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	<title>Principles &#187; Congress</title>
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		<title>Congress Grows a Pair</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a long-overdue move, today a Congressional panel approved a measure which labels the massacre of Armenian civilians by the military forces of the Ottoman Empire as &#8220;genocide.&#8221;  Proposals to apply this term to the atrocity committed nearly a century ago have been punted down the line from one Congress to the next for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kill the Filibuster</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The filibuster, simply put, is the practice of talking proposed legislation to death.  Presently, in the Senate, a three-fifths majority vote is required to end a filibuster: a high standard that aims toward consensus instead of mere majority rule.  
Back in the days of the Bush administration, when the Republicans controlled both houses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reforming Health Insurance</title>
		<link>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2009/08/19/reforming-health-insurance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of course I agree with the sentiments expressed by President Obama in his op-ed piece in the New York Times.  While more rallying cry than technical discussion, the President&#8217;s piece insists that health insurance reform is necessary, and he names four specific impacts which such legislation would have on the lives of ordinary Americans.
The first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good-bye, Fourth Amendment; We Will Miss You</title>
		<link>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2008/07/11/good-bye-fourth-amendment-we-will-miss-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 01:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my book Principles for a Self-Directed Society, section 6.3.2.1 &#8220;Big Brother Really Is Watching You,&#8221; I discuss legislation which was then pending:  the FISA Amendments Act, which has received much publicity in the media.   The legislation was intended to hugely broaden Presidential powers by essentially signing off after the fact on an illegal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climate Change and National Security:  An Update</title>
		<link>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2008/07/04/climate-change-and-national-security-an-update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2008/07/04/climate-change-and-national-security-an-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[disease]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In section 4.2.1 of Principles for a Self-Directed Society, I summarize some of the effects and implications of global climate change, including the 2007/08 United Nations Human Development Report, which concluded that more than 260 million people were adversely affected by climate change related disasters in the first four years of the 21st century alone; [...]]]></description>
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