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	<title>Original Cin &#187; Politics</title>
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	<description>For The World Is Strange</description>
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		<title>Political Science Defunding Vote</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/11/07/political-science-defunding-vote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I originally wanted to post this as a comment to this post at Marginal Revolution, but for some reason TypePad&#8217;s not letting me:
The chart is terrible mostly because (I suspect) the &#8220;X-axis&#8221; is mislabeled &#8212; it should say &#8220;economic issues&#8221; rather than &#8220;liberal-conservative,&#8221; which is also loaded with social policy meaning. It doesn&#8217;t help that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gah&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/10/09/gah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2008 election]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wish I could receive an award based on what was expected of me. With incentives like that, I suppose I&#8217;d promise the moon.
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		<title>Lots of Interesting Things from The AP</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/09/27/lots-of-interesting-things-from-the-ap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something&#8217;s rotten in Oklahoma City:
Long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building are blank in the minutes before the blast and appear to have been edited, an attorney who obtained the recordings said Sunday.
&#8230;
&#8220;Four cameras in four different locations going blank at basically the same time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why American Healthcare is Headed for Collapse &#8211; Life Extension</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/09/25/why-american-healthcare-is-headed-for-collapse-life-extension/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Government dietary guidelines have been ass-backwards for at least a good portion of the population.  Medicare pays several times what it should for almost everything and anything. The FDA kills - yes, kills -- by driving up the cost of the producing drugs and making new treatments unavailable. But the people want more government involvement in healthcare, and by golly, that's what they're going to get, sooner or later, one way or another.]]></description>
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		<title>Politics of Calories</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/09/17/politics-of-calories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Good Calories Bad Calories]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last time, I talked about the idea that increasing carbohydrate consumption is a huge force behind increasing obesity. The jury, in all honesty, is still out, and Taubes says as much.  General philosophies that you can&#8217;t prove a negative be damned, I think we can be pretty sure at this point that low-fat diets don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate plan to create winners and losers</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/09/14/senate-plan-to-create-winners-and-losers/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/09/14/senate-plan-to-create-winners-and-losers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This craziness has to have been put forth specifically to make everything else look good.]]></description>
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		<title>Cheaper Health Care</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/09/12/cheaper-health-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meanwhile, the federal government made it cheaper for us to eat sugar and starch through massive grain subsidies. As the old farmer told the stars of King Corn, “You couldn’t make any money growing corn if not for the government payments.” Those government payments are the reason we feed cattle corn instead of letting them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Trying for a Stealth Tax Hike?</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/09/05/obama-trying-for-a-stealth-tax-hike/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/09/05/obama-trying-for-a-stealth-tax-hike/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m struggling to understand the ramifications of this; except that it seems that the Obama administration may be trying for a weird, roundabout tax increase, and through sheer incompetence didn&#8217;t hide it very well:
The new federal steps, which do not require congressional action, include:
&#8230;.
Allowing people to check a box on their federal tax returns asking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Representatives Anonymous?</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/09/03/representatives-anonymous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Admittedly half-baked political reform idea that could still be useful with a bit of work: Anonymous Representatives.
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		<title>Another Weird Obama Photograph on Yahoo</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/02/28/another-weird-obama-photograph/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This one is even stranger than the last:

I understand why this picture was taken this way, but not why it published instead of being thrown out. Ok, so the emphasis is on the Marines and not on Obama, and that&#8217;s why they&#8217;re in focus and he&#8217;s all blurry. That makes sense as far as it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Picture</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/02/23/obama-picture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I assume this picture of Obama that I saw on Yahoo mail, from the AP, is also someone&#8217;s idea of a joke. Pictures of Presidents in front of the Presidential Seal are nothing new, but this one was lined up, well, &#8220;perfectly.&#8221;

The original AP story can be seen with a larger version of the picture.
Edit: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Happened to the Republican Party, According to Silence</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/01/23/republican-party/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/01/23/republican-party/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8217;d be nice if Republicans would act like they do in their campaign promises. They did that for a couple of years, then got stuck on this Captain Ahab-esque quest to sink the Clintanic.&#8221; &#8211; Silence
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		<title>Conservative Sci-Fi Fans Only Wish This Were True</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/12/17/obama-the-day-the-earth-stood-still-movie/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/12/17/obama-the-day-the-earth-stood-still-movie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2008 election]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Found this on Rotten Tomatos. It almost seems like it was custom-made for SpaceBattles:

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		<title>Interesting&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/12/11/interesting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seen on Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State:
Blagojevich was [....] a governor crazy enough to believe he could make a run for President in 2016.
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		<title>Blagojevich Arrested</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/12/09/blagojevich-arrested/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I saw this AP story on Yahoo while I was checking my email. Usually, Illinois governors leave office first, then they&#8217;re arrested:
CHICAGO – Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested today on charges that accuse him of trying to benefit from his ability to appoint President-elect Barack Obama&#8217;s replacement in the U.S. Senate.
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		<title>Noncrisis</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/09/28/supply-and-demand/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/09/28/supply-and-demand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new blog by Casey Mulligan has a good explanation of the current noncrisis:
There was a time when people believed that the Sun and stars revolved around the Earth. Of course, now we know that the Earth is not the center of the universe, or even the center of our little solar system. In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David D. Friedman on Homeschooling</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/03/18/david-d-friedman-on-homeschooling/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/03/18/david-d-friedman-on-homeschooling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The famous David D. Friedman writes on his blog about the decision against homeschooling in California:
 The term &#8220;fascist&#8221; has been overused, and in any case I know nothing about Croskey&#8217;s views on economics. But I find it extraordinary that he would be willing to explicitly argue that public schools exist largely to indoctrinate children [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Original Sin?</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2007/05/16/original-sin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 16:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A fascinating post just appeared on the Adam Smith Institute blog. It caught my eye due to the title, of course:
These traits [of humans to change their environment] have served them well, but the environment they desire to control includes other people. There is an inbuilt drive to control other people, as there is to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A different approach to electronic voting?</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2007/05/05/a-different-approach-to-electronic-voting/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2007/05/05/a-different-approach-to-electronic-voting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2007 19:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was just thinking about electronic voting this morning, and I&#8217;m curious to know why a particular verification method isn&#8217;t used, or even talked about &#8211; displaying the total votes for the machine.
Here&#8217;s how it would work: At the beginning of election day, for every issue that&#8217;s being voted on, the machine assigns and prints [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yuck&#8230; Clinton Ahead of All Republicans Combined?</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2007/03/02/yuck-clinton-ahead-of-all-republicans-combined/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2007/03/02/yuck-clinton-ahead-of-all-republicans-combined/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 04:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2008 election]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As time goes by, I suspect more and more that the Republicans may be in serious trouble for the next Presidential election (in 2008). The Democrats have lined up several interesting personalities, all of whom are more politically savvy and marketable than anyone we&#8217;ve seen before in my lifetime. I also suspect that the George [...]]]></description>
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