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		<title>Is the US in Decline?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My father, who was an English professor, once published an article entitled, &#8220;Does Grammar Checkers Work?&#8221; He ran the article &#8212; with the title &#8212; through a grammar checker before he published it. Time Magazine has just published an article bearing the title, &#34;Are America&#039;s Best Days Behind Us&#34;? There is an eerie similarity between [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sdcojai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4523563&amp;post=484&amp;subd=sdcojai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Self-Assured Than Smart</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of many delightful moments in the movie The Fugitive occurs when a colleague of fugitive Dr. Kimble confidently informs Federal Marshal Gerard and his assistant that they will not succeed in finding Kimble. When Gerard wonders what makes him so sure, the colleague replies, &#8220;He&#8217;s too smart for you.&#8221; Upon which the marshal and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sdcojai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4523563&amp;post=423&amp;subd=sdcojai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The One Good Thing About the Obama Administration, and the Democratic Congress&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; is that they are bringing real leaders out of the shadows. For example, listen to this.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sdcojai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4523563&amp;post=416&amp;subd=sdcojai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Atheism Versus Theism Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an earlier post I described how faith is generically like opinion, because it involves both reason and will. Faith and opinion are both perfectly compatible with reasonableness, but the reasons for holding something by opinion or faith are formally different from the reasons on account of which we can be said to know something. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sdcojai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4523563&amp;post=360&amp;subd=sdcojai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wise Encouraging Words</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 05:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some refreshing words to recall, after the idiocy emerging lately from Congress and the White House. In view of the latter, the admonitions at the end of this talk were clearly prescient and wise. ~~~~~~~~~ Ronald Reagan&#8217;s Farewell Address to the Nation Oval Office January 11, 1989 This is the 34th time I&#8217;ll [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sdcojai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4523563&amp;post=356&amp;subd=sdcojai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Understand the Health Care Bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who really wants to understand the health care bill should watch this &#8212; both parts. Then after that, watch this.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sdcojai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4523563&amp;post=351&amp;subd=sdcojai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Health Care&#8221;: an Open Letter to Members of Congress</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States of America used to be thought of as a beacon of freedom, the &#8220;great experiment&#8221; of government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Most Americans still profess their pride in being part of that great experiment. What about you, dear members of Congress? Do you profess that also? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sdcojai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4523563&amp;post=343&amp;subd=sdcojai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Motion, the Act of the Potential, and Inanimate Being</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is not, one must suspect, as easy as many people think to separate ancient cosmology from what it called the &#8220;perennial philosophy.&#8221; The unfortunate thing, though, is that many &#8220;perennial philosophers&#8221; aren&#8217;t too interested in even trying to separate them. They are quite content with the good of fictional verisimilitude. It does not occur [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sdcojai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4523563&amp;post=329&amp;subd=sdcojai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Imagine a World Without Force</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hamlet, in a state of agitation, speaks of &#8220;words, words, words&#8221; when asked what he is reading. We have arrived at a world where Hamlet&#8217;s agitation might well be ours: a world where &#8220;words&#8221; are overused and abused. The preciousness of silence is often forgotten. This is (at least one reason) why this blog tries [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sdcojai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4523563&amp;post=319&amp;subd=sdcojai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Culture War Over? An Open Letter to Barack Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas Eve, 2008 Dear Mr. Obama, In a speech before Planned Parenthood in 1997, you suggested that the &#8220;culture war&#8221; is a worn out debate  (&#8220;so nineties,&#8221; as you put it) that America needs to put to rest for once and for all. And you said that you would help to make that happen by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sdcojai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4523563&amp;post=230&amp;subd=sdcojai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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