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		<title>DEBATES &amp; DEAR JOHN LETTER</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freedom Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[The following is a reprint of an article first written on September 27, 2008]
The debate last night in Oxford Mississippi, between John McCain and Barack Obama, sounded more like a bickering session than a debate, a re-hashing and squabbling over the same things we have been listening to for the past 18 months.  A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MY AMERICA – I WANT YOU BACK, THE BATTLE PLAN – SEPARATING THE WHEAT FROM THE CHAFF (Issue 404)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freedom Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SIXTH AND FINAL ARTICLE IN THIS SERIES.
Before writing these six articles on a Battle Plan for America, I thought about it a long time, and kept delaying for quite sometime. However, after watching the increasing threat of the Gulf oil spill and no meaningful steps to stop it; listening to the congressional hearing with Tony Hayward; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MY AMERICA I WANT YOU BACK, THE BATTLE PLAN  (Issue 403)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freedom Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FIFTH INSTALLMENT THIS SERIES: MY AMERICA &#8211; I WANT YOU BACK
Tolstoy wrote: &#8220;I sit on a man&#8217;s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all means possible, except by getting off his back.&#8221;
The dog bites [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MY AMERICA – I WANT YOU BACK – THE BATTLE PLAN &amp; THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT (Issue 402)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freedom Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOURTH IN THIS SERIES: MY AMERICA &#8211; I WANT YOU BACK &#8211; THE BATTLE PLAN &#038; TEA PARTY MOVEMENT
I have before me a copy of The Tea Party &#8220;Contract from America,&#8221; which states 365,000 respondents completed online forms to determine the top three planks of the tea party movement platform.
That&#8217;s an impressive number of people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MY AMERICA – I WANT YOU BACK! THE BATTLE PLAN (Issue 401)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freedom Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ARTICLE THREE IN SERIES &#8211; MY AMERICA &#8211; I WANT YOU BACK
When we hear Battle Plan we think war. When we hear war we think guns, bombs and killings. A battle plan is war, however the type of war battle plan I speak of, is not one of destruction by guns and killing. So clear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MY AMERICA – I WANT YOU BACK (Issue 400)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freedom Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SECOND ISSUE IN SERIES OF ARTICLES: AMERICA &#8211; I WANT YOU BACK
We are in a war. A war of ideas between good and evil. A war of Freedom or Bondage. A war about the future for ourselves and our children.  An undeclared war, and unrecognized by many.
The purpose of this series is to sound [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MY AMERICA – I WANT YOU BACK (Issue 399)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 19:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freedom Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MY BATTLE PLAN. FIRST ARTICLE IN THIS SERIES
JULY 4th, 2010. My America &#8211; I Want You Back is a series of articles,  informational, outlining a Plan of regaining my lost Freedoms. Not yours but mine.
I&#8217;m a writer but not a journalist, I&#8217;m a fighter but not a soldier, I&#8217;m the Commander-in-Chief of my life, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOW DOES THE GULF OIL SPILL COMPARE TO AN ATOMIC BOMB BLAST? (Issue 398)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 20:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freedom Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listening to all the news about the worsening conditions and threats to this country as a result of the Gulf oil spill, I have deepening concerns about the dilemma. Especially when I hear rumblings about consideration to bomb it. 
Today I heard news it might spread around lower Florida, then reach Miami. If this is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE – CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED – HUGE TAX HIKES IN 6 MONTHS (Issue 397)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 20:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freedom Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
On this 4th of July weekend, it&#8217;s time to re-read the Declaration of Independence, and reflect upon its words of wisdom, authored by Thomas Jefferson, stating, &#8220;We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain un-alienable Rights, among these are life, liberty, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DO WE SEEK LIBERTY FIRST? WHAT’S OUR DEGREE OF BONDAGE THIS INDEPENDENCE DAY WEEKEND?ELENA KAGAN ON PROPERTY RIGHTS (Issue 396)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 20:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freedom Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOURTH OF JULY WEEKEND
During this past week, in the congressional hearings to vet Elena Kagan for appointment as a Supreme Court judge, in my opinion the most important engagement of verbal exchange was between Senator Grassley and Solicitor Kagan on property Rights. He quoted the fifth amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which states, &#8220;nor shall [...]]]></description>
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