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		<title>Corporations are not Persons: Stating the Obvious</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 23:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin David Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A New Civil Rights Movement: Liberating Our Communities from Corporate Control A Pennsylvania Judge Holds That Corporations Are Not “Persons” Under the Pennsylvania Constitution B y Thomas Alan Linzey, Esq., Executive Director Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund Last week, a Pennsylvania county court gave this new movement a boost – declaring that corporations are not [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benjamindavidsteele.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5715974&#038;post=7133&#038;subd=benjamindavidsteele&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Horror vs Violence/Torture Porn</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 21:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin David Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just read this from Matt Cardin&#8217;s The Teeming Brain: The meaning of horror and “that dark sorcerer” Cormac McCarthy (with nods to Ligotti) He quotes the following from Benjamin Percy: I feel that violence needs to be earned somehow — or it needs to earn out. You need to pipe the oxygen in before [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benjamindavidsteele.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5715974&#038;post=7130&#038;subd=benjamindavidsteele&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another scandal crashes and burns...</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 19:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin David Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from charles&#039; log: Source: Politics USA Author: Jason Easley "The latest Republican Obama scandal is starting to fall apart too. The IRS didn’t just target conservative groups. They also questioned the tax exempt status of liberal groups too. In 2012, The Chicago Tribune reported on the IRS denying tax exempt status to a liberal political group, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benjamindavidsteele.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5715974&#038;post=7128&#038;subd=benjamindavidsteele&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ideologically Confused Partisans</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 02:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin David Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I sometimes feel like I&#8217;m living in Bizarro America. Al Gore is a veteran and a successful businessman. He is of Scots-Irish descent from the Upper South where he spent summers working on the family farm in Tennessee where they grew tobacco and raised cattle. Al Gore is boring, if anything, in his being a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benjamindavidsteele.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5715974&#038;post=7125&#038;subd=benjamindavidsteele&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Libertarianism and Reactionary Conservatism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 16:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin David Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Leopold and Loeb of Modern Libertarianism By Corey Robin &#8220;While the disparity between the free-wheeling philosophy of the market and the reality of coercive capitalism has long been known, the last four decades have sharpened it. Partly because of the rise of an aggressive defense of untrammeled markets in the name of liberty, partly [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benjamindavidsteele.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5715974&#038;post=7113&#038;subd=benjamindavidsteele&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conservative-Minded Authoritarianism &amp; Liberal-Minded Anarchism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 03:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin David Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone once made the argument to me that there was a particular bias in social science research. The argument was based on the anecdotal evidence of the research this person had come across I suppose by way of what was reported in the media and maybe the blogosphere. His observation was that researchers had focused [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benjamindavidsteele.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5715974&#038;post=7106&#038;subd=benjamindavidsteele&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy, Education and Indoctrination</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 20:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin David Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many challenges to a democracy, but education has to be one of the most important. Everything begins with education, specifically as it relates to enculturation and indoctrination. Here is an article from The Guardian that touches upon one aspect of this, although it isn&#8217;t as thorough as I&#8217;d prefer:  The dark side of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benjamindavidsteele.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5715974&#038;post=7103&#038;subd=benjamindavidsteele&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unequal Democracy, Parties, and Class</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 00:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin David Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me try my best to briefly offer some choice insights from Larry M. Bartel&#8217;s Unequal Democracy (with some slight commentary added by me). 1) One of the biggest points of the book is that the lower income class, as defined as the bottom third, has never turned away from the Democratic Party. They haven&#8217;t [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benjamindavidsteele.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5715974&#038;post=7101&#038;subd=benjamindavidsteele&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let the Dissection of the Tea Party Corpse Begin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 23:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin David Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve only skimmed this, but it looks worthy of a deeper study. It apparently is the first large-scale political science survey of the Tea Party. It&#8217;s published in The American Prospect and written by Abby Rapoport. Three New Facts about the Tea Party For a movement that’s helped to reshape the Republican Party—and by extension, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benjamindavidsteele.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5715974&#038;post=7099&#038;subd=benjamindavidsteele&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flawed Scientific Research</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 21:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin David Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is an article I recommend: Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science By David H. Freedman As a seeker of knowledge, this touches upon a major problem. Science is necessary as the closest thing we have to a fair arbiter of truth. I&#8217;m not a naive person and I know science can get manipulated and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benjamindavidsteele.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5715974&#038;post=7097&#038;subd=benjamindavidsteele&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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