanship – or,  Why You Should Always Ignore Internet Comments</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/01/09/santorum-the-duggars-and-blogmanship-%e2%80%93-or-why-you-should-always-ignore-internet-comments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JThieme</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comments on the blogosphere are a total joke. And by joke, I don’t mean funny. I mean “something not to be taken seriously.” Case in point: When Santorum did well in Iowa on Jan. 3, 2012, many news sites wrote about the Duggers supporting him. The articles I saw were pretty evenhanded, but it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All signs point to &#8216;catastrophic&#8217; event</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/12/13/all-signs-point-to-catastrophic-event/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/12/13/all-signs-point-to-catastrophic-event/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neat! by Bill Bumpas Researchers have found the fossils of about 75 bus-sized whales, including more than 20 perfectly intact skeletons, over a hill in Chile&#8217;s Atacama Desert, and scientists are trying to figure out how they ended up there together &#8212; half a mile from the ocean. One scientist has hypothesized the region used to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prop 8 hearing today</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/12/08/prop-8-hearing-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am going up to San Francisco this morning for the Prop 8 hearings this afternoon. I will be live-blogging on the NOM site and here on the Ruth Institute blog.]]></description>
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		<title>Thanksgiving Family Forum &#8212; Complete Video</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/28/thanksgiving-family-forum-complete-video/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/28/thanksgiving-family-forum-complete-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<title>Regarding posts from Ari</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/22/regarding-posts-from-ari/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/22/regarding-posts-from-ari/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We at the Ruth blog have decided to no longer allow Ari to have posting privileges over here.  His sarcasm has gone over the line and we don&#8217;t care to be associated with it.  Those who are interested in hearing what Ari has to say can find him at his own blog.  We will stick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let’s All Feel Superior</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/17/let%e2%80%99s-all-feel-superior/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/17/let%e2%80%99s-all-feel-superior/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By DAVID BROOKS First came the atrocity, then came the vanity. The atrocity is what Jerry Sandusky has been accused of doing at Penn State. The vanity is the outraged reaction of a zillion commentators over the past week, whose indignation is based on the assumption that if they had been in Joe Paterno’s shoes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conformity for diversity’s sake</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/14/conformity-for-diversity%e2%80%99s-sake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By George F. Will Illustrating an intellectual confusion common on campuses, Vanderbilt University says: To ensure “diversity of thought and opinion” we require certain student groups, including five religious ones, to conform to the university’s policy that forbids the groups from protecting their characteristics that contribute to diversity. Last year, after a Christian fraternity allegedly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Inequality Map</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/14/the-inequality-map/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By DAVID BROOKS Foreign tourists are coming up to me on the streets and asking, “David, you have so many different kinds of inequality in your country. How can I tell which are socially acceptable and which are not?” This is an excellent question. I will provide you with a guide to the American inequality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Malloy unionizes daycare</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/09/23/malloy-unionizes-daycare/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/09/23/malloy-unionizes-daycare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is from a New England free market think tank.  I think CT is their home base. In any case, the move to unionize child care workers is evidently a national drive.  Dr. Morse reported on the comparable law in CA in her post on the GOP convention. Forced unions = more than $1 million [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NOM ANNOUNCES NEW CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD  PROF. JOHN EASTMAN</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/09/23/nom-announces-new-chairman-of-the-board-prof-john-eastman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/09/23/nom-announces-new-chairman-of-the-board-prof-john-eastman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington, DC – The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) announced today that John Eastman, a distinguished Constitutional law scholar, is taking on the role of Chairman of the Board for NOM. Dr. John Eastman is the former Dean of Chapman University Law School in California and is the Founding Director of the Center for Constitutional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republican straw poll in CA</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/09/17/republican-straw-poll-in-ca/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/09/17/republican-straw-poll-in-ca/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 23:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Presidential Straw poll here at the convention is open until 5 PM. Based on the organized presence I see here, I predict the winner will be either Rick Perry or Roon Paul.  Lots of signs, t-shirts and enthusiasm for those two. No one else has a significant, organized presence. I&#8217;m just saying.]]></description>
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		<title>Rick Perry shows his true colors!</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/09/17/rick-perry-volunteers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/09/17/rick-perry-volunteers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 22:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Please notice the Rick Perry volunteer at the CA Republican convention.  I confronted some of them, and asked, “I just have one question for you Rick Perry people: do you realize that Rick Perry has dressed you up as Aggies?”   Of course, since they are all from California, they were completely innocent of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rob Reiner, the founder of the feast</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/09/06/rob-reiner-the-founder-of-the-feast/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/09/06/rob-reiner-the-founder-of-the-feast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; There was a celebrity sighting at the Prop 8 trial today.  That grey-haired guy in the center of the photo is Rob Reiner. He stood at the podium next to Ted Olsen during the press conference after the hearing.  He should. He has been funding these legal challenges. Power to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Correction to a OneNewsNow story</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/30/correction-to-a-onenewsnow-story/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/30/correction-to-a-onenewsnow-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An August 19, 2011, report incorrectly attributed certain stances on pedophilia to the American Psychiatric Association, when in fact those stances are of a group of mental health practitioners not affiliated with the APA. The original headline for the August 19 story read: &#8220;Report: APA wants to destigmatize pedophilia&#8221; &#8212; and was unintentionally misleading. OneNewsNow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A naturally conservative nation</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/26/a-naturally-conservative-nation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/26/a-naturally-conservative-nation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Thomas C. Reeves In a recent Gallup poll, only 21 per cent of Americans called themselves liberals. A few years ago I wrote a piece on the eventual victory of the Left in America. Almost all of the most relevant indicators pointed in that direction: The mainstream media, the public schools, colleges and universities, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Copybook Headings</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/20/the-copybook-headings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 22:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Submitted to me by Leo: With the backdrop of the London riots, Rudyard Kipling’s poem The Gods of the Copybook Headings is as fresh and prophetic today as it was in 1919 when it was published.  Copybook headings were proverbs that English schoolchildren would copy to practice handwriting.  Kipling contrasted the wisdom contained in those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Word on Terminology</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/19/another-word-on-terminology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 06:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The response to my post, A Word on Terminology has confirmed my intuition that I am correct to abstain from using the term “same sex marriage.”  Three things have led me to conclude that my instincts are correct about this: 1. The wailing, weeping and general indignation meeting being held all around the Left side [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Trouble with Transhumanism</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/09/the-trouble-with-transhumanism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/09/the-trouble-with-transhumanism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 22:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Sometimes an article cuts through the fog of public debate and discourse to capture the true essence of a movement or belief system. Recently, a transhumanist named Kyle Munkittrick posted just such an article at the Discover magazine website, encapsulating in a nutshell everything that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mazal Tov to Ari and Samantha Mendelson</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/03/mazal-tov-to-ari-and-samantha-mendelson/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/03/mazal-tov-to-ari-and-samantha-mendelson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mrs. Mendelson just gave birth to their fourth child yesterday.  The ever irrepressible Ari wrote on his facebook wall: &#8220;Thinking of various, creative and brazen ways to trick, fool or deceive my new daughter. She was, after all, born yesterday.&#8221; (Everyone please note: this is a joke.  Don&#8217;t get upset! Betsy has full authority to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What About Non-Gay Suicide Risks?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/07/27/what-about-non-gay-suicide-risks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/07/27/what-about-non-gay-suicide-risks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet another story blaming gay suicide on society&#8217;s failure to conform to the desires of the Sex Radicals and Gay-ists.  So I wonder, did you know: divorce doubles a man&#8217;s risk of suicide, but does not particularly affect women&#8217;s propensity to commit suicide? (Augustine Kposowa, Journal of Epidemiology and community Health, 2000; 54: 254-261) Swedish adolescents [...]]]></description>
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