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		<title>A Republic, If You Can Keep It</title>
		<link>http://rationalactivist.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/a-republic-if-you-can-keep-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am reminded of a quote from Benjamin Franklin shortly after the Constitutional Convention: A woman asked Benjamin Franklin what type of government the Constitution was bringing into existence.  Franklin replied &#8220;A republic, if you can keep it.&#8221; This quote highlights just how far we have strayed from our founding principles.  The Founding Fathers understood [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rationalactivist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=917211&amp;post=60&amp;subd=rationalactivist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Not Yours to Give</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the current political landscape of a Nanny State doling out trillions of dollars a year of public money I thought it would be a good idea to post a story from &#8220;The Life of Colonel David Crockett&#8221; (1884).  This excerpt sums up how government should run, unfortunately too many Americans have forgot the true [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rationalactivist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=917211&amp;post=53&amp;subd=rationalactivist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Time for Liberty</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Found this video, it is a bit old (from the last presidential election) but nonetheless still holds great information.  We need more men like Bob Barr, Ron Paul, and all other men that agree with limited government and the safeguarding of our liberties. Filed under: Constitution, Government, Libertarian, Liberty, Rights Tagged: Constitution, Declaration of Independence, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rationalactivist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=917211&amp;post=42&amp;subd=rationalactivist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Looming Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that if current laws and policies remained unchanged, the federal budget would show a deficit of about $1.3 trillion for fiscal year 2010. (Source: CBO) This excerpt from the latest CBO report highlights an extremely frightening situation facing America.  According to TreasuryDirect the American debt as of 9/30/2009 is $11,909,829,003,511.75. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rationalactivist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=917211&amp;post=35&amp;subd=rationalactivist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Phone Call with the Federal Reserve</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a conversation with Mr. Ron Supinski of the Public Information Department of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank. This is an account of that conversation. CALLER &#8211; Mr. Supinski, does my country own the Federal Reserve System? MR. SUPINSKI &#8211; We are an agency of the government. CALLER &#8211; That’s not my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rationalactivist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=917211&amp;post=34&amp;subd=rationalactivist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This is the GOP?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I honestly want to know how this mentality has invaded the GOP?  How far the party has strayed since the days of Goldwater&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rationalactivist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=917211&amp;post=32&amp;subd=rationalactivist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>America: Where are you?</title>
		<link>http://rationalactivist.wordpress.com/2008/02/16/america-where-are-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 04:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.&#8221; I open with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rationalactivist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=917211&amp;post=31&amp;subd=rationalactivist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taxpayers &#8211; 1 IRS &#8211; 0</title>
		<link>http://rationalactivist.wordpress.com/2007/07/27/taxpayers-1-irs-0/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 02:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day a jury in Louisiana ruled against the IRS. While many view those who refuse to pay taxes on the basis that it is unconstitutional as crackpots, Tom Cryer only asked the Government to show him where they get their authority to tax him and he would gladly pay all of his taxes. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rationalactivist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=917211&amp;post=25&amp;subd=rationalactivist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Abolish the Federal Reserve</title>
		<link>http://rationalactivist.wordpress.com/2007/07/21/abolish-the-federal-reserve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2007 03:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today most Americans have accepted the devaluation of the U.S. dollar as commonplace. They believe it is just a consequence of having paper currency. However, this is far from the case. Devaluation only occurs when fiat currency, money which is only backed by a government, is used. The first national currency was created in 1861 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rationalactivist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=917211&amp;post=23&amp;subd=rationalactivist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Virginia: Freedom Lost</title>
		<link>http://rationalactivist.wordpress.com/2007/07/21/virginia-freedom-lost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2007 00:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, the Virginia Legislature passed (in its infinite wisdom) HB 3202, more commonly known as the Civil Remedial Fees Bill.  Now before I go into my Constitutional tirade against this bill let me point out there are a few good features.  First of all, it increases the cost of a DUI to $750 (misdemeanor) or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rationalactivist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=917211&amp;post=21&amp;subd=rationalactivist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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