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		<title>Sowing Distributism</title>
		<link>http://deeperpolitics.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/281/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Gilbert Mauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Caelum Et Terra: When I first started reading Wendell Berry thirty odd years ago I had just returned to the Catholic faith. I was struck by how easily his ideas harmonized with the Catholic social teaching and distributist thought  I was discovering. In the early 90s I finally wrote Mr Berry and asked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deeperpolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28009886&amp;post=281&amp;subd=deeperpolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>(Some) CDP Domestic Policy Initiatives</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirkmorrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The CDP has seen that the organized labor movement helped create a stable middle class in the U.S. by advocating job security, employment benefits (i.e. health and retirement), safer workplaces, and better pay. The trend in American life to a troubled labor market and less economic security can be mirrored in the erosion of union [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deeperpolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28009886&amp;post=255&amp;subd=deeperpolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CDP Proposal for Foreign Policy platform</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirkmorrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States standing as the world&#8217;s only current superpower means it must be a voice for virtuous and principled relationships in international affairs. The CDP supports a peaceful, reasonable 2-state solution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. The CDP wll scutinize international trade agreements which could result in unfair results for the U.S. (i.e. dumping, trademark [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deeperpolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28009886&amp;post=244&amp;subd=deeperpolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christian Democratic Party Platform Preamble</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirkmorrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(The Christian Democratic Party USA, based in Roanoke, VA, is taking the unusual step of formulating its party platform in the most transparent and open way we could consider: presenting it here on this blog for public view and comment. Constructive comments and suggestions are welcomed.) The Christian Democratic Party has formed to ensure that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deeperpolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28009886&amp;post=233&amp;subd=deeperpolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welfare and the Poverty Trap</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jbloesch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney recently came under heavy fire when in an interview he let slip, “I’m not concerned about the very poor.” Although he clarified his position, saying that the poor have a “safety net,” the remark still deserved criticism. It betrayed his ignorance of the challenges that low-income [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deeperpolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28009886&amp;post=234&amp;subd=deeperpolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christian Democratic Party;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Gilbert Mauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from voteforjoe: This week I&#8217;ve been in touch with a representative from one of America&#8217;s newest political Parties, the Christian Democratic Party.  Headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia,  their literature explains that:  &#8220;Chrisitan democracy&#8221; is a political ideology that seeks to apply Christian principles to public policy.  In other words, in our current society that would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deeperpolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28009886&amp;post=225&amp;subd=deeperpolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If Law Enforcement Worked Like Health Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The issue of health care has long been at the top of political debate and policy. Any Christian Democracy movement in the United States will be expected to have a sound, and comprehensive policy on health insurance and medical costs.  Medical costs continue to rise, insurance becomes less and less affordable, and the cost problem [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deeperpolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28009886&amp;post=197&amp;subd=deeperpolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Party Platform Built Before Your Eyes!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirkmorrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Christian Democratic Party U.S.A.  will be taking the unusual step of constructing its platform in the most open and transparent way we can think of &#8212; as a regular feature of this blog. Certainly CDP-USA organizers will have a final say over the views we&#8217;ll be advocating for, but the initiative here will be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deeperpolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28009886&amp;post=193&amp;subd=deeperpolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Move Forward on Climate Change: Greenhouse Gas Emissions as a Negative Externality</title>
		<link>http://deeperpolitics.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/how-to-move-forward-on-climate-change-greenhouse-gas-emissions-as-a-negative-externality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Gilbert Mauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all,&#8221; was the influential conclusion of Garrett Hardin&#8217;s 1968 essay, The Tragedy of the Commons. The essay demonstrates how innocent actors, working individually in a commons, often bring ruin to themselves and others even while maximizing profit for their own self-interest. Hardin&#8217;s principle asserts that the concentrated benefits [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deeperpolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28009886&amp;post=196&amp;subd=deeperpolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, Science Works. And That Is Great for Christianity.</title>
		<link>http://deeperpolitics.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/195/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Gilbert Mauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from TheMoralMindfield: University of Chicago biologist Jerry Coyne has an interesting post over at Why Evolution Is True, which hits on something I care a lot about: science and religion.  Specifically whether they go together or not. Coyne mentions two posts from the New York Times blogs, one against naturalism and one in favor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deeperpolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28009886&amp;post=195&amp;subd=deeperpolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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