<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title>The Cinch Review</title>
	<link>http://www.cinchreview.com</link>
	<description>Content with which the world must contend.™</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:29:40 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	<!-- generator="WordPress/3.0.1" -->

	<item>
		<title>Clive James on Samuel Menashe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written in this space on the great American poet Samuel Menashe, on one or two occasions. In the latest edition of the magazine Poetry, the erudite Ozzie (long transplanted to Britain) Clive James has some reflections on is work, as part of an essay titled &#8220;A Deeper Consideration.&#8221; All Menashe&#8217;s poems give the sense [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cinchreview.com/clive-james-on-samuel-menashe/1739/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Universe to end as &#8220;cold, dead wasteland&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s it. The end. For real and forever. Now that you know, how does it make you feel, exactly? As published in the journal Science, and summarized below by the BBC: Astronomers used the way that light from distant stars was distorted by a huge galactic cluster known as Abell 1689 to work out the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cinchreview.com/universe-end-cold-dead-wasteland/1728/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>President Obama: Christian or Muslim or something else?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The poll getting all the attention this morning is on what Americans believe about President Barack Obama&#8217;s religious faith. From the AFP: Nearly two years after Barack Obama&#8217;s election as US president, a growing number of Americans misidentify his faith as Muslim, according to a new poll released Thursday. Despite Obama&#8217;s attendance in church and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cinchreview.com/president-obama-christian-muslim/1715/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Pete Stark: The banality of evil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At a town hall meeting, Congressman Pete Stark (D-CA) answers a voter&#8217;s concerns about the constitutionality of ObamaCare, and the implications of this kind of power grab by Washington, by wearily asserting that, &#8220;The federal government can do most anything in this country.&#8221; Just live with it: that seems to be his message. All that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cinchreview.com/pete-stark-the-banality-of-evil/1706/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Anne Rice quits Christianity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anne Rice, famous for her novels about vampires, underwent a spiritual conversion and returned to her Roman Catholic faith over ten years ago, as she described in her recent book Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession. She wrote a novel called Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt about the young Jesus from his own [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cinchreview.com/anne-rice-quits-christianity/1694/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Elton and Arizona</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First, Elton John plays at Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s wedding. Then, he defies the pressure to boycott Israel and plays in Tel Aviv. Now, he&#8217;s played a gig in Arizona and taken the time to lash into those who would boycott that state because of the recently-passed law vis-&#224;-vis illegal immigrants. From the Arizona Daily Star: &#8220;We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cinchreview.com/elton-and-arizona/1679/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>No Cure for Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leonard Cohen continues his unlikely latter day barnstorming of the world, kicking off a new tour in Zagreb, Croatia, the other night. The video below, taken by a fan, is of the song Ain&#8217;t No Cure for Love, which originated on his 1988 album, I&#8217;m Your Man. I walked into this empty church I had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cinchreview.com/no-cure-for-love/1674/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>The Lord&#8217;s Prayer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those attending Christian churches this morning following the most common Lectionaries would, I think, have heard from the Gospel of Luke, chapter 11 (KJV): And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cinchreview.com/the-lords-prayer/1653/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Good news</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Take it where you find it: Democrats Shelve Climate Bill (at least until after November when a lame-duck Congress may prove the most reckless and destructive ever). And Charlie Rangel is (finally) charged with multiple ethics violations. The former Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, flouting the very tax law he wrote, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cinchreview.com/good-news/1642/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Geert Wilders: &#8220;Free yourselves&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Geert Wilders is a Dutch political leader who has attracted most attention for his uncompromising warnings about and his courageous stand against the Islamification of Europe. The other day, a website and forum called MuslimsDebate.com asked him point-blank &#8220;why he became anti-Islam and what is his message to the Muslims?&#8221; His answer is highly worth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cinchreview.com/geert-wilders-free-yourselves/1637/</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>
