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		<title>Saving Liberty Through Equality — and Equality Through Liberty</title>
		<link>http://tryingliberty.com/2011/08/16/saving-liberty-through-equality-%e2%80%94-and-equality-through-liberty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 21:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Tara Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there’s one thing Americans are passionate about, it’s liberty. But tax laws that favor specific socioeconomic groups and health care laws that diminish our personal choices should cause us to ponder what liberty actually means. Liberty is undermined or &#8230; <a href="http://tryingliberty.com/2011/08/16/saving-liberty-through-equality-%e2%80%94-and-equality-through-liberty/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tryingliberty.com&amp;blog=3896276&amp;post=2991&amp;subd=tryingliberty&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vouching for Choice</title>
		<link>http://tryingliberty.com/2011/07/28/friedman-voucher/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cjarrettdieterle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past several years a wave of education reform has swept across the United States. Charter schools are on the rise, vouchers programs are springing up in various parts of the country, and parents have more control over their &#8230; <a href="http://tryingliberty.com/2011/07/28/friedman-voucher/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tryingliberty.com&amp;blog=3896276&amp;post=2944&amp;subd=tryingliberty&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Knowing Friedom</title>
		<link>http://tryingliberty.com/2011/07/27/knowing-friedom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akoehlinger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Maynard Keynes famously quipped, “Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.” Free-market economist Milton Friedman, however, actually did manage to capture the minds not only &#8230; <a href="http://tryingliberty.com/2011/07/27/knowing-friedom/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tryingliberty.com&amp;blog=3896276&amp;post=2935&amp;subd=tryingliberty&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friedman: the Influence of Ideas</title>
		<link>http://tryingliberty.com/2011/07/25/friedman-the-influence-of-ideas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sjcammenga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the bookshelf of an average American patriot, it would be more common to see a collection of Ronald Reagan biographies than books on the life of Milton Friedman. Ask a person on the street who they think holds the &#8230; <a href="http://tryingliberty.com/2011/07/25/friedman-the-influence-of-ideas/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tryingliberty.com&amp;blog=3896276&amp;post=2913&amp;subd=tryingliberty&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Good Life, No. 4: Love</title>
		<link>http://tryingliberty.com/2011/06/10/the-good-life-no-4-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rombachk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ultimately, political and economic conservatives are concerned with liberty. Each of the planks in the freedom-loving platform is directed at the things Americans need to protect it: lower taxes, less regulation, fewer government programs, reformed legislation. We&#8217;re consumed by this &#8230; <a href="http://tryingliberty.com/2011/06/10/the-good-life-no-4-love/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tryingliberty.com&amp;blog=3896276&amp;post=2617&amp;subd=tryingliberty&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Musings on Minimum Wage</title>
		<link>http://tryingliberty.com/2011/05/31/musings-on-minimum-wage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 20:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sjcammenga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a student trying to pay my way through school, I know I have been blessed to land a summer job at all, much less somewhere I am passionate about. Last year (2010), youth employment was lowest since 1949, having dropped 17.5% from the &#8230; <a href="http://tryingliberty.com/2011/05/31/musings-on-minimum-wage/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tryingliberty.com&amp;blog=3896276&amp;post=2565&amp;subd=tryingliberty&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who Is John Galt?</title>
		<link>http://tryingliberty.com/2010/08/13/who-is-john-galt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sjcammenga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After recently finishing Atlas Shrugged for the first time I could finally answer this question for myself. Perhaps stemming from the state of the economy, Atlas Shrugged has become wildly popular; after selling 200 thousand copies in 2008 it sold &#8230; <a href="http://tryingliberty.com/2010/08/13/who-is-john-galt/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tryingliberty.com&amp;blog=3896276&amp;post=2480&amp;subd=tryingliberty&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gulf Oil Spill and Government Irresponsibility</title>
		<link>http://tryingliberty.com/2010/06/25/gulf-oil-spill-and-government-irresponsibility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>clint7981</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a letter I wrote to The Telegram &#38; Gazette. It is in response to this editorial: (http://www.telegram.com/article/20100620/NEWS/6200411/1020)    After reading “Not What’s Needed Now” (“Anger a Poor Substitute for Leadership,” Telegram &#38; Gazette, June 20), my conviction &#8230; <a href="http://tryingliberty.com/2010/06/25/gulf-oil-spill-and-government-irresponsibility/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tryingliberty.com&amp;blog=3896276&amp;post=2272&amp;subd=tryingliberty&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Michigan Unemployment Decreases</title>
		<link>http://tryingliberty.com/2010/06/17/michigan-unemployment-decreases/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>clint7981</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The unemployment figures for the month of May recently decreased throughout Michigan from 14% to 13.6%. The administration and michigan legislators are pointing to these numbes as proof that intense government action, in the form of stimuli and bailouts, actually &#8230; <a href="http://tryingliberty.com/2010/06/17/michigan-unemployment-decreases/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tryingliberty.com&amp;blog=3896276&amp;post=2173&amp;subd=tryingliberty&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Magna Carta: Signed June 15, 1215</title>
		<link>http://tryingliberty.com/2010/06/16/the-magna-carta-signed-june-15-1215/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ewreynolds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Our king a mock, a coward he Did fail our land across the sea! His sword was blunt, his armor weak, From lack of use with rust did creak. &#8220;And after this expensive venture, He earned the Roman Pope’s censure, &#8230; <a href="http://tryingliberty.com/2010/06/16/the-magna-carta-signed-june-15-1215/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tryingliberty.com&amp;blog=3896276&amp;post=2178&amp;subd=tryingliberty&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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