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	<title>Isegoria &#187; Fred Reed</title>
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	<description>From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small</description>
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		<title>Resegregation</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2013/08/resegregation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2013 20:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boys are struggling in school, but this isn&#8217;t a hard problem to solve, Fred Reed says: The problem could be solved in about ten minutes by having separate schools for boys, grade school through high school, with male teachers only and a death penalty for even uttering the word “Ritalin.” Let boys run, jump, wrestle, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Living in a Dictatorship</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2013/06/living-in-a-dictatorship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2013 16:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How does one tell whether one is living in a dictatorship, or almost? The signs need not be so obvious as having a squat little man raving from balconies. Methinks the following indicators serve. In a dictatorship: (1) Sweeping laws are made without reference to the will of the people. A few examples follow. Whether [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Enstupidation</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2012/06/enstupidation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2012 16:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fred Reed wonders what purpose the public schools serve — other than to warehouse children while their parents work or watch television: They certainly don’t teach much, as survey after survey shows. Is there any particular reason for having them? Apart from their baby-sitting function, I mean. Schooling, sez me, should be adapted to the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Commentator&#8217;s Disease</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beltway think-tanky types hang around almost entirely with other people in the 99th percentile of intelligence, and this, Fred Reed says, leads  them to develop commentator&#8217;s disease: Denizens of this class know that if they decided to learn, say, classical Greek, they could. You get the book and go at it. It would take work, yes, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Immigration is not something Mexico did to the United States</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2010/06/immigration-is-not-something-mexico-did-to-the-united-states/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Immigration is not something Mexico did to the United States, Fred Reed says, but something the United States did to itself: Decades ago it changed its laws to favor Latin immigrants, gives immigrant children born in the US citizenship, avidly employs the ilegals, forbids police to check their papers, give them social services and schooling, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Symbolic Iron Yachts</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2010/06/symbolic-iron-yachts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A great many countries fear attack by the United States, Fred Reed says — Russia, China, and Iran, for starters — but don&#8217;t have the money to build carrier groups: All of these have thought about cheap ways to overcome the US behemoth. Four solutions soon came to hand: Very fast sea-skimming cruise missiles, such as [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Latin America does not have a drug problem</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2009/04/latin-america-does-not-have-a-drug-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Latin America does not have a drug problem, Fred Reed explains: It has a United States problem. The problem is that Americans want drugs. The US is a huge, voracious, insatiable market for drugs. Americans very much want their brain candy. They will pay whatever they need to pay to get it. All the world [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Say No to Monroe</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2009/04/say-no-to-monroe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Say No to Monroe, Fred Reed says: I recently found the following from McClatchey news service: “As the Pentagon eyes a bigger role in Mexico’s drug war…” Book me a ticket to Mars. The Pentagon is eyeing something, a sure recipe for disaster. Let’s get involved in another Third World catastrophe by meddling in what [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Women In Combat</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2008/05/women-in-combat/</link>
		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2008/05/women-in-combat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 03:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fred Reed says that placing women in combat is &#8220;stupid and unworkable&#8221; &#8212; then provides some data to back his harsh claims: From the report of the Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces (report date November 15, 1992, published in book form by Brassey&#8217;s in 1993): &#8220;The average female Army [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Remedial Condescension</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2008/04/remedial-condescension/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fred Reed says a number of unpleasant things in Remedial Condescension, but this point caught my attention: Decades ago, I decided that blacks should be judged on their individual merits, just as everyone else should be, without regard to race, creed, color, or national origin. For this I was called a liberal and sometimes a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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