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	<title>NetCogito &#187; The American Experiment</title>
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		<title>Liberty: The Best Idea in History</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:51:56 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
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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>Trust and Security &#8211; Part 1 First National Bank and Trust</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2006 05:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The importance of trust to national stability, interpersonal relationships, international interactions and economic health.

This first part relays an abbreviated history of the Bank of the United States and its relevance to the War of 1812.]]></description>
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