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		<title>Current Republicans Too Radical, Newsweek Says</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently frightened by the current wave of conservatism in opposition to Obama&#8217;s policies, news organizations have chosen to frame the conservative movement as &#8220;radical.&#8221;  After all, when you are unable to respond to the issues, the second best thing is getting out of discussions by saying that your opponents just aren&#8217;t worth arguing with.
Newsweek is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://standupandspeakoutblog.com/?p=125</link>
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		<title>Pro-aborts Call for More Abortion Jokes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent article on the pro-abortion website RH Reality Check, staff writer Sarah Seltzer bemoaned that fact that abortion not a popular punchline.  “The lack of abortion jokes creates this hyped-up atmosphere of tragedy and controversy around something that is quite common and needs to be discussed more,” she said.
The catalyst for this comment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://standupandspeakoutblog.com/?p=116</link>
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		<title>Rep. Lowey (D-NY) Defends Eugenics, Margaret Sanger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday in the House of Representatives, Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey of New York read an article in defense of Margaret Sanger, eugenicist and founder of Planned Parenthood.
Lowey began by praising Sanger for “her commitment to improving the health and lives of women” and stated that she was “proud to recognize Margaret Sanger for her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://standupandspeakoutblog.com/?p=112</link>
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		<title>The Basis of Human Worth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How do you derive human worth from a universe devoid of God?
Someone please answer this, since it appears to me that without God, human life is greatly devalued.  Consider the following:

If life happened with no purpose in mind, humans are intrinsically no more important than other animals.  
We may value an organism based [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://standupandspeakoutblog.com/?p=109</link>
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		<title>Diplomatic Relations under Bush</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a great article from the National Review (subscribers can view it here), Jay Nordlinger sets out the facts of the matter: although the general consensus is that US relations have worsened,  in many cases they have actually improved or stayed the same.  Look at relations with Brown, Sarkozy, Merkel, and Berlusconi.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://standupandspeakoutblog.com/?p=104</link>
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		<title>Democracy and Government Handouts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my classes at Berkeley this past semester was a Political Science Colloquium where each week we heard from a different speaker.  One week we had Art Torres, Chairman of the California Democratic Party.  This was before the election, so party lines and affiliations were clearly drawn. Torres spent most of his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://standupandspeakoutblog.com/?p=102</link>
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		<title>The Surge in Afghanistan, the Gay Marriage Agreement, and Home Depot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the much awaited vice-presidential debate, Sarah Palin started out the evening in a manner that seemed to be heavily scripted, and not always relevant to the question.  Understandably so.  I’d stick to what I had memorized if the eyes of the nation were upon me, waiting for me to slip up.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://standupandspeakoutblog.com/?p=98</link>
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		<title>The War in Iraq</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to begin with some words from our President:
&#8220;The Government of Iraq crossed a new threshold of noncompliance… when it repeatedly blocked attempts by U.N. weapons inspectors to enter certain Iraqi government facilities. The investigators from the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM)… believe Iraq may be hiding information on its weapons of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://standupandspeakoutblog.com/?p=97</link>
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		<title>Machiavelli, Love and Democracy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my history class this new school year, we’ve just discussed the theories of Machiavelli.  During the Renaissance, he wrote a book of advice about public policy, entitled The Prince.  In The Prince, Machiavelli states, “one can say this in general of men: they are ungrateful, disloyal, insincere and deceitful, timid of danger [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://standupandspeakoutblog.com/?p=96</link>
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		<title>Jesus- Good Teacher or Messiah?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most scholars in the fields of biblical studies and history agree that Jesus was a Jewish teacher from Galilee who was regarded as a healer, was baptized by John the Baptist, was accused of sedition against the Roman Empire, and on the orders of Roman Governor Pontius Pilate was sentenced to death by crucifixion.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://standupandspeakoutblog.com/?p=95</link>
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