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	<description>The Five Boxes of Liberty: the Soapbox, the Mailbox, the Ballot Box, the Jury Box, the Ammunition Box. Use in that order.</description>
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		<title>If life gives you lemons&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://fiveboxes.com/more.php/2011/07/18/if-life-gives-you-lemons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FiveBoxes Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We recently noticed this news item where a couple of little girls in Georgia were forced by the chief of police to shut down their lemonade stand because they didn&#8217;t have the necessary permits. Three permits totaling $150 for one day of operation, to be exact. This sort of nanny-state Gestapoism is not just ridiculous. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy 235th Birthday, Marines</title>
		<link>http://fiveboxes.com/more.php/2010/11/10/happy-235th-birthday-marines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 19:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M. LaMorte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While most sites are playing the Commandant&#8217;s birthday message, posting some sort of link to a motivational video on YouTube, or writing a missive about the history of the Corps, today I decided to instead share one of my favorite Marine Corps jokes: On the evening of November 10th, 1775, a guy walks into Tun [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama is no Ike, and &#8220;bullet trains&#8221; are not highways</title>
		<link>http://fiveboxes.com/more.php/2010/11/04/obama-is-no-ike-and-bullet-trains-are-not-highways/</link>
		<comments>http://fiveboxes.com/more.php/2010/11/04/obama-is-no-ike-and-bullet-trains-are-not-highways/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FiveBoxes Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, politicians, environmentalists, and their choo-choo trains. Over in the New York Times, ﻿Jason Plautz of Greenwire tries to compare Obama&#8217;s bullet train to Eisenhower&#8217;s push for an interstate highway system. The piece quotes ﻿Federal Railroad Administration chief Joe Szabo as saying, &#8220;In the 20th century, our vision led to the Interstate Highway System. In the 21st [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elena Kagan: Another Apostle of The Religion</title>
		<link>http://fiveboxes.com/more.php/2010/06/30/elena-kagan-another-apostle-of-the-religion/</link>
		<comments>http://fiveboxes.com/more.php/2010/06/30/elena-kagan-another-apostle-of-the-religion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FiveBoxes Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a year ago, we did some research into Brian Deese, the 31-year-old kid who the Obama administration put in charge of re-shaping the US auto industry, in particular Chrysler &#38; GM. At the time we said &#8220;Brian Deese was not picked for his competence; he was picked for his political world view. And he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oil Spill in the Gulf: Curiouser and Curiouser&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://fiveboxes.com/more.php/2010/06/18/oil-spill-in-the-gulf-curiouser-and-curiouser/</link>
		<comments>http://fiveboxes.com/more.php/2010/06/18/oil-spill-in-the-gulf-curiouser-and-curiouser/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FiveBoxes Staff</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fiveboxes.com/?p=1376</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  We took our time waiting for the events of the oil spill to unfold. After all, plugging a leak at 5000 feet under the ocean is no easy task, and we didn&#8217;t want to blame Obama too much for his lack of response before we had enough facts to make an educated assessment of his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The True Meaning of Memorial Day</title>
		<link>http://fiveboxes.com/more.php/2010/05/31/the-true-meaning-of-memorial-day/</link>
		<comments>http://fiveboxes.com/more.php/2010/05/31/the-true-meaning-of-memorial-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 16:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FiveBoxes Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not about cookouts, though that&#8217;s what we do. It&#8217;s not about parties, though that&#8217;s what people have. It&#8217;s not about trips to visit friends and relatives, though that&#8217;s what many people take. It&#8217;s not about a day off of work, though many people aren&#8217;t working today. It is about honoring those who have perished [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And the Congressional Medal of Wimpiness Under Fire is awarded to&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://fiveboxes.com/more.php/2010/05/20/and-the-congressional-medal-of-wimpiness-under-fire-is-awarded-to/</link>
		<comments>http://fiveboxes.com/more.php/2010/05/20/and-the-congressional-medal-of-wimpiness-under-fire-is-awarded-to/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 19:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M. LaMorte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  To quote Rush Limbaugh, the purpose of the military is to kill people and break things. That is how wars are won. That is how peace is preserved. And when it comes to killing people and breaking things, the United States has the best military in the whole world. Just the threat of U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Because we&#8217;re not paying enough already</title>
		<link>http://fiveboxes.com/more.php/2010/04/26/because-were-not-paying-enough-already/</link>
		<comments>http://fiveboxes.com/more.php/2010/04/26/because-were-not-paying-enough-already/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M. LaMorte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no secret that Congress is spending money we don&#8217;t have like a drunken sailor on shore leave. In just two years, our current slate of politicians in Washington have run up over $3,000,000,000,000 in debt. Never mind that we didn&#8217;t want any of the things they spent our grandkids&#8217; money on in the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Thief and the Gardener</title>
		<link>http://fiveboxes.com/more.php/2010/03/22/the-thief-and-the-gardener/</link>
		<comments>http://fiveboxes.com/more.php/2010/03/22/the-thief-and-the-gardener/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FiveBoxes Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editor's Picks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My land is my father&#8217;s land. My grandfather&#8217;s land. My great grandfather&#8217;s land. My land has been protected for generations by a fence and signs that say &#8220;keep out&#8221;. That fence took thirteen years and the blood of many patriots to build. When the fence was built, it was thought that it would be enough [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Signs we&#8217;re in trouble&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://fiveboxes.com/more.php/2010/02/25/signs-were-in-trouble/</link>
		<comments>http://fiveboxes.com/more.php/2010/02/25/signs-were-in-trouble/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FiveBoxes Staff</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fiveboxes.com/?p=1258</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every now and then it happens to all of us. You hop online to check your bank account balance, sit there in stunned silence as you look at a number you thought should be much larger, and go &#8220;Hey, our bank account is kind of empty, and it&#8217;s another week till payday. DAMN&#8230; I forgot [...]]]></description>
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