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		<title>Mr. Yoo and Gay Marriage</title>
		<link>http://circle.is/2010/08/mr-yoo-and-gay-marriage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JBH</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://circle.is/?p=953</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mr. Yoo, a law professor at Berkeley, wrote an opinion piece in today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal that makes me question his ability to teach law.  He argues for a federalist approach to gay marriage, i.e. let the votes of each state decide.  Though I agree with many aspects of federalism, to use it as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy versus Individual Liberty</title>
		<link>http://circle.is/2010/08/democracy-versus-individual-liberty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JBH</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Excessive Regulation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://circle.is/?p=940</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Too often, way too often, people confuse democracy with individual liberty.  They are not the same.  In more normal times, to compare them would be like comparing apples to oranges.  But recently, it&#8217;s even worst.  They are directly opposed to one another.  Just look at the gay marriage issue and yesterday&#8217;s decision to void California [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giving It Up</title>
		<link>http://circle.is/2010/07/giving-it-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JBH</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://circle.is/?p=937</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the Massachusetts Senate approved an act that takes away the MA citizens&#8217; right to select our nation&#8217;s president.  I find that very troubling.  From my understanding, our nation was set up as a republic that gave more power to the states versus the federal government.  The reason for this was to ensure as much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. Obama’s Own Words</title>
		<link>http://circle.is/2010/07/mr-obamas-own-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JBH</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://circle.is/?p=932</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[WBEZ Interview with then Senator B. Obama, 2001. OBAMA: If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to vest formal rights in previously dispossessed peoples. So that I would now have the right to vote, I would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let the Dinosaur Die</title>
		<link>http://circle.is/2010/07/let-the-dinosaur-die/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JBH</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bailouts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excessive Regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nostalgia]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://circle.is/?p=927</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just don&#8217;t understand this need to prop up the media organizations with federal assistance.  Some fear that we will see the industry drop in numbers and that this will, in some way, limit our freedom of speech.  So, their answer?  Let&#8217;s get the government involved!  Yup, that will cure our ills and make speech [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UnRealistically Utopian</title>
		<link>http://circle.is/2010/07/unrealistically-utopian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JBH</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://circle.is/?p=922</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I would like to highlight a post from American Majority that does a great job of describing the difference that I, too,  see between the progressive movement and those that favor the route chosen by our founding fathers.]]></description>
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		<title>Madison – Federalist 51</title>
		<link>http://circle.is/2010/07/madison-federalist-51/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JBH</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://circle.is/?p=919</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Single Point of Failure</title>
		<link>http://circle.is/2010/07/single-point-of-failure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JBH</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[SPOF]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://circle.is/?p=902</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From Wikipedia, A single point of failure (SPOF) is a part of a system which, if it fails, will stop the entire system from working. They are undesirable in any system whose goal is high availability, be it a network, software application or other industrial system. The assessment of a potentially single location of failure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intentions Gone Wild</title>
		<link>http://circle.is/2010/06/intentions-gone-wild/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JBH</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excessive Regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regulation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://circle.is/?p=899</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, the federal government finalized the finance reform bill.  From all that I have spoken to that have read through it, it does little to actually correct the isses we experienced over the past 10 years.  Hooray!  One more large monster federal bill that has little benefit but lots of impact. Two quotes in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ignoring Reality</title>
		<link>http://circle.is/2010/06/ignoring-reality/</link>
		<comments>http://circle.is/2010/06/ignoring-reality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JBH</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://circle.is/?p=888</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every once in awhile I troll around the internet for a discussion on economics or politics.  One way I do it is by having alerts set up in Twitter that highlight whenever words/phrases such as &#8216;Ayn Rand&#8217; or &#8216;free markets&#8217; are used.  Just a few days ago, I came across one that was too ripe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ayn Rand on US</title>
		<link>http://circle.is/2010/06/ayn-rand-on-us/</link>
		<comments>http://circle.is/2010/06/ayn-rand-on-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JBH</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://circle.is/?p=884</guid>
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		<title>Long Politics, Short Skill</title>
		<link>http://circle.is/2010/06/long-politics-short-skill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JBH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And we should expect something different?]]></description>
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		<title>A Guest Blog Post</title>
		<link>http://circle.is/2010/06/a-guest-blog-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JBH</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://circle.is/?p=876</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am copying below a blog post from Ron Wilson of EDN.  He nails it.  After you read, please click on his link to show your support for it.  Nothing other than going to his site, that&#8217;s all I ask. Blowouts, elementary school, and the future of democracy June 7, 2010 The weekend edition of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regulation Works?</title>
		<link>http://circle.is/2010/06/regulation-works/</link>
		<comments>http://circle.is/2010/06/regulation-works/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DTH</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Regulation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://circle.is/?p=873</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Congress, The White House, and The Media all seem to agree that the answer to the question, “What went wrong?” appears to be that we did not have enough regulation, that the system (whatever that is) was not protected successfully enough from the BAD ACTORS, i.e. bankers, Wall Street, borrowers, car manufacturing executives, derivative traders, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fun Opinion Pieces</title>
		<link>http://circle.is/2010/06/fun-opinion-pieces/</link>
		<comments>http://circle.is/2010/06/fun-opinion-pieces/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JBH</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://circle.is/?p=867</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[These are well worth the read.]]></description>
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