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		<title>FREEDOM &amp; COMMUNISM &#8211; ROOSEVELT &#8211; YALTA &#8211; ALGER HISS &#8211; WHITAKER CHAMBERS &#8211; NOW &amp; THEN (Issue 407)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 02:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freedom Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PART THREE OF THIS SERIES A PERSIAN PROVERB: &#8220;He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool &#8211; shun him. He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is a child, teach him. He who knows and knows not that he knows &#8211; is asleep, wake him. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FREEDOM &amp; COMMUNISM &#8211; ROOSEVELT &#8211; YALTA &#8211; ALGER HISS &#8211; WHITAKER CHAMBERS &#8211; NOW &amp; THEN (Issue 406)</title>
		<link>http://www.octogenariansblog.com/freedom-communism-roosevelt-yalta-alger-hiss-whitaker-chambers-now-then-issue-406/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 01:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freedom Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PART TWO From Leaves of Gold: &#8220;Sow a thought, reap an act, sow an act, reap a habit, sow a habit, reap a character, sew a character, reap a destiny.&#8221; Back in the early part of the twentieth century, we were still a relatively young nation, some living in cities but most living on farms. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FREEDOM OR COMMUNISM, ROOSEVELT, YALTA, ALGER HISS, WHITAKER CHAMBERS, NOW &amp; THEN (Issue 405)</title>
		<link>http://www.octogenariansblog.com/freedom-or-communism-roosevelt-yalta-alger-hiss-whitaker-chambers-now-then-issue-405/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freedom Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PART ONE Here we are in the middle of the year 2010 in the middle of a mid-term election, middle of a very hot summer. In the middle of a news cycle about who is going to sit in Helen Thomas&#8217; former seat at White House press conferences, and why President Obama was not invited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MY AMERICA &#8211; I WANT YOU BACK, THE BATTLE PLAN &#8211; SEPARATING THE WHEAT FROM THE CHAFF (Issue 404)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freedom Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SIXTH AND FINAL ARTICLE IN THIS SERIES. Before writing these six articles on a Battle Plan for America, I thought about it a long time, and kept delaying for quite sometime. However, after watching the increasing threat of the Gulf oil spill and no meaningful steps to stop it; listening to the congressional hearing with Tony [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MY AMERICA &#8211; I WANT YOU BACK &#8211; THE BATTLE PLAN &amp; THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT (Issue 402)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freedom Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOURTH IN THIS SERIES: MY AMERICA &#8211; I WANT YOU BACK &#8211; THE BATTLE PLAN &#038; TEA PARTY MOVEMENT I have before me a copy of The Tea Party &#8220;Contract from America,&#8221; which states 365,000 respondents completed online forms to determine the top three planks of the tea party movement platform. That&#8217;s an impressive number [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MY AMERICA &#8211; I WANT YOU BACK! THE BATTLE PLAN (Issue 401)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freedom Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ARTICLE THREE IN SERIES &#8211; MY AMERICA &#8211; I WANT YOU BACK When we hear Battle Plan we think war. When we hear war we think guns, bombs and killings. A battle plan is war, however the type of war battle plan I speak of, is not one of destruction by guns and killing. So [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MY AMERICA &#8211; I WANT YOU BACK (Issue 400)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freedom Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SECOND ISSUE IN SERIES OF ARTICLES: AMERICA &#8211; I WANT YOU BACK We are in a war. A war of ideas between good and evil. A war of Freedom or Bondage. A war about the future for ourselves and our children. An undeclared war, and unrecognized by many. The purpose of this series is to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MY AMERICA &#8211; I WANT YOU BACK (Issue 399)</title>
		<link>http://www.octogenariansblog.com/my-america-i-want-you-back-issue-399/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 19:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freedom Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MY BATTLE PLAN. FIRST ARTICLE IN THIS SERIES JULY 4th, 2010. My America &#8211; I Want You Back is a series of articles, informational, outlining a Plan of regaining my lost Freedoms. Not yours but mine. I&#8217;m a writer but not a journalist, I&#8217;m a fighter but not a soldier, I&#8217;m the Commander-in-Chief of my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE &#8211; CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED &#8211; HUGE TAX HIKES IN 6 MONTHS (Issue 397)</title>
		<link>http://www.octogenariansblog.com/declaration-of-independence-consent-of-the-governed-huge-tax-hikes-in-6-months-issue-397/</link>
		<comments>http://www.octogenariansblog.com/declaration-of-independence-consent-of-the-governed-huge-tax-hikes-in-6-months-issue-397/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 20:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freedom Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE On this 4th of July weekend, it&#8217;s time to re-read the Declaration of Independence, and reflect upon its words of wisdom, authored by Thomas Jefferson, stating, &#8220;We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain un-alienable Rights, among these are life, liberty, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DO WE SEEK LIBERTY FIRST? WHAT&#8217;S OUR DEGREE OF BONDAGE THIS INDEPENDENCE DAY WEEKEND?ELENA KAGAN ON PROPERTY RIGHTS (Issue 396)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 20:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freedom Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOURTH OF JULY WEEKEND During this past week, in the congressional hearings to vet Elena Kagan for appointment as a Supreme Court judge, in my opinion the most important engagement of verbal exchange was between Senator Grassley and Solicitor Kagan on property Rights. He quoted the fifth amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which states, &#8220;nor [...]]]></description>
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