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		<title>Conservative America has a role model problem</title>
		<link>http://joshbuckner.com/2010/conservative-role-model-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Buckner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Conservative America, two poor kids in a small rural town were awarded football scholarships and left home for college. Meanwhile, the rest of the folks competed for the handful of local jobs that provided decent pay. Twenty years later, both men returned to their hometown.
One became very wealthy in the business of large-scale commercial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Progressives, Conservatives, and Emperors Agree: Abolish The Democratic and Republican Parties</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Buckner</dc:creator>
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PROCLAMATION.
Norton I., Dei Gratia, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, being desirous of allaying the dissensions of party strife now existing within our realm, do hereby dissolve and abolish the Democratic and Republican parties, and also do hereby decree the disfranchisement and imprisonment, for not more than ten, nor less than five [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Peace and War: Obama Nobel Acceptance Speech in Oslo</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Buckner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize today in Oslo, Norway. In my opinion, this was one of the best speeches Obama has given since being elected President.
Watch the video of his entire speech: CNN (w/ transcript) NY Times
Here are a few select quotes that resonated with me:
I understand why war is not popular, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Old Anti-War Arguments Don&#8217;t Apply To Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://joshbuckner.com/2009/old-anti-war-arguments-afghanistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Buckner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;No Viet Cong ever called me nigger.&#8221; -Muhammad Ali
But al-Qaeda murdered my friend.
3,000 innocent civilians were killed on 9/11. They didn&#8217;t deserve it. Over 7,000 innocent civilians have been killed in Afghanistan. They didn&#8217;t deserve to die either. The difference is that al-Qaeda kills civilians on purpose. And that is a huge difference.
My country has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Patriot&#8221; Brings Gun to Obama Health Reform Protest: WTF?</title>
		<link>http://joshbuckner.com/2009/patriot-brings-gun-to-obama-health-reform-protest-wtf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Buckner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everybody needs a good rant from time to time. Cenk Uygur didn&#8217;t like the fact that a protester was allowed to openly carry a handgun at an anti-Obamacare protest. It&#8217;s pretty obvious why protests and guns don&#8217;t mix, but this happened very close to the location where Obama was scheduled to appear. Watch the video [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homeboy Dropoffs: Socialized Medicine in the U.S.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Buckner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a little bit of hospital slang I learned from a friend: the homeboy dropoff. In at least one Southern California hospital, that&#8217;s what they call it when gangsters drive their bullet-ridden or overdosing buddies to the hospital, only to drop the homeboy on the curb outside of the emergency room as they rush off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Health Care vs. Socialized Medicine</title>
		<link>http://joshbuckner.com/2009/american-health-care-vs-socialized-medicine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Buckner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Health care reform is the big debate in American politics right now, with the so-called public option being likened to European-style socialized medicine. That&#8217;s supposed to be a bad thing, I guess.
By the magical knowledge-bearing powers of the internet, I discovered some research which compares the United States with 18 other industrialized nations by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Obama a Weak Leader?</title>
		<link>http://joshbuckner.com/2009/is-obama-a-weak-leader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Buckner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama has recently declared that the United States is not a Christian nation at war with Islam. He also bowed to the Saudi King, shook hands Hugo Chavez, and promised the world that America would not torture. For this Obama has been criticized as showing weakness, a criticism most famously made by former Vice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tea Party Protest Misses Opportunity: Bailouts</title>
		<link>http://joshbuckner.com/2009/tea-party-protest-misses-opportunity-bailouts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Buckner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s where I think the tea parties really missed a huge opportunity: bailouts. I heard a lot of talk about wasteful spending, skyrocketing debt, and unjust taxes; I didn&#8217;t hear much about the gigantic sums of taxpayer money going straight to failed banks run by highly questionable CEOs. Oh, and good luck getting any details [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Tax Cuts Really Create Jobs?</title>
		<link>http://joshbuckner.com/2009/do-tax-cuts-really-create-jobs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Buckner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Context: I feel the need to examine the claim that tax cuts will stimulate job creation and/or prevent job losses in the US. There is a heated partisan debate in Washington about how to stimulate the economy and prevent a severe depression. Conservatives have been very critical of the liberal solution: massive government spending and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Decision Making and Leadership in the Economy</title>
		<link>http://joshbuckner.com/2009/decision-making-leadership-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Buckner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the world has accepted that we are in a serious economic recession, we&#8217;ve moved on to the tougher step of what to do about it. President Obama has emphasized the need for fast government intervention to prevent a total economic collapse. In his public statements, Obama seemed willing to negotiate the content and [...]]]></description>
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