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		<title>Fairies, Witches, Fords, and Chevys</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/12/23/fairies-witches-fords-and-chevys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Effective communication, to exchange ideas and discuss points of view, requires that we share the meanings of the terms we use. That is a challenge in this modern Orwellian world, where key words are being redefined every few years, to connote the near opposite of their previous meaning. It is particularly difficult, when a perfectly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Just Got Religion</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/07/10/i-just-got-religion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 06:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;and I am still LMAO!]]></description>
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		<title>Rand to GOP</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/06/06/rand-to-gop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/06/06/rand-to-gop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 05:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/?p=1034</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Forty-eight years later the message is more important than ever; but the GOP long ago abandoned defending capitalism, much less logic and reason. ◄Dave►]]></description>
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		<title>Abortion and Murder</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/06/01/abortion-and-murder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abortion is not my issue. Indeed, I often lament the fact that the Politically Correct moralizers of the Left and the Piously Correct moralizers on the Right twist our statesmen in knots making them take a position on an issue that should have nothing to do with our secular government. My own position probably mirrors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberty vs Faith</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/05/15/liberty-vs-faith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 05:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/?p=964</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Frequenting the many forums spawned by Glenn Beck&#8217;s 9/12 project, It has been gratifying to see the huge number of Americans finally awakening to what has happened to the principle of Liberty in our country, and pining for a return to the minimalist government and the rule of law enshrined in our Constitution. Most of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too Late Now</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/04/30/too-late-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 06:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just reread my &#8220;Dark Ages II&#8221; essay, where I make the case that we are inexorably sliding into another dark and uncivilized era, and that there is absolutely nothing we can do &#8211; that we would permit ourselves to do &#8211; to prevent it. Someday I should get around to tightening it up, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paglia&#8217;s Godless Ethics</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/04/08/paglias-godless-ethics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 06:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I have shared before, I have been spending considerable time of late on Glenn Beck&#8217;s 9/12 Project website, discussing how to take our country back and return it to a constitutional republic. Far too much time and effort is being wasted debating religious issues, which I reckon have nothing to do with good governance. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Then What?</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/03/03/then-what/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of us are seriously expecting a revolution soon, as the only conceivable solution for expelling the forces of tyranny that now have a stranglehold on our body politic. At the rate they are destroying capitalism in favor of socialism, and spending future generations&#8217; earnings pandering to the mindless victims who empower them, if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fitna, Obsession, &amp; Jihad</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/02/13/fitna-obsession-jihad/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/02/13/fitna-obsession-jihad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all the attention on the economy, our existential struggle with Islamofascism is on the back burner. Since Europe is rapidly turning into an Islamic continent, they are not so easily distracted from that reality. The speech that Geert Wilder was invited to give to the UK Parliament is here. Since they threw him out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ayn Rand vs. Phil Donahue</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/02/11/ayn-rand-vs-phil-donahue/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/02/11/ayn-rand-vs-phil-donahue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/?p=640</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jackson Jambalaya has uncovered a Phil Donahue show featuring Ayn Rand when she was 75 years old: JJ is posting a treat for you today as I found these clips of Ayn Rand, Objectivist philosopoher and author Atlas Shrugged, appearing on Phil Donahue&#8217;s show decades ago. Even at her advanced age, her wittiness and sharp [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is a Conservative?</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/01/02/what-is-a-conservative/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 07:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is another take on how nebulous the word &#8220;conservative&#8221; is: I know what the Democratic Party stands for, what does the Republican Party stand for? I know what the modern meanings of the terms &#8220;liberal&#8221; and &#8220;progressive&#8221; mean, but I have no idea what the modern meaning of the term &#8220;conservative&#8221; means. I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Morality and Politics</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2008/12/25/morality-and-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2008/12/25/morality-and-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 23:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is slightly adapted from a comment I made at the Secular Right blog today: I find myself reluctantly reevaluating the value to me of participating here. It held such promise; yet I suppose I expected more political discourse, and a whole lot less theological debate. I really appreciate the quality of minds and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bah Humbug</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2008/12/22/bah-humbug/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2008/12/22/bah-humbug/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I participated extensively today on an interesting thread at the Secular Right Blog, regarding a study that claimed Secular Conservatives were the stingiest of givers to charity. This is a topic I hold some passion for, and among several rebuttals to challenges, I made the following three posts which I repeat here for posterity: Oh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secular Right</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2008/12/10/secular-right/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2008/12/10/secular-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have enjoyed participating on a new blog the last few days, which is worth sharing. It is called Secular Right, and the level of discourse there is outstanding. All comments are moderated, and they regularly bat away even articulate proponents of the Piously Correct Christian Right, when they try to turn interesting secular political [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marxism, Religion, and Kool-Aid</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2008/11/19/marxism-religion-and-kool-aid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2008/11/19/marxism-religion-and-kool-aid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all use &#8220;Drink the Kool-Aid&#8221; as an idiom for fanaticism. Chances are that most under forty have no idea how the phrase originated. Of those who do, most have probably bought the narrative that several hundred brainwashed cult followers of a Messianic religious fanatic, committed mass suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid at their Christian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Housekeeping</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2007/03/25/housekeeping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/blog/2007/03/25/housekeeping/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have done some rearranging of the forum. First, I did away with the Essays forum to consolidate and spread out the lopsided topics. Nothing is lost, and all links to individual posts still work, but I have moved all the Essay topics to other forums. Those that could be classified have been put where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FREETHINKERS?</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2007/03/25/freethinkers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my new FREETHINKERS? essay, I define what &#8220;freethinker&#8221; means to me: Freethinker (n.) one who forms opinions as a result of thoughtful independent inquiry, rather than unquestioned acceptance of established views or teachings of others. I discuss how my atheism plays a much less central role in my life than some I met while [...]]]></description>
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