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		<title>Observer Columns</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Popular columnist ends 10-year run Publisher&#8217;s Notebook April 19, 2013 By John D&#8217;Agostino , The OBSERVER Save &#124; Comments (2) &#124; Post a comment &#124; When I arrived at the OBSERVER in 2000, I quickly became reacquainted with a friend from Fredonia State University &#8211; Dan O&#8217;Rourke. At that time, our religion page was running weekly columns from area pastors. His submission [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drones &#8211; Assassination Weapons</title>
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		<category><![CDATA[Drones. Drones and Pakistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drones are male honeybees. They develop from eggs that have not been fertilized, and unlike worker bees whose stinger is a modified egg-laying organ they cannot sting. It’s ironic that our pilotless drones are named after them. For those unmanned planes with their explosive-bearing missiles have killed and maimed many. &#160; By now Rand Paul’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Money &#8211; Let&#8217;s Spread It Around</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been lots of talk recently at both the State and Federal levels of a minimum wage. I’m sometimes tempted to ask why not a maximum wage, but I freely acknowledge in our system that is nonsense.  Profit is the key motive, which drives entrepreneurs and moves our capitalistic society forward. Think Steve Jobs, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Conclave, the Cardinals and the Politcs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been an avalanche of media coverage about the election of a new Pope, about the conclave, the word in Latin means, “with a key” &#8212; the Cardinal electors will be locked away. Meanwhile, the media loves to speculate about the leading candidates, the scandals, the pageantry, and the smoke. (White: we have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God Is Love and Love is Giving</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Merton, the respected spiritual teacher and prolific author, once observed that even in his monastery he felt like a “duck in a chicken coop.” &#160; I too have often felt that way: out of step, out of place, different. Partly it’s the married priest thing, but as I struggle with these columns twice a [...]]]></description>
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