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		<title>Democrats cower</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Islamic community center two blocks from ground zero has made a mockery of the &#8216;conservative values&#8217; of Republicans and tea party activists. But it hasn&#8217;t shown the Democrats in a positive light either. Senator Reid, Senate majority leader, acquiesced to bigoted fears and came out in opposition to the Islamic community center in NYC. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.offtheaxis.com/?p=173</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not your daddy&#8217;s conservatism&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The conservative part of me believes that the primacy (yes, even hallowed nature) of constitutional principles including, but not limited to, the first amendment trumps all. Other conservative principles I tend to elevate when trying to make a political calculation is local rule often brings better results than state or federal dictates and that property [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.offtheaxis.com/?p=168</link>
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		<title>Why liberals should love the Second Amendment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A well argued case for a strong liberal defense of the right to bear arms: Daily Kos: Why liberals should love the Second Amendment. I have to say, I am a contradiction. I was an expert marksman in the Army, but I haven&#8217;t shot a weapon before or since or outside of duty. I don&#8217;t really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.offtheaxis.com/?p=166</link>
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		<title>The GOP vs Gays And Latinos &#8211;  		 		The Daily Dish &#124; By Andrew Sullivan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What Andrew said: The GOP is now doing to Latinos what it did to gays. Its leaders &#8211; by backing the Federal Marriage Amendment in the last decade and now the Arizona law in this &#8211; are essentially saying that they do not understand how these measures could impact a minority&#8217;s collective psyche. Whatever the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.offtheaxis.com/?p=162</link>
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		<title>The totality of individual liberty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Democratic Strategist has an interesting post up on the meaning of liberty. As with all things in life, things aren&#8217;t black and white. I strongly believe that individual liberty and autonomy are the highest good that government is instituted to protect. And yet, as she writes here, we often must give up some freedom in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.offtheaxis.com/?p=158</link>
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		<title>Arizona is killing the Republican Party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arizona Republicans are quickly handing the Democrats a gift this year and into the future, and killing the Republican brand among a huge segment of the U.S. population. The population of Arizona is nearly 30% Latino, current trends will increase that percentage. Latinos in Arizona have traditionally been split between Republicans and Democrats. 40% of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.offtheaxis.com/?p=149</link>
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		<title>Statehood for Washington D.C.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I agree, with a population greater than that of Wyoming and comparable to North Dakota and Alaska, the citizens of the city of my birth (D.C.) deserve either statehood or, my personal preference, retrocession (becoming part of Maryland again). It&#8217;s a libertarian/liberty/taxation without representation issue and seems quite straightforward to me: Why Not Statehood For [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.offtheaxis.com/?p=145</link>
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		<title>47% of Americans don&#8217;t pay income taxes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting, I never new this. This is income tax, not SS or Medicare, still, that&#8217;s a lot of people. As this post suggests though, most of that is due not to deductions, but to &#8216;tax credits&#8217; given tax payers, namely the &#8220;Earned Income Credit&#8221; (affecting a small portion of the population who are poor) and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.offtheaxis.com/?p=136</link>
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		<title>Tax disconnect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Daily Kos: Taxes lowest in 60 years. When 98% of the country&#8217;s families got tax cuts, and taxes are the lowest they&#8217;ve been in 60 years, it makes one wonder about the origins of the protestations of &#8216;communist&#8217; and &#8216;socialist.&#8217;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.offtheaxis.com/?p=134</link>
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		<title>Libertarian pot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This referendum might just pass: Tax Cannabis 2010, allowing the legalization of cannabis, allowing the selling and purchasing of small quantities (but each county can decide whether to allow sales or not) and taxing it. I have never smoked pot, unless you count inhaling the smoke from some a certain relative of mine threw into a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.offtheaxis.com/?p=132</link>
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