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		<title>The Israeli Lebanon War: Response to Switzerland</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2005, after repeated attacks by Hezbollah on  Israeli civillians and repeaed loss of civillian life,  the Israeli&#8217;s attacked the Hezbollah strongholds in Southern Lebanon.  The Israelis had asked the Lebanese government to control the attacks coming from their soil, but they did not stop the terrorism.  The purpose of the Israeli attacks and incursion [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scriptamus.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9988428&#038;post=511&#038;subd=scriptamus&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bobby Jindal &amp; Mary Landrieu :  Birds of a Feather Oiled Together</title>
		<link>http://scriptamus.wordpress.com/2010/06/20/bobby-jindal-mary-landrieu-birds-of-a-feather-oiled-together/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Lewis D. Eigen Bobby Jindal and Mary Landrieu may  be Louisiana politicians of opposing political parties, but they have become stuck together by the thick oil produced by their current villain&#8211;BP.  The oil has so affected them that they squawk in raucous unison exhibiting the logic and intelligence often more typical of the intellectual [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scriptamus.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9988428&#038;post=504&#038;subd=scriptamus&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Conundrum of Religious Freedom for Jews</title>
		<link>http://scriptamus.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/the-conundrum-of-religious-freedom-for-jews/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 00:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written By Lewis D. Eigen The Jewish prisoner flinched at the accusations of the police officer.  Wearing a traditional white and blue Jewish prayer shawl and publicly praying was so offensive to public morality that for the sake of order in the community, the religious authorities and the police officer had to act.  He had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scriptamus.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9988428&#038;post=497&#038;subd=scriptamus&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Louisiana Oil Catatrophe and Our Scientists</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 23:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Written By Lewis D. Eigen &#8220;What could they have been thinking?  Starting drilling a hole for oil beginning one mile beneath the surface.  If oil is struck, placing pipes, valves, sensors, connectors, one mile down, would be hard enough, but if anything went wrong&#8211;the slightest mistake, a quirk of nature&#8211;the likelihood of being able to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scriptamus.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9988428&#038;post=493&#038;subd=scriptamus&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Political Lies &amp; Current Republican Logic</title>
		<link>http://scriptamus.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/political-lies-current-republican-logic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by Lewis D. Eigen  Since the Obama Administration assumed office and coped with the economic meltdown, the President and his economic team have been working on legislation to eliminate the possibility that the American taxpayer will every again have to bail out a private company that was “too big to fail.”  No sooner did [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scriptamus.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9988428&#038;post=486&#038;subd=scriptamus&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bigness:  The Health Care Reform Criticism That is Always Made and Never Explained</title>
		<link>http://scriptamus.wordpress.com/2010/03/29/bigness-the-health-care-reform-criticism-that-is-always-made-and-never-explained/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 02:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by Lewis D. Eigen With all the histrionics over Health Care Reform, throughout the entire process, it was easy to miss some of the very important issues of the debate. One, in particular, got entirely lost for a very interesting set of reasons. It was the Bigness issue. But there was hardly a Republican [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scriptamus.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9988428&#038;post=480&#038;subd=scriptamus&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rights &amp; Protections of Coming Human Clones: A Remarkable Lutheran View</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by Lewis D. Eigen What would happen if it were discovered that a person—child or adult—were a human clone? All religions appear opposed to human reproductive cloning. So are most people. How will the clone fare in American society. Would she/he be treated just like any other person? Or would there be prejudice against [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scriptamus.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9988428&#038;post=475&#038;subd=scriptamus&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Many Religious Fundamentalists Will Protect Human Clones</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Lewis Eigen In an earlier article, Human Clones May Be Among Us Now! Who Is Ready?, we created the hypothetical situation where a woman pregnant with a clone would be cared for and protected by a Catholic Hospital.  The assumption in this hypothetical example that many Right-To-Life advocates are so sincere that they would protect [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scriptamus.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9988428&#038;post=472&#038;subd=scriptamus&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Research Weakens Anti-Embryonic Stem Cell Supporters</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The opponents of embryonic stem cell research have received a major setback in their arguments.  New research has just shown that the alternatives that they advocated are not only not equivalent, but are decidedly inferior for the major purpose of the research&#8211;creating specialized human and animal replacement cells. One argument against the use of Embryonic stem [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scriptamus.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9988428&#038;post=467&#038;subd=scriptamus&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Insurance Companies have already won the Health Reform battle beating out the Doctors and the Government.  Will they take the money and run?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the Massachusetts Senatorial election going to the man who promised that he would be the 41st vote to make sure that the minority of the Senate could control the Health Reform legislation of the nation, most people believed that the battle was entering a new phase and the winners and losers were yet to be decided.  However, over a decade earlier, the real battle had been decided.  The American consumers lost; the Government lost; the hospitals lost; the doctors lost.  The health insuracne companies won and for the past decade has already ammased the economic fruits of its victory.  And while all the other forces, Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, politicians and citizens all fight it out, the one group that has already locked in a winning position for the next decade is the same insurance companies.  All the rest of us will fight it out to determine how terrible the health care system will have become before the insurance companies just take the money and run.  This article explains some of how all this was allowed to happen.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scriptamus.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9988428&#038;post=464&#038;subd=scriptamus&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple iPad May Be The E-Reader That We Have Been Waiting For</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The iPad that Apple has just announced is, in addition to everything else that is claimed for it, the catylist for the final tranformation of e-books to the dominant reading form for books, newspapers, and magazines.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scriptamus.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9988428&#038;post=457&#038;subd=scriptamus&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Human Clones May Be Among Us Now!  Who Is Ready?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 06:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There may well be human clones living among us and attending our schools.  Reproductive human cloning may have aready been accomplished or may be in process at the time of this reading.  Dr. Eigen's article gives us an insight to the many religious, legal, cultural, and civil problems what will ensue unless we strart to consider, debate and make some decsiions of how we will handle human cloning when it is upon us.  Eigen argues that it is hopeless to believe that we can prevent cloning and he provides some scenerios that will likely face human society in the next few years.  The problems he predicts are if nothing else facinating to contempate and that is his message.  We should start now,  Human cloning is a matter of when and not if.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scriptamus.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9988428&#038;post=450&#038;subd=scriptamus&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Islamic Dialogues: 5 The 100 Million Moslem Minority</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a dramatization of the difficult position Moslem citizens of India were in when Islamic Pakistan attacked India in 1971.  Many Indian Moslems were expeted by their fellow Moslems in Pakistan to support Pakistan if not overtly then at least covertly.  Yet the Moslem minority of India had more freedom, a better standard of living, and a more honest government than the Islamic nation on their border.  The drama illustrates the tension between loyalty to religion and loyalty to nation that people often face.  It also illustrates the fundamentalistic Islamuc concept of religion and nationhood and its difference from most other religions and the views of more contemporary Moslems.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scriptamus.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9988428&#038;post=443&#038;subd=scriptamus&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The East Anglia Environnmental Scientists:  What About Their Data?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The East Anglia scientists who were accused of adjusting their science data to push their political agenda of remediating man-made global warming have attracted world wide attention.  Most commentaries on the subject consider the potential conflict of itnerest issue and whether the scientists and their results are to be trusted.  However, the political conflict of interest charge which has recieved almost all the media attention is not the critical one from the scientific point of view.  There may have been some more serious transgressions.  And if so what should science do with the data and analyses that the trangressers have produced?  <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scriptamus.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9988428&#038;post=383&#038;subd=scriptamus&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this dialogue an Arab immigrant to America--a computer programmer--interacts with a psychologist also of Arabic ethnicity.  The dialogue opens the cultural Arab antipathy to manual labor and the view that it is insulting to ask a person to do it.  The notion of shame and somce differences between American and Western values and Arab values and norms are dramatically contrasted.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scriptamus.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9988428&#038;post=424&#038;subd=scriptamus&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by Lewis D. Eigen There is one marvelous scientist who, in the 18th century, not only brought the new mathematics and physics of Isaac Newton to much of France, but also found and corrected some errors that Newton had made—overturning erroneous physics principles that then had general scientific concurrence.  The scientist was a woman&#8211;Émilie du [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scriptamus.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9988428&#038;post=416&#038;subd=scriptamus&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Turkish Discrimination Against Christian Schools&#8211;Or Is It?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by Lewis D. Eigen   Christian theological seminaries are currently banned in Turkey. Yet this is a prohibition with which some Westerners and Christians agree, and even those who do not, often understand. The complexity that has resulted from the clash between Islam and modernity is so great that it is almost impossible to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scriptamus.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9988428&#038;post=408&#038;subd=scriptamus&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ladies of the Laboratory 2:  How in a Few Months Late in the 19th Century One Man Who Had Little Interest in Gender Equality Hired More Female Astronomers than the World Had Ever Known</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The remarkable story of a unique occurance in scientific history where although males were the final controllers, women worked with other women and under female supervision and the science thrived.  This one instance a female culture, scientific laboratory was so successful that females produced more science output than  all the men in history.  The mostly female model succeeded so well that it put itself out of existence.  But more females had worked as astronomers in this one instance than in all of prior recorded history.
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		<title>Islamic Dialogues: 2 The Martyred Son</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Martyred Son, is a tragic playlet of a Palestinian family whose first knowledge of the radicalization of their only son is after his death in the process of murdering 7 Israelis.  Their soul searching and recriminations developed while they rethink how such a thing could occur, provides a painful glimpse into the dynamics and impact of the extreme fundamentalists on what otherwise might be a normal society.  One critic has observed, “anyone of any religion will tear up reading this poignant, intimate account of what we never usually consider when we hear of another suicide bombing.”<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scriptamus.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9988428&#038;post=373&#038;subd=scriptamus&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Islamic Dialogues: 3 The Dinner of the Tunisian Politicians</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A dialogue of two Tunisian senior government officials, both Western educated, regarding the problem of modernizing the rural, desert South of the country where religious Islamic fundamentalism and the desert cultural tradition are major obstacles.  The modernity, and relatively successful development of the country, with no oil or other natural resources, compared to other Arab countries is historically, culturally and politically explained in this insightful dialogue.
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