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		<title>Unfunded Liabilities</title>
		<link>http://campusbrownie.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/unfunded-liabilities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[American state and federal governments are struggling to cut spending. They are unable to fulfill the budgets that they had planned on with the revenue they are now taking in. Most of the debate has been about cutting short term spending on public services with the idea that the revenue shortfall is a short-term effect [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=campusbrownie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14430262&amp;post=114&amp;subd=campusbrownie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vegetarianism and Veganism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vegetarianism and veganism, as lifestyle choices, have been growing in popularity in recent decades. Like all such changes, these movements have produced confusion, since people adhere to them with varying degrees of rigor and for many different reasons. Vegetarians, quite simply, do not eat animals. No meat, fish, shellfish, etc., but all kinds of grains, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=campusbrownie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14430262&amp;post=109&amp;subd=campusbrownie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Budget Deficits; Useful or Dangerous</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest political fights right now in the United States and other countries hurt by the Great Recession is over government finances. For various reasons, they have been spending much more than they have been taking in from taxes. This is called deficit spending. It is separate from the actual level of debt. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=campusbrownie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14430262&amp;post=102&amp;subd=campusbrownie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recent History of Egypt</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Egypt entered the modern era as a mostly independent subject kingdom within the Ottoman Turk empire. As the industrial revolution  took hold in Britain, the erstwhile Land of the Pharaohs was ruled by the descendants of the mercenary Ali Pasha, who maintained their position by paying tribute to the Sultan and modernizing their armies.  In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=campusbrownie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14430262&amp;post=100&amp;subd=campusbrownie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Immigration Policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 21:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent entries, I have discussed various factors that go into creating the current immigration situation in the United States, from both the immigrants’ side and that of the countries they seek to enter. With this background, I can now look at the variety of policy responses that the US and countries in similar situations [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=campusbrownie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14430262&amp;post=97&amp;subd=campusbrownie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Costs and Benefits of Immigration</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So far I have discussed immigration from the point of view of the immigrants, who they are and why they make such a big decision. The countries they move to also have a stake in the matter. They are materially affected by immigrants and have several options for controlling the flow of people entering their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=campusbrownie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14430262&amp;post=89&amp;subd=campusbrownie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why People Immigrate</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 01:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the previous post, I discussed the varied nature of the people who immigrate to the United States of America, showing that there are huge numbers of people from all over the world who want a chance to live in the US. What draws such crowds? Surely most people would prefer to stay where language, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=campusbrownie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14430262&amp;post=81&amp;subd=campusbrownie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who are the Immigrants?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 21:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To emigrate is to leave one’s native land. To immigrate is to settle somewhere else. America, it is said, is a land of immigrants. We take those who have no place elsewhere and make them our own, use them to build our society. Who are these people who come to us? The answer has, of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=campusbrownie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14430262&amp;post=82&amp;subd=campusbrownie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Banned Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of Banned Books Week, the wonderful Rejectionist and Tahereh have put together a collection of reviews of favorite books that have been banned or challenged. I am an ardent supporter of books, and this blog is designed to work against the kind of ignorance that is the cause and consequence of censorship. So [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=campusbrownie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14430262&amp;post=76&amp;subd=campusbrownie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sri Lankan Civil War</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 19, 2009, Mahinda Rajapaksa, the president of Sri Lanka, declared that his country’s decades long civil war was over. Although the fighting had stopped, the suffering still continues. Sri Lanka’s troubles have their root in centuries past. The country has a mixture of ethnic groups. The majority are Sinhalese, who are Buddhist, while [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=campusbrownie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14430262&amp;post=73&amp;subd=campusbrownie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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