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		<title>NANNY STATE IN IT’S WORST</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.” &#8211; Edmund Burke, Irish-born British statesman, parliamentary orator, and political thinker (1729 -1797) Dr. David Ludwig, Harvard University child obesity expert came up with a “brilliant” idea to take obese children away from their parents and toss these kids into the-so-imperfect &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://chatandponder.wordpress.com/2011/07/18/nanny-state-in-it%e2%80%99s-worst/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>THE NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE COMPACT</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Margot@ChatAndPonder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The National Popular Vote (NPV) bill has been seriously considered by voters and by the state legislative branches since 2006. The NPV bill would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who wins the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC). According to the Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation-Harvard University survey conducted via phone in &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://chatandponder.wordpress.com/2011/07/14/the-national-popular-vote-compact/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Liberal Hypocrisy  &#8211; Part III</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Margot@ChatAndPonder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 22:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Part Three &#8211; Actions speak louder than words The climate change hysteria ignited by Al Gore and his followers is rather motivated by their political and personal gains. Gore has been predicting imminent world cataclysms if we do not change environmental policies. In his book ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ released in 2006, Al Gore calls the &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://chatandponder.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/liberal-hypocrisy-3/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Liberal Hypocrisy  &#8211; Part II</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Margot@ChatAndPonder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 22:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Part Two – Civil Liberties and ideology &#8220;Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;What is legitimate for Jove (Jupiter), is not legitimate for oxen.&#8221; In March 2006, the following Democratic Senators voted against HR-3199 &#8211; (USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 ) : Akaka (HI), Bingamon (WI), Leahy (VT), Levin (MI). Five &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://chatandponder.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/liberal-hypocrisy-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Liberal Hypocrisy  &#8211; Part I</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Margot@ChatAndPonder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Part One – &#8220;Change of heart&#8221; on the War topic These series of articles will be echoing the previous post called “Selective calls for civility”, published on March 24th. Regardless of the political party you belong to, there still should be fairness and civility in people. Unfortunately, democrats’ deeds and words have proven that the &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://chatandponder.wordpress.com/2011/04/14/liberal-hypocrisy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Mexico&#8217;s ability to control violence and protection of American officials</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Margot@ChatAndPonder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This letter was written by true American Patriots in response to the report called &#8220;Obama: No Arming of U.S. Agents in Mexico&#8220;. They expressed their concerns about our country&#8217;s image abroad and about our country&#8217;s future in general. Dear Fox News, I would like to have this e-mail comment find its way to the most &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://chatandponder.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/mexicos-ability-to-control-violence-and-protection-of-american-officials/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Is the wealth bad&#8230;really, is it?!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago my husband showed me an editorial called &#8220;Concentration of wealth should outrage everyone&#8221;, published in the Connecticut Post on March 11th, 2011. Please see the link  attached:  http://www.ctpost.com/default/article/Concentration-of-wealth-should-outrage-everyone-1063565.php First what came to my mind after reading this letter was that the author is &#8216;biting the hand that feeds him&#8217;&#8230; So I submitted a &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://chatandponder.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/is-the-wealth-bad-really-is-it/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Women in Politics and Misogyny</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For the past few years, successful and ambitious women became the favorite ‘punch bag’ for the main stream media and evening news. Hillary Clinton, who had been loved and adored by liberals prior to the resurfacing of Barack Obama as a potential Democratic Presidential candidate, became subjected to berating, name calling and vulgar jokes. Conservative &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://chatandponder.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/women-in-politics-and-misogyny/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Selective Calls for civility</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Margot@ChatAndPonder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, right or wrong &#8211; is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”  &#8211; Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States. Some people judge others based on their own outlook on life and events. In other words, &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://chatandponder.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/selective-calls-for-civility/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>American Exceptionalism and Political Correctness</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Margot@ChatAndPonder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  America&#8217;s  unique society represents and unites people of different religions, different cultures and customs. US exceptional ideology is based on liberty, individualism and populism. Unfortunately, lately we have been seeing more and more examples of the majority being forced to accommodate the few non-tolerant members of our society who choose to impose their own likings &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://chatandponder.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/hello-world/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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