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  <copyright>(C) 2009 The National Ledger</copyright>
   
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			<title>The Civic Price of Courting Corporations  </title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:46:00 -0800</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Amtrak riders passing through New London, Conn., can catch an odd sight
in an otherwise picturesque New England setting: a fancy corporate
center standing next to a street grid emptied of nearly...]]></description>
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			<title>Pumpkin Pie Shortage - Thanksgiving, Christmas Scramble</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:55:00 -0800</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Black Friday may have to wait for the real retail scramble - there is a pumpkin pie shortage!&nbsp; Blame it on the rain.&nbsp; According to a United
Press International report, "Heavy Midwestern rains have destroyed...]]></description>
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			<title>Obama Asia Trip - World Governments Not Playing Along</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:34:00 -0800</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[On his 10-day trip to Asia and in his 10th month in office, Barack
Obama is beginning to encounter limits on his ambition to change the
world. Even as he bowed to the king of Saudi Arabia last April and...]]></description>
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			<title>Sarah Palin, "Going Rogue" and the Conservative Descent  </title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:22:00 -0800</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The 19th century American writer Henry Adams said the descent of
American presidents from George Washington to Ulysses S. Grant was
enough to discredit the theory of evolution. The same could...]]></description>
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			<title>Jerry Brown Ensnared in His Own Tapegate Trap </title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:51:00 -0800</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[A recent Gallup poll found that 55 percent of Americans have an
unfavorable view of the mass media. Hence, many readers may have felt
little outrage when they read a few weeks ago that Scott Gerber, then...]]></description>
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			<title>Chuck and Gena Norris: Visiting Maj. Nidal Hasan's Hospital </title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:30:00 -0800</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[While the military still is reeling and recovering from the massacre at
Fort Hood, my wife, Gena, and I decided to boost the morale of military
personnel by visiting the cadets at West Point...]]></description>
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			<title>Can Obama's Health Care Plan Pass?</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:22:00 -0800</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Joseph Stubbs, President of the American College of Physicians -- the
second largest doctors' group in the country -- confirms that "the
supply of doctors just won't be there" for the 30 million new patients
Barack Obama...]]></description>
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			<title>Recession Hangover Leaves 49 Million Americans Hungry</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:24:00 -0800</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Are 49 million Americans hungry?&nbsp; Once the economy went into free fall
one year ago in September, the US Government began handing out billions
of dollars to large corporations deemed "too big" to fail...]]></description>
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			<title>President Barack Obama Interview with Fox News Major Garrett from China</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:02:00 -0800</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Did President Barack Obama finally grant an interview with Fox News and
White House reporter Major Garrett in China?&nbsp; The Administration has
been at odds with the cable network that covers political news...]]></description>
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			<title>Tax Cuts and Fiscal Discipline </title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:35:00 -0800</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Nearly every Republican these days calls for tax cuts and lower
deficits, and in the same sentence. Point out that these goals clash --
that taxes pay for government and not paying for government causes...]]></description>
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