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		<title>Elections in the steroid era</title>
		<link>http://thenightwriterblog.com/2011/05/22/elections-in-the-steroid-era/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 04:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by the Night Writer Baseball may be America&#8217;s pastime, but America&#8217;s game is politics, and it&#8217;s played for keeps. It was all very exciting when Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa were in a tight race to break Babe Ruth&#8217;s single-season homerun record, and when Barry Bonds sledge-hammered his way toward Hank Aaron&#8217;s career record. Many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take the Highway to Hell and make a left at the Road to Serfdom</title>
		<link>http://thenightwriterblog.com/2011/04/20/take-the-highway-to-hell-and-make-a-left-at-the-road-to-serfdom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by the Night Writer The inane political bickering over spending cuts that do about as much good as an ice-scraper on the side of the iceberg that hit the Titanic, a debt-to-GDP-ratios of around 140% and yesterday&#8217;s S&#038;P downgrade of the country&#8217;s bond rating made me think of an analogy that I shared on Mr. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The five dumbest things you can do if you have too much debt</title>
		<link>http://thenightwriterblog.com/2011/03/09/the-five-dumbest-things-you-can-do-if-you-have-too-much-debt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by the Night Writer I noticed one of those ads next to an on-line article I was reading this morning. No, not one of those talking about Obama wanting mothers to go back to school or terrorists to go back to Guantanamo or whatever is being promoted this week. This ad appeared to speak directly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Braveheart, 2010: Boehner as Robert the Bruce to Bachmann&#8217;s William Wallace?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 05:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by the Night Writer &#8220;There&#8217;s a difference between us. You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom. And I go to make sure that they have it.&#8221; With those words Mel Gibson as William Wallace in the movie Braveheart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of golden chains and gilded gags</title>
		<link>http://thenightwriterblog.com/2010/10/20/of-golden-chains-and-gilded-gags/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 05:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by the Night Writer As part of the furor of the political season, I have seen several news stories in recent days about activist pastors provocatively announcing their intention to endorse candidates from their pulpits. Predictably, this has led to activist groups such as Americans United for Separation (ignore the oxymoron) of Church and State [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s all a simple misunderstanding</title>
		<link>http://thenightwriterblog.com/2010/06/09/its-all-a-simple-misunderstanding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Night Writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ by the Night Writer Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich&#8217;s attorney, Sam Adam, Jr., stated yesterday that Blago &#8220;didn&#8217;t take a dime&#8221; and simply trusted the wrong people. He went on to say that, &#8220;The guy ain&#8217;t corrupt&#8221; and that &#8220;not a single penny of ill-gotten money went into Mr. Blogojevich&#8217;s campaign fund or his own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t tase us, bro!</title>
		<link>http://thenightwriterblog.com/2010/05/14/dont-tase-us-bro/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 19:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Too cynical? Yeah, right</title>
		<link>http://thenightwriterblog.com/2010/05/02/too-cynical-yeah-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 23:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by the Night Writer Peter Bell, Chairman of the Metropolitan Council, had a commentary on the Strib&#8217;s editorial pages today with the headline &#8220;America Needs a Little Less Cynicism&#8221;. Being kind of a cynical person myself when it comes to the appointed bureaucrats of the Met Council, I expected some hand-wringing about how the toxic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St. Rukavina</title>
		<link>http://thenightwriterblog.com/2010/04/25/st-rukavina/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 02:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by the Night Writer &#8220;Jesus was a socialist, and you like him.&#8221; &#8211; Minnesota state senator and DFL gubernatorial candidate Tom Rukavina In that case, wouldn&#8217;t passing laws to raise taxes and forcibly re-distribute wealth be mixing Church and State? Isn&#8217;t that forcing (and enforcing) one&#8217;s religion on others? Did he go on to say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Samizdat: the Libertarian Alarm Clock</title>
		<link>http://thenightwriterblog.com/2010/03/29/samizdat-the-libertarian-alarm-clock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 05:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HT: Mises Economics Blog You might have read the story about the Socialist Alarm Clock. A friend who wishes to remain anonymous sent his libertarian version and asked me to post it (cross-posted at Division of Labour and The Beacon): “This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock built by the ingenuity of millions [...]]]></description>
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