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		<title>Imperialism quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/10/23/imperialism-quote-of-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 12:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=15335</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Every now and then it&#8217;s worth pausing to reflect on how often we talk about the killing of people by the U.S. Literally, the U.S. government is just continuously killing people in multiple countries around the world. Who else does &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/10/23/imperialism-quote-of-the-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Who really busted the budget?</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/07/28/who-really-busted-the-budget/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=13924</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Did George W. Bush or Obama policies cost the most? Check out the numbers. (Outside the Beltway via Newshoggers)]]></description>
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		<title>Inside Job (updated)</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/05/22/inside-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 13:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=13209</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just watched the film &#8220;Inside Job&#8221; (link to trailer) that dissects the causes of the &#8220;great recession&#8221; we are still suffering from. It is the most cogent and understandable explanation of a very complex set of issues I have &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/05/22/inside-job/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Your tax dollars at work</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/05/21/your-tax-dollars-at-work-3/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2011/05/21/your-tax-dollars-at-work-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 15:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=13207</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jane Mayer, writing the current issue of The New Yorker, tells an amazing story about a former NSA employee who is charged under the Espionage Act for blowing the whistle on waste, fraud and abuse inside the NSA. The article &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/05/21/your-tax-dollars-at-work-3/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Did bin Laden win?</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/05/03/did-bin-laden-win/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 18:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden is now dead. Good. But is it possible that he lost the battle but won the war? I think so. The changes that this country has put itself through since 9/11 are awesome and negative. Radley Belko &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/05/03/did-bin-laden-win/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Political quote anniversary of the day</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/04/23/political-quote-anniversary-of-the-day/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2011/04/23/political-quote-anniversary-of-the-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 12:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hans Blix had five months to find weapons. He found nothing. We’ve had five weeks. Come back to me in five months. If we haven’t found any, we will have a credibility problem. &#8211; Charles Krauthammer, explaining in 2003, after &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/04/23/political-quote-anniversary-of-the-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Who is the criminal?</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/04/13/who-is-the-criminal/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2011/04/13/who-is-the-criminal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(via Intelligent Internet Media for People Who Care)]]></description>
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		<title>Starting a war is easy&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/03/18/starting-a-war-is-easy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=12422</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; and leaving a war is very difficult. This principal is well stated by Peggy Noonan in an essay in today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal. In Afghanistan, America cannot leave because it is the 9/11 place, the place that helped 9/11 &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/03/18/starting-a-war-is-easy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Curveball&#8221; admits he lied</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/02/15/curveball-admits-he-lied/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=11905</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Curveball&#8221; was the code name of the informer who supposedly assured the Bush administration that Saddam Hussein harbored weapons of mass destruction, and particularly biological weapons, in Iraq. He now admits that he was lying. The defector who convinced the &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/02/15/curveball-admits-he-lied/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Obama administration actively fought torture probe</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/12/02/obama-administration-actively-fought-torture-probe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 12:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=10799</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia One of the items revealed in the Wikileaks document dump is that the Obama administration (and several prominent Republicans) actively intervened in Spain to block a probe of American torture policy under the Bush Administration as it was &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2010/12/02/obama-administration-actively-fought-torture-probe/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Looking forward&#8221; on torture</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/11/28/looking-forward-on-torture/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2010/11/28/looking-forward-on-torture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 12:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=10761</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[David Cole, writing in the New York Review of Books, explains why Obama&#8217;s effort to &#8220;look forward&#8221; and not backward on the torture committed by the Bush administration, will fail and that a full accounting, at a minimum, is necessary &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2010/11/28/looking-forward-on-torture/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Political quote of the day 2</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/09/10/political-quote-of-the-day-2-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve got state secrets, targeted killings, indefinite detention, renditions, the opposition to extending the right of habeas corpus to prisoners at Bagram [in Afghanistan]. And although it is slightly different, Obama has been as aggressive as President Bush in defending &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2010/09/10/political-quote-of-the-day-2-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></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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		<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 &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2010/08/25/finally-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Torture quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/07/13/torture-quote-of-the-day-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They [George Bush and Dick Cheney] should have been indicted. They absolutely should have been indicted for torturing, for spying, for arresting without warrants. I&#8217;d like to say they should be indicted for lying but believe it or not, unless &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2010/07/13/torture-quote-of-the-day-3/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Obama = Bush Light, part 3</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/06/17/obama-bush-light-part-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jon Stewart sets out chapter and verse on the failure of President Obama to follow through on his campaign promises to restore the rule of law in the &#8220;war&#8221; on terror. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon &#8211; Thurs &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2010/06/17/obama-bush-light-part-3/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Shameful quote of the day (updated)</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/06/03/shameful-quote-of-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, we water-boarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. I&#8217;d do it again to save lives. &#8211;Former President George W. Bush, speaking in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Wednesday. It is amazing to me that a former president of the United States can speak &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2010/06/03/shameful-quote-of-the-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The decade in review</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2009/12/22/the-decade-in-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newsweek summarizes the decade. Nicely done. By the way, they are also offering tech predictions about 2010. You might be interested in their number 1 prediction. (Hint: It involves Apple.)]]></description>
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		<title>Rich: Tiger Woods as man of the year</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2009/12/20/rich-tiger-woods-as-man-of-the-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t disagree with Frank Rich&#8217;s column this morning. Tiger Woods is a terrific personification of an entire decade of people making money  (and going to war) based on a false persona and fantasy. If there’s been a consistent narrative &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2009/12/20/rich-tiger-woods-as-man-of-the-year/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The unitary executive continues to grow</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2009/11/01/the-unitary-executive-continues-to-grow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Constitutional limitations on the Executive branch continue to be ignored, despite President Obama&#8217;s promised of change. Gary Wills, writing in the New York Review of Books catalogs the continued damage to the Constitution. The entire essay is worth a &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2009/11/01/the-unitary-executive-continues-to-grow/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Obama faces the dead</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2009/11/01/obama-faces-the-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, the President traveled to Dover Air Force Base to meet and show respect to 18 returning soldiers killed in Afghanistan.  Of course, when a President appears in such a situation, politics is involved. But a shameless attack on &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2009/11/01/obama-faces-the-dead/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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