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		<title>Texas IS the Best</title>
		<link>http://www.myownthoughts.com/2010/07/10/texas-is-the-best/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics/Military]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Political Calculations has a blog post on whether businesses prefer Texas or California.
Texas wins.
Go see why.
And by how much.
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		<title>Finding Health Care</title>
		<link>http://www.myownthoughts.com/2010/07/10/finding-health-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article is about a man trying to find the proper health care for his wife.
She had a permanent pain disease.
It tells of their frustrations with the healthcare system as it exists and what they think is good.
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		<title>Two Bad, One Good: Supreme Court Decisions</title>
		<link>http://www.myownthoughts.com/2010/06/28/two-bad-one-good-supreme-court-decisions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myownthoughts.com/2010/06/28/two-bad-one-good-supreme-court-decisions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics/Military]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[BAD:
Constructive Curmudgeon says 
The Supreme Court just ruled that a college or university may deny a student group official status if that group does not allow homosexuals as leaders.
BAD:
Stop the ACLU says that people are going to quit signing petitions.
In an 8-to-1 decision, the high court said public disclosure of referendum petitions does not as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tribute to a Nurse</title>
		<link>http://www.myownthoughts.com/2010/06/25/tribute-to-a-nurse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myownthoughts.com/2010/06/25/tribute-to-a-nurse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 07:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics/Military]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sippican Cottage had the piece, &#8220;For Dorothy.&#8221; I recommend reading it.
I was trained to pull men whole from their mothers, like some Greek deity on a vase.
It&#8217;s about a nurse who works with soldiers.
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		<title>He Will Command His Angels Concerning You</title>
		<link>http://www.myownthoughts.com/2010/06/09/he-will-command-his-angels-concerning-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myownthoughts.com/2010/06/09/he-will-command-his-angels-concerning-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics/Military]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Staff Sgt. Edward Rosa reads the Bible and extends a cigarette to Pfc. Jorge Rostra Obando, who was stunned by an explosion in Afghanistan’s Arghanab Valley. One comrade was killed and two injured in the blast. Pfc. Rostran asked the sergeant to read Psalm 91, a favorite from his childhood. (Ricardo Garcia Vilanova for The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 6</title>
		<link>http://www.myownthoughts.com/2010/06/06/june-6/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myownthoughts.com/2010/06/06/june-6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics/Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[66 years ago today, D-Day.
Thank you to those of you who fought during WWII&#8230; and those who have fought since.
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		<title>Are we losing our freedoms?</title>
		<link>http://www.myownthoughts.com/2010/06/01/are-we-losing-our-freedoms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myownthoughts.com/2010/06/01/are-we-losing-our-freedoms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics/Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Right on the Left Coast quotes from the Washington Examiner about the government&#8217;s working paper on the &#8220;reinvention of journalism.&#8221;
Apparently the working paper thinks that the newspapers have a right to the news they report:
Copyright protects an author’s articulation of facts, but not the facts themselves.  
State law versions of the “hot news” doctrine, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flag Etiquette</title>
		<link>http://www.myownthoughts.com/2010/06/01/flag-etiquette/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myownthoughts.com/2010/06/01/flag-etiquette/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics/Military]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[All persons present should face the flag, stand at attention and salute on the following occasions:
1. When the flag is passing in a parade or review. The salute to the flag
in the moving column is rendered at the moment the flag passes.
2. During the ceremony of hoisting or lowering the flag.
3. When the National Anthem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memorial Day</title>
		<link>http://www.myownthoughts.com/2010/05/31/memorial-day-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myownthoughts.com/2010/05/31/memorial-day-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 22:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics/Military]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a day to remember those who serve this country and those who have lost loved ones who served this country.

The photo is from Blackfive.
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		<title>Military and the Ivy Leagues?</title>
		<link>http://www.myownthoughts.com/2010/04/27/military-and-the-ivy-leagues/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myownthoughts.com/2010/04/27/military-and-the-ivy-leagues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics/Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching/Ed]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.myownthoughts.com/?p=5610</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Quoting Thucydides, 
&#8220;A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors has its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.&#8221; 
Right on the Left Coast offers a pungent comment on the &#8220;softening&#8221; of the Ivy Leagues toward the military.
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