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		<title>Some Students are More Equal than Others&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.statesonthetake.com/blog/some-students-are-more-equal-than-others/15/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. George Alfonso</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>State Intervention and the Surrendering of your Rights for a Good Cause:</title>
		<link>http://www.statesonthetake.com/blog/state-intervention-and-the-surrendering-of-your-rights-for-a-good-cause/11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 03:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. George Alfonso</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8211; Here Come the PHP (Personal Habits Police) to Save the Day – and You &#8211;
“He who trades liberty for safety loses both…” I think it was Thomas Jefferson who first said this, or something very similar. If it wasn’t him it certainly is a statement with which he would agree.
Our Free Market is fundamentally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are All Leaks Bad ? ? ?</title>
		<link>http://www.statesonthetake.com/blog/are-all-leaks-bad/10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2006 03:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. George Alfonso</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The torrent of  leaks and unwanted “disclosures” pouring out of our Nation’s Capital  threaten to burst  the “Truth–Levies” the Bush administration and its Stealth Cartel allies  have fought so hard to strengthen and reinforce throughout this second term.
Despite recent efforts  to intensify the search to uncover the “leakers” , including [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The News Media Raises the White Flag to Surrender its Credibility</title>
		<link>http://www.statesonthetake.com/blog/the-news-media-raises-the-white-flag-to-surrender-its-credibility/9/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 03:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. George Alfonso</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s not often that a sea change in American society becomes so transparently (and painfully) apparent literally overnight, but that’s exactly what happened on the late evening/early morning of January 4 – 5, 2006.
Those few hours, and the subsequent days have confirmed the completion of the metamorphoses which has been ongoing for some time – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legal Isn&#8217;t Legal and Unlawful is Quite Alright</title>
		<link>http://www.statesonthetake.com/blog/legal-isnt-legal-and-unlawful-is-quite-alright/8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2005 03:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. George Alfonso</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When Legal Isn’t Legal and Unlawful Is Quite Alright
Rocky Mountain High . . .not just for singing anymore.  This week Denver voters voiced their approval to christen  Denver as the first major city to legalize small/personal amounts of marijuana (up to an ounce), without a penalty . You remember marijuana right – it’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Court Affirms &#8220;Eminent&#8221; Expansion of the Stealth Cartels</title>
		<link>http://www.statesonthetake.com/blog/high-court-affirms-eminent-expansion-of-the-stealth-cartels/7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2005 03:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. George Alfonso</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court has ratified and sanctioned the ever-expanding Stealth Cartel partnerships between Big Business  and their comrades in collusion,  States’ Government.
The Court’s recent ruling  in Kelo et. Al. v. City of New London et. Al., affirmed for the first time, a state or local government’s authority to seize its’ citizens’ non-blighted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Good For The Glass . . .</title>
		<link>http://www.statesonthetake.com/blog/whats-good-for-the-glass/4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2005 03:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. George Alfonso</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In a 5 to 4 decision,  the Supreme Court,  has just brightened the glassy eyed smile of wine aficionados and everyone else who enjoys a nice Merlot, by striking down what had been the ongoing attempts of several state governments to interfere with and prohibit their Citizen Consumers from purchasing their favorite out-of-state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too Much of a Bad Thing is Worse &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.statesonthetake.com/blog/too-much-of-a-bad-thing-is-worse/5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2005 03:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. George Alfonso</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The citizens of Michigan who reside in the urban sprawl of Detroit are waking up to the brave new world of  Stealth Cartel partnerships between their elected officials, and their government’s comrades in collusion, Big Business.  For this and other related articles – visit  the StatesOnTheTake.com Law and Business Library. 
This time, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck . . .</title>
		<link>http://www.statesonthetake.com/blog/if-it-looks-like-a-duck-and-quacks-like-a-duck/6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2005 03:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. George Alfonso</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Scott Woolley of Forbes does what few in the media have so succinctly done before; explain “Exhibit A” of the Stealth Cartel Partnerships, the 46 states government/Big Tobacco “Master Settlement Agreement” (“MSA”) – [read Master Partnership Agreement].
“This may be one of the most successful cartels ever,” that the opinion of Judge Dennis Jacobs, of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making sense of the alphabet soup: ASR and the MSA</title>
		<link>http://www.statesonthetake.com/blog/making-sense-of-the-alphabet-soup-asr-and-the-msa/3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2005 03:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. George Alfonso</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The concept of allocable share release (ASR), designed to make the MSA payments required of small companies, on a state-by-state basis, to be the same as major companies, is not easy to explain. It has proved much easier to misrepresent this provision of the MSA in the 39 states that have repealed ASR.
Attempting to maintain [...]]]></description>
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