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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tristan Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you&#8217;ve noticed, the title of this blog has changed. This decision was made after googling my own name, and discovering that all of the results related to my scientific endeavors have been drowned out by links leading here. Unfortunately, the world of a science is filled with people who are perfectly happy working [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tbschemer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9429573&#038;post=1036&#038;subd=tbschemer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy is Not Freedom</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 19:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tristan Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Arab Spring is supposed to be a wonderful thing because it is eliminating dictators and installing democracy throughout the Middle East, right? The people get to choose their government! That&#8217;s freedom! Right? Well, is it freedom when majorities vote to install Islamic law with totalitarian reach in the government, as they are doing in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tbschemer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9429573&#038;post=1028&#038;subd=tbschemer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Separation of Ideology and State</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2013 08:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tristan Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quite a few people in this country support the separation of Church and State, feeling that religion has no place in defining the role of the State. Yet, many of these same people have no problem forcing their own ideologies and beliefs of any other nature on others through the mechanism of government. What&#8217;s the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tbschemer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9429573&#038;post=1025&#038;subd=tbschemer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Debt Cliff</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2013 21:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tristan Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A simple analogy for those trying to understand the debt ceiling debates: The debt ceiling is a brick wall that we&#8217;re running towards. If we hit that brick wall, it will hurt. Hence, the Democrats want to break down that wall and remove it altogether so that we don&#8217;t run into it. However, the Republicans [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tbschemer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9429573&#038;post=1018&#038;subd=tbschemer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom Correlations, Part 2: The Most Important Form of Freedom</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 02:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tristan Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last time, I examined how economic freedom (as defined by the Heritage Foundation) correlates with state failure (as defined by The Fund for Peace) by plotting each country on a graph of economic freedom score vs. failed state score. I found a strongly negative correlation between economic freedom and state failure, with the best-fit model [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tbschemer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9429573&#038;post=894&#038;subd=tbschemer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Figure 4: The magnitude and direction of correlations of each type of economic freedom with state failure. Freedom types are arranged by increasing magnitude of correlation. </media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Figure 8: The magnitude and direction of correlations of Property Rights score with each type of State Failure. Failure types are arranged by increasing magnitude of correlation. </media:title>
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		<title>Socialist Myths That Just Won&#8217;t Die, Part 1</title>
		<link>http://tbschemer.wordpress.com/2012/12/08/socialist-myths-that-just-wont-die-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2012 22:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tristan Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I end up encountering these myths far too often when debating socialist-minded individuals. I&#8217;m putting these myths and my responses to them here so that I don&#8217;t have to rewrite these responses so many times later. I expect this won&#8217;t be the last of this sort of post I&#8217;ll be publishing. To prove that I&#8217;m [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tbschemer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9429573&#038;post=911&#038;subd=tbschemer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do the Math: The Second Great Depression</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tristan Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve posted versions of all of these charts here at one point or another, but it&#8217;s nice to have them all in one place to give a full picture of the Second Great Depression that we are currently in. What these numbers show is that the Obama &#8220;Recovery&#8221; is the worst post-recession period since the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tbschemer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9429573&#038;post=892&#038;subd=tbschemer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom Correlations, Part 1: Economic Freedom and State Failure</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2012 03:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tristan Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A significant portion of my political debates involve discussing the effects of libertarian-style economic freedom on a country&#8217;s well-being. This type of debate includes two major components: quantifying economic freedom and quantifying a country&#8217;s well-being. Measuring these quantities alone is a challenge in itself, but in order to really make an argument regarding their effects [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tbschemer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9429573&#038;post=821&#038;subd=tbschemer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Socialism Defined</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 01:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tristan Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve never understood why those of a socialist persuasion try to pretend that they&#8217;re not socialist. Well I found the Encyclopaedia Britannica definition of socialism, and boy does it have something to say about the Democratic Party: socialism, social and economic doctrine that calls for public rather than private ownership or control of property and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tbschemer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9429573&#038;post=819&#038;subd=tbschemer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking: Obama fought for race-based subprime loans</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2012 18:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tristan Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As most should know by now, the financial crash of 2008 was caused by the housing crisis of 2007, which happened because banks were putting out so many subprime loans. There are many reasons why so many banks were putting out all these risky loans, from the Clinton version of the Community Reinvestment Act (which [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tbschemer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9429573&#038;post=812&#038;subd=tbschemer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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