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		<title>Outsourcing Morality</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/12/outsourcing-morality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[morality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pajamas Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victor Davis Hanson]]></category>

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The outsourcing of private morality to the state is a particularly modern affliction, but equally as pernicious. We witness the startling paradox that today’s private society is crasser, less honest, and more uncouth even as its government’s official morality stresses gender, race, class, and green ethical superiority. But just because the state now thankfully mandates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Noble Medium</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/11/a-noble-medium/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Atlas Shrugged]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ayn Rand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capitalism]]></category>

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Money is the barometer of society’s virtue.  When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion- when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing- when you see that men get richer from graft and by pull than by work, and your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sowell Gems</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/11/sowell-gems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 09:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Thomas Sowell Reader]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Sowell]]></category>

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A few gems from Thomas Sowell from the last chapter of the Thomas Sowell Reader.
“There is no greater indictment of judges than the fact that honest people are afraid to go into court, while criminals swagger out its revolving door.”
“Few skills are so well rewarded as the ability to convince parasites that they are victims.”
“Politics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contrarian and Independent Thinkers</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/10/contrarian-and-independent-thinkers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contrarian]]></category>

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A contrarian assumes the crowd is wrong without necessarily understanding why.   A true independent thinker will isolate themselves mentally from the crowd and common information and research the best information available, relying as little as possible on second hand resources, to reach their own conclusions.  They are skeptical of the sources that move the crowd [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There are Two Sides to the &#8216;Social Contract&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/09/there-are-two-sides-to-the-social-contract/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boston Globe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Warren]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeff Jacoby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social contract]]></category>

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Elizabeth Warren is running against Scott Brown in Massachusetts.  She has elicited praises from liberals for her comment that &#8220;no body got rich on their own.&#8221;  She added &#8220;part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that (your profits/ earnings)  and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.&#8221;
Jeff Jacoby [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Demonizing Skepticism</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/09/demonizing-skepticism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Thinker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Randall Hoven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

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In American Thinker Randall Hoven writes Science for Stupid Idiots, 9/22/11.
Excerpts:
we get to why we must believe &#8220;science,&#8221; meaning taking whatever &#8220;scientists&#8221; say is incontrovertible truth.  If we start having doubts about any of it, we just might start thinking for ourselves.  We will no longer simply swallow what our betters feed us.
The irony is that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ruinous Generosity</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/09/ruinous-generosity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[After America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Steyn]]></category>

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When government spends on the scale Washington&#8217;s got used to, that&#8217;s not a spending crisis, it&#8217;s a moral one.  The Irish have a useful word for the times -flaithiulacht- which translates to ruinous generosity, invariably with someone else&#8217;s money.  There&#8217;s nothing virtuous about &#8220;caring&#8221;, &#8220;compassionate&#8221;, &#8220;progressives demonstrating how caring and compassionate and progressive they are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Need for Intellectual Heat</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/07/the-need-for-intellectual-heat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Hitchens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Letters to a Young Contrarian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar Wilde]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Santayana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Utopia]]></category>

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A map of the world that does not include Utopia, said Oscar Wilde, is not worth glancing at. A noble sentiment, and a good thrust at the Gradgrinds and utilitarians.  Bear in mind that Utopia itself was a tyranny and that much of the talk about the analgesic and conflict-free ideal is likewise more menacing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pragmatism</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/05/pragmatism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/05/pragmatism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 09:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Binswanger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Dewey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pragmatism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.rebelyid.com/?p=5805</guid>
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Pragmatism, a philosophy  devised by William James, John Dewey, and others, is anti-principle.  Pragmatism says that principles are snares and delusions.  Pragmatists teach explicitly that contradictions are inevitable and that it is folly to try to define a consistent set of principles.  Reality, the pragmatists teach, is an ever-shifting flux; what was true tomorrow may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intelligence is Not Enough</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/05/intelligence-is-not-enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 02:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Truman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newt Gingrich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

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I have found that the claim to intellectual brilliance may the weakest, maybe the most dangerous reason to select a political leader.
I recall Oprah Winfrey announcing that we should not vote for Obama because he is black but because he is brilliant.  It made me want to run the other way.  I hear supporters for [...]]]></description>
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