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	<description>It's Not Business As Usual</description>
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		<title>American Cicero?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737-1832), the only Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence, also served as a diplomat to Canada, a U.S. senator and a Maryland state senator. He was the last of the signers of the Declaration to die. Bradley Birzer is the Russell Amos Kirk Chair in American history and director [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2010/03/06/american-cicero/</link>
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		<title>ECONed: Sic Transit Gloria Americanus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Richard Smith, a London-based capital markets information technology manager, was kind enough to provide an advance copy of his review for the book ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism by Yves Smith, the author of the well-known financial blog Naked Capitalism.
Mr. Smith (real name, and no relation to Yves) helped in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2010/03/06/1436/</link>
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		<title>How to Stay Awake During Obama Speeches: Play Barack Obama Bingo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. Before Barrack Obama’s next televised speech, prepare your “ObamaBingo” card by drawing a square.  I find that 5″ x 5″ is a good size — and dividing it into columns –five across and five down. That will give you 25 1-inch blocks.
Read the instructions at      www.bullshitbingo.net/cards/obama/
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		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2010/02/28/how-to-stay-awake-during-obama-speeches-play-how-to-stay-awake-during-obama-speeches-play-barack-obama-bingo/</link>
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		<title>The Furrows of Algeria: The First Great Novel About Islamism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the terrible Algerian slaughter, and its terrible silence, comes this small tale, told by an officer of the special forces who broke with “Le Pouvoir” of his own country and sought asylum in France. It is the autumn of 1994, deep into the season of killing. An old and simple Algerian woman, accompanied by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2010/02/27/the-furrows-of-algeria-the-first-great-novel-about-islamism/</link>
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		<title>Europe&#8217;s Debt Crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Five Threats to the Common Currency
 First it was Greece. Then came Portugal and Spain, with Ireland and Italy not far behind. The financial crisis has driven up public debt in Europe&#8217;s common currency zone to such heights that many economists fear the euro could collapse. SPIEGEL ONLINE takes a look at the five greatest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2010/02/21/europes-debt-crisis/</link>
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		<title>CONGRESSMAN, CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[American citizens have grown increasingly unhappy with our congressional representatives, and polls show they&#8217;re getting disenchanted with the Obama administration in larger numbers. Funny, but before the loss of one Democratic Senate seat with Scott Brown&#8217;s victory in Massachusetts, voter&#8217;s voices weren&#8217;t much heard. Or rather&#8230;..not many members of Congress were listening. They are now. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2010/02/21/congressman-can-you-hear-me-now/</link>
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		<title>Time to do penance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

At Jesse&#8217;s:

Were Lloyd and Jamie and the pigmen of Wall Street and Washington taking notes during Tiger Woods&#8217; apology?
Doubtful.
No one is perfect, of course. Everyone makes mistakes, everyone sins. We are all weak, and insufficient in ourselves. And yet we attempt great things, in fear and trembling. The spirit endures and abides.
But there are moments [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2010/02/20/time-to-do-penance/</link>
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		<title>Does It Make Sense to Resurrect the Glass-Steagall Act?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the present system, the more unrestricted the banks are, the more money they can generate &#8220;out of thin air,&#8221; and the more damage they can inflict upon the wealth-generation process. FULL ARTICLE by Frank Shostak
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		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2010/02/20/does-it-make-sense-to-resurrect-the-glass-steagall-act/</link>
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		<title>Business is a necessary good</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ A Tale of Two Entrepreneurs
NPR&#8217;s Morning Edition had a touching piece the other day that illustrated how great a blessing business can be, and just how terrible things can be when there&#8217;s no freedom to innovate, produce, and create wealth. Chana Joffe-Walt and Adam Davidson of Planet Money put together the narrative of George [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2010/02/20/business-is-a-necessary-good/</link>
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		<title>The Economics of Calvin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Economics of Calvin and Calvinism
by Murray N. Rothbard on February 18, 2010

[This article is excerpted from An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, vol. 1, Economic Thought Before Adam Smith. An audio version of this Mises Daily, read by Jeff Riggenbach, is available as a free download.]


&#8220;Calvin began with a sweeping theoretical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2010/02/20/the-economics-of-calvin/</link>
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		<title>Debt of No Honor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay
by John Lanchester
Simon &#38; Schuster, 272 pp., $25
 
Among the more trenchant touches in John Lanchester’s study of the financial bust is his framing of the new finance as Wall Street’s answer to post-modernism. Wall Street, too, in Lanchester’s account, engineered “a break with common sense, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2010/02/20/debt-of-no-honor/</link>
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		<title>Despite the U.S. president&#8217;s pleas to the contrary, the war in Afghanistan looks more like Vietnam than ever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ As German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once said, truth is ridiculed, then denied, and then &#8220;accepted as having been obvious to everyone from the beginning.&#8221; So let&#8217;s start with the obvious: There isn&#8217;t the slightest possibility that the course laid out by Barack Obama in his Dec. 1 speech will halt or even slow the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2010/02/15/despite-the-u-s-presidents-pleas-to-the-contrary-the-war-in-afghanistan-looks-more-like-vietnam-than-ever/</link>
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		<title>Goldman possibly banned from Europe?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At Jesse&#8217;s Cafe:
Regular readers will be aware of our thesis that the American Wall Street banks have become dominated by a culture of compulsive sociopaths who are incapable of reforming or restraining their greed. Like all addicts, they push the envelope, emboldened by each successful scam, the weakness of regulators, and the craven support of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2010/02/15/goldman-possibly-banned-from-europe/</link>
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		<title>CFO Survey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you know what companies like yours pay in annual audit fees?  Is your company paying too much?
Is there a way to find out?
CFO Publishing is interested in learning more about how you evaluate audit fees. We value your opinion and therefore would like to invite you to participate in a short, 2-3 minute [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2010/02/14/cfo-survey/</link>
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		<title>Want to buy a car?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Like most Volkswagens this car is ugly but it works. I hope!
Volkswagen&#8217;s $600 car gets 258 mpg &#8212; It looks like Ford, Chrysler and GM
missed the boat again!
China  launches $600 car that will get 258 mpg
This $600 car is no toy and is ready to be released in China  next year.
The single seater aero [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2010/02/13/want-to-buy-a-car/</link>
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		<title>A Geek with cheek?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has been held in awe for many years for his business acumen. But since the world’s richest man embarked upon a career change as a global philanthropist his self-importance has blossomed. 
 On the occasion of the latest global mega gabfest known as the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Mr [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2010/02/10/a-geek-with-cheek/</link>
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		<title>Germany’s awful choice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ After years of profligate spending, Greece is becoming overwhelmed. Barring some sort of large-scale bailout program, a Greek debt default at this point is highly likely. At this moment, European Central Bank liquidity efforts are probably the only thing holding back such a default. But these are a stopgap measure that can hold only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2010/02/10/germany%e2%80%99s-awful-choice/</link>
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		<title>Caring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Among the many books written by Henri  Nouwen (1932-1996), one stands out as an enduring little classic, The Wounded Healer.  For those who knew him, this book is especially powerful because, without expressly intending to, it describes so well the man himself.  It was because of his own wounds that he was able to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2010/02/07/caring/</link>
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		<title>Bankers try to fight off wave of controls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“We cannot have reform of the system driven by what each country sees that it needs for itself,” Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, told the Davos forum on Saturday. “We need to have co-ordination – we cannot afford to have different solutions in different parts of the world.”
Bankers fight controls
As Davos ends, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2010/02/07/bankers-try-to-fight-off-wave-of-controls/</link>
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		<title>Obama’s “Catholic Plan”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Catholic . . . or not – must see!  If you are Catholic, watch it.  If not, watch it anyway.  I’m sending this video out quickly with the hopes that it will get as far as it can before it is pulled by the “Powers that be.”  Please watch this video as soon as you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2010/02/06/obama%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9ccatholic-plan%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>What they knew and when they knew it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“I have to think this train is probably going to leave the station soon and we need to focus our efforts on explaining the story as best we can. There were too many people involved in the deals &#8212; too many counterparties, too many lawyers and advisors, too many people from AIG &#8212; to keep [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2010/01/31/what-they-knew-and-when-they-knew-it/</link>
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		<title>Hearts and Minds</title>
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The Chinese government just did what some Americans would like to do: pull the plug on Avatar and replace it with more patriotic fare. Only in China, “patriotic” means a state-sponsored biopic of Confucius, currently under renovation as an icon of Chinese moral and cultural superiority.
I enjoyed the spectacle of Avatar but like many other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2010/01/31/hearts-and-minds/</link>
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		<title>Our Corrosive Society</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Modern man seems to live in a perpetual tug of war between the struggle to make money and the demand to redistribute it. In the United States, this tug of war is more or less accurately represented by two opposing political parties, the Republicans who are more focused on creating wealth, and the Democrats who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2010/01/30/our-corrosive-society/</link>
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		<title>Red Star Over Iraq</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ It may be the start of the biggest oil job in the world. Each day, 20 workers from BP and China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) buckle down to the task of prepping the Rumaila oil field in southern Iraq for rapid development. In industry lingo, Rumaila is a &#8220;supergiant&#8221;—a 50-mile-long deposit of sweet crude [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2010/01/24/red-star-over-iraq/</link>
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		<title>Why Obama is Now (finally) Getting Tough on Wall Street</title>
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Originally published at Robert Reich&#8217;s Blog

For almost a year now, Democratic pollsters have been pointing out how much the public hates the bank bailout and despises Wall Street. But there was no reason for Democratic leaders in Congress or the White House to pay much attention. After all, it was a Republican president and a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2010/01/23/why-obama-is-now-finally-getting-tough-on-wall-street/</link>
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