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It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use.</feedburner:browserFriendly><item><title>Quote of the year?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/quote_of_the_year.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/quote_of_the_year.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:50:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=quote%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fyear</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I&#39;m not familiar with Burt Prelutsky, a columnist at Townhall.com. But my friend David B. just forwarded me an email from cousin Bob suggesting that the following quote, from Prelutsky&#39;s June 12 column, is a contender for quote of the year:]]></description><category>iran</category><category>israel</category><category>mental health</category><category>obama</category></item><item><title>Another Guantanamo alumnus has moved up in the world</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/another_guantanamo_alumnus_has_moved_up_in_the_world.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/another_guantanamo_alumnus_has_moved_up_in_the_world.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:05:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=another%5Fguantanamo%5Falumnus%5Fhas%5Fmoved%5Fup%5Fin%5Fthe%5Fworld</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[U.S. and Allied forces are facing a tough fight in the Helmand province of Afghanistan, and a former Gitmo inmate is commanding the Taliban forces against them: Mullah Zakir, also known as Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul, surrendered in Mazar-e-Sharif in ...]]></description><category>afghanistan</category><category>gitmo</category><category>islamofascism</category><category>jihad</category><category>war</category></item><item><title>Polls show people are waking up</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/polls_show_people_are_waking_up.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/polls_show_people_are_waking_up.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:20:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=polls%5Fshow%5Fpeople%5Fare%5Fwaking%5Fup</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Rasmussen Reports Presidential Approval Index is at -7 today. The index is calculated from Rasmussen&#39;s daily Presidential Tracking Poll of likely voters by subtracting the number who strongly disapprove (37%) from the number who strongly ...]]></description><category>democrats</category><category>obama</category><category>polls</category></item><item><title>At least some people are supporting democracy in Honduras</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/supporting_democracy_in_honduras.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/supporting_democracy_in_honduras.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:26:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=supporting%5Fdemocracy%5Fin%5Fhonduras</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Obama administration, which could hardly be bothered to comment on the brutal repression and slaughter in Iran, was quick to interfere in the internal affairs of Honduras. Immediately after would-be President-for-Life Manuel Zelaya was (quite ...]]></description><category>constitution</category><category>democracy</category><category>freedom</category><category>honduras</category></item><item><title>Gun rights leaders oppose Sotomayor</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/gun_rights_leaders_oppose_sotomayor.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/gun_rights_leaders_oppose_sotomayor.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:44:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=gun%5Frights%5Fleaders%5Foppose%5Fsotomayor</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Leaders of several gun rights groups and activists supporting the Second Amendment have jointly informed the Senate of their strong opposition to the appointment of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court (emphasis added): &ldquo;It is extremely importa]]></description><category>civil liberties</category><category>firearms</category><category>gun control</category><category>human rights</category><category>second amendment</category><category>supreme court</category></item><item><title>Rediscovering Frederick Douglass</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/rediscovering_frederick_douglass.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/rediscovering_frederick_douglass.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:45:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=rediscovering%5Ffrederick%5Fdouglass</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Jonathan Bean: Some 157 years ago, in 1852, the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass delivered his &ldquo;Fourth of July Oration&rdquo; condemning America for practicing slavery and thereby failing to live up to the humane ideals expressed by the...]]></description><category>freedom</category><category>human rights</category><category>independence day</category><category>liberty</category></item><item><title>Happy Independence Day!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/happy_independence_day_1.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/happy_independence_day_1.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:20:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=happy%5Findependence%5Fday%5F1</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the finest words ever penned by man, from the document that changed the world for the better like no other before or since: When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have ...]]></description><category>freedom</category><category>independence day</category><category>liberty</category><category>patriotism</category></item><item><title>Iran recount news</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/iran_recount_news.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/iran_recount_news.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:51:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=iran%5Frecount%5Fnews</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[They did a &quot;partial recount&quot; in Iran, and Ahm-a-doin-a-jihad actually gained votes! So the Guardian Council declared him the winner and said the issue was closed. But in a little-noticed related story, today the mullahs expressed their ...]]></description><category>elections</category><category>fraud</category></item><item><title>Conservatives aren't credible on scientific matters</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/conservatives_arent_credible_on_scientific_matters.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/conservatives_arent_credible_on_scientific_matters.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:51:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=conservatives%5Farent%5Fcredible%5Fon%5Fscientific%5Fmatters</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Dafydd at Big Lizards has identified the greatest weakness of the conservative movement, the one that cripples them in debates over some of today&#39;s biggest issues (emphasis in original): &hellip; What do all these contemporary issues hold in ...]]></description><category>conservatism</category><category>creationism</category><category>politics</category><category>reason</category><category>science</category></item><item><title>Obama the African Colonial</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/obama_the_african_colonial.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/obama_the_african_colonial.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:22:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=obama%5Fthe%5Fafrican%5Fcolonial</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The American Thinker has a fascinating article by L.E. Ikenga that, it seems to me, precisely nails Barack Obama: Had Americans been able to stop obsessing over the color of Barack Obama&#39;s skin and instead paid more attention to his cultural ...]]></description><category>africa</category><category>obama</category><category>socialism</category></item><item><title>$80,000 per song</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/80000_per_song.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/80000_per_song.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:16:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=80000%5Fper%5Fsong</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I&#39;m a proponent of intellectual property rights (an oft-debated issue in libertarian circles), but copyright law in this country has just gone totally off the deep end. I blame Mickey Mouse. The desire to ensure that no one other than Disney can]]></description><category>copyright</category><category>internet</category><category>property rights</category></item><item><title>The Stoning of Soraya M.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/the_stoning_of_soraya_m.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/the_stoning_of_soraya_m.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:57:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fstoning%5Fof%5Fsoraya%5Fm</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[With Iran and human rights so much in the news, it&#39;s appropriate that director Cyrus Nowrasteh&#39;s The Stoning of Soraya M. is opening this weekend in select theaters across the country. The film is based on the acclaimed international best-...]]></description><category>barbarism</category><category>culture</category><category>film</category><category>human rights</category><category>iran</category><category>movies</category><category>oppression</category></item><item><title>Tiananmen in Tehran II</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/tiananmen_in_tehran_ii.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/tiananmen_in_tehran_ii.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:58:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=tiananmen%5Fin%5Ftehran%5Fii</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I invoked the memory of Tiananmen Square last week. I may have been premature. Apparently, the suppression of dissent in Tehran became a true massacre today. Guns, clubs, and axes. Axes! They were especially targeting the women, because they&#39;re]]></description><category>democracy</category><category>freedom</category><category>human rights</category><category>iran</category><category>oppression</category></item><item><title>Stop Cap-and-Tax</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/stop_capandtax.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/stop_capandtax.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:19:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=stop%5Fcapandtax</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the House Democrats are trying to ram through the Waxman-Markey &quot;Cap and Trade&quot; bill this week. 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He&#39;s ten days late, but better late than...]]></description><category>democracy</category><category>freedom</category><category>human rights</category><category>iran</category><category>obama</category><category>oppression</category></item><item><title>They're taking Kodachrome away</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/theyre_taking_kodachrome_away_1.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/theyre_taking_kodachrome_away_1.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:11:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=theyre%5Ftaking%5Fkodachrome%5Faway%5F1</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I&#39;m saddened to hear this, even though I haven&#39;t shot any slides in years: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Kodachrome, the film brand touted as the stuff of memories, is about to become a memory itself as Eastman Kodak stops production due to overwhe...]]></description><category>culture</category><category>film</category><category>photos</category></item><item><title>What you can do to help the people of Iran</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/what_you_can_do_to_help_the_people_of_iran.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/what_you_can_do_to_help_the_people_of_iran.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:04:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=what%5Fyou%5Fcan%5Fdo%5Fto%5Fhelp%5Fthe%5Fpeople%5Fof%5Firan</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The struggle for freedom and democracy continues in Iran (as it always will, anywhere and everywhere that the human spirit yearns to be free). Winston of The Spirit of Man is asking for your help: I have been asked by so many people today again ...]]></description><category>democracy</category><category>freedom</category><category>human rights</category><category>iran</category><category>oppression</category></item><item><title>Tiananmen in Tehran</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/tiananmen_in_tehran_1.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/tiananmen_in_tehran_1.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:03:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=tiananmen%5Fin%5Ftehran%5F1</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[They shot pro-democracy demonstrators in Tehran yesterday. The Mousavi campaign called off a protest rally today because they were warned that riot squads would be using live ammunition. And vote counts allegedly leaked by someone in the interior ...]]></description><category>democracy</category><category>freedom</category><category>human rights</category><category>iran</category><category>oppression</category></item><item><title>Was the Iranian election rigged?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/was_the_iranian_election_rigged.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/was_the_iranian_election_rigged.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:15:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=was%5Fthe%5Firanian%5Felection%5Frigged</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I must admit I&#39;m confused. Everything I know about Iran suggests the election results are completely bogus. Massive demonstrations throughout the country leading up to the vote and widespread discontent over the growing domestic problems created]]></description><category>carter</category><category>elections</category><category>fraud</category><category>iran</category></item><item><title>Happy 234th birthday, Army!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/happy_234th_birthday_army.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/happy_234th_birthday_army.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:44:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=happy%5F234th%5Fbirthday%5Farmy</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A belated Happy Birthday to the United States Army, the oldest of the uniformed services, which was born on June 14, 1775. As the coin indicates, the Secretary of the Army has designated 2009 as The Year of the NCO. As the son of an officer, I can...]]></description><category>army</category><category>birthday</category><category>military</category><category>soldiers</category></item><item><title>Fed audit bill backed by 222</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/fed_audit_bill_backed_by_222.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/fed_audit_bill_backed_by_222.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:45:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=fed%5Faudit%5Fbill%5Fbacked%5Fby%5F222</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[H.R. 1207, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009, has attracted 222 co-sponsors, a majority of the House. The bill, introduced by Rep. Ron Paul, requires the Comptroller General to audit the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and Reserve Banks]]></description><category>bailout</category><category>congress</category><category>economy</category><category>ron paul</category></item><item><title>Wright blames "them Jews"</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/wright_blames_them_jews.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/wright_blames_them_jews.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:44:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=wright%5Fblames%5Fthem%5Fjews</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[President Obama&#39;s &quot;role model and spiritual mentor&quot; for twenty years, the man who helped shape Obama&#39;s world-view and inspired The Audacity of Hope, is back in the news. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright told the Newport News, VA, Daily ...]]></description><category>antisemitism</category><category>demagoguery</category><category>jeremiah wright</category><category>obama</category></item><item><title>Futurama revived</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/futurama_revived.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/futurama_revived.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:25:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=futurama%5Frevived</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Woohoo! Bender, Fry, and Leela are coming back: There&rsquo;s a future for &ldquo;Futurama.&rdquo; Five years after Fox canceled the animated comedy, 20th Century Fox TV has officially struck a deal with Comedy Central to produce 26 original episodes]]></description><category>entertainment</category><category>science fiction</category><category>television</category></item><item><title>Chrysler deal lives, Rule of Law is dead</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/chrysler_deal_lives_rule_of_law_is_dead.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/chrysler_deal_lives_rule_of_law_is_dead.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:27:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=chrysler%5Fdeal%5Flives%5Frule%5Fof%5Flaw%5Fis%5Fdead</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is terrible news. The Supreme Court has turned its back on Chrysler&#39;s secured creditors: In a victory for the Obama administration driving the restructuring of bankrupt Chrysler, the court denied a request from Indiana pension funds to delay]]></description><category>constitution</category><category>justice</category><category>law</category><category>obama</category><category>supreme court</category></item><item><title>Happy Friedman Day!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/happy_friedman_day.htm</guid><link>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/happy_friedman_day.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:48:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rgcombs.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=happy%5Ffriedman%5Fday</comments><dc:creator>rgcombs</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[You&#39;ve no doubt heard of the Tax Foundation&#39;s Tax Freedom Day, the day when Americans have finally earned enough money to pay all our taxes. This year, it was April 13. 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