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					<title>Obamacare&#039;s Patient-Dumping, Privacy-Meddling Scheme</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ The stench of Chicago cronyism over the White House just got fouler. Inhale this:
A shadowy $10 billion Obamacare agency with zero oversight just awarded first lady Michelle Obama&apos;s pet patient-dumping scheme at the University of Chicago Medical Center a $5.9 million taxpayer-funded grant. It will enable Mrs. Obama&apos;s cronies to build a government-sponsored electronic medical record-sharing system.
The Chicago program, known as the Urban Health Initiative, is run by one of President Obama&apos;s closest golfing buddies, scandal magnet Eric Whitaker, who has been entangled with...]]></description>
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					<author>Michelle Malkin</author>					
					<category>Michelle Malkin</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/16/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Deb Fischer Wins Nebraska GOP Senate Primary</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Nebraska state Sen. Deb Fischer scored a major upset in the Cornhusker State&apos;s Republican Senate primary, a three-way race that divided prominent conservatives Sarah Palin, Rick Santorum and Jim DeMint.
Fischer surged in the final days of the campaign to defeat Attorney General Jon Bruning and state Treasurer Don Stenberg, winning 40 percent of the support. Bruning garnered 36 percent, and Stenberg had 19 percent.
Fischer will go on to face Democrat Bob Kerrey, the former Nebraska governor and senator heavily recruited by his party to run for the seat held for two terms by Democrat Ben...]]></description>
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					<author>Caitlin Huey-Burns</author>					
					<category>Caitlin Huey-Burns</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/16/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Making Life Fair</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ When my wife was a liberal, she complained that libertarian reasoning is coldhearted. Since markets produce winners and losers -- and many losers did nothing wrong -- market competition is cruel. It must seem so. President Obama used the word &quot;fair&quot; in his last State of the Union address nine times.
We are imprinted to prefer a world that is &quot;fair.&quot; Our close relatives the chimpanzees freak out when one chimp gets more than his fair share, so zookeepers are careful about food portions. Chimps are hardwired to get angry when they think they&apos;ve been cheated -- and so...]]></description>
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					<author>John Stossel</author>					
					<category>John Stossel</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/16/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>The Real Lesson from J.P. Morgan</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- It&apos;s a teachable moment, but what&apos;s the right lesson? Already, the $2 billion-plus trading debacle at JPMorgan Chase has inspired a powerful storyline. Nothing has changed since the financial crisis, it&apos;s said. Big banks remain out of control, gambling recklessly. If Jamie Dimon&apos;s bank, reputed to be one of the best-managed, can get into trouble, what can we expect of the others? Government regulations and regulators need to be tougher to counteract bankers&apos; greed and incompetence.
The storyline is marred only by this: Everything in it is exaggerated,...]]></description>
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					<author>Robert Samuelson</author>					
					<category>Robert Samuelson</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/16/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Chicago Summit: Showcase for a 21st Century NATO?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ The last two decades have demonstrated that NATO&apos;s post-Cold War death notices reprised a classic Mark Twain one-liner. When Twain learned that a New York newspaper had published his obituary, he wisecracked, &quot;The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.&quot; Next week&apos;s NATO summit in Chicago gives NATO&apos;s current leaders an opportunity to showcase the alliance as a focusing instrument for waging war and securing peace in the 21st century.
Created in 1949 and dedicated to Europe&apos;s defense, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization served as the Free World&apos;s...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/16/chicago_summit_showcase_for_a_21st_century_nato_114164.html</link>
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					<author>Austin Bay</author>					
					<category>Austin Bay</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/16/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Lugar&#039;s Fatal Case of Entitlement Syndrome</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ The defeated Dick Lugar, in an impassioned and striking condemnation of the continuing polarization of American politics, blamed the Tea Party and his Republican primary opponent for demanding he submit to a &quot;purification&quot; exercise. Indeed, while the good Indiana senator admits he knew there would be &amp;ldquo;political headwinds&amp;rdquo; while facing re-election, he determined that his long years of service -- and the many policy challenges yet to be overcome -- were reason enough to step back into the arena.
For that, we should applaud Lugar. We should also thank him for his...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/16/lugars_fatal_case_of_entitlement_syndrome_114155.html</link>
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					<author>Reed Galen</author>					
					<category>Reed Galen</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/16/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Obama&#039;s Remarks at the National Peace Officers&#039; Memorial Service</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ U.S. CapitolWashington, D.C.
11:25 A.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you so much. Thank you, Chuck, for that very kind introduction. Chuck is a proud police officer, he&amp;rsquo;s the proud parent of a police officer, and he has dedicated his life to law enforcement and their families. So I want to thank him for his extraordinary service.
I want to recognize the entire Fraternal Order of Police and its leadership, including Jim Pasco, for all your work on behalf of those who wear the badge. I&amp;rsquo;d like to recognize FOP Auxiliary President Linda Hennie, all the...]]></description>
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					<author>Barack Obama</author>					
					<category>Barack Obama</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/15/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Interview with DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ BLITZER: With polls suggesting that Mitt Romney is even with or even leading President Obama, is it time for the Democrats to panic?
Let&apos;s discuss that with Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida. She is the chair of the Democratic National Committee.
James Carville, a man you know, the man I know, our CNN contributor. He wrote this blog last week saying, I&apos;ll put it up on the screen. WTFU, translated, wake the you know what up, there is an earthquake. What are you smoking? What are you drinking?
What are you snorting or just what in the hell are you thinking? Earlier he...]]></description>
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					<author>The Situation Room</author>					
					<category>The Situation Room</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/15/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Obama Has Up to $1 Million in JPMorgan Account</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ While the executive branch checks out JPMorgan Chase &amp;amp; Co., President Obama has been doing some checking of his own.
One day after he described JPMorgan as &quot;the best, or one of the best managed banks,&quot; the White House reported that the president holds up to $1 million in an interest-bearing JPMorgan asset management checking account, and Michelle Obama has up to $15,000 in a regular JPMorgan checking account.
The first family&amp;rsquo;s personal banking relationship with JPMorgan appeared on the president&amp;rsquo;s nine-page financial disclosure form for 2011, released by...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/15/obama_has_up_to_1_million_in_jpmorgan_account_114167.html</link>
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					<author>Alexis Simendinger</author>					
					<category>Alexis Simendinger</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/15/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
                              <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 17:37:13 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="http://images.rcw.realclearpolitics.com/137742_1_.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="249" />
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					<title>In Iowa, Romney Tags Obama for Debt &quot;Prairie Fire&quot;</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Republican Mitt Romney said Tuesday President Barack Obama&apos;s support for increased federal debt has put the economy on a disastrous course, portraying himself in a speech in battleground Iowa as the defender of fiscal responsibility and his opponent as reckless.
Calling for sharp spending cuts and a long-term budget discipline, Romney is trying to frame the campaign against the Democrat as a contest of fairness versus irresponsibility.
&quot;A prairie fire of debt is sweeping across Iowa and our nation and every day we fail to act we feed that fire with our own...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/15/in_iowa_romney_tags_obama_for_debt_prairie_fire_114163.html</link>
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					<author>Thomas Beaumont</author>					
					<category>Thomas Beaumont</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/15/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
                              <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:27:02 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="http://images.rcp.realclearpolitics.com/137858_1_.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="153" width="250" />
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					<title>Some Former Rivals Boost Romney as Others Hang Back</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ In a Republican nomination fight that featured more than a few acrimonious exchanges among the candidates, Michelle Bachmann and Newt Gingrich were often the most cutting in their criticism of Mitt Romney.
Even as she faded from the top tier of contenders, Bachmann was never shy about breaking Ronald Reagan&apos;s &quot;11th Commandment&quot; -- thou shalt not speak ill of fellow Republicans -- as she relentlessly hammered her chief opponent over his conservative credentials.
Bachmann referred to the now-presumptive Republican nominee as a &amp;ldquo;chameleon&amp;rdquo; during a Florida...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/15/some_former_rivals_boost_romney_as_others_hang_back_114162.html</link>
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					<author>Scott Conroy</author>					
					<category>Scott Conroy</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/15/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Obama, Romney Busy Trying to Define Each Other</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ President Barack Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney are working hard at this stage of the campaign to paint each other in as stark and unattractive colors as possible.
Through Romney&apos;s prism, Obama is seen as a big-spending liberal partisan who is clueless on how to revive the economy and whose environmental, regulatory and tax policies have made things worse.
The former Massachusetts governor is trying to capitalize on his private-sector resume at a time of high voter anxiety over sputtering job growth.
He was sharpening his attack Tuesday with a speech in Des Moines to focus on...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/15/obama_romney_busy_trying_to_define_each_other_114161.html</link>
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					<author>Tom Raum</author>					
					<category>Tom Raum</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/15/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Liberal Intolerance and Naomi Riley&#039;s Firing</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ There is much handwringing today, both from liberals and disaffected conservatives, about the deplorable intellectual climate on the right: blinkered ideology, disdain for facts, demonization of opponents. Sure enough, such behavior is depressingly common. But does the left behave differently when its sacred cows are being gored?
For a stark reminder that &quot;liberal intolerance&quot; is real, look at the brouhaha over Naomi Schaefer Riley&apos;s ejection from the Chronicle of Higher Education blog, Brainstorm. A moderately conservative journalist and author, Riley joined the site&apos;s...]]></description>
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					<author>Cathy Young</author>					
					<category>Cathy Young</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/15/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Some Dems Fretting Over Team Obama&#039;s Ineptitude</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ On a balmy night in early June of 1986, a successful business executive and two-term Congressman named Ed Zschau won the GOP nomination for US Senate in California. Seen by professionals as the rising star of California Republican politics, Zschau defeated a divided primary field of more conservative candidates. It was widely expected in political circles that he would go on to defeat incumbent Sen. Alan Cranston in the general election.
The very next night, the Cranston campaign unleashed a sustained, weeks-long negative campaign advertising attack on Mr. Zschau. The idea being that if...]]></description>
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					<author>John Ellis</author>					
					<category>John Ellis</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/15/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>One by One, Obama Targets &#039;08 Coalition for Boost</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ President Obama is attempting to shore up the 2008 coalition that helped him achieve a decisive victory over John McCain, but he is doing so in a more piecemeal way this time around.
As an incumbent, Obama&apos;s method is to target various constituencies -- albeit ones that supported him four years ago -- and make the sale with this argument: On the issues they care most about, he has advanced specific policies to help them, programs opposed by the Republican Party and its presumptive nominee, Mitt Romney.
Throughout the spring, as the political conversation shifted from women to Latinos to...]]></description>
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					<author>Erin McPike</author>					
					<category>Erin McPike</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/15/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Obama: JPMorgan Losses Make His Point</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ President Obama and JPMorgan Chase CEO and Chairman Jamie Dimon each tried to make complex facts fit simple narratives this week. The president may have the easier task.
Were JPMorgan&apos;s more than $2 billion in trading losses &quot;stupid,&quot; but part of doing business, as Dimon suggested, or painful evidence that risk-taking by financial institutions poses a systemic threat and demands tougher federal restrictions, as Obama indicated Monday?
At least one contrast the president wanted to present against Mitt Romney suddenly looked sharper, thanks to JPMorgan&amp;rsquo;s self-inflicted...]]></description>
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					<author>Alexis Simendinger</author>					
					<category>Alexis Simendinger</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/15/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Expect a Desperate Obama to Dump Biden</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Vice President Joe Biden isn&apos;t invited to Sunday campaign strategy meetings at the White House, The New York Times reported May 4.
President Barack Obama designated Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., his top surrogate on foreign policy issues, fueling speculation he&apos;d be secretary of state in a second Obama administration.
So Washington is abuzz with rumors the president will replace Mr. Biden with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
He ought to. Slow Joe is a national embarrassment.
Osama bin Laden made plans to assassinate the president and Gen. David Petreaus, according to captured...]]></description>
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					<author>Jack Kelly</author>					
					<category>Jack Kelly</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/15/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>A Censored Race War?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ When two white newspaper reporters for the Virginian-Pilot were driving through Norfolk, and were set upon and beaten by a mob of young blacks -- beaten so badly that they had to take a week off from work -- that might seem to have been news that should have been reported, at least by their own newspaper. But it wasn&apos;t.
&quot;The O&apos;Reilly Factor&quot; on Fox News Channel was the first major television program to report this incident. Yet this story is not just a Norfolk story, either in what happened or in how the media and the authorities have tried to sweep it under the...]]></description>
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					<author>Thomas Sowell</author>					
					<category>Thomas Sowell</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/15/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Mayor Bloomberg&#039;s 5,600 Lives Saved</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has a new kind of crime statistic. It is not the astoundingly low number of murders committed in his fair city -- 471 in 2009 vs. about 2,000 per year in the 1980s -- but murders&amp;nbsp;not committed in the last decade: 5,600. Those people are alive today by the grace of God and the policing policies of the Bloomberg administration, particularly what is known as stop-and-frisk. New York City is heaven on earth possibly because it is a certain kind of hell for young black and Hispanic men.
Here, too, the mayor has his statistics, and they are as fittingly...]]></description>
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					<author>Richard Cohen</author>					
					<category>Richard Cohen</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/15/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Stuck in the Obama Economy</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Appearing on ABC&apos;s &quot;This Week,&quot; former Gov. Eliot Spitzer (why do they give him a forum?) offered the Democratic Party&apos;s defense of the Obama economy. The Republicans, Spitzer sputtered &quot;want to go back to medieval medicine, the bloodletting, leeches. They want to go back to the very crazy economics that brought us over the cliff and created a cataclysm.&quot;
Ah, ABC must have hired him for his high-minded contribution to the debate. Spitzer continued: &quot;What we tried here under Barack Obama is Keynesian economics, restructure the economy, invest where you need...]]></description>
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					<author>Mona Charen</author>					
					<category>Mona Charen</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/15/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Romney Is Short on Specifics</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- Republicans say they&apos;re eager for the presidential campaign to turn away from &quot;distractions&quot; and focus instead on the economy. Someone should warn them that if they&apos;re not careful, they might get their wish.
It is true that voters&apos; unhappiness with high unemployment and slow growth poses a challenge for President Obama as he seeks re-election. But for Mitt Romney and the GOP to take advantage of this potential opening, they&apos;ll have to do more than chant the word &quot;economy&quot; like a mantra. They have to make the case that their policies will...]]></description>
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					<author>Eugene Robinson</author>					
					<category>Eugene Robinson</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/15/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Silicon Slumming</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ The Victorian era gave birth to a very unpleasant custom called slumming. Parties of swells in London and New York would descend on impoverished neighborhoods as a form of entertainment. In addition to breaking up the tedium of their posh lives, the adventure made them feel superior.
A much updated version of slumming has been taking place in Manhattan, where Facebook is arranging its initial public offering. This time, though, it&apos;s the super-rich visitor, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who is dressed in rags -- his trademark T-shirt and hoodie. The Wall Street investors currying his...]]></description>
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					<author>Froma Harrop</author>					
					<category>Froma Harrop</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/15/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>As the Boomers Head for the Barn</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ When the April figures on unemployment were released May 4, they were more than disappointing. They were deeply disturbing.
While the unemployment rate had fallen from 8.2 percent to 8.1 percent, 342,000 workers had stopped looking for work. They had just dropped out of the labor market.
Only 63.6 percent of the U.S. working age population is now in the labor force, the lowest level since December 1981.
During the Reagan, Bush I and Clinton years, participation in the labor force rose steadily to a record 67 percent. The plunge since has been almost uninterrupted.
Here is a major cause of the...]]></description>
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					<author>Pat Buchanan</author>					
					<category>Pat Buchanan</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/15/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Romney Understands America</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ On Saturday, Mitt Romney delivered a speech to the 6,000 Liberty College graduates.
It was an important speech, not only because it seems to have closed the gap between Romney and evangelical Christians but also because it spelled out major themes in Mitt Romney&apos;s understanding of America.
Romney: &quot;You know who you are. And you know whom you will serve. Not all colleges instill that kind of confidence . . . .&quot;
This is a truism. Most American universities seek to graduate men and women who are as committed to secularism as nearly all the members of faculty are. In contrast, at...]]></description>
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					<author>Dennis Prager</author>					
					<category>Dennis Prager</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/15/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>The Pardon Attorney Who Just Says No</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ In 1993, a jury convicted Clarence Aaron for his role in two planned cocaine deals. Aaron was a 23-year-old college student. It was his first offense. Unlike his co-defendants, Aaron was not a career drug dealer. He didn&apos;t know enough to plead guilty and testify against others to win a reduced sentence. He perjured himself in court. A federal judge sentenced Aaron to three terms of life without parole for a first-time nonviolent drug offense.
Aaron&apos;s only hope of not dying behind bars is a presidential commutation. President George W. Bush might have granted him a pardon. But he...]]></description>
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					<author>Debra Saunders</author>					
					<category>Debra Saunders</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/15/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Religion as a Partisan Trump Card</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney did not rise on the power of his rhetoric. At the Detroit Economic Club in February, his speech was swallowed by its stadium venue, overshadowed by a gaffe (his wife&apos;s &quot;couple of Cadillacs&quot;) and weighed down by leaden language. Early in the primaries, Romney&apos;s attempts to wax poetic on the virtues of America -- often by quoting patriotic hymns -- were waxen.
The decision to deliver the commencement address at Liberty University, founded by the late Jerry Falwell, did not promise much better. It is the type of venue chosen by a chain-smoking...]]></description>
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					<author>Michael Gerson</author>					
					<category>Michael Gerson</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/15/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Interview with Representative James Clyburn</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ BLITZER: Jessica, thanks very much.
The number three Democrat in the House of Representatives differs somewhat with President Obama on the issue of gay marriage.
James Clyburn welcomes the president&apos;s support, but feels it doesn&apos;t go far enough.
Representative Clyburn is joining us now from his home state of South Carolina.
Congressman, thanks very much for coming in.
REP. JAMES CLYBURN (D), SOUTH CAROLINA: Thank you.
BLITZER: Tell us why you believe the president does not go far enough in his declaration saying that he personally supports gay marriage?
CLYBURN: Well, thank you so...]]></description>
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					<author>The Situation Room</author>					
					<category>The Situation Room</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/14/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers &amp; Donna Edwards Discuss Mitt Romney</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ KING: So the question is, is there a Romney-led GOP war on women?
Joining me now to discuss, Democratic Congresswoman Donna Edwards of Maryland and Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, who is a member of the House Republican leadership team.
Is there?
REP. CATHY MCMORRIS RODGERS (R), WASHINGTON: Absolutely not. It is a myth.
(CROSSTALK)
KING: It&apos;s a myth. If it is a myth -- let me -- I am sorry to interrupt, but if it is a myth, one of the reasons this myth or whatever you want to call it gets perpetuated or exaggerated or amplified is because you have a team that is running for...]]></description>
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					<author>John King, USA</author>					
					<category>John King, USA</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/14/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
                              <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:14:36 -0500</pubDate></item>
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					<title>Obama&#039;s Commencement Speech at Barnard College</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Barnard CollegeColumbia UniversityNew York, New York
1:28 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you so much. (Applause.) Thank you. Please, please have a seat. Thank you. (Applause.)
Thank you, President Spar, trustees, President Bollinger. Hello, Class of 2012! (Applause.) Congratulations on reaching this day. Thank you for the honor of being able to be a part of it.
There are so many people who are proud of you -- your parents, family, faculty, friends -- all who share in this achievement. So please give them a big round of applause. (Applause.) To all the moms who are here today, you could not ask...]]></description>
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					<author>Barack Obama</author>					
					<category>Barack Obama</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/14/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Past Lobbying Becomes Issue in Arizona Senate Race</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Since his first House campaign a dozen years ago, would-be Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake has worked diligently to cast himself as a conservative gadfly, willing to buck GOP leaders and even a Republican president.
But as a result of the six-term congressman&apos;s work as a lobbyist two decades ago for a Namibian uranium operation with ties to Iran, a GOP primary opponent and Democrats are portraying him as aWashington insider who should not get to succeed retiring Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.
Well before Flake was a leader in the campaign to eliminate the pet projects and grants that lawmakers add to...]]></description>
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					<author>Jeri Clausing</author>					
					<category>Jeri Clausing</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/14/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Obama Ad Calls Romney a &quot;Job Destroyer&quot; at Bain</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ The Obama campaign launched a new television ad in several key battleground states Monday, painting Mitt Romney as a ruthless businessman whose successful private equity career left workers jobless.
The re-election campaign is running the two-minute-long ad in Colorado, Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia. The spot offers the perspective of fired workers from a Kansas City steel company that Bain Capital, the private equity firm Romney founded, took over in 1993. The company went bankrupt in 2001.
The spot attempts to undermine Romney&amp;rsquo;s business experience, which he has made a...]]></description>
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					<author>Caitlin Huey-Burns</author>					
					<category>Caitlin Huey-Burns</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/14/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>New Super PAC Hopes to Woo Younger Voters</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama counted on the support of younger voters four years ago. Now, a new Republican-leaning &quot;super&quot; political committee wants to bring them to theGOP&apos;s side.
Crossroads Generation, a new super PAC formed with the help of a handful of established GOP groups, is tapping into the economic frustrations of under-30 voters facing dim job prospects, crippling student loans or the prospect of having to move back home with their parents.
Starting Monday, the PAC is launching a $50,000 social media ad campaign targeting younger voters in eight swing...]]></description>
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					<author>Jack Gillum</author>					
					<category>Jack Gillum</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/14/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Obama Seeks to Undercut Romney&#039;s Record on Jobs</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON (AP) &amp;mdash; President Barack Obama is casting Mitt Romney as a greedy, job-killing corporate titan with little concern for the working class in a new, multi-pronged effort that seeks to undermine the central rationale for his Republican rival&apos;s candidacy: his business credentials.
At the center of the push &amp;mdash; the president&apos;s most forceful attempt yet to sully Romney before the November election &amp;mdash; is a biting new TV ad airing Monday that recounts through interviews with former workers the restructuring, and ultimate demise, of a Kansas City, Mo.,...]]></description>
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					<author>Ken Thomas</author>					
					<category>Ken Thomas</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/14/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>I&#039;m Not Quitting the Church</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- Recently, a group called the Freedom from Religion Foundation ran a full-page ad in The Washington Post cast as an &quot;open letter to &apos;liberal&apos; and &apos;nominal&apos; Catholics.&quot; Its headline commanded: &quot;It&apos;s Time to Quit the Catholic Church.&quot;
The ad included the usual criticism of Catholicism, but I was most struck by this paragraph: &quot;If you think you can change the church from within -- get it to lighten up on birth control, gay rights, marriage equality, embryonic stem-cell research -- you&apos;re deluding yourself. By remaining a...]]></description>
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					<author>E.J. Dionne</author>					
					<category>E.J. Dionne</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/14/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>The Boom on the Farm</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ MARION, Iowa -- Sitting in the cab of a $350,000 John Deere tractor pulling a $150,000 Deere corn planter, Greg Carson embodies modern American agriculture. It&apos;s capital-intensive, high-tech, efficient -- and now immensely profitable. Looking for a bright spot in the U.S. economy? The farm belt is it.
Driven by high grain and soybean prices, farmers&apos; cash income hit a record $109 billion in 2011. Land values have followed high crop prices. Since 2006, an average acre of Iowa farmland has doubled. Last year, the increase was 33 percent to $6,708, reports Michael Duffy of Iowa State...]]></description>
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					<author>Robert Samuelson</author>					
					<category>Robert Samuelson</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/14/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Three Different Ways to Look at the 2012 Campaign</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Last week, I wrote about the standings in the presidential race and said it looked like a long, hard slog through about a dozen clearly identified target states, much like the contests in 2000 and 2004. Call it the 2000/2004 long, hard slog scenario.
But I said there were other possible scenarios. I can think of three.
The 1964/1972 scenario: Challenger disqualifies himself. Barry Goldwater and George McGovern were idealistic, intelligent senators who took positions on issues that made them unacceptable to most voters in years favorable to incumbents.
This could happen to Mitt Romney this...]]></description>
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					<author>Michael Barone</author>					
					<category>Michael Barone</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/14/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Senators Dick Durbin &amp; John Cornyn on &quot;State of the Union&quot;</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ CROWLEY: Joining me now from Springfield, Illinois, the number two Democrat in the Senate, Senator Dick Durbin, and here in Washington, the man charged with electing more Republicans to the Senate, Senator John Cornyn. Thank you both for being here.
Let me start out, I want to play something that Senator Durbin said in mid-April to kind of kick off our conversation.
Senator, let me remind you of what you said, which was unless there is some intervening event, some external event, I think the reality is we are not going to take up tough issues involving spending, taxes, Medicare, Social...]]></description>
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					<author>State of the Union</author>					
					<category>State of the Union</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/13/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>The Average White Guy Vote</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ CANTON, Ohio -- Rudy is the quintessential average white guy, right down to his last name. &quot;It literally is Guy,&quot; he said, laughing at the irony.
Born in New Eagle and raised in Charleroi in Pennsylvania&apos;s Monongahela Valley, Guy comes from a long line of Democrats. &quot;My grandfather worked at Corning Glass, my father worked in the mines, the steel mill and finally at Corning,&quot; he recalled. &quot;The family always had union ties, and that usually meant a tie to the Democratic Party.&quot;
That&apos;s no longer true for him, however: &quot;As my life started to improve...]]></description>
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					<author>Salena Zito</author>					
					<category>Salena Zito</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/13/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>A Compelling Plan for Iranian Talks</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- Let&apos;s assume the signals from the White House and Tehran are reliable, and that Iran is serious about an agreement to remove its existing stockpile of 20 percent enriched uranium from the country and stop producing more. What happens then?
This question of &quot;next steps&quot; in the Iran nuclear talks is important, because neither side is likely to commit to the first set of &quot;confidence-building&quot; measures&quot; unless it knows where the process is heading. Iran feels it has been tricked in the past by Western peace feelers that didn&apos;t lead anywhere; the...]]></description>
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					<author>David Ignatius</author>					
					<category>David Ignatius</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/13/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Obama&#039;s Honesty on Same-Sex Marriage Long Overdue</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ President Barack Obama emerged from his ideological closet last week when he said, &quot;Same-sex couples should be able to get married.&quot; Obama supported same-sex marriage in 1996. He opposed same-sex marriage, however, in 2004 and 2008 and right up until Vice President Joe Biden announced that he is &quot;absolutely comfortable&quot; with same-sex nuptials on &quot;Meet the Press&quot; May 6. Thus, I would categorize the president&apos;s position on same-sex marriage not as having evolved, as he claims, but as a long overdue moment of honesty.
For bonus points: This moment has spared...]]></description>
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					<author>Debra Saunders</author>					
					<category>Debra Saunders</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/13/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Obama&#039;s &#039;Cynicism&#039; on Gay Marriage</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ President Barack Obama&apos;s critics have a point in criticizing his handling of the gay marriage issue as evasive, politically devious and lacking in principle. I hate to say it, but it&apos;s bad enough to qualify as Lincolnesque.
Abraham Lincoln is remembered today for freeing the slaves. But he didn&apos;t start out with that policy, and he didn&apos;t get there quickly. He reached his ultimate position only by slowly and painfully &quot;evolving&quot; -- while blacks waited and suffered in bondage.
When he came out for same-sex marriage, Obama won praise from gays, liberals and...]]></description>
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					<author>Steve Chapman</author>					
					<category>Steve Chapman</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/13/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Around World, Obama&#039;s Presidency a Disappointment</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ (AP) In Europe, where more than 200,000 people thronged a Berlin rally in 2008 to hear Barack Obama speak, there&apos;s disappointment that he hasn&apos;t kept his promise to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, and perceptions that he&apos;s shunting blame for the financial crisis across the Atlantic.
In Mogadishu, a former teacher wishes he had sent more economic assistance and fewer armed drones to fix Somalia&apos;s problems. And many in the Middle East wonder what became of Obama&apos;s vow, in a landmark 2009 speech at the University of Cairo, to forge a closer relationship with...]]></description>
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					<author>Don Melvin and Ron McGuirk</author>					
					<category>Don Melvin and Ron McGuirk</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/12/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Interview with Representative Barney Frank</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ KING: Joining me is the architect of that legislation, one of the architects, the Democratic congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts.
Now, Congressman. Let me just start there. If you go through the many pages of Dodd-Frank, is there something in there that should have caught this is this.
REP. BARNEY FRANK (D), MASSACHUSETTS: There may well be. He is premature saying it doesn&apos;t violate the Volcker rule. You pass a complex piece of legislation. And then, there is a process by which it has to be flashed out.
The rules of the federal government call for a proposal to come out. And then,...]]></description>
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					<author>John King, USA</author>					
					<category>John King, USA</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
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					<title>Poll Shows Americans&#039; Pessimism on Economy Growing</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans are growing more pessimistic about the economy and handling it remains President Barack Obama&apos;s weak spot and biggest challenge in his bid for a second term, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll.
And the gloomier outlook extends across party lines, including a steep decline in the share of Democrats who call the economy &quot;good,&quot; down from 48 percent in February to just 31 percent now.
Almost two-thirds of Americans &amp;mdash; 65 percent &amp;mdash; disapprove of Obama&apos;s handling of gas prices, up from 58 percent in February. Nearly...]]></description>
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					<author>Jennifer Agiesta and Tom Raum</author>					
					<category>Jennifer Agiesta and Tom Raum</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/11/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>GOP Gets Set to Start Up Pa. Presidential Campaign</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- With the primary battle essentially over, the Republican Party is preparing to fire up a presidential campaign in Pennsylvania about a year behind President Barack Obama in a vote-rich state that both sides say they can win.
The Obama campaign is opening its 24th campaign office on Friday in Bethlehem &amp;mdash; it opened its 23rd in York on Wednesday &amp;mdash; and running a one-minute TV ad, while Mitt Romney&amp;rsquo;s campaign is getting ready to hire staff and the state party is planning to open its first coordinated campaign offices as early as next...]]></description>
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					<author>Marc Levy</author>					
					<category>Marc Levy</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/11/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>What Has Made Congress More Polarized?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Thomas Mann and Norm Ornstein ignited a bit of a firestorm with their column describing Republicans as main drivers behind Washington&apos;s problems. The Washington Post&apos;s Chris Cillizza has made some excellent points with regard to Mann and Ornstein&apos;s qualitative arguments, and other thorough responses abound. Rather than revisiting these points, I would like to focus my attention on the quantitative arguments made at the end of the article. Mann and Ornstein note that:
&amp;ldquo;[P]olitical scientists Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal, who have long tracked historical trends in...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/11/what_has_made_congress_more_polarized.html</link>
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					<author>Sean Trende</author>					
					<category>Sean Trende</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/11/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Obama&#039;s Unreal Gay-Marriage Moment</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ President Obama insists that he didn&amp;rsquo;t announce his support for gay marriage out of political considerations. He&amp;rsquo;s right. He did it out of self-regard.
How it must have eaten away at him to be the first African-American president, yet not associate himself with what has been deemed the foremost civil-rights issue of the age. To be a progressive in favor of all things &amp;ldquo;forward,&amp;rdquo; but retrograde on marriage. To know that his stance was a transparent charade and see it treated as such by the lefty opinion makers he respects most.
To watch his sloppy,...]]></description>
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					<author>Rich Lowry</author>					
					<category>Rich Lowry</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
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					<title>The Antietam of the Culture War</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ It took Joe Biden&apos;s public embrace of same-sex marriage to smoke him out.
But after Joe told David Gregory of &quot;Meet the Press&quot; he was &quot;absolutely comfortable&quot; with homosexuals marrying, Barack Obama could not maintain his credibility with the cultural elite if he stuck with the biblical view that God ordained marriage as solely between a man and woman. The biblical view had to go.
Obama had to move, or look like a malingerer in secularism&apos;s next great moral advance into post-Christian America.
Consider. Obama had an appearance coming up on &quot;The View,&quot;...]]></description>
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					<author>Pat Buchanan</author>					
					<category>Pat Buchanan</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
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					<title>White House Lied, Jobs Died</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ While the White House and its media water-carriers try to distract the American public with gay-marriage talk and half-century-old tales of Mitt Romney&apos;s prep school pranks, the inconvenient truth remains: President Obama is responsible for perpetrating jaw-dropping, job-killing scientific fraud. And his minions are still trying to cover it up.
New internal e-mails disclosed by the House Natural Resources Committee this week show that a supposedly exculpatory report on the administration&apos;s doctored drilling moratorium analysis -- issued by the Department of Interior&apos;s Inspector...]]></description>
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					<author>Michelle Malkin</author>					
					<category>Michelle Malkin</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
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					<title>Jindal May Be the Answer to Romney&#039;s VP Question</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ People have always told Bobby Jindal to slow down.
The Louisiana governor has a tendency to speak faster than his audience is able to think, so when it came time to deliver the Republican response to President Obama&apos;s first address to a joint session of Congress in 2009, the most important speech of Jindal&apos;s political life, he made sure to take it slow.
What resulted was an oratorical disaster.
On live national television, Jindal spoke in a jarring, singsong pitch that replaced his natural rapid-fire monotone. Even longtime friends found it difficult to concentrate on what he was...]]></description>
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					<author>Scott Conroy</author>					
					<category>Scott Conroy</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
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