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	<title>Walden Ponder &#187; Politics</title>
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	<description>Into the Mind of Jeff Walden</description>
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		<title>Interview with U.S. Citizens</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Walden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The annual State of the Union address is scheduled for tonight. The White House has added an interesting forum to YouTube where users are able to post questions for President Obama to answer in a post State of the Union speech. Other YouTube users are able to vote on the questions and ideally promote the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bureaucrats are Trying to Kill My Baby!</title>
		<link>http://www.waldenponder.com/2011/12/bureaucrats-are-trying-to-kill-my-baby/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=bureaucrats-are-trying-to-kill-my-baby</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Walden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I caught a short clip on CNN about how the government bureaucrats are trying to kill this poor woman&#8217;s four month old baby. Intrigued, I listened in. Have yourself a quick viewing of the clip on the CNN website. Did you watch the clip? I believe it&#8217;s pretty obvious that the government is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Video that UC Davis Students Didn&#8217;t Release</title>
		<link>http://www.waldenponder.com/2011/12/the-video-that-uc-davis-students-didnt-release/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-video-that-uc-davis-students-didnt-release</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Walden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every single United States citizen has the inalienable right to freedom of assembly. That will never change. However, there are still rules with that freedom in order to make it possible. One of those rules is that when you begin to threaten the police with your now non-peaceful assembly, your precious freedom goes out the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberals Are Sheep, Conservatives Are Mules</title>
		<link>http://www.waldenponder.com/2011/05/liberals-are-sheep-conservatives-are-mules/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=liberals-are-sheep-conservatives-are-mules</link>
		<comments>http://www.waldenponder.com/2011/05/liberals-are-sheep-conservatives-are-mules/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 13:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Walden</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is absolutely true: politically liberal individuals tend to just follow the leader and conservative individuals tend to be too stubborn for their own good. We both suck. Researchers have found that we outwardly display a key clue to our political views with our eyes. Let&#8217;s say that you are having a conversation with someone and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Tax Code in Beer Terms</title>
		<link>http://www.waldenponder.com/2011/04/u-s-tax-code-in-beer-terms/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=u-s-tax-code-in-beer-terms</link>
		<comments>http://www.waldenponder.com/2011/04/u-s-tax-code-in-beer-terms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Walden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Milwaukee, WI]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this: The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing. The fifth would pay $1. The sixth would pay $3. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court Showdown</title>
		<link>http://www.waldenponder.com/2011/04/supreme-court-showdown/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=supreme-court-showdown</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 19:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Walden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s 2:16 pm on the day after election and the results that will ultimately decide Walker&#8217;s collective bargaining ban are neck and neck. Prosser is behind Kloppenburg by about 200 votes. With over 1.5 million votes coming in on this election, that&#8217;s a margin of 0.01%. Undoubtedly, there will be recounts and possibly lawsuits before the true [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mob Rule in the Name of Democracy</title>
		<link>http://www.waldenponder.com/2011/03/mob-rule-in-the-name-of-democracy/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=mob-rule-in-the-name-of-democracy</link>
		<comments>http://www.waldenponder.com/2011/03/mob-rule-in-the-name-of-democracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Walden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Democracy: noun - government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/democracy The definition of democracy is fairly straightforward. In realistic terms, it means that a body of people are ruled by a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Fails to March, Where&#8217;s Your Leader Now?</title>
		<link>http://www.waldenponder.com/2011/02/obama-fails-to-march-wheres-your-leader-now/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=obama-fails-to-march-wheres-your-leader-now</link>
		<comments>http://www.waldenponder.com/2011/02/obama-fails-to-march-wheres-your-leader-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Walden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a well known fact that my political views tend to lean just a smidge to the right of political center. As reported around the world, nearly everyone knows about the turmoil in Wisconsin right now over labor unions and benefits. The news is so widespread that I was reading about it in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Leave the Wealthy Out?</title>
		<link>http://www.waldenponder.com/2010/11/why-leave-the-wealthy-out/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=why-leave-the-wealthy-out</link>
		<comments>http://www.waldenponder.com/2010/11/why-leave-the-wealthy-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2010 16:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Walden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles, CA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you join the bandwagon you&#8217;ll be trumpeting your horn for the middle class. We&#8217;re not supposed to talk about the lower class but we are supposed to make sure they don&#8217;t fall prey to the idea of natural selection. But for the upper class, it&#8217;s nothing but distain. Why? What the hell did they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;re All Wrong When it Comes to Gay Marriage</title>
		<link>http://www.waldenponder.com/2010/09/youre-all-wrong-when-it-comes-to-gay-marriage/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=youre-all-wrong-when-it-comes-to-gay-marriage</link>
		<comments>http://www.waldenponder.com/2010/09/youre-all-wrong-when-it-comes-to-gay-marriage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Walden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you support gay marriage, eh? No? It must be against your religion then. I&#8217;m here to make the case that whether you support gay marriage or not, it is time for a reality check. Let us take a minute to reflect on what marriage is in the first place. Besides absolutely insane, marriage is [...]]]></description>
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