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	<title>Rise of Reason &#187; General</title>
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	<description>The freedom to reason.  The reason for freedom.</description>
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		<title>What do you want to read about?</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/what-do-you-want-to-hear-about/697/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.P. Arendt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
		
		
		
		Rise of Reason has been a bit quiet lately as I have been fairly busy with business and applying to graduate schools.  However, I&#8217;m dedicating more time to spreading the value of freedom!
I am curious to know if there is anything any of you want to see an article about.  If there is anything in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capitalism: A Love Story &#8211; Close, But No Cigar</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/capitalism-a-love-story-close-but-no-cigar/633/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.riseofreason.com/capitalism-a-love-story-close-but-no-cigar/633/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>W. E. Messamore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent Huffington Post article, film critic Marshall Fine veritably gushes over Michael Moore's latest diatribe, Capitalism: A Love Story, calling it "an urgently important piece of work." The film's grievances are legitimate and even admirable. Its conclusions and central premise however, are critically flawed.]]></description>
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		<title>UPDATED: GM (Government&#8217;s Mistake)</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/rants-gm-governments-mistake/516/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.riseofreason.com/rants-gm-governments-mistake/516/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.P. Arendt</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.riseofreason.com/?p=516</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
		
		
		
		Over the weekend the Obama Administration effectively fired the CEO of GM, Rick Wagoner, and much of the GM board.  This would not be much to report had the common stockholders of GM voted to replace members of the board and those new members then voted to terminate Mr. Wagoner; it would actually be almost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Ex Post Facto World</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/an-ex-post-facto-world/495/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.riseofreason.com/an-ex-post-facto-world/495/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Moody</dc:creator>
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		Imagine an America where contracts were only valid so long as the political winds out of the District of Columbia blew in the right direction: a world where the government could circumvent any contract that attracted the ire of politicians, or that politicians could use to redirect attention from their own failings. In such an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whatever You Tax, You Get Less Of</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/whatever-you-tax-you-get-less-of/485/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.riseofreason.com/whatever-you-tax-you-get-less-of/485/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Moody</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Class Warfare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
		
		
		
		One of the greatest lessons of economics that is simple, yet so often misunderstood, is something that Art Laffer put to me very succinctly: “Whatever you tax, you get less of.”
In general, people seem to understand this.
We tax cigarettes because, at the margins, less people will smoke if smoking costs more. We, as a society, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Markets and Liberty Discussion Group</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/free-markets-and-liberty-discussion-group/482/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.riseofreason.com/free-markets-and-liberty-discussion-group/482/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.P. Arendt</dc:creator>
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		I will be organizing a group of people to meet in the Phoenix, AZ area on March 18th to simply drink wine and discuss economics and politics.  If you would be interested in attending please join the facebook group here or comment on this post.
]]></description>
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		<title>Why Rush Limbaugh is brilliant . . . as well as President Obama</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/why-rush-limbaugh-is-brilliant-34838904as-well-as-president-obama/357/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.riseofreason.com/why-rush-limbaugh-is-brilliant-34838904as-well-as-president-obama/357/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Reitmeyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		Anyone who has been on Drudge Report the last few days will know of the Obama-Rush feud in which Obama asked congressional minority leaders to stop adhering to Rush’s advice and politics. Well Rush has responded to the President’s criticisms through National Review Online being that his show doesn’t operate on weekends. Without going into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Someone Call the SEC</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/someone-call-the-sec/336/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.riseofreason.com/someone-call-the-sec/336/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.riseofreason.com/?p=336</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
		
		
		
		I&#8217;m sure by now pretty much everyone has heard of Madoff&#8217;s 50 billion dollar pyramid scheme. I&#8217;d hate to divulge deeper into this scandal as I&#8217;m sure the news has covered it quite extensively already. However, I&#8217;d like to cast light on another Ponzi/Pyramid scheme that has been in the making for over 70 years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trade for peace</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/trade-for-peace/332/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.riseofreason.com/trade-for-peace/332/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.P. Arendt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.riseofreason.com/?p=332</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
		
		
		
		It is widely believed that war is, at times, unavoidable.  I don’t completely disagree.  There are circumstances where there is a completely hostile nation that is invading your own nation it is your government’s duty to protect your property and your rights by repelling the invading force.  However, in the twentieth century and into the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t trade with China, they offer too good a deal!  Part 1</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/don%e2%80%99t-trade-with-china-they-offer-too-good-a-deal-part-1/251/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.riseofreason.com/don%e2%80%99t-trade-with-china-they-offer-too-good-a-deal-part-1/251/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.P. Arendt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
		
		
		
		
For far too long, certainly during the course of the Bush administration with the support of Sen. McCain, the attitude has been that any trade agreement is a good trade agreement. And NAFTA did not have enforceable labor agreements and environmental agreements.
And what I said was we should include those and make them enforceable. In [...]]]></description>
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