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		<title>Rational Delusion</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/09/rational-delusion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We mortals pride ourselves as rational beings, but we act emotionally. We get attached to previous positions, and will discount or filter evidence rather than change our minds. We read the news for confirmation rather than information.  We are so inundated with information that we rely on emotional instincts to make quick decisions.
Our first instincts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dershowitz at AIPAC</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/03/dershowitz-at-aipac/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[tips to Bruce Tuchman
&#8220;Israel (its medical technology) has saved more Muslim and Arab lives than all the Arab and Muslim nations combined.&#8221;
a hell of a speech

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		<title>You Broke It, You Own It</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/03/you-broke-it-you-own-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
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The biggest risk the Democrats take on the comprehensive approach to health care is that they will find it much harder to use the health insurance companies as the demon to unite their troops.  They may try to continue to blame others for our health care mess, but now they own the system: it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel is Not a Ghetto</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/03/israel-is-not-a-ghetto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some perspectives on the Hillary/ Biden/ Obama smackdown of Israel for building Jewish homes in Jerusalem:
from The Jerusalem Post 
Obama has Crossed the Line- by Isi Leibner
Excerpts:
The  administration “condemns” us for building homes, not in densely Arab  populated areas of Jerusalem but in Jewish suburbs like Gilo and most  recently Ramat Shlomo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Job Creation Myth</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/02/the-job-creation-myth-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am constantly amazed at how sitting political leaders and naive citizens think that the government can create jobs. If the government could create jobs why would we ever tolerate any unemployment?  Either the leaders are economically ignorant or liars.
If you only read one economics book I recommend &#8216;Economic in One Lesson&#8217; by Henry Hazlitt. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karma, Demons, Small Stupid Steps and Facebook</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/01/karma-demons-small-stupid-steps-and-facebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Random thoughts
GM&#8217;s effort to target Toyota&#8217;s  customers  in the midst of their record recall notice seems in poor taste, especially in light of the record amount of taxpayer money that is now supporting GM.  This is like the arrogant rich kid who brags about being  smart when he was just lucky enough to inherit daddy&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The End of the Chinese Decade</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/01/the-end-of-the-chinese-decade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
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During the 1970&#8217;s the sudden and enormous wealth of the Arab World as a result of the oil cartel OPEC, made everyone think they would rule the world. Raising oil prices as a result of the US aid to Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur War (disproving the myth that we only fight for oil), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fabricating a Recovery</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2009/12/fabricating-a-recovery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In  the American Metal  Market magazine Commercial Metals Company&#8217;s (CMC) metal fabrication division noted a drop in earnings to a $&#8217;17.3 million LOSS  in the most recent fiscal  quarter (three months ending Nov 30) from a profit of $66.6 million in the same period a year ago. Tonnage is down 32% and prices are down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Profits, not Credit, is the Key to a Recovery</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2009/12/profits-not-credit-is-the-key-to-a-recovery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama is now pressuring the banks to make loans to stimulate the economy.  Yet again we have the government creating a crisis and then blaming the private sector.
The banks are in the business if making loans. They should not be encouraged to make reckless loans; that is what fomented the crisis to begin with.  Fannie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Zombie Economy</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2009/11/the-zombie-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
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By preventing assets from reaching their market levels, the administration risks making the recession last longer than it should.
The uncertainty in all of the radical bills proposed in the first year has businesses behaving like a deer in the headlights.  They are afraid to invest in such an uncertain environment, yet many cannot afford to [...]]]></description>
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