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		<title>&#8220;If reform fails &#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://woodthrush.net/2010/03/07/if-reform-fails/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is not my topic, but I thought I&#8217;d throw the NYT editorial up in case people haven&#8217;t seen it. And if you have, maybe this would be a chance to reread it.
The House needs to pass the Senate bill, and pass the Senate bill now. Fixes may be possible, and fixes are certainly desirable, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodthrush.net&blog=9411402&post=312&subd=woodthrush&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Miscellany and hobby horses</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m lazy, and I&#8217;ve been busy. I do have to start scheduling more time to contribute, and I do need to finish some of the essays I&#8217;ve been noodling around with, plus write a couple that&#8217;ve been banging around in my head. For starters, there&#8217;s the whole headscarf thing, on which I found I have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodthrush.net&blog=9411402&post=303&subd=woodthrush&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Texas education standards controversy</title>
		<link>http://woodthrush.net/2010/02/13/the-texas-education-standards-controversy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had meant to write at length on this myself, but this article from the New York Times Magazine covers much of what I wanted to say quite brilliantly. It should be mandatory reading for anyone concerned with the state of education in the U.S.
For those of you unacquainted with the controversy, you&#8217;re probably aware [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodthrush.net&blog=9411402&post=290&subd=woodthrush&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sarkozy endorses headscarf ban.</title>
		<link>http://woodthrush.net/2010/01/26/sarkozy-endorses-headscarf-ban/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7002294.ece
Bad. Bad. Bad. Fuller discussion to come, but all-in-all, this is bad news and poor policy on several fronts. It&#8217;s no surprise, given the increasing paranoia in Europe over the presence of Muslims and France&#8217;s rightward drift, but it&#8217;s still a disappointment that the country that produced the &#8220;Rights of Man&#8221; is now just another [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodthrush.net&blog=9411402&post=279&subd=woodthrush&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Well this is good news.</title>
		<link>http://woodthrush.net/2010/01/21/262/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration has just reversed a Bush administration Patriot Act decision preventing Tariq Ramadan from entering the country. Ramadan being perhaps the most prominent intellectual in interfaith dialogues between the West and Islamic traditions, this is excellent news. Ramadan was first denied entry in 2004 when he arrived to take a job at Notre [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodthrush.net&blog=9411402&post=262&subd=woodthrush&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Miscellany</title>
		<link>http://woodthrush.net/2010/01/19/miscellany/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m preparing two essays, one brief and another longer, on religion, knowledge, and contemporary society. Plus, I&#8217;m due to post an update on the job search. Meanwhile, as I&#8217;m continually threatening to violate the spirit and form of a blog with my long even if somewhat spontaneous ruminations, here&#8217;s a few small things.
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		<title>The big snow; the loss of two of the outbuildings</title>
		<link>http://woodthrush.net/2010/01/14/the-big-snow-the-loss-of-two-of-the-outbuildings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So there was this big snow right before Christmas. December 19. It was lovely. Well over a foot fell in this part of New Jersey, and apparently much, much deeper over at the shore. The last storm this big was already now, what, three years ago? It&#8217;s been my impression that New Jersey winters are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodthrush.net&blog=9411402&post=207&subd=woodthrush&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ross Douthat is wrong on the right issues</title>
		<link>http://woodthrush.net/2010/01/12/ross-douthat-is-wrong-on-the-right-issues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brit Hume probably didn&#8217;t expect to start a small firestorm with his comments on Tiger Woods&#8217;s religion. In case you missed it, on Fox News last Sunday Hume had the audacity to suggest that Woods&#8217;s Buddhism was insufficient to address the severity of his personal situation: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think that faith offers the kind of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodthrush.net&blog=9411402&post=208&subd=woodthrush&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Evangelical Christianity and the exportation of murder.</title>
		<link>http://woodthrush.net/2010/01/04/evangelical-christianity-and-the-exportation-of-murder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s easy enough to dismiss evangelical Christians as paranoid and hysterical &#8211; take Harold Camping of Family Radio Worldwide who has made the news for his Bible-based calculations that the world will end May 21, 2011. Or one could easily think of them as a smarmy but harmless expression of all-American hucksterism, ranging from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodthrush.net&blog=9411402&post=201&subd=woodthrush&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the farm is sold; long live the farm</title>
		<link>http://woodthrush.net/2009/12/25/the-farm-is-sold-long-live-the-farm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 100-plus acre farm on which we live has been for sale for some time. It&#8217;s a huge chunk of land, and the restrictions on subdivision for this area are quite strict. Land cannot be subdivided into lots smaller than 13 acres, so it&#8217;s not the kind of parcel to move quickly on the market, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodthrush.net&blog=9411402&post=154&subd=woodthrush&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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