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			<title><![CDATA[Texas Gov. Rick Perry Will Sign 'Merry Christmas Bill' Despite Atheist Protest]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Texas' "Merry Christmas Bill," which is intended to defend free speech on the issue of "traditional holidays," reached Governor Rick Perry's desk on Wednesday, and he is expected to sign it despite critics saying that the bill violates the separation between church and state.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 10:30:24 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[IRS Targeted Adoptive Families Over Tax Credit; Little Evidence of Fraud Found]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Families who adopted orphans and claimed the adoption tax credit were, like conservative and pro-life groups, targeted by the Internal Revenue Service. In 2012, 90 percent of those families were asked to provide additional information and 69 percent of them were audited. There is no evidence, though, of widespread fraud with the adoption tax credit.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 06:15:57 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Michele Bachmann Believes 'God's Miracle' Will Repeal Obamacare]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said in a recent interview that she maintains hope that President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, also known as "Obamacare," will be repealed before 2016, saying she believes God will ultimately perform a miracle.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 17:03:43 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Gay Partners Amendment Left Out of Immigration Bill]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Senate's immigration reform bill was passed out of the Judiciary Committee Tuesday without the "Leahy amendment" that would have given family status to gay and lesbian partners of U.S. citizens.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 16:43:36 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[It's Official: Disgraced Democrat Anthony Weiner Is Running for Mayor of New York City]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Disgraced Democrat Anthony Weiner could be the next big political comeback kid of the year behind Mark Sanford. Forced to resign from Congress two years ago due a sexting scandal, Weiner officially hit the campaign trail in a YouTube video sporting a clean-cut family man look and vowed to the make New York City the "middle-class capital of the world" while asking for a "second chance."]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 12:18:53 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA['Obamacare' Costs Would Rise Even Higher With Labor Union 'Fix']]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Labor union leaders are complaining they are getting shortchanged by the Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare." They are asking the White House to allow the health care exchange subsidies to be used for their worker's health care plans, which could dramatically increase the cost of the ACA.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 06:11:04 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA['Bipartisan Alarm' Over HHS Sebelius' Raising Private Funds for Obamacare?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[As scandals rise around the Obama Administration, from Benghazi to the IRS, Republicans and some Democrats are also jumping on a new development: United States Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius requesting private funding to implement the healthcare law.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 18:18:20 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Boyce Watkins: Obama Lacks Moral Authority to Give 'No Excuses' Speech at Morehouse]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Popular black scholar and political commentator Dr. Boyce Watkins ripped into President Barack Obama on Monday for lacking what he believes is the moral authority to tell graduates at the prestigious historically black Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga., that racism is no longer an excuse for failure in America.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 17:27:34 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[CNN Poll: Obama Still Trusted Despite Scandals, But Republicans Not Overreacting]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A nationwide poll has found that most Americans still have a favorable view of President Barack Obama despite the recent scandals surrounding the government, but most also agree that Republicans are reacting appropriately when it comes to raising concerns about the issues.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 17:31:41 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Kerry: Blasphemy, Apostasy, Anti-Semitism Troubling Trends in Int'l Religious Freedom Report]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday introduced the release of the 2012 International Religious Freedom report, which is compiled by State Department employees annually to reveal the status of the advancement of religious freedom abroad.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 16:50:32 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama to Young Black Graduates: Break Cycle of Fatherlessness, Set High Standards, Stop Using Racism as an Excuse]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Break the cycle of fatherlessness, set high standards for yourself, serve those in need, and stop using racism as an excuse for lack of excellence, President Barack Obama told the graduates of Morehouse College, an all-black male college in Atlanta, Ga.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 14:16:43 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[March for Orphans Brings Attention to Broken International Adoption System]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[About 500 people, representing 37 states, gathered Friday in Washington, D.C., for the "Step Forward for Orphans March." The marchers had firsthand experience with the brokenness of the international adoption system. Some came with the children they struggled to adopt, others marched with photos of the children they have adopted, or want to adopt but are unable to due to political barriers put in the way.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 14:14:36 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[House Panel OKs $2.5B in Annual Cuts to Food Stamps After Debating Whether Jesus Would Approve]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[After squaring off with biblical scriptures on whether or not Jesus would approve, politicians in the House Agricultural Committee approved a farm bill on Wednesday that cuts the federal food stamp program, which supported 47 million people last year, by $2.5 billion annually.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 14:00:05 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Ohio Congressional Delegation to Obama: Resolve Russian Adoption Ban With Putin]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Every member of Ohio's delegation to the U.S. Congress, including Republicans and Democrats, both senators and Speaker of the House John Boehner signed a letter to President Barack Obama asking him resolve the issue of orphans who have been adopted by American parents, but are not allowed to leave Russia.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 12:19:12 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Atheist Group Sends Books to Georgia State Parks to Place Next to Gideon Bibles Inside Cabins]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The American Atheists of Cranford, N.J., announced Friday they will be sending books on atheism to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to be placed next to Gideon Bibles inside every cabin and lodge at the state's parks.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 12:09:41 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Arizona House Approves Bill Further Protecting Religious Freedom]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, the Arizona House passed a measure which would offer further protection for the religious liberties of state citizens.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 19:02:54 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Minn. Gov. Signs Gay Marriage Bill; Some Brace for God's Wrath]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton signed the Freedom to Marry bill during a ceremony held on the state capitol steps on Tuesday, making Minnesota the 12th state to legalize same-sex marriage, following Delaware and Rhode Island that also legalized homosexual marriage during the last two weeks.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 17:04:25 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Ariel Castro's Murder of Unborn Highlights Abortion Debate]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The news that Ariel Castro might be tried for murder for ending the pregnancies of the women he held captive has brought to the fore an older debate over fetal homicide laws. If ending a pregnancy is murder, what does that say about the legal status of the unborn?]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 11:26:00 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[James Dobson Says Family Talk Action Also Targeted by IRS]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[New allegations claim the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) not only delayed the applications of new conservative groups, but also targeted a Christian group, Family Talk Action, and a well-established group, the Leadership Institute.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 20:05:56 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[John Piper, Policy Expert Agree, President Obama's 'God Bless You' to Planned Parenthood Blasphemous]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Washington's Ethics and Public Policy expert George Weigel skewered President Obama's recent blessing of Planned Parenthood's work as blasphemous on Wednesday and popular Calvinist theologian John Piper has tweeted in tacit agreement with the bold comment.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 18:41:00 EDT</pubDate>        
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