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		<title>On Mitt Romney Debating Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney, and Mitt Romney</title>
		<link>http://www.thesunshineempire.com/2012/01/16/on-mitt-romney-debating-mitt-romney-mitt-romney-and-mitt-romney/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dutch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today former Utah governor John Huntsman withdrew from the race for the Republican nomination for president. Now, what looked like a crowded race could be over before Florida holds its presidential primary at the end of January. The city of Jacksonville was slated to host a nationally televised presidential debate on January 26th, and the [...]
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		<title>Conservative Logic On Victory Laps And Barack Obama Winning The Iraq War</title>
		<link>http://www.thesunshineempire.com/2011/12/16/conservative-logic-on-victory-laps-and-barack-obama-winning-the-iraq-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dutch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The modern conservative&#8217;s relationship with the legacy of George W. Bush is a fantastic, bi-polar, hot mess. At one moment they could be lauding his unabashed Christianity and his keeping us safe for all those years after worst attack in American history. On the other they deny him three times before the rooster crows when [...]
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		<title>The Iraq War Ends, And John McCain Is More The Bitter For It</title>
		<link>http://www.thesunshineempire.com/2011/12/15/the-iraq-war-ends-and-john-mccain-is-more-the-bitter-for-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dutch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last evening before I retired to dreamland, I caught Senator John McCain&#8217;s floor speech marking the end of the 9 year Iraq War. Like many in this nation I have in the past had a very positive view of the senior senator from Arizona. As a Republican primary voter in 2000 I was prepared to [...]
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		<title>The GOP Looks Through A Fatally Flawed Field To Find A Champion Against Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.thesunshineempire.com/2011/10/12/the-gop-looks-through-a-fatally-flawed-field-to-find-a-champion-against-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dutch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are just beyond one year from the 2012 United States presidential election, and at this point the cast of characters are essentially set. The combination of time and contenders who have bowed out, have us set with the incumbent Democrat and his main Republican challengers. The Republican field has some returning faces from 2008, [...]
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		<title>Political Types Are Always Reading The Wrong Side Of The Tea Leaves</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 11:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like fanatics for horse racing or fantasy football, political watchers are in a constant search for any scraps of information or insignificant insight that can portend the results of future elections. Special congressional elections in far flung backwaters and percentage point changes in approval years from election day are often used to predict the mood [...]
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		<title>Conservatives Were For Their Deeply Held Beliefs, Before They Were Against Them</title>
		<link>http://www.thesunshineempire.com/2011/05/22/conservatives-were-for-their-deeply-held-beliefs-before-they-were-against-them/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 20:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dutch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As soon as Barack H. Obama was elected by an over ten million vote margin as the 44th president of The United States, conservatives and republicans endeavored to counter the new president&#8217;s agenda. They endeavored to counter the new president&#8217;s agenda even if parts of it were previously part of their agenda. Republicans and conservatives [...]
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		<title>What Mayor Alvin Brown Means For Jacksonville And Florida</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 21:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday the race for Jacksonville&#8217;s next mayor was supposed to come to a predictable close. The result was anything but predictable, and Alvin Brown and Mike Hogan took their race into overtime the next day. The closest race in Jacksonville history ended Wednesday night with Democrat Alvin Brown becoming the first African American mayor [...]
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		<title>Reality Inconvenient For New Republican Majority</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 14:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an interview last week, Senate Minority Leader Mitch man-turtle McConnell said that republicans&#8217; number one legislative priority would be to make President Obama a one term president. Now I&#8217;m personally sick of liberals getting their panties in a bunch every time a republican expresses their desire to see Obama out of office. That fact [...]
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		<title>TSE Chat Room: Michelle Bachmann And Zombie Ronald Reagan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 18:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dutch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[me: I think Michelle Bachmann is reading my tweets Biggus: Are you including subtle messages in them now about how you want to make sweet love to her? me: Seriously, I got a fundraising email from her yesterday I can only assume with the format that John McCain sold his email list to her as [...]
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		<title>Sarah Palin: Lying, Stupid, Or Both?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dutch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In reading through Twitter today I came across a tweet from the former governor of Alaska Sarah Palin. In it she stated, &#8220;With all the talk from the Left re: who funds Tea Party Americans, one might point out the Left&#8217;s &#8220;tea party&#8221; is Acorn, funded by Fed Govt.&#8221; Now, this tweet alone prompted so [...]
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