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	<title>Come on in &#187; Politics</title>
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		<title>An Interesting Look at North Korean News and Policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is an article from today's North Korean News.  I think that this story is a clear view into the thinking of this government, its propaganda, and dysfunction.  This is officially from the North Korean government, but the English version is published to the web from Japan.  The highlights are added by me.  And yes, I do read the North Korean News...nerdy I know, but true.  We'll discuss after the clip.]]></description>
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		<title>Why Communist Countries Don&#8217;t Play Professional Sports</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2012/03/13/why-communist-countries-dont-play-professional-sports/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I must, right off the bat, admit that I am a sports nut.  No, I’m not the kind of guy who knows every free-throw percentage of every player in the NBA, but I do know the ’86 Mets won the World Series after the famous Bill Buckner incident.  That is especially powerful in my mind, because earlier in that year I went to my first Major League game, where the Mets defeated the Giants.  The Miracle Mets pulled it off, working late into the night.  I was hooked.]]></description>
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		<title>A Great Explanation</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2012/02/16/a-great-explanation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This explains being a conservative so well.  I could go on and on, but I doubt I would do a better job of explaining the video than the actual video does.  So without further ado: Tweet This Post Delicious Digg This Post Stumble This Post]]></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>Grinchoversy</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2010/12/12/grinchoversy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 06:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year the keep Christ in Christmas debate has heated up anew with First Baptist Church of Dallas pastor, Robert Jeffress, new website listing businesses that are refusing to acknowledge Christmas.  He has appeared on Fox News as well as local news outlets discussing this apparently controversial site... To continue reading, please click the title above.]]></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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