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      <title><![CDATA[Stock Market Shuffle | The stock market appears to be on the rebound, but it doesn't mean it's out of the woods]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It is usually the stock market that psyches us out, not the other way around.

There's something about stocks that turns us upside down. For example, normally when something goes on sale, we tend to buy more of it; yet, when stock prices fall, many investors want to buy less.

This reminds me of Bar... By Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Obama's Two Achilles' Heels | Obama's personality and drive for expansive government might be his presidential downfall]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In my recent article "Checkmate," I made the case that President Obama's grand strategy has outfoxed the opposition, dooming us all to a massive increase in the scope and power of Uncle Sam. Is the situation hopeless? Never! If Americans who believe in individual liberty and free markets rally to th... By Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Think Before You Vote | Reconsider the past and its issues before going to the voting booth for District 4]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=28393</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Tulsans will be facing a very critical city office election on Nov. 10. Recent local headline news accounts of the Mayor&#39;s decision to lay off Tulsa Police Officers has rightfully skyrocketed the issue of public safety into the forefront. Whatever you do, don&#39;t turn away from voting due to t... By Ridge Kayser.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Don't Fall for the Hype | Tom Adelson brings reality without the gimmicks]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=28392</link>
      <description><![CDATA[In the cult movie classic "Idiocracy", Americans involved in a government experiment accidently get thrust into a future in which people are dumb and lazy. They don't think for themselves, and their leaders reflect that. Partly as a result, they and their leaders come to believe the crazy marketing/... By Adam Kupetsky.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[The Sensible Candidate | Dewey Bartlett has saavy and qualities for city]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=28391</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Many Tulsans', including me, have lamented over the tone of the current mayoral campaign. Looking at it objectively it is hard to second guess the political consultants and strategists who design these campaigns when a significant percentage of the electorate is too busy or indifferent to spend the... By Bill Leighty.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Rainy Day Fund Forecast | Oklahoma's falling revenues and rising spending has created dangerous budget problems]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=28325</link>
      <description><![CDATA[I have friends who suffer from drug or alcohol addiction and others who, when untreated, manifest dreadful misbehavior rooted in mental disease. Those who effectively grapple with such issues tell me repeatedly the verity of an old expression that lies at the heart of recovery philosophies: The firs... By Patrick B. McGuigan.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[What's a Stadium to Do? | Public survey hopes to inspire new thoughts and proposals for Old Driller Stadium]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[With the last pitch now thrown out in Drillers Stadium at Expo Square, the Tulsa County Public Facilities Authority (" TCPFA"), has turned its attention to looking at the highest and best use of the property where the stadium sits. With so much development and improvements at Expo Square over the pa... By Terry Simonson.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Health Reform at a Cost | State-based systems offer more trade-offs than a big government system]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=28216</link>
      <description><![CDATA[While Washington once again debates reforming our health care reform system, the states have marched on. Washington-based proposals, like those currently before Congress, are too expensive and ignore the fact that most Americans don't want and are concerned about a big-government takeover of the U.S... By J.P. Wieske.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Bush Quietly Saved a Million African Lives | Media ignores former president's claims, actions for HIV/AIDS in Africa]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=28160</link>
      <description><![CDATA[What if a president, on his own initiative, under no demands from staff or from supporters or opponents, set out to spend an unprecedented amount of money on AIDS in Africa, literally billions of dollars, at a time when the nation could not afford it, citing his faith as a primary motivation and, ul... By Dr. Paul Kengor.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[A Little Spirit | James Tooley's book and worldwide experiences in schools can't compare to our public schools]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=28159</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Four decades of involvement in education -- as a volunteer, writer, and sometime teacher -- have blessed me with riches that cannot be measured in normal ways.

I have read stories to children at east Oklahoma City schools, then walked to lunch with a dozen giggling children clinging to hands, finge... By Patrick B. McGuigan.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Get It Together | Reprioritizing the agenda needs to be higher on legislators list of things to do]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=28158</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Hello, Tulsa! Remember me?

We first met in the pages of the Tulsa Tribune in an era when:

Frank Keating was viewed as a liberal -- the only Republican legislator to vote to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.

Susan Savage was the up-and-coming leader of the Citizens Crime Commission -- long before... By Arnold Hamilton.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Monetary Madness | The world could use a solid, dependable reserve currency]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=28070</link>
      <description><![CDATA[China, Russia, et al. are talking about shifting their monetary reserves out of U.S. dollars. Gold has hit $1,000 per ounce, even though wholesale and retail prices exhibit a deflationary bias. The United Nations has called for a new world currency to replace the dollar. What's going on?

All of the... By Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Obama's "353" | The re-make of America is based on radical changes we'll never see]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=28028</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Some weeks ago, I wrote an op-ed for The Center for Vision &amp; Values titled "Meet John Podesta: Architect and Principal Salesman for the New Progressivism's Agenda," in which I pointed out that Mr. Podesta heads up a very large organization that seeks to "reform" American society. Reform should,... By Dr. L. John Van Til.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[The Healthcare Reform Fiasco | Americans don't want to be drafted into a government-run lottery for health and life]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=27976</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Barack Obama ran a brilliant campaign for president. Unfortunately for him, that strategic brilliance did not carry over to his campaign for healthcare reform. His push for greater government control of healthcare has struck a majority of Americans as radical, arrogant, and not so subtly lethal.

Ob... By Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Credit Cards and Predictable Unintended Consequences ]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=27927</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Imagine being a contractor and regularly using your credit card to purchase building materials for your job. Without warning you receive a notice that effective immediately your credit limit has been cut in half. You face potential embarrassment with your clients as your ability to purchase needed m... By Dr. Joseph J. Horton.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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