<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- generator="wordpress/2.2" -->
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>The Only Orthodoxy is Reason</title>
	<link>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com</link>
	<description>One of The Last True Free Markets of Ideas</description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2</generator>
	<language>en</language>
			<item>
		<title>Liberty&#8211;An Unwanted Burden?</title>
		<link>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/11/30/liberty-an-unwanted-burden/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/11/30/liberty-an-unwanted-burden/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Gayed</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Essays]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/11/30/liberty-an-unwanted-burden/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the world economy continues to deteriorate, as the American government continues, in essence, to nationalize the top tiers of business and industry, and as the President-Elect continues to hint that even greater federal intervention is coming, likely in the guise of New Deal-esque programs, I&#8217;ve noticed one remarkable common theme among all the rhetoric:  [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/11/30/liberty-an-unwanted-burden/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Obama, you(tube) and I</title>
		<link>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/11/18/obama-youtube-and-i/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/11/18/obama-youtube-and-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin Gayed</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Essays]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/11/18/obama-youtube-and-i/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[        Well, it is the beginning of a new election cycle, and with the changing of the Presidency, we are seeing the information revolution beginning to affect politics directly. President-elect Obama has already begun his ‘youtube-side chats’, where he addresses the nation via short recorded videos published on [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/11/18/obama-youtube-and-i/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>American Eulogy</title>
		<link>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/11/07/guest-article-american-eulogy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/11/07/guest-article-american-eulogy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Guest Features]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/11/07/guest-article-american-eulogy/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The essay below was written by Ryan Painter, a prosecuting attorney for the State of Indiana.  While the essay violates several, if not all, of the Rules of The Only Orthodoxy, the Administration has decided to publish it as an excellent example of the sense of one side of the culture war in which this [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/11/07/guest-article-american-eulogy/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>In defense of a federal marriage amendment</title>
		<link>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/11/06/in-defense-of-a-federal-marriage-amendment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/11/06/in-defense-of-a-federal-marriage-amendment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Goodell</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Essays]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/11/06/in-defense-of-a-federal-marriage-amendment/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On October 10th, the Connecticut state supreme court ruled that homosexuals could not be denied the right to marry.  Connecticut joined Massachusetts as the only other state where same sex marriage is legal (since California no longer allows same sex marriage).  Not coincidentally, in both states same sex marriage was approved by the courts, not [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/11/06/in-defense-of-a-federal-marriage-amendment/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>UnAmerican</title>
		<link>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/10/29/unamerican/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/10/29/unamerican/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Gayed</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Essays]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/10/29/unamerican/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The 2008 presidential election is drawing to a close, and Barack Obama appears on the verge of victory.  One of the most remarkable aspects of the 2008 campaign has been that Obama, although he has occupied the spotlight for more than a year, is still an enigma.  While we know some things about his biography [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/10/29/unamerican/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Money for Nothing</title>
		<link>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/10/01/money-for-nothing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/10/01/money-for-nothing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Goodell</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Essays]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/10/01/money-for-nothing/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  
That ain&#8217;t workin&#8217; that&#8217;s the way you do it
Money for nothin&#8217; and chicks for free
Now that ain&#8217;t workin&#8217; that&#8217;s the way you do it
Lemme tell ya them guys ain&#8217;t dumb
 &#8211; Dire Straights, &#8220;Money for Nothing&#8221;
Late last weekend, key members of Congress and the Treasury Department finally agreed on the specifics of a plan [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/10/01/money-for-nothing/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Somebody, Do Something, Quick!</title>
		<link>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/09/26/somebody-do-something-quick/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/09/26/somebody-do-something-quick/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Gayed</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Essays]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/09/26/somebody-do-something-quick/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If there was any doubt that George W. Bush is bound for the sad little cupboard of American history to which we consign our ineffective or incompetent presidents&#8211;our Tafts, Hoovers, and Carters&#8211;where future generations can regard them with a mixture of bemusement and pity&#8211;it has been removed with his mishandling of the current financial crises. [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/09/26/somebody-do-something-quick/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Pain Scanner (Patent Pending)</title>
		<link>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/09/17/the-pain-scanner-patent-pending/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/09/17/the-pain-scanner-patent-pending/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin Gayed</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Essays]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/09/17/the-pain-scanner-patent-pending/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Something a little different this month. The following is a proposition for a new kind of medical imaging modality.
It is not uncommon to see patients who have pain but cannot, despite spending obscene amounts of time and money, determine any organic cause for this pain. I have thought several times of how useful it might [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/09/17/the-pain-scanner-patent-pending/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>In Defense of Voting Third Party</title>
		<link>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/09/09/in-defense-of-voting-third-party/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/09/09/in-defense-of-voting-third-party/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Lyons</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Essays]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/09/09/in-defense-of-voting-third-party/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Homer: America, take a good look at your beloved candidates. They&#8217;re nothing but hideous space reptiles.  [unmasks them]  [audience gasps in terror]
Kodos: It&#8217;s true, we are aliens. But what are you going to do about it? It&#8217;s a two-party system; you have to vote for one of us.    [murmurs]
 Man1: He&#8217;s right, this is a two-party [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/09/09/in-defense-of-voting-third-party/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Struggling to understand the messiah</title>
		<link>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/09/04/struggling-to-understand-the-messiah/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/09/04/struggling-to-understand-the-messiah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Goodell</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Essays]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/09/04/struggling-to-understand-the-messiah/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[   Aristotle defined man as a political animal.  That is, to Aristotle, one of the defining characteristics of humanity is its drive and capacity to come together to form complex, ordered hierarchies which govern complex, ordered societies.  In college one of my professors taught that, deeper even than humanity&#8217;s drive to create social [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/09/04/struggling-to-understand-the-messiah/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Bariatric Surgery and Discipline</title>
		<link>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/09/03/bariatric-surgery-and-discipline/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/09/03/bariatric-surgery-and-discipline/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin Gayed</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Essays]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/09/03/bariatric-surgery-and-discipline/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[            Bariatric surgery refers to the surgical management of weight-related health concerns. This field has arisen over the last 20 years as we have begun to understand the impact of obesity on health. Diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and lung disease are just a few [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/09/03/bariatric-surgery-and-discipline/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>On Legitimate Intellectual Ends Not Being Forced</title>
		<link>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/08/16/on-legitimate-intellectual-ends-not-being-forced/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/08/16/on-legitimate-intellectual-ends-not-being-forced/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Lyons</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Essays]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/08/16/on-legitimate-intellectual-ends-not-being-forced/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine you have a loved one who has a problem with a vice. Out of love for this individual, you decide to approach him or her, in the hopes of helping them see the issue and perhaps begin remedying it. Perhaps they accept your counsel, perhaps their pride blocks you; this is a risk you’re [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/08/16/on-legitimate-intellectual-ends-not-being-forced/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>R.I.P. Alexander Solzhenitsyn</title>
		<link>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/08/09/rip-alexander-solzhenitsyn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/08/09/rip-alexander-solzhenitsyn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Goodell</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Essays]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/08/09/rip-alexander-solzhenitsyn/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Early last week, we lost one of the last great men of the 20th century, Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Solzhenitsyn was perhaps best known in the West as a Russian  anti-communist dissident. Less well known to many people was his fierce criticism of the post-Enlightenment West, a criticism that won him as much enmity from cultural [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/08/09/rip-alexander-solzhenitsyn/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Right Word</title>
		<link>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/08/04/the-right-word/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/08/04/the-right-word/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Gayed</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Essays]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/08/04/the-right-word/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark Twain once said, &#8220;The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.&#8221;  Throughout the history of American presidential elections, a pattern often repeats.  At some point prior to election day, one candidate finds &#8220;the right word&#8221;&#8211;the powerful combination of idea and [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/08/04/the-right-word/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Should We Care that Western Europeans Overwhelmingly Support Obama?</title>
		<link>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/07/31/should-we-care-that-western-europeans-overwhelmingly-support-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/07/31/should-we-care-that-western-europeans-overwhelmingly-support-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Molly Hagen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Essays]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/07/31/should-we-care-that-western-europeans-overwhelmingly-support-obama/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, news of Barack Obama’s trip through Europe dominated the American media.  A July 23, 2008 Gallup poll shows the overwhelming majority of Britons, French and Germans would prefer Obama to win the presidential election. The United  Kingdom showed a preference of Obama at 60% to McCain’s 25%; in France, Obama was [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2008/07/31/should-we-care-that-western-europeans-overwhelmingly-support-obama/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
