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		<title>A Losing Year for Countrywide</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another little tidbit buried in the business section of the New York Times (&#8220;A Losing Year for Countrywide, but not for Chief&#8220;, NYTimes 4/25/08 page: C3). It describes the compensation package for Angelo R. Mozilo, the CEO for Countrywide, during a year when Countrywide lost $704 million dollars and lost 79% of its share value. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The battle between Universal and Single-Payer Healthcare has begun</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 01:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US healthcare system is a disaster. If you total up all the healthcare costs (government tax dollars, private insurance premiums, etc.), US healthcare costs about twice as much per person as the healthcare in any European country, Canada, or Japan. And yet we have 40 million or so uninsured and on virtually every measure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death Tax or Give Away to the Rich &amp; Famous?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was an interesting editorial in the July 27th USA Today talking about the attempt by the Republicans to do away with what they call the &#8220;Death Tax&#8221; and what the rest of us know as the Estate Tax. Basically, it is a tax on inherited wealth.
Doing away with it was on the top of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Security &#8211; Swindled by Congress</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2005 15:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I find it striking that, even after months (heck, years!) of public debate and newspaper articles, the average US citizen does not understand that Congressmen from both parties have been, in essence, using Social Security to swindle the public for going on thirty years now.
We now have the leaders of the Congress intoning that  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Church &amp; State</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2005 14:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Founding Fathers were all &#8220;god fearing Christians&#8221; but they understood the dangers of mixing religion with government. They were well read and remembered recent history&#8230; The religious &#8220;authorities&#8221; in Salem, Massachusetts had executed people for witchcraft; others had been executed merely for being Quakers in a colony dominated by Puritans. And tens of thousands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Internet and the World Wide Web</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2005 19:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Outside of the techie world, remarkably few people know the history of the Internet and the World Wide Web&#8230; Or even understand the distinction between them. I am certainly not an authority on either but I have &#8220;grown up&#8221; with both.
Back in the 70&#8217;s, the Defense Department&#8217;s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) saw the potential [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I&#8217;m a veteran so I voted for Bush&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2005 18:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have heard a number of people (both in person and in TV &#8220;man-in-the-street&#8221; interviews) equate their being a veteran with their support for G.W. Bush. Since two of G.W.&#8217;s main opponents (John Kerry and John McCain)  have been not only veterans but combat veterans, I find this very interesting.
G.W., after all, spent his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Physical versus Moral Courage</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2005 17:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last couple of years we have had some unfortunate examples of how people with demonstrated physical courage (e.g. John McCain, Colin Powell, and John Kerry) have failed when it was moral courage that was asked of them.
In all three cases, it would appear they have allowed their political ambitions to compromise their moral [...]]]></description>
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