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		<title>Third Ruling Class</title>
		<link>http://zionica.com/2013/05/22/third-ruling-class/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 09:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zionica</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://zionica.com/?p=29012</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p><img width="300" height="300" src="http://zionica.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/regulationstape-300x177-300x300.jpg" class="attachment-medium wp-post-image" alt="regulationstape-300x177" /></p>The Federal bureaucracy should serve, not rule the people. While regulations are needed to protect the environment and ensure clean air and water, the Obama Administration has abused its position to create a third ruling class of mostly appointed bureaucrats who impose costly regulations on the nation. New regulations enacted during President Obama’s first term&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Kerry: Blasphemy, Apostasy, Anti-Semitism Troubling Trends in Int&#039;l Religious Freedom Report</title>
		<link>http://zionica.com/2013/05/21/kerry-blasphemy-apostasy-anti-semitism-troubling-trends-in-intl-religious-freedom-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 09:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://zionica.com/?p=29001</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p><img width="250" height="220" src="http://zionica.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/john-kerry.png" class="attachment-medium wp-post-image" alt="john-kerry" /></p>U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday introduced the release of the 2012 International Religious Freedom report, which is compiled by State Department employees annually to reveal the status of the advancement of religious freedom abroad. "This report shines light on the challenges people face as they seek nothing more than basic religious freedom and&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Womb for Improvement in U.S. Abortion Law</title>
		<link>http://zionica.com/2013/05/21/womb-for-improvement-in-u-s-abortion-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 09:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://zionica.com/?p=28997</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p><img width="250" height="205" src="http://zionica.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/nagle_abortion_post.jpg" class="attachment-medium wp-post-image" alt="nagle_abortion_post" /></p>Americans love their reality TV, but when it comes to the reality of what happens in the country's abortion clinics, they tune out. While the clinics may not all be as filthy as Kermit Gosnell's, the reality of what happens there is still the same: babies born alive die painful and violent deaths. No one really knows&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>20th Century Lies Of Islam Make Us Complacent In The Face Of Jihad</title>
		<link>http://zionica.com/2013/05/21/20th-century-lies-of-islam-make-us-complacent-in-the-face-of-jihad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 09:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zionica</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://zionica.com/?p=28993</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p><img width="250" height="250" src="http://zionica.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/20130317_jihad_usa_large-220x220.jpg" class="attachment-medium wp-post-image" alt="20130317_jihad_usa_large-220x220" /></p>Sugar-coating harsh realities and pretending that unpleasant facts don’t exist opens doors and gets you accolades – but is it worth it at the price of the truth? According to an article about a speech he gave last week in Toronto, scholar Daniel Pipes “suggested it is Islamism, a political ideology, that inspires hatred of ‘the&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>DOJ: Show Your Gay Pride, or Else …</title>
		<link>http://zionica.com/2013/05/20/doj-show-your-gay-pride-or-else/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 09:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zionica</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://zionica.com/?p=28985</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p><img width="247" height="250" src="http://zionica.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/doj-pride-296x300.jpg" class="attachment-medium wp-post-image" alt="doj-pride-296x300" /></p>Even beyond the moral objections to homosexuality and gay “marriage,” there has always been an important tactical reason to oppose the gay rights agenda, and that is because of the prediction that the more entrenched the idea of “gay rights” becomes in government, the more government would come after anyone opposing the gay agenda. The&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>IRS: Are You Now, or Have You Ever Been a Christian?</title>
		<link>http://zionica.com/2013/05/20/irs-are-you-now-or-have-you-ever-been-a-christian/</link>
		<comments>http://zionica.com/2013/05/20/irs-are-you-now-or-have-you-ever-been-a-christian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 09:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zionica</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://zionica.com/?p=28983</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p><img width="250" height="228" src="http://zionica.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/IRS_Prayers1.jpg" class="attachment-medium wp-post-image" alt="IRS_Prayers" /></p>The IRS abused its power in targeting conservatives for harassment and probably leaking information to liberal groups during the presidential election cycle. But the IRS’s actions crossed a line from merely corrupt into sinister when it grilled an Iowa pro-life group about its religious views. During a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on Friday,&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Liberal Myth of Separating God From the State</title>
		<link>http://zionica.com/2013/05/18/liberal-myth-of-separating-god-from-the-state/</link>
		<comments>http://zionica.com/2013/05/18/liberal-myth-of-separating-god-from-the-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 09:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zionica</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://zionica.com/?p=28978</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p><img width="250" height="246" src="http://zionica.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/pol-bor-rethinking.jpg" class="attachment-medium wp-post-image" alt="pol-bor-rethinking" /></p>Virtually every week there is some outrageous story of an alleged violation of the separation of church and state. They’re becoming so frequent that they are often met with a collective yawn. The crazy thing about all this is how removed these actions are from the clear intent of the founders — as seen in&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Obama’s Brother Got Non-Profit Approval from IRS in 34 Days</title>
		<link>http://zionica.com/2013/05/18/obamas-brother-got-non-profit-approval-from-irs-in-34-days/</link>
		<comments>http://zionica.com/2013/05/18/obamas-brother-got-non-profit-approval-from-irs-in-34-days/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 09:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://zionica.com/?p=28974</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p><img width="250" height="230" src="http://zionica.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Obama-Bro-Fox1.jpg" class="attachment-medium wp-post-image" alt="Obama-Bro-Fox" /></p>In the past few days, we have already heard contradictory reports from Washington concerning the IRS scandal.  One report says that a few IRS agents acted independently and another report says that they were following orders from supervisors in Washington.  The agents themselves are all saying that they were following orders, but when President Obama&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Relaxing restrictions</title>
		<link>http://zionica.com/2013/05/17/relaxing-restrictions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 09:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://zionica.com/?p=28967</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p><img width="250" height="231" src="http://zionica.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/cuomo0516.jpg" class="attachment-medium wp-post-image" alt="cuomo0516" /></p>Despite the horrors revealed during the Gosnell trial, Gov. Andrew Cuomo seeks to expand access to late-term abortions in New York &#160; NEW YORK—New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, vowed to push through the state legislature a Women’s Equality Act before the current legislative session ends on June 20. The act, he said, would&#8230;]]></description>
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