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> <channel><title>&#187; Government</title> <atom:link href="http://blog.oaknorton.com/category/government/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://blog.oaknorton.com</link> <description>Like the Oak Tree, Branching Off in Random Directions</description> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:04:01 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1</generator> <item><title>Glenn Beck on the cycle of democracy</title><link>http://blog.oaknorton.com/glenn-beck-on-the-cycle-of-democracy/</link> <comments>http://blog.oaknorton.com/glenn-beck-on-the-cycle-of-democracy/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:49:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Oak Norton</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Government]]></category> <category><![CDATA[glenn beck]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://blog.oaknorton.com/?p=252</guid> <description><![CDATA[Glenn Beck reviews the cycle of history for nations, and Bill Maher says stupid people (ex. anyone not believing in evolution) need to have their decisions made for them.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.oaknorton.com/glenn-beck-on-the-cycle-of-democracy/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>CNN Rips Obama and Pelosi&#8217;s Transparency Lies</title><link>http://blog.oaknorton.com/cnn-rips-obama-and-pelosis-transparency-lies/</link> <comments>http://blog.oaknorton.com/cnn-rips-obama-and-pelosis-transparency-lies/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:31:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Oak Norton</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Government]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://blog.oaknorton.com/?p=246</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ecstasy for the ears.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.oaknorton.com/cnn-rips-obama-and-pelosis-transparency-lies/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Government Run Lemonade Stands</title><link>http://blog.oaknorton.com/government-run-lemonade-stands/</link> <comments>http://blog.oaknorton.com/government-run-lemonade-stands/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:51:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Oak Norton</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Government]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://blog.oaknorton.com/?p=236</guid> <description><![CDATA[I like this clever and easy to grasp analogy to the health care system.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.oaknorton.com/government-run-lemonade-stands/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Global Warming = Global Government</title><link>http://blog.oaknorton.com/global-warming-global-government/</link> <comments>http://blog.oaknorton.com/global-warming-global-government/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:25:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Oak Norton</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Government]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://blog.oaknorton.com/?p=221</guid> <description><![CDATA[On October 14th, Lord Christopher Monckton gave a presentation in St. Paul, MN on the subject of global warming helping to expose the true nature of those behind the movement. Are they really concerned about global warming (now that the earth&#8217;s been cooling for 11 straight years and scientists have conclusively shown the earth goes [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.oaknorton.com/global-warming-global-government/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Socialism: Kingdom of God or Chains on Freedom</title><link>http://blog.oaknorton.com/socialism-kingdom-of-god-or-chains-on-freedom/</link> <comments>http://blog.oaknorton.com/socialism-kingdom-of-god-or-chains-on-freedom/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:40:33 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Oak Norton</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Government]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LDS]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://blog.oaknorton.com/?p=217</guid> <description><![CDATA[Last week Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan dictator, said, &#8220;Every day I am more convinced that socialism is the kingdom of God here on earth. Every day I&#8217;m more revolutionary, more socialist every day. I&#8217;m taking Venezuela toward socialism, the people and workers.&#8221; I suppose if you&#8217;re the dictator, socialism must feel like heaven. Contrast that with [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.oaknorton.com/socialism-kingdom-of-god-or-chains-on-freedom/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Utah Ethics Bombshell &#8211; Goodbye Utah if this Passes</title><link>http://blog.oaknorton.com/utah-ethics-bombshell-goodbye-utah-if-this-passes/</link> <comments>http://blog.oaknorton.com/utah-ethics-bombshell-goodbye-utah-if-this-passes/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:31:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Oak Norton</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Government]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://blog.oaknorton.com/?p=213</guid> <description><![CDATA[IF THIS ETHICS BILL PASSES, UTAH WILL CEASE TO EXIST AS A FREE STATE I attended a town hall meeting last night where Senators Howard Stephenson and Curtis Bramble went through the text of the Government Ethics Reform bill citizens initiative. Under the guise that Utah legislators need ethics reform, made popular by the press [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.oaknorton.com/utah-ethics-bombshell-goodbye-utah-if-this-passes/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>9</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Wage Reform = Tort Reform</title><link>http://blog.oaknorton.com/wage-reform-tort-reform/</link> <comments>http://blog.oaknorton.com/wage-reform-tort-reform/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:43:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Oak Norton</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Government]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tort reform]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://blog.oaknorton.com/?p=211</guid> <description><![CDATA[Dear Legislator, The law firm I work for doesn&#8217;t handle medical malpractice cases but I feel the need to write to express my concern for legislation being considered in Utah.  I am attaching for your review a recent NY Times article that should help explain some of the facts regarding the ever popular tort reform [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.oaknorton.com/wage-reform-tort-reform/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>One Nation Under God artwork</title><link>http://blog.oaknorton.com/one-nation-under-god-artwork/</link> <comments>http://blog.oaknorton.com/one-nation-under-god-artwork/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:19:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Oak Norton</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Government]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://blog.oaknorton.com/?p=202</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#8220;One Nation Under God&#8221; is the title of a cool art piece by Jon McNaughton. Click this link and then click the picture for a neat little app he&#8217;s got that lets you zoom in on every aspect of his painting and understand the symbolism he&#8217;s put into this work of art. http://www.mcnaughtonart.com]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.oaknorton.com/one-nation-under-god-artwork/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Utah&#8217;s Republic</title><link>http://blog.oaknorton.com/utahs-republic/</link> <comments>http://blog.oaknorton.com/utahs-republic/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:30:47 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Oak Norton</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Government]]></category> <category><![CDATA[republic]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://blog.oaknorton.com/?p=173</guid> <description><![CDATA[My next project is online now and looking for help. Utah&#8217;s Republic is an online education site teaching  about the difference between a Democracy and Republic and asking by petition for the state to modify a few of the state history standards since the word Republic is never mentioned once. The petition also calls for [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.oaknorton.com/utahs-republic/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Britain to install 20,000 cameras INSIDE homes</title><link>http://blog.oaknorton.com/britain-to-install-20000-cameras-inside-homes/</link> <comments>http://blog.oaknorton.com/britain-to-install-20000-cameras-inside-homes/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:22:22 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Oak Norton</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Government]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[big brother]]></category> <category><![CDATA[health care plan]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://blog.oaknorton.com/?p=170</guid> <description><![CDATA[Unbelievably, citizens of Britain are inviting the government to monitor their children inside their homes to make sure they are doing their homework and eating their veggies. Families will have to sign a &#8220;behavior contract&#8221; to participate. http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/08/britain-to-put-cctv-cameras-inside-private-homes/ I&#8217;m so glad nothing like this could happen in America with the government intruding into our homes. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.oaknorton.com/britain-to-install-20000-cameras-inside-homes/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Dangers of &#8216;isms</title><link>http://blog.oaknorton.com/the-dangers-of-isms/</link> <comments>http://blog.oaknorton.com/the-dangers-of-isms/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:41:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Oak Norton</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Government]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://blog.oaknorton.com/?p=156</guid> <description><![CDATA[This is a great little video on the dangers of &#8216;isms and the benefits of true liberty (something we&#8217;ve been sorely missing for decades since &#8216;isms have promised the public everything we need and it&#8217;s oh so nice to be taken care of.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.oaknorton.com/the-dangers-of-isms/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Presidential Budget Cutter</title><link>http://blog.oaknorton.com/the-presidential-budget-cutter/</link> <comments>http://blog.oaknorton.com/the-presidential-budget-cutter/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 15:51:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Oak Norton</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Government]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://blog.oaknorton.com/?p=96</guid> <description><![CDATA[Thank goodness President Obama promised to make cuts in the budget (snicker). After getting laughed at for this idiocy, he proposed to increase the budget cuts to $17 billion. Amazingly, ABC news did some real reporting for a change and caught him in his deception from when he was debating McCain and said McCain&#8217;s $18 [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.oaknorton.com/the-presidential-budget-cutter/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Law</title><link>http://blog.oaknorton.com/the-law/</link> <comments>http://blog.oaknorton.com/the-law/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 15:40:36 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Oak Norton</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Government]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Frederick Bastiat]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Law]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://blog.oaknorton.com/?p=73</guid> <description><![CDATA[If you've never read the relatively short essay by Frederick Bastiat entitled, "The Law", you owe it to your country to do so. His essay helps elucidate the basic freedoms of man and how socialism is the true path to slavery. You can read The Law online for free or just listen to it by clicking each of these parts in turn to complete the book. Each segment is about 10 minutes and is read by Ed Griffin (author of The Creature from Jekyll Island). I like Ed's reading of the text better than other versions I've heard.
Part 1]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.oaknorton.com/the-law/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Atlas Shrugged</title><link>http://blog.oaknorton.com/atlas-shrugged/</link> <comments>http://blog.oaknorton.com/atlas-shrugged/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 12:48:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Oak Norton</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Government]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Atlas Shrugged]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Carpe Diem]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Liberty]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mark Perry]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://blog.oaknorton.com/?p=70</guid> <description><![CDATA[Mark Perry runs a great blog called Carpe Diem and I encourage you to check out some of the things he posts.  This particular link will show you the Google hits and Amazon books sales graphs for the book Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. http://mjperry.blogspot.com/search?q=atlas+shrugged If you haven&#8217;t read the book (and as of this [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.oaknorton.com/atlas-shrugged/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>News Flash: Gore Tells Congress Climate Most Important Issue Ever</title><link>http://blog.oaknorton.com/news-flash-gore-tells-congress-climate-most-important-issue-ever/</link> <comments>http://blog.oaknorton.com/news-flash-gore-tells-congress-climate-most-important-issue-ever/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:16:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Oak Norton</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Government]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://blog.oaknorton.com/?p=64</guid> <description><![CDATA[Al Gore never ceases to amaze.  Solving global warming will now take care of all our problems&#8230;  We&#8217;ve got to fix this NOW! Gore told a House hearing that the Democratic bill that would limit carbon dioxide and other pollution linked to a warming of the earth will simultaneously solve the problems of the climate, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.oaknorton.com/news-flash-gore-tells-congress-climate-most-important-issue-ever/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
