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		<title>Liberty: The Best Idea in History</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/07/11/liberty-the-best-idea-in-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rights and Liberties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The American Experiment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Towards a New Liberalism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, with your permission, I'd like to pay homage to the speechifying tradition. To keep things <strong>polite</strong>, I'm not going to talk about a particular candidate or party, nor praise a specific policy or polity.  In fact, I promise not to talk about anything controversial at <strong>all</strong>; and will, for the sake of friendliness and universality, limit my discourse to the following non-controversial topics:  science, economic policy, politics and religion. I will tie them with the common thread of liberty.  We'll leave more fractious debates and incendiary topics to others, and stick with these <strong>comfortable</strong> issues.  Now, I suspect you might consider this a full, perhaps <strong>too-full</strong>, agenda for such a beautiful day.  Likewise, I am obliged to be mindful of the plans you may have made-- for this evening, and will keep my comments brief.  But before you decide I've set myself an impossible task, I hasten to remind you that last year the same allotment of time proved sufficient to make good headway regarding The Meaning of Life.   Today's few topics should, <em>by comparison</em>, be much easier to manage.  So please, give me the liberty to speak for a few minutes more.]]></description>
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		<title>Broken Government &#8211; More evidence</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/02/22/broken-government-more-evidence/</link>
		<comments>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/02/22/broken-government-more-evidence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:51:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elections, Races, Candidates & Outcomes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a new CNN poll, 86% of American&#8217;s think government is &#8220;broken&#8221;, but of those, 81% think it can be fixed. A similar poll by CBS finds 70% dissatisfied. Most interesting (at least to me) is the CBS finding that &#8221; 81 percent of Americans believe members of Congress don&#8217;t deserve re-election.&#8221; Although the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abandoning the Ship of State</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/02/16/abandoning-the-ship-of-state/</link>
		<comments>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/02/16/abandoning-the-ship-of-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The American Experiment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, Senator Bayh is leaving because he sees the Senate becoming more stridently partisan &#8211; a trend others have also noted. Consider this (reported on CNN): &#8220;Fifty-six percent of people questioned in an ABC News/Washington Post survey released this week said they are inclined to look around for someone else rather than re-elect their representative, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Meaning of Life</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2009/09/06/the-meaning-of-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Towards a New Liberalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meaning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Text of a speech I gave at the Unitarian Universalist Temple in Hinsdale, IL on August 30, 2009. 
Here's the audio-file: 
<a href='http://netcogito.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Purpose.mp3'>Purpose</a>
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		<title>Quaran Target Practice</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2008/05/18/quaran-target-practice/</link>
		<comments>http://netcogito.com/blog/2008/05/18/quaran-target-practice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 18:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Relatiions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights and Liberties]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ have an opinion on the use of the Quran as a target for weapons practice by US personnel in Baghdad.

 

I was wondering what you other skeptics and/or atheists think.

 

I've found blogs that pretty much agree with the following, which is my opinion.

 

I view the Quaran as â€œjust another influential bookâ€. Why should I feel any differently about somebody shooting at it as opposed to, say, a Betty Crocker Cookbook? The difference as I see it, is that I highly doubt somebody just picked a random book - which happened to be the Quran - to shoot.

 

I suspect, that just like burning a flag is very often a political and philosophical statement, rather than a matter of practical expediency (i.e. keeping warm) or random happenstance, so is any non-random shooting or burning the Quran. I firmly support the right of free speech, even to the point where a citizen is entitled to burn a flag, fly a flag of choice, burn or shoot any book he may choose. On the other hand, I propose that when an official representative (e.g. a soldier, or other government agent) makes a political statement, it is sometimes difficult to separate the person from the role and thus may be easily misconstrued as an official statement. I cannot help but think it was intentionally inflamatory.]]></description>
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		<title>Problems with International Relations Theory</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2007/11/07/problems-with-international-relations-theory/</link>
		<comments>http://netcogito.com/blog/2007/11/07/problems-with-international-relations-theory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a brief summary of topics I believe need further development with regards to the way scholars and professionals think about and approach International Relations. 1) The notion of disposition and relevance in defining International Relations phenomena: Potential interactions between discreet entities (e.g. nation-states or other social collectives) is largely predicated upon relational disposition.Â  Here, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heated Debate</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2007/06/08/heated-debate/</link>
		<comments>http://netcogito.com/blog/2007/06/08/heated-debate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Topical Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just when I was beginning to despair about the lack of substantive debate in government chambers, we have a reprise of the fracas between Griswold and Lyon.Â  It&#8217;s not at the national level, but we can at least hope passion is not dead in government. I would like to point out that in both instances, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Carolina &#8211; Oh Dear!</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2007/03/16/south-carolina-oh-dear/</link>
		<comments>http://netcogito.com/blog/2007/03/16/south-carolina-oh-dear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Topical Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[South Carolina has this nifty idea to cut the term of prison sentences for inmates who donate organs. Can you imagine the plea deals, &#8220;OK, I plead guilty to manslaughter and give you a kidney and half a spleen for three years plus ten probation&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;Cruel and Unusual&#8221; anybody? Maybe trafficking in organs? Perhaps somebody [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti Pareto Policy</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2007/02/11/anti-pareto-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://netcogito.com/blog/2007/02/11/anti-pareto-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Towards a New Liberalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[controlling the tendency for unrestrained growth exhibited by scale free networks by economic incentives and penalties.]]></description>
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		<title>Binding the Invisible Hand</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2007/01/31/binding-the-invisible-hand/</link>
		<comments>http://netcogito.com/blog/2007/01/31/binding-the-invisible-hand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Free market economics, Smith's Invisible Hand, Carrying Capacity and the limits to unbridled free market evolution.]]></description>
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