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		<title>Timing And Point Of Contraception Politics Interesting</title>
		<link>http://www.thesunshineempire.com/2012/02/09/timing-and-point-of-contraception-politics-interesting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dutch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m having a difficult time trying to fashion a coherent point regarding the new Catholic-Contraception uproar with the White House. I was raised in the Catholic faith and attended Catholic school until the fifth grade. I also have no issue with contraception availability as a way to stem the growth of unwanted children. The timing [...]
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		<title>What Did We Learn From Last Night: Missouri Is Now Officially Part Of The South</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dutch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After last night&#8217;s results from GOP Primary Party Train Part Seven, things again look bad for our boy Mittens. But it should be noted that this year&#8217;s Republican presidential primary is like the weather in Florida. Just give it a minute and it will change drastically. Last night&#8217;s turn had Dan Savage&#8217;s favorite Pennsylvania senator [...]
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		<title>Nuance And Context Now All The Rage In Conservative Circles In The Age Of Mittens</title>
		<link>http://www.thesunshineempire.com/2012/02/01/nuance-and-context-now-all-the-rage-in-conservative-circles-in-the-age-of-mittens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nuance and context are normally things that the modern conservative shuns when it comes to political discourse. When former Tennessee senator and Vice president Al Gore discussed how he&#8217;d spearheaded the development of the internet for public use through legislation, conservatives and Republicans spent the next decade guffawing about how he&#8217;d claimed he&#8217;d invented the [...]
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		<title>On Mitt Romney Debating Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney, and Mitt Romney</title>
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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>The Making Of The President 2012 Has Begun</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dutch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wonder and spectacle of the Iowa Caucuses has come and gone. I was thinking on Tuesday evening that somewhere, out there in the great beyond, Theodore H. White was sitting down to the typewriter and began the first chapter of The Making Of The President 2012. It&#8217;s normally my custom to write a post [...]
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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>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
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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>A Random Thought On The Present State Of The Occupy Movement</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 01:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I am sympathetic to the general ideas of the Occupy Wall Street movement, I&#8217;m worried that there are some within it that have dreams of becoming martyrs. I&#8217;m reading the book Nixonland by Rick Perlstein, and it details how politicos like Richard Nixon were able to use the images of tear gassed rioters in [...]
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		<title>Herman Cain Doesn&#8217;t Have Any Facts To Back This Up. . . But</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dutch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor &#038; Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook Related posts: bin Laden Is At A Mets &#8211; Marlins Game The Daily Deals On Occupy Wall Street And Tony Bologna The Daily Show On The Mourning Show
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		<title>The GOP Looks Through A Fatally Flawed Field To Find A Champion Against Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
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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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