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			<title>New Tax Protest Penalizes Patriots</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:27:00 -0800</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Taxpayer unrest is certainly nothing new to this nation.&nbsp; After all, the New World was populated by people who came to resent the mega-tax policies of the British Empire.&nbsp; There have been...]]></description>
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			<title>Keep Blue Dogs Barking</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:54:00 -0800</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA["Go ahead!" the gremlins hiss into Democratic ears. "Spend and borrow. The Republicans did it. Don't be a goody-two-shoes about this 'pay-as-you-go' stuff." The gremlins are hard...]]></description>
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			<title>Valenti an LBJ Stalwart Until the End</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:14:00 -0800</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Jack Valenti's autobiography, "This Time, This Place," was published last May.&nbsp; In terms of promoting the book, it was bad timing.&nbsp; He died in April.&nbsp; Still, it’s always interesting to see...]]></description>
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			<title>Why the Battle over Judicial Confirmations is so Critical</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:52:00 -0800</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The past few weeks have shown why it is important for conservatives to push for principled advocates of judicial restraint to the bench. Recently, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Seattle...]]></description>
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			<title>Charting the Back and Forth of Cindy Sheehan</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:57:00 -0800</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Just over a month after announcing at the end of May her retreat from the Democratic Party and anti-war activism "to be a mother to [her] remaining children", Cindy Sheehan has decided...]]></description>
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			<title>Scooter Libby &amp; George Bush: No Truth, No Consequences</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:25:00 -0800</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[No one should be surprised by George W. Bush's commutation of Scooter Libby's prison sentence.&nbsp; Many people had been speculating that Bush would issue a full pardon...]]></description>
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			<title>Anxiety in the Empire</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:11:00 -0800</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Now and then, a conservative columnist wonders why Americans have grown so sour about the country's future. After all, unemployment is low and stocks are rising. Sure, there's anger over the Iraq war and immigration, but things can't be that bad...]]></description>
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			<title>The Need For More Objective Media about Latin American Politics</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:28:00 -0800</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Latin America is well-known for its volatile political history of caudillos, corruption, economic instability and popular uprisings.&nbsp; Since the late 1990s some stability has descended...]]></description>
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			<title>Heavy Time for Drug Lightweights</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:51:00 -0800</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[When Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, it wrongly included language that meted out a mandatory minimum sentence of five years for dealing 5 grams of crack cocaine...]]></description>
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			<title>Two Troublesome Powers  </title>
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			<pubDate>Mon,  9 Jul 2007 10:20:00 -0800</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[George W. Bush's meeting last week with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his forthcoming meeting with Chinese leader Hu Jin Tao are a reminder that Bush and his successors...]]></description>
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