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Rein The Underground Railroad: A Vision for the Future -by Luke Bobo
Can Liberals Reinvent the Christian Paradigm? http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/27212.html
Consumerism is as American as cherry pie. Plasma TVs, iPods, granite countertops: you name it, we’ll buy it. To finance the national pastime, Americans have been borrowing from abroad on an increasingly stunning scale. http://www.harvardmagazine.com/2007/07/debtor-nation.html
Abortion rights advocates see an opportunity in that confusion. Organizations such as Planned Parenthood and the new National Institute for Reproductive Health are encouraging people to ask politicians, "How much time should she serve?" The question shows "that choice can be a winning issue if you force people to stop evading the hard facts," http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/augustweb-only/133-22.0.html
In an interview with SPIEGEL, prominent Russian writer and Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn discusses Russia's turbulent history, Putin's version of democracy and his attitude to life and death. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,496211,00.html
