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		<title>Trump Is Changing the USA from Being a Good Samaritan</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kermit Zarley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Bible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Good Samaritan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, in front of the White House before the media, President Donald Trump spit out another one of his constant lies by saying of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine that its President Volodymyr Zelensky “doesn’t want to end this war and probably never did.” Donald Trump is just like I blogged back on May [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>U.S. President Trump Keeps Looking Like a Russian Asset</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kermit Zarley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Bible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nikita Khrushchev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia-Ukraine War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The United States of America was largely formed by Europeans migrating here. Same for Canada. Thus, Europe and Canada have been the USA’s foremost allies in the world, especially the UK and then France. For example, the U.S. used its military power in coming to aid of Europe during WWII to defeat Adolf Hitler and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Trump&#8217;s Desperate Moves Before Mid-Term Election Are Hurting</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kermit Zarley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Christian Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unconditional Love?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Letterman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russian Asset]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ukraine President Zelensky]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump’s war of choice in Iran has always been against the American majority as well as the majority of members of Congress. And as he refuses to extricate the U.S. from this war, he makes desperate decisions that further alienate the voting public with only three weeks left before the mid-term election. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Family Estrangement Versus Honoring Father and Mother</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kermit Zarley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elijah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Estrangement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Separation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John the Baptist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Restoring Families]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Socialists claim the U.S. is experiencing a tipping point in family estrangement that began to accelerate during the pandemic, in about 2021, and is now going full blast. It is being generated mostly by children accusing their parents of abuse, resulting in distancing themselves from their parents, perhaps even to the point of disowning them. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Do Plants Experience Consciousness?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kermit Zarley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 06:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disarmament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ezekiel 38-39]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Stefano Mancuso]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[King of Babylon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Susan Lacey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Antichrist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trees Talking]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some plant biologists now claim that due to recent botanical studies, plants have consciousness. Of course, it depends on how you define consciousness. But what they are saying seems to challenge a most traditional fundamental of biology—that an organism must have a central nervous system to experience consciousness. Moreover, these researchers claim that plants may [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Christians Are Not Sexual Prudes as the Media Often Claims</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kermit Zarley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 02:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Christian Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brad Wilcox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christianity and Sex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grant Bailey]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[  F-U-N-N-Y!!! GOOD GOING AMERICAN CHRISTIAN COUPLES for not being sexual prudes in the bedroom—as the media constantly has made you out to be for what seems forever—at least according to a new study by a respected publication. And this is so while American couples in general, and not just here in the U.S., reportedly [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Nicene Creed&#8217;s Birthplace Is Found Buried in a Lake</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kermit Zarley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 20:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Christology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecumenical councils]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eusebius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Nicene Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicene Creed]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Popular Mechanics magazine reported in an article—dated July 23rd this year and entitled “Archaeologists May Have Found One of the Most Important Churches in Christian History”—the actual place where it is believed that the Catholic Church’s Nicene Council met in the year 325 CE and gave birth to its famous Nicene Creed that has impacted [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Getting Much Worse</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kermit Zarley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 03:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Christian Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israeli-Palestinian Conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unconditional Love?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ed Sheeran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Palestine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Macklemore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mahmoud Abbas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Kraft]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Several things have been happening in which the gap between Israeli supporters and Palestinian supporters in the now nearly 60-year old conflict between them, dating it from the 1967 Six-Day War when Israel took possession of the UN-deemed Occupied Territories. Sheeran Concert Pushes Against “Free Palestine” For example, music rapper Macklemore sounded off onstage at [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Stephen Hawking Said &#8220;Losers&#8221; Boast about IQ—That&#8217;s Trump</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kermit Zarley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 06:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Jesus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Hawking]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The great, British, astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, now deceased, was asked by a New York Times reporter in 2004, “What is your IQ?” Stephen Hawking Didn’t Care About His IQ Hawking replied, “I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.” Donald Trump needs to know that. But I don’t think it would [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Americans Now Favor Palestinians Over Israelis</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kermit Zarley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 01:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Israeli-Palestinian Conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIPAC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-Palestinianism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian Zionism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holocaust]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The U.S. has always favored Israel over the Palestinians regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This is in contrast to strong world opinion that has supported Palestinian aspirations to have their own nation. Even though the U.S. has been the main power-broker in trying to resolve this conflict, it has always favored Israel over Palestinians. I call [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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