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	<title>Paul McKeever</title>
	<link>http://blog.paulmckeever.ca</link>
	<description>Reality, Reason, Self, Consent, Capitalism</description>
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		<title>Bullshit, and the Ironic Invalidity of the Census Debate</title>
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“It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it. When an honest man speaks, he says only what he believes to be true; and for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paulmckeever.ca/2010/07/29/bullshit-and-the-ironic-invalidity-of-the-census-debate/</link>
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		<title>Optional Long Form Census a Blow to Racism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Canada&#8217;s Conservative government has announced that completion of Canada&#8217;s &#8220;long form&#8221; census will cease to be mandatory in 2011.  Shrieks of condemnation can now be heard from a wide range of interests.  None of them are justified.  To the contrary, this is one step the Harper government has announced in recent history [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paulmckeever.ca/2010/07/17/optional-long-form-census-a-blow-to-racism/</link>
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		<title>Run from the Rahn Curve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, Shotgun blogger PUBLIUS featured a video made by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity concerning a graph of the so-called &#8220;Rahn curve&#8221;. The video serves as a good example of what is wrong with the idea of founding upon quantitative economic arguments ones advocacy of individual freedom. And, given the political orientation of those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paulmckeever.ca/2010/07/13/run-from-the-rahn-curve/</link>
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		<title>Identity, Blatchford, Journalism, and Oz</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Christie Blatchford is a writer whose writings currently are printed in the Globe and Mail Newspaper.  She is probably most widely recognized as a writer who reports the facts as they relate to court proceedings.  She is well respected in that role and, in my view, such respect is warranted.
However, Blatchford writes (or, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paulmckeever.ca/2010/07/05/identity-blatchford-journalism-and-oz/</link>
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		<title>In Defence of Religious Belief and Expression</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Four men appear on a public street, outside of the perimeter of an &#8220;Arab Festival&#8221;.  The town reportedly has a large population of Muslims.  The men hand out free copies of the Gospel of John &#8211; written in both English and Arabic translations &#8211; to those who approach them.  Within 30 seconds, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paulmckeever.ca/2010/06/24/in-defence-of-religious-belief-and-expression/</link>
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		<title>Free Speech, Policing, and Falsified Assault as a Pretext for Arrest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The video speaks for itself.
Within one minute after the peaceful arrival of two Canadians at the Niagara Falls constituency office of Canada&#8217;s Justice Minister, Rob Nicholson, a police officer arrives on motorcycle.  He says he has been called to the scene.  He asks that the video camera recording him be turned off.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paulmckeever.ca/2010/06/12/free-speech-policing-and-falsified-assault-as-a-pretext-for-arrest/</link>
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		<title>Quantity, Quality, and Government</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s Globe and Mail newspaper, Professor Tom Flanagan &#8211; professor of political science at the University of Calgary and a former campaign manager for the Conservative Party of Canada &#8211; argues that a number of issues currently hurting the governing Conservatives would not have arisen were it not for their having grown the government. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paulmckeever.ca/2010/05/25/quantity-quality-and-government/</link>
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		<title>Harper is not Harper: the libertarian Conservative delusion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Libertarian Conservative writer Gerry Nicholls wrote a blog post on the National Post&#8217;s &#8220;Full Comment&#8221; blog the other day in which he did his best to argue that A is not A.  His subject was a book by Marci MacDonald titled &#8220;The Armageddon Factor&#8221;, in which she writes of the influence that evangelical Christians [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paulmckeever.ca/2010/05/21/harper-is-not-harper-the-libertarian-conservative-delusion/</link>
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		<title>Tolerance, Libertarianism, and the Conservatives&#8217; Religious Culture War</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A strategy is emerging.  Dare to point out the influence that religion is having upon government policy, and the defenders and apologists for such a mixture of religion and government will pretend that the condemnation of that mixture is somehow a call for religious people to be denied the freedom to air their views. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paulmckeever.ca/2010/05/18/tolerance-libertarianism-and-the-conservatives-religious-culture-war/</link>
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		<title>Cornies, Coren, and the Conservatives: all Sun, no light</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Monday, (May 10, 2010), Canada&#8217;s Conservative Justice Minister, Rob Nicholson, decided to surrender Canadian activist and publisher Marc Emery for extradition to the USA.  Emery faces no charges in Canada, but is wanted by the USA for having sold cannabis seeds to Americans via Canada Post.  The decision has led to anti-Conservative [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paulmckeever.ca/2010/05/15/cornies-coren-and-the-conservatives-all-sun-no-light/</link>
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