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		<title>Reagan on &#8220;democratic&#8221; regime change</title>
		<link>http://www.shwiggie.com/reagan-on-democratic-regime-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 07:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the celebration of a game-changing potential international disaster in Egypt, what President Reagan had to say about the Nicaraguan Sandinista regime in 1984 may prove insightful.]]></description>
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		<title>From a Moment of Silence to Just Plain Silence</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 09:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent shooting in Arizona is the latest example of a borderline world being struck by those who've already crossed the border of sanity. And the blame game is already in play.]]></description>
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		<title>Koran Burning: Right or Wrong?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A non-denominational church will be hosting a mass burning of the Koran, and they've made it a spectacle.]]></description>
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		<title>Politician: &#8220;Keep Your Convictions to Yourself&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the title's not a direct quote, that's the gist of what was said by Representative Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) in a letter to <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29336.html">Politico</a>. The essence of this is, "keep your superstitious foolishness to yourselves and leave the governing to us progressives, or we'll steal your money."

If you’re wondering where you may have heard of Rep. Woolsey before, she was the one responsible for Cindy Sheehan’s disruption of the 2006 State of the Union address. She had given her sole invitation to Sheehan, despite knowing she was a full-on loon.]]></description>
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		<title>Joe Wilson: My Thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is just a quick note on Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC), who interrupted Obama’s Wednesday night speech with “you lie!” Which, by the way, was true: Obama lied when he said the current plans didn't cover illegal immigrants. I only have two criticisms for the Representative.]]></description>
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		<title>Brian McLaren needs to butt out</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 07:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just got an email that's torqued my lugnuts a bit too much concerning Brian McLaren. In case you're unfamiliar, he's one of the most influential "evangelicals" in America...at least, according to Time magazine. I put "evangelical" in quotes, because, by my reading, the man doesn't seem to have the whole Christian thing figured out yet.]]></description>
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		<title>Gas Tax Idiocy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 21:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was doing something the other day I won't be doing again in the foreseeable future: reading a Motor Trend magazine. I was out of toilet reading material, but, while reading, I found another toiletry use for the magazine. Yup, they're pushing an increased gas tax, like the government's talking about even now.  It's all about forced behavior modification and enhanced governmental control over lives.]]></description>
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		<title>I Hate Eminent Domain</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have hated the entire concept of eminent domain ever since the state came to my father and made him sell some of his frontage property in order to put an off-ramp from the newly four-laned federal highway 45 back when I was a child.]]></description>
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		<title>Journalism&#8217;s Gun Nitwittery</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excuse me, but I don't feel like leaving my life in the hands of men who only have to qualify their gun handling skills once a year, much less to some nutbar with a grudge.]]></description>
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		<title>Merry&#8230;winter solstice?  I don&#8217;t think so.</title>
		<link>http://www.shwiggie.com/merrywinter-solstice-i-dont-think-so/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<i>originally posted December 4th, 2008</i>

For some perverted reason, over the last few years there's not been a Christmas that has gone unspoiled by some tomfoolery. This year (2008), the flashpoint is apparently centered in the Washington State Capital building, where an atheistic organization placed a sign protesting religion in general, Christianity in particular, and Christmas expressly. 

It's a display that smacks of spiteful children railing about how unfair some fact of life is.]]></description>
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