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	<description>Burning the Koran is offensive. But it is free speech.</description>
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		<title>Burn a Koran Day</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/09/08/burn-a-koran-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is too good. And an appropriate ridicule of hate in a variety of forms. Related articles by Zemanta Clinton Calls Koran Burning a &#8216;Disgraceful Plan&#8217; by Pastor (businessweek.com) Koran Burning Uproar Spreads, but Pastor Defiant (newser.com) Pastor reaffirms Koran-burning plan (mirror.co.uk)]]></description>
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		<title>Political quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/09/08/political-quote-of-the-day-45/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem with this war for, I think, many Americans is that the premise on which we justified going to war proved not to be valid — that is, Saddam having weapons of mass destruction. So when you start from that standpoint, then figuring out in retrospect how you deal with the war — even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ACLU challenges border seizures</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/09/07/aclu-challenges-border-seizures/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2010/09/07/aclu-challenges-border-seizures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[American Civil Liberties Union]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ACLU has filed a lawsuit challenging the seizure of electronic devices (cellphones, computers, cameras, etc.) from persons entering the United States. Such seizures occur even from individuals who are not suspected of any wrongdoing whatsoever. The government has claimed the authority to undertake these suspicionless searches and seizures of electronic devices under a policy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Political quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/09/07/political-quote-of-the-day-44/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2010/09/07/political-quote-of-the-day-44/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=8433</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The First Amendment is not, so far as I know, a &#8220;privilege&#8221; earned by some Americans and not earned by others. It is a right. And it applies as powerfully to Muslims as to Catholics and Mormons and Jews and evangelicals alike. There have been fewer more distressing experiences these past couple of months than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frat house for Jesus</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/09/07/frat-house-for-jesus/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2010/09/07/frat-house-for-jesus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bart Stupak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Ensign]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Yorker]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=8421</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the current issue of The New Yorker, Perter J. Boyer takes a close look at the so-called GOP &#8220;frat house&#8221; that has been the DC home of a group of evangelical lawmakers, including John Ensign, Tom Coburn and Bart Stupak. The legislators had all pledged to help each other live like Jesus. How did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vanity Fair on Sarah Palin</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/09/03/vanity-fair-on-sarah-palin/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2010/09/03/vanity-fair-on-sarah-palin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vanity Fair has a lengthy profile of Sarah Palin.  It is a great read. It outlines her volatile temper and dubious financing activities. It does rely extensively on anonymous sources, but the stories all hang together in a way that suggest more truth than exaggeration. Excerpt: Warm and effusive in public, indifferent or angry in private: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google: Do not track me</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/09/03/google-do-not-track-me/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2010/09/03/google-do-not-track-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Consumer Watchdog: Related articles Consumer Watchdog Group Goes After Google (bits.blogs.nytimes.com) Consumer Watchdog: Times Square Animation On Google&#8217;s Privacy Abuses May Get A Sequel (blogs.forbes.com) CEO Eric Schmidt Creepily Portrayed in Consumer Watchdog&#8217;s New Anti-Google Ad (searchenginejournal.com)]]></description>
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		<title>BP threats</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/09/03/bp-threats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia BP is making threats about being unable to pay for damage they caused in the Gulf if they are prohibited to drill in the grill because of the the harm they have caused. The company has a horrible safety record stretching for years. BP is warning Congress that if lawmakers pass legislation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Gibson on Google</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/09/02/william-gibson-on-google/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2010/09/02/william-gibson-on-google/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=8314</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Google is evil. I have said this many times. And I do mean it. But for a more thoughtful analysis of Google and its operation and meaning, you can turn to William Gibson [link to his Twitter account], one of my favorite writers. He penned such novels cyberpunk novels as the classic Neuromancer, Mona Lisa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restoring Honor: the video</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/08/31/restoring-honor-the-video/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2010/08/31/restoring-honor-the-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Glenn Beck&#8216;s &#8220;America is a religion&#8221; rally this past weekend.  I think it does speak for itself.]]></description>
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		<title>Inside Job: the movie</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/08/31/inside-job-the-movie/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2010/08/31/inside-job-the-movie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia I can&#8217;t wait to see this. My outrage is already building. Related articles Movie Trailer: Inside Job (slashfilm.com) Financial Meltdown Doc Inside Job Movie Trailer (screenhead.com)]]></description>
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		<title>The impact of islamaphobia</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/08/31/the-impact-of-islamaphobia/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2010/08/31/the-impact-of-islamaphobia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The disparaging and viscious claims about Islam are taking their toll. The free exercise of religion in this country is under real threat. Demagogues are actually inciting violence. And now actual violence is happening: After a suspected arson and reports of gunshots at an Islamic center in Tennessee over the weekend, nearby mosques have hired [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Billionaires and the Tea Party</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/08/29/billionaires-and-the-tea-party/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2010/08/29/billionaires-and-the-tea-party/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia In his op-ed in today&#8217;s New York Times, Frank Rich notes that three individuals, all mega-rich, provide the core funding for the ultra-right in this country, including the tea party. The three people:  Rupert Murdoch and the brothers David Koch and Charles Koch. The Kochs combined are richer than all Americans except [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ron Paul on the mosque &#8220;controversy&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/08/27/ron-paul-on-the-mosque-controversy/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2010/08/27/ron-paul-on-the-mosque-controversy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia Ron Paul has his quirks. But his focus on fundamental rights and continued questioning about the necessity of the two wars in which we are mired deserves respect. Now he weighs in on the mosque controversy with clarity. I full agree with all of this. The debate should have provided the conservative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taibbi on media support of Tea Party</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/08/27/taibbi-on-media-support-of-tea-party/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt Taibbi calls for a sponsor boycott of the networks and commentators who pour gasoline on the fire of economic troubles by trying to ignite racist attitudes among the public.  I agree. Just look at his litany of the claims being made. In fact if you follow Fox News and the Limbaugh/Hannity afternoon radio crew, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finally</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/08/25/finally-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=8055</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Image by talkradionews via Flickr From Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic: Ken Mehlman, President Bush&#8216;s campaign manager in 2004 and a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, has told family and associates that he is gay. *** Mehlman acknowledges that if he had publicly declared his sexuality sooner, he might have played a role [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Political quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/08/25/political-quote-of-the-day-43/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cover via Amazon We&#8217;ve been attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of the culture. &#8211; Ray Mummert, a pastor in Dover, Pennsylvania, quoted by Charles P. Pierce in the article Greetings from Idiot America. Pierce is the author of the book Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free. (Via [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elizabeth Warren for sheriff</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/08/21/elizabeth-warren-for-sheriff/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2010/08/21/elizabeth-warren-for-sheriff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More on Elizabeth Warrn from Joe Nocera in the New York Times. What struck me . . .was the bluntness of her language. She used words like “tricks,” “fleece,” and “bribe” to describe the actions of mortgage and credit card lenders. And I think a lot of her appeal stems from that simple fact: she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christianist quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/08/19/christianist-quote-of-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia Legislators around the country are considering banning sugar and fatty foods in schools, removing salt and butter from restaurants and want to control what temperature you can have in your own homes, because they fear the potential of health problems. Perhaps they should consider banning the promotion of a lifestyle that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For the last time, Obama is not a Muslim</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/08/19/for-the-last-time-obama-is-not-a-muslim/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is really incredible to me. But it appears that the number of Americans who believe President Obama is a Muslim continues to grow. The number of Americans who believe &#8212; wrongly &#8212; that President Obama is a Muslim has increased significantly since his inauguration and now account for nearly 20 percent of the nation&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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