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		<title>An Army wife&#8217;s response to Rhode Island school&#8217;s banning of toy soldiers on 8-year old&#8217;s hat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo Rizzuti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been blessed in my 37 years to befriend a great many people from many different walks of life. Some have gone by the wayside, as people are wont to do, other have remained steadfast no matter the distances between us. A member of the latter group is one Mrs. Jessica Cudaback.

I met Jessica (when her last name was still Duncan) several years ago while working at a part time job at a craft store in Raleigh, NC; me, the rabidly conservative 30-something; she, the teenage NC State student with a bumper sticker on her car touting Bush's last day in office. We got along famously.

Time marches on, and people change. Jessica met and fell in love with James, a newly-inducted member of the US Army. While James was training (and then stationed overseas), Jessica transformed from a typical liberal college student to a ferociously patriotic conservative Army wife. She has never lost her spirit of questioning authority, and has also (thankfully) never lost the confidence to speak out when she feels something needs to be said. She, and people like her give me hope for the future of this country.

I sent her a link to a story today about an 8-year old who, as part of a class project, decorated his hat with Army men in a patriotic statement. His government school teacher and the school superintendent refused to allow the child to wear his hat, saying that it ran afoul of the school's zero-tolerance ban on weapons. This incident set Jessica off, and an upset Jessica is not someone to hold her tongue. Here is what she wrote to that school's superintendent:]]></description>
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		<title>And Now, For Something Completely Different: Bernie Madoff vs. The Government</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo Rizzuti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received this in an e-mail the other day from my friends at The Patriot Post. I don't normally make a habit out of re-posting things that are sent to me, but I just couldn't help it this time. It was funny, sure, but it was also frighteningly true:
Bernie Madoff vs. The Government

Why did Bernie Madoff go to prison? To make it simple, he talked people into investing with him. Trouble was, he didn't invest their money. As time rolled on, he simply took the money from the new investors to pay off the old investors. Finally there were too many old investors and not enough money from new investors coming in to keep the payments going. Next thing you know Madoff is one of the most hated men in America and he is off to jail.]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Populist Gambit: Why You Should Worry</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo Rizzuti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past week has been very bad for Barack Obama. The election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts to the Senate meant that the Democrats no longer held a filibuster-proof stranglehold on the legislative process. Following that was the declaration from several Democrats that they were retiring, a sign that they could read the writing on the wall when it comes to their electoral chances in the fall. Obama's inner circle can't seem to get on the same page when it comes to identifying just how many jobs have supposedly been saved or created when prompted on the Sunday talk shows. Tim Geithner is looking more and more like the weasley character Eric Gordon from "Billy Madison", especially after recent revelations of his involvement with attempting to keep AIG bailout details secret from the American people, going so far as to try and give them status as national security secrets. Ellie Light (and other personae), that great Obama supporter of recent note, came to the attention of everybody as either being one of the biggest frauds ever attempted on America's newspapers or a teleporting member of the X-Men who can apparently reside in multiple cities and states simultaneously, and Fox News ended the week as the most watched cable station in the country.]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome Back to Camelot (Sort of)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo Rizzuti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a common theme during the ascendancy of Barack Hussein Obama. He was compared to everyone imaginable, photoshopped into pictures of FDR, his speeches were compared to Ronald Reagan, and his image replaced Jesus Christ in many religious icons. But the greater glory that was seen by the left, especially those acolytes in the media, was that the election of Obama would mean nothing less than a return to their glory days, the days when the First Family was seen as fashion icons, when style would once again trump substance, and when the President would assume celebrity status normally held by movie stars. In short, it would be nothing less than a return to Camelot.]]></description>
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		<title>The (Not So) Subtle Treachery of the Left</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo Rizzuti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Sunday, December 20, 2009. The time is 11:45pm, and I am doing something that I never thought I would have to do as an American: keeping an overnight eye on our government. The Harry Reid led Senate, bolstered by Sen. Ben Nelson's statement in support of the current health care bill, will be taking a crucial vote on the issue in about an hour. This vote will advance the bill to a cloture vote, paving the way for the Federal government to take unprecedented control over 1/6 of the national economy, all in the name of "health care reform."]]></description>
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		<title>Trust, but Verify</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo Rizzuti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm going to have to say something that I thought that I would never, ever have to say:

Thank you, God, for the gift that is Howard Dean.

OK, so I've said that before, but it was always in the context of Dean being a never ending source of punchlines, You Tube moments, and enough gaffes to make Joe Biden blush. In short, the man is political comedy gold.

This time, I'm saying my thanks without even a snicker, and I'm not only thankful for Howard, but also for every uber-leftist within reach of a microphone or a member of the press. And at this moment every freedom loving American should join me in my offering of thanks.

I think. Then again...]]></description>
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		<title>Republic vs. Democracy. And the winner is&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo Rizzuti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, a very dear friend of mine asked me to explain the differences between a democracy and a republic, specifically a representative republic. Much has been said on this subject by some of the greatest political philosophers. Unfortunately, judging from the way that the individual terms have been used, not much of what has been written has been included in the education of our populace. That is very sad, because it is quite difficult to defend a political system that someone does not even understand to the point of correctly naming it. There was a time in our country when even someone with the most basic of educations was well versed in the construction of our chosen form of government, but that was before we felt it was necessary to indoctrinate children in the wonders of multiculturalism, revised history, and choreographed Obama worship. The social engineers that have controlled the curriculum of our public schools would call that improvement. I would call it a woeful disgrace.]]></description>
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		<title>Parsing Words</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo Rizzuti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America. One of the most famous documents in the world, and one of - if not the - most important. But what does it really mean? What were the Founding Fathers trying to tell us? And what can we learn about what our country originally meant by listening to them? Let us take a closer look:]]></description>
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		<title>Alan Grayson &#8211; The Gift That Keeps On Giving</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe it's that I have a unique mind. Or perhaps just an odd sense of humor. Or, as my wife has often suggested, I simply took one too many blows to the head playing football. Whatever the reason, I simply find myself one of those individuals who are incapable of poking the proverbial hornets' nest with a stick. So obviously when I heard that our most beloved Democrat Congressman Alan Grayson (FL) had followed up his "the Republicans' plan is for you to die quickly" with the establishment of a website, my curiosity was, at the very least, piqued.]]></description>
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		<title>My Application to the Nobel Committee</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo Rizzuti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today I read an opinion piece regarding Barack Obama being given (and I stress &#8220;given&#8221;) the Nobel Peace Prize, an award that even the Chosen One has expressed he has done nothing to earn. Granted, he&#8217;s still going to keep it, but he spent the majority of the day with the same puzzled look [...]]]></description>
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