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	<title>Lamar Soutter Newsletter</title>
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	<description>Essays on politics and the social sciences.</description>
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		<title>I am Spartacus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On September 30, 2005, a Danish newspaper contained in it a cartoon depicting Muhammad, the Prophet of the Muslim Faith.  This is forbidden under Muslim law, and Muslims across the world rioted, resulting in over 100 deaths, damage to Danish embassies, $170 million lost in boycotts, and a reward of $11 million for anyone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lamarsoutternews.com/2010/05/06/i-am-sparticus/</link>
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		<title>Essay: Perspective</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is a new year, and as we consider whom to vote for in this presidential election, the state of our economy, our environment, our society and culture, and the world and our place in it, let us consider some facts which may put the remarkable and unprecedented time in which we live into some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lamarsoutternews.com/2008/03/03/perspective/</link>
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		<title>Essay: Black and White and Shades of Grey</title>
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“That&#8217;s some nappy-headed hos there”
Don Imus, Radio Host and Shock Jock
“Nothing a white man with a penny hates more than a n***** with a nickel.”
Chris Rock, Comedian
“The Black is a better athlete to begin with, because he’s been bred to be that way”
Jimmy Snyder, Sports Commentator
“White people… I wish that you had my freedom of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lamarsoutternews.com/2007/09/30/black-and-white-and-shades-of-grey/</link>
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		<title>Essay: Religions of Hate</title>
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&#8220;Killing infidels assures you of Paradise.&#8221;
Qur’an, 47:4-6 
“Certain Men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying ‘Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known’; Then shalt thou enquire, and make search and ask diligently, and, behold, if it be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lamarsoutternews.com/2007/04/11/religions-of-hate/</link>
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		<title>Essay: Iraqi Shell Games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why did we go to war in Iraq?
Even before the invasion, a number of Americans did not believe that Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction (despite Colin Powell’s presentation to the UN). Since the invasion, evidence has been continuously mounting that the Bush Administration may well have known there were no WMDs in Iraq, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lamarsoutternews.com/2006/10/05/iraqi-shell-games/</link>
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		<title>Essay: The Gender War</title>
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“[Moral] Indignation… supplies the wise person with the energy… to act virtuously…  But most of those who publicly bemoan the plight of women… are moved by more dubious passions and interests. Theirs is a feminism of resentment that rationalizes and fosters a wholesale rancor in women that has little to do with moral indignation”
 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lamarsoutternews.com/2006/03/14/the-gender-war/</link>
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		<title>Essay: Men of Conscience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court has once again thrust the abortion debate into the national spotlight.
Why does this topic generate such hatred on all sides of the issue? The pro-life are seen as fascists trying to dominate women, while the pro-choice are wanton murderers. Not to mention that many women take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lamarsoutternews.com/2006/02/10/men-of-conscience/</link>
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		<title>Essay: The 2005 Wrapup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello All!
The year is drawing to a close, and while we all spend time with friends and family, the political landscape in the country continues, as it always has, to shift.
This was the first year for my newsletter (well, half a year, the newsletter started in June). I would like to sincerely thank all of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lamarsoutternews.com/2005/12/30/the-2005-wrapup/</link>
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		<title>Essay: A Flashbulb Event</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A flashbulb memory is a memory so powerful that it is forever burned into your brain. Where were you when JFK was assassinated? When Pearl Harbor was attacked? On 9/11?
Flashbulb memories are caused by flashbulb events. These events commonly affect a society as a whole. There are many side effects of these events- they tend [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lamarsoutternews.com/2005/12/14/a-flashbulb-event/</link>
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		<title>Essay: Racist Psychics</title>
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“I do know that it&#8217;s true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could &#8212; if that were your sole purpose &#8212; you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down”
Bill Bennett (09/28/05)
&#8220;We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That&#8217;s cowardly. Staying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lamarsoutternews.com/2005/11/30/racist-psychics/</link>
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		<title>Essay: Dia de la Resistencia Indigena</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Exactly one week from today is Columbus Day.
For many Native Americans, the name Columbus is synonymous with Adolph Hitler.  For many Italian-Americans, the name is synonymous with Neil Armstrong.  The remaining 95% of Americans are vastly unaware of the bitter feud between them, and simply think of him as the man who discovered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lamarsoutternews.com/2005/10/03/dia-de-la-resistencia-indigena/</link>
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		<title>Essay: Three Months at N2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month was the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, once again begging the question… Should we have dropped the bomb?
A rough timeline outlining the 1945 bombing is as follows:
 July 16th: Trinity Test &#8211; first successful atomic bomb test.
 August 6th: Hiroshima bombing. 100,000 people killed instantly.
 August 9th: Nagasaki bombing. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lamarsoutternews.com/2005/09/30/three-months-at-n2/</link>
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		<title>Essay: God&#8217;s Tenure</title>
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Why God Never Received Tenure at Any University:
By Ann Landers.
He had only one major publication.
It was in Hebrew.
It had no references.
It wasn’t published in a reference journal.
Some doubt He wrote it Himself.
He may have created the world, but what has he done since?
The scientific community can’t replicate his results.
He never got permission to use human [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lamarsoutternews.com/2005/08/21/gods-tenure/</link>
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		<title>Essay: Confirmation Bias</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two of the most common cognitive mistakes, Confirmation Bias and Attribution Error, have far reaching consequences in everything from politics to auto repair.
Attribution Error is where, given an absence of contradictory information, people will assign positive motives to themselves (or people like them), and negative motives to others (or dissimilar people) for any given act.
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lamarsoutternews.com/2005/07/11/confirmation-bias/</link>
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		<title>Essay: The Impeachment of a President (The Recipe for Haggis)</title>
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&#8220;Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders… All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to greater danger.&#8221;
&#8211; Hermann Goering, Nazi Reich Marshall, at the Nuremberg trials

Ranking member of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lamarsoutternews.com/2005/06/11/the-recipe-for-haggis/</link>
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		<title>Essay: And to the Republic&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am a liberal Republican.
In our zeal to spread democracy around the world, people often forget that we ourselves do not live in a democracy. We live in republic.
A republic emphasizes the rule of law.
A democracy emphasizes rule of the majority.
After the Civil War, “Radical” Republicans like Representative Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania and Senator Charles [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lamarsoutternews.com/2005/06/06/and-to-the-republic/</link>
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