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		<title>Progressivism in America &#8211; Part 5</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marlene Merck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Enter the Progressives!
John Dewey and Lester Ward placed universal, compulsory, public education at the top of the top of the Progressive agenda. Even against the will of the parents, the child must attend school.
Samuel Gompers said monopolies supressed the competition needed for progress and that the federal government should break them up into smaller companies. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Progressivism in America &#8211; Part 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marlene Merck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Progressivism began, the Civil War had only been over for twenty years of less. Immigrants had come to America in droves to find streets paved with gold, only to end up in slums. Former black slaves from the South came to northern cities hoping to find prosperity and a cordial welcome from those who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Progressivism in American &#8211; Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marlene Merck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A second Progressive movement came in 1924 when Senator Robert La Follette ran for president, crusading against oligarchy (government by a small elite) and plutarchy (government by and for the wealthy). He lost in this period of the &#8220;roaring twenties&#8221; when business was booming and we were dancing the Charleston and the the country was still tying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Progressivism in America &#8211; Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 12:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marlene Merck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Progressive policies, in the early 20th Century, were pursued by politicians from the Democratic and Republican Parties, Bull Moose Republicans, Lincoln Roosevelt League Republicans (in California), and the United States Progressive Party.
When Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican Party in 1912 to form the Bull Moose Party, he took with him many of the intellectual leaders of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Progressivism In America &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.merckworks.com/?p=1072</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 13:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marlene Merck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Off and on, since the 1880&#8217;s, Progressivism has brought out the best and worst in us. It took rights from some and gave rights to others. Was that right? I don&#8217;t know. I do know that Progressivism (like the devil) generally appears as an angel of light. What I also know is that progressive activities (good and bad) frequently fell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Female &#8220;Circumcision&#8221; &#8211; Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 13:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marlene Merck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Surprisingly, a five-year study of 300 women and 100 men in the Sudan found that &#8220;sexual desire, pleasure, and orgasm are experienced by nearly 90% of women who have had this mutilation done - in spite of their being culturally bound to hide these experiences&#8221;.  However, women so mutilated often have both psychological and physical problems.
If the vaginal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Female &#8220;Circumcision&#8221; &#8211; Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 12:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marlene Merck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I ran across this horror years ago in my history studies, I felt shock waves go through me. However, I had not realized the extent to which it still goes on all over the world (evidently even in this country) due to immigration, even though it has been legally banned here and most places. Then a friend brought it to my attention a few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tolerant or Timid?</title>
		<link>http://www.merckworks.com/?p=1047</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 14:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marlene Merck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the issue about Dr. Franklin Graham&#8217;s negative statement about Islam arose, I found myself siding with his Christian fervency on one side, but regreting his method of witnessing for the faith it on the other. First of all, it seemed clear to me that he did not hate Moslems as human beings, but rather that he rejected their religion.  He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food Fetish</title>
		<link>http://www.merckworks.com/?p=1033</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 13:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marlene Merck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ In the &#8220;Aliens&#8221; and &#8221;The Exorcist&#8221;, otherwise normal people are inhabited by sinister outside personages against their wills (space aliens and the devil, respectively). I&#8217;ll never forget being freaked out by that little girl levitating, projectile vomiting green ooz, and spining her head around.
Yes, they are just picture shows. &#8211; However in some curious way they seem to connect (metaphorically) with the secret psyche [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be Silent and Know</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 14:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marlene Merck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of my blogs are about positive thinking, taking action (with God&#8217;s help), making a difference, meeting one&#8217;s potential, fighting the good fight. I still encourage all those things. But there are also times when the body or mind or both are in lock down. Our master plan has been interrupted or ended. I have been there in varying degrees (though [...]]]></description>
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