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		<title>April 15th RI Tea Party Photos</title>
		<link>http://www.thrufire.com/blog/2009/04/april-15th-ri-tea-party-photos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Arsenault</dc:creator>
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		<title>Rhode Island Tea Party April 15th 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Arsenault</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a beautiful day with just enough breeze to make the flags blow.  The sign says it all.

That&#8217;s the Independent Man on top of the RI State House.  It&#8217;s a Lively Experiment.


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		<title>US President pleases PLO during Passover?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Arsenault</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama releases waiver for Washington based PLO office.  while he&#8217;s celebrating a Passover Seder at the White House.
This is just incredibly wrong.  It&#8217;s not a protocol gaffe or anything else &#8211; it&#8217;s a direct slap at the Jewish people and the state of Israel, particularly when celebrating their release from captivity.   [...]


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		<title>GM, President Obama &amp; Fascism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Arsenault</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Ledeen wrote an interesting article &#8220;We are all Fascists Now&#8221; when Newsweek declared We Are All Socialists Now&#8221;
The next 2 parts of a great video series lay out what is happening right now!



Since President Obama demanded that GM&#8217;s CEO, Rick Wagoner resign how is it a free-market now?
Can political favor be purchased for market [...]


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		<title>The American Form of Government</title>
		<link>http://www.thrufire.com/blog/2009/03/the-american-form-of-government/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Arsenault</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Birch Society]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It took me a while to track down the origin of this video, which was seen all over the Internet. It was produced by the  John Birch Society, and John McManus, their president, narrated the video.
Actually this is Part 2 of a 4 part series.  The whole thing can also be ordered on [...]


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		<title>Burning of HMS Gaspee &#8211; Inspired Boston Tea Party &#8211; a true story</title>
		<link>http://www.thrufire.com/blog/2009/03/burning-of-gaspee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Arsenault</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bostonians were late to the party &#8211; in 1772 Rhode Islanders decided upon a more radical protest of taxation:  they burned the HMS Gaspee, a royal revenue cutter, to the waterline.
Not sure what the equivalent would look like today, but clearly the whole taxation thing, along with the President&#8217;s calls for us to [...]


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		<title>Revoking Mexico City Policy &#8211; how Obama addresses immigration</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Arsenault</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abortion =  a more expensive contraceptive.
Why install fences when you can simply convince pregnant women to abort in other countries?
Obama does want change &#8211; but it&#8217;s not what people think.


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		<title>Barack Obama &#8211; a dedicated flavor&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Arsenault</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And now for something completely different:
Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit points out what others are beginning to see &#8211; there is something most bizarre with the increasing adoration of  The One® (pbuh), highlighted in this blog post:
Obamania Nightmare (Sure to Be One in a Series)
Brian Doherty &#124; November 13, 2008, 7:35pm
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		<title>The &#8220;Thin Bright Line&#8221; moved</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Arsenault</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Numerous abortion-choicers are confused about the extent of almost the entire pro-life community&#8217;s mourning over the election results; to them it was simply an election. Across pro-life blogs there is a grave concern, but how do you summarize this?  The words most clearly expressing the event come from terminology used in Gonzales vs Carhart:
The thin [...]


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		<title>&#8220;Utter failure of government to protect it&#8217;s citizens&#8221; &#8211;  Irony</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Arsenault</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the front page blurb for a NYTimes editorial:

The Next President
Barack Obama won the election because he saw what is wrong with this country: the utter failure of government to protect its citizens.
Given his votes on Illinois BAIPA, this is utter irony, don&#8217;t ya think?
Leave it to the New York Times to miss it completely.
So [...]


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