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		<title>The Bully</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/03/24/the-bully/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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I hate bullies.
Muammar Gaddafi is a bully.
He has bullied his own people for years, he has bullied all who try to do business in Libya, and he has bullied his neighbors.
America likes to stand up to bullies.
We have a long tradition in the United States that we fight the bullies.
Whether the bully is King George [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Union Rip Off</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/02/18/union-rip-off/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Reserve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Illinois pension]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle-east]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state government]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=2697</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The trade union movement started in medieval Germany as a way for artisans to band together to perfect their craft.
The craft unions now perfect ripping off the taxpayers.
Unions used to target big, mean industrialists who paid minimal wages and exploited workers.
Unions now target Democrats in primaries who don’t tow their line.
And their line is never [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It’s A Dangerous World Out There</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/02/17/it%e2%80%99s-a-dangerous-world-out-there/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/02/17/it%e2%80%99s-a-dangerous-world-out-there/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tragedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crisis in Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[egypt revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laura Logan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amid all of the excitement about how wonderful the revolution is in Egypt, an element of the Egyptian mob reminded us that all is not sweetness and light in the streets of Cairo.
Laura Logan, the intrepid and successful CBS News correspondent, was brutally attacked and sexually abused by about 200 gangsters who saw her blond [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Decline and Fall of the Nation State</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/02/14/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-nation-state/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/02/14/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-nation-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign Relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinese governing class]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle-east]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=2675</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the 19th century, empires fell and in their place arose nation states.
The last of the empires, the Hapsburgs, Ottomans and the Romanovs, were wiped out in the first two decades of the last century, decimated by the First World War.
The nation state arose, based on the ancient Athenian concept of the City State.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign Aid On the Chopping Block</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/02/08/foreign-aid-on-the-chopping-block/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/02/08/foreign-aid-on-the-chopping-block/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a Gallup poll released right before the President’s State of the Union Address, a majority of Americans said they favor cutting U.S. foreign aid, but more than 6 in 10 opposed cuts to education, Social Security, and Medicare.
That is not that surprising.   Nobody wants their Social Security touched.  Let’s cut [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Iraq Elections</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/03/08/the-iraq-elections/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/03/08/the-iraq-elections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alex mistri]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle-east]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Persian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It wasn’t as exciting as the first time that Iraq held democratic elections, but it was probably more significant.
I asked my friend Alex Mistri, who spent a year in Iraq working at the highest levels of the American government, what these elections mean to him.
He told me two things.
First, Iraq is slowly but surely becoming [...]]]></description>
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