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	<title>The Only Orthodoxy is Reason</title>
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		<title>Misdiagnosed</title>
		<link>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2010/01/08/misdiagnosed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s say you have pneumonia, and you know it.
You&#8217;re coughing.  Your chest aches.  You have a fever.  You&#8217;re generally miserable.  You&#8217;re also pretty sure that you won&#8217;t get better without doing something to fix your illness.  The problem is that the &#8220;something&#8221; depends on what you think your real problem is.
There are two basic possibilities:

Your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Moment for Thanksgiving</title>
		<link>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2009/11/30/a-moment-for-thanksgiving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Gayed</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The focus of the writing and the comments here is often negative, pointing out errors of fact, mistakes in policy,  consequences of certain philosophies, etc.  Similarly, as the federal government becomes further divorced from Founding era political ideals and from the will of most of the people, our emphasis is often critical.  Neither of these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gagging Frederick Douglass</title>
		<link>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2009/10/05/gagging-frederick-douglass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Goodell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In April 1865, at the very end of the American Civil War, the renowned abolitionist (and ex-slave) Frederick Douglass spoke to the Boston Anti-Slavery Society in support of black suffrage. His words still resonate 144 years later, particularly those near the end of his speech.
Let me not be misunderstood here. I am not asking for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of Denial</title>
		<link>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2009/10/01/the-power-of-denial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Gayed</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ Thomas Jefferson is famously reported to have said, &#8220;A government big enough to supply you with everything you need, is big enough to take away everything you have.&#8221;  Although there is some dispute over whether Jefferson actually said this, there can be no dispute about the  logical correctness of the sentiment.  The power [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The People&#8221; and the person</title>
		<link>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2009/09/05/the-people-and-the-person/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Goodell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What do the American People want?
This is a question that&#8217;s seldom asked, but often answered, by politicians and pundits in the US. In any kind of discussion of national policy, we often hear our presidents, senators, and news analysts claim that &#8220;The American People want X.&#8221; or &#8220;I don&#8217;t think X is what the American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Horn of the Hunter</title>
		<link>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2009/08/31/the-horn-of-the-hunter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Gayed</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If you properly respect what you are after, and shoot it cleanly and on the animal&#8217;s terrain, if you imprison in your mind all the wonder of the day from sky to smell to breeze to flowers&#8211;then you have not merely killed an animal. You have lent immortality to a beast you have killed because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American-Style Health Care Reform</title>
		<link>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2009/08/06/american-style-health-care-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2009/08/06/american-style-health-care-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Goodell</dc:creator>
		
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Health care reform seems to many Americans to be an issue whose time has come.
The reform option proposed by President Obama and Congressional Democrats is modeled on foreign, un-American  systems, however, and aren&#8217;t consistent with the basic values and historical culture of the USA. It is true that America&#8217;s health care [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 50% Solution: Right or Wrong?</title>
		<link>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2009/07/08/the-50-solution-right-or-wrong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Goodell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Should the government make massive cuts in its funding for social services to balance the budget? This is the question the state of Illinois is currently wrestling with.
Illinois has a massive deficit &#8212; upwards of $11 billion.  Earlier this year, the Illinois state legislature soundly rejected governor Pat Quinn&#8217;s proposal for shrinking the deficit: a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Dangerous World</title>
		<link>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2009/06/29/a-dangerous-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2009/06/29/a-dangerous-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Gayed</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It is endlessly fascinating to watch Chicago Mayor Richard Daley continue to fight any effort to overturn local laws absolutely prohibiting gun ownership, even inside of the home.  In response to the landmark Supreme Court decision  District of Columbia v. Heller, which held that the Second Amendment explicates an individual right to keep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Murder, Religion, and Terrorism</title>
		<link>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2009/06/04/murder-religion-and-terrorism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2009/06/04/murder-religion-and-terrorism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Goodell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 31, 2009, Dr. George Tiller, the controversial Kansas abortionist, was murdered in his church by a Christian fundamentalist.  Tiller was famous for his fearless provision of abortions &#8212; including late term (a.k.a. &#8220;partial-birth&#8221;) abortions &#8212; in the face of death threats and assassination attempts.  His murder has sparked a firestorm of controversy over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government Motors</title>
		<link>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2009/05/01/government-motors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2009/05/01/government-motors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 00:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Gayed</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the novel Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand paints American society as comprised of:
(1) a handful of individuals&#8211;mostly industrialists&#8211;of Promethean ability and drive, who ask no favors, accept no charity, make no excuses, and demand nothing from the world other than to be left alone to do their work without intrusive regulations or confiscatory taxes (we&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Traitor</title>
		<link>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2009/04/28/american-traitor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin Gayed</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[	Today Senator Arlen Spector became the 13th U.S. senator to defect from his party since direct senatorial election began in 1913, also likely handing the Democrats a filibuster-proof majority. Though nothing may be done at this point to save the seat, we can ask how appropriate it is for an elected official to switch sides [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Douglas Adams&#8217; Garden</title>
		<link>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2009/04/02/douglas-adams-garden/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2009/04/02/douglas-adams-garden/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Goodell</dc:creator>
		
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Isn&#8217;t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
&#8211; Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy
[Author&#8217;s note: below is a short story attempting to answer Douglas Adams&#8217; question.  I&#8217;d like readers to ponder whether Adams&#8217; question [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Funeral of Liberty</title>
		<link>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2009/03/31/the-funeral-of-liberty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Lyons</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps 2009 will prove to be the final round in the fight for liberty’s life.  Liberty, as defined in the Hobbesian colonists’ sense of the word, has long been subject to any number of restrictions.   Americans may not enter into any business they like, or with any person, or at any price, or in any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Syllogizing</title>
		<link>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2009/03/15/syllogizing-or-whatchoo-talkin%e2%80%99-%e2%80%98bout-willis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theonlyorthodoxy.com/2009/03/15/syllogizing-or-whatchoo-talkin%e2%80%99-%e2%80%98bout-willis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin Gayed</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[               The word argument carries a connotation of contentiousness. A proper argument is a quest for truth, though we may occasionally lose sight of this fact and begin to think the purpose of argument is to assert dominance – to win [...]]]></description>
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