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		<title>George Washington&#8217;s Farewell Address &#124; 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
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President George Washington&#8217;s Farewell Address (1796) revised using contemporary language. Originally published on The Daily Paul. (c) 2008 Todd M. Fay
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To my friends and fellow Americans:
The time to elect a new President of the United States of America approaches. It’s time to think about who deserves your vote for the most important office in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Bondage to Bondage</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: Originally published on my Myspace.com blog on November 16, 2007.
Quoting Alexander Tyler (an 18th Century Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh) reflecting on the demise of the Athenian Republic 2,000 years earlier:
&#8220;A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power of the People. Fear of the People.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[An acquaintance from my political life recently quoted the following:
“Impotentes defendere libertatem non possunt: Those without power cannot defend freedom.”
My sentiment is this:
A lack of power is not what afflicts us. We have the power; always have. What we have is a surplus of ignorance. We ignore the fact that each of us, some day, [...]]]></description>
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