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		<title>By: KenoshaMarge</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[KenoshaMarge]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 11:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have a point. It is foolish to hold an entire generation in contempt for the actions of the few. Except they aren&#039;t so few and they are so visible. ALL of us were young and foolish at some point. But today&#039;s generation are now considered &quot;children&quot; at ages when my generation, slightly older than Boomers, were responsible for our lives,homes, jobs and families.

Just as it is foolish to hold the entire &quot;boomer&quot; generation in contempt because some/many are greedy.

FYI, I do not now and never have believed in &quot;white guilt&quot;. There may be some who have it but most people are not foolish enough to feel guilty for something they didn&#039;t do. I certainly don&#039;t.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You have a point. It is foolish to hold an entire generation in contempt for the actions of the few. Except they aren&#8217;t so few and they are so visible. ALL of us were young and foolish at some point. But today&#8217;s generation are now considered &#8220;children&#8221; at ages when my generation, slightly older than Boomers, were responsible for our lives,homes, jobs and families.</p>
<p>Just as it is foolish to hold the entire &#8220;boomer&#8221; generation in contempt because some/many are greedy.</p>
<p>FYI, I do not now and never have believed in &#8220;white guilt&#8221;. There may be some who have it but most people are not foolish enough to feel guilty for something they didn&#8217;t do. I certainly don&#8217;t.</p>
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		<title>By: vladimirval</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[vladimirval]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 08:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Freedom comes at a cost, a cost of time and treasure.  Freedom deeds to be cared for.  Achieving freedom does not come with a guarantee to last for any specific period of time.  It must be won over and over again because there will always be people around that want to take it away.  Freedom and responsibility go hand in hand.  Freedom can only be maintained when responsible people are the caretakers.  Freedom will be lost when people become indifferent and do not work to protect it for them selves and others.  Free people are free to be wrong but not to do wrong to anyone.  Many people forget that part of freedom and that, some times unwittingly even, deteriorates freedom for all.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Freedom comes at a cost, a cost of time and treasure.  Freedom deeds to be cared for.  Achieving freedom does not come with a guarantee to last for any specific period of time.  It must be won over and over again because there will always be people around that want to take it away.  Freedom and responsibility go hand in hand.  Freedom can only be maintained when responsible people are the caretakers.  Freedom will be lost when people become indifferent and do not work to protect it for them selves and others.  Free people are free to be wrong but not to do wrong to anyone.  Many people forget that part of freedom and that, some times unwittingly even, deteriorates freedom for all.</p>
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		<title>By: Ellman48</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellman48]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 07:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Arbitrary power is ugly and vicious, regardless of what pious rhetoric 
goes with it. Freedom is not free. You have to fight for it or lose it. 
But is our generation up to fighting for it?&quot;


You&#039;re generation and mine are up for the fight Mr. Sowell, but those born after 1964 want the government to protect them from &quot;bullies&quot; and &quot;predators&quot;. They are willing to surrender their personal freedom for the security the government promises in exchange.


But, as Ben Franklin said, those willing to surrender their freedom for security will have neither. But someone born after 1964 has probably never heard of Ben Franklin, nor the statement he made.


It often seems to me that the history of mankind is one never-ending repetition of the same cycles, the same errors, the same consequences, the same mistakes. Apparently one generation doesn&#039;t do a very good job of passing on its experiences and wisdom to the next.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Arbitrary power is ugly and vicious, regardless of what pious rhetoric<br />
goes with it. Freedom is not free. You have to fight for it or lose it.<br />
But is our generation up to fighting for it?&#8221;</p>
<p>You&#8217;re generation and mine are up for the fight Mr. Sowell, but those born after 1964 want the government to protect them from &#8220;bullies&#8221; and &#8220;predators&#8221;. They are willing to surrender their personal freedom for the security the government promises in exchange.</p>
<p>But, as Ben Franklin said, those willing to surrender their freedom for security will have neither. But someone born after 1964 has probably never heard of Ben Franklin, nor the statement he made.</p>
<p>It often seems to me that the history of mankind is one never-ending repetition of the same cycles, the same errors, the same consequences, the same mistakes. Apparently one generation doesn&#8217;t do a very good job of passing on its experiences and wisdom to the next.</p>
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		<title>By: Ellman48</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/thomas-sowell/freedom-is-not-free/comment-page-1/#comment-5379250</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellman48]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 07:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Such tactics have become especially common in this administration, which
 has the morals of thugs and the agenda of totalitarians. They may not 
be consciously aiming at creating a totalitarian state, but shameless 
use of government power to crush those who get in their way can produce 
totalitarian end results.&quot;


They would not call it &quot;totalitarian&quot; but &quot;egalitarian&quot;.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Such tactics have become especially common in this administration, which<br />
 has the morals of thugs and the agenda of totalitarians. They may not<br />
be consciously aiming at creating a totalitarian state, but shameless<br />
use of government power to crush those who get in their way can produce<br />
totalitarian end results.&#8221;</p>
<p>They would not call it &#8220;totalitarian&#8221; but &#8220;egalitarian&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: Ellman48</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellman48]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 07:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Fortunately, there was enough backlash to force the FCC to back off.&quot;


For now. Liberals, Progressives, Socialists, Leftists, whatever they call themselves from day to day, never give up their quixotic quests. Be assured that the road to despotism will not be abandoned for very long!

Their intent is to demolish the Bill of Rights and Constitution. Until they achieve this objective they will not abandon the quest.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Fortunately, there was enough backlash to force the FCC to back off.&#8221;</p>
<p>For now. Liberals, Progressives, Socialists, Leftists, whatever they call themselves from day to day, never give up their quixotic quests. Be assured that the road to despotism will not be abandoned for very long!</p>
<p>Their intent is to demolish the Bill of Rights and Constitution. Until they achieve this objective they will not abandon the quest.</p>
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		<title>By: The Hated Generation</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Hated Generation]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 05:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Collective guilt is a falsehood. Members of my generation entered boot camp with the single purpose of killing terrorists. When I see the slightly younger millennials, whom you hold in such contempt, I must confess that we weren&#039;t so different at that age. Now we know the way of the world, and we&#039;re digging in for the good fight. 

As for the ignorant masses, they exist everywhere and at all times. The person who heaps coals upon the many for the actions of a few is no more enlightened.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Collective guilt is a falsehood. Members of my generation entered boot camp with the single purpose of killing terrorists. When I see the slightly younger millennials, whom you hold in such contempt, I must confess that we weren&#8217;t so different at that age. Now we know the way of the world, and we&#8217;re digging in for the good fight. </p>
<p>As for the ignorant masses, they exist everywhere and at all times. The person who heaps coals upon the many for the actions of a few is no more enlightened.</p>
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		<title>By: The Hated Generation</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/thomas-sowell/freedom-is-not-free/comment-page-1/#comment-5379209</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Hated Generation]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 05:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every Justina Pelletier is potentially the next generation&#039;s David Horowitz. Let&#039;s not forget the legacy of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. There are limits to what even the most oppressive dictatorship can do. Let us also pray that America does not reach such an extreme before righting itself.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Every Justina Pelletier is potentially the next generation&#8217;s David Horowitz. Let&#8217;s not forget the legacy of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. There are limits to what even the most oppressive dictatorship can do. Let us also pray that America does not reach such an extreme before righting itself.</p>
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		<title>By: NAHALKIDES</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NAHALKIDES]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 16:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What Sowell doesn&#039;t say is that, if we can&#039;t break the Democratic Left&#039;s ability to get power by bribing millions of voters with other people&#039;s money, we&#039;re going to be left with three options:  (1) Submit to their tyranny; (2) Secede; (3) Start a second American Revolution.  We may very well have to fight, as Sowell suggests, but not at the ballot box.  Sowell also neglected to mention that the Establishment GOP has no interest in fighting on either of these battlefields.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What Sowell doesn&#8217;t say is that, if we can&#8217;t break the Democratic Left&#8217;s ability to get power by bribing millions of voters with other people&#8217;s money, we&#8217;re going to be left with three options:  (1) Submit to their tyranny; (2) Secede; (3) Start a second American Revolution.  We may very well have to fight, as Sowell suggests, but not at the ballot box.  Sowell also neglected to mention that the Establishment GOP has no interest in fighting on either of these battlefields.</p>
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		<title>By: cxt</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[cxt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 15:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excellent read!
Even in a really busy day I always make time to read Prof. Sowell&#039;s articles--always worth it.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Excellent read!<br />
Even in a really busy day I always make time to read Prof. Sowell&#8217;s articles&#8211;always worth it.</p>
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		<title>By: Maggie</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/thomas-sowell/freedom-is-not-free/comment-page-1/#comment-5378810</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Maggie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 15:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ted Cruz is fighting for it, the Tea Party are fighting for it, stand up to tyranny and the establishment now.. today, and vote out the establishment in 2014, Daniel Greenfield has a piece out today &quot;It takes a rogue nation to stop a rogue state&quot; concerning the Ukraine, the same can be said for the Tea Party standing against our ineffective and overbearing government]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ted Cruz is fighting for it, the Tea Party are fighting for it, stand up to tyranny and the establishment now.. today, and vote out the establishment in 2014, Daniel Greenfield has a piece out today &#8220;It takes a rogue nation to stop a rogue state&#8221; concerning the Ukraine, the same can be said for the Tea Party standing against our ineffective and overbearing government</p>
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		<title>By: Sheik Yerbouti</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/thomas-sowell/freedom-is-not-free/comment-page-1/#comment-5378735</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sheik Yerbouti]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 12:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good part of this generation is tired of being blamed for things they didn&#039;t do.  The eternal slavery/race card being applied to them doesn&#039;t make them step back in solemn contemplation of the past wrongs of white people.  Instead it fills these younger Americans with questions.  Questions the left answers with the same old lines.
 
Today&#039;s kids aren&#039;t buying it.  The next generation of race hustlers isn&#039;t emerging well.  Too many of them have criminal records and terrible political skills.  And they are about to run into a wall of young white people who are saying they will not step aside because of events they weren&#039;t part of anymore.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A good part of this generation is tired of being blamed for things they didn&#8217;t do.  The eternal slavery/race card being applied to them doesn&#8217;t make them step back in solemn contemplation of the past wrongs of white people.  Instead it fills these younger Americans with questions.  Questions the left answers with the same old lines.</p>
<p>Today&#8217;s kids aren&#8217;t buying it.  The next generation of race hustlers isn&#8217;t emerging well.  Too many of them have criminal records and terrible political skills.  And they are about to run into a wall of young white people who are saying they will not step aside because of events they weren&#8217;t part of anymore.</p>
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		<title>By: KenoshaMarge</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[KenoshaMarge]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 12:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is this generation up to fighting for freedom? Doubtful. That would require detaching a cell phone from the side of the head - shutting mouth and bothering to actually do some research about what is happening and what has happened in this country. A population that can do little more than regurgitate &quot;talking points&quot; and think themselves &lt;i&gt;informed&lt;/i&gt; is ill equipped to even understand the concept of freedom. And many don&#039;t seem to mind the infringement of freedoms for those who don&#039;t share their opinions.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is this generation up to fighting for freedom? Doubtful. That would require detaching a cell phone from the side of the head &#8211; shutting mouth and bothering to actually do some research about what is happening and what has happened in this country. A population that can do little more than regurgitate &#8220;talking points&#8221; and think themselves <i>informed</i> is ill equipped to even understand the concept of freedom. And many don&#8217;t seem to mind the infringement of freedoms for those who don&#8217;t share their opinions.</p>
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