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		<title>Justice, with Humility, Gentleness, and Civility</title>
		<link>http://reasonableminds.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/justice-with-humility-gentleness-and-civility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Kalscheur, S.J.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gospel Reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imagination]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are all here today to ask the Holy Spirit to set our hearts on fire with a passion for the justice of God’s reign.  The readings we’ve just heard proclaimed[2] remind us to keep our hearts open to one crucial question: Who are we becoming as people as we live out our vocations as lawyers and judges and public servants?  As we live our lives in the law, are we being faithful to our more fundamental vocation to live out our identity as God’s beloved children, called to give flesh to God’s love in our world?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reasonableminds.wordpress.com&blog=265647&post=937&subd=reasonableminds&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Decline and Fall of the New York Times (Cont&#8217;d)</title>
		<link>http://reasonableminds.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-new-york-time-contd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Grannis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hermeneutical Generosity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I often think the Wall Street Journal&#8217;s James Taranto is too hard on the people he targets for criticism &#8212; an occupational hazard for someone who brandishes a poison pen as well as he does.
Not today.  Not when his target is the New York Times. Attaboy, James.
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		<title>Found and Lost?</title>
		<link>http://reasonableminds.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/found-and-lost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Grannis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moral Philosophy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Odyssey Marine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forgive me if this is old news, but I&#8217;m just hearing about the legal dispute between Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. and the government of Spain.  In case anyone else has missed this story so far, the dispute is about who owns $500 million in gold and silver coins that Odyssey Marine retrieved from the bottom [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reasonableminds.wordpress.com&blog=265647&post=921&subd=reasonableminds&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Such Thing as a Free Colonoscopy (Continued)</title>
		<link>http://reasonableminds.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/no-such-thing-as-a-free-colonoscopy-continued/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 06:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Grannis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ezra Klein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ezra Klein&#8217;s  &#8220;analysis&#8221; piece in the Sunday Washington Post doesn&#8217;t go into a lot of detail, but it&#8217;s worth a read if you&#8217;re puzzled by the fact that so many people are clamoring for health care reform while insisting that nothing change.  Klein hits the nail on the head when he makes the point we&#8217;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reasonableminds.wordpress.com&blog=265647&post=918&subd=reasonableminds&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Chief Cause of Excellence</title>
		<link>http://reasonableminds.wordpress.com/2009/09/19/the-chief-cause-of-excellence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Grannis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA["I maintain that Liberty is the chief cause of excellence; but it would cease to be Liberty if you proscribed everything inferior."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reasonableminds.wordpress.com&blog=265647&post=908&subd=reasonableminds&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One More Thing that Won&#8217;t End Well</title>
		<link>http://reasonableminds.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/one-more-thing-that-wont-end-well/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Grannis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Citizenship]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t have time for a long discussion of President Obama&#8217;s speech on health care; I suspect many of you are grateful for that.  But enough people have e-mailed me for a reaction that I thought I might as well respond briefly here.
First, because I like to acknowledge points of agreement, let me begin by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reasonableminds.wordpress.com&blog=265647&post=897&subd=reasonableminds&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fresh Air for Health Care (Third in a Series)</title>
		<link>http://reasonableminds.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/fresh-air-for-health-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Grannis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the risk of wildly oversimplifying, my last two posts have argued that private health insurance stinks but it's mostly the government's fault.  Because I hold these two opinions together, I am at odds both with those who favor a strong government intervention (including both "single payer" models and other highly prescriptive approaches to insurance regulation like "pay or play") and with those who oppose government intervention on the dubious ground that our current health care system represents some sort of triumph of free enterprise.  The truth is that our current health care system is dumb, but government can almost certainly make it dumber.

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		<title>How Could the Private Sector Do This to Us?  (More Observations on Why Health Insurance Stinks)</title>
		<link>http://reasonableminds.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/how-could-the-private-sector-do-this-to-us-more-observations-on-why-health-insurance-stinks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Grannis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last post, I nominated my candidate for the Biggest Problem with Health Insurance, which is that in most cases it&#8217;s not insurance at all but rather a pre-paid medical services plan.  This has had at least four extremely unfortunate consequences.

Because most plans now cover not just catastrophic expenses but also routine and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reasonableminds.wordpress.com&blog=265647&post=868&subd=reasonableminds&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Health Insurance Stinks, and Why the Most Comprehensive Health Insurance Stinks Most Comprehensively</title>
		<link>http://reasonableminds.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/why-health-insurance-stinks-and-why-the-most-comprehensive-health-insurance-stinks-most-comprehensively/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 09:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Grannis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The extensive public discussion of what we persist in calling &#8220;health care reform&#8221; has united us to a remarkable degree.  Americans from all walks of life now overwhelmingly agree that the public debate on this issue has been wretched.  Indeed, there is even widespread agreement on the cause of the wretchedness, namely the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reasonableminds.wordpress.com&blog=265647&post=829&subd=reasonableminds&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Take Me When I&#8217;m Gone to Forest Lawn</title>
		<link>http://reasonableminds.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/take-me-when-im-gone-to-forest-lawn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Grannis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[News of Michael Jackson&#8217;s interment at Forest Lawn cemetery in Glendale, California immediately reminded me of this song.  I think I heard John Denver sing it, but Tom Paxton is the one who&#8217;s available on YouTube.

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