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	<title>New Jersey Survival</title>
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	<description>Can You Handle The Truth?</description>
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		<title>A Fake Banking History of the United States</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ask yourself this question: was the housing price bubble, which has burst,  caused by (a) a Fed policy of too much liquidity, which caused artificially low  interest rates, which in turn caused a great deal of malinvestment, or (b) a Fed  policy of too little liquidity which caused high interest rates and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/11/02/a-fake-banking-history-of-the-united-states/</link>
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		<title>A Culture of Death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The director who brought us blockbusters like The Sixth Sense and Signs has just released on DVD what critics derided as a flop. With 72 percent of critics hating it, M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening was seen as the fall from grace of a 21st century Hitchcock. Considered eerie and arty, Shyamalan said that this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/10/19/a-culture-of-death/</link>
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		<title>Understanding Capitalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is 79 years since the Great Depression. Some fear that this week&#8217;s chaos in the financial world means that the curtains are rising on Great Depression II. I don’t have a crystal ball, but I’m sure the immediate future is grim. At the very least we are in for a long and deep recession [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/10/12/understanding-capitalism/</link>
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		<title>Quote of the Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Caveat Emptor!     http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
Long-standing readers and finance junkies may remember the Treasury&#8217;s structured investment vehicle fiasco of last fall. By way of background, banks had created off balance sheet entities called structured investment vehicles (SIVs) which contained subprime (and sometimes other) assets, funded by commercial paper and short-term debt. Like a regular bank, the economics worked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/10/05/quote-of-the-day/</link>
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		<title>Supply-Side Economics Contradictions Live on in Washington</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jeffey Frankel
Politicians have always faced the temptation to give their constituents tax cuts.    But in recent decades “conservative” presidents have enacted large tax cuts that have been anything but conservative fiscally, and have justified them by appealing to theory.   In particular, they have appealed to two theories:   the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/09/21/supply-side-economics-contradictions-live-on-in-washington/</link>
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		<title>THE RISE OF SARAH PALIN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I disagree with Sarah Palin on many issues but, at the same time, appreciate her candor and fresh approach to  our disturbing  political environment. I  found  a  blog  post by Raymond Arroyo that says it all very well:

ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA. If the truth be told, I have always been unmoved by political speeches. I find [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/09/13/the-rise-of-sarah-palin/</link>
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		<title>More Awful Truths About Republicans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the economic debacle facing Americans continues to materialize, those  responsible are running for cover with ten Republican senators refusing to  attend their own national convention. Four years ago we observed that the so-called &#8220;Republican  philosophy&#8221; of small government, sound money, and balanced budgets was illusory  in terms of the history [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/09/06/more-awful-truths-about-republicans/</link>
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		<title>the Fannie and Freddie Bailout Real Cost: At Least $1.3 Trillion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent study from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has zero  credibility. It pegged likely taxpayer losses in the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac  bailouts at $25 billion. For those with a sense of history, it is worth  remembering that the S&#038;L bailout had a $160 billion price tag. The numbers  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/08/23/the-fannie-and-freddie-bailout-real-cost-at-least-13-trillion/</link>
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		<title>The Market, Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ by Ludwig von  Mises





The  Characteristics of the Market Economy
Capital  
Capitalism  
The Sovereignty  of the Consumers 


Competition 
Freedom  
Inequality of  Wealth and Income 


Notes




This article is excerpted from chapter 15 of Human  Action. Robert Murphy has written a study guide for this chapter, available  in HTML [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/08/14/the-market-part-1/</link>
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		<title>I.O.U.S.A.  LIVE!</title>
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		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/08/09/iousa-live/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s The Economy, Stupid!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I thought I would try my hand at economics, but not without some hesitation. I subscribe to the rule that it is good to stay close to home on the big subjects about which I know pretty much nothing, at least formally. But as I see the inescapable consensus forming everywhere that our economy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/08/07/its-the-economy-stupid/</link>
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		<title>N.J. should support offshore wind farms</title>
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The federal government should go forward with plans to lease sea  bottom off the coast for weather studies.To reach Gov. Jon Corzine&#8217;s goal to produce nearly a quarter of the state&#8217;s electricity from renewable sources, wind-generated power must be expanded.In the draft energy master plan by the Corzine administration, the goal is to generate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/08/07/nj-should-support-offshore-wind-farms/</link>
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		<title>N.J. transportation bill could save key programs for seniors, disabled</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Local advocates for the disabled and elderly are urging state officials to pass a bill that would increase funding for statewide transportation programs facing budget cuts in January.Dottie Cullen, a Vineland resident who sits on the county&#8217;s Transportation Advisory Council, said Sunday that an imminent $60,000 cut to the county&#8217;s Cumberland Area Transit System, or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/08/05/nj-transportation-bill-could-save-key-programs-for-seniors-disabled/</link>
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		<title>The State of the Union</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CARTOON CAPITALISM
by Bill Bonner
Last week, purely in the spirit of mischief, we brought up a sore subject: America&#8217;s largest mortgage finance companies, Fannie and Freddie. The two have so much water in their lungs it will take at least $25 billion of the public&#8217;s money to save them. Possibly $300 billion. Were it up to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/08/03/the-state-of-the-union/</link>
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		<title>Moon-walker claims alien contact cover-up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FORMER NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr Edgar Mitchell - a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission - has stunningly claimed aliens exist.
And he says extra-terrestrials have visited Earth on several occasions - but the alien contact has been repeatedly covered up by governments for six decades.
Dr Mitchell, 77, said during a radio interview that sources [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/07/25/moon-walker-claims-alien-contact-cover-up/</link>
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		<title>New Jersey&#8217;s Future - Your Children&#8217;s Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Atlantic City is known for lots of things: Casinos . . . songs by the Boss . . . and wind turbines.
Since 2005, five turbines in Atlantic City have given us a glimpse of the potential for wind power in the Garden State.
For the last two months, Gov. Corzine has been getting feedback on his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/07/25/new-jerseys-future-your-childrens-future/</link>
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		<title>Federal Interventionism</title>
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One of the possible rescue options for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is a conservatorship.  But what would this look like?  The New York Times relates that &#8220;Officials said that [Treasury Secretary] Paulson wanted to convey the message that&#8230;a conservator would have to prepare a plan to restore the company to financial health, much like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/07/24/federal-interventionism/</link>
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		<title>Freddie, Fannie, and Curses on FDR</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ludwig von Mises had a theory about interventionism:It doesn&#8217;t accomplish its stated ends. Instead it distorts the market. That  distortion cries out for a fix. The fix can consist in pulling back and freeing  the market or taking further steps toward intervention. The State nearly always  chooses the latter course, unless forced [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/07/18/freddie-fannie-and-curses-on-fdr/</link>
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		<title>Speak out on Corzine&#8217;s energy plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over two months ago, Gov. Corzine released his draft energy plan. While utility lobbyists largely supported the plan, Environment New Jersey and a coalition of clean energy advocates called on the Governor to make big improvements.
The plan fell short on renewable energy and conservation measures, and it endorsed building more traditional power plants.
Before he revises [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/07/13/speak-out-on-corzines-energy-plan/</link>
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		<title>LAND OF THE FREE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Bill Bonner“This is a society of true believers. The belief in democracy, market economics and the importance of religion is far more pervasive here than Marxism ever was in Russia.”
- Michael Ignatieff, The Daily Telegraph
It is the Fourth of July. Should we hang out the red, white, and blue bunting from our office balcony&#8230;or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/07/07/land-of-the-free/</link>
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		<title>Some Thoughts and Reading Material for the 4th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This essay was originally published in Reassessing  the Presidency: The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of  Freedom, edited by John V. Denson, pp. 667–696. An  MP3 audio file of this article, read by Dr. Floy Lilley, is available  for download.

In a recent survey, people of different nationalities were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/07/06/some-thoughts-and-reading-material-for-the-4th/</link>
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		<title>Is It Time For A Tax Revolt In New Jersey? Yes!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal offers a welcomed reminder of the value of tax revolts titled, “The Spirit of 13.”    Proposition 13 is a notable property tax revolt which was led by the late California citizen Howard Jarvis in 1978.  There are several books about the famed revolt and many attribute the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/07/05/is-it-time-for-a-tax-revolt-in-new-jersey-yes/</link>
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		<title>Many foreclosures may be illegal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most home foreclosures being processed in New Jersey are illegal, a growing group of attorneys contends, because lending institutions cannot prove they own the debt they are trying to collect.
Judges in at least four New Jersey counties already have halted foreclosures, using a federal court ruling in Ohio as precedent. And with 48,000 foreclosures expected [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/06/27/many-foreclosures-may-be-illegal/</link>
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		<title>TIME for Socialism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who is still wondering why the so-called &#8220;mainstream media&#8221; was  so hostile toward Congressman Ron Paul&#8217;s campaign for the Republican  presidential nomination will find an answer in the June 2 issue of Time  magazine. Congressman Paul is a deeply educated student of economics, among  other things, and an unabashed advocate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/06/24/time-for-socialism/</link>
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		<title>INFLATION GOES GLOBAL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Bill Bonner
“Cost of living spirals,” begins The Times  of London. “Families face 40% rise in energy bills.”
“Inflation outstrips salary rises for first time, and it’ll get worse,” adds the Daily Mail . “While wage increases are running at 3.2%, the Consumer Prices Index has gone up by 3.3% – its highest rise since [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/06/21/inflation-goes-global/</link>
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		<title>How to Pick a President</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The President has taken this country to war and the war has not gone well. He has misjudged the spiritual strength of a militarily inconsequential but profoundly committed enemy. War was not even a distant issue when he first became President, and he is increasingly frustrated that this unsuccessful war is defining his presidency. Testy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/06/21/how-to-pick-a-president/</link>
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		<title>Challenge to America: A Current Assessment of Our Republic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Ron Paul

Introduction
The Economy
Potential for War
Social Discord
Conclusion

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		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/06/20/challenge-to-america-a-current-assessment-of-our-republic/</link>
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		<title>In the Matter of George W. Bush v. the Constitution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The indictment of the Bush administration for its conduct of the war on terrorism is both familiar and increasingly insistent. In the aftermath of 9/11, it is charged, the White House responded in ways that not only traduced the U.S. legal system but radically transformed it, stripping American citizens of time-honored rights, trampling on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/06/18/in-the-matter-of-george-w-bush-v-the-constitution/</link>
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		<title>Believe It Or Not!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Consumers shell-shocked by ever higher records for oil and gasoline prices  may have been surprised by the mild Producer Price Index (PPI) update recently issued. 
The Labor Department reported that from March to April, wholesale prices rose  only 0.2 percent, half of what the markets had been expecting. The primary cause  for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/06/17/believe-it-or-not/</link>
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		<title>Take a Stand To Save Our Open Space</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last fall, our television sets were bursting with ads touting the work our local legislators do for the environment and our open space.  Don&#8217;t be fooled.  For years, town councils have fought bad developments that would gobble up New Jersey&#8217;s open space and pollute our drinking water, as legislators have consistently sat by. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/06/15/take-a-stand-to-save-our-open-space/</link>
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		<title>From the Heartland to the Border</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Jim Fedako
My family recently traveled to Texas to relax and camp. I returned with a few  observations.
Because They Can
Camping? Alright, we pull a travel trailer, with hot water, A/C, etc. We&#8217;re  not roughing it, but our SUV is relatively cramped when you consider the empty  space being towed behind us. One [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/06/15/from-the-heartland-to-the-border/</link>
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		<title>Voters would need to OK state borrowing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After maxing out their credit card to one of the heaviest debt loads in the nation, state lawmakers may soon need voters&#8217; permission before they can borrow again.
A constitutional amendment that would require voters to greenlight future state borrowing is gaining steam in Trenton, reflecting public frustration over a perceived addiction to spending and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/06/08/voters-would-need-to-ok-state-borrowing/</link>
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		<title>Defeat Corzine!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax? New Jersey now has the worst progressive tax structure in the nation. No wonder so many of our friends and neighbors are leaving New Jersey to places where they can keep the fruits of their labor. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/06/07/defeat-corzine/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;The State of New Jersey will not grow out of its problems and revenues are not going to grow.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Avidly supported by business and labor, legislation to extend for six years the life of building permits for stalled residential and commercial development projects yesterday began what is expected to be a 17-day express run through the Assembly and Senate.
The bipartisan proposal was unanimously approved by the Assembly Housing and Local Government Committee before a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/06/07/the-state-of-new-jersey-will-not-grow-out-of-its-problems-and-revenues-are-not-going-to-grow/</link>
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		<title>Development - The Debate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Highlands Act is sweeping legislation that restricted development in a huge swath of northern New Jersey. But state officials have never quantified exactly how much development was off the table &#8212; until now.
If the Highlands Act had never passed, some 47,600 new homes and 108 million square feet of commercial development could have been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/06/07/development-the-debate/</link>
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		<title>Citizens of NJ First</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Hi Brian,
Thank you to the more than 1,000 people who told the state Assembly to stand up to the developers&#8217; dream bill that would extend building permits for up to seven years.
The environmental progress we have worked so hard to win is in danger. Positive steps protecting New Jersey&#8217;s open spaces and water over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/06/07/citizens-of-nj-first/</link>
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		<title>A Crossroads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Steve Lonegan

Below is the text of the speech he gave to Americans for Prosperity-New Jersey activists at our Defending the American Dream Summit in Trenton, May 30th, 2008:

I am going to talk of controversial things. I make no apology for this because today we stand at a crossroads, a time in our history as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/06/04/a-crossroads/</link>
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		<title>New Jersey&#8217;s energy future not clear</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Governor reconsiders points of energy plan
When Gov. John Corzine and his staff announced last year that they would be drafting a ten-year energy master plan for the state, Environment New Jersey set out to convince the governor to make energy efficiency and renewable energy the center of the plan, and to reject the utility lobbyists’ [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/06/03/new-jerseys-energy-future-not-clear/</link>
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		<title>It is time for Corzine to come clean</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A day after a state judge ordered Gov. Jon Corzine to make public hundreds of pages of e-mail between his office and state-worker union leader Carla Katz, the governor yesterday released a partial breakdown of the computer traffic but continued to refuse to describe its contents.
At the same time, the state Republican leader who sued [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/06/01/it-is-time-for-corzine-to-come-clean/</link>
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		<title>the NJ Supreme Court decisions in Mount Laurel and Abbott v. Burke and property taxes</title>
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A Property Tax Disaster by By Michael Patrick Carroll
Every legislator claims to favor property tax relief, but by their actions shall you know them. The present majority gave us the fraudulent &#8220;millionaires’ tax&#8221;, rebates with borrowed money, etc. But none of these rookie efforts compares with the threat posed by A-500.
Therein, Speaker Roberts and a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/06/01/the-nj-supreme-court-decisions-in-mount-laurel-and-abbott-v-burke-and-property-taxes/</link>
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		<title>Win this fight for our parks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi Brian,
Thanks to the more than 1,500 people who raised their voices to keep all of our state parks open and the more than 50 people who sent us their personal stories about their state park memories, we&#8217;ve come a long way since the governor&#8217;s announcement on April Fool&#8217;s Day.
Now, with Memorial Day just past, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/05/30/win-this-fight-for-our-parks/</link>
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		<title>Hey Corzine, how about cutting no show jobs instead?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A statewide program that dispenses free help and advice to entrepreneurs and small businesses stands to lose its entire $1 million funding under Gov. Jon Corzine&#8217;s proposed state budget &#8212; and that cut will trigger an additional loss of more than $800,000 in matching federal funds.
Last year, the New Jersey Small Business Development Centers provided [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/05/26/hey-corzine-how-about-cutting-no-show-jobs-unstead/</link>
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		<title>The Economics of a Free Society</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article is excerpted from Part I of Pillars of  Prosperity. An MP3 version of this article, read by  Dr. Floy Lilley, is available for  free download.
 
These selections lay out my views of the proper role of government, namely  that it should serve only to protect the life and property [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/05/24/the-economics-of-a-free-society/</link>
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		<title>The way it could be in New Jersey</title>
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FOR 190 YEARS, New Jersey had no income tax and no sales tax. As recently as 1966, it had only the third-highest property taxes in the nation.
Through home rule, local governments delivered efficient and inexpensive services. New Jersey&#8217;s small towns powered the state to become an economic powerhouse, capable of turning on a dime to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/05/24/the-way-it-could-be-in-new-jersey/</link>
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		<title>Gas and War - the Connection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What’s it got to  																do with the  																price of gas?  																Would some  																reporter with  																access to the  																Republican  																presidential  																candidate please  																ask John McCain  																why he wants to  																continue  																President Bush’s  																Mideast policy  																when it has  																proved so  																ruinous [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/05/21/gas-and-war-the-connection/</link>
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		<title>The Beginning of a Deep Recession</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember stagflation? Prices go up, money is inflated but wages are stagnant.
Bureaucracy :  An administrative system in which the need or inclination to follow rigid or complex procedures impedes effective action: innovative ideas that get bogged down in red tape and bureaucracy.
We need leadership in Trenton, not bureaucracy! 
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With the economy in a tailspin, more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/05/19/the-beginning-of-a-deep-recession/</link>
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		<title>Should the United States Give Aid to Myanmar?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The destruction and suffering in Myanmar from the recent killer cyclone is  incalculable. The death toll, which is rising by the thousands daily, has now  been predicted to top 100,000 people. President Bush, after initially  authorizing $250,000 in US aid, has now pledged an additional $3 million to help  the people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/05/18/should-the-united-states-give-aid-to-myanmar/</link>
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		<title>What Is A Libertarian?</title>
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Let&#8217;s start with Webster&#8217;s definition:
 
Libertarian: A person who upholds the principles of individual liberty especially of thought and action.  Capitalized: a member of a political party advocating libertarian principles. 
 
Libertarians believe in, and pursue, personal freedom while maintaining personal responsibility.  The Libertarian Party itself serves a much larger pro-liberty community with the specific mission of electing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/05/18/what-is-a-libertarian/</link>
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		<title>Are We Running Out of Food?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paul Krugman writes in the New York  Times, April 7 that there is a world food shortage, accompanied by  skyrocketing prices. Because of this, poor people in Africa and other places are  starving. He suggests that this has come about mostly for these reasons: 
   
new food demand by China
the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/05/18/study-history-avoid-failure/</link>
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		<title>Open Space Is Very Important In New Jersey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Sen. Robert Smith (D-Middlesex) thinks New Jerseyans love open space so much that they&#8217;ll pay an annual $32 water tax to buy more. It would be good for the state if he is right. 
 Smith&#8217;s proposal, for which he has introduced legislation, is sound. A modest charge per household, with a levy also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/05/18/open-space-is-very-important-in-new-jersey/</link>
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		<title>Older gas stations struggle to keep up with changing times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At Guy&#8217;s Auto Service in Warren County, the driver leaves Route 57 and steps into 1957.
At the old-time filling station in Washington Borough, three generations of guys named Guy still dispense gas from a fluores cent green pump straight out of &#8220;Happy Days,&#8221; still clean the windshields and provide free air and still host a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/05/17/older-gas-stations-struggle-to-keep-up-with-changing-times/</link>
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		<title>Do We Want Nuclear Plants In New Jersey?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gov. Corzine has unveiled a long-anticipated energy master plan that includes a provision for additional nuclear power plants.
The most likely site for such a plant would be at the adjacent Salem and Hope Creek nuclear power stations in Salem County, where the state&#8217;s largest utility has said it is considering a fourth generating unit.
The nuclear [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/05/17/do-we-want-nuclear-plants-in-new-jersey/</link>
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		<title>Interview With A Terrorist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If I Was A Terrorist 
Must Watch 1 Minute Video
Sarcastic twist on terrorism. Continue

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		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/05/16/interview-with-a-terrorist/</link>
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		<title>An Obituary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today  																we mourn the  																death of the  																United States of  																America. America  																died today at  																the age of 231,  																just fifty-one  																days short of  																her 232nd  																birthday. With  																America dies  																Democracy,  																Liberty,  																Individual  																Rights, the  																Constitution,  																the Bill [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/05/16/an-obituary/</link>
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		<title>Keep NJ Waters Clean</title>
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http://www.environmentnewjersey.org/clean-water
Over the last 35 years, the Clean Water Act has helped make significant strides to clean up New Jersey’s rivers, lakes and streams. But today, many of our most majestic waterways—from the Delaware and Raritan Rivers, to the Passaic, Musconetcong, and Toms  River—still suffer from industrial pollution and run-off contamination from overdevelopment.  New  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/05/16/keep-nj-waters-clean/</link>
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		<title>Keep NJ Parks Open!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi Brian,
Thank you to the over 1,200 of you who wrote to their legislators last week urging that ALL of our state parks stay open.
It&#8217;s been a good week in Trenton for the state budget. An unexpected surplus from tax returns means some of the most controversial budget cuts will be scaled back.
And for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/05/16/keep-nj-parks-open/</link>
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		<title>Jumping the gun on toll hikes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sen. Raymond Lesniak needs to take his foot off the toll hike accelerator.
The Union County Democrat, who has championed numerous plans over the past two years to use higher tolls to bail out state government, is so bent on speeding ahead that he wants the New Jersey Turnpike Authority to hold public hearings on a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/05/16/jumping-the-gun-on-toll-hikes/</link>
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		<title>the running battle over land seizures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ At a table in Rooney&#8217;s with clear views of the ocean, she sat eating &#8212; what else? &#8212; a yogurt. Beside her rose an imposing trophy won in the New Jersey Marathon. Other people at the oceanside eatery noticed and offered congratulations. 
 &#8220;This is really a beautiful place,&#8221; said Kathryn Bowser of Thorndale, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/05/15/the-running-battle-over-land-seizures-2/</link>
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		<title>Corzine Gets It Right For Once</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Call it adult supervision.
Gov. Jon Corzine said Tuesday New Jersey is getting an unexpected budget windfall, but the extra cash should be socked away to help reduce the state&#8217;s debt rather than spent to restore proposed cuts.
Tony Kurdzuk/The Star-LedgerState Treasurer David Rousseau listens to a question from a member of the Senate Budget and Appropriations [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/05/14/corzine-gets-it-right-for-once/</link>
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		<title>Big Bear In NJ!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A 726-pound male black bear, the heaviest ever handled by New Jersey wildlife officials, was captured over the weekend in the northern Passaic County township. It was treated for a nose injury, marked with identifying tags and set free.
&#8220;That is just its spring weight. It only recently left a winter den &#8230; Wait until it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/05/14/big-bear-in-nj/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the same old politics, paralysis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s going on at the State House these days makes it hard to be an optimist. New Jersey&#8217;s problems are huge, but the same old politics and paralysis endure.
We finally elected a governor, Jon Corzine, who was willing to tackle three of the biggest of those problems: runaway state debt, a growing pile of unfunded [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/05/12/its-the-same-old-politics-paralysis/</link>
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		<title>Why business is fleeing New Jersey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s like watching a car wreck in slow motion.
What the Democrats are doing to the state&#8217;s economy, I mean. Pieces are flying off in all directions. In terms of taxes and regulation, New Jersey was once a relative haven, a cheap place to do business. But for most of this century, we&#8217;ve been slowly losing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/05/12/why-business-is-fleeing-the-new-jersey/</link>
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		<title>Why I hope the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People got very excited in 2004 when NASA&#8217;s rover Opportunity discovered evidence that Mars had once been wet. Where there is water, there may be life. After more than 40 years of human exploration, culminating in the ongoing Mars Exploration Rover mission, scientists are planning still more missions to study the planet. The ­Phoenix, an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/05/12/why-i-hope-the-search-for-extraterrestrial-life-finds-nothing/</link>
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		<title>Vote Coming on Obama-UN Give Away of Your Tax Dollars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The United  States Senate may vote any day on the stealth  imposition of what could amount to an $845 BILLION United Nations  style global tax on American citizens?
It&#8217;s  called the Global Poverty Act (S.2433), and it is being sponsored by  none other than Senator Barack Obama.
According  to some conservative [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/05/12/vote-coming-on-obama-un-give-away-of-your-tax-dollars/</link>
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		<title>NJ Turnpike tolls seem certain to rise in’09</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For months, Gov. Jon Corzine and lawmakers have pitched increases in New Jersey Turnpike tolls to pay for big road projects and slice the state debt. 
 But tolls probably will go up within a year anyway for another reason: to keep the New Jersey Turnpike Authority from defaulting on its bond agreements.
The only way, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/05/11/nj-turnpike-tolls-seem-certain-to-rise-in%e2%80%9909/</link>
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		<title>Is Corzine&#8217;s lack of leadership the problem?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New Jersey needs a clean sweep&#8230;let us start at the top!
A special legislative committee on local government consolidation in 2006 suggested that New Jersey towns would require a &#8220;big stick&#8221; approach, as opposed to incentives (aka a &#8220;carrot&#8221;).Gov. Corzine&#8217;s proposed cuts in state aid were presented as such an approach. However, after running the town-by-town [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/05/11/is-corzines-lack-of-leadership-the-problem/</link>
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		<title>Myth and Truth About Libertarianism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by                Murray                N. Rothbard


This                  essay is based on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/01/12/myth-and-truth-about-libertarianism/</link>
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		<title>Betrayal of the Right</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Betrayal of the American Right, by Murray N. Rothbard
Edited and with an introduction by Thomas E. Woods, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 231 pages, $20
Reviewed by Justin Raimondo
www.takimag.com
Edited and with an introduction by Thomas E. Woods, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 231 pages, $20
Reviewed by Justin Raimondo
Part I— Who We Were
Sometime in the late 1970s, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/01/11/betrayal-of-the-right/</link>
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		<title>Troubled Kings, Epiphany, and Ron Paul</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Sunday                marked the beginning of Epiphany on the Christian calendar. For                all you heathen, the next six weeks celebrate Jesus Christ as the  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2008/01/09/troubled-kings-epiphany-and-ron-paul/</link>
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		<title>was Binazir Bhutto a burden to her peers?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Weird,  				isn&#8217;t it, how swiftly the narrative is laid down for us. Benazir  				Bhutto, the courageous leader of the Pakistan People&#8217;s Party, is  				assassinated in Rawalpindi – attached to the very capital of  				Islamabad wherein ex-General Pervez Musharraf lives – and we are  				told by George Bush that her murderers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2007/12/30/was-binazir-bhutto-a-burden-to-her-peers/</link>
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		<title>why do people eat dirt?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
People in many parts of the world indulge in the curious practice of eating dirt, also known as geophagy. But why they do so has remained something of a mystery. Now a new study aims to show whether loam in the earth can be vital in protecting pregnant women from harm.
     [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2007/12/28/why-do-people-eat-dirt/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;class warfare&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just  				a week before Christmas, President Bush gave corporate America  				two big presents. On Tuesday, his Federal Communications  				Commission changed the rules to allow the nation&#8217;s giant  				conglomerates to further consolidate their grip on the media by  				permitting them to purchase TV and radio stations in the same  				local [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2007/12/24/class-warfare/</link>
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		<title>are UFOs real?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[             Japanese Official Admits UFOs Exist
                           21-Dec-2007
           [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2007/12/23/are-ufos-real/</link>
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		<title>real power</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can demonize Bush and Cheney  				(rightfully) until hell freezes over&#8211;but it&#8217;s not going to  				change anything. Keith Olbermann does it almost every night on  				his MSNBC television show, but it doesn&#8217;t change anything.  				Trashing Bush and Cheney or Hillary or Obama might make a lot of  				people feel good, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2007/12/22/real-power/</link>
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		<title>a fatwa against the US dollar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
12/19/07 &#8220;The  				Telegraph&#8221; &#8212; &#8211;  				To all intents and purposes, the Wahabi religious  				establishment of Saudi Arabia has just issued a fatwa against  				the US dollar. This bears watching.







A 												 												message issued by 26 leading  												clerics warns that inflation  												has reached intolerable levels  												in the Gulf [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2007/12/22/a-fatwa-against-the-us-dollar/</link>
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		<title>&#8221; a future that could make 1929 look like a walk in the park&#8221;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[STARING INTO THE ABYSS
One of Britain&#8217;s leading economists, Peter Spencer, issued a warning on Saturday:
“The Government must suspend a set of key banking regulations at the heart of the current financial crisis or risk seeing the economy spiral towards a future that could make 1929 look like a walk in the park&#8221;.
Spencer is right. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2007/12/18/a-future-that-could-make-1929-look-like-a-walk-in-the-park/</link>
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		<title>this financial crisis - the problem of solvency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After the Money&#8217;s Gone
by Paul Krugman 
On Wednesday, the U.S. Federal Reserve announced plans to lend $40 billion to banks. By my count, it&#8217;s the fourth high-profile attempt to rescue the financial system since things started falling apart about five months ago. Maybe this one will do the trick, but I wouldn&#8217;t count on it
In past [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2007/12/17/this-financial-crisis-the-problem-of-solvency/</link>
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		<title>none dare call it treason</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ JFK&#8217;s enemies
Although he has become a legend, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was hardly the most popular president in history when he was gunned down in November, 1963. In the previous six months alone, the Secret Service had reviewed over 400 threats to his life. Three of these were serious enough to entail changes in his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2007/12/15/none-dare-call-it-treason/</link>
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		<title>submit or die</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bruce S. Thornton
Epistle to the Muslims
Christian leaders abase themselves before Islam.
On November 18, the New York Times ran a full-page ad entitled “A Christian Response to A Common Word Between Us and You.” A Common Word is an October letter from 138 Muslim scholars and clerics “to leaders of Christian churches, everywhere.” It reads like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2007/12/15/submit-or-die/</link>
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		<title>bombs away on iran</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tel Aviv - Israel&#8217;s army chief of  								staff hinted Wednesday that the Israeli military  								may have to act itself to prevent Iran from  								becoming a nuclear power, if the international  								community was unsuccessful in doing so. &#8216;The  								international community must act determinedly to  								stop the &#8216;nuclearization&#8217; of Iran,&#8217;  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2007/12/13/bombs-away-on-iran/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Bushed &#8230;a broken record on iran, iraq, the economy&#8230;whatever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ron Paul writes at ICC http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18870.htm about the disconnect between Bush policy and intelligence estimates. Huh????
The latest National Intelligence Estimate has been greeted by a mixture of relief and alarm. As I have been saying all along, Iran indeed poses no quantifiable imminent nuclear threat to us or her neighbors. It is with much alarm, however, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2007/12/13/im-bushed-a-broken-record-on-iran-iraq-the-economywhatever/</link>
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		<title>the religion of Gore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From First Things >>>>>  http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=923 
The global warming/climate change noise machine has reached a crescendo this week with Al Gore’s trip to Oslo to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize, our colleges sponsoring “Focus the Nation” weeks to promote the self-evident moral truth of combating warming, and above all the U.N.-sponsored Bali conference meant to produce [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2007/12/13/the-religion-of-gore/</link>
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		<title>the Mittmeister missteps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, December 10, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In an interview with CBS News&#8217; Katie Couric last week, GOP Presidential contender Mitt Romney was asked &#8220;What&#8217;s the biggest mistake you&#8217;ve ever made?&#8221;  Interestingly, he responded that his practice of the popular stand on abortion - &#8216;personally opposed, but . . .&#8217; was his biggest mistake.  However, in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2007/12/12/the-mittmeister-missteps/</link>
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		<title>Trust The Lord alone, question everything else</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This experiment in government we like to call democracy depends upon a certain level of trust, not only of government and elected officials, but maybe more importantly among the people themselves. After many years under attack, we can now declare trust dead.
Trust was more common and easier to uphold when this nation was founded. With [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2007/12/11/trust-the-lord-alone-question-everything-else/</link>
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		<title>tribes of terror</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Books by Akbar S. Ahmed discussed in this essay:
Resistance and Control in Pakistan: Revised Edition

Islam Under Siege: Living Dangerously in a Post-Honor World
Journey into Islam: The Crisis of Globalization
 
Lord Curzon, Britain&#8217;s viceroy of India and foreign secretary during the initial decades of the 20th century, once declared:
No patchwork scheme—and all our present recent schemes…are mere [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2007/12/11/tribes-of-terror/</link>
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		<title>Romney fights back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The speech of the decade:

&#8220;Faith In America&#8221;
Remarks As Prepared For Delivery
The George Bush Presidential Library
College Station, Texas
December 6, 2007
&#8220;Thank you, Mr. President, for your kind introduction.
&#8220;It is an honor to be here today. This is an inspiring place because of you and the First Lady and because of the film exhibited across the way in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://honorofgod.org/blog9/2007/12/11/romney-fights-back/</link>
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