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		<title>Trump or Biden? A Not So Difficult Choice</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The early phases of the 2024 Presidential campaign are well underway and barring unforeseen events, the final faceoff will be between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Both candidates are known to all Americans. But the truth of what is known varies considerably, mainly because media coverage has bent over backward to depict Biden as a  [...]</p>
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		<title>What Would Satan Do?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>I know, I know . . . Modern “with-it” people don’t believe that Satan exists, let alone has any influence on our lives. But let’s pretend he does, just as a mental exercise. This kind of exercise won’t lower our blood pressure or reduce our body weight, but it could trim the mental flab that  [...]</p>
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		<title>Our Perception of Social Problems</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>I recently read a description of troubling social problems, in particular increasing violence and the decline of moral standards. It included this description: People “contemptuously rejecting temperance as unmanliness . . . insolence [as] breeding and . . . impudence [as] courage . . . [In this Age] the father gets accustomed to descend to  [...]</p>
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