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			<title>Will Olympia Snowe Fall in Maine? </title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:54:00 -0800</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Go visit potato country at the tippy-top of Maine. There, struggling 
farmers can look across the St. John River at equally hard-pressed 
potato growers in New Brunswick, Canada. The big difference between them...]]></description>
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			<title>The Health Care Bill Vote and Election Day</title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:46:00 -0800</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[If the House Democratic majority passes Obama's health care proposals, 
one of two things will happen by Election Day, 2010 -- and neither one 
will be healthy for the Democrats seeking re-election...]]></description>
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			<title>Ronald Reagan on the $50 Bill - Why Stop There?</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:41:00 -0800</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[When I heard about the proposal to replace Ulysses S. Grant with Ronald 
Reagan on the $50 bill, I had two thoughts. The first: Grant is on the 
$50 bill? The second: Jimmy Carter is going to be furious...]]></description>
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			<title>Congressman John Conyers Wife Using Taxpayer Funded Appeal for Bribery Deal</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:35:00 -0800</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Another funny thing happened in what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi promised
 would be "the most ethical Congress in history." Monica Conyers, the 
wife of House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers...]]></description>
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			<title>President Obama and Education Reforms  </title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:06:00 -0800</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[To date, the only area I have found in agreement with President Obama 
was over his announced intention to enforce strict and elevated 
education standards and move toward paying teachers based...]]></description>
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			<title>Money &amp; Medicine - Transplant and Bone Marrow Economics</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:58:00 -0800</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Consider the economics of an organ transplant. Everyone involved gets 
something of value. The doctors and nurses are paid. The hospital 
receives money. The organ recipient gets something that will save...]]></description>
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			<title>Tea Party Brings Energy, Change and Tumult to GOP</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:19:00 -0800</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The political commentariat doesn't know what to make of those thousands 
of Americans who have spontaneously thronged to tea parties and town 
hall meetings to oppose the big government programs...]]></description>
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			<title>Fear and Courage on the Health Care Campaign Trail</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:13:00 -0800</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[As a candidate for president, Sen. Barack Obama rejected "the politics 
of fear." Well, he won. So now he's playing the fear card to the hilt.&nbsp; 
Monday, President Obama went to Strongsville, Ohio, to warn...]]></description>
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			<title>Crist-Rubio Battle in Florida - Results a Bellwether for Direction of GOP in 2010?</title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:16:00 -0800</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[I knew that I must have been off pretty badly when I casually wrote in 
this national column that Florida Gov. Charlie Crist would be a good 
example of a Republican that voters in critical swing states could accept...]]></description>
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			<title>Dems in DC Are Stuck With a Mess of Their Own Making</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:32:00 -0800</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[There's a lively debate going on in the blogosphere and the press about 
whether Democrats would be better off passing or not passing a health 
care bill.&nbsp; Some liberals claim that Democrats would be better...]]></description>
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