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		<title>You&#8217;ll love this</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 19:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another one of those violent, hateful Tea Party Events the left hates:

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		<title>Frank Rich v. Peggy Noonan &#8211; compare and contrast &#8220;competent&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 18:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frank Rich has never seen an act by President Obama of which he didn&#8217;t approve or, if approval wasn&#8217;t really credibly possible, anything for which he couldn&#8217;t find an excuse. The oil spill is no exception:
Whatever Obama’s failings, he is infinitely more competent at coping with catastrophe than his predecessor. President Bush’s top disaster managers — the Homeland Security secretary, Michael Chertoff, as well as the notorious “Brownie” — professed ignorance of New Orleans’s humanitarian crisis a full day after the nation had started watching it live in real time ...]]></description>
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		<title>Donkey, symbol of the Democratic Party, blown up in Gaza</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 22:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey, it got your attention, didn&#8217;t it?
And yes a donkey did get blown up in Gaza and no, it wasn&#8217;t the doing of the Republicans (well, not that we know of). They&#8217;d most likely have blown themselves up.
Anyway:
A small Syrian-backed terrorist group in Gaza said its activists blew up a donkey cart laden with explosives close to the border with Israel on Tuesday, killing the animal but causing no human casualties.
Abu Ghassan, spokesman for the terrorist group, said more than 200 kilograms of dynamite were heaped on the animal-drawn cart. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Democrats &#8211; talk about tone deaf</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McQ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I just love the Democrats.  They&#8217;re so out-of-touch they&#8217;re just comical at times. After fomenting a near meltdown over the Arizona immigration law, with charges of nazism and cries of &#8220;show me you papers!&#8221; flying hither and yon, the Democrats introduce an immigration framework with what?
Improved papers, of course.
Yes, the Dems screwed the pooch and included a national ID card in their proposed legislation.  And a biometric one at that.   As someone characterized it, it&#8217;s a &#8220;super Social Security card&#8221;.  Remember when you were assured that your SS card/number ...]]></description>
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		<title>About GM&#8217;s supposed debt repayment</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/bailouts/about-gms-supposed-debt-repayment/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/bailouts/about-gms-supposed-debt-repayment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may have seen the announcement yesterday by GM&#8217;s CEO that it was paying back a portion of the money it had been loaned by the taxpayers (who borrowed it to loan it) to keep the company from going under and providing it the room for the government to own 61%. 
The White House was exultant:
No one was cheering louder than the White House about General Motors&#8217; repayment of $6.7 billion in loans from the federal government.
 First thing this morning, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs alerted his 56,000 followers on Twitter of ...]]></description>
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		<title>Mission impossible</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McQ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, in the New York Times and other media outlets:
President Barack Obama secured a promise from President Hu Jintao of China on Monday to join negotiations on a new package of sanctions against Iran, administration officials said, but Hu made no specific commitment to backing measures that the United States considers severe enough to force a change in direction in Iran&#8217;s nuclear program.
In a 90-minute conversation before the opening of a summit meeting on nuclear security, Obama sought to win more cooperation from China by directly addressing one of the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Are we in &#8220;death panel&#8221; territory yet?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Leonhardt spends about a 1,000 words in the New York Times banging around the edges of what has to be done by government to cut health care costs. Or, as he calls it &#8220;In Medicine, the Power of No&#8221;. He wonders if we can every really learn to say &#8220;no&#8221;. And, of course, he&#8217;s talking about saying no to sick people, to patients &#8211; denying them care.
From an economic perspective, health reform will fail if we can’t sometimes push back against the try-anything instinct. The new agencies will be ...]]></description>
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		<title>Who is the reactionary now?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ezra Klein has this to say about &#8220;the process&#8221; now under fire by Republicans:
So far in the health-care debate, Republicans have attacked the legitimacy of private negotiations, parochial dealmaking, the budget reconciliation process, self-executing rules, the Congressional Budget Office&#8217;s analyses, and even the constitutionality of the legislation. It&#8217;s a good theory: Make people hate Washington and mistrust the legislative process and you&#8217;ll make people hate and mistrust what emerges from that process.
But it&#8217;s also dangerous. As Republicans well know, private negotiations between lawmakers, deals that advantage a state or a ...]]></description>
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		<title>Presidential job approval numbers &#8211; what do they mean?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure everyone remembers the left&#8217;s constant trumpeting of negative presidential popularity polls during the Bush administration.  Understandably, now that the shoe is on the other foot, they&#8217;re not quite so keen on those polls anymore.  However there is an interesting point to be drawn from them.  Take this week&#8217;s Rasmussen poll on job approval numbers:
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 25% of the nation&#8217;s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-three percent ...]]></description>
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		<title>Health care bill update</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few points about the status of health care reform.  First, if the votes were there for passage in the House, the bill would now be law.  That should tell you all you need to know about the present status of the bill.  The votes aren&#8217;t there.  The bottom line, however, is if the House manages to pass it, health care reform becomes law.  At that point, reconciliation is moot.  It will be part of the deal, but with or without reconciliation in the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Summit review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been watching and/or listening to the health care summit today and it became fairly obvious from the opening bell that there wasn&#8217;t going to be much of anything worthwhile or substantive accomplished &#8211; not that I&#8217;m surprised.   5 hours into it, it has been mostly the exchange of talking points.  Right now I&#8217;m forced to listen to Henry Waxman give his.  He&#8217;s claiming his version of the bill is the best and the Republican&#8217;s version sucks.  Pretty much the way it has gone all ...]]></description>
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		<title>Russia: How&#8217;s that &#8220;Reset Button&#8221; working?</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/russia-hows-that-reset-button-working/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The push for international support for tougher sanctions against Iran seem to be going well with our good friends in Russia:
Russia will not support &#8220;crippling&#8221; sanctions against Iran, including any that may be slapped on the Islamic Republic&#8217;s banking or energy sectors, a senior Russian diplomat said Wednesday.
[...]
&#8220;We are not got going to work on sanctions or measures which could lead to the political or economic or financial isolation of this country,&#8221; Oleg Rozhkov, deputy director of the security affairs and disarmament department at Russia&#8217;s Foreign Ministry, told reporters.
&#8220;What relation ...]]></description>
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		<title>Terrorism = Burglary</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Counterterrorism Czar John Brennan made a comparison this weekend that has landed him in hot water. Speaking at the Islamic Center at New York University on Saturday and apparently in response to a question about recidivism among the Gitmo inmates who had been released, he said the rate was about 20%.
Ok, that&#8217;s arguable, but it is a number that has been tossed around by any number of people. That isn&#8217;t what got him in trouble. If we stipulate that the 20% of terror suspects released have returned to extremism or ...]]></description>
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		<title>Quote Of The Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The QOTD for today actually comes to us from a NY Times editorial in 2005 which clearly states their understanding of the job of an opposition party:
Mr. Bush has reacted by railing against Democrats for obstruction &#8212; as if Democrats are duty-bound to breathe life into his agenda and, even sillier, as if opposing a plan that the people do not want is an illegitimate tactic for an opposition party.
Why I believe that is exactly the point the right is now arguing. As witnessed by the editorial, the Democrats, lefty ...]]></description>
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		<title>Eye On The Polls &#8211; Not Good News For Democrats Or Incumbents (Update)</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/eye-on-the-polls-not-good-news-for-democrats-or-incumbents-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bunch of interesting polls have emerged today. One finds Obama at his lowest job performance rating yet. Of course, as you might expect, Republicans mostly disapprove of his job performance. Democrats, on the other hand, generally approve. But what gets his job approval rating to 44% approval, 47% disapproval in this Marist poll are the independents. They&#8217;re very dissatisfied with his performance &#8211; only 29% approve while almost twice that number, 57% disapprove.
Remember it was the independents who put Obama over the top in 2008. Also remember it was ...]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans Prefer Tax Cuts Over A Balanced Budget?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s the buzz going around some liberal blogs about a Rasmussen poll which claims that a plurality of Republicans polled would rather see tax cuts and a deficit than a balanced budget and tax increases (one supposes the increases would be used to balance it.  The history of our government says otherwise).
Of course I&#8217;m of the opinion there&#8217;s a third choice.  Cut spending commensurate with the tax cuts and reduce the size of government until you&#8217;re able to balance the budget.  Then start reducing the debt.  ...]]></description>
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		<title>GOP Should Embrace “Party Of ‘No’”</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/gop-should-embrace-%e2%80%9cparty-of-%e2%80%98no%e2%80%99%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the &#8217;60s and &#8217;70s when leftist anti-war protesters began calling the police &#8220;pigs&#8221;, police forces turned the tables and defined the epithet as &#8220;Pride, Integrity, Guts&#8221; thereby taking ownership of it. The GOP should take ownership of the &#8220;Party of &#8216;No&#8217;&#8221;.
Why? Because sometimes &#8211; in fact, many times &#8211; saying &#8220;no&#8221; to the opposition is not only responsible, it is an absolute necessity. In many cases, given what the ideological opposition attempts to pass into law, it is the job of the minority to say &#8220;no&#8221;. Bi-partisanship for bi-partisanship&#8217;s ...]]></description>
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		<title>SOTU Fact Check</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Surprisingly, AP does it (credit where credit is due).  They cover the &#8220;spending freeze&#8221; (it would amount to less than 1% of the deficit) which we&#8217;ve covered in some detail.  They also point out that the nonsense about the health care plan preserving the &#8220;right&#8221; of Americans to keep their doctor and their plan isn&#8217;t exactly true (we&#8217;ve covered that before as well).   And they take on the claim about lobbyists which Michael has handled quite well below.
AP also talks about the deficit commission that Obama ...]]></description>
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		<title>I Had To Laugh &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/i-had-to-laugh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marion Berry, Democratic Representative from Arkansas, has decided to retire from Congress voluntarily instead of chancing an involuntary retirement via the ballot box.  Berry is considered a &#8220;blue dog&#8221; Democrat and is from a nominally conservative state whose voters have made it clear they don&#8217;t support the policies or agenda of this Congress or this president.
Berry relates an incident that struck me as the ultimate in hubris and arrogance:
Berry recounted meetings with White House officials, reminiscent of some during the Clinton days, where he and others urged them not ...]]></description>
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		<title>Democratic Disaray Attributable To Obama&#8217;s Lack Of Leadership</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/democratic-disaray-attributable-to-obamas-lack-of-leadership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is so obvious it frustrates me that others are too ideologically or politically blind to admit it.  The reason the Democrats are in the shape they&#8217;re in today has to do with the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and his obvious lack of leadership.
Let me give you the latest example found in a Politico article today.  It is, in fact, all about why the legislative agenda is in trouble and Democrats are skittish.
Congressional Democrats — stunned out of silence by Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts — ...]]></description>
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		<title>Dems Try To Pre-emptively Define New GOP Responsibility</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/dems-try-to-pre-emptively-define-new-gop-responsibility/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/dems-try-to-pre-emptively-define-new-gop-responsibility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That didn&#8217;t take long.  After essentially ignoring Senate Republicans for a year (well except when they thought they could pick one or two off to help them make something appear &#8220;bi-partisan&#8221;), Democrats are now ready to lecture Republicans about their new &#8220;responsibility&#8221;.  In a talking points memo issued to Democratic Senators today, they lay out their argument.  The memo is entitled:
MASSACHUSETTS ELECTION MEANS THAT SENATE REPUBLICANS HAVE MORE RESPONSIBILITY TO GOVERN, NOT OBSTRUCT
We can literally spend the entire post on just the title.  Contained in that ...]]></description>
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		<title>Massachusetts: Democratic Pants On The Ground</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/massachusetts-democratic-pants-on-the-ground/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/massachusetts-democratic-pants-on-the-ground/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AP has just called the Massachusetts Senate race for Republican Scott Brown (9:25 pm) who looks like he&#8217;ll end up with anywhere from a 5 to 7 point win.
Probably the most interesting thing I saw during the coverage was feedback during a Frank Lunz group on Fox (I watched MSNBC most of the night which was, well frankly, highly entertaining).  The group were predominantly Democrats who voted for Obama.  And a good majority of them claim to have voted for Brown.  When asked why they said they ...]]></description>
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		<title>Can Doctors Afford To Stay In Medicare?</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/can-doctors-afford-to-stay-in-medicare/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/can-doctors-afford-to-stay-in-medicare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a very interesting but probably little noted piece at Fox News by Dr. C.L. Gray, who is, interestingly enough, the president of Physicians For Reform.  His general premise is that while reform is needed in the medical field, what Congress is chasing is not at all the answer.  And he uses Medicare as the vehicle to make his point.
I&#8217;m sure you remember the story that came out not long ago about the Mayo Clinic deciding not to take anymore Medicare patients.  If you&#8217;ve been staying abreast, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Obama’s Failure Can Be Blamed On Congressional Democrats</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/obama%e2%80%99s-failure-can-be-blamed-on-congressional-democrats/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/obama%e2%80%99s-failure-can-be-blamed-on-congressional-democrats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a lot of analysis going on about Obama&#8217;s first year and why, it seems, his job approval numbers are so dismal.  And why, given the promise he brought to the White House, at least according to the PR faithfully pushed by his campaign, are Democrats looking at the possibility of large net losses in both houses of Congress?
The first hints of the dissatisfaction of the electorate came in the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races where Republicans won – in VA handily.  The Democrats claimed their ...]]></description>
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		<title>Massachusetts: The Best Laid Plans Of Democrats</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/massachusetts-the-best-laid-plans-of-democrats/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/massachusetts-the-best-laid-plans-of-democrats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would appear that long-shot Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown has a fighting chance of winning the &#8220;Ted Kennedy Seat&#8221; in Massachusetts.  Brown reminded the moderator that the seat was, in fact, &#8220;the people&#8217;s seat&#8221;, not Ted Kennedy&#8217;s during a recent debate.  And, according to the latest Rasmussen poll, Brown is within 2 points of Democratic candidate Martha Coakley.
Much of that has to do with the hard work Brown has put in campaigning for the seat.  Much of it also has to do with an early entitlement ...]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Reform: When Is &#8220;Cadillac Plan&#8221; Not A &#8220;Cadillac Plan?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/health-care-reform-when-is-cadillac-plan-not-a-cadillac-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/health-care-reform-when-is-cadillac-plan-not-a-cadillac-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why when you&#8217;re a part of a favored special interest group of course:
Unions tentatively struck a deal Tuesday to exempt collectively bargained healthcare plans from a tax on high-cost plans expected to be used to help raise revenue for the healthcare overhaul.
The left constantly clamors for &#8220;fairness&#8221; but quickly throws such concerns under the bus when it is possible that one of their favored special interest groups may be negatively effected.
As Philip Klein notes:
If this policy is adopted, it would mean that there could be two Americans receiving the exact ...]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Reform Bill &#8211; It Makes Bernie Madoff Seem Like A Piker</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/health-care-reform-bill-it-makes-bernie-madoff-seem-like-a-piker/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/health-care-reform-bill-it-makes-bernie-madoff-seem-like-a-piker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the Wall Street Journal asks what many of us have been asking for quite some time – why aren&#8217;t the numerous and specific warnings about the real cost and destructiveness of the proposed health care plan being heeded?
Of course the simple answer is those who are determined to take health care under the government&#8217;s purview really don&#8217;t care – they finally have the opportunity long denied them and they plan on taking advantage of it.  So, much like the &#8220;science&#8221; of man-made global warming, they&#8217;ve picked their narrative, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Mini-Ice Age?</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/mini-ice-age/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/mini-ice-age/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Probably not.  But the probability that the cold weather the world is experiencing might be part of a multi-decadal oscillation (MDO) and a natural cyclical occurrence puts a real dent in the so-called &#8220;science&#8221; of man-made global warming.
I found it interesting that over the weekend, the New York Times went to great lengths to explain that what was happening wasn&#8217;t a &#8220;global&#8221; event, but instead the product of an &#8220;Arctic Oscillation&#8221; which has planted a large high pressure cell over England and has diverted the jet stream south of ...]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Know Nothin&#8217; Bout History</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/dont-know-nothin-bout-history/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/dont-know-nothin-bout-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ever entertaining Ezra Klein, charter member of the juice-box mafia, and apparently not a history major says:
I&#8217;ll just note that Democrats will definitely lose their supermajority sooner than later. If not, something is going seriously wrong in the system. A competitive, two-party democracy shouldn&#8217;t have long periods of single-party dominance. The mid-20th century, which did see Democrats with that sort of majority in the House, was the product of a three-party system in which a party of conservative, racist Southerners entered into a coalition with the Democrats. But that&#8217;s ...]]></description>
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		<title>Why Are We Closing Gitmo?  Not For The Reasons Stated</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/why-are-we-closing-gitmo-not-for-the-reasons-stated/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/why-are-we-closing-gitmo-not-for-the-reasons-stated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It remains a mystery, to me at least, why closing Gitmo is such a priority to this president.  In fact, it seems like it is the only campaign promise he actually plans on keeping, although to this point he&#8217;s been spectacularly unsuccessful.
But seriously, other than location, what does closing Gitmo and moving these &#8220;detainees&#8221; to a prison in Illinois accomplish?  Does Obama and the left actually believe that doing so will kill jihadi propaganda about the prison in Cuba which they claim is used as a recruiting tool?
“Make ...]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Yon: Handcuffed At Seattle Airport For Refusing To Divulge Earned Income</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/michael-yon-handcuffed-at-seattle-airport-for-refusing-to-divulge-earned-income/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/michael-yon-handcuffed-at-seattle-airport-for-refusing-to-divulge-earned-income/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the pleasure, last Sunday, of participating in an interview with Michael Yon on PunditReview radio.  Michael had finished up a year out of the country, covering both Afghanistan and Iraq as a citizen journalist (he&#8217;s covered those wars for 5 1/2 years).   He was in Hong Kong when we did the interview (you can hear it here).  You could tell how excited he was to be coming home to the US.  My last words to him were, &#8220;welcome home, Michael&#8221;.
 
And how was ...]]></description>
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		<title>Another Obama Program FAIL?</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/economy/another-obama-program-fail/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/economy/another-obama-program-fail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It appears a number of economists and financial experts see it as a failure.  Not only a failure but an impediment to recovery.
 
The Obama administration&#8217;s $75 billion program to protect homeowners from foreclosure has been widely pronounced a disappointment, and some economists and real estate experts now contend it has done more harm than good.
 

The harm it has done is precisely the same harm that many of the larger programs have done, and something many on the right warned of at the time.  Instead of letting ...]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care &#8211; Meltdown On The Left</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/health-care-meltdown-on-the-left/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/health-care-meltdown-on-the-left/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have to admit, if nothing else it has been entertaining watching all the factions among Democrats go to war over this health care fiasco.  You have the Liberal caucus in the House saying no vote without a public option.  Then there are the Blue Dogs saying no vote with a public option.  You have pro-life Dems refusing to support the bill without language like the Stupak amendment and the pro-abortion crew saying they won&#8217;t support it without abortion provisions.  In the Senate, no one but ...]]></description>
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		<title>Fumbling Gitmo</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/fumbling-gitmo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think perhaps the promise to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba &#8211; a supposed symbol of American shame &#8211; and the subsequent inability to do so is symbolic of how inept, to this point, this administration has been.  President Obama, while a candidate, had a guaranteed applause line each time he promised to close the facility.  The left had so thoroughly demonized it that it was prime red-meat for every campaign rally.  And, in fact, Obama signed an executive order on his first day in ...]]></description>
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		<title>An Inconvenient Mess</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/an-inconvenient-mess/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/an-inconvenient-mess/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Copenhagen has settled into what can only be characterized as an embarrassment for those who had hoped to see a historic treaty limiting greenhouse gases signed.
World leaders — with Gordon Brown arriving tonight in the vanguard — are facing the humiliating prospect of having little of substance to sign on Friday, when they are supposed to be clinching an historic deal.
Yesterday, a bloc of third world nations walked out of the negotiations in a squabble about the lack of legally binding emissions targets for the richer countries.  And, of ...]]></description>
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		<title>Medicare Buy In?  Worst. Idea. Ever.</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/medicare-buy-in-worst-idea-ever/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/medicare-buy-in-worst-idea-ever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What in the world are the Senate Democrats thinking?  Isn&#8217;t this supposed to be about &#8220;health care reform&#8221;?  Apparently their idea of reform is to take a system that has trillions of dollars in unfunded liabilities and expand it without ever addressing the underlying reason for the huge future debt?
Brilliant.  Just brilliant.
But apparently winning the process (passing something called &#8220;health care reform&#8221;) has become more important than the original purpose of &#8220;reform&#8221;.
This is just a stunningly bad idea, but one that seems to be generating some &#8220;enthusiasm&#8221; ...]]></description>
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		<title>WH Job Summit Results: Spend More Borrowed Money</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/wh-job-summit-results-spend-more-borrowed-money/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/wh-job-summit-results-spend-more-borrowed-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How did I know that would be the inevitable outcome?
President Obama will propose using $200 billion from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to support creating jobs, White House officials confirmed Monday.
The president, in an economic speech before the Brookings Institution on Tuesday, will argue that the money would be well spent by funding projects to build bridges and roads, weatherize homes, and provide other assistance for small businesses as well as the unemployed.
Fund projects to build bridges and roads?  I thought that was the purpose of the 787 ...]]></description>
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		<title>Why Aren&#8217;t Businesses Hiring?  EPA For One Reason &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/why-arent-businesses-hiring-epa-for-one-reason/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/why-arent-businesses-hiring-epa-for-one-reason/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As regular readers know, we&#8217;ve been talking about why businesses are sitting on the sidelines and not hiring at the moment.  Businesses don&#8217;t like unsettled questions about the arena in which they must operate.  Health care legislation will effect the cost of doing business.  Until that is settled, there&#8217;s little incentive to take a chance and hire or expand their business.   If it costs more to do so after the legislation is passed &#8211; and it seems it will, they&#8217;ll wait to see the eventual ...]]></description>
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		<title>Settled Science?</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/environment/settled-science/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/environment/settled-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Rasumssen, when it come to the topic global warming a majority of Americans don&#8217;t believe that to be true:
Most Americans (52%) believe that there continues to be significant disagreement within the scientific community over global warming.
While many advocates of aggressive policy responses to global warming say a consensus exists, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 25% of adults think most scientists agree on the topic. Twenty-three percent (23%) are not sure.
That, of course, is a direct refutation of a statement by presidential spokesman Robert ...]]></description>
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		<title>Returning Obama To Reality</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/returning-obama-to-reality/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/returning-obama-to-reality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess we&#8217;re fresh out of unicorns and rainbows and claims to have improved America&#8217;s standing in the world today.  As you recall, while in China and during an interview there, Obama made the claim that he had changed the world&#8217;s attitude about the US.  And his claim was based on some poll which apparently reflected that.
Well given that the poll he cited was good enough for him to make the assertion then, I&#8217;d be interested in how he&#8217;d describe this poll&#8217;s results (Pew Global Attitudes survey) in ...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Science&#8221; Or Politics?</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/science-or-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/science-or-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Raw politics, of course.
The rationalization begins by those with a vested interest (don&#8217;t forget the IPCC was awarded a Nobel prize for this scientific twaddle) in the &#8220;scientific consensus&#8221;.  In defense of the indefensible, the powers to be try to minimize what they can&#8217;t dismiss:
There is &#8220;virtually no possibility&#8221; of a few scientists biasing the advice given to governments by the UN&#8217;s top global warming body, its chair said today.
Rajendra Pachauri defended the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the wake of apparent suggestions in emails between climate ...]]></description>
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		<title>Libertarian and Liberal Thanksgivings</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/liberals/libertarian-and-liberal-thanksgivings/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/liberals/libertarian-and-liberal-thanksgivings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Liberals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
Usually I try to keep this day as a non-partisan, non-political day in which I wish everyone of every ideological persuasion the blessings of the day (and I still do!).  But as it happens, the day provided me with one of the best examples of the differences between libertarians and liberals I&#8217;ve seen in a while.  Two separate postings concerning Thanksgiving.  One from a liberal blogger, Ezra Klein, and one from a blogger who is a visitor at the American Enterprise Institute (Mark Perry).
Klein reprints ...]]></description>
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		<title>AGW Science Controversy Heats Up</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/environment/agw-science-controversy-heats-up/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/environment/agw-science-controversy-heats-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At least in Europe.  And it is the only thing about this controversy that&#8217;s warming. One of the main warmist propagandists has been forced to concede that the revelation of the emails from within the CRU is a damning bit of evidence that things are not right (or ethical) with the results produced there:
It&#8217;s no use pretending this isn&#8217;t a major blow. The emails extracted by a hacker from the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia could scarcely be more damaging. I am now convinced that ...]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Asian Tour: Manufactured Failure Or Real Failure?</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/obamas-asian-tour-manufactured-failure-or-real-failure/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/obamas-asian-tour-manufactured-failure-or-real-failure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Fallows, at the Atlantic, is pretty sure President Obama&#8217;s Asian tour was much more successful than the media gives him credit for, and, in fact, entitles his piece &#8220;Manufactured Failure&#8220;.  His premise?  That the media covered the trip much more like a campaign swing and thus missed its real and more subtle significance &#8211;  and success.  His proof?  A couple of reader comments.
That&#8217;s not to say he may not have a bit of a point as it concerns the media coverage, but on the ...]]></description>
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		<title>AGW&#8217;s &#8220;Ecological Debt&#8221; = Redistribution Of Wealth On A Global Level</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/environment/agws-ecological-debt-redistribution-of-wealth-on-a-global-level/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/environment/agws-ecological-debt-redistribution-of-wealth-on-a-global-level/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the mounting questions about the science involved with theory of AGW, the reason most nations, especially &#8220;developing&#8221; nations, support the theory lock, stock and barrel is because they stand to receive a great deal of money and they don&#8217;t have to do a thing.
Central American nations will demand 105 billion dollars from industrialized countries for damages caused by global warming, the region&#8217;s representatives said on Friday.
Central American environment ministers gathered in Guatemala to discuss the so-called &#8220;ecological debt&#8221; owed to them and to set out a common position ahead ...]]></description>
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		<title>Voters Beginning To Blame Democrats About Recession</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/voters-beginning-to-blame-democrats-about-recession/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/voters-beginning-to-blame-democrats-about-recession/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was inevitable (the party in power always gets blamed &#8211; eventually), but that doesn&#8217;t mean I don&#8217;t like the fact that this perfect storm may crest precisely at the 2010 midterms (although you shouldn&#8221;t count out the possibility of Republicans completely blowing the opportunity):
Nearly two years into the recession, opinion about which political party is responsible for the severe economic downturn is shifting, according to a new national poll.
A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday morning indicates that 38 percent of the public blames Republicans for the country&#8217;s current ...]]></description>
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		<title>Harry Reid&#8217;s Version of the Health Care Monstrosity</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/harry-reids-version-of-the-health-care-monstrosity/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/harry-reids-version-of-the-health-care-monstrosity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over 2,000 pages (yeah, nothing can be hidden in there, can it?) the bill sets up at least 370.2 billion in new taxes over the next 10 years:
1. 40% excise tax on health coverage in excess of $8,500/$23,000 ($149.1 billion)
2. Employer W-2 reporting of value of health (negligible revenue effect)
3. Conform definition of medical expenses ($5.0 billion)
4. Increase penalty for nonqualified health savings account distributions to 20% ($1.3 billion)
5. Limit health flexible spending arrangements in cafeteria plans to $2,500 ($14.6 billion)
6. Require information reporting on payments to corporations ($17.1 billion)
7. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Stimulus Funds Fat Tax Study</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/stimulus-funds-fat-tax-study/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/stimulus-funds-fat-tax-study/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This one is right out of the &#8220;you&#8217;ve got to be kidding me&#8221; category.
It seems that stimulus funds, you know that 787 billion bill without an &#8220;ounce&#8221; of pork in it, are funding a study at the University of Illinois (wow, there&#8217;s a surprise) to look at &#8220;the relationship between fat taxes and food consumption, diet quality, and obesity.&#8221;
In reality it is a study to assess the feasibility of taxing soda, under the guise of fighting obesity, to fund health care reform.  You remember all the trial balloons that ...]]></description>
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		<title>Thinning The RINO Herd?</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/republicans/thinning-the-rino-herd/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/republicans/thinning-the-rino-herd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an interesting exchange between Chris Wallace and Republican GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Fox News Sunday yesterday:
WALLACE: Let me turn, because I would — I wouldn&#8217;t be able to live with myself if I didn&#8217;t ask you a few political questions, Senator.
Conservatives are now talking about launching primary challenges against candidates who are actually picked by the Senate Republican leadership in a number of states. We have them up on a map there — in Florida, in Connecticut, in Illinois, in California, and your home state of ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Grey Lady Gets It Wrong &#8211; Again</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/the-grey-lady-gets-it-wrong-again/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/the-grey-lady-gets-it-wrong-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Legal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editorializing yesterday, the New York Times says:
Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. took a bold and principled step on Friday toward repairing the damage wrought by former President George W. Bush with his decision to discard the nation’s well-established systems of civilian and military justice in the treatment of detainees captured in antiterrorist operations.
From that entirely unnecessary policy (the United States had the tools to detain, charge and bring terrorists to justice) flowed a terrible legacy of torture and open-ended incarceration. It left President Obama with yet another mess to clean ...]]></description>
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		<title>Tax Facts</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/taxes/tax-facts/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/taxes/tax-facts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some tax facts from the Tax Foundation [pdf]to ponder while you work toward paying off the government&#8217;s first claim on your paycheck today.
Fact 1: Not everyone is doing that.
Today, 46 million tax filers have no income tax liability after taking advantage of all of the credits and deductions in the tax  code—one-third of all tax filers.  Obama’s tax polices, such as the “Making Work Pay” tax credit, will increase the number of non-payers to more than 63 million.
Or 63 million won&#8217;t , as Scott Hodge of the Tax ...]]></description>
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		<title>Why The GOP Remains A Minority</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/republicans/why-the-gop-remains-a-minority/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/republicans/why-the-gop-remains-a-minority/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McQ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a week ago, amidst all the hoopla about the health care bill and then missed when the atrocity of Ft. Hood occurred, was this:
Even as a Senate global-warming bill remained in limbo with Democrats refusing to delay a committee vote until an economic analysis was completed, hopes rose for a potential bipartisan compromise.
The Senate, meanwhile, appears to be moving away from the bill, authored by Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., which would require a 20 percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2020 and would have ...]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Veteran&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/military/happy-veterans-day/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/military/happy-veterans-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who doubts all veteran&#8217;s are heroes need read no further. But for the vast majority of you who do, I&#8217;d like to take a little different slant in my tribute than you might read elsewhere. Most of the time when you read tributes to vets, they&#8217;re filled with the stories of those who&#8217;ve suffered in combat and we see pictures showing the battle-weary combat vets which pointedly make the argument about the sacrifices our veterans have made and continue to make.
But not all sacrifices are made on the field ...]]></description>
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		<title>Help Valor IT Reach Its Goal</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/misc/help-valor-it-reach-its-goal/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/misc/help-valor-it-reach-its-goal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Folks I normally don&#8217;t ask for donations or money.  But I&#8217;m making an exception today for one of the best organizations I know and for one of the best causes I know.  The organization is Soldier&#8217;s Angels.   The cause is their &#8220;Valor IT&#8221; fund raiser &#8211; now heading into its final weekend.
Soldier&#8217;s Angels is an organization of volunteers which adopts individual soldiers and keeps them in the things they need during their deployments.  They also work extensively with the wounded and the families of the ...]]></description>
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		<title>East Germany Is Gone &#8211; Boo Hoo</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/europe/east-germany-is-gone-boo-hoo/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/europe/east-germany-is-gone-boo-hoo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have to read this one to believe it.  Bruni de la Motte, a child of the GDR, tells us how hard life has been for her since the fall of the Berlin Wall.  The irony is that while she tries to convince of all that was good and wonderful about her former homeland, she never mentions the fact that if she&#8217;d have written a whine like this while a citizen of the GDR we&#8217;d most likely not even know she ever existed.  Nothing like romanticizing a ...]]></description>
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		<title>About That AMA Endorsement</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/health/about-that-ama-endorsement/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/health/about-that-ama-endorsement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday President Obama took time out of what one would presume was a busy day to tout the fact that the AMA and the AARP had endorsed the latest House version of health care reform.
But it appears that some of the rank and file are none too happy with the endorsement.  In fact many are quite upset that the endorsement was made prior to their meeting in Houston this weekend.  There are moves afoot to introduce resolutions at the meeting to rescind the endorsement.
Former AMA president Stormy Johnson ...]]></description>
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		<title>China Buying Oil Leases Off American Shore?</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/daily-news/china-buying-oil-leases-off-american-shore/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/daily-news/china-buying-oil-leases-off-american-shore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s the word from Mark Tapscott at the Washington Examiner:
Gas prices here in the U.S. are creeping back up towards the $3-per-gallon mark even as news breaks today that China&#8217;s state-owned energy firm just closed a deal to buy interests in four development leases on the American Outer Continental Shelf (OTS) in the Gulf of Mexico.
The deal, which requires approval of the U.S. government, is between Norway&#8217;s Statoil and China National Off-Shore Oil Corporation (CNOOC). This is the same CNOOC that would have bought Unocal four years ago for $18.5 ...]]></description>
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		<title>Buyer&#8217;s Remorse In Iowa</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/buyers-remorse-in-iowa/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/buyers-remorse-in-iowa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the day, one year ago today, that the world was supposed to change with the election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States.  Yet, as the New York Times tells us, in Iowa &#8211; a heartland state that went for Obama &#8211; the reviews of his presidency to this point get decidely mixed reviews.
Take the time to read the article, but what stood out for me were the following:
1. The &#8220;blame Bush&#8221; response to the problems he&#8217;s facing is wearing very thin.  If ...]]></description>
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		<title>Ezra Klein&#8217;s Astonishing New Health Care Charts</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/health/ezra-kleins-astonishing-new-health-care-charts/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/health/ezra-kleins-astonishing-new-health-care-charts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McQ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or at least they seem to have astonished Klein.  Here&#8217;s one as an example: 

My goodness.  As Klein says:
There is a simple explanation for why American health care costs so much more than health care in any other country: because we pay so much more for each unit of care.
Anyone &#8211; what&#8217;s missing from this rather simplistic explanation?
Cost.
What is the real cost of delivering the expected/desired/demanded health care during a doctor&#8217;s visit?  What is the cost per &#8220;unit delivered&#8221;.  And if it is higher, why is ...]]></description>
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		<title>Stimulus Funds Used For Mapping Radioactive Rabbit Feces</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/stimulus-funds-used-for-mapping-radioactive-rabbit-feces/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/stimulus-funds-used-for-mapping-radioactive-rabbit-feces/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McQ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stimulus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8216;m not kidding.  So says none other than the New York Times:
A Week Mapping Radioactive Rabbit Feces With Detectors Mounted On A Helicopter Flying 50 Feet Over The Desert Scrub. … $300,000 In Federal Stimulus Money.” &#8230; “A government contractor at Hanford, in south-central Washington State, just spent a week mapping radioactive rabbit feces with detectors mounted on a helicopter flying 50 feet over the desert scrub. … the helicopter flights, which covered 13.7 square miles and were paid for with $300,000 in federal stimulus money, took place in ...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Your Taxes Won&#8217;t Go Up By A Single Dime&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/your-taxes-wont-go-up-by-a-single-dime/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/your-taxes-wont-go-up-by-a-single-dime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McQ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wasn&#8217;t that the promise?  Well Americans For Tax Reform have looked at the 1990 pages of the House monstrosity and found 13 taxes that will indeed raise yours by much more than a &#8220;dime&#8221; [HT: United Liberty].  Here are just three of them.  You can take a look at the entire list here. [pdf]


Employer Mandate Excise Tax (Page 275): If an employer does not pay 72.5 percent of a single employee’s health premium (65 percent of a family employee), the employer must pay an excise tax equal ...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Choice and Competition&#8221; &#8211; But Not For Education</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/choice-and-competition-but-not-for-education/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/choice-and-competition-but-not-for-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McQ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vouchers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The White House tell us that the government public option in health care insurance reform will introduce &#8220;choice and competition&#8221; into the insurance market.  But when it comes to education, which already &#8220;enjoys&#8221; a government monopoly, &#8220;choice and competition&#8221; are not at all something White House has any desire to introduce.
And, in fact, it gets down right upset if you point that out:
President Obama isn&#8217;t taking kindly to a television ad that criticizes his opposition to a popular scholarship program for poor children, and his administration wants the ad ...]]></description>
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		<title>NY 23 &#8211; What Is Gingrich Smoking?</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/republicans/ny-23-what-is-gingrich-smoking/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/republicans/ny-23-what-is-gingrich-smoking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McQ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Usually I&#8217;m in the camp that thinks Newt Gingrich is a pretty good political ideas man (and, frankly, believe that is the only role he should play in politics).  But if you&#8217;ve been watching this Scozzafava/Hoffman dustup in NY-23, you have to wonder if someone dropped him on his head recently.
Here he is on Greta Van Susteren&#8217;s show talking about it and pushing the candidacy of a person anyone would objectively call a liberal Republican candidate.  In fact, even Gingrich concedes that:
GINGRICH: Well, I just find it fascinating ...]]></description>
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		<title>FOX v White House: The Results Are In</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/fox-v-white-house-the-results-are-in/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/fox-v-white-house-the-results-are-in/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McQ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Or at least the results since the Obama White House made FOX News the focus of its attempt at dictating which organizations should or shouldn&#8217;t be taken as serious &#8220;news&#8221; organizations:
But the White House&#8217;s stance also gave extra lift to the network at a time when it is on track to record its best ratings year ever. This year, Fox News has averaged nearly 1.2 million viewers across all its programming, a 16% increase over the same period last year, according to Nielsen. In the two weeks since aides to ...]]></description>
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		<title>Fact Checking The Democrats &#8211; Private Health Insurance</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/fact-checking-the-democrats-private-health-insurance/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/fact-checking-the-democrats-private-health-insurance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McQ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Private health insurance companies have been demonized by the Democrats and the administration as modern day &#8220;robber barons&#8221; who are raking in obscene profits mostly by denying you coverage.  But a simple fact checking dispels that sort of an attack as negative propaganda with no basis in reality:
Health insurance profit margins typically run about 6 percent, give or take a point or two. That&#8217;s anemic compared with other forms of insurance and a broad array of industries, even some beleaguered ones.
Profits barely exceeded 2 percent of revenues in the ...]]></description>
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		<title>If You Were A Democrat In Congress, What Would Your First Domestic Priority Be?</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/if-you-were-a-democrat-in-congress-what-would-your-first-domestic-priority-be/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/if-you-were-a-democrat-in-congress-what-would-your-first-domestic-priority-be/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McQ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[jobs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Health care reform?
Cap-and-trade?
Or, perhaps, economic recovery and jobs?
On Thursday, Obama&#8217;s economic adviser Christina Romer told Congress the administration agrees with other analysts that the economy will grow in the third quarter, and beyond. Even so, she said, &#8220;unemployment is likely to remain at its severely elevated level,&#8221; and noted expectations that few jobs will be added through the third quarter of 2010.
And what happens during the 4th quarter of 2010?
So why are Democrats fiddling with health care reform and cap-and-trade instead of the economy and jobs?
All I can figure is ...]]></description>
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		<title>TARP Report &#8211; &#8220;We don&#8217;t even know where the money went&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/bailouts/tarp-report-we-dont-even-know-where-the-money-went/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/bailouts/tarp-report-we-dont-even-know-where-the-money-went/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McQ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bailouts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So let&#8217;s give them health care too!
Sorry, couldn&#8217;t help myself.  The quote in the title is from Democratic Representative Daniel Lipinski of IL.  It&#8217;s a good preface to a Treasury Department Inspector General report issued today which was rather scathing.  USA Today provides the &#8220;executive summary&#8221;:
A Treasury Department watchdog is warning that a key $700 billion bailout program has damaged the government&#8217;s credibility, won&#8217;t earn taxpayers all their money back and has done little to change a culture of recklessness on Wall Street.
Of course it also claims ...]]></description>
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		<title>Bribing Doctors With Your Money</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/bribing-doctors-with-your-money/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/bribing-doctors-with-your-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McQ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Of course this sort of political bribery isn&#8217;t necessarily unusual or confined to one party.  It is just a particularly blatant example of the practice that is at the heart of the rot infecting our form of government:
The White House and Democratic leaders are offering doctors a deal: They’ll freeze cuts in Medicare payments to doctors in exchange for doctors’ support of healthcare reform.
At a meeting on Capitol Hill last week with nearly a dozen doctors groups, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said the Senate would take up ...]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Administration Votes To Restrict Free Speech (update)</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/obama-administration-votes-to-restrict-free-speech-update/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/obama-administration-votes-to-restrict-free-speech-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McQ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is worrisome.  I just featured a story in which Democrats have slipped a &#8220;hate speech&#8221; bill into the Defense Appropriations bill in a bid to further eroding our 1st Amendment protections.  Now we find out that the Obama administration has supported a UN resolution that is also designed to restrict free speech:
Around the world, free speech is being sacrificed on the altar of religion. Whether defined as hate speech, discrimination or simple blasphemy, governments are declaring unlimited free speech as the enemy of freedom of religion. This ...]]></description>
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		<title>White House Wants Compliant Press</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/white-house-wants-compliant-press/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/white-house-wants-compliant-press/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McQ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8216;m still wondering what the upside is for the White House in this fight it is picking with Fox News.
We&#8217;ve seen Anita Dunn, White House communication&#8217;s director take them on, obviously at the behest of and at least with the tacit agreement, one assumes, of the President.  After all, he&#8217;s been known to complain about Fox and theirs was the only Sunday show on which he refused to appear recently.  Now we have David Axelrod throwing out the same nonsense:
White House senior adviser David Axelrod said Sunday that ...]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Health Care Bill Will Put 1/3 Of US On Welfare</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/health/senate-health-care-bill-will-put-13-of-us-on-welfare/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/health/senate-health-care-bill-will-put-13-of-us-on-welfare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McQ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[welfare]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s a truly stunning number.  90 million will be on either SCHIP or Medicaid (not Medicare &#8230; Medicaid) if the Senate Finance version of health care becomes ObamaCare according to the Heritage Foundation:
But of those 29 million with new insurance coverage, almost half (14 million), will get their coverage through the welfare programs Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).  That is equivalent to adding every resident of Ohio and Nevada to the welfare rolls.
In other words, for half of those Americans who are being promised ...]]></description>
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		<title>Putin, Iran, Nuke Talks And First Strikes</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/foreign-affairs/putin-iran-nuke-talks-and-first-strikes/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/foreign-affairs/putin-iran-nuke-talks-and-first-strikes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McQ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign Affairs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Vladimir &#8220;Pooty Poot&#8221; Putin, with the opportunity to either back the words of Russia&#8217;s president that sometimes sanctions are just necessary or the Foreign Minister&#8217;s words of yesterday, chose to back the FM&#8217;s:
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned major powers on Wednesday against intimidating Iran and said talk of sanctions against the Islamic Republic over its nuclear programme was &#8220;premature&#8221;.
Putin, who many diplomats, analysts, and Russian citizens believe is still Russia&#8217;s paramount leader despite stepping down as president last year, was speaking after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited ...]]></description>
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		<title>So Much For &#8220;The Content Of His Character&#8221; In Baltimore</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/so-much-for-the-content-of-his-character-in-baltimore/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/so-much-for-the-content-of-his-character-in-baltimore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McQ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If the mayor isn&#8217;t black then that&#8217;s unacceptable to the Maryland NAACP.  You see the present mayor (who is black) is about to be convicted of seven theft-related charges will have to vacate the office.  That has put the state NAACP in a low hover.  Apparently they don&#8217;t want the governor appointing someone that doesn&#8217;t look like them if that&#8217;s the case.  Marvin L. Cheatham, the president of the Baltimore Chapter of the NAACP had this to say:
&#8220;Our concern is who would the governor appoint?&#8221; Cheatham ...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Why, Oh Why, Do Conservatives Hate America So?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/liberals/why-oh-why-do-conservatives-hate-america-so/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/liberals/why-oh-why-do-conservatives-hate-america-so/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McQ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Liberals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eugene Robinson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The title is a quote from Eugene Robinson&#8217;s latest effort in which he indulges himself in another leftist &#8220;history began January, 20th, 2009&#8243; moment.  His ire and the reason for his rhetorical question comes on the heels of the announcement that Barack Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace prize and the derision by which that was met on the right.
Robinson then spends the rest of his article taking pot shots at those who find the award to be a travesty.  But in the entire 700 to 800 ...]]></description>
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		<title>Are Islamic Radical Sensing Political Weakness</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/are-islamic-radical-sensing-political-weakness/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/are-islamic-radical-sensing-political-weakness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McQ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is all fine and good to have a discussion and even a debate about future strategy in Afghanistan.  But probably not 6 months after you&#8217;ve announced your former strategy.   For some reason, dithering has a tendency to be interpreted as a weakness, not a strength.  In war, weaknesses are attacked and exploited.  And that may be exactly what we&#8217;re beginning to see:
Several thousand foreign fighters have poured into Afghanistan to bolster the Taliban insurgency, the country&#8217;s defense minister said yesterday as he called for ...]]></description>
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		<title>CBO Says Baucus Bill Won&#8217;t Add To Debt &#8211; But It Will Leave 16 Million Uninsured</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/cbo-says-baucus-bill-wont-add-to-debt-but-it-will-leave-16-million-uninsured/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/cbo-says-baucus-bill-wont-add-to-debt-but-it-will-leave-16-million-uninsured/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McQ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post&#8217;s &#8220;Capitol Briefing&#8221; breathlessly announces:
A health-care reform bill drafted by the Senate Finance Committee would expand health coverage to nearly 30 million Americans who currently lack insurance and would meet President Obama&#8217;s goal of reducing the federal budget deficit by 2019, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.
The bill would cost $829 billion over the next decade, but would more than offset that cost by slicing hundreds of billions from government health programs such as Medicare and by imposing a 40 percent excise tax on high-cost insurance policies ...]]></description>
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		<title>Phantom Jobs Support Fake Recovery?</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/economy/phantom-jobs-support-fake-recovery/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/economy/phantom-jobs-support-fake-recovery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McQ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[John Crudele alerts us to a GIGO (garbage-in-garbage-out) statistic the Labor Department uses and has used for a long time that provides erroneous data.  Bad as it is in normal times, it is even worse in bad economic times:
In 11 of the 12 months, the government adds massive numbers of jobs &#8212; sometimes more than 100,000 &#8212; that it thinks, but can&#8217;t prove, exist.
This is because the Labor Department uses something called the birth/death model, which assumes that no matter how bad the economy is, there are itty-bitty, newly-formed ...]]></description>
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		<title>See If You Can Figure Out Who The Hypocrites Are</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/liberals/see-if-you-can-figure-out-who-the-hypocrites-are/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/liberals/see-if-you-can-figure-out-who-the-hypocrites-are/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have to watch carefully.  The producer of this is kind enough to provide a few visual clues to help you with your determination:

Another &#8220;History began on January 20th, 2009&#8243; moment for the left.
(HT: Neo)
[Crossposted at QandO]
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		<title>The &#8220;Post-American&#8221; President?</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/foreign-affairs/the-post-american-president/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/foreign-affairs/the-post-american-president/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Foreign Affairs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Elliot Abrams, with a sense of deja vu, reviews Carter era foreign policy as one of weakness and accommodation leading to disaster.  He&#8217;s seeing some eerie similarities in the foreign policy the Obama administration seems to be fashioning.
One begins to wonder how far we will drift into a new period of generalized disaster. In Honduras, we back the Hugo Chávez acolyte and say we won&#8217;t respect November&#8217;s free elections. In Israel, we latch on to the bizarre theory that settlement growth is the key obstacle to Middle East peace ...]]></description>
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		<title>McCain To &#8220;Remake&#8221; GOP?</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/republicans/mccain-to-remake-gop/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/republicans/mccain-to-remake-gop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve had the &#8220;Quote of the Day&#8221; and the &#8220;Headline of the Day&#8220;, now its time for the &#8220;Laugh of the Day&#8221;.
It starts with McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt saying that it would be a catastrophe in 2012 if the GOP picked Sarah Palin as their candidate.
My question is compared to what?
John McCain?
Which segues perfectly into the laugh of the day &#8211; John McCain has decided he&#8217;s going to remake the GOP:
Fresh from a humbling loss in last year’s presidential election, Sen. John McCain is working behind-the-scenes to reshape the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Tom Friedman&#8217;s Selective History And Left-Wing Paranoia</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/media/tom-friedmans-selective-history-and-left-wing-paranoia/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/media/tom-friedmans-selective-history-and-left-wing-paranoia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Friedman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know how else to describe this from Thomas Friedman:
I was in Israel interviewing Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin just before he was assassinated in 1995. We had a beer in his office. He needed one. I remember the ugly mood in Israel then — a mood in which extreme right-wing settlers and politicians were doing all they could to delegitimize Rabin, who was committed to trading land for peace as part of the Oslo accords. They questioned his authority. They accused him of treason. They created pictures depicting him ...]]></description>
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		<title>Democratic Self-Delusion</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/democratic-self-delusion/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/democratic-self-delusion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I love quotes like this because it gives you a little hint about the level of the left&#8217;s self-delusion and intellectual bankruptcy.
&#8220;A Primer on Reconciliation,&#8221; put together by Ken Strickland  of NBC at First Read does a nice job of explaining the arcane process and some of the limits that will make it both difficult and risky to push health reform through that process, despite the appealing feature that it can bypass Republican obstruction.

Although the &#8220;Primer&#8221; is quite instructive (you can find it here), the point of the post ...]]></description>
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		<title>Democrats Kill Public Option In Senate</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/democrats-kill-public-option-in-senate/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/democrats-kill-public-option-in-senate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McQ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Not that I&#8217;m complaining.
Max Baucus&#8217; Senate Finance Committee voted on Jay Rockefeller&#8217;s public option amendment.  No joy for public option supporters:
After five hours of debate, the Senate Finance Committee this afternoon voted down Sen. Jay Rockefeller’s proposal for a public option to compete with private insurers.
Though a majority of the committee’s Democrats supported it, the amendment was defeated overwhelmingly, 15-8. The proposal sought to create a public health insurance option that would set rates like Medicare does.
Now as I understand it, there are 13 Dems and 10 Reps on ...]]></description>
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		<title>Waxman-Markey: 397 New Regulations And 1,100 New Mandates</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/waxman-markey-397-new-regulations-and-1100-new-mandates/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/waxman-markey-397-new-regulations-and-1100-new-mandates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McQ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This story slipped quietly under the radar last week as we had the UN speech, the Iran revelation and the G20.
An examination of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade legislation finds it contains 397 new regulations and 1,100 new mandates.   And you&#8217;ll be pleased to know it will simplify your life, make child birth pleasant and cost you nothing.
Not.
But you can rest assured there is most likely something for everyone because this isn&#8217;t just about controlling CO2 emissions.  This is about more control of your life via the radical green ...]]></description>
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		<title>Clinton: Obama&#8217;s Problem Is The VRWC</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/clinton-obamas-problem-is-the-vrwc/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/clinton-obamas-problem-is-the-vrwc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McQ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yes friends, after an apparent 8 year hiatus, the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy has again surfaced.  Apparently it has been evident since January 20th of this year.  We&#8217;re sure of that because we have the word of an expert:
Bill Clinton says a vast, right-wing conspiracy that once targeted him is now focusing on President Barack Obama.
The ex-president made the comment in a television interview when he was asked about one of the signature moments of the Monica Lewinsky affair over a decade ago. Back then, first lady Hillary ...]]></description>
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		<title>Criminalizing &#8220;Choice&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/criminalizing-choice/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/criminalizing-choice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McQ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What were the twin goals President Obama&#8217;s reform given in his speech to a joint session of Congress?  Oh, yeah, he wanted there to be &#8220;competition&#8221; so the consumer had a &#8220;choice&#8221;.  That&#8217;s become a Democratic talking point now.
But choice, apparently, doesn&#8217;t extend beyond the faux choice of the public option.  If you choose not to buy insurance, your choice is then reduced to a fine or jail  or perhaps, both.
Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) had a question about what would happen if a person refused to ...]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, Clinton and State Department Wrong About Honduras</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/obama-clinton-and-state-department-wrong-about-honduras/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/obama-clinton-and-state-department-wrong-about-honduras/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Honduras]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I think we know the answer to the question &#8220;what in the world are Constitutions for if not to be followed&#8221; as we address it to those named in the headline, but we now have the Congressional Research Service weighing in on Honduras and it isn&#8217;t good news for the US&#8217;s policy toward that country.
David Freddoso reports that the CRS&#8217;s Senior Foreign Law Specialist Norma Gutierrez has completed a study of the Honduran actions as they relate to former president Mel Zelaya and they don&#8217;t reflect well on the US. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Why The UN Will Love Obama&#8217;s Speech (Update)</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/why-the-un-will-love-obamas-speech-update/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/why-the-un-will-love-obamas-speech-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McQ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It appears that today is the day for rather scathing assessments of President Obama in the British press.  This one by Nile Gardiner.  He points out that the third-world debating club, known as the UN, will certainly deliver a standing ovation to their favorite US president in a while.  But, says Gardiner, we should understand the context of that ovation:
Obama’s popularity at the UN boils down essentially to his willingness to downplay American global power. He is the first American president who has made an art form ...]]></description>
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		<title>Obama OK, Democrats In Trouble</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/obama-ok-democrats-in-trouble/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/obama-ok-democrats-in-trouble/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2010]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Charlie Cook, one of the most respected of the political prognosticators, continues to sound the alarm for Congressional Democrats.  Since August, Cook has been telling them they&#8217;re headed for electoral disaster in the 2010 midterms if they don&#8217;t change their ways.
Most of the erosion of support has taken place among independents.  Although the country still seems willing to give President Obama the benefit of the doubt, at latest for the time being, they&#8217;re not willing to extend that to Congress.  The threat to the Democratic majority in ...]]></description>
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		<title>Is Obama In Over His Head?</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/is-obama-in-over-his-head/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/is-obama-in-over-his-head/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of us who predicted that, we may as well keep quiet because when we pointed out all the reasons Barack Obama wasn&#8217;t qualified for the presidency, we were waved off as people not understanding his exceptionalism.
Barack Obama was the one guy who didn&#8217;t need the seasoning or experience most would deem critical for such a position.  Barack Obama was unique among men because he didn&#8217;t need to have &#8220;run&#8221; anything, or, for that matter have &#8220;done&#8221; anything.  A stint as a community organizer, a short time ...]]></description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Political Atmosphere Is Like Dallas &#8217;63?  Really?</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/liberals/todays-political-atmosphere-is-like-dallas-63-really/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/liberals/todays-political-atmosphere-is-like-dallas-63-really/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eric Boehlert destroys whatever shred of credibility he might have ever had in two quick paragraphs:
I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot of Kennedy and Dallas as I&#8217;ve watched the increasingly violent rhetorical attacks on Obama be unfurled. As Americans yank their kids of class in order to save them from being exposed to the President of the United States who only wanted to urge them to excel in the classroom. And as unvarnished hate and name-calling passed for health care &#8216;debate&#8217; this summer.
If Boehlert had spent some time in class actually ...]]></description>
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		<title>Iran, Nukes and Anti-Missile Shields</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/iran-nukes-and-anti-missile-shields/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/iran-nukes-and-anti-missile-shields/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The IAEA announced, almost simultaneously with the US unilateral withdrawal of its planned eastern European anti-missile shield, that Iran now has the capability and materials to build a nuclear weapon.  Why did the IAEA come to that conclusion?
• The IAEA&#8217;s assessment that Iran worked on developing a chamber inside a ballistic missile capable of housing a warhead payload &#8220;that is quite likely to be nuclear.&#8221;
• That Iran engaged in &#8220;probable testing&#8221; of explosives commonly used to detonate a nuclear warhead — a method known as a &#8220;full-scale hemispherical explosively ...]]></description>
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		<title>Democrats Try To Revive &#8220;Community Reinvestment Act&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/democrats-try-to-revive-community-reinvestment-act/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/democrats-try-to-revive-community-reinvestment-act/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many, myself included, who believe the &#8217;70s era Community Reinvestment Act was one of the key reasons for the financial meltdown we experienced since it required lending institutions to lend to unqualified borrowers.
Byron York reports that some Democrats in Congress refuse to acknowledge that and are now pushing to expand both the scope and power of the CRA:
This morning House Financial Services Committee chairman Rep. Barney Frank held a hearing on H.R. 1479, the &#8220;Community Reinvestment Modernization Act of 2009.&#8221; The bill&#8217;s purpose is &#8220;to close the wealth ...]]></description>
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		<title>Surprise: Jimmy Carter Plays The Race Card</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/surprise-jimmy-carter-plays-the-race-card/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/surprise-jimmy-carter-plays-the-race-card/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Racialist Jimmy Carter plays the race card:
&#8220;I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man,&#8221; Carter said. &#8220;I live in the South, and I&#8217;ve seen the South come a long way, and I&#8217;ve seen the rest of the country that share the South&#8217;s attitude toward minority groups at that time, particularly African Americans.&#8221;
Carter continued, &#8220;And that racism inclination still exists. And I think it&#8217;s bubbled up to the surface because of the belief among ...]]></description>
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		<title>Punish Joe Wilson Or KKK Will Ride Again!</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/punish-joe-wilson-or-kkk-will-ride-again/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/punish-joe-wilson-or-kkk-will-ride-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McQ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hank Johnson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You would think the Democrats would learn, but that seems to be something to which they&#8217;re immune.  I&#8217;ve come to believe that overreaching is in their DNA.
As you know, they&#8217;ve tried everything they know to do to capitalize on the fact that Joe Wilson yelled &#8220;you lie&#8221; at Barack Obama during his speech before Congress last week.  It was inappropriate.  Everyone agrees.  Wilson said so in his apology to President Obama.  President Obama graciously accepted his apology.
End of story?
Of course not.  The 5th graders ...]]></description>
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		<title>Media&#8217;s Credibility Continues Its Decline</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/media/medias-credibility-continues-its-decline/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/media/medias-credibility-continues-its-decline/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A new poll by the Pew Research Center for the People &#38; the Press shows the media&#8217;s credibility is at its lowest level since the poll has been taken (1985).  Skepticism about the truthfulness of the media is rampant.
The survey found that 63 percent of the respondents thought the information they get from the media was often off base. In Pew Research&#8217;s previous survey, in 2007, 53 percent of the people expressed that doubt about accuracy.
The AP points out that the poll didn&#8217;t differentiate between bloggers and broadcast and ...]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Racism Everywhere</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/liberals/finding-racism-everywhere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have to read Maureen Dowd&#8217;s column in full to understand how far the left will go to try to make any disagreement with this administration into racism.  They still believe that the political correctness they&#8217;ve attempted to impose on the country over the least few decades makes that charge into a magic bullet they can use to stifle debate.
No matter how tortured the logic, now matter how spare the evidence, and despite how much evidence to the contrary they have to ignore, if they can swing it, the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Lt David Halderman Jr. &#8211; FDNY</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/america/lt-david-halderman-jr-fdny/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A post I did in September of 2006 for the 2996 Project, originally entitled &#8220;September 11th, 2001 &#8211; &#8220;We Lost David&#8221;.  It is the ongoing fulfillment of a promise made in the last sentence of the post.  This is what 9/11 should be about.
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Each week I do a tribute, called Project Hero, about a Soldier, Sailor, Marine or Airman who’s been awarded a medal for valor in combat. Those medals represent their actions above and beyond the call of duty. But, as we all know, valor and courage ...]]></description>
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		<title>CNN Tries To Spin A &#8220;Win&#8221; For Obama&#8217;s Speech</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/media/cnn-tries-to-spin-a-win-for-obamas-speech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The good old media waterboy comes through again.  Immediately after the speech last night, CNN released the following:
Two out of three Americans who watched President Barack Obama&#8217;s health care reform speech Wednesday night favor his health care plans — a 14-point gain among speech-watchers, according to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation national poll of people who tuned into Obama&#8217;s address Wednesday night to a joint session of Congress.
Wow &#8230; hot stuff huh?  You&#8217;d think that the magic was back and the silver tongued orator had done it again wouldn&#8217;t ...]]></description>
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		<title>Previewing The Speech</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/previewing-the-speech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As expected, bits and pieces of the contents of the speech President Obama will give tonight before a joint session of Congress are beginning to leak out (naturally they begin to do so right after I posted my thoughts on what he must do tonight).  And, it appears, he&#8217;s going to go with his base on this one:
President Barack Obama, in a high-stakes speech Wednesday to Congress and the nation, will press for a government-run insurance option in a proposed overhaul of the U.S. health-care system that has divided ...]]></description>
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		<title>Dead Man Walking?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marc Ambinder takes sophistry and spin to a new level in a post at the Atlantic entitled &#8220;How Obama Survived August&#8221;.
Of course, for most of us, it isn&#8217;t yet clear he has survived August.   We&#8217;ll see how he does tomorrow night and what, if anything, that brings before deciding if he&#8217;s still among the living, politically speaking.
But Sir Marc drives on denying that anything that happened in August mattered very much and, discovering irony, throws this jewel out there:
Another irony: the public option debate helped. It helped by ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Baucus Plan For Expanded Health Insurance Coverage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the culmination of a &#8220;year of work&#8221; by Sen. Max Baucus. And the cost?  Well much less than the House version if you&#8217;re to believe the Senators who put it together.  Instead of 1.5 trillion, this one will only cost us 850 to 900 billion over 10 years &#8211; another sum we cannot afford.
Why is this version less costly than the House version?  Well they&#8217;re going to tax insurance companies.
Yes, I hear you.  I know you know what it really means.  But for ...]]></description>
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		<title>Townhall Protesters Winning Public Relations Battle</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/townhall-protesters-winning-public-relations-battle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite being called &#8220;brownshirts&#8221;, &#8220;un-American&#8221; and a &#8220;mob&#8221; of &#8220;astroturfers&#8221;, a Rasmussen poll indicates the public believes the townhall protesters to be a genuine reflection of the concerns of their neighbors:
Forty-nine percent (49%) have a favorable opinion of those opposing the health care reforms at town hall meetings. That&#8217;s up eight points from 41% a month ago. Thirty-five percent (35%) have an unfavorable view of the town hall protesters, unchanged from last month.
Fifty-nine percent (59%) now say the town hall protesters are citizens reflecting the concerns of their neighbors. That&#8217;s ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Left Still Doesn&#8217;t Get It</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Reich has to be the poster boy for why liberals are only about 20% of our population.  If it weren&#8217;t for the quiet backwaters of academia where, apparently they&#8217;re pretty much left alone to survive and breed, they wouldn&#8217;t have much of a chance of making it anywhere else.
Here&#8217;s his latest riff:
What we learned in August is something we&#8217;ve long known but keep forgetting: The most important difference between America&#8217;s Democratic left and Republican right is that the left has ideas and the right has discipline. Obama and ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Iranian Answer To &#8220;Enhanced Interrogation Techniques&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/the-iranian-answer-to-enhanced-interrogation-techniques/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iran, as we all know, is a theocracy.  That means Islamic law and thus Islamic clerics, have great influence.  One of the clerics which President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad regularly consults, has recently laid out the Iranian version of &#8220;enhanced interrogation techniques&#8221;.  It is rather revealing, both about the mentality of those that we&#8217;re fighting (and make no mistake, we&#8217;re engaged in a war with Iran, even if only through surrogates) and the religion they claim.
It appears, at least in the version of Shi&#8217;a Islam this cleric claims, that ...]]></description>
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		<title>Obama To Finally Lay Out His Health Care Insurance Reform Goals</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/obama-to-ifinallyi-lay-out-his-health-strikecarestrike-insurance-reform-goals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Under the department of &#8220;it&#8217;s about time&#8221; we learn this from Marc Ambinder:
Next week, President Obama is going to give Democrats a health care plan they can begin to sell.
He plans to list specific goals that any health insurance reform plan that arrives at his desk must achieve, according to Democratic strategists familiar with the plan. Some of these &#8220;goals&#8221; have already been agreed to, including new anti-discrimination restrictions on insurance companies. Others will be new, including the level of subsidies he expects to give the uninsured so they can ...]]></description>
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		<title>Dodd To Obama &#8211; &#8220;Time To Lead!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/dodd-to-obama-time-to-lead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Politico carries a story today quoting Sen. Chris Dodd saying President Obama needs to &#8220;step up&#8221; and give Congress &#8220;more of a framework to work with on health care reform&#8221;.
Or translated into common language that everyone can understand, Dodd is saying it is time for Obama to &#8220;step up&#8221; and lead.
There&#8217;s a problem, however &#8211; Obama has never led anything.  He&#8217;s not a leader although he&#8217;s in the ultimate leadership job.  His background, as many pointed out ad nauseum during the campaign, isn&#8217;t one of leadership.  And ...]]></description>
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		<title>Low CIA Morale Apparently Worth The Political Distraction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post reports:
Morale has sagged at the CIA following the release of additional portions of an inspector general&#8217;s review of the agency&#8217;s interrogation program and the announcement that the Justice Department would investigate possible abuses by interrogators, according to former intelligence officials, especially those associated with the program.
Wow, I can&#8217;t imagine why morale has sagged.  Issues that were previously dealt with by Congress and the DOJ are now back under a microscope and somehow the agency is experiencing low morale?  Who&#8217;d a thunk?
As I understood it, the ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Left And Ted Kennedy&#8217;s Death</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/the-left-and-ted-kennedys-death/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ted Kennedy is being feted by the left as a liberal icon, the liberal lion of the Senate and the new reason for passing health care insurance reform.  Within a few weeks we&#8217;ve seen Democrats and the left shift from cost containment (blown away by the CBO) to appeals to religion (blown away because religion doesn&#8217;t rely on the state) to the passing of Ted Kennedy. One supposes they believe the emotional argument Kennedy&#8217;s death makes will swing support to their side that reason and facts wouldn&#8217;t.
There&#8217;s one problem ...]]></description>
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		<title>End Of An Era?</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/end-of-an-era/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s what Nick Gillespie at Reason hopes the death of Ted Kennedy signals.
Gillespie says that when all the lionizing of Kennedy is said and done, a little perusal of what he has been responsible for during his tenure is called for.  And, while doing that, we should ponder the effect on our national culture those pieces of legislation have had.  After making that analysis, freedom loving people should vow, &#8220;never again&#8221;.
The legislation for which he will be remembered is precisely the sort of top-down, centralized legislation that needs ...]]></description>
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		<title>Will Doctors Opt Out Of A Public Option?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It appears at least some plan too.  Dr. Alfred Bonati, who heads the American Society of Medical Doctors, says he plans to say &#8220;no&#8221; to accepting patients under a government run plan and, according to a poll he cites, so do an awful lot of other physicians:
Perhaps this is why a nationwide, nonpartisan poll of physicians this month found that a full 70 percent oppose the health care reform proposals under consideration by Congress. Sixty-six percent feel that a government-run health insurance plan would restrict doctors&#8217; ability to give ...]]></description>
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		<title>Darn Right-Wing Militias</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via The Jawa Report, a little &#8220;domestic terrorism&#8221; update.  First St. Louis:
A federal search warrant obtained by the Post-Dispatch connects a former Democratic campaign strategist to a Clayton bombing last year that seriously injured an attorney.
About two months after the October bombing, federal law enforcement officials searched the downtown loft of Milton H. &#8220;Skip&#8221; Ohlsen III, seeking &#8220;evidence related to the planning, execution, and/or cover-up of the bombing in Clayton, Missouri, on October 16, 2008.&#8221; Ohlsen in recent weeks has been at the center of a swirling political scandal ...]]></description>
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		<title>Orszag Called Newly Adjusted White House Budget &#8220;Unsustainable&#8221; In March</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in March of this year, when both the White House and the CBO put out their budget deficit numbers, we were told that the CBO simply had it wrong and were much too pessimistic about the 10 year budget that the Obama administration was touting.
The head of the White House&#8217;s Office of Management and Budget, Peter Orszag, had this to say at the time:
White House budget chief Peter Orszag said that CBO&#8217;s long-range economic projections are more pessimistic than those of the White House, private economists and the Federal ...]]></description>
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		<title>Who Has Zombie Ideas?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Paul Krugman attempts to make the case that &#8220;government intervention isn&#8217;t always bad&#8221;.  However, he says such an argument  has a tough time establishing itself  because the &#8220;zombie ideas&#8221; of Reaganism just won&#8217;t die, i.e.&#8221;government intervention is always bad.&#8221;
You know, I don&#8217;t remember it that way at all.  In fact, few will argue that all government intervention is bad, to include Ronald Reagan.  Reagan did say that most times not only is government not the solution, but it is the problem.  But I&#8217;m ...]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Says 95% Won&#8217;t See A Tax Increase &#8211; 68% Don&#8217;t Believe Him</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, it&#8217;s a provocative title, but it is certainly a way to interpret what the latest Gallup poll indicates:
A new Gallup Poll finds that 68% of Americans believe their federal income taxes will be higher by the time Barack Obama&#8217;s first term as president ends. This includes 35% who say their taxes will be &#8220;a lot higher.&#8221;
It is also another indication of why Obama&#8217;s job approval numbers are tanking and why Americans, using the only real outlet available to some of them, i.e. townhalls, appear angry.
They simply don&#8217;t trust a ...]]></description>
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		<title>Reality-Based Progressives &#8220;Punked?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/realitybased-progressives-punked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Barone recently wrote an article in which he pointed out, &#8220;there are more conservatives than Republicans and more Democrats than liberals&#8221;.
Let that soak in for a minute and then consider today&#8217;s Paul Krugman article in which he seems a bit surprised by the Obama administration&#8217;s surprise that liberals are furious with him about the goings on in the health care debate.
Says Krugman:
A backlash in the progressive base &#8212; which pushed President Obama over the top in the Democratic primary and played a major role in his general election victory ...]]></description>
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		<title>Obama &#8211; It&#8217;s Just August</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whistling past the graveyard, the White House is trying to write off its recent troubles in selling health care reform to it being nothing more than  the problem of &#8211; August?
Seriously.
Because, you know, everyone understands that August just isn&#8217;t Obama&#8217;s month.
Obama on a recent conference call with the DNCC discussing health care:
&#8220;There&#8217;s something about August going into September where everyone in Washington gets all &#8216;wee-weed&#8217; up,&#8221; the president said.
He pointed to last August&#8217;s selection of then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) to join the Republican ticket as the GOP&#8217;s vice ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Political Hazards Of Health Care Reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NY Times tells us this morning that we&#8217;re likely to get health care reform whether we want it or not.
Frankly I&#8217;m not sure why that should be a surprise to anyone.  Democrats know that they have to pass something or they&#8217;ll effectively, to use Howard Dean&#8217;s phrase, &#8220;kill the presidency&#8221; of Barack Obama.
So it should come as no surprise, really, that Democrats are finally talking about whatever is necessary, to include completely ignoring Republicans, to get a bill through both houses of Congress for the president&#8217;s signature.
But the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Want No War No More &#8211; Oh. Nevermind.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Byron York wonders where the anti-war movement has gone since GW Bush is gone.  He notes that Cindy Sheehan is protesting this weekend at Martha&#8217;s Vinyard where President Obama is vacationing, but wonders if the left cares or whether the media will cover that.
As York demonstrates in his piece, the answer to both questions is probably no.  I don&#8217;t think we have to think back very far to remember the caterwalling by the &#8220;anti-war&#8221; left about the war in Iraq and to a lesser degree, Afghanistan.
Now, even though ...]]></description>
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		<title>Democrats: Sit Down, Shut Up And We&#8217;ll Tell You What Is Right For You!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On paper, we are a Constitutional Republic, meaning we elect representatives to represent our interests in Congress. So in theory and reality these representatives work for us, since they can&#8217;t get into office unless we hire them via the vote.  We elect them, we direct them, and if and when we become displeased with their performance or  don&#8217;t feel they&#8217;re representing our best interests, we give them the opportunity to find new employment.
That&#8217;s how most of us understand it is supposed to work.  One of the first ...]]></description>
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		<title>Obama: &#8220;This Isn&#8217;t About Politics&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama editorial in the NY Times is another part of cranking up the left wing scream machine in effort to counter the detrimental effect townhall protesters have had on the Democrat&#8217;s health care grab.  It is mostly appeals to emotion and the repeating of discredited talking points (to include the &#8220;AARP supports this&#8221; nonsense).  But these lines especially caught my attention:
We are bound to disagree, but let&#8217;s disagree over issues that are real, and not wild misrepresentations that bear no resemblance to anything that anyone has actually ...]]></description>
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		<title>Militias and Extremists and Race, Oh My!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know I&#8217;ve watched the Southern Poverty Law Center&#8217;s rise over the years as the self-proclaimed expert on &#8220;extremist hate groups&#8221;.  But what I&#8217;ve also deduced over those years, mostly by observing when and what we hear from them, is it is primarily an organization that sees the &#8220;right-wing&#8221; as the primary threat to America.
They&#8217;d most likely deny that and point to their &#8220;Hate Groups Map&#8221; and its inclusion of black separatist organizations, but they even put a caveat on their inclusion of them:
Although the Southern Poverty Law Center ...]]></description>
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		<title>Who Is It That Is Spreading &#8220;Fear&#8221; Out There?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may recall from Obama&#8217;s health care pep rally townhall where he claimed that those in opposition to his healthcare plan were spreading disinformation and fear.  But he also talked about doctors being more inclined to cut off a diabetic&#8217;s foot than treat him because they would make more doing the amputation than with preventive care.  The claim, of course, is Obama&#8217;s plan would discourage that.
All I&#8217;m saying is let&#8217;s take the example of something like diabetes, one of &#8212; a disease that&#8217;s skyrocketing, partly because of obesity, ...]]></description>
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		<title>What Does Parental &#8220;Education&#8221; Have To Do With Health &#8220;Insurance&#8221; Reform?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something that must be kept in mind &#8211; while the Democrats are attempting to change the focus of their pending legislation from health care reform to health insurance reform, they&#8217;ve not changed the legislation to reflect that.
Of all people, Chuck Norris brings that point home with a vengeance.  Unlike our lawmakers, he&#8217;s apparently actually read the House bill and found another nugget that is not only costly and none of the government&#8217;s business, but has nothing to do with health insurance reform.
It&#8217;s outlined in sections 440 and 1904 of ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Left Tries To Label Legitimate Dissent As Racism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s one of the trends now.  If you can&#8217;t argue the merits of the legislation, make gross and unsubstantiated assumptions and claims and take off from there.  For instance, this from Keith Boykin at &#8220;The Daily Voice&#8221;, which claims to be &#8220;black America&#8217;s daily news source&#8221;:
In the past few months, we&#8217;ve witnessed the unleashing of the radical elements of the Republican Party base. The anti-tax economic conservatives, racist Obama-haters, gun-toting Second Amendment fanatics and birth certificate conspiracy theorists have two things in common: they&#8217;re mostly white and they ...]]></description>
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		<title>Niki Tsongas Ought To Work For Burger King</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch this video (Via Michele Malkin), or at least the first 5 minutes of it.  In it you&#8217;ll see Niki Tsongas tell two whoppers.  Seriously &#8211; the first topic she covers is about consultation with a physician about end of life care.

She claims such counseling is not mandatory and would only take place at the behest of the patient with the doctor merely getting compensated for his time if the patient decides to bring it up.
Charles Lane, in the Washington Post, refutes that claim:
Though not mandatory, as some ...]]></description>
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		<title>Got My Bit Of Astroturf (update)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 21:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back during the presidential campaign, I signed on to Barack Obama&#8217;s website to receive email &#8220;alerts&#8221;.  As an avid blogger, I wanted the info firsthand.
Obviously that information is now part of a coordinated astroturfing campaign:

Friend &#8211;
I wanted to send you an urgent invitation to an important town hall with Rep. Hank Johnson on Monday evening (August 10th). He&#8217;ll be talking to constituents and gathering feedback &#8212; this is an ideal opportunity to make sure your support for health insurance reform is seen and heard at exactly the right time.
Our ...]]></description>
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		<title>Send In The Thugs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Irony, as we&#8217;ve all learned, is not something with which the left is well attuned.
For instance, until the Obama administration unleashed the unions, the townhall meetings were a little raucous, but not violent.
But now that the White House has all but explicitly condoned the demonization and thus the marginalization of those who disagree with his attempt to &#8220;reform&#8221; health care, and further called on the unions to send in paid operatives to &#8220;punch back&#8221;, we have violence.
The irony?  This, from Dennis Rivera, health care chairman of the SEIU after ...]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Poll Reflects Citizenry&#8217;s Worries and Priorities</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most recent Quinnipiac poll isn&#8217;t at all kind to &#8220;health care reform&#8221;.  And, it should tell politicians all they need to know about what the priority of the American people is:
American voters, by a 55 &#8211; 35 percent margin, are more worried that Congress will spend too much money and add to the deficit than it will not act to overhaul the health care system, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll released today. By a similar 57 &#8211; 37 percent margin, voters say health care reform should ...]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Going To Be A Long, Hot August</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The videos of what are described as &#8220;angry&#8221; townhalls around the country keep pouring in.  Here&#8217;s one from Green Bay, WI.
Of course there are tons of others.
The Democrats and the left have answered the protests by claiming that they&#8217;re nothing more than &#8220;right-wing extremists&#8221; under the control of powerful interest groups.  Thus the charge of &#8220;astro-turfing&#8221;.

These accusations by the DNC seem to ignore the Tea Party movement&#8217;s origins which was, on inspection, a true grass-roots movement (and one that has taken both Democrats and Republicans to task for ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Left And The Joker &#8211; Reaping What They Have Sown And Not Liking It</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is fascinating.   You&#8217;ve probably seen this popping up.  It first appeared in LA:

The UK&#8217;s Mail Online says:
The right-wing editor of the American Thinker website, Thomas Lifson, wrote today: &#8216;It is starting.
&#8216;Open mockery of of Barack Obama, as disillusionment sets in with the man, his policies, and the phony image of a race-healing, brilliant, scholarly middle-of-the-roader.&#8217;
But the President&#8217;s supporters have condemned the image, calling it &#8216;mean-spirited and dangerous.&#8217;
A spokesman from the Los Angeles urban policy unit said that depicting the president as demonic and a socialist &#8216;goes ...]]></description>
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		<title>Is Iran Able To Build A Nuke?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s what the UK Times is reporting:
Iran has perfected the technology to create and detonate a nuclear warhead and is merely awaiting the word from its Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to produce its first bomb, Western intelligence sources have told The Times.
The sources said that Iran completed a research programme to create weaponised uranium in the summer of 2003 and that it could feasibly make a bomb within a year of an order from its Supreme Leader.
Of course, what we don&#8217;t know about Iran&#8217;s capability could fill a book. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Middle Class Tax? Knock, Knock &#8211; &#8220;Hello Out There!&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read this carefully.  This is from George Stephanopoulos:
To get the economy back on track, will President Barack Obama have to break his pledge not to raise taxes on 95 percent of Americans? In a &#8220;This Week&#8221; exclusive, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told me, &#8220;We&#8217;re going to have to do what&#8217;s necessary.&#8221;
Geithner was clear that he believes a key component of economic recovery is deficit reduction. When I gave him several opportunities to rule out a middle class tax hike, he wouldn&#8217;t do it.
&#8220;We have to bring these deficits down ...]]></description>
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		<title>Educating the Political Class</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A young soldier, or perhaps an ex-soldier, does a little educating of the politicians at a meeting with Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Mo) or her staffers.  And he&#8217;s right:

And check out the reception he gets.
[Crossposted at QandO]
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		<title>About &#8220;Greed&#8221; and &#8220;Fairness&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the reasons we&#8217;ve reached a tipping point between freedom and welfare statism is because much of the country pays no taxes and increasingly the burden of taxes is being shifted to a smaller and smaller percentage of the population.  Now I&#8217;m not a tax advocate by any stretch.  But it is obvious we&#8217;re not going to be able to avoid them, especially with this new crowd in town who wants to tax just about everything.
But back to the point &#8211; if you&#8217;re not paying taxes, but ...]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;Obama Economy&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If this NPR poll has any validity, it removes, once and for all,  the &#8220;I inherited this mess&#8221; meme from Obama&#8217;s rhetorical quiver.  Americans see this as his mess now and they&#8217;re not particularly happy with how he&#8217;s handling it:
In another part of the poll, respondents were asked which of two statements on the economy came closer to expressing their view. The first statement: &#8220;President Obama&#8217;s economic policies helped avert an even worse crisis and are laying the foundation for our eventual economic recovery.&#8221; The second statement: &#8220;President ...]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans Prepare to Roll Over on Health Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When your political opposition is self-destructing (even while in the majority and in control of the legislative and executive branches), most political observers would advise stepping back and allowing them to do so.
But not the Republicans.  They&#8217;re going to be the &#8220;significant other&#8221; that gives this president a win on his signature issue and help him maintain both his momentum and the viability of the rest of his agenda.
The &#8220;I told you so&#8221; part of this is, as I (and many others) have said, Democrats will eventually pass something ...]]></description>
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		<title>Peeling The &#8220;Health Care Reform&#8221; Onion &#8211; Power, Politics and Democrats</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a number of things going on in the health care reform debate that are the reason Democrats are at odds with each other.  One, obviously is cost.  What should be apparent, even to rocket scientists like Nancy Pelosi, is that the American people are not buying into the premise that &#8220;government can expand coverage, improve care and do it for less&#8221;.  It&#8217;s not happening.
And, of course, those on the blue side that are leading the &#8220;no way, no how&#8221; charge are the so called Blue ...]]></description>
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		<title>Hell Freezes Over &#8211;  NYT Fact Checks Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8216;ll leave it to you to read the health care fact check.  But this was of particular interest to me:
The president continued to take credit for deficit reduction by making a claim that has been challenged by many experts.
&#8220;If we had done nothing, if you had the same old budget as opposed to the changes we made,&#8221; the deficit over the next 10 years would be $2.2 trillion greater, the president said.
In fact, $1.5 trillion of those &#8220;savings&#8221; are mainly based on an assumption that the United States would ...]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Adminstration: Secret Meetings AND Signing Statements</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I noted the other day that the Obama administration was hiding its revised budget numbers from the public until August.  Obviously, in light of the push to pass health care legislation, they don&#8217;t want anymore bad news out there than the CBO has already delivered.  And, of course, there&#8217;s no doubt that had the news been good, they&#8217;d have fallen all over themselves to publish it.
That brings us to our &#8220;transparency&#8221; moment today.  This will probably ring a familiar bell:
Obama administration officials have rejected a watchdog group&#8217;s ...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Green&#8221; UK &#8211; A Cautionary Tale</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bit of ego, a little dab of moral vanity, a smidge of hubris all driven by an agenda and you have the perfect definition of the political class worldwide.  Of course I understate the smidges, bits and dabs by quite a bit. But that class has a problem.  Other than boring economic stuff they are apparently lacking a great moral cause.   So, it appears, they&#8217;ve decided to make one up with predicable results.
Dominic Lawson brings us up to date with the goings on in the ...]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;Transparent&#8221; Administration?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Uh, no.  Especially when locked in a battle in which it is trying to fool the public into accepting a 1 trillion plus spending program as a &#8220;money saver&#8221;.  Then, apparently, it is quite all right to be quite opaque and delay the scheduled release of its revised budget numbers (based on known economic indicators):
The White House is being forced to acknowledge the wide gap between its once-upbeat predictions about the economy and today&#8217;s bleak landscape.
The administration&#8217;s annual midsummer budget update is sure to show higher deficits and ...]]></description>
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		<title>Paying For Cap-And-Trade and China Too</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who are these people?
I&#8217;m obviously mistaken if I think they&#8217;re in office to represent the citizens of the United States of America.  Apparently, instead, they represent the Chinese:
&#8220;It&#8217;s important that those who consume the products being made all around the world to the benefit of America &#8212; and it&#8217;s our own consumption activity that&#8217;s causing the emission of greenhouse gases, then quite frankly Americans need to pay for that,&#8221; Commerce Secretary Gary Locke told the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai.
That&#8217;s United States Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke, folks.
Of ...]]></description>
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		<title>Orszag: Advocates Of Delay Trying To Kill Health Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We now have the White House Budget Director weighing in on health care reform legislation:
PETER ORSZAG: We have to remember: there are some who are advocating delay simply because they don&#8217;t have anything to put on the table. The typical Washington bureaucratic game of &#8212; &#8216;if you don&#8217;t have a better alternative, just delay in the hope that that kills something&#8217; is partly what&#8217;s playing out here.
Of course what Orszag and many others seem not to understand is that most of those trying to delay (and eventually kill) the legislative ...]]></description>
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		<title>CBO Says Federal Budget On Unsustainable Path, As If That Surprises Anyone</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8216;m not sure how often everyone has to be told, but here&#8217;s the warning again, just as Democrats attempt to pile another trillion plus dollars in federal health care spending (and debt).  From the CBO Director&#8217;s blog:
Under current law, the federal budget is on an unsustainable path, because federal debt will continue to grow much faster than the economy over the long run. Although great uncertainty surrounds long-term fiscal projections, rising costs for health care and the aging of the population will cause federal spending to increase rapidly under ...]]></description>
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		<title>Newsflash: CBO Says No Savings In Dem Health Care Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does anyone know who Dr. Doug Elmendorf is?  He&#8217;s the director of the Congressional Budget Office.  And today, in testimony before the Senate Budget Committee he answered a few questions from Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) about the supposed great savings the country would reap under the planned Democrat &#8220;health care reform&#8221; bills under consideration by Congress.
Here it is uncut, unfiltered and unedited [emphasis mine]:
Conrad: Dr. Elmendorf, I am going to really put you on the spot because we are in the middle of this health care debate, but ...]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor&#8217;s First Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Move over Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito, here comes Sonia Sotomayor .
I&#8217;m not sure who that was appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, but I&#8217;m pretty sure it wasn&#8217;t the woman everyone expected.  As Sen. Lindsey Graham said:
&#8220;I listen to you today, I think I&#8217;m listening to [Chief Justice John] Roberts.&#8221;
She talked about &#8220;settled law&#8221;, precedent, how a justice must set aside their emotions, even to the point of saying she disagreed with Obama&#8217;s declaration that in judicial decisons, &#8220;the critical ingredient is supplied by what is in ...]]></description>
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		<title>Presidential Reality Check</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keith Hennesey does a fair job of fisking President Obama&#8217;s Washington Post editorial in which Obama tries to put a happy face on what his administration has done thus far to combat the recession.  Hennesy included a chart by Don Marron that graphically takes Obama to task on one of his favorite claims, namely:
Nearly six months ago, my administration took office amid the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression.
Marron&#8217;s chart:

Now Obama&#8217;s claim is certainly close to being true, but by 1/10th of a percent, it isn&#8217;t quite ...]]></description>
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		<title>Damned Global Warming Skeptics!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why don&#8217;t they just shut up!
The science is settled!  We have consensus.
Well, except for those 32,000 American scientists who have signed a petition saying they  don&#8217;t agree that anthropogenic, or man-made, global warming is threatening society as we know it.
And now we have another one &#8211; another skeptical scientist who attempts to enlighten the cult of AGW as to how the science actually works.  I&#8217;ll let him lay it out:
So why the fuss lately about man-made global warming? The melting Arctic? Do you know we&#8217;ve only been ...]]></description>
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		<title>A &#8220;Climate Change&#8221; Reminder</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The year?  1972.  
The problem?
Global cooling:
In Africa, drought continues for the sixth consecutive year, adding terribly to the toll of famine victims. During 1972 record rains in parts of the U.S., Pakistan and Japan caused some of the worst flooding in centuries. In Canada&#8217;s wheat belt, a particularly chilly and rainy spring has delayed planting and may well bring a disappointingly small harvest. Rainy Britain, on the other hand, has suffered from uncharacteristic dry spells the past few springs. A series of unusually cold winters has gripped the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Was Colin Powell Wrong?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colin Powell said that it appeared to him that Americans not only wanted more government services, but were willing to pay for them.  Michale Barone, who is probably one of the better poll interpreters out there, looks at a gaggle of them and isn&#8217;t so sure Powell is right (Powell has since become concerned with Obama&#8217;s expansion of government and spending):
Last month&#8217;s Washington Post/ABC poll reported that Americans favor smaller government with fewer services to larger government with more services by a 54 to 41 percent margin &#8212; a ...]]></description>
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		<title>Waxman Questions GOP&#8217;s Patriotism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Paul Krugman calls anyone who opposes climate change legislation &#8220;traitors against the planet&#8221;.  We then have Al Gore claiming fighting those who oppose such legislation akin to fighting Nazis.  The latest to resort to ad hominem is Henry Waxman, who claims the GOP, and by implication, anyone who is against the nonsense he just pushed through the House is an unpatriotic so-and-so:
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), who has had an eventful couple of weeks to say the least, believes House Republican opposition to climate change legislation and the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Cap-and-Trade and Inconvenient Truths</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Anthony Watts:
Given the U.S. Senate is about to vote upon the most complex and costly plan to regulate greenhouse gases, while the EPA suppresses earlier versions of the chart shown below from a senior analyst, this should give some pause to those who are rational thinkers. For those that see only dogma, I expect this will be greeted with jeers.
The chart in question is here:

What it shows is we&#8217;ve undergone another drop in temperature this past month (coolest June since 1958).  In fact:
This latest drop in global temperatures ...]]></description>
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		<title>A Closer Look At Europe&#8217;s Government Run Health Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We continue to hear how wonderful it is as compared to the horrible US system.
But is it?  One of the fundamental truths of any health care system is you have infinite demand meeting finite resources (beds, doctors, availability, etc).  Whatever system a country has, that truth doesn&#8217;t change.
So, regardless of system, there is going to be some sort of rationing.  It is unavoidable and inevitable.
Now add a desire to control and cut costs associated with the provision of health care to the mix (the promise of every ...]]></description>
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		<title>Zelaya Tries To Reenter Honduras</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He took off a few hours ago from the US in &#8211; wait for it &#8211; a Venezuelan plane.  Naturally the UN has actually gotten off of its rear-end and taken what, for it, is &#8220;action&#8221;. The UN General Assembly President Miguel D&#8217;Escoto Brockmann and a number of journalists are accompanying former Honduran president Mel Zelaya.
Honduras, naturally, has said Zelaya isn&#8217;t welcome and has stated they will arrest him should he try to reenter the country.  The OAS, in the meantime, has suspended Honduras from the organization.
The interim ...]]></description>
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		<title>More Health Care Lies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t use the &#8220;L&#8221; word very often but in this case it seems completely appropriate.
The question:
Would a government-run health plan upend the employer-based health insurance system used by 160 million Americans?
The Democrats claim the answer is &#8216;no&#8217;.
Here&#8217;s their rationalization:
Sens. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and Chris Dodd, D-Conn., say their plan would preserve employer-sponsored insurance coverage and create an affordable public option for those who need it.
&#8220;The &#8230; bill virtually eliminates the dropping of currently covered employees from employer-sponsored health plans,&#8221; Kennedy and Dodd said in a letter to members of ...]]></description>
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		<title>Busting Medicare&#8217;s &#8220;Low Administrative Cost&#8221; Myth</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the favorite arguments of the government health care crowd is the supposed Medicare low overhead argument &#8211; i.e. Medicare is more efficient than private insurance because its overhead is so much lower than private administrative costs.
It goes like this:
But the administration of Medicare is a miracle of low overhead and a model, despite all the fraud and abuse, of what government can do right. Three percent of Medicare&#8217;s premiums go for administrative costs. By contrast, 10 to 20 percent of private-insurance premiums go for administrative costs. Roll that ...]]></description>
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		<title>CBO, Deficits, Entitlements and the Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One more time into the breach.  The CBO has issued a warning to Congress about entitlement spending.  Again.  Here&#8217;s a key paragraph:
Almost all of the projected growth in federal spending other than interest payments on the debt comes from growth in spending on the three largest entitlement programs&#8211;Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.
Most of you know that Medicare and Medicaid have an unfunded future liability of 36 trillion dollars.  That&#8217;s about 3 times the annual total GDP of the US economy.  And they are the very ...]]></description>
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		<title>Krugman Endorses &#8220;Carbon Tariff&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Krugman came out today for &#8220;border adjustments&#8221; (tariffs) on goods from countries who aren&#8217;t participating in economy killing CO2 emissions control taxation.
His argument:
If you only impose restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions from domestic sources, you give consumers no incentive to avoid purchasing products that cause emissions in other countries; as a result, you have an inefficient outcome even from a world point of view. So border adjustments here are entirely legitimate in terms of basic economics.
Actually they&#8217;re &#8220;entirely legitimate&#8221; if you swallow the premise Krugman is pushing here, namely ...]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Immediately Slams Honduras</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But not Iran.
Hmmm.   And even saying anything about Iran could be considered &#8220;meddling&#8221; in the internal affairs of another country, per the Obama administration, but apparently working actively within Honduras to stop what it characterizes as a &#8220;military coup&#8221; isn&#8217;t meddling.
Confusing foreign policy.
An interesting aspect of the Honduran &#8220;coup&#8221;, per Fausta is:
-Tuesday last week the Honduran Congress, led by members of his own party, passed a law preventing the holding of referendums or plebiscites 180 days before or after general elections.
- The Honduran Congress, led by members of ...]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Krugman &#8211; Climate Expert</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a perfect example of why Paul Krugman should stick with writing about economics:
One of the favorite arguments of climate-change deniers is &#8220;but it was warmer in the late 90s.&#8221; In fact, the odds are good that I&#8217;ll get that argument from George Will on This Weak tomorrow. I basically know the answer: temperature is a noisy time series, so if you pick and choose your dates over a short time span you can usually make whatever case you want. That&#8217;s why you need to look at longer trends and ...]]></description>
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		<title>AGW &#8211; &#8220;Worst Scientific Scandal In History&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I understand that everywhere else today it is &#8220;Michale Jackson is dead&#8221; day &#8211; I suspect days such as this must be infinitely boring to most news junkies because the news is dominated by a single topic.
Meanwhile Democrats are doing their best to rush cap-and-trade through the House today while the pseudo-science that supports their effort continues to collapse.  The WSJ has an article today which points out:
Among the many reasons President Barack Obama and the Democratic majority are so intent on quickly jamming a cap-and-trade system through Congress ...]]></description>
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		<title>Will Waxman-Markey Start A Trade War?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently it will according to some who have actually beaten their way through the entire bill and read the contents:
The Ways and Means Committee&#8217;s proposed bill language (pdf) would virtually require that the president impose an import tariff on any country that fails to clamp down on greenhouse gas emissions.
Of course in this full bore onslaught of major life changing legislation which the Democrats seem determined to push through the Congress as quickly as they can (citing the imminent crisis it will foment if they don&#8217;t), this issue seems to ...]]></description>
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		<title>Hitchens &#8220;Gets It&#8221; Concerning Iran</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He sets it up with these observations:
1. There is nothing at all that any Western country can do to avoid the charge of intervening in Iran&#8217;s foreign affairs. The deep belief that everything&#8211;especially anything in English&#8211;is already and by definition an intervention is part of the very identity and ideology of the theocracy.
2. It is a mistake to assume that the ayatollahs, cynical and corrupt as they may be, are acting rationally. They are frequently in the grip of archaic beliefs and fears that would make a stupefied medieval European ...]]></description>
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		<title>Obama: Foreign Policy OJT</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frankly, that&#8217;s precisely what&#8217;s going on with the developing situation in Iran.  Our President is both inexperienced and naive, and in the world of foreign relations, that can be a fatal mix.
As I  previously pointed out about Gitmo, the president hadn&#8217;t done his homework when he announced his pre-election decision to close the prison there.  And his decision has been a fiasco.
Iran is the same sort of problem for him.  He announced a policy of engagement as though nothing of the sort had ever been put ...]]></description>
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		<title>Liberal Blogger: Slavery and the Health Care Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If ever there was a text book example of a false premise wrapped in an absurd &#8216;moral&#8217; analogy, Glenn Smith at Firedoglake provides it:
The gravity of America&#8217;s health care crisis is the moral equivalent of the 19th Century&#8217;s bloody conflict over slavery. This is not hyperbole, though the truth of it is often lost in abstract talk of insurance company profits, treatment costs, and other cold, inhuman analyses.
Today&#8217;s health system condemns 50 million Americans to ill health and death while guaranteeing health care to the economic privileged. It cannot stand.
About ...]]></description>
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		<title>Iran: The Gauntlet Is Thrown &#8211; Power To The People!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We may be getting ready to see a repressive regime underestimating the power of the people or we may be on the cusp of another Tiananmen Square.
Ayatollah Khamenei didn&#8217;t budge an inch in his speech today:
Addressing Friday prayers at Tehran University, the bearded septuagenarian offered no concessions to the millions of irate Iranians who have taken to the streets this week. Instead he issued an unmistakable warning to Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, the defeated candidates.
&#8220;Those politicans who have influence on people should be very careful about their behaviour ...]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Reform &#8211; A Little History Is Always Useful</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daniel Henninger gives us a little walk down memory lane to remind us of the effect of our first attempt at &#8220;health care&#8221; reform.
Back before recorded history, in 1965, Congress erected the nation&#8217;s first two monuments to health-care &#8220;reform,&#8221; Medicaid and Medicare. Medicaid was described at the time as a modest solution to the problem of health care for the poor. It would be run by the states and &#8220;monitored&#8221; by the federal government.
The reform known as Medicaid is worth our attention now because Mr. Obama is more or less ...]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Foreign Policy is Dangerous</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caroline Glick, writing in the Jerusalem Post, seems to have as good a measure of Barack Obama&#8217;s &#8220;foreign policy&#8221; as anyone I&#8217;ve read.  Discussing that in the context of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu&#8217;s Sunday speech (two state solution/demilitarized Palestine), Glick writes of Obama and his advisors:
To be moved by rational argument, a person has to be open to rational discourse. And what we have witnessed over the past week with the Obama administration&#8217;s reactions to both North Korea&#8217;s nuclear brinksmanship and Iran&#8217;s sham elections is that its foreign ...]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, Iran and Leadership</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I&#8217;ve been monitoring the upheaval in Iran, I&#8217;ve also been fascinated by the debate (and commentary) over what President Obama should or shouldn&#8217;t say about what is going on there.
Politico makes the point that the administration doesn&#8217;t want to become is part of the story.  Consequently the State Department has been studying the situation, the White House was &#8220;monitoring&#8221; it and Obama had been silent.   Finally, when the silence had become awkward, and other world leaders had spoken out, Obama finally commented:
&#8220;I am deeply troubled by ...]]></description>
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		<title>Iran and Bush: Hilariously Twisted Commentary From the Left</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seriously, if George Bush hadn&#8217;t existed, the left would have had to invent him in order to have someone to blame the world&#8217;s ills on.  CBS has republished a piece by Laura Secor that ran in the New Republic and calls Ahmadenijhad Iran&#8217;s &#8220;George Bush&#8221;. (This on the heels of the Bonnie Erbe piece calling for right-wingers to be rounded up before they can hurt anyone.)
Secor&#8217;s comparisons are strained at best, and are a rather simple attempt to fit a very round peg in an extremely square hole (no ...]]></description>
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		<title>Say &#8220;No&#8221; to Cap and Trade, Because China Isn&#8217;t Playing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And China is making no bones about it:
China will not make a binding commitment to reduce carbon emissions, putting in jeopardy the prospects for a global pact on climate change.
Officials from Beijing told a UN conference in Bonn yesterday that China would increase its emissions to develop its economy rather than sign up to mandatory cuts.
Not only no cuts, but an increase in its emissions.
And Japan &#8211; where the Kyoto accord was signed &#8211; isn&#8217;t very enthused about cuts either:
Hopes that Copenhagen might deliver tougher carbon reduction targets were dashed ...]]></description>
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		<title>Krugman Goes Off The Deep End</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two nuts apparently equal vindication of the Department of Homeland Security report on &#8220;right-wing extremists&#8221;.  And Paul Krugman, like many of his ilk, ignores the dearth of statistical support his premise has to make this claim:
But with the murder of Dr. George Tiller by an anti-abortion fanatic, closely followed by a shooting by a white supremacist at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the analysis looks prescient.
There is, however, one important thing that the D.H.S. report didn&#8217;t say: Today, as in the early years of the Clinton administration but ...]]></description>
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		<title>This Blog Post Saved At Least 10 Jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seriously.
At least that&#8217;s what the macro model I built says.  It has some very sophisticated algorithms.
According to the model, the associated bandwidth cost for this post  was enough to keep the blog hosting gang going and because of that, they kept making payments on all the computer equipment, power and rent/lease obligations they have associated with their hosting site, which in turn kept a computer retailer/power company/real estate firm from laying off  folks while also paying those down the line from them today and having the same ...]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It comes from James Delingpole of the UK Telegraph:
Modern China cares about as much about &#8220;anthropogenic global warming&#8221; as Chairman Mao did about providing his population with five-course steak dinners. AGW&#8217;s only use, as far as the Chinese are concerned, is as an ingenious device to suck up money and power from the gullible west.
There is the truth that &#8220;must not be spoken&#8221;.  That is the bottom line and anyone who has followed this &#8220;debate&#8221; and hasn&#8217;t been able to discern precisely what Delingpole states as the truth hasn&#8217;t ...]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care &#8211; The &#8220;Public Plan&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ezra Klein discusses what has commonly become known as the &#8220;public plan&#8221; in the emerging &#8220;health care reform&#8221; legislation.  Put simply it is &#8220;public insurance&#8221; which is supposed to compete with the private insurance industry and, as Paul Krugman claims, keep them &#8220;honest&#8221;.
Klein lays out the various flavors being floated out there concerning this option:
- The &#8220;Trigger&#8221; Plan: Olympia Snowe is pushing this compromise, as are some conservative Democrats. The basic idea is that the public plan would act as an invisible threat: It would be &#8220;triggered&#8221; into existence ...]]></description>
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		<title>Socialism?  Why Not Just Call A Spade A Spade?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things we talked about on the podcast this week is how, in the broadest sense, socialism is a growing phenomenon in our country.  As I mentioned, while government may not actually own the means of production, if its regulations are such that they dictate how a company must operate, then government exercises de facto ownership.
What is happening in the financial sector right now serves as a perfect example. 
The Obama administration plans to require banks and corporations that have received two rounds of federal bailouts to ...]]></description>
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		<title>Anonymous Blogging and Outing (Update)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a bit of a kerfuffle rippling through the sphere today (which means, of course, that most of us are going to comment).  Ed Whelan, who blogs over at NRO has outed Publius who blogs at Obsidian Wings. 
There seem to be mixed feelings as to whether what Whelan did is &#8220;ethical&#8221; or not.  In terms of ethics, we&#8217;re essentially talking about right and wrong.  Is it right or wrong to reveal the name of an anonymous blogger?
And the answer?
Well, it depends.  It depends on what ...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Government Motors&#8221;?  More Now Than Ever &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Politics and special interests now run General Motors &#8211; a company which should be making business decisions based on what is best for the company and its future and not what is best for some politician:
Rep Barney Frank (D-Mass.) won a stay of execution on Thursday for a General Motors plant in his district that the automaker had announced it would close.
No other lawmaker has managed to halt the GM ax. As chairman of the House Financial Services Committee Frank oversees the government&#8217;s bailout program, known as TARP. Frank&#8217;s staff ...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Health Care Reform&#8221; Update (Updated)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few new developments, none of them good.
One &#8211; Obama has indicated his willingness to entertain legislation that would tax your private health care benefits.  What that means is you&#8217;ll be taxed on the money your employer spends on your health care insurance.  Of course the obvious immediate effect would be to raise revenue to pay for the public portion of his health care plan.
Two &#8211; Obama has decided that making insurance mandatory may not be such a bad idea.  This is 180 degree change from candidate ...]]></description>
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		<title>Policy Maker Or Neutral Legal Umpire?</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/policy-maker-or-neutral-legal-umpire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Which of those descriptions in the title would best describe your understanding of a Supreme Court Justice?
If you wonder what President Obama wants in a Supreme Court Justice, take a look at this excerpt from his speech explaining why he couldn&#8217;t vote for Justice Roberts.
He&#8217;s describing that 95% of the cases before the court will find all justices coming to the same conclusions.  However, it is the 5% that concerned Obama and determined his inability to vote for Roberts.  Here&#8217;s what he said:
In those cases, adherence to precedent ...]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese &#8220;Lost Decade&#8221; Redux</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It certainly seems like it.  Reason magazine finds the current way the US is addressing the economic crises to be pretty familiar:
The scenario was eerily familiar. A long real estate bubble that had expanded extra rapidly for the previous five years suddenly burst, and asset prices came crashing back down to earth. Banks and financial institutions were left holding piles of worthless paper, and the economy soon headed south. The national government responded to the crisis by encouraging more lending and spending previously unfathomable amounts of money on public ...]]></description>
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		<title>Feldstein: Cap-and-Trade a &#8220;Bad Idea&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Martin Feldstein, a professor of economics at Harvard University, president emeritus of the nonprofit National Bureau of Economic Research, and former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1982 to 1984 has concluded that the Waxman/Markey cap-and-trade legislation is a bad idea.  He comes to that conclusion for a number of reasons.
First, his understanding of the legislation and its economic impact:
The leading legislative proposal, the Waxman-Markey bill that was recently passed out of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, would reduce allowable CO2 emissions to 83 percent of ...]]></description>
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		<title>Real Voter Intimidation?  No Biggie!</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/real-voter-intimidation-no-biggie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 23:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the uproar during the 2004 presidential election about supposed voter disenfranchisement and voter intimidation that allegedly took place in Florida.  Reports of blacks being stopped at police roadblocks and turned away from voting places?  The Civil Rights Commission as well as numerous media outlets descended on the state in an attempt to validate the rumors.  The story remains an urban myth to this day despite the fact that no evidence of any of that taking place was found.
Fast forward to the 2008 election and these video ...]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor &#8211; A Reason For Concern?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 19:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While there is all sorts of silly criticism emerging on the right (including the pronunciation of her name and the fact that she likes certain latin foods), there is an emerging criticism which I think has some validity.  Most of of focuses on a speech she delivered at UC Berkley in 2001 and published later by The Berkeley La Raza Law Journal.
&#8220;While recognizing the potential effect of individual experiences on perception, Judge Cedarbaum nevertheless believes that judges must transcend their personal sympathies and prejudices and aspire to achieve a ...]]></description>
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		<title>Blago and Burris &#8211; Pay to Play?</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/blago-and-burris-pay-to-play/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 21:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sure sounds like it to me:
A transcript of a secretly recorded phone call between the brother of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich and U.S. Sen. Roland Burris was released in federal court today, a call in which Burris, then seeking the Senate seat, was recorded offering the Blagojevich campaign a campaign check.
&#8220;I know I could give him a check,&#8221; Burris said. &#8220;Myself.&#8221;
But in the same call, Burris tells Robert Blagojevich he is concerned he and Rod Blagojevich will &#8220;catch hell.&#8221;
&#8220;And if I do get appointed that means I bought it,&#8221; Burris ...]]></description>
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		<title>Obama: Rhetoric v. Reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 21:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another emerging hallmark of Obama rhetoric are the startling inconsistencies to be found there.  For instance, his speech at the National Archives where he invoked the founding documents as the keepers of our fundamental rights and values and condemned the previous administration for its egregious violations of those right and values. All of it sounded lofty and certainly rhetorically satisfying.  But then, within a few paragraphs, Obama trots out his policy plan for indefinite detention for those who we even suspect of wishing to do violence against the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Memorial Day 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 15:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the Milblogger&#8217;s conference in Washington DC, I went to Arlington National Cemetery to watch the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. It&#8217;s a ceremony that happens every half hour, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It is a somber reminder of the sacrifice many have made in the service of this nation.
As I was leaving Arlington I ran into a young man with his wife and new baby walking along one of the paths. He had a 101st Airborne Division tattoo and ...]]></description>
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		<title>GM To Be &#8220;Chryslered&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 21:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hesitate to call it bankruptcy when it is really a sham of a bankruptcy.  In fact, it is the same sham that Chrysler has undergone:
The government previously indicated that it planned to take at least 50 percent of the restructured company, and likely would take the right to name members to its board of directors, as it has at Chrysler, where the government will control four of nine seats.
The United Auto Workers retiree health fund is set to own as much as 39 percent of the restructured GM, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Constitutional Questions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 22:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Axelrod, Obama&#8217;s senior adviser talking about the appointment of a new Supreme Court Justice and the Constitution:
President Barack Obama began interviewing potential Supreme Court candidates Tuesday, while a senior White House official defended the president&#8217;s stated preference for a nominee who will give the powerless &#8220;a fair shake.&#8221;
White House adviser David Axelrod said the U.S. Constitution, like any document of its vintage, must be subject to interpretation in a modern context.
&#8220;Fidelity to the Constitution is paramount, but as with any document that was written no matter how brilliantly centuries ...]]></description>
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		<title>Will The Federal Government Bail Out California?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 23:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it too big to fail?  Megan McArdle believes the possibility certainly exists (I mean was Arnie really in DC yesterday just to see the sights).  Says McArdle:
If the government does bail out the muni bond market, how should it go about things?  The initial assumption is that they&#8217;ll only guarantee existing debt. Otherwise, it would be like handing the keys to the treasury to every mayor, county board, and state legislature, and telling them to go to town.
But once the treasury has bailed out a single ...]]></description>
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		<title>Pay Your Credit Card On Time and Suffer Anyway</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 00:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because the fact you&#8217;ve been a responsible adult and paid your credit cards on time and have immaculate credit simply doesn&#8217;t matter once Congress gets involved in saving yet another victim class from itself:
Credit cards have long been a very good deal for people who pay their bills on time and in full. Even as card companies imposed punitive fees and penalties on those late with their payments, the best customers racked up cash-back rewards, frequent-flier miles and other perks in recent years.
Now Congress is moving to limit the penalties ...]]></description>
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		<title>Herbert Hoover&#8217;s Warning About The US&#8217;s Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 14:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although Herbert Hoover is rarely cited when one thinks of &#8220;immortal words&#8221;, these few paragraphs from Hoover (from James T. Flynn&#8217;s &#8220;The Roosevelt Myth&#8221;, HT: the Heritage Foundation) should certainly give you pause:
In every single case before the rise of totalitarian governments there had been a period dominated by economic planners. Each of these nations had an era under starry-eyed men who believed that they could plan and force the economic life of the people. They believed that was the way to correct abuse or to meet emergencies in systems ...]]></description>
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		<title>Your Sunday Nightcap</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 21:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bruce Bartlett gives you a different way of looking at the mess your political leaders, over a number of generations, have gotten us into and what it will cost, at a minimum, to fulfill the promises they&#8217;ve made over the decades.
To summarize, we see that taxpayers are on the hook for Social Security and Medicare by these amounts: Social Security, 1.3% of GDP; Medicare part A, 2.8% of GDP; Medicare part B, 2.8% of GDP; and Medicare part D, 1.2% of GDP. This adds up to 8.1% of GDP. Thus ...]]></description>
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		<title>Obama: &#8220;Unsustainable Deficit&#8221;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 18:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who is Obama lecturing here?
President Barack Obama, calling current deficit spending &#8220;unsustainable,&#8221; warned of skyrocketing interest rates for consumers if the U.S. continues to finance government by borrowing from other countries.
&#8220;We can&#8217;t keep on just borrowing from China,&#8221; Obama said at a town-hall meeting in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, outside Albuquerque. &#8220;We have to pay interest on that debt, and that means we are mortgaging our children&#8217;s future with more and more debt.&#8221;
Holders of U.S. debt will eventually &#8220;get tired&#8221; of buying it, causing interest rates on everything from auto ...]]></description>
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		<title>Nanny Wants New Credit Card Rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 21:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why not just wrap us all up in bubble wrap and bottle feed us?
&#8220;We like credit cards &#8212; they are valuable vehicles for many people,&#8221; said Senator Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut, the chairman of the Senate banking committee and author of the measure now being considered by the Senate. &#8220;It&#8217;s when these vehicles are being abused by the card issuers at the expense of the consumers that we must step in and change the rules.&#8221;
Doug Bandow provides the proper pithy reply to Sen. Dodd:
&#8220;Abused by the card issuers.&#8221; ...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Suddenly&#8221; Social Security Is In Trouble</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 20:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turbo Tax Tim Geithner tells us:
Social Security&#8217;s annual surpluses of tax income over expenditures are expected to fall sharply this year and to stay about constant in 2010 because of the economic recession, and to rise only briefly before declining and turning to cash flow deficits beginning in 2016 that grow as the baby boom generation retires.
Of course what Geithner and the Democrats want you to believe is this sudden problem with both Social Security and Medicare has been brought on by the recession and, of course, that means it&#8217;s ...]]></description>
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		<title>Someone Has To Pay For &#8220;Health Care Reform&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 20:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McQ</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the myths Democrats are going to try to continue to promote is that 95% of Americans are getting a tax cut.  Of course that means they&#8217;re politically prohibited from raising income taxes.  But that certainly doesn&#8217;t mean that they must refrain from other taxes and fees which will impact 100% of Americans and, by the way, if they&#8217;re like the following, will be highly regressive:
The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington-based watchdog group that pressures food companies to make healthier products, plans to ...]]></description>
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		<title>Rising Thugocracy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 22:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McQ</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[First we have the &#8220;car czar&#8221; threatening investors with audits and vilification, and now we have a report that a union was inappropriately involved in matters in which it should not have been included:
Officials in the governor&#8217;s office say a politically powerful union may have had inappropriate influence over the Obama administration&#8217;s decision to withhold billions of dollars in federal stimulus money from California if the state does not reverse a scheduled wage cut for the labor group&#8217;s workers.
The officials say they are particularly troubled that the Service Employees International ...]]></description>
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		<title>This Is &#8220;Rich&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 22:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8216;m still amazed that many people who put their support behind Obama in the presidential election, are suddenly discovering things about him they don&#8217;t like.
Really?  Now they discover Obama is a class warrior?  It comes as no surprise for those of us who took the time to assess where he came from and what (little) he&#8217;d done.
Suddenly, the rich are concerned that the guy they backed may not be what they hoped he was (notice that&#8217;s the correct context in which &#8220;hope&#8221; should be used when &#8220;hope and ...]]></description>
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