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		<title>President Warren G. Harding: The best and the worst of 882 days in office.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mike

Around here,  it isn&#8217;t hard to figure out that we have a certain affinity for American Presidential history. Which brings me to Jason&#8217;s post on Warren G. Harding, the 29th President of the United States, and an essay that appeared on First Principles titled, &#8220;Warren Harding and the Forgotten Depression of 1920.&#8221;
Harding, throughout history, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westernexperience.wordpress.com&blog=5892674&post=4219&subd=westernexperience&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Well said, Mr. President. Your best moment yet.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Major Malik Nadal Hassan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://westernexperience.wordpress.com/?p=4410</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Jason
To say we&#8217;ve been critical of President Obama on here in the past would be charitable. We&#8217;ve met him at every turn when we thought the need warranted it. But we have never been rabid, baseless, nor reactionary hyper-partisans while doing so. There have been times, albeit only a few, where we have applauded [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westernexperience.wordpress.com&blog=5892674&post=4410&subd=westernexperience&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>George Bush and a touch of class.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://westernexperience.wordpress.com/?p=4381</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Mike
One of the biggest problems I personally had with George Bush was his relentless ideal never to fight back during his Presidency. The former President seemed more preoccupied with the maintaining the integrity of his position rather than engaging or allowing his subordinates to engage in political muckracking. Regardless of that fact his sense [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westernexperience.wordpress.com&blog=5892674&post=4381&subd=westernexperience&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Congressional Democrat Logic: The house is on fire, so let&#8217;s remodel the bedroom then arrest the carpenter.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://westernexperience.wordpress.com/?p=4351</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Mike
Ridiculous title? Not really when you look at what is unfolding in our government these days. Many of the situations that are in the backdrop of the political melodrama of health care reform range from pathetic to sheer insanity. Meanwhile, as all of this uselessness is transpiring  while people are living through real [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westernexperience.wordpress.com&blog=5892674&post=4351&subd=westernexperience&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Now this is a Nobel Peace Prize winner: Sgt. Kimberly Munley</title>
		<link>http://westernexperience.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/now-this-is-a-nobel-peace-prize-winner-sgt-kimberly-munley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Society]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jason

New York Daily News &#124; Police Sgt. Kimberly Munley credited with ending Fort Hood gunman Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan&#8217;s rampage
The hero cop who ended the bloody rampage at Fort Hood by pumping four bullets into the crazed gunman even though she was wounded is known for her toughness, friends say.
Before relocating to Texas, civilian police [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westernexperience.wordpress.com&blog=5892674&post=4346&subd=westernexperience&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. Sinh Tho Nguyen&#8217;s shore to shore journey is finally at an end.</title>
		<link>http://westernexperience.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/mr-sinh-tho-nguyens-shore-to-shore-journey-is-finally-at-an-end/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shore to Shore: A Walk Across America to Honor Those Who Serve]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://westernexperience.wordpress.com/?p=4342</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Mike

Amid the horrible news coming out of Killeen, Texas here is a little inspiration. Back in late July, Jason posted a story about Mr. Sinh Tho Nguyen, an Army National Guard Veteran, who was walking across America to honor the sacrifice made by those in the military. 
Well Mr. Nguyen&#8217;s journey is finally coming [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westernexperience.wordpress.com&blog=5892674&post=4342&subd=westernexperience&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. soldiers gunned down on U.S. soil</title>
		<link>http://westernexperience.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/u-s-soldiers-gunned-down-on-u-s-soil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Society]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jason
I&#8217;ll cut to the chase. This was planned and carried out as evident from multiple shooters. One of the shooters, Major Malik Nadal Hasan, is a convert to Islam &#8212; the religion we&#8217;ve all grown to know over the last decade. We&#8217;ll see how long it takes for those kind of details to come out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westernexperience.wordpress.com&blog=5892674&post=4338&subd=westernexperience&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Outside experts and former officials say Obama&#8217;s national security team is &#8216;incredibly weak&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://westernexperience.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/outside-experts-and-former-officials-say-obamas-national-security-team-is-incredibly-weak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jason
President Clinton once quipped, &#8220;foreign policy is not what I came here to do,&#8221; I think we can make the same case for President Obama. Except unlike Clinton, Obama inherited two wars and highly focused GWOT policies on international terrorism and our battle against al Qaeda and the Taliban. As a member of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westernexperience.wordpress.com&blog=5892674&post=4333&subd=westernexperience&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conservatism and Western Civilization: A Historical Tradition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political Thought]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I were super smart, talented, and motivated I may be able to write something like this one day. But I am none of those things. At least not to the point to where I could produce and essay like this. So I&#8217;ll resign and just post some of it here.
At the site First Principles [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westernexperience.wordpress.com&blog=5892674&post=4328&subd=westernexperience&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>About that pesky NY-23&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://westernexperience.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/about-that-pesky-ny-23/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mike
Don&#8217;t think it represents something? Think again. The NY-23 has some meanings to both sides of the aisle that are extremely important.
No matter how you try and spin it, no matter how you try and slice it the sad and painful reality of this particular race is the Progressives rebuffed the Tea Party activists, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westernexperience.wordpress.com&blog=5892674&post=4314&subd=westernexperience&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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