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		<title>Starting is Easy</title>
		<link>http://www.constantconservative.com/2010/starting-is-easy</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking  way too much about starting and finishing over the last few days&#8211;how simple it is to start a task and how hard it often is to finish. I&#8217;ve begun more things than I could easily call to mind, but I could count on a couple of hands the large endeavors which I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on Paine’s Common Sense: Part 3</title>
		<link>http://www.constantconservative.com/2010/thoughts-on-paine%e2%80%99s-common-sense-part-3</link>
		<comments>http://www.constantconservative.com/2010/thoughts-on-paine%e2%80%99s-common-sense-part-3#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last time, we covered most of Paine&#8217;s Common Sense understanding of the need for/origin of basic government. We shall now continue with his conclusions in that vein:
Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is the design [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Last Founding Father</title>
		<link>http://www.constantconservative.com/2009/review-the-last-founding-father</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.constantconservative.com/?p=5664</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[More than one hundred years ago, a small town was planted on the the South Dakota prairie. It was named Warrington (after whom I cannot recall, but he was probably one of those invested in the town). Some years later, a discussion arose about the town and some thought that it was too evocative of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Concealed Carry and States</title>
		<link>http://www.constantconservative.com/2009/concealed-carry-and-states</link>
		<comments>http://www.constantconservative.com/2009/concealed-carry-and-states#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Dakota&#8217;s Senator Thune has proposed a law which would make inter-state vacation travel easier for concealed carry holders:
“South Dakota is one of many states with reasonable measures in place allowing citizens to protect themselves with concealed weapons,” the South Dakota Republican said in an e-mailed statement. “Law-abiding South Dakotans should be able to exercise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Trust, No Freedom</title>
		<link>http://www.constantconservative.com/2009/no-trust-no-freedom</link>
		<comments>http://www.constantconservative.com/2009/no-trust-no-freedom#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 12:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.constantconservative.com/?p=3647</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, when I&#8217;m here and there on the interwebs, I find something which is so simple that I should have known it years ago (or maybe I did and just forgot it). At any rate, Mrs. Peel channels Chesterton beautifully:
There’s a Chesterton quotation I discovered recently (via the Anchoress):
The free man owns himself. He can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economics of Ownership</title>
		<link>http://www.constantconservative.com/2009/economics-of-ownership</link>
		<comments>http://www.constantconservative.com/2009/economics-of-ownership#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 01:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I count myself among those individuals who believe the Bible to be far more than a book of storied ancients. Robert Higgs of the Independent Institute finds that it includes sound economic thinking with regards to personal property and ownership:
Perhaps the most important proposition in the economics of property rights is that people will not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White Men&#8217;s Writings: Rousseau</title>
		<link>http://www.constantconservative.com/2009/white-mens-writings-rousseau</link>
		<comments>http://www.constantconservative.com/2009/white-mens-writings-rousseau#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Originals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is relatively common today for loyal supporters of the US Constitution to be informed that we are living in the past and basing our ideology on a document which was written by a bunch of white men who have been dead for about 200 years. Of course, this reasoning presupposes that thoughts by people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Law and Precedent</title>
		<link>http://www.constantconservative.com/2009/law-and-precedent</link>
		<comments>http://www.constantconservative.com/2009/law-and-precedent#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Future Law]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.constantconservative.com/?p=3298</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a country which still pays lip service to the rule of law, precedent is critical. Legal precedent is essential for equality, continuity and stability under the law. However, judges are increasingly willing to cite precedents from courts which neither have jurisdiction in this country nor yet a legal basis in common. Justices Scalia and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>States&#8217; Wrongs</title>
		<link>http://www.constantconservative.com/2009/states-wrongs</link>
		<comments>http://www.constantconservative.com/2009/states-wrongs#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Future Law]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Dakota]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tenth Amendment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.constantconservative.com/?p=3057</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Whether we are looking at much bluster, or the beginning of states reasserting their powers under the 10 Amendment of the US Constitution is yet to be known. However, for the present, I would like to think that our representatives (and senators) at the state level here in South Dakota are truly concerned with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rock the DC Vote</title>
		<link>http://www.constantconservative.com/2009/rock-the-dc-vote</link>
		<comments>http://www.constantconservative.com/2009/rock-the-dc-vote#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Principles]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.constantconservative.com/?p=2998</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve no doubt heard of the bill which would give Washington DC a voting representative in the US House of Representatives. It is patently unconstitutional since DC is not a state. Law professor Joerg Knipprath has an excellent, detailed explanation of why this bill does not pass constitutional muster. Here&#8217;s an excerpt, but you should [...]]]></description>
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