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		<title>Personality Disorders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his column today, George Will argues against the therapeutic society, suggesting that the DSM-IV, about to be revised, “may aggravate the confusion of moral categories.”  For example:  “Today&#8217;s DSM defines ‘oppositional defiant disorder’ as a pattern of ‘negativistic, defiant, disobedient and hostile behavior toward authority figures.’ Symptoms include ‘often loses temper,’ ‘often deliberately annoys [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2010/02/28/personality-disorders/</link>
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		<title>Capture or Kill, War or Crime</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a &#8220;Washington Post&#8221; story today it was reported that under President Obama there are more targeted killings than captures in counter-terrorism efforts.  Senator Bond (R, Mo) says: &#8220;Over a year after taking office, the administration has still failed to answer the hard questions about what to do if we have the opportunity to capture [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2010/02/14/capture-or-kill-war-or-crime/</link>
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		<title>Questions: Adam and Eve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his song &#8220;Could it Be,&#8221; Michael Card sings:  &#8221;Could it be that questions tell us more than answers ever do?&#8221;  I often think so.  So I am starting a new category as a place marker for me to pose questions that I think can lead to interesting reflections.
First up:  What if Adam had told Eve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2009/11/15/questions-adam-and-eve/</link>
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		<title>Defending Polanski Badly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a  story this morning in &#8220;The Los Angeles Times,&#8221; Patrick Goldstein defends Roman Polanski on some empty specious grounds.  Basically he thinks that since it&#8217;s been so long, the victim has forgiven him, prisons are over-crowded, CA is having financial trouble, and Mr. Polanski has experienced tragedy in his life that he should be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2009/09/28/defending-polanski-badly/</link>
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		<title>Stephanopoulos Blinked</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rarely do the press actually ask President Obama any hard questions, but yesterday on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week&#8221; George Stephanopoulos actually did.  He challenged President Obama&#8217;s support of the individual mandate within health reform legislation as a tax.  Obama was having none of it.  Here&#8217;s a relevant part of the transcript.
STEPHANOPOULOS:  That may be, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2009/09/21/stephanopoulos-blinked/</link>
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		<title>The Offering as Worship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Temple Talk on stewardship I gave today at church.
My talk this morning is on giving as an act of worship.  These talks are structured around Mark Allen Powell’s wonderful book: Giving To God, the first chapter of which is “An Act of Worship.”  I can’t recommend this book highly enough, but I don’t want [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2009/09/13/the-offering-as-worship/</link>
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		<title>Joe Wilson in Context</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know nothing of Joe Wilson, and it&#8217;s not my goal to defend his outburst on the floor during President Obama&#8217;s speech before the Joint Session of Congress.  I also am uninterested in the type of &#8220;If it had been Bush, wait they did do that sort of thing to Bush&#8221; condemnations of hypocrisy and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2009/09/12/joe-wilson-in-context/</link>
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		<title>Steyn on Kennedy (or Why I Tend to Be Non-Progressive)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In general I would like to change the overall tenor of my blog away from the more polemical, reflections on the news-of-the-day, culture war sort, but something Mark Steyn recently wrote about Edward Kennedy summed up a lot of things for me.   Steyn is acerbic, clever and hilarious, the closest living writer we have to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2009/09/11/steyn-on-kennedy-or-why-i-tend-to-be-non-progressive/</link>
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		<title>Quantum Sovereignty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[God is sovereign. Of this I have no doubt. I have no more doubt of it than I have that the Word of God is inerrant, but for me inerrancy is not a very useful word, and neither is sovereignty. Of course God is right, but do I understand His meaning? Of course God is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2009/08/21/quantum-sovereignty/</link>
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		<title>Stimulus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Watching the stimulus grow is stimulating, but not in a good way.  I feel like I am bound and gagged in an underground mafia casino watching a craps table where a gambling addict is betting with my money, going deeper and deeper into the hole, both unable to stop because of his compulsion and unconcerned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2009/02/03/stimulus/</link>
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