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		<title>Why is knowledge power?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[And freedom? And why is education power and freedom? The whole point of the enlightenment is that knowledge sets us free. &#8220;Wherever the people are well informed,&#8221; Thomas Jefferson wrote, &#8220;they can be trusted with their own government.&#8221; That we are less free than we can, and should, be is the point of Shawn Otto&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/02/04/why-is-knowledge-power/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Why is knowledge power?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>This is how a dictatorship works.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2017 14:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The press has had enough of being called liars by the liars. I&#8217;m not a big fan of MJ, but the very fact that MJ has quotable conversation about this is a change in how the world works. Here&#8217;s another thing dictators do: Make up accolades. Trump created a fake TIME magazine cover and hung &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/06/28/this-is-how-a-dictatorship-works/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">This is how a dictatorship works.</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Coon Rapids Baptist Church: Are they violating IRS law or not?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 14:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have no idea if the Coon Rapids Baptist Church, is a real church with tax exempt status, but let&#8217;s assume for the moment that they are. The question then would be, is this church jeopradizing their tax exempt status by taking and explicit stand on a certain issue and telling people how they should &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/06/coon-rapids-baptist-church-are-they-violating-irs-law-or-not/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Coon Rapids Baptist Church: Are they violating IRS law or not?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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