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	<title>Rebel Yid - Ideas beyond the left/right, red/blue, and liberal/conservative thinking &#187; Democrats</title>
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		<title>Marginalizing Extremists</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2012/01/marginalizing-extremists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 13:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti Semitism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[extremists]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Both parties seem to have elements that the other party considers extreme.  For the Democrats it is union thugs, liberal anti-Semites, environmental zealots, and blatant socialists. For the Republicans it is creationists (considered anti-science),  fundamentalist Christians, pro-lifers, and the ethnocentric. (Many Democrats just say ‘racists’. Republicans do not accept that for good reason but many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Wolves and a Sheep</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/11/two-wolves-and-sheep/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 09:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Thomas Sowell Reader]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Sowell]]></category>

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I am guilty of associating freedom with democracy.  Thomas Sowell writes in his book The Thomas Sowell Reader that there is a distinct difference in the chapter ‘Freedom Versus Democracy.’
Democracy and Freedom are too often confounded.  Britain itself did not have anything cloze to democracy until the Reform Act of 1832.  But it had freedom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons Unlearned</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/12/lessons-unlearned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 10:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[regulations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>

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Much of the talk about the fairness of the tax code and the extension of the Bush tax cuts is just thinly veiled class warfare. By focusing on billionaires and millionaires we lose sight of the far more mundane reality.
$380,000 in income puts you in the top 1% of income earners. This could be a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who are the Independents?</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/07/who-are-the-independents/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/07/who-are-the-independents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[9/11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bipartisan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Rangel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Dodd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[independents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keynesians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[libertarian]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[radical politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[republican]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[socialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tea party]]></category>
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In the wake of the elections  of November 3, 2008 we noted the dramatic swing of the independent voter.  Who are these voters and why do they refuse to ally themselves with one of the two major parties?  I confess up front that this is my sense and perception and I do not propose to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If Wall Street Spoke the Truth</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/04/if-wall-street-spoke-the-truth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/04/if-wall-street-spoke-the-truth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peggy Noonan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal]]></category>

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A thorough review of what caused the financial crisis is needed and it should be  a fascinating subject. Unfortunately the hearings are weak and boring. In the Wall Street Journal&#8217;s &#8220;After the Crash, a Crashing Bore
The men behind the bailout take refuge in impenetrable jargon&#8221; Peggy Noonan writes of  her disappointment in the hearings.
In this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Price of a Big Tent</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/03/the-price-of-a-big-tent/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/03/the-price-of-a-big-tent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pro-life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[republican]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roe vs Wade]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is interesting to see the difficulty  the Democratic Party is having from the pro-life constituency within its ranks. I would have thought the Democrats would have been more solid as a pro-choice party.  It is interesting to see the struggle they have with a big tent.
The Republicans have been struggling with this for years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burying the Blue Dogs</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/03/burying-the-blue-dogs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/03/burying-the-blue-dogs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blue Dogs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slaughter Rule]]></category>

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The threat of the Slaughter Rule to pass the Health Care legislation leaves us wondering if the cure to our health care problems is not worse than the disease.  It seems that there are only two reasons to resort to this tactic.  Either Pelosi does not have enough votes to pass the bill or she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Need for Mutiny</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/01/a-need-for-mutiny/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/01/a-need-for-mutiny/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cap and Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry reid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[partisanship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rebelyid.goroundhost.com/?p=2759</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is stunning to see such a reversal in the Democrat&#8217;s fortune in the course of one year.  As the electorate sees the hopes and dreams degenerate into deficits and taxes, the administration will be inclined to spin the outcome into something other than the rejection that it is.
It is clear that the Democrats misread [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Low Can You Go</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/01/how-low-can-you-go/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/01/how-low-can-you-go/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coakley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[negative campaigns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Thomas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is how desperate  and how low the Massachusetts Democrats are willing to go. This is the Democrat Party mailer Scott Thomas is suing over.  I realize that political operatives from both parties have often believed in the effectiveness of such negative campaigns, but it has appeared to me that they rarely work.  Such action [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Nail in Kennedy&#8217;s Coffin</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/01/the-nail-in-kennedys-coffin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/01/the-nail-in-kennedys-coffin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coakley]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pelosi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reid]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Scott Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tea baggers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rebelyid.goroundhost.com/?p=2731</guid>
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The race in Massachusetts is stunning.  If Democrat Coakley is unable to beat Republican Brown in the bluest of blue states, then any Democrat is vulnerable. Just the fact that this race is close  should be a startling wakeup call to the Democratic party.
It appears that Brown is doing and saying all the right things [...]]]></description>
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