<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!-- generator="wordpress/1.5.2" -->
<rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title>The Mountaintop</title>
	<link>http://www.mountaintop.com</link>
	<description></description>
	<lastBuildDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:13:40 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>

	<item>
		<title>Wright Goes Off the Rails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The one thing that is clear to me about the issue of Jeremiah Wright is that it is far too complex for our media to accurately capture.  But one other thing is clear: as much as one can argue that his words were taken out of context before, his speeches to the NAACP and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mountaintop.com/archives/2008/04/29/1347/</link>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>Jeremiah Wright</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Last night, Jeremiah Wright, the supposedly &#8220;racist,&#8221; &#8220;anti-American&#8221; pastor of Barack Obama&#8217;s Trinity United Church of Christ, was interviewed by Bill Moyers on PBS.
	Watch the interview.  Please.
	If you expected a loon, a radical leftist hate-America-firster, you will be sorely disappointed if you watch the videos.
	Instead, what I saw was a man who is deeply [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mountaintop.com/archives/2008/04/26/1346/</link>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>Long Hiatus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Wow, has it really been six months since I&#8217;ve posted here?
	During those six months, I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time re-evaluating my faith (for the better), re-evaluating my political engagement (I would also say for the better), and enjoying my wife and three kids.  But at least for today, I&#8217;ve got something to say, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mountaintop.com/archives/2008/04/26/1345/</link>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>Data Points from a Planet in Trouble</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	I&#8217;ve just finished Brian McLaren&#8217;s Everything Must Change, where he describes the world&#8217;s current system as a &#8220;suicide machine&#8221; which is hurtling our planet toward its untimely demise.&#160; The BBC has two data points which back up his thesis:
	Global trade coupled with fossil fuel use is exacerbating global warming:
	Global emissions of carbon dioxide from shipping [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mountaintop.com/archives/2007/10/18/1344/</link>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>Common Sense</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Finally we have a major candidate for President with the common sense to recognize the mushroom cloud shaped elephant in the middle of our foreign policy room:
	
John Edwards: &#8220;What America should do, and what I would do as president, is to actually lead an international effort to eliminate nuclear weapons from the planet. That&#8217;s the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mountaintop.com/archives/2007/08/19/1343/</link>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>Different Party, Same Outcome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	This is starting to become a pattern.&#160; The Democratic congress is showing that it is just as willing to do the administration&#8217;s bidding as the Republicans were:
	Bush is getting practically everything he asked for. Indeed, under Bush&#8217;s warrantless-search program launched in 2001, the administration could conduct oversight-free surveillance only if it suspected someone on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mountaintop.com/archives/2007/08/04/1342/</link>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>One More Reason I Can&#8217;t Vote for Hillary in the Primary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Hillary Clinton: &#8220;I think that presidents should be very careful at all times in discussing the use or non-use of nuclear weapons&#8230; I don&#8217;t believe that any presidents should make any blanket statements with respect to use or non-use of nuclear weapons.&#8221;
	Mrs. Clinton&#8217;s comments were in response to Barak Obama&#8217;s statement that he would not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mountaintop.com/archives/2007/08/02/1341/</link>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>Lies, Damn Lies, and George W. Bush</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Here he goes again:
	
&#8220;The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us in America on September 11,&#8221; [President Bush] said. &#8220;That&#8217;s why what happens in Iraq matters to security here at home.&#8221;
	
Except for the fact that they AREN&#8217;T the same.&#160; The group which orchestrated 9/11 is al Qaida, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mountaintop.com/archives/2007/07/12/1340/</link>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>The Need for National Healthcare in the U.S.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Kevin Drum hits all the low notes of our dysfunctional health-care system:
	
Rather than overall cost, then, which doesn&#8217;t matter to most people anyway (as far as most employed people are concerned, healthcare is essentially free right now) the selling point of national healthcare is freedom from the endlessly gnawing problems of our current jury rigged [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mountaintop.com/archives/2007/07/10/1339/</link>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>Blessed Are the Peacemakers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Markos Kounalakis has created an amazing video which illustrates Mark Twain&#8217;s poem, The War Prayer.
	I wonder, if we truly prayed and worked for peace like we pray and work for victory - or democracy - or freedom - or America - or even the safety of our soldiers, what would the world look like?

	
]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mountaintop.com/archives/2007/05/29/1338/</link>
	</item>
</channel>
</rss>
