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	<title>Come on in &#187; America</title>
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		<title>Predictions for 2012</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2012/01/05/predictions-for-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time of year again: time for my predictions for 2012! Just to clarify (as always) this no attempt at fortune-telling, tea reading, astrology, or anything involving animal entrails.  Instead, I am estimating what I think might happen according to everything from Game Theory and analysis to gut feeling.  Some things I get pretty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Absent</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2011/02/18/absent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just read this article online.  Please take a minute to read this excerpt from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel online.

Madison — Law enforcement officers are searching for Democratic senators boycotting a Senate vote on Gov. Scott Walker's budget-repair plan Thursday in an attempt to bring the lawmakers to the floor to allow Republicans to act on the bill... (please click on the title above to read the full post.)]]></description>
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		<title>Leading the Story in the 21st Century</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2011/01/31/leading-the-story-in-the-21st-century/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Star Wars and Narrative I recently bought the original Star Wars trilogy on DVD.  Together, the people in my household have been watching them one by one.  Unbelievably, everyone under my roof have not seen these movies up until now, except for me.  I have had to explain how one could not truly understand American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wikileaks, The Federal Reserve Bank, and a blind free press</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2010/12/02/wikileaks-the-federal-reserve-bank-and-a-blind-free-press/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 18:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For connoisseurs of news and politics, the flurry of activity this week has been thrilling.  There have been assassinations in Iran, countries in the EU going bankrupt, and another little scandal brought on by a website called Wikileaks.org.  Over the last day and a half, the US has also willingly revealed some rather embarrassing information about the actions of the Federal Reserve Bank over the last few years... Click on the title above to continue reading.]]></description>
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		<title>Radio Talk</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2010/11/27/radio-talk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 20:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In High School, shortly after Bill Clinton was elected President, I discovered Rush Limbaugh and talk radio.  I have been a regular listener every since.  In recent years I have become a little bit more picky about whom I listen to, filtering out those who seem to be mere spin-doctors and mouthpieces.  Yet still sometimes my car is playing a CD, but just as often it is tuned to AM talk.

Currently, the big topic of talk radio discussion has been the current TSA screening procedures and scanning machines.  Today I heard Rush Limbaugh loudly telling America that we must not stand for this personal intrusion into our lives, that we must fight back.  He wasn’t telling people to take up arms, but that we needed to push back against our government in order to protect our freedom... Click the title above to continue reading]]></description>
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		<title>Presidential Controvercy &#8211; part 1</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2010/09/29/presidential-controvercy-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 23:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, President Obama gave a speech to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus in support of Hispanic Heritage Month.  His remarks sent the blogs and talk shows all aflutter.  During his comments, which I have linked below, he talked about the great diversity of people that have always made up our country, saying:

We didn’t always get along. But over the centuries, what eventually bound us together --
what made us all Americans -- was not a matter of blood, it wasn’t a matter of birth. It
was faith and fidelity to the shared values that we all hold so dear. We hold these truths
to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, endowed with certain inalienable rights:
life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness.]]></description>
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		<title>Investigative Journalism Awesomeness</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2010/07/22/investigative-journalism-awesomeness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Miriam-Webster one of the hallmarks of what defines journalism is “writing characterized by a direct presentation of facts or description of events without an attempt at interpretation.”  The framers of the Constitution of the United States understood that this was a key aspect of a free society.  This was inherent in the protection of the fourth estate written into the First Amendment.]]></description>
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		<title>Learning Faith -Part 3</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2010/05/30/learning-faith-part-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 04:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is part three in a 3 part series on how we educate the next generation in matters of faith.]]></description>
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		<title>Learning Faith -Part 2</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2010/05/23/learning-faith-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 04:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is part two in a 3 part series on how we educate the next generation in matters of faith.  Read part one, and stay tuned for part three.]]></description>
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		<title>Learning Faith -Part 1</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2010/05/20/learning-faith-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 04:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is part one in a 3 part series on how we educate the next generation in matters of faith. Faith as Meme I am currently reading a book about memes.  Everyone I mention this to asks me the same immediate question.  “What in the heck is a meme?”   Then I begin the inordinately long [...]]]></description>
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