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	<title>The Noise in my Head</title>
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	<description>Trying to find the signal.  Since 1960.</description>
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		<title>Why I Want Leaders to be Educated</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s simple: because I just got through listening to Glenn Beck (I know, here we go again), and I was struck by this insight: from grade school through high school, you learn how to read.  In college you learn how to read.
The emphasis above is important: it&#8217;s the difference between being able to quickly and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noiseinmyhead.wordpress.com&blog=3874508&post=809&subd=noiseinmyhead&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://noiseinmyhead.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/why-i-want-leaders-to-be-educated/</link>
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		<title>Prosecuting Terrorists in NYC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How odd.  House Minority Leader John Boehner says:
The Obama Administration’s irresponsible decision to prosecute the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks in New York City puts the interests of liberal special interest groups before the safety and security of the American people. The possibility that Khalid Sheik Mohammed and his co-conspirators could be found ‘not guilty’ [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noiseinmyhead.wordpress.com&blog=3874508&post=807&subd=noiseinmyhead&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://noiseinmyhead.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/prosecuting-terrorists-in-nyc/</link>
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		<title>Final Healthcare Thoughts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think the divide on healthcare nets out to a misguided notion of American exceptionalism on the part of reform opponents: they think that the U.S. healthcare system is somewhere between &#8220;best in the world&#8221; and &#8220;extremely good,&#8221; and they&#8217;re just wrong.  I&#8217;m sorry to burst the bubble, but the facts just don&#8217;t bear that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noiseinmyhead.wordpress.com&blog=3874508&post=803&subd=noiseinmyhead&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://noiseinmyhead.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/final-healthcare-thoughts/</link>
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		<title>Off-Term Election: Yes, it Mattered</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been listening to liberal pundits explain to the rest of the world how yesterday&#8217;s elections are not a referendum on President Obama, and how there really is no message sent by the drubbing that Democrats took in Virginia and New Jersey.
Baloney.
I think that this hard swing back to the right, fueled by the nonsense [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noiseinmyhead.wordpress.com&blog=3874508&post=799&subd=noiseinmyhead&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://noiseinmyhead.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/off-term-election-yes-it-mattered/</link>
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		<title>Here is Where I Begin Banging my Head on my Table</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Meb Keflezighi became this weekend the first American to win the New York City Marathon.  Which is pretty cool.
But not, apparently, cool enough for some sports guy from CNBC named Darren Rovell, who said it was a little hollow because Keflezighi wasn&#8217;t born here.  He emigrated with his parents from Eritrea 22 years ago, when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noiseinmyhead.wordpress.com&blog=3874508&post=797&subd=noiseinmyhead&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://noiseinmyhead.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/here-is-where-i-begin-banging-my-head-on-my-table/</link>
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		<title>Paying for EVERYTHING</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me completely butcher the sacred cow: the U.S. spends waaaaaay too much on the military.  So much, in fact, that if we were to carve the military back just a bit we&#8217;d be in much better financial shape.  Just ask yourself if the following seem necessary:

The United States accounts for 47% of the world&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noiseinmyhead.wordpress.com&blog=3874508&post=794&subd=noiseinmyhead&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://noiseinmyhead.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/paying-for-everything/</link>
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		<title>Free Speech</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Minuteman leader John Gilchrist was recently disinvited to speak at a Harvard forum.  This came after a woman with close ties to him, Shawna Forde, was arrested for murder in a botched home invasion designed to &#8220;fund&#8221; their group.  One of the victims was a 9-year-old girl.
Gilchrist has bellowed about &#8220;free speech&#8221; after his removal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noiseinmyhead.wordpress.com&blog=3874508&post=791&subd=noiseinmyhead&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://noiseinmyhead.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/free-speech/</link>
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		<title>From the &#8220;Do Your Homework&#8221; Department:</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1.  The other day, President Obama went to Dover Air Force Base to meet with the families of fallen U.S. soldiers and to pay respect to the soldiers&#8217; coffins as they were unloaded from a military transport.  An iconic photo was printed in several newspapers featuring President Obama saluting the coffins.  Rather predictably, Republicans pounced. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noiseinmyhead.wordpress.com&blog=3874508&post=788&subd=noiseinmyhead&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://noiseinmyhead.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/from-the-do-your-homework-department/</link>
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		<title>5000 Year Leap &#8212; of Logic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been hearing so much about Cleon Skousen&#8217;s &#8220;The 5000-Year Leap&#8221; &#8212; from Glenn Beck, obviously, and also from friends of mine &#8212; that I decided to read it.  There are reasons that I should be inclined in the direction of Skousen&#8217;s arguments: I am, like Skousen and Beck, a Mormon; and I do in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noiseinmyhead.wordpress.com&blog=3874508&post=783&subd=noiseinmyhead&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://noiseinmyhead.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/5000-year-leap-of-logic/</link>
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		<title>Short Version of Why I Support a Public Option</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;because as long as your healthcare and mine are controlled by companies whose fundamental motive is to limit our access to healthcare, then no amount of fiddling around on the edges will make things any better and costs will continue to rise twice as fast as inflation.
My wife, who runs HR at a tech company [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noiseinmyhead.wordpress.com&blog=3874508&post=775&subd=noiseinmyhead&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://noiseinmyhead.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/short-version-of-why-i-support-a-public-option/</link>
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