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		<title>Ron Paul vs Noam Chomsky</title>
		<link>http://socialcomment.org/community/461</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Preston Benson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[They are two figures who I greatly admire, yet who disagree on fundamental political policy. They represent two sides of the debate: one the socially conscious progressive movement that values equality, the other the conservative value for less government involvement and greater liberties. If I had them in a room together, could I make them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Buzz over &#8220;Free Markets&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://socialcomment.org/community/427</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 00:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Preston Benson</dc:creator>
		
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Along with last week’s opening of part one of Atlas Shrugged, a movie based on the novel by libertarian zealot Ayn Rand, the economic philosophy of the “free market” and laissez-faire capitalism has been receiving a lot of buzz in the political arena. Rand wasn’t the first advocate of the free market, but 60 years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Hypocrisy in Egypt</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 09:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Preston Benson</dc:creator>
		
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Millions of people demonstrated in Egypt&#8217;s Tahrir Square in an unprecedented movement for democracy, yet US leaders and US media remain patently apprehensive of a change in government. 
The US which purports to stand as a beacon of light for democracy around the world, seems to be holding its breath as this popular movement demands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday Discrimination</title>
		<link>http://socialcomment.org/community/390</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Preston Benson</dc:creator>
		
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I was chastised the other day for using the term &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; on the company website. My director strongly recommended that I update the expression to a more all-inclusive one: &#8220;Happy Holidays.&#8221; Of course, I well-understood the reasoning behind this recommendation—I was part of a generation of American children who grew up with the Disney [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meaningless Effigies</title>
		<link>http://socialcomment.org/churchbeat/363</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 01:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Preston Benson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Peace, Hope, Love, Live, Laugh, Joy, Dream, Cherish. These are the words that consitute the new secular dogma. And it seems well enough that these could be words to live by. Oh Peace is a desirable state of things. And Hope is always good. Love is, by far, a necessity. Laughter, of course, is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;But Mom, we have the money.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://socialcomment.org/community/355</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Preston Benson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I was out buying a winter hat and some mittens, when I overheard a dispute in the next aisle between a mother and her small child. &#8220;But Mom, we have the money,&#8221; the boy whined.
Now, I have no idea what it was the boy wanted, but what was interesting to me was the way the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illuminating the Inane Discourse on Suicide</title>
		<link>http://socialcomment.org/community/349</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Preston Benson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Every 16 minutes someone in the U.S. dies by suicide. Every 17 minutes someone is left to make sense of it.&#8221; This message was designed by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention to promote it&#8217;s 10th annual Suicide Survivor Day, on Saturday, Nov. 22.
I listen to a radio story about the occasion, an attempt at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contest of Patriotism</title>
		<link>http://socialcomment.org/community/342</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Preston Benson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the day proceeding Election Day and there is no time where patriotic sentiment runs higher. A competition arises between presidential candidates as to their national pride. And a great argument is engendered among citizens as to what vote will most benefit the country.
Senator John McCain&#8217;s nationalist slogan &#8220;Country First&#8221; implies invidiously that Senator [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Election Madness</title>
		<link>http://socialcomment.org/community/322</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 08:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Preston Benson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re fast approaching Election Day, but I&#8217;m not rallied behind one candidate or the other. I&#8217;m not struck with anticipation for Nov. 4. Would it be a crime to say I&#8217;m rather ambivalent?
Presidential Candidate John McCain even visited my home town, Durango, Colorado, just a week ago. It was the first time a presidential candidate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Especially Horrifying Halloween Scene</title>
		<link>http://socialcomment.org/community/325</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 08:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Preston Benson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Halloween, I was on my way back from a quick motorcycle trip to Mexico. I took a friend on the back seat down to Puerto Peñasco specifically to escape American culture and get a glimpse of El Dia de los Muertos. Our American ignorance proved unfailing. We were surprised or rather disappointed to find [...]]]></description>
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