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	<description>The Online Perch of a Real Elitist Snob</description>
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		<title>Rowan Williams and Evangelist &#8220;Bullies:&#8221; Save the Whining for the Atheists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rowan Williams is at it again:
The Archbishop of Canterbury has condemned evangelist &#8220;bullies&#8221; who  attempt to convert people of other faiths to Christianity.
Dr Rowan Williams said it was right to be suspicious of proselytism that   involves &#8220;bullying, insensitive approaches&#8221; to other faiths.
In a speech at Guildford cathedral, Dr Williams criticised those who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vulcanhammer.org/2010/03/13/rowan-williams-and-evangelist-bullies-save-the-whining-for-the-atheists/</link>
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		<title>Asylum Seeking in the Country Which Everyone Wanted to Leave</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this case, the United Kingdom:
The image of three young Kosovans, found dead, roped together, at the foot of a Glasgow  high-rise, deserves to go down in the annals of British shame alongside the pictures of the Chinese cockle-pickers who drowned in Morecambe  Bay. In their detail, of course, the tragedies are quite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vulcanhammer.org/2010/03/12/asylum-seeking-in-the-country-which-everyone-wanted-to-leave/</link>
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		<title>The Changing Priority on Religious Freedom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Farr at the Washington Post thinks that the Obama Administration is side-lining both American law and policy on this subject:
Religious freedom advocates were encouraged by the President&#8217;s stated views and allowed themselves to hope that America&#8217;s international religious freedom policy, long isolated at the State Department, would be strengthened under the new administration.
Their hopes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vulcanhammer.org/2010/03/11/the-changing-priority-on-religious-freedom/</link>
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		<title>The &#8220;Scientific&#8221; Administration Takes the Heat for NASA Cutbacks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It surely does:
U.S. President Barack Obama is trying to tamp down an uprising in politically vital Florida against a new strategy for NASA that has rankled space veterans and lawmakers and sparked fears of job losses.
Obama&#8217;s decision to kill NASA&#8217;s Constellation program to launch astronauts into orbit and return Americans to the moon has prompted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vulcanhammer.org/2010/03/11/the-scientific-administration-takes-the-heat-for-nasa-cutbacks/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: The Late Great Ape Debate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The subjects of evolution and creation are explosive ones, not only because of their scientific implications, but for their social and political ones as well.  That&#8217;s been the case since Darwin first set forth the theory.   It is certainly true today; for all of their protestations about the desire to be &#8220;scientific,&#8221; implementing whatever can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vulcanhammer.org/2010/03/08/book-review-the-late-great-ape-debate/</link>
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		<title>Penalising Faith-Based Institutions for Scientific Activity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It had to happen sooner or later:
When  board members and administrators from Baylor University and the Baylor  College of Medicine were recently engaged in conversation about the  possibility of strengthening ties between the two institutions, some  suggested that the faith component of Baylor University&#8217;s mission would  negatively affect the quality [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vulcanhammer.org/2010/03/08/penalising-faith-based-institutions-for-scientific-activity/</link>
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		<title>Where &#8220;Radicalised&#8221; Americans Are Depends Upon What Kind You&#8217;re Looking For</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although it&#8217;s a deadly serious subject, there&#8217;s an enormous amount of irony in this:
The top U.S. diplomat in Pakistan says the Obama administration does  not know how many Americans might have disappeared overseas to train  with al-Qaida or other terrorist groups.
The number is not thought to be large, but Ambassador to Pakistan  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vulcanhammer.org/2010/03/06/where-radicalised-americans-are-depends-upon-what-kind-youre-looking-for/</link>
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		<title>Does Obama Really Want to Win in 2010?  If the Termites Hold Hands&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Doesn&#8217;t look that way:
Increasingly, senior administration officials shrug when you mention  the November mid-term elections.  “We did all we could,” and “it’s not  our fault” is the line; their point being that if jobs (miraculously at  this point) come back quickly, the Democrats have a fighting chance –  but not otherwise.
It may be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vulcanhammer.org/2010/03/06/does-obama-really-want-to-win-in-2010-if-the-termites-hold-hands/</link>
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		<title>When Layoffs Need to be Avoided</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Engineering News-Record, in an industry that&#8217;s having more than its share of redundancies these days:
We know it’s bad practice to bid low just to stay in business and keep  working. A contractor can go bust if the job goes bad, profits don’t  materialize, and bankers desert the firm. But keeping people employed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vulcanhammer.org/2010/03/06/when-layoffs-need-to-be-avoided/</link>
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		<title>Creationism and Global Warming Sceptics: Tying the Two Together</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They&#8217;ll give it the &#8220;old college try&#8221; for sure:
Critics of the teaching of evolution in the nation’s classrooms are gaining ground in some states by linking the issue to global warming, arguing that dissenting views on both scientific subjects should be taught in public schools.
“Our kids are being presented theories as though they are facts,” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vulcanhammer.org/2010/03/04/creationism-and-global-warming-sceptics-tying-the-two-together/</link>
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