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<title>Reading List: The World Crisis</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Churchill, Winston S. The World Crisis. London: Penguin, [1923&ndash;1931, 2005] 2007. ISBN&nbsp;978-0-141-44205-1. Churchill's history of the Great War (what we now call World War I) was published in five volumes between 1923 and 1931. The present volume is an...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:34:40 Z</pubDate>
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<title>Barack Headroom II: Me-mix of the State of the Union address</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Download MP3 audio file Whatever you may say about Barack Obama, he is a master of the first person personal pronoun&mdash;it's all about me (and &ldquo;I&rdquo;, &ldquo;my&rdquo;, &ldquo;myself&rdquo; and &ldquo;mine&rdquo;)! In the spirit of the original Barack Headroom audio,...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:15:53 Z</pubDate>
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<title>Reading List: The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Bryson, Bill. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. London: Black Swan, 2007. ISBN&nbsp;978-0-552-77254-9. What could be better than growing up in the United States in the 1950s? Well, perhaps being a kid with super powers as the...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:32:05 Z</pubDate>
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<title>Reading List: The Persian Night</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Taheri, Amir. The Persian Night. New York: Encounter Books, 2009. ISBN&nbsp;978-1-59403-240-0. With Iran continuing its march toward nuclear weapons and long range missiles unimpeded by an increasingly feckless West, while simultaneously domestic discontent over the tyranny of the mullahs,...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:36:20 Z</pubDate>
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<title>Reading List: The Character of Nations</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Codevilla, Angelo. The Character of Nations. New York: Basic Books, [1997] 2009. ISBN&nbsp;978-0-465-02800-9. As George Will famously observed, &ldquo;statecraft is soulcraft&rdquo;. This book, drawing on examples from antiquity to the present day, and from cultures all around the world,...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:23:50 Z</pubDate>
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<title>Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship Now Online</title>
<description>The eighteenth installment in the Tom Swift adventures, Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship, is now posted in the Tom Swift and His Pocket Library collection. As usual, HTML, PDF, PDA eReader, and plain ASCII text editions suitable for reading...</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 01:56:59 Z</pubDate>
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<title>Reading List: Memorial Day</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Flynn, Vince. Memorial Day. New York: Pocket Books, 2004. ISBN&nbsp;978-0-7434-5398-1. In this, the fifth novel in the Mitch Rapp (warning&mdash;the article at this link contains minor spoilers) series the author returns from the more introspective view of the conflicting...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:32:49 Z</pubDate>
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<title>Reading List: A Brilliant Darkness</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Magueijo, Jo&atilde;o. A Brilliant Darkness. New York: Basic Books, 2009. ISBN&nbsp;978-0-465-00903-9. Ettore Majorana is one of the most enigmatic figures in twentieth century physics. The son of a wealthy Sicilian family and a domineering mother, he was a mathematical...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:47:20 Z</pubDate>
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<title>Reading List: Enemies Foreign and Domestic</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Bracken, Matthew. Enemies Foreign and Domestic. Orange Park, FL: Steelcutter Publishing, [2003] 2008. ISBN&nbsp;978-0-9728310-1-7. This is one of those books, like John Ross's Unintended Consequences and Vince Flynn's Term Limits in which a long train of abuses and usurpations,...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:48:41 Z</pubDate>
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<title>Recipes: Jamaican Jerk Leftover Turkey with Pasta</title>
<description>As Thanksgiving approaches, it&apos;s time for this year&apos;s recipe. Having previous discussed cranberries and a quick and easy way to cook turkey, now let&apos;s move on to what is, for me, one of the best things about Thanksgiving: leftover turkey...</description>
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<category>Diet and Nutrition</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:47:12 Z</pubDate>
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<title>Reading List: Signature in the Cell</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Meyer, Stephen C. Signature in the Cell. New York: HarperCollins, 2009. ISBN&nbsp;978-0-06-147278-7. At last we have a book which squarely takes on the central puzzle of the supposedly blind, purposeless universe to which so many scientists presently ascribe the...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:56:53 Z</pubDate>
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<title>Gizmos: Battery Discharger</title>
<description><![CDATA[ It's been a while since I've built a gizmo; here's the latest. Ever since I got a 30 minute NiMH battery charger, I've noticed that certain batteries are rejected by it as &ldquo;not chargeable&rdquo;, but that if I drain...]]></description>
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<category>Gizmos</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:18:50 Z</pubDate>
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<title>Reading List: Term Limits</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Flynn, Vince. Term Limits. New York: Pocket Books, 1997. ISBN&nbsp;978-0-671-02318-8. This was the author's first novel, which he initially self-published and marketed through bookshops in his native Minnesota after failing to place it with any of the major New...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:35:42 Z</pubDate>
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<title>Reading List: Culture of Corruption</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Malkin, Michelle. Culture of Corruption. Washington: Regnery Publishing, 2009. ISBN&nbsp;978-1-59698-109-6. This excellent book is essential to understanding what is presently going on in the United States. The author digs into the backgrounds and interconnections of the Obamas, the Clintons,...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:53:11 Z</pubDate>
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<title>Reading List: The Year I Owned the Yankees</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Lyle, [Albert] Sparky and David Fisher. The Year I Owned the Yankees. New York: Bantam Books, [1990] 1991. ISBN&nbsp;978-0-553-28692-2. &ldquo;Sparky&rdquo; Lyle was one of the preeminent baseball relief pitchers of the 1970s. In 1977, he became the first American...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:25:12 Z</pubDate>
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