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			<title><![CDATA[ GOP sweep: Big governor victories in Virginia, NJ ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <p>Rut-roh!
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  <p>WASHINGTON - Independents who swept <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1257314388_0">Barack Obama</span> to a historic 2008 victory broke big for Republicans
  on Tuesday as the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1257314388_1">GOP</span> wrested <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1257314388_2">political control</span>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Scariest Headline EVER!! ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <h3 class="entry_header" style="margin-top: 10px; font-weight: bold;">Frank: &quot;We Are Trying On Every Front To Increase The Role Of Government&quot;</h3>
<br>
<a target="_blank" title="No way to embed the video but here&#39;s a link to Barney" href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/10/26/frank_we_are_trying_on_every_front_to_increase_the_role_of_government.html">No way to embed the video but
here&#39;s a link</a>
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I can&#39;t even watch it because my sound... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:34:40 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama's Self-Worship ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <blockquote>
  <p>President Obama&#39;s speech to the United Nations has been called naive and even &quot;post-American.&quot; It was something else, as well: the most
  extravagant excursion into self-worship we have yet seen in an American leader.</p>

  <p>Beware of politicians who claim to be &quot;humbled by the responsibility the American people have placed upon me.&quot; It&#39;s a neon sign flashing the
  opposite. And sure enough, in almost the next sentence, the president allowed... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ What are these kids singing? ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <br>
<span><span id="temp-1"><span><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0aqMTD5UFmU&amp;hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="never" height="344" width="425" ></embed><a class="zlsylrwlcnvqdpsutcyn" target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/v/0aqMTD5UFmU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"></a><a class="zlsylrwlcnvqdpsutcyn" href="http://www.youtube.com/v/0aqMTD5UFmU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"></a></span></span> <a style="left: 386px ! important; top: 344px ! important;"... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:36:03 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ HOUSE RULES BAN 'LIAR', 'HYPOCRITE', 'INTELLECTUALLY DISHONEST' ]]></title>
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  <font size="5"><span style="font-weight: bold;">HOUSE RULES BAN &#39;LIAR&#39;, &#39;HYPOCRITE&#39;, &#39;INTELLECTUALLY DISHONEST&#39;</span></font>
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And if it&#39;s good enough for our Democratic-controlled Congress, then it must be good enough for The Great State of Debate :)
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(I notice there is no ban against boo&#39;ing a president.  But that was done by Dems so that&#39;s okay to do. <img... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:08:50 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Bill would give president emergency control of Internet ]]></title>
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      I guess OB saw this was being done in other countrys. So he had to have the power here too. 
      <br>

      <p><br></p>Another right taken away from the people.....
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      =========================================
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      <p>Internet companies and civil liberties groups were <a target="_blank" href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10200710-38.html"><strong><font... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Governor Linche is really ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Sarah Palin!
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			<title><![CDATA[ GOP Senator: White House Encroaching on First Amendment ]]></title>
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  <p>A Republican senator is calling for the White House to suspend <a target="_blank" href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/08/facts-are-stubborn-things-says-white-house-taking-on-disinformation.html">a new project</a> that asks
  members of the public to flag &quot;fishy&quot; claims about President Obama&#39;s health care plans, arguing that it raises privacy concerns and will serve
  to chill free speech.</p>

  <p>Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, is sending <a... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ One woman's letter to our Nation's Leadership ]]></title>
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  <blockquote class="np-quote-detail" cite="http://www.americasright.com/2009/06/must-read-glenn-beckjanet-contreras.html">
    AN OPEN LETTER TO OUR NATION&#39;S LEADERSHIP [by Janet Contreras]:
    <br>
    <br>
    I&#39;m a home grown American citizen, 53, registered Democrat all my life. Before the last presidential election I registered as a Republican because I no
    longer felt the Democratic Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Nearly 60% Won't Graduate At South Side School ]]></title>
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  <h3>44 Of 77 Students At Bradwell Elementary Did Not Pass Eighth Grade</h3>

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    <a... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Palin: Government Wants To "Control The People" ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <blockquote>
  CNN: In a speech introducing Michael Reagan - the son of former President Ronald Reagan - to an audience in Anchorage, Palin warned that the government is
  planning to &quot;bail out debt ridden states&quot; so it can &quot;get in there and control the people.&quot;
  <br>
  <br>
  &quot;Since when can you get out of huge national debt by creating trillions of dollars of new debt?&quot; Palin asked. &quot;It all really is so backwards
  and skewed as to sound like absolute... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Texan Woman Told to Remove 'Offensive' American Flag From Office ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <blockquote>
  <p>Debbie McLucas comes from a patriotic family - her husband and both of her sons served in the U.S. military, and her daughter is currently deployed to
  Iraq on her second tour of duty as a combat medic.</p>

  <p>So when McLucas arrived at work at a Texas hospital last Friday, she was stunned to be told that <span style="text-decoration: underline;">the Stars and
  Stripes she had hung in her office in advance of Memorial Day were <span style="font-weight:... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Lame Tea Party?  Here's how Liberals protest ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <br>
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Violence and trying to take away someone&#39;s right to speak.� So much less lame, huh?
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			<title><![CDATA[ Let's Have a Tea Party :) ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <blockquote>
  <h1>Thousands of Anti-Tax &#39;Tea Party&#39; Protesters Turn Out in U.S. Cities</h1>

  <h2>Hundreds of anti-tax rallies kicked off Wednesday in several U.S. cities as demonstrators protested high taxes and massive government spending. </h2>
  <br>

  <p>Chants like &quot;Give me liberty, not debt&quot; and &quot;Our kids can&#39;t afford you&quot; were heard across several U.S. cities Wednesday as
  anti-tax &quot;tea party&quot; protesters took to the streets to voice their... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:55:02 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ The Puppy Has Landed!! ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Yes, evidently the Obama&#39;s got their Portugese water dog puppy as a gift from Sen. Kennedy a couple of days ago. His name is Bo and he&#39;s quite a cutie.
 The story must have leaked early yesterday, so their plans to not release it until Tuesday got &quot;nipped&quot; in the bud. 
<br>
<br>
See, Linche, you can&#39;t say Obama doesn&#39;t make good on any of his promises!
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			<title><![CDATA[ US births break record; 40 pct. are out-of-wedlock ]]></title>
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  <span class="lingo_region">ATLANTA (AP) - More babies were born in the United States in 2007 than any year in the nation&#39;s history, topping the peak
  during the baby boom 50 years earlier, federal researchers reported Wednesday.</span>

  <p><span class="lingo_region">There is both good and bad news from the more than 4.3 million births:</span></p>

  <p><span class="lingo_region">_The <a style="text-decoration: underline; color: black; cursor: pointer; display: inline;... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Pentagon to Allow Media Photos of Returning War Dead ]]></title>
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  <p>News organizations will be allowed to photograph the homecomings of America&#39;s war dead under a new Pentagon policy, defense and congressional
  officials said Thursday.</p>

  <p>Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced Thursday that the Pentagon has changed its policy to allow media coverage of fallen soldiers arriving at Dover
  Air Base in Delaware, but only when the family approves. The current ban was put in place in 1991 by President George H.W. Bush.</p>... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Boxer Seeks to Ratify U.N. Treaty That May Erode U.S. Rights ]]></title>
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  <p>Sen. Barbara Boxer is urging the U.S. to ratify a United Nations measure meant to expand the rights of children, a move critics are calling a <span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 255);">gross assault on parental rights that could rob the U.S. of sovereignty</span>.</p>

  <p>The California Democrat is pushing the Obama administration to review the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, a nearly 20-year-old international
  agreement that has been foundering on American shores... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Democracy to Banana Republic? ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Today President Obama gave judges the authority to take a mortgage...a legal contract between two parties...and alter it for no other reason than because Obama
says they can.
<br>
<br>
In other words, The Government can tell a lender (and it&#39;s shareholders) that they are dissolving this legal contract, making them take a loss and the
lender has no recourse. 
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And keep in mind, this can be done to lenders who made legitimate, ethical mortgage agreements, not just snakes who... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:42:38 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Sorry, America, I'm the bearer of bad news ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <blockquote>
  <p>Towards the end of an American tour last week to promote my new book <em>Welcome to Obamaland: I&#39;ve Seen Your Future and It Doesn&#39;t Work</em>, I
  began to feel ever so slightly guilty. Partly it was all those people I met still wearing their &quot;Vote Obama&quot; badges like religious talismans, still
  quite obviously brimming with audacious hope for their country&#39;s bright future under the new Obamessiah. Who was I to come from the other side of the
  pond and... ]]></description>

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