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		<title>Choice? Health Care Reform, Cars, and Freedom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, Oklahoma is still abuzz with discussion about the new health care bill. Many say they are outraged about the concept of people being forced to purchase something. And, besides health insurance companies, what other company do you know with a guaranteed market—a market where participation is required by the government? Of course, there are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.econonomaly.com/2010/04/choice-health-care-reform-cars-and-freedom/</link>
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		<title>Teens and Texting: They’ve Grown up Just Like Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many  Oklahomans have their gripes about the most prevalent teen habit right now—texting. Kids sit staring at their cell phones, punching buttons, and managing to convince us all that by the time they’re 25, they will be a gold mine for the carpel-tunnel-surgery-industrial complex. In Our Day It Was Phones The basics are not new. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.econonomaly.com/2010/02/teens-and-texting-they%e2%80%99ve-grown-up-just-like-me/</link>
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		<title>Thought on Corporate &#8220;Persons&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since corporations are people deserving the right to free speech, let&#8217;s just give them the right to vote! One corporation, one vote. That leaves us wondering who should cast the vote for any particular corporation? Since the executives&#8217; time is worth SO much money, let&#8217;s not distract them from their busy schedules to have them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.econonomaly.com/2010/01/addition-thought-on-corporate-persons/</link>
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		<title>Pottersland: Where We Are Now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Move over, George Bailey. We’re all in Pottersland now. In the classic movie, It’s a Wonderful Life, George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart) received a wonderful gift. He got the chance to see his beloved community of Bedford Falls, as it would have been if he had never lived. It turned out that George and George alone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.econonomaly.com/2010/01/pottersland-where-we-are-now/</link>
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		<title>OK, I Know What Jesus Would Drive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, some well-meaning people started a sort of a campaign to ask the question, “What would Jesus drive?” Their aim was to nudge Americans to think about their transportation choices, since our country burns so much fossil fuel in the process of getting from here to there. Would Jesus drive a Hummer? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.econonomaly.com/2010/01/ok-i-know-what-jesus-would-drive/</link>
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		<title>Book Review—How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities by John Cassidy Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 400 pages 0374173206 Wow, what a book! The author analyzes our recent economic meltdown in three parts, each well-written, and packed with information. The first section, with eight chapters, describes what Cassidy terms “utopian economics.” We find a short history [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.econonomaly.com/2010/01/book-review%e2%80%94how-markets-fail-the-logic-of-economic-calamities/</link>
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		<title>When It Comes to Family Values, We Brag a Lot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oklahomans are fond of &#8220;family values.&#8221; We feel we place family relationships at a much higher priority than heathen movie stars in California or liberal East-Coast crazies. Sometimes, I wonder just how much we value families&#8211;our talk rings more than a little hollow. I have recently heard from some distraught single moms. These ladies are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.econonomaly.com/2009/12/when-it-comes-to-family-values-we-brag-a-lot/</link>
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		<title>Taxes Are Bad Except When We Like Them</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oklahomans can be mysterious. Ask an Oklahoman what she thinks about taxes, and you’re likely to get an earful. Oppressive, unnecessary, unfair, government pickpockets, incompetent bureaucrats… That’s why it’s a little surprising that just over a week ago, Oklahoma City residents voted to continue a tax they could have ended. Odd, isn&#8217;t it? Generally, Oklahomans [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.econonomaly.com/2009/12/taxes-are-bad-except-the-ones-we-want/</link>
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		<title>One More Thought on MAPS 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our city, and Oklahoma in general, has very low taxes by world standards, and even by national standards. We also have inadequate public services. It takes tax money to address these needs. We are told, however, that rather than address one huge need, public transit, we should settle for building a convention center and a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.econonomaly.com/2009/12/one-more-thought-on-maps-3/</link>
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		<title>One other way to look at MAPS 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This pie chart puts things into perspective. Pie chart shows proposed MAPS 3 expenditures. We can see where the money is going! Projects included in downtown total are:  convention center, river enhancements, park, streetcar. Supporting data available at www.okc.gov.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.econonomaly.com/2009/12/one-other-way-to-look-at-maps-3/</link>
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