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	<title>Thoughts Aloud &#187; Liberty</title>
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		<title>Robin Hood vs. Good Samaritan</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2012/01/07/robin-hood-vs-good-samaritan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2012/01/07/robin-hood-vs-good-samaritan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commenting elsewhere in a discussion among typical conservative culture warriors, lamenting the state of our culture regarding the abortion and gay marriage issues, I offered the following, which is probably worth memorializing here: If I may be permitted to comment on these issues from a political perspective, I would like to point out three intertwined [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/12/23/fairies-witches-fords-and-chevys/#comments</comments>
		<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>Rethinking Roe v. Wade</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/12/20/rethinking-roe-v-wade/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/12/20/rethinking-roe-v-wade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roe v. Wade is bad law, which should be overturned on Tenth Amendment grounds. Those most vocal in both the defense and condemnation of it however, frequently seem not to understand the implications of their goals. A case can be made that achieving those goals, by either side, would produce unintended consequences the opposite of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Defense of Newt</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/12/17/in-defense-of-newt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/12/17/in-defense-of-newt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/?p=1795</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My more ideological correspondents, conservative and libertarian alike, are frequently confounded by my attachment to reality, which purists tend to misconstrue as pragmatism. It is difficult to pin an ideological label on me, other than perhaps laissez faire capitalist. Since I desire nothing of government, but to be left alone, to live my life as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Incumbrepublocrat Duopoly</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/12/11/the-incumbrepublocrat-duopoly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/12/11/the-incumbrepublocrat-duopoly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have heavily edited and rearranged my 2008 &#8220;Incumbrepublocrats&#8221; essay, and thought I ought to throw it up front here for critique: &#160; Incumbrepublocrats: n. A cabal of incumbent ruling elites, organized into a duopoly called Republicans and Democrats, to fool complaisant sheeple into believing they have a choice, of shearers and shepherds. (aka: iRats) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contumacy in a Nutshell</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/11/27/contumacy-in-a-nutshell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/11/27/contumacy-in-a-nutshell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Why Live in a Salad Bowl</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/11/05/why-live-in-a-salad-bowl/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/11/05/why-live-in-a-salad-bowl/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 09:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have added my latest entry as an essay, as I hope to carry on an extended discussion to develop the idea of giving the &#8216;Occupy&#8217; movement what it seeks, and allow the Federal government to go ahead and collapse now, rather than waiting for the financial collapse that is now unavoidable in the near [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poignant &amp; Profound</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/10/27/poignant-profound/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/10/27/poignant-profound/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t miss &#8220;What Have I Done&#8221; at the shutupnsing blog. E.g.: How in the world can we sit in a movie theater, follow and comprehend the mind-numbing twists and turns of a movie like Inception and yet be completely oblivious to the plot of the very simple and straight-forward movie we’re actually starring in ourselves? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chew On This</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/10/21/chew-on-this/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/10/21/chew-on-this/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/?p=1679</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is really thought provoking: No wonder Iran got so indignant about this latest lie, which had some of our politicians beating war drums. When do they start inciting Patriots to do criminal acts they are fully prepared to do if necessary; but sincerely hope will never be necessary? There are a lot of angry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suicidal Superpower</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/10/14/suicidal-superpower/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/10/14/suicidal-superpower/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any who have read my old &#8220;Dark Ages II&#8221; essay, or ever pondered the implications of Mark Steyn&#8217;s, &#8220;America Alone,&#8221; will understand why this is my next read. From a Drudge Report Exclusive, profound quotes from Pat Buchanan&#8217;s new book, &#8220;SUICIDE OF A SUPERPOWER &#8211; Will America Survive to 2025?&#8221; : Introduction: Disintegrating Nation &#8220;As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Malleable Morality</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/10/12/malleable-morality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/10/12/malleable-morality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Troy and I have been having a debate in the comment section of his The Slope Just Got Slicker post below. The discussion is getting deep, and worthy of a new thread on ethics. Those not following the debate may want to catch up at the link above; but for setup, Troy had said: None [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deficit vs Debt</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/10/04/deficit-vs-debt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/10/04/deficit-vs-debt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/?p=1652</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Brother, Can You Spare A Trillion?: Government Gone Wild! Whenever a politician mouths the phrase, &#8220;reduce the deficit,&#8221; he is being condescending, lying, or both; because he knows the difference and is counting on us to conflate the terms debt and deficit. He is only discussing reducing the rate of growth, of our already unfathomable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hollywood Exposure</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/10/02/hollywood-exposure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/10/02/hollywood-exposure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 02:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I must admit that I had never heard of this lady. I have only ever known one lady named J9, whom I usually refer to as Saint J9; so at first, I thought she might be famous for more than just putting up with a sometimes mercurial blogger named Troy. It turns out she was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palin v. Obama? You Betcha!</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/09/19/palin-v-obama-you-betcha/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/09/19/palin-v-obama-you-betcha/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has to be the most brilliant Machiavellian strategy I have ever encountered. I so want to discover that it is her idea, which she is floating through Joseph Farah, the editor of World Net Daily: If Sarah Palin ran as a Republican candidate in a crowded field, she might win. Then again, she might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amnesty by Fiat</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/08/20/amnesty-by-fiat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/08/20/amnesty-by-fiat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 16:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gov. Jan Brewer has been censored by Facebook, and has asked that her message be propagated. I am happy to oblige: After I posted the following statement and photo yesterday, Facebook censored the post and removed it because the photo apparently violated their &#8220;Facebook Community Standards.&#8221; Before it was removed, it had received over 10,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Invisible Government</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/08/17/invisible-government/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/08/17/invisible-government/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Troy&#8217;s comment to my Gonzo Journalism article caused me to remember a book I read years ago, entitled &#8220;Invisible Government.&#8221; I couldn&#8217;t recall the author or even how long ago it had been written, so I googled it. It produced two extraordinary documents that I just had to share here. The first, is in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gonzo Journalism</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/08/16/gonzo-journalism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/08/16/gonzo-journalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 18:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, well, well&#8230; welcome to my world. How many remember the name Tim Adams? The election clerk from Hawaii, who revealed that it is an open secret among Hawaii election officials that there is no record of Obama being born in a hospital there? It turns out he is bent libertarian, is as cynical of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WTP-02 Lucky Canada</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/08/09/wtp-02-lucky-canada/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/08/09/wtp-02-lucky-canada/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I used to pity Canadian conservatives their plight, stuck living under the rule of a Progressive majority. It just occurred to me that we have now allowed the bastards to overwhelm us too, and the Canadians have it better than we do. More importantly, their prognosis for the future far exceeds ours. They are energy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who is John Galt?</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/08/04/who-is-john-galt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/08/04/who-is-john-galt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 01:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a welcome refresher appropriate for the mood I am in, here is a well-done, and extremely condensed, version of the core 90 pages of Atlas Shrugged: John Galt&#8217;s Radio Address to the Nation For twelve years you&#8217;ve been asking &#8220;Who is John Galt?&#8221; This is John Galt speaking. I&#8217;m the man who&#8217;s taken away [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom Fighting Terrorists</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/08/03/freedom-fighting-terrorists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/08/03/freedom-fighting-terrorists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a social networking site I frequent, a young lady posted a lament that the media were not referring to the perpetrator of the recent atrocity in Norway as a terrorist. She allowed that she had never heard of a terrorist before 9/11, and wondered why only Muslims are called such. I suspect that was [...]]]></description>
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