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      Christmas
        2005 
        (PDF
        File available)
         | 
      The
Christmas Story and Other Redeeming Myths | 
    
    
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      December 28,
        2005 
        (PDF
        File available)
         | 
      The
        Deceptions of War | 
    
    
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      January 4,
        2006 
        (PDF
        File available)
         | 
      Why Not
        Democracy in the Workplace | 
    
    
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      January 15,
        2006 
        (PDF
        File available)
         | 
      Gandhi,
        King, and Thoreau: Three Principles of Non-Violence | 
    
    
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      January 18,
        2006 
        (PDF
        File available)
         | 
      A
        Woman's Right to Choose Hangs in the Balance | 
    
    
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      January 25,
        2006 
        (PDF
        File available)
         | 
      Happy
        300th Birthday, Ben!  Franklin and Religious Liberalism | 
    
    
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      February 1,
        2006 
        (PDF
        File available)
         | 
      The
        Many Sins of Moscow's New St. Andrews College | 
    
    
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      February 8,
        2006 
        (PDF
        File available)
         | 
      A
        Runaway Train: Administrative Salaries Steam Ahead of Faculty | 
    
    
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      February 15,
        2006 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
        
         | 
      Was
        Katrina the Wrath of God? | 
    
    
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      February 22,
        2006 
        (PDF
        File available)
         | 
      Happy
        274th Birthday, George! | 
    
    
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      March 1,
        2006 
        (PDF
        File available)
         | 
      Karma,
        Character, and America's Destiny | 
    
    
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      March 8,
        2006 
        (PDF
        File available)
         | 
      We
        Are All Liberals: Well, Almost All | 
    
    
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      March 15, 2006 (PDF
        File available) | 
      Wonder
        That Was - And Still Is - India 
        
        (coming soon) | 
    
    
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      March 22, 2006 (PDF
        File available) | 
      Would Saddam Have Been Better? Three
        Disastrous Years in Iraq | 
    
    
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      March 29,
        2006 
        (PDF
        File available) | 
      Anti-Intellectualism
        in America's Future | 
    
    
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      April 4,
        2006 
        (PDF
        File available) | 
      The
        Gospel of Weak Belief | 
    
    
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      April 11,
        2006 
        (PDF
        File available) | 
      Mad
        Max Meets Jesus Christ | 
    
    
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      April 18, 2006 
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      Chilling
        Parallels Between Christian and Islamic Fundamentalism | 
    
    
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      April 25, 2006 
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      Why
        Reagan Can't Save the Republicans | 
    
    
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      May 2, 2006 
        (PDF
        File available)
         | 
      The Real
        Meaning of Sodomy | 
    
    
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      May 9, 2006 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
        
       | 
      A
        Visit to the Land of Chinggis Khan | 
    
    
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      May 16, 2006 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      The
        Moment of Truth for America's Death Penalty | 
    
    
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      May 23, 2006 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      The
        Brutality Connection: Abu Ghraib and America's Prisons | 
    
    
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      May 30, 2006 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
      
      Is
        the Gap So Great Between Retro Red and Metro Blue? | 
    
    
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      June 6, 2006 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      "Happy
        Hour" is Not What Aristotle Had in Mind | 
    
    
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      June 13, 2006 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      Liberals:
        Take Back the Flag! | 
    
    
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      June 20, 2006 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
         "Bring
        Them On!" 
        Al-Zarqawi Responds to Bush’s Call
        
          | 
    
    
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      June 27, 2006 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      Good King Now, But Bad King Later? Bhutan
        Should Choose Democracy | 
    
    
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      July 4, 2006 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      Thank
        Adams and Jefferson for 230 Years Without Religious Conflict
         | 
    
    
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      July 11, 2006 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      Long Live the
        Braceros: 
      Essential Guest Workers Not Felons | 
    
    
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      July 18, 2006 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
         Beheading,
        Hooding, and Water Boarding:
        
        
         
        
        CIA
        Torture in 
        Vietnam
        , Latin America, and 
        
        Iraq (Part 1)
          | 
    
    
      |  
        
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        | 
    
    
      July 25, 2006 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
         Beheading,
        Hooding, and Water Boarding: 
        
        CIA
        Torture in 
        Vietnam
        , Latin America, and 
        
        Iraq (Part 2) 
     | 
    
    
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      August 1, 2006 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      Historical
        Revisionism at Moscow's Trinity Festival | 
    
    
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      August 8, 2006 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      New
        St. Andrews College: 
        Among the Top 40 Bible Colleges | 
    
    
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      August 15, 2006 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
         
        
        Iraq
        
        :
        
         
        First
        Step Forward; Three Steps Back
        
          | 
    
    
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      August 22, 2006 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
        Vietnam, Iraq, and
        Lebanon: 
        Superpower Overkill Backfires | 
    
    
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      September 5, 2006 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
        Truth, Goodness, and Beauty | 
    
    
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      September 12, 2006 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
        Un-Declaring
        the War on Terror | 
    
    
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      September 19, 2006 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
        The
        Woman Who Drew the Boundaries of Iraq | 
    
    
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      September 26, 2006 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
        You're
        Doing One Heckuva Job on the Economy, Bushie | 
    
    
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      October 3, 2006 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
        Mahatma
        Gandhi: Charismatic Saint of Nonviolence | 
    
    
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      October 10, 2006 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
         Afghanistan
        As Narcostan As Well As Jidadistan   | 
    
    
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      October 17, 2006 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
        
        
        Congress
        Caves In To Bush On Detainee Bill | 
    
    
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      October 24, 2006 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
        Should
        Former College Deans Retain Their High Salaries | 
    
    
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      October 31, 2006 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
         What
        Part of Equality Don't You Understand? It's Indivisible and
        Universal Anyway 
       | 
    
    
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      November 7, 2006 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
         Convergence
        Not Conversion: 
        Religious Unity in India 
       | 
    
    
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      November 14, 2006 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
        Some
        Reflections on Veterans Day, 2006
       | 
    
    
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      November 21, 2006 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
        Buddhist
        Nationalism and Religious Violence in Sri Lanka
       | 
    
    
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      November 28, 2006 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
        Their
        Souls Live On In The Cemetery of Books
       | 
    
    
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      December 5, 2006 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
        Virtue,
        Morality, and Expediency
       | 
    
    
      |  
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      December 12, 2006 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
        The
        Man Who Brought The Spanish Inquisition to Chile: Augusto Pinochet,
        Donald Rumsfeld, and Torture
       | 
    
    
      |  
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      December 19, 2006 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
        Whistleblowers
        Need More Protection at the University of Idaho
       | 
    
    
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      December 19, 2006 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
        Palouse
        Pundit Celebrates First Year of Broadcasting
       | 
    
    
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      January 2,
        2007 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
        Danish
        Social Democracy and "The Third Way"
       | 
    
    
      |  
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      January 9,
        2007 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
        America's
        Health Care is a National Disgrace
       | 
    
    
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      January 15,
        2007 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
        How
        Did We Lose Our Racial Color Blindness?
       | 
    
    
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      January 23,
        2007 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
        Happy
        270th Birthday Tom Paine
       | 
    
    
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      January 30,
        2007 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
        Selling
        Latah Health Services to Gritman Medical Center is a Wise Idea
       | 
    
    
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      February 6,
        2007 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
        A
        Runaway Train: Administrative Salaries Steam Ahead of Faculty By 99
        Percent
       | 
    
    
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      February 13,
        2007 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
        God
        is Not a Scientific Hypothesis
       | 
    
    
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      February 20,
        2007 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
        Two Presidents Named
        George and the Golden Rule The First Follows
        It; The Second Doesn't
       | 
    
    
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      February 27,
        2007 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
        Deceptions
        of War Reconfirmed
       | 
    
    
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      March 6,
        2007 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
        Queen's
        "Tribe" is Leaving Iraq
       | 
    
    
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      March 13,
        2007 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
        Ed
        the Viking, Greenland, and Global Warming
       | 
    
    
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      March 20,
        2007 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
        The Inquisition is
        Alive and Well: Father Jon Sobrino Punished for Helping the Poor
       | 
    
    
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      March 27,
        2007 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
      Tolerance
      for Islam in the Early American Republic
       | 
    
    
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      April 3,
        2007 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
      Women,
      Bonobos, and Peace
       | 
    
    
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      April 10,
        2007 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
      Mary
      Magdalene: Apostle to the Apostles
       | 
    
    
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      April 17,
        2007 
        
        (PDF file
        available)
       | 
      
      What
      Ever Happened to the Last Judgment
       | 
    
    
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      April 24,
        2007 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
      America's
      Moral Obligation for Global Warming
       | 
    
    
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      May 1,
        2007 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
      New
      St. Andrews College Must Earn the Respect of Other Academic Institutions
       | 
    
    
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      May 8,
        2007 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
      The
      Imam of Ait Kassem Serves Lunch
       | 
    
    
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      May 15,
        2007 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
      A
      Chilling Connection Between 
      Nanjing, China (1853) and Moscow, Idaho (2003)
       | 
    
    
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      May 23,
        2007 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
      Catholics
      May Have Good Reasons to Support Abortion Reform
       | 
    
    
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      May 29,
        2007 
        
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
      The Passing of an Ugly Giant of the
      religious Right
       | 
    
    
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      June 5,
        2007 
      
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
      Relative
      Violence in Christianity and Islam
       | 
    
    
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      June 13,
        2007 
      
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
      God is Dead (Again!): Secular
      Fundamentalists Fight Back
       | 
    
    
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      June 20,
        2007 
      
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
      
      The Global Peace Index: 
      
      Norway #1; USA #96
      
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      June 27,
        2007 
      
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
      Mohammed
      VI, King of Morocco, Takes His Country in a New Direction
       | 
    
    
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      July 4,
        2007 
      
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
      Senator
      Brownback is Confused About Evolution
       | 
    
    
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      July 11,
        2007 
      
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
      The Living Goddess of Bhaktapur Loses Her
      Job
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      July 18,
        2007 
      
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
      
      America's Health Care is a National Disgrace and an International
      Embarrassment 
      Pert 2
       | 
    
    
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      July 25,
        2007 
      
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
      The
      Overuse and Abuse of Part-Time Faculty
       | 
    
    
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      July 31,
        2007 
      
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
      Moscow's
        Trinity Festival Features Fraudulent Calvinists and Questionable
        Trinitarians
       | 
    
    
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      August 8,
        2007 
      
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
      
      Academic Tenure Is Not Sacrosanct: 
      The Cases of Professors Churchill and Maki
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      August 15,
        2007 
      
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
      Muslim
      Democrats and Republicans Have Some Ignorant Idaho Detractors
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      August 22,
        2007 
      
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
      Soles Hundreds of Feet Thick:  
      Visualizing Economic Inequality in America
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      August 29,
        2007 
      
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
      Faulty
      Historical Parallels: Bush Draws, Once Again, The Wrong Lessons
       | 
    
    
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      September 5,
        2007 
      
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
      Lost in a World of Red and Green: Colorblind Males as a Neglected Minority
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      September 12,
        2007 
      
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
      Here's
      to Good Royalty: A Defense of Constitutional Monarch
       | 
    
    
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      September 19,
        2007 
      
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
      IKEA:
      The Progressive Big Box Store From Sweden
       | 
    
    
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      September 26,
        2007 
      
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
      
      Building Bridges With Our Muslim Neighbors 
      By Acknowledging Their Cultural Heritage
       | 
    
    
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      October 3,
        2007 
      
        (PDF
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       | 
      
      Moscow's
      Calvinist College Makes the New York Times
       | 
    
    
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      October 10,
        2007 
      
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
      A
      Denmark Retrospective: 
      Fond Memories for Me and 41 Years of Socioeconomic Progress for the Danes
      
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      October 17,
        2007 
      
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
      The
      Three Ironies of Ed Iverson's Report From Eastern Johnbirchistan
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      October 24,
        2007 
      
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
      The
      454th Anniversary of the Burning of Michael Servetus
       | 
    
    
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      October 31,
        2007 
      
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
      The
      Upcoming City Council Election
       | 
    
    
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      November 7,
        2007 
      
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
        
      Benazir
      Bhutto Returns Home to Cheers and Bombs
       | 
    
    
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      November 21,
        2007 
      
        (PDF
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        The
        Failure of Abstinence-Only Sex Education
       | 
    
    
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      November 28,
        2007 
      
        (PDF
        File available)
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        Face
        to Black Face With King Tut
       | 
    
    
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      December 5,
        2007 
      
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
        
        India's
        Day of Infamy: 
        The Destruction of the Babri Mosque on December 6, 1992
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      December 19,
        2007 
      
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
        
        Civility
        is a Two-Way Street: 
        Christ Church and Her Detractors
       | 
    
    
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      December 26,
        2007 
      
        (PDF
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       | 
      
        
        Pontius
        the Pilot and the Flight to Egypt
       | 
    
    
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      January 2, 2008 
      
        (PDF
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       | 
      
        
        Blaming
        the Faculty: 
        Far More Bad Than Good in the Yardley Report
       | 
    
    
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      January 16, 2008 
      
        (PDF
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        Bayard
        Rustin: Tha Gay Man Who Organized the 1963 March on Washington
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      January 23, 2008 
      
        (PDF
        File available)
       | 
      
        
        The
        Trials and Tribulations of Providing and Obtaining Legal Abortions
       | 
    
    
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      January 30, 2008 
      
        (PDF
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       | 
      
        
        Why
        Not Democracy in Higher Education Workplaces?
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      February 6, 2008 
      
        (PDF
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        Indonesia:
        Rich Hindu Past and Moderate Muslim Future
       | 
    
    
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      February 13, 2008 
      
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        Quick
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        Liberal
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        The
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        "Don't
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        Tibetans
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        Olympia
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        On
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        The
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      Rapa
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      Graduate
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      The
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      Good
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      Dear
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      May 28, 2008 
      
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      Sandpoint
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      June 4, 2008 
      
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      Two
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      June 11, 2008 
      
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      The
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      June 18, 2008 
      
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      Our
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      June 25, 2008 
      
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      Detainees
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      July 2, 2008 
      
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      Let's
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      July 9, 2008 
      
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      Denmark
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      July 16, 2008 
      
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      Warning
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      July 23, 2008 
      
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      The
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      July 30, 2008 
      
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      The
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      August 6, 2008 
      
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      August 13, 2008 
      
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      Headscarves,
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      August 20, 2008 
      
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      Please
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      Krishna
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      September 3, 2008 
      
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      The
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      September 10, 2008 
      
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      Obama's
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      September 17, 2008 
      
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      McCain's
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      September 24, 2008 
      
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      Will
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      October 1, 2008 
      
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      Gandhi's
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      October 8, 2008 
      
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      Memo
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      October 15, 2008 
      
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      McCain:
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      October 22, 2008 
      
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      Palin
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      October 30, 2008 
      
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      Why
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      November 5, 2008 
      
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      Hate
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      November 12, 2008 
      
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      The
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      November 19, 2008 
      
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      Muslim
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      December 3, 2008 
      
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      The
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      December 10, 2008 
      
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      The
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      December 24, 2008 
      
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      The
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      The
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      Civilians
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      The
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      Idaho's
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      Obama's Strengths: Superb
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      High-Speed
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      Brave
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      Interrogations
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      Failed
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      500,000
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      March 11, 2009 
      
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      The
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      Internal
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      The
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      Animals
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      Happy
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      State
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      When
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      May 6, 2009 
      
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      The
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      Melvina
      Reynolds: The Poetess of Protest
        
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      The
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      More
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      U.S.
      Loses Lead in Higher Education: Now Ranked 10th For Degrees For 25-34
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      Moscow's
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      June 17, 2009 
      
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      UI
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      | December
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      Ed Board
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      "Do You
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      | December
        16, 2009 | 
      The Myth of
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      | December
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      Copenhagen:
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      | December
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      HIV-AIDS in
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      | November
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      The
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      | November
        18, 2009 | 
      We Are All
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      | November
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      The
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      | November
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      A Great
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      | October
        28, 2009 | 
      A Tribute to
        Forrest Church: Theologian, Historian, Humanitarian | 
    
    
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      | October
        21, 2009 | 
      The Crisis
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      | October
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      Afghanistan,
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      | October
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      Not Yet the
        Mahatma: Gandhi of South Africa | 
    
    
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      | September
        23, 2009 | 
      Desmond
        Tutu, Allan Boesak, and Nelson Mandela: Giants of South African
        Liberation | 
    
    
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      | September
        16, 2009 | 
      The
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      | September
        9, 2009 | 
      Southwest
        Africa: A Century of Brutal Occupation | 
    
    
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      | July
        29, 2009 | 
      Has Obama
        Taken His Eyes Off the Prize? | 
    
    
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      | July
        22, 2009 | 
      Could King
        Hussein Have Stopped Saddam Hussein? | 
    
    
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      | July
        15, 2009 | 
      Should the
        Head of Nefertiti and the Elgin Marbles Go Back Home? | 
    
    
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      | July
        8, 2009 | 
      World's
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      | July
        1, 2009 | 
      Do You Want
        Wall Street to Control Your Health Care? | 
    
    
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      | June
        24, 2009 | 
      Parma
        Research Station Must Continue Its Essential Work | 
    
    
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      | June 17,
        2009 | 
      UI Wastes Money On
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