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							<title><![CDATA[Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI Was More Than 'God's Rottweiler']]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Parini</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The news that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has died will have shocked no one. He was, after all, 95, and had been in declining health for at least a decade: his fragility was, in 2013, cited as the ostensible reason for his resignation, which came as a shock at the time. It had been, after...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sorry Rick Perry, Trump Is Not the 'Chosen One']]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/26/opinions/rick-perry-trump-chosen-one-parini/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Parini</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Presumably God would want someone in the White House who exemplifies his ideals if he were in the business of choosing this one over that, writes Jay Parini. Beyond that, there is a divine mystery here that precludes the arrogance implied in a stance that both anoints Trump and excuses...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Cult of Guns]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/15/opinions/americas-cult-of-guns-parini/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Parini</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Hate for Hillary Clinton?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/20/opinions/why-the-hate-for-hillary-clinton-opinion-parini/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Parini</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Before I got out of bed this morning, my wife asked: "Why do they hate Hillary Clinton so much?"Although I voted in the primary for Bernie Sanders, my senator from Vermont, I don't dislike Clinton in the least. Quite the opposite. I will happily vote for her in November.She is an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Underestimate Bernie Sanders]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/30/opinions/parini-bernie-sanders/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Parini</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders, my Vermont senator and, indeed, a friend of many years, is now running for president. He noted at his announcement (with a familiar note of wise irony): "People should not underestimate me."]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jindal Doesn't Know What He's Talking About]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/19/opinion/parini-jindal-comments-muslims/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Parini</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Gov. Bobby Jindal has been speaking in London recently, and he startled quite a number of people in the House of Commons when he talked about "no-go zones" in Britain, places where Sharia law trumps British law.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The New College &quot;Thought Police&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/13/opinion/parini-evangelical-college-clubs/index.html?hpt=op_t1</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Parini</author>
							<description><![CDATA[(CNN) -- There has always been a fine line between freedom of speech and the right to practice one's religion in the way one sees fit. The Founding Fathers struggled over these rights in framing the First Amendment, with Thomas Jefferson calling for "a wall of separation" between church...]]></description>
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