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	<description>It's not just ranting.</description>
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		<title>New Stove</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I decided that my old stove needed to be replaced.  I actually decided that right after I moved in, but felt I could live with it until other things had been taken care of.  A year and a half later, Lowe&#8217;s had a 20% off labor-day sale, so I decided to see what I could [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://philipic.net/2010/09/08/new-stove/</link>
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		<title>This is Why Paul Krugman Is Never To Be Taken Seriously</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paul Krugman is an economics columnist at the New York Times, and received the Nobel Prize in economics for work he did in the late 80&#8217;s.  Those two things give him a certain cachet in the realm of economics policy.  However, ever since George W. Bush was elected in 2000, he has turned nearly totally [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://philipic.net/2010/09/06/this-is-why-paul-krugman-is-never-to-be-taken-seriously/</link>
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		<title>Trends in the Gallup Poll</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There have been indications since spring that this was going to be a Republican election cycle.  That, in and of itself, isn&#8217;t a shocker &#8211; the President&#8217;s party usually loses seats in non-Presidential years, and given the overwhelming Democratic majority, the Republicans couldn&#8217;t really go anywhere but up.
What is surprising is the latest Gallup generic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://philipic.net/2010/08/31/trends-in-the-gallup-poll/</link>
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		<title>Decline of Hotline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month, Politico posted about the decline of Hotline, the political newswire.  I&#8217;d heard about Hotline a while ago, when Rush Limbaugh touted it as the cutting edge of political information.  He was right at the time &#8211; in the infancy of the web, Hotline gave timely, daily political synopsis via fax.  I wondered how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://philipic.net/2010/08/17/decline-of-hotline/</link>
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		<title>Net Neutrality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine recently commented on Net Neutrality (and specifically, the Verizon/Google collaboration).  My thoughts on the matter are a bit long for a comment, so I thought I&#8217;d turn it into a full post.
Net Neutrality, at it&#8217;s most basic idea, is the idea that bits should be considered bits only &#8211; that bits [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://philipic.net/2010/08/10/net-neutrality/</link>
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		<title>The Pillars of the Earth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Starz is coming out with another HBO/Showtime knockoff, this time of the Tudors.  It&#8217;s called The Pillars Of The Earth, and it looks quite promising.
Starz last knockoff, Spartacus (basking in the afterglow of Rome) turned out to be a decent series despite the rocky start, but it emphasized the wrong things in Rome.  Instead of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://philipic.net/2010/07/18/the-pillars-of-the-earth/</link>
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		<title>Christopher Hitchens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Christopher Hitchens is a British polemicist whom I&#8217;ve admired for several  years now.  I&#8217;m not always his greatest fan, as he&#8217;s an strident, almost militant atheist and proud socialist.  But he&#8217;s also brilliant, witty, and a ceaseless defender of Western civilization.  I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a reach to describe him as a latter-day George Orwell.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://philipic.net/2010/06/30/christopher-hitchens/</link>
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		<title>A Substantive Problem With Elena Kagan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the Clinton Administration, the White House fought against a Congressional ban on partial-birth abortion.  An important part of the administration argument, and subsequent court battles over the issue, was the findings of a panel from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists that partial-birth abortion &#8220;may be the best or most appropriate procedure in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://philipic.net/2010/06/30/a-substantive-problem-with-elena-kagan/</link>
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		<title>Creationism, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The intellectual heft of St. Augustine is absolutely amazing.  He addresses, 1600 years ago, with the greatest of wisdom, questions that vex Christianity to this very day &#8211; how are we to interpret Genesis?
The argument about literal interpretations of Genesis are, in reality, a proxy argument that both sides frequently don&#8217;t see.  Those who support [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://philipic.net/2010/06/26/creationism-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Creationism, Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In matters that are obscure and far beyond our vision, even in such as we may find treated in Holy Scripture, different Interpretations are sometimes possible without prejudice to the faith we have received. In such a case, we should not rush in headlong and so firmly take our stand on one side that, if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://philipic.net/2010/06/08/498/</link>
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