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		<title>The Need for More Self-defense</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t post often enough about self-protection. I wanted to post last week about the Florida school board shooting but thought I would wait to hear what Ignatius Piazza had to say. Here is his blog today. I agree with his comments completely. Filed under: Capitalism, Politics Tagged: Florida School Board Shooting, Gun Laws, guns, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfevident1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3307712&amp;post=948&amp;subd=selfevident1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Self-discipline to Defeat Discouragement</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 22:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>selfevident1</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is another aspect to the concept of self-discipline. Success is a state of mind. I have heard others teach that all success at elite levels requires the ability to endure pain without losing focus on the prize. The prize is the desired result—the dream. The pain comes from the struggle required to achieve that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfevident1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3307712&amp;post=943&amp;subd=selfevident1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Discipline Yourself, Or Someone Else Will</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 01:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>selfevident1</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had the opportunity to share a concept with some seven and eight year olds that rings particularly true in our society today. Discipline yourself or someone else will. I asked them what they think that means. They were really funny about it. Some said it means you give yourself the spanking when you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfevident1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3307712&amp;post=936&amp;subd=selfevident1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Want to Prosper? Master This One Thing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 02:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have in my possession one of the greatest books on the accumulation of wealth ever written, Napoleon Hill&#8217;s The Master-Key to Riches. Why do I think it is one of the greatest? Probably because it is the one I have read the most. He makes some significant assertions in this book. the ideas are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfevident1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3307712&amp;post=932&amp;subd=selfevident1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Embracing Extremism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 08:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frankly, I am a little tired of the lazy claim that constitutionalism is extreme. When did this happen? Why is holding to everything this nation once stood for extreme? Perhaps it has always been extreme. After all, the framers of the Constitution could find no satisfactory form of government that adequately protected life, liberty and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfevident1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3307712&amp;post=910&amp;subd=selfevident1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Capitalism: The -ism that Isn&#8217;t</title>
		<link>http://selfevident1.wordpress.com/2010/09/09/capitalism-the-ism-that-isnt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people these days want to reject all the -isms because thy recognize how they fall short of accomplishing the ideal life. They gather all these -isms into one and throw them aside. Marxism, socialism, fascism, corporatism, communism, populism. I even saw one the other day that I had never seen before: Friedmanism, after the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfevident1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3307712&amp;post=905&amp;subd=selfevident1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Boycotts or Government Intervention? And Is &#8220;Socialism&#8221; Just a Nasty Extremist Word?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://selfevident1.wordpress.com/?p=898</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In our ever-increasingly vitriolic world, it is refreshing to come across a blog that presents level-headed reasoning for the various boycotts of British Petroleum in response to the current oil fiasco in the Gulf of Mexico. I considered reposting the entire blog but thought better of it for the space since I also want to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfevident1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3307712&amp;post=898&amp;subd=selfevident1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Government&#8217;s Role in the BP Offshore Drilling Debacle: Stay Out</title>
		<link>http://selfevident1.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/governments-role-in-the-bp-offshore-drilling-debacle-stay-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 18:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[News in my inbox this morning has President Obama defending his administration&#8217;s handling of the current British Petroleum accident in the Gulf of Mexico. Talk show pundits criticize him for his lack of effort in this matter and wish to draw up as much ire against him as liberal media did against President Bush during [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfevident1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3307712&amp;post=892&amp;subd=selfevident1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What to Do with the Public Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 20:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I get many ideas to write based upon what my Facebook friends are talking about. One, a state legislator, posted the following today. Education is not the filling of a bucket but the lighting of a fire. —William Butler Yeats This inspirational quote has encouraged many an educator to assess his/her methods of teaching in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfevident1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3307712&amp;post=888&amp;subd=selfevident1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons Learned: A Personal Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 18:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I took myself on a pretty hard run this morning. Once a week I hit the track instead of the road, in favor of its soft flat surface&#8230;and its calibrated measurements. Every hundred meters I know exactly how far I have gone and I can measure that against the clock to know exactly how I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfevident1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3307712&amp;post=882&amp;subd=selfevident1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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