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		<title>Who Refuses to Govern America? - Do we really want self-rule?</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2011/02/who-refuses-to-rule-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do we really want self-rule?In the absence of the willingness to self-govern, or to have a conversation about how to be more effective at the little self-governing we actually do, is it fair to look at failing American states and cities as anomalous?  Is it reasonable to suppose that they are, at bottom, that much <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2011/02/who-refuses-to-rule-america/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion:  Comunismo y Socialismo - por Armando P. Ribas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[por Armando P. RibasFor our Spanish-speakers, here is a provocative essay by the Argentine economic consultant Armando P. Ribas, author of Entre la Libertad y la Servidumbre. This should help clear up some of the confusion between Marxism and Socialism.  A very thoughtful piece, contributed to HACER by frequent contributor RCR. So, with a big <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/12/opinion-comunismo-y-socialismo/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mutual Corruption with Mexico - The U.S. &amp; Mexico Trade Jobs &amp; Cash for Drugs &amp; Votes</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/09/mutual-corruption-with-mexico/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 02:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. &#38; Mexico Trade Jobs &#38; Cash for Drugs &#38; Votes(Illustration courtesy Photobucket.com and Ronbosoldier.blogspot.com) CORRUPTION FIESTA It&#8217;s really hard to tell whose form of corruption is worse, the United States&#8217; or Mexico&#8217;s.  America (del Norte) wants to influence Mexico&#8217;s elections (pliancy), use their cheap labor, and farm their migrants for Democratic votes.  Mexico, <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/09/mutual-corruption-with-mexico/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Can Tea Party Patriots Rescue Our Electoral System? - If not us, who?  If not now, when?</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/09/tea-party-rescues-elections/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If not us, who? If not now, when?ELECTION MADNESS Never mind the voting machines many states never fixed after the year 2,000 fiasco; or the Motor Voter fraud, or the absentee ballot fraud, or the gerrymandering, or all the ineligible voters left on state voter registration lists, or the shafting of military voters, or the <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/09/tea-party-rescues-elections/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Redistribution is Nonsense - Economic Fishing Lessons Beat Dependency.... Everytime</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Economic Fishing Lessons Beat Dependency.... Everytime If our economic system doesn&#8217;t &#8220;distribute&#8221; wealth, how in the world can it be &#8220;redistributed?&#8221;  Yet that&#8217;s what our happy fisher for tax dollars says he &#8211; with the complicity of a &#8216;Progressive&#8217; Congress &#8211; wants to do.   In fact, it&#8217;s well under way, with gobs more in <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/09/redistribution-delusion/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Who Will Rule America Next? - Collectivists, Gangsters &amp; Jihadis are the Best Candidates</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/07/americas-next-rulers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Collectivists, Gangsters &#38; Jihadis are the Best Candidates&#160; &#160; When this supposedly dysfunctional, imperialist nation founded by profiteering, white male slave-owners is finally &#8211; however gradually &#8211; converted to a truly &#8216;just society&#8217; that allows all Americans (if that term is still to be used) to live in dignity and comfort &#8212; who will be <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/07/americas-next-rulers/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Climate Change as Trojan Horse - Will You Trade Liberty for Virtue?  For Greens to Succeed, America Must Fail</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/07/climate-change-trojan-horse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will You Trade Liberty for Virtue? For Greens to Succeed, America Must Fail Therefore, U.S. Vehicle Emissions Are 5.4% of Total World Man-made CO2 Emissions (The above figure was corrected when we found the latest (?) world vehicle totals (750,000.000) Globally, road transport is responsible for about 16% of man-made CO2 emissions.  It is a <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/07/climate-change-trojan-horse/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>BP Cash Grab Hurts U.S. - Slippery Slope to Statism</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/06/bp-cash-grab-hurts-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slippery Slope to StatismBy now, almost everyone who cares knows that the US President sat down with BP executives and received a commitment to hand over twenty billion dollars towards oil-spill compensation.  Also, that there&#8217;s no cap on liability and that the criminal investigation of the company will continue.  The fund will be run by <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/06/bp-cash-grab-hurts-us/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>End Game For Israel? - Willful Ignorance, Self-Indulgent Gullibility - and Bigotry, Win Again</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/06/end-game-for-israel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 03:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Willful Ignorance, Self-Indulgent Gullibility - and Bigotry, Win AgainWell, anti-Semitic fools &#8211; it looks like we&#8217;re finally approaching the end game for our fascinating, long-running drama fatuously called the Israeli-Palestinian &#8220;dispute.&#8221;  Or is it simply the &#8220;Israeli Occupation?&#8221;  You&#8217;ve all fallen hook, line and sinker for the anti-Israel propaganda package sponsored by the Arab League, <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/06/end-game-for-israel/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Gulf Oil Jobs Crisis &#8211; by Decree - The Last Time, it Was OPEC; Now it&#039;s Washington</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/06/oil-jobs-crisis-by-bo-decree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Last Time, it Was OPEC; Now it's Washington If you&#8217;ve been following the oil spill, you know the president has declared a six-month moratorium on offshore oil drilling.  This is in addition to the existing ban on drilling closer to shore, as well as exploration and drilling on most land-based applications.  Jobs will be <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/06/oil-jobs-crisis-by-bo-decree/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mexican Immigration Muddle - Groundhog Day, aka Amnesty</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/05/mexican-immigration-muddle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 23:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Groundhog Day, aka AmnestyHere&#8217;s the controversial Arizona law, SB 1070.  The following is just the first paragraph; the actual statute is 17 pages long.  What&#8217;s important to note, though, is that in the public conversation about this, THERE IS NO LAW; there is only the perception of a law.  The perception varies widely depending on group <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/05/mexican-immigration-muddle/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Slander Goldman To Avoid Scrutiny - Those are YOUR Junk Mortgages, Senator</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/04/senators-slander-goldman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those are YOUR Junk Mortgages, Senator April 27, 2010  The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Comedy Gold as Senators (Levin, Collins, Kaufman,McCaskill,Coburn,McCain) pretended to be conducting a serious inquiry into the market practices of Goldman, Sachs.  They obstinately refused to recognize that the mortgage CDO managers were not, in fact, financial advisers to their clients. <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/04/senators-slander-goldman/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>US Citizens Unprepared for Crises - Real Threats Require Real Preparedness</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/04/citizens-unprepared-for-crises/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real Threats Require Real Preparedness This blog post is a cheat!  It&#8217;s my intention to do everything possible to avoid scouring the internet for source material and supporting opinions.  My intention, instead, is to get some of my security concerns off my chest, because there seem to be large gaps in both policy and public <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/04/citizens-unprepared-for-crises/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-Capitalism as Climate Agenda - Tell the Greens We&#039;ve Had Enough</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/04/anti-capitalism-climate-agenda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 01:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tell the Greens We've Had Enough Al&#8217;s Better Environment THE CLIP BELOW SHOWS our Socialist Climate Czar, appointed by President Obama without Senate confirmation.  Wanting World Government is fine if your job isn&#8217;t to advise the chief executive of only one of those governments.  Our government.  Unless, of course, her boss also wants a world government. JANUARY, 2011 <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/04/anti-capitalism-climate-agenda/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Poisonous Political Violence Talk - Consequences beyond the ballot box</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 04:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consequences beyond the ballot box Well, we&#8217;ve all seen the many articles lately expressing concern by Leftists that Rightwing violence is on the rise, and that the current political atmosphere is reminiscent of that preceding the Oklahoma bombing of the Murrah building by Timothy McVeigh.  Any act of violence that can possibly be attributed to <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/04/poison-political-violence/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reportaje de una Decada de Hugo Chavez - Watch Socialismo Destroy a Democracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch Socialismo Destroy a DemocracyFor our Spanish speakers, a timely review of the last decade of societal destruction by Hugo Chavez Frias.  It&#8217;s a report put together by 21 Latin American Institutions and presented on the blog titled Andes Libres.com. English speakers should feel free to hit the translation button in the right sidebar, or <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/04/decada-de-chavez/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tea Party Nation - It&#039;s Our &#039;Movement&#039; versus Their &#039;Movement&#039;</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/04/our-movement-versus-yours/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's Our 'Movement' versus Their 'Movement'A FEW WORDS ABOUT TEA PARTIES: It&#8217;s not about race. It&#8217;s not about political party. It&#8217;s not transitory. We could add that they&#8217;re also not about ideology, but that would be a lie.  The ideology is Americanism:  an abiding belief in the founding principles and that the current &#8216;regime&#8217; has <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/04/our-movement-versus-yours/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hidden VAT Tax Punishes Poor and Middle-Class - Paying for Hope n&#039; Change, One Purchase at a Time</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/04/vat-punishes-middleclass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paying for Hope n' Change, One Purchase at a TimeOK, Here&#8217;s a Chicago Tribune Op-Ed by Consultant Dennis Byrne and his take on the European-style VAT sales tax that surfaced last year via Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. A tax that has been bandied about as a possibility to sop up the massive deficits <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/04/vat-punishes-middleclass/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why Size Confounds Governance; Why Democracies Die - Glen Reynolds Explains Washington Paralysis; British School Indoctrination as a Warning to Us</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/04/us-stuck-brits-brainwashed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Glen Reynolds Explains Washington Paralysis; British School Indoctrination as a Warning to UsHere&#8217;s a really thoughtful -as usual &#8211; piece by law professor/blogger Glen Reynolds of Instapundit and PJTV. It cries out for reading because it aptly describes the knowledge problem that Congress has, with particular reference to the new health care reform.  Enjoy. In <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/04/us-stuck-brits-brainwashed/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Irresistible Social Decay</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s fine to be railing against the threat of socialism, fascism, statism, progressivism, or whatever collectivist, authoritarian description fits your temperament and sophistication.  The problem is that the train has pretty much left the station.  We have gotten so used to treating our political system frivolously, and churlishly adapting ourselves to the lousy consequences &#8211; <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/04/irresistible-social-decay/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>ObamaCare Repeal Possibilities - FDR,ObamaCare &amp; States&#039; Rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FDR,ObamaCare &#38; States' RightsThe Judge (yes, he&#8217;s a real judge) gives us a heads-up, straight from the Constitution &#8211; a short video that&#8217;s a good start for a quick exploration of this ObamaCare repeal issue.  FYI, the Interstate Commerce Clause and General Welfare provisions are not valid bases for imposing this legislation on the states <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/obamacare-repeal-possibilities/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cops Sold My Stuff!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you think cars and houses and other personal belongings are only seized, kept and sold by the police when dealing with suspected drug dealers, you&#8217;ve got another think coming.  This is done much more broadly and is being used by some police jurisdictions to supplement their budgets.  I got used to the idea some <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/cops-sold-my-stuff/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rebuttal to &#8220;Spanish Green Jobs Failure&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/rebuts-sp-green-jobs-fail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m hoping this post will put to bed this contretemps between the DOE and its renewables detractors, at least for this blog.  The American Wind Energy Association reports in the paragraphs below that the Universidad Rey San Carlos study that concludes that more than two private sector jobs are lost for every &#8220;green job&#8221; created <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/rebuts-sp-green-jobs-fail/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Danish Windmill Blowback</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/danish-windmill-blowback/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wind-Power Danes strike back. It seems the stake-holders in the Danish wind power system took umbrage at the CPOS report.  So they formed a consortium to launch a study of their own and write a rebuttal.  The Project is named CEESA (Coherent Energy and Environmental System Analysis), and, as you will see in the 36 <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/danish-windmill-blowback/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Danish Wind Power Bust - High Cost, Low Benefit Eco-flop</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/danish-wind-power-bust/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[High Cost, Low Benefit Eco-flop Sorry for the crazy font size and spacing, but came off a PDF on the Danish think tank site (CPOS). If you read the&#8221;Obama Wind Power Deceit&#8221; piece on this blog, you&#8217;ve gotten the promised Spanish Renewables failure report, and here we have the experience of the Danes. It&#8217;s a 39 page report, <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/danish-wind-power-bust/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Earth Hour&#8217; Hatred of Civilization - Eco Death-Cult Groks PRK</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/earth-hour-anti-civilization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eco Death-Cult Groks PRK My plundering of global blogposts continues.  Below, from the Land of Oz,via PA Pundit, is a fairly self-explanatory disgust-fest over our Eco-Morons&#8217; worship of pre-civilization conditions for the entire planet.  They seem to actually be holding North Korea up as a model of eco-propriety, ignoring that it is a dictatorship that <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/earth-hour-anti-civilization/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Spanish &#8220;Green Jobs&#8221; Failure</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/green-jobs-flop-spain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/green-jobs-flop-spain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my posting of March 13th, under the title &#8220;Obama Wind Power Deceit,&#8221; I promised to find the Spanish University study referred to in the Investor&#8217;s Business Daily editorial and publish it at a future date.  Well, here it is. The editorial will be removed from this site on April 13th, but the link to <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/green-jobs-flop-spain/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Busting Up the Big Banks</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/busting-up-the-big-banks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/busting-up-the-big-banks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 21:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s J.P. Morgan there, on the left.  Before the Federal Reserve was founded, he had, on more than one occasion, rounded up the resources to save our financial system from collapse.  No taxpayer funds. The crux of the argument for breaking up the big banks and hedge funds is that they were to blame for <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/busting-up-the-big-banks/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Health Mandates, or Incentives &#8211; Which is Smarter? - Government Ideologues Ignore Constitution, Avoid Real Problem-Solving</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/health-mandates-or-incentives/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/health-mandates-or-incentives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Becky Quick]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Government Ideologues Ignore Constitution, Avoid Real Problem-SolvingSo it&#8217;s come to this &#8211; again.  Mankind&#8217;s Overwhelming Question:  Do we allow the government, or does the government &#8211; acting for our benefit, of course &#8211; allow us?  If government has provided the physical infrastructure and the organizational enablers for our training and success, has it not earned <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/health-mandates-or-incentives/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Congressional Roots of Financial Crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/govt-recession-roots/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/govt-recession-roots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An amazing 3.5 million people have watched this You Tube Video of our tax dollars in action.  It&#8217;s been deliberately edited for length and to highlight what is now characterized as a partisan position, rather than salient historical evidence of Congressional chicanery.  You decide.  I decided long ago that, although an enormous amount of bad <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/govt-recession-roots/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Early 20th Century Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/early-20th-century-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/early-20th-century-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting discussion over at American Thinker this morning about an article titled &#8220;Is BHO the New FDR?&#8221; by Jack Cashill. The answer is a resounding &#8220;maybe,&#8221; or perhaps even an &#8220;in some respects, but not as much as this other President.&#8221;  You should definitely read the article, but before you go popping off to visit, <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/early-20th-century-obama/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Medicare Docs Disappearing</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/medicare-docs-disappearing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[RX Harold and Margret Thomas, with Dr. Steven Knope, a concierge doctor in Tucson who charges a yearly retainer IF I were warning about something that might happen if we strip half a billion dollars out of Medicare and put it into a national health care experiment, some would be justified in labeling me an <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/medicare-docs-disappearing/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Ryan(R-Wis) Tells Obama True Health Care Costs - President Obama Sits Stunned</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/ryan-tells-hc-costs-to-pres/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/ryan-tells-hc-costs-to-pres/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama Sits StunnedLong after the Great Health Care Reform Debate of 2009 &#38; &#8217;10 has become part of the history that goes untaught in our pathetic public school system, this six minutes of video will inform.  Not only the &#8216;emperor&#8217;s clothes&#8217; blast of reality concerning the health care numbers that had been fronted by <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/ryan-tells-hc-costs-to-pres/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>ObamaCare&#8217;s Planner Here</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/obamacare-planner-here/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/obamacare-planner-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regardless of your political persuasion, here is a health care economist who claims to have been advising the Obama Administration on their HC Reform plans.  Few of us have time for this stuff, but his presentation takes only the first half hour &#8211; the rest is actually pretty substantive Q &#38; A from a Holy <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/obamacare-planner-here/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Individual Mandate Grows IRS Intrusions, Confiscations</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/new/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It just gets better.  We&#8217;ve all known for a while that the IRS is to be given authority over compliance with the Individual Mandate Tax (IMT), but it may not have been obvious to you that it means they will be responsible for ascertaining individual compliance.  Representatives Dave Camp (R-MI), Ranking Member, and Charles Boustany <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/new/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Government-Union Hustle</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/the-government-union-hustle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I posted on this on February, under &#8220;Are Government Unions Necessary?&#8221;  That, admittedly, was a bit of a rant &#8211; even though mostly correct.  Today, though, we have a piece we are linking to written by Chris Edwards, Director of Tax Policy Studies, Cato Institute.  (It&#8217;s a Libertarian think tank, if  that sort of thing <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/the-government-union-hustle/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Is ObamaCare Really RomneyCare Writ Large?</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/is-obamacare-romneycare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:18:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I highly commend to your attention this eye-popping article in today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal written by Grace-Marie Turner of the Galen Institute. Although Romney, who will probably once-again be running for President is obliged to deny it, RomneyCare in his home state of Massachusetts is experiencing all the cost and coverage problems the ObamaCare critics <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/is-obamacare-romneycare/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Prohibition Stupid &amp; Immoral - Funding Enemies; Subverting Civilization; Incentivizing Crime</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/prohibition-immoral/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Funding Enemies; Subverting Civilization; Incentivizing CrimeAn Investor&#8217;s Business Daily editorial on Monday, March 15th regarding the previous Saturday&#8217;s massacre of American citizens in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, just across the border from El Paso, Texas: President Obama expressed outrage Sunday over the broad-daylight massacre in Juarez of a pregnant American U.S. consular employee and her husband, <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/prohibition-immoral/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pelosi Tea Party Propaganda</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/pelosi-tea-party-propaganda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This via Steve Stevlic of Tea Party Patriots Chicago and Rich Johns of Chicago Townhall Meetup.  Hope they don&#8217;t mind my pilfering, but it is clearly a good FYI for everyone who understands the essentiality of the Tea Party Movement and the consequent need to combat the lies used to thwart the will of the <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/pelosi-tea-party-propaganda/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Race to the Top &#8211; Nationwide Insurance Competition</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/interstate-insurance-throwdown/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/interstate-insurance-throwdown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dental care]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, as we all know by now, Pelosi and the gang are straining at the halter to get the reform-less reform over the finish line.  As a person of some years, I would dearly love to see a change in the current, absurdly manifested &#8216;situation.&#8217;  You can&#8217;t call something a system that was never designed <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/interstate-insurance-throwdown/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Wind-Power Deceit - No Choice:  It&#039;s Either High Taxes or High Rates</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/obama-wind-power-deceit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/obama-wind-power-deceit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jessica Isaacs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Obama buys "green jobs".Christopher Horner]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No Choice: It's Either High Taxes or High Rates Well.  It looks like I, like Joe Biden before me, have a penchant for plagiarism.  In fact, though, the purpose of this blog is not to showcase my (nonexistent) brilliant writing, but to convey information of broad concern to a readership concerned with maintaining the founding <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/obama-wind-power-deceit/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Climategate Report</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/senateclimategatevideo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/senateclimategatevideo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bad science]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who may have missed this official report on the collapse of the science behind the British source &#8211; the University of East Anglia &#8211; that our EPA relies on for its climate data, here is Senator Inhofe&#8217;s announcement as the Ranking Member on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/senateclimategatevideo/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>FUQ: 2 Big 2 Fail &#8211; 2 small 2 Succeed</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/fuq2big2fail2small2b/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/fuq2big2fail2small2b/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[FREQUENTLY UNASKED QUESTIONS I Tweeted on this earlier, although I&#8217;ve been made to understand that no one under thirty tweets anymore.  So, hello adults!  Just a couple of quick Q&#8217;s on 2 Big 2 Fail: 1)  If a company cannot be allowed to get too big to fail (or too big for antitrust laws), does <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/fuq2big2fail2small2b/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sour Oscar Notes</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/sour-oscar-notes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Avatar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate crimes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kathryn Bigelow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leftist cultural propaganda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military crimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trans-nationalist movement]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Avatar&#8221; and &#8220;Hurt Locker&#8221; are troubling films, for similar reasons.  So&#8230;forgive me for being the turd in the Oscar punchbowl, but I couldn&#8217;t let the occasion go by without reminding my readers that Hollywood is a Leftist cultural propaganda machine -and proud of it.  They are passionate about stopping wars, destroying capitalism, exposing the selfish <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/sour-oscar-notes/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Justicia y Equidad</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/justicia-equidad/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/justicia-equidad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Equidad Social]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fundacion Libertad]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Vera Ojeda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justicia Social]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marxist propaganda]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have trouble with the google translator in the right sidebar, please let me know.  I came across this piece on social justice and equality on the excellent HACER website (hacer.org).  I went directly to the source in Paraguay, the Foundation for Liberty.  I thought some of you might be interested in hearing the <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/justicia-equidad/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Attitudes:  Impatient Social Egalitarian</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/attitudes-social-egalitarian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[constitutional democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discrimination]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[marginalized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social attitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social consequences]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all wonder, from time to time, &#8220;just what is it that&#8217;s going on in that person&#8217;s head?&#8221; We&#8217;ll probably never know for sure, of course, but our native sense of empathy is supposed to help us get a clue.  Some folks are so low in self-awareness and so mentally undisciplined that they&#8217;d be just <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/attitudes-social-egalitarian/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Senate News Flash &#8211; Boxer/Webb on Windfall Bonus Tax</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/boxerwebb-windfall-bonus-tax/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/boxerwebb-windfall-bonus-tax/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early this afternoon, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) interrupted her campaign to raise energy prices on all Americans through the Cap and Trade program to step onto the Senate floor with a new proposal unrelated to Science.  (Oops! The other one is unrelated to science, too.)  A Chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/boxerwebb-windfall-bonus-tax/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the Government, Stupid!</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/govts-cause-worst-problems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They say we Americans learn our geography through war; not a charitable or accurate assessment of our culture, but it&#8217;s accurate at least in its estimate of how attentive we are to the subject.  Most schools stopped teaching geography long ago.  Foreign news bureaus are usually the first to be shut down when the newspapers <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/govts-cause-worst-problems/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Greenhouse Gas Theory Explained - It&#039;s All About Feedbacks</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/greenhs-gas-theory-explained/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CO2]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's All About FeedbacksThis is too good to not let stand on its own. The (incomplete, due to 350 word reply limitation on the site) comment was in response to a Feb. 25th article at The American Thinker blog (americanthinker.com) by Alan Siddons titled &#8220;The Hidden Flaw in Greenhouse Gas Theory.&#8221; The comment thread is <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/greenhs-gas-theory-explained/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>This Just In!</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/this-just-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[amnesty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s current event highlights: Today&#8217;s scheduled Million-Warmist-March-on-Washington is proceeding as planned but is reportedly just under a million short of planned attendance as the remaining multitudes protest the return of real science to climate research. In related news, the Senate sub-committee on moral turpitude is holding a hearing on the feasibility of amnesty for the <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/03/this-just-in/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Attitudes:  Young, Counter-Culture</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/02/attitudesfeatureoccasional/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lenin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[war profiteers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all wonder, from time to time, &#8220;just what is it that&#8217;s going on in that person&#8217;s head?&#8221;  We&#8217;ll probably never know for sure, of course, but our native sense of empathy is supposed to help us get a clue.  Some folks are so low in self-awareness and so mentally undisciplined that they&#8217;d be just <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/02/attitudesfeatureoccasional/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Single-Payer Proxy, or State Compacts? - Aren&#039;t Larger Risk-Pools the Solution?</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/02/single-payer-proxy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aren't Larger Risk-Pools the Solution?Well, As our old friend the King of Siam (aka Yul Brynner) was wont to say:  &#8221;It&#8217;s a puzzlement.&#8221;  Our current President (peace be upon him) has often stated &#8220;there will be no government takeover of health care.&#8221;  And, in his usual coded way, he&#8217;s right.  Literally, that is.  But both <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/02/single-payer-proxy/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Obama as Gas Giant</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/02/obama-as-gas-giant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political Humor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Obama-bashing has to stop.  (Cheney-bashing may proceed as planned.)  The Healthcare Summit &#8211; called to settle these &#8220;petty talking points&#8221; and &#8220;philosophical differences&#8221; &#8211; had the President (peace be upon him) as its moderator, and an effing-good moderator he was.  Well, maybe too good, because all he got for his efforts &#8211; and I <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/02/obama-as-gas-giant/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Explosive Briefs - Their Heads Seem to Be in the Wrong Place</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/02/politicians-misplaced-heads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Their Heads Seem to Be in the Wrong PlaceMemo to Washington, DC: Do you politicians sometimes wonder why, everywhere you look, you see nothing but lower bowel?]]></description>
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		<title>No Peace/No Justice?</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/02/nopeacenojustice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[O.K., Puzzle me this:  Are those who seek Social Justice socialites?  Oh, wait&#8230;that ID has already been claimed by the people who cause social injustice. Just wondering because I&#8217;ve been seeing these &#8220;No Peace, No Justice&#8221; bumper stickers for years and, each time, I marvel at the exquisite ambiguity of those words (and the thinking <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/02/nopeacenojustice/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Delusion Caused the Collapse - The Only Escape from this Trap is Failure</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/02/systemic-delusion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Only Escape from this Trap is FailureIt&#8217;s alright to stay: I&#8217;m not going to stir the ashes of the financial collapse.  I have bigger fish to fry, so I&#8217;ll just do a quick resume of the situation from my viewpoint, then get to what&#8217;s on my mind; namely, what sort of trap did we <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/02/systemic-delusion/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Are Car Owners a Pack&#8230;or a Herd??? - Magnets in Roadbeds; Not Rails in Roadbeds</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/02/car-owners-pack-or-herd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/02/car-owners-pack-or-herd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 03:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Magnets in Roadbeds; Not Rails in Roadbeds Pretty cool panel discussion held by Cato and taped by C-span today.  Nice diversity of views over a book by Randal O&#8217;Toole called &#8220;Gridlock.&#8221; Haven&#8217;t read it yet, but looking forward to it, because it&#8217;s an important topic easily overlooked.  We&#8217;re basically talking about the freedom to choose <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/02/car-owners-pack-or-herd/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>If No Global Warming, No Energy Crisis - Flawed Models Threaten World Economy</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/02/if-no-agw-no-energy-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/02/if-no-agw-no-energy-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flawed Models Threaten World EconomyFor the Warmists, i.e., the True Believers, there has been approximately a three-month flap &#8211; a tempest in a teaparty, no doubt &#8211; over the validity of climate-change science and the integrity of its creators.  The British university the IPCC counts on for its AGW claims was caught manipulating the data and <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/02/if-no-agw-no-energy-crisis/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Socialists of the World &#8211;  Disperse! - Capitalism Improves on Socialism; Not the Reverse</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/02/socialists-of-world-disperse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Capitalism Improves on Socialism; Not the ReverseHonestly, folks &#8211; this is just a really huge misunderstanding.  I&#8217;ve known it for years, but so long as you all were just a nattering fringe, why say anything?  But now &#8211; OMG, it&#8217;s like &#8220;The Invasion of the Body Snatchers.&#8221;  Every time I turn around, another perfectly sane-looking <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/02/socialists-of-world-disperse/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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		<title>How Presidents Fail: Coulda Been a Contenda - Failure To Act...Is Also Failure</title>
		<link>http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/02/when-presidents-fail-to-act/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Failure To Act...Is Also FailureHere&#8217;s the thing.  It&#8217; Presidents&#8217; Day, and I got to thinking:  Is what a President could&#8217;ve done, and didn&#8217;t, as important &#8211; or more so &#8211; than what he or she is actually on record as accomplishing (or destroying)?  The American voters were hammered for eight long years with the illegitimacy <a href='http://www.gresshasissues.com/2010/02/when-presidents-fail-to-act/' class='excerpt-more'>continue reading</a>]]></description>
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