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	<title>Daily Nexog &#187; Blaise Vanderhorst</title>
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	<description>The official blog of UC Santa Barbara&#039;s newspaper, the Daily Nexus.</description>
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		<title>Independence Day Grab-Bag</title>
		<link>http://blog.dailynexus.com/shallow/uncategorized/independence-day-grab-bag/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 05:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blaise Vanderhorst</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Big Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Big Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fourth of July]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GMOs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[republican party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SCOTUS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I hope you all had a safe and enjoyable Fourth of July.  In honor of Independence Day I’ve prepared a special triple-feature for you: a grab-bag of news items representing the three biggest threats to your individual liberties and well-being as an American: Big Business, Big Religion, and Big Government.  These categories, while not perfect, adequately cover most groups, individuals, political movements, and ideologies at work in the world right now which threaten your freedoms: freedom of speech, economic freedom, scientific freedom, artistic freedom, and property rights, including the environment-oceans, atmosphere, groundwater, climate-which is our mutual property.

The categories aren’t mutually-exclusive, there are internal divisions within the groups, and some individuals or factions might actually pursue the agenda of another group, even if it may be to the detriment of themselves or their own class.  For example, a wealth corporate executive, a man who most would assume would pursue the interests of Big Business, might actually give money and political support to the advancement to the cause of either Big Religion or Big Government, even if such might harm his business interests in the long-term.  Also, it should be noted that both Big Business and Big Religion seek to harness the power of Big Government-the largest, wealthiest, and most powerful of the trio-to pursue their own agendas.  Big Government helps the other two grow, but as it is also the most directly accountable to the people and the most powerful of the three, it can be used to crush down the other two to manageable levels before cutting itself down to size.  Government must be the means the people have to defend their rights, and thus it must occasionally intervene in personal matters, including matters of commerce and religion, but just as there is not always martial law, the government ought to be, in its day-to-day state, small and unobtrusive.

First, let’s start off with Big Government:]]></description>
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		<title>The Gulf Oil Spill and the Future of Energy</title>
		<link>http://blog.dailynexus.com/shallow/uncategorized/the-gulf-oil-spill-and-the-future-of-energy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dailynexus.com/shallow/uncategorized/the-gulf-oil-spill-and-the-future-of-energy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blaise Vanderhorst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[barack obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil spill]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.dailynexus.com/?p=2549</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. But from what I&#8217;ve tasted of desire, We&#8217;ll perish by oil, not ice or fire. (Apologies to Mr. Frost) We have now passed day 65 of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and things keep getting more and more ludicrous.  Obama’s moratorium on deepwater [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holding Media Accountable: How the Huffington Post Spins Data</title>
		<link>http://blog.dailynexus.com/shallow/uncategorized/holding-media-accountable-how-the-huffington-post-spins-data/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dailynexus.com/shallow/uncategorized/holding-media-accountable-how-the-huffington-post-spins-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blaise Vanderhorst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Huffington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poll]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tea party]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[2010 Multi‐state Survey on Race &#38; Politics Tea Party Poll Tea Party, June 1 Another day, and yet another meaningless poll which is completely misconstrued by the media, this time courtesy of University of Washington and the Huffingtonpost.com.    With the headline “More Than Half Of Tea Party Supporters Say Gays And Lesbians Have Too Much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No on 14 and 16</title>
		<link>http://blog.dailynexus.com/shallow/uncategorized/no-on-14-and-16/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blaise Vanderhorst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prop. 14]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prop. 16]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.dailynexus.com/?p=2538</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[2010 Multi‐state Survey on Race &#38; Politics Well, the June primaries are less than a week away, and like any California election this month’s ballot is loaded with propositions.  I don’t have the sufficient level of obsessiveness to go through the pros and cons of all the initiatives, so for this entry I’ve targeted what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calderon Addresses Congress; Pot Addresses Kettle</title>
		<link>http://blog.dailynexus.com/shallow/politicsetal/calderon-addresses-congress-pot-addresses-kettle/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dailynexus.com/shallow/politicsetal/calderon-addresses-congress-pot-addresses-kettle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 00:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blaise Vanderhorst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics et al.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Felipe Calderon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illegal immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kagan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexican]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.dailynexus.com/?p=2520</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“…it is a law…that not only ignores a reality that cannot be erased by decree, but also introduces a terrible idea…using racial profiling as the basis of law enforcement.  That is why I agree…I agree with the president: the new law carries a great amount of risk…when core values that we all care about are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fairly Unbalanced: The State of the Modern Mainstream News Media</title>
		<link>http://blog.dailynexus.com/shallow/politicsetal/fairly-unbalanced-the-state-of-the-modern-mainstream-news-media/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dailynexus.com/shallow/politicsetal/fairly-unbalanced-the-state-of-the-modern-mainstream-news-media/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 23:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blaise Vanderhorst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics et al.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mainstream]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MSNBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.dailynexus.com/?p=2435</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The internet, if it can survive as a free and neutral venue for the exchange of ideas, will be the salvation of us all.  Imagine a time before the web, when the only sources of information were newspapers, radio newscasts, and more recently network news.  Now we can have direct reports from bloggers who were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Healthcare Reform and Tort Reform</title>
		<link>http://blog.dailynexus.com/shallow/politicsetal/on-healthcare-reform-and-tort-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dailynexus.com/shallow/politicsetal/on-healthcare-reform-and-tort-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blaise Vanderhorst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics et al.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tort reform]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.dailynexus.com/?p=2392</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Author’s Note:  I’d have commented on this all much sooner, but computer issues and other personal matters have delayed my completion of this entry. It’s been quite an eventful couple of weeks in the world of politics. President Obama signed into law the healthcare bill which the House had passed the prior weekend, and that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Arrogance of Power</title>
		<link>http://blog.dailynexus.com/shallow/politicsetal/the-arrogance-of-power/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dailynexus.com/shallow/politicsetal/the-arrogance-of-power/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blaise Vanderhorst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics et al.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear option]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reconciliation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rush limbagh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tea party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.dailynexus.com/?p=1792</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The nuclear option has been decided on. President Obama and the Democrat majority leaders in Congress have decided to use the parliamentary procedure known as reconciliation to pass their unpopular health care reform bill, a bill that the Republicans oppose, a bill that some liberal Congressmen oppose for not being liberal enough, and a bill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy New Year To All</title>
		<link>http://blog.dailynexus.com/travel/happy-new-year-to-all/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dailynexus.com/travel/happy-new-year-to-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blaise Vanderhorst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Featured Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[So Long, Santa Barbara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Happy New Year]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ireland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UCSB Blog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I hope you all had a Merry Christmas. I’ve been back in the States for little over a week now, and boy is it good to be home. Ireland can be a great place, and a shitty place.  More than anything it is different: different from what anyone from America, but especially sunny SoCal, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama as Bad as Bush?</title>
		<link>http://blog.dailynexus.com/shallow/politicsetal/is-it-too-soon-to-say-that-obama-is-as-bad-as-bush/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dailynexus.com/shallow/politicsetal/is-it-too-soon-to-say-that-obama-is-as-bad-as-bush/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blaise Vanderhorst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics et al.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shooting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.dailynexus.com/?p=1569</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“I emphasized that this has to be a point in time in which we begin to write a new chapter based on improved governance, a much more serious effort to eradicate corruption, joint efforts to accelerate the training of Afghan security forces so that the Afghan people can provide for their own security.&#8221; -President Barrack [...]]]></description>
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