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		<title>Spreading Democracy in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://vtfarmer.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/spreading-democracy-in-afghanistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have long railed against our War in Afghanistan&#8230; indeed, railed against our practice  of Perpetual War&#8230;. What we are doing there is simply wrong. The neo-con idea of spreading democracy through the use of force, an idea taken up and run with by our current Nobel Peace Prize winning Democratic President, and condoned by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vtfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9785129&amp;post=732&amp;subd=vtfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Brief Discourse on Gibbon</title>
		<link>http://vtfarmer.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/a-brief-discourse-on-gibbon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 17:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have recently taken up Gibbon&#8217;s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Written nearly two and a half centuries ago, it is a massive book, and remains an astonishing, insightful, quite relevant, and sometimes humorous work.  Over the next year, I intend to write a series of posts that will, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vtfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9785129&amp;post=728&amp;subd=vtfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>America:  The Land of the Free or A Nation of Slaves?</title>
		<link>http://vtfarmer.wordpress.com/2010/12/12/america-the-land-of-the-free-or-a-nation-of-slaves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 17:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My people, my family, or at least lines of my family, have resided in America since the early colonial days.   They came for the promise of a better life, free from the political entanglements and intrigues , from European politics, and the shackles of class.  They came seeking, in a word, liberty, and here they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vtfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9785129&amp;post=723&amp;subd=vtfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Airport Security: Let’s Profile Muslims</title>
		<link>http://vtfarmer.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/airport-security-let%e2%80%99s-profile-muslims/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is refreshing to see a Muslim American propose the utilization of profiling as a methodology to combat domestic terrorism.  One does not have to be a rocket scientist to recognize that the majority of attacks on airliners have been perpetrated by Muslims, some American born, some not.  The article below is by an American [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vtfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9785129&amp;post=721&amp;subd=vtfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our Shepherd, The TSA</title>
		<link>http://vtfarmer.wordpress.com/2010/11/25/our-shepherd-the-tsa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The TSA is an abomination that needs to be abolished.  In all the years of their existence, they cannot claim to have prevented one terrorist act.  They have, however, molested millions of children, grandmothers, etc., and are now spraying everyone with radiation with their body scanning devices to &#8220;keep them safe&#8221;. They claim that the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vtfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9785129&amp;post=713&amp;subd=vtfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Longest War</title>
		<link>http://vtfarmer.wordpress.com/2010/09/19/the-longest-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vtfarmer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When will the Great Men realize that Afghanistan is a quagmire?   As our dear boys spend their blood in those god forsaken mountains,  billions of our tax dollars are channeled out of the country into private accounts, elections are rigged, warlords are enriched with  profits from poppy production.  Sweet Jesus! The idiocy of this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vtfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9785129&amp;post=711&amp;subd=vtfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>America&#8217;s Great Divide&#8230;  The Wealthy and Everybody Else</title>
		<link>http://vtfarmer.wordpress.com/2010/09/04/americas-great-divide-the-wealthy-and-everybody-else/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vtfarmer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is America still the &#8220;Land of Opportunity&#8221; or is it quickly becoming the land of the Super Wealthy and everyone else?  The statistics quoted in this article argue for the former. Big government and big business are not our friends.  Read the article below. 30 Statistics That Prove The Elite Are Getting Richer, The Poor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vtfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9785129&amp;post=709&amp;subd=vtfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ground Zero mosque debate is about common sense, sensitivity to 9/11 vics, not religious freedom</title>
		<link>http://vtfarmer.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/ground-zero-mosque-debate-is-about-common-sense-sensitivity-to-911-vics-not-religious-freedom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vtfarmer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Religious freedom is enshrined in our constitution.  I believe that all may believe what they would believe and should worship as they please. This being said, however, it is a bad idea to put a Mosque near ground zero. After all, it was Jihadist Islamists that committed the horrendous act of plowing airplanes into the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vtfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9785129&amp;post=704&amp;subd=vtfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To the Right of the Bell Curve</title>
		<link>http://vtfarmer.wordpress.com/2010/08/01/to-the-right-of-the-bell-curve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 23:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the course of our lives, we may, if fortunate, meet someone along the way who, by their clarity of thought and intellect, the force of their convictions or moral certitude,  or through the cultivation of their faculties and capacities, are set so far apart from us mere mortals that in their presence we are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vtfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9785129&amp;post=695&amp;subd=vtfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Growth of Government</title>
		<link>http://vtfarmer.wordpress.com/2010/07/25/the-growth-of-government/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.&#8221; Thomas Paine Our nation has seen many changes in the last sixty years, and few for the better.  Federal power has become more centralized.  More and more Washington seems a government distant and out of touch with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vtfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9785129&amp;post=688&amp;subd=vtfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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