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		<title>By: Sonnys Mom</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sonnys Mom]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bravo, Bruce!  Hands-down excellent analysis of my failed generation... ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bravo, Bruce!  Hands-down excellent analysis of my failed generation&#8230; </p>
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		<title>By: pinnie</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[pinnie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This boomer had nothing ...my dad worked like a dog.... and I appreciated every meal..... 
 
the Tea Party is crammed with &quot;me&#039;s&quot;...... the cheesy limo liberals are the druggies I hated...They are warped degrading  sex a holics...make me as sick as the days they all doped out... 
 
 In the 60&#039;s.College????   they would have been better off sleeping for 4 years....They are all in our govt and the hell with America the Beautiful and its Constitution. Warped drug burnt out frauds and dumb as hell. Ive never seen such a collage of stupidity in  my life ... They are still throwing thier tantrum...Marxists want-a-be&#039;s-  .. 
 
They write the insane legislation and we are paying thier bills ...Flush Washington....It sucks out loud.!  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This boomer had nothing &#8230;my dad worked like a dog&#8230;. and I appreciated every meal&#8230;.. </p>
<p>the Tea Party is crammed with &quot;me&#039;s&quot;&#8230;&#8230; the cheesy limo liberals are the druggies I hated&#8230;They are warped degrading  sex a holics&#8230;make me as sick as the days they all doped out&#8230; </p>
<p> In the 60&#039;s.College????   they would have been better off sleeping for 4 years&#8230;.They are all in our govt and the hell with America the Beautiful and its Constitution. Warped drug burnt out frauds and dumb as hell. Ive never seen such a collage of stupidity in  my life &#8230; They are still throwing thier tantrum&#8230;Marxists want-a-be&#039;s-  .. </p>
<p>They write the insane legislation and we are paying thier bills &#8230;Flush Washington&#8230;.It sucks out loud.!  </p>
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		<title>By: marios</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boomers was thought and brought up by radical leftists  who seized control on MSM and Educational institutions.  Result is obvious. Why conservatives were  sleeping that 50+ years and did not noticed that catastrophe is impeding?  Still the most Rep&#039;s cannot comprehend that political correctness is killing truth, that they should&#039;ve been organized and support more courageous among them as congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, for instance?  The most Rep&#039;s are kind of opportunists and liberals kind of Sen. McCain or Lindsay Graham... With such &quot;conservatives&quot; how Rep&#039;s can win?  Dem&#039;s=socia..sts lead us to catastrophe and it is understandable as socialism failed everywhere. 
Dem&#039;s corrupted time ago such a robust American nations.  Now at least 50% of American is &quot;takers&quot;   pampered, and zombied  by commies ideas that those who work hard must provide  
them everything they wish. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Boomers was thought and brought up by radical leftists  who seized control on MSM and Educational institutions.  Result is obvious. Why conservatives were  sleeping that 50+ years and did not noticed that catastrophe is impeding?  Still the most Rep&#039;s cannot comprehend that political correctness is killing truth, that they should&#039;ve been organized and support more courageous among them as congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, for instance?  The most Rep&#039;s are kind of opportunists and liberals kind of Sen. McCain or Lindsay Graham&#8230; With such &quot;conservatives&quot; how Rep&#039;s can win?  Dem&#039;s=socia..sts lead us to catastrophe and it is understandable as socialism failed everywhere.<br />
Dem&#039;s corrupted time ago such a robust American nations.  Now at least 50% of American is &quot;takers&quot;   pampered, and zombied  by commies ideas that those who work hard must provide<br />
them everything they wish. </p>
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		<title>By: Climber</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Climber]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bertonneau essays:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4440&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4440&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4452&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4452&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4461&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4461&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4466&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4466&lt;/a&gt; ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bertonneau essays:  <a href="http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4440" rel="nofollow">http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4440</a>  <a href="http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4452" rel="nofollow">http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4452</a>  <a href="http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4461" rel="nofollow">http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4461</a>  <a href="http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4466" rel="nofollow">http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4466</a> </p>
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		<title>By: Climber</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Climber]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Donald DaCosta&#039;s comment, despite minimizing his ability to use effective prose, hits the mark.  Our own David Horowitz explains a  prevalent worldview and thinking process in America as Gnostic.  See  &lt;a href=&quot;http://discoverthenetworks.org/articles/THE%20RELIGIOUS%20ROOTS%20of%20Radicalism.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://discoverthenetworks.org/articles/THE%20REL...&lt;/a&gt; 
 
A highly intellectual description and application is found here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4466&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4466&lt;/a&gt;  
Previous articles by the author, Thomas F. Bertonneau, are linked at the bottom. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>
Donald DaCosta&#039;s comment, despite minimizing his ability to use effective prose, hits the mark.  Our own David Horowitz explains a  prevalent worldview and thinking process in America as Gnostic.  See  <a href="http://discoverthenetworks.org/articles/THE%20RELIGIOUS%20ROOTS%20of%20Radicalism.htm" rel="nofollow"></a><a href="http://discoverthenetworks.org/articles/THE%20REL" rel="nofollow">http://discoverthenetworks.org/articles/THE%20REL</a>&#8230; </p>
<p>A highly intellectual description and application is found here: <a href="http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4466" rel="nofollow">http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4466</a><br />
Previous articles by the author, Thomas F. Bertonneau, are linked at the bottom. </p>
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		<title>By: Tony Christensen</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tony Christensen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great article once again. Progressivism seems to be akin to a cult that one must overcome in oneself in order to regain health. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great article once again. Progressivism seems to be akin to a cult that one must overcome in oneself in order to regain health. </p>
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		<title>By: tagalog</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tagalog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The degradation of our culture has many causes, but one of them is the Boomer presumption that anything they think is good, is good, and anyone who has a contradictory idea about that is evil.  
 
The thing that is truly mind-boggling is the huge body of evidence that Boomerism threatens utter destruction of our republican system that half of our population blithely ignores.  
 
I have new respect for the old fable about kiling the goose that lays the golden eggs. In my younger, more naive days, I never accepted the truth of that tale. I never thought then that people would be so blind. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The degradation of our culture has many causes, but one of them is the Boomer presumption that anything they think is good, is good, and anyone who has a contradictory idea about that is evil.  </p>
<p>The thing that is truly mind-boggling is the huge body of evidence that Boomerism threatens utter destruction of our republican system that half of our population blithely ignores.  </p>
<p>I have new respect for the old fable about kiling the goose that lays the golden eggs. In my younger, more naive days, I never accepted the truth of that tale. I never thought then that people would be so blind. </p>
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		<title>By: Donald DaCosta</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald DaCosta]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brilliant piece, in my opinion, I suppose because it aligns perfectly with what I&#039;ve come to accept without being able to put it into such effective prose.  
 
Problem is that while some have come to recognize the source and depth of the problem, few are actively attempting to change the ingrained culture created by the institutions that were infiltrated by the hard left decades ago and that remain a bastion of Progressivism still. Like a rabid virus they have spread their Utopian idealism into nearly all of the networks that dominate the dissemination of their carefully controlled message. The professional, journalistic and documentarian&#039;s quest for truth based on irrefutable facts, based on unfabricated evidence, has been replaced in large part by the twisting, distorting and fabrication of &#8220;facts,&#8221; as required, to promote their ideology. Real facts, no matter their validity or relevance,  are portrayed as the irrational, invective of the delusional, mentally and morally corrupt: &quot;Tea Baggers,&quot; facists, racists, bigots, Islamophobes, right wing nuts, loons, etc. Alternatively, the progressive liberals are the true purveyors of the politically correct, multiculturalist, compassionate, intellectual, unchallengeable, diverse view of the human condition and the social justice required to fix it. We rant, they &quot;pontificate.&quot; and consider themselves and their views more sacrosanct than those of the Pontiff himself. They worship at the altar of diversity while immediately dismissing any opinion or thoughts that diverge from their own which they have proven themselves incapable of defending in any rational, intelligent, perceptive manner. Hypocrisy, stupidity and bigotry reign in the land of &quot;diversity.&quot; 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Brilliant piece, in my opinion, I suppose because it aligns perfectly with what I&#039;ve come to accept without being able to put it into such effective prose.  </p>
<p>Problem is that while some have come to recognize the source and depth of the problem, few are actively attempting to change the ingrained culture created by the institutions that were infiltrated by the hard left decades ago and that remain a bastion of Progressivism still. Like a rabid virus they have spread their Utopian idealism into nearly all of the networks that dominate the dissemination of their carefully controlled message. The professional, journalistic and documentarian&#039;s quest for truth based on irrefutable facts, based on unfabricated evidence, has been replaced in large part by the twisting, distorting and fabrication of &ldquo;facts,&rdquo; as required, to promote their ideology. Real facts, no matter their validity or relevance,  are portrayed as the irrational, invective of the delusional, mentally and morally corrupt: &quot;Tea Baggers,&quot; facists, racists, bigots, Islamophobes, right wing nuts, loons, etc. Alternatively, the progressive liberals are the true purveyors of the politically correct, multiculturalist, compassionate, intellectual, unchallengeable, diverse view of the human condition and the social justice required to fix it. We rant, they &quot;pontificate.&quot; and consider themselves and their views more sacrosanct than those of the Pontiff himself. They worship at the altar of diversity while immediately dismissing any opinion or thoughts that diverge from their own which they have proven themselves incapable of defending in any rational, intelligent, perceptive manner. Hypocrisy, stupidity and bigotry reign in the land of &quot;diversity.&quot; </p>
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		<title>By: Owen</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Owen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#039;s a lot of truth in the piece, but ultimately it is misleading with only the last paragraph hinting at what came before.  Wilson&#039;s was the first &quot;progressive&quot; administration, not just in ideas, but in actions such as creation of the Fed plus the income tax.  At the same time, Dewey and his ilk were working on their socialist takeover of the nation&#039;s educational system in order to mold the kiddies.  Later came FDR and the &quot;New Socialist Deal&quot; while the &quot;Greatest Generation&quot; wanted no part of any European war let alone taking on Japanese expansion until Pearl Harbor forced the U.S. into the quagmire.  Next came the JFK/LBJ period which gave us unionized federal workers (something even FDR wouldn&#039;t do), Medicare and Medicaid, plus an explosion of the welfare state.  By then, the U.S. fiscal goose was pretty much cooked and the entitlement culture well established; obviously, Boomers didn&#039;t create any of the welfare state superstructure.  Oh, and the U.S. didn&#039;t &quot;lose&quot; the Vietnam War, it was actually won and North Vietnam had basically quit (remember those peace talks of Kerry fame?).  But then in the aftermath of Watergate the Dems voted to cut off funding to South Vietnam, probably the most despicable act the U.S. has ever committed in its history, and we were able to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and get a new SE Asia bloodbath started. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#039;s a lot of truth in the piece, but ultimately it is misleading with only the last paragraph hinting at what came before.  Wilson&#039;s was the first &quot;progressive&quot; administration, not just in ideas, but in actions such as creation of the Fed plus the income tax.  At the same time, Dewey and his ilk were working on their socialist takeover of the nation&#039;s educational system in order to mold the kiddies.  Later came FDR and the &quot;New Socialist Deal&quot; while the &quot;Greatest Generation&quot; wanted no part of any European war let alone taking on Japanese expansion until Pearl Harbor forced the U.S. into the quagmire.  Next came the JFK/LBJ period which gave us unionized federal workers (something even FDR wouldn&#039;t do), Medicare and Medicaid, plus an explosion of the welfare state.  By then, the U.S. fiscal goose was pretty much cooked and the entitlement culture well established; obviously, Boomers didn&#039;t create any of the welfare state superstructure.  Oh, and the U.S. didn&#039;t &quot;lose&quot; the Vietnam War, it was actually won and North Vietnam had basically quit (remember those peace talks of Kerry fame?).  But then in the aftermath of Watergate the Dems voted to cut off funding to South Vietnam, probably the most despicable act the U.S. has ever committed in its history, and we were able to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and get a new SE Asia bloodbath started. </p>
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		<title>By: Yoshi11</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yoshi11]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is this a variation of the &quot;It&#039;s only a tiny minority of extremists&quot; argument? ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is this a variation of the &quot;It&#039;s only a tiny minority of extremists&quot; argument? </p>
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		<title>By: elishawah</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[elishawah]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WHAT A DELUSION ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WHAT A DELUSION </p>
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		<title>By: kasandra</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kasandra]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excellent column.  As a boomer myself I saw, and continue to see, everything Mr. Thornton describes.  When, during the Clinton administration, Newsweek magazine still had a page titled &quot;It&#039;s Your Turn&quot; I was going to submit a column concerning the boomer generation.  The title was to be &quot;People try to put us down&quot; and the first sentence was going to be &quot;And why shouldn&#039;t they?&quot;  Didn&#039;t finish it but you get the idea of where it was going.  While it is true that not every boomer was anything, the part of my age cohort that was most nurtured and rewarded by our culture, and whose values, in turn, became reflected by our culture, consisted of just those described in the column. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Excellent column.  As a boomer myself I saw, and continue to see, everything Mr. Thornton describes.  When, during the Clinton administration, Newsweek magazine still had a page titled &quot;It&#039;s Your Turn&quot; I was going to submit a column concerning the boomer generation.  The title was to be &quot;People try to put us down&quot; and the first sentence was going to be &quot;And why shouldn&#039;t they?&quot;  Didn&#039;t finish it but you get the idea of where it was going.  While it is true that not every boomer was anything, the part of my age cohort that was most nurtured and rewarded by our culture, and whose values, in turn, became reflected by our culture, consisted of just those described in the column. </p>
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		<title>By: country girl</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[country girl]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I believe he is speaking comparatively. It would be hard to argue that the Boomer generation has not been much more materially blessed than previous generations.  If the shoe doesn&#039;t fit, don&#039;t wear it, for gosh sakes!    ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I believe he is speaking comparatively. It would be hard to argue that the Boomer generation has not been much more materially blessed than previous generations.  If the shoe doesn&#039;t fit, don&#039;t wear it, for gosh sakes!    </p>
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		<title>By: AnOrdinaryMan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Only a tiny percentage of Boomers I knew growing up were &quot;pampered&quot; or coddled.&quot; Well, this translates into a microscopic sized swath of the population. How can you then make the generalization that &quot;If he believes that the majority of boomers were spoiled rotten, he&#039;s as ignorant as most of the leftists he condemns?&quot; You then say, &quot;Only a tiny percentage of Boomers were committed leftists, hippies, or amoral hedonists.&quot; What&#039;s your source? What Thornton says makes a lot of sense, actually.  
He says that cultural debasement and the simultaneous decline of our educational system combined to destroy the once-strong American work ethic, American exceptionalism, and our sense of the common good. An example is how we lost the Vietnam war; that wouldn&#039;t have happened &quot;if only a tiny percentage of boomers were committed leftists.&quot; Your argument results in meaningless moral equivalency; much like the education our children receive today.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&quot;Only a tiny percentage of Boomers I knew growing up were &quot;pampered&quot; or coddled.&quot; Well, this translates into a microscopic sized swath of the population. How can you then make the generalization that &quot;If he believes that the majority of boomers were spoiled rotten, he&#039;s as ignorant as most of the leftists he condemns?&quot; You then say, &quot;Only a tiny percentage of Boomers were committed leftists, hippies, or amoral hedonists.&quot; What&#039;s your source? What Thornton says makes a lot of sense, actually.<br />
He says that cultural debasement and the simultaneous decline of our educational system combined to destroy the once-strong American work ethic, American exceptionalism, and our sense of the common good. An example is how we lost the Vietnam war; that wouldn&#039;t have happened &quot;if only a tiny percentage of boomers were committed leftists.&quot; Your argument results in meaningless moral equivalency; much like the education our children receive today.  </p>
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		<title>By: pierce</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[pierce]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When are the American people going to wake up? 
We are going to have to keep beating the drum into 2014. And just why 2014? Why, 2014 is our next National Election, and Barack needs a majority in both houses of Congress so he can do his thing. 
It is not working Barack, it just plain is not working. 
Give us a break. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When are the American people going to wake up?<br />
We are going to have to keep beating the drum into 2014. And just why 2014? Why, 2014 is our next National Election, and Barack needs a majority in both houses of Congress so he can do his thing.<br />
It is not working Barack, it just plain is not working.<br />
Give us a break. </p>
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		<title>By: john butala</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/bruce-thornton/the-tin-drum-progressive-boomers/comment-page-1/#comment-4443103</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This essay is as much a distortion and generalization of Boomers as leftist critiques of American society. Apparently Thornton thinks all Boomers were coddled and pampered.  Only a tiny percentage of Boomers I knew growing up were &quot;pampered&quot; or coddled.  Most were like me: children of larger families than today&#039;s children who like me were given more hand-me-downs and no money rather than bequeathed large amounts of swag.  If he believes that the majority of Boomers were spoiled rotten, he&#039;s as ignorant as most of the leftists he condemns.  Only a tiny percentage of Boomers were committed leftists, hippies, or amoral hedonists. In short, Thornton is either an ignoramus or an outright liar. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This essay is as much a distortion and generalization of Boomers as leftist critiques of American society. Apparently Thornton thinks all Boomers were coddled and pampered.  Only a tiny percentage of Boomers I knew growing up were &quot;pampered&quot; or coddled.  Most were like me: children of larger families than today&#039;s children who like me were given more hand-me-downs and no money rather than bequeathed large amounts of swag.  If he believes that the majority of Boomers were spoiled rotten, he&#039;s as ignorant as most of the leftists he condemns.  Only a tiny percentage of Boomers were committed leftists, hippies, or amoral hedonists. In short, Thornton is either an ignoramus or an outright liar. </p>
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		<title>By: AdinaK</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/bruce-thornton/the-tin-drum-progressive-boomers/comment-page-1/#comment-4442547</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 05:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the above is certainly the case, it is also less a matter of fantastical thinking, and more a case of malevolence. While some truly believe in said &quot;utopia&quot;, the ones leading the charge absolutely do not. These are their leaders - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/04/bringing_down_america_a_review.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/04/bringing_d...&lt;/a&gt;  
  
As such, nothing short of American&#039;s downfall will suffice. Nothing.  
  
Adina Kutnicki, Israel &lt;a href=&quot;http://adinakutnicki.com/about/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://adinakutnicki.com/about/&lt;/a&gt; ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While the above is certainly the case, it is also less a matter of fantastical thinking, and more a case of malevolence. While some truly believe in said &quot;utopia&quot;, the ones leading the charge absolutely do not. These are their leaders &#8211; <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/04/bringing_down_america_a_review.html" rel="nofollow"></a><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/04/bringing_d" rel="nofollow">http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/04/bringing_d</a>&#8230;  </p>
<p>As such, nothing short of American&#039;s downfall will suffice. Nothing.  </p>
<p>Adina Kutnicki, Israel <a href="http://adinakutnicki.com/about/" rel="nofollow">http://adinakutnicki.com/about/</a> </p>
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