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		<title>The Season of Insanity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The season of insanity is truly upon us: the primaries.  The time when the populace looks again for yet another savior in the form of a greasy-palmed politician.  It has been some time since anyone felt bold enough to challenge a sitting president, so typically we only have the primary of the opposition party; in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodneyjowen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8049797&amp;post=316&amp;subd=rodneyjowen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy your Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am quite surprised at the sustaining power of the Occupy Wall Street movement.  After being a small part of the sputtering, then dwindling, anti-war movement during the Bush II years, and after watching in astonishment as the whole world seemed ready to deify Barack Obama, I honestly didn&#8217;t think America had enough awareness and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodneyjowen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8049797&amp;post=126&amp;subd=rodneyjowen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taking the &#8220;Giving the Farm Away&#8221; Concept to a New Level</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 16:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It (China) also noted that as its largest creditor, Beijing has every right &#8216;to demand the United States to address its structural debt problems and ensure the safety of China&#8217;s dollar assets.&#8217;&#8221; It&#8217;s not like nobody warned us this would happen.  It doesn&#8217;t take a genius to see how it happened.  And you don&#8217;t have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodneyjowen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8049797&amp;post=119&amp;subd=rodneyjowen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Look Beneath the Surface</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The current battle in Washington over the debt ceiling is ridiculous.  It is not about if we should raise the debt ceiling, it&#8217;s about how, with what sort of attending deals.  Hello?  You are spending money you don&#8217;t have already, and in actuality pissing most of it away on things that do little to benefit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodneyjowen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8049797&amp;post=117&amp;subd=rodneyjowen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Medal for Bradley Manning?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Tomdispatch Tomgram: Chase Madar, A Medal for Bradley Manning? Posted by Chase Madar at 9:50am, July 7, 2011. Dick Cheney got one (as secretary of defense), so did Donald Rumsfeld (back in 1977), not to speak of Henry Kissinger, Robert McNamara, Walt Rostow, and General H. Norman Schwartzkopf (for Gulf War I).  Of course, so did Burma’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodneyjowen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8049797&amp;post=113&amp;subd=rodneyjowen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The End is Upon Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is not a dystopian dream anymore.  The nightmare is reality.  Driving around in Anywhere, USA is like navigating shark-infested waters.  Radar-toting cops are everywhere; gun-toting cops are everywhere; grandma-groping cops have infested the airports; SWAT teams are knocking down the doors of , and shooting innocent people&#8211;every day.  I think the biggest part of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodneyjowen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8049797&amp;post=105&amp;subd=rodneyjowen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jack Hunter on the Real Debt Problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jack Hunter is someone with whom I can agree on many, many things;  in particular, the pitiful state of the Republican Party and so-called conservatism in America.  As I have noted for some time, military spending is our greatest threat.  It&#8217;s not that other spending is not problematic.  It&#8217;s that we are going broke trying [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodneyjowen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8049797&amp;post=100&amp;subd=rodneyjowen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Persian Policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 23:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Possible strategies for gaining the upper hand on Iran, from the Brookings Institution. A signed confession that indeed the US does conspire to fund, arm, and abet terrorists, sedition, popular revolutions, and even provoke unnecessary wars all for their “regional interests.&#8221; If you don&#8217;t think we are living in dangerous times, surrounded by dangerous, yet influential [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodneyjowen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8049797&amp;post=96&amp;subd=rodneyjowen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jim Rogers on the Next (Imminent) Financial Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, this is from the mainstream, but it only boosts what everybody seems to be saying and predicting.  And while I&#8217;m not trying to belabor the point, or revel in pessimism, this is what we (fiscal conservatives) have been saying for some time.  To now hear it from the mainstream makes it all the more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodneyjowen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8049797&amp;post=92&amp;subd=rodneyjowen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the Debt, Stupid</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never understood, beginning with that genius Ronald Reagan, why the US government insisted on running debts.  Reagan was bad&#8211;terrible at the time.  But George Bush I exceeded him exponentially.  I knew we were in trouble when candidate Bush insisted that we &#8220;stay the course&#8221;, and that we could &#8220;grow our way out of debt.&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodneyjowen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8049797&amp;post=89&amp;subd=rodneyjowen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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