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		<title>Human Rights, Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early in December, 2011, at a speech at the International Human Rights Day celebration in Geneva, Switzerland, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTs in the current jargon) people &#8220;universal&#8221; and criticized nations that criminalize gay behavior or tolerate abuse of gay, bisexual or transgendered people as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laclayton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11093691&amp;post=290&amp;subd=laclayton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Happened to our Citizen Army?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our modern army is quite efficient as an all-volunteer, professional fighting force. But let me suggest that that is not the central, or even the principal, role of the Army in our society and throughout our history. By “Army,” I am writing of all the armed forces, but the Army is the biggest and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laclayton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11093691&amp;post=286&amp;subd=laclayton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>They Are Endowed By Their Creator With Certain Unalienable Rights…</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early in December I attended a conference in Washington DC on human rights. It wasn’t sponsored by the government but by a small college, Alma College, in Michigan founded by the Presbyterians. It was not a political rally or a forum with code words promoting one political agenda over another. It was devoted to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laclayton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11093691&amp;post=280&amp;subd=laclayton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fixing Our House</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am going to make an argument here that many will quite possibly violently disagree with. I’m not even sure that I agree with it! I have spent most of my life and career in and out many places in the Americas, all the way from Chile to Canada, and have come away with a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laclayton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11093691&amp;post=270&amp;subd=laclayton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Discovery</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Columbus Day for most of us, the holiday, has come and gone. But for us purists, today [October 12, 2011] is Columbus Day. Christopher Columbus, a Genoese mariner in the service of the Queen of Castile, Isabel, and the King of Aragon, Ferdinand, set out from the small Atlantic coast port of Palos on August [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laclayton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11093691&amp;post=263&amp;subd=laclayton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reclaiming Our Heritage: An Alpha College to Face the Future</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not too long ago we went through the cumbersome exercise of reviewing faculty files for retention, tenure and promotion in my area at the university. At the center of this painful activity was the preparation of immense binders that could double as weights at the student recreation center. These are filled with proof that the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laclayton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11093691&amp;post=253&amp;subd=laclayton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Things Do Matter</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 13:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After any natural disaster—like the tornado that struck our home town April 27—an oft heard remark is “things don’t matter, they can be replaced.” And, of course, that is largely true. There is nothing comparable to human life. Trees, houses, photographs, the detritus of our lives, they are not measured on the same scale as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laclayton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11093691&amp;post=250&amp;subd=laclayton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A (Very) Short History of Immigration</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since immigration has become such a contentious issue in American life, I thought a short history of immigration might help all parties make their arguments with greater historical accuracy, and thus persuade their opponents to fall on their swords and accept the finality of their points of view. Or, not. To begin, we need definitions. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laclayton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11093691&amp;post=246&amp;subd=laclayton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Face of Illegal Immigration</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 02:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the complicated calculus of how to treat illegals, we often lose sight of the human being. We throw statistics at each other, claim the high ground of law or call upon Christian compassion. We argue from the point of view of economics, tradition, honor or patriotism, and sometimes even throw in the Constitution, thinking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laclayton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11093691&amp;post=242&amp;subd=laclayton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tornado 27 April 2011, Tuscaloosa, Alabama</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 01:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tornado 27 April 2011, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, a set on Flickr. Via Flickr: Digital images taken by Larry Clayton, 168 The Highlands, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, between 27 April and about 2nd week in May, 2011. Mostly in and around The Highlands neighborhood, and the Woods Square and 13th St. neighborhood just to south of The Highlands. Damage [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laclayton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11093691&amp;post=237&amp;subd=laclayton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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