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					<title>Little Enthusiasm for Romney at CPAC</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Skim through the crowds that have descended upon the nation&apos;s capital for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference this week and you&apos;d be hard-pressed to find support, never mind excitement, for Mitt Romney.
Many of the participants at the Marriot Wardman Park Hotel wore &quot;Rick Santorum for President&quot; or &quot;Newt 2012&quot; stickers on their lapels Thursday. Some lamented Ron Paul&apos;s absence from CPAC this year -- he&apos;s the only presidential contender not speaking at the conference, having decided to campaign in Maine instead.
But when asked about...]]></description>
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					<author>Caitlin Huey-Burns</author>					
					<category>Caitlin Huey-Burns</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/10/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Romney&#039;s Overriding Ambition</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- Criticism of Mitt Romney for lacking a coherent message is grossly unfair. He has been forthright, consistent and even eloquent in pressing home his campaign&apos;s central theme: Mitt Romney&amp;nbsp;desperately wants to be president.
Everything else seems mushy or negotiable. Romney is passionate about the need, as he sees it, to defeat President Obama -- but vague or self-contradictory as to why. The lyrics of &quot;America the Beautiful,&quot; which Romney has recited as part of his standard campaign speech, don&apos;t solve the mystery; Obama, too, is on record as...]]></description>
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					<author>Eugene Robinson</author>					
					<category>Eugene Robinson</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/10/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Obama&#039;s Trampling on God&#039;s Turf Now</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Yes, Virginia, there is a religious war going on. It is for the soul of America. And traditional Christianity is besieged.
In a January visit to the Vatican, American bishops were warned by Benedict XVI that &quot;radical secularism&quot; posed &quot;grave threats&quot; to their Catholic faith. Your religious freedom is being circumscribed, said the pope. The U.S. government may seek to force you to collaborate in what are &quot;intrinsically evil practices.&quot;
No sooner had the bishops returned home than President Obama instructed them that, under Obamacare, all Catholic schools,...]]></description>
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					<author>Pat Buchanan</author>					
					<category>Pat Buchanan</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/10/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>The Catholic Tribe Closes Ranks Against Obama&#039;s Intrusion</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ President Obama&apos;s attack on Catholic organizations has managed to do what the bishops have been unable to do, as Peggy Noonan points out: Unite the Catholic right and the Catholic left.
Obama&apos;s decision to use Obamacare to force Catholic hospitals, schools, universities and charities to fund abortion pills, contraception and sterilization constitutes a deep betrayal of his staunch allies on the Catholic left.
They went out on a limb for Obama and Obamacare, and he has cut off that limb and left them bereft.
Professor Doug Km iec supported Obama and even wrote a book to justify how a...]]></description>
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					<author>Maggie Gallagher</author>					
					<category>Maggie Gallagher</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/10/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Family Values Without the Wink</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Every campaign has a storyline, a theme -- one written by the candidate&apos;s spinners, another by the opposition&apos;s trimmers and one, usually the accurate one, hidden in plain sight. Mitt Romney&apos;s pushing the storyline of his successful business experience. But his strength against Newt Gingrich, still his chief rival despite Rick Santorum&apos;s burst of speed in this week&apos;s caucuses of beauty contests, is the authenticity of family values.
Callista Gingrich, pale and pretty in &apos;50s retro, has been compared to Pat Nixon in a plastic, Stepford-wife stance next to her man,...]]></description>
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					<author>Suzanne Fields</author>					
					<category>Suzanne Fields</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/10/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Do You Speak Conservative?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Newt Gingrich knows the lingo. He makes conservative audiences roar with approval when he compares the efficiency of FedEx and MasterCard to the post office and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He never loses an opportunity to attack the press for its moral preening. Conservatives adore this table turning. Nothing makes them angrier than to be derided as heartless by people who define virtue by their willingness to give away other people&apos;s money.
Rick Perry quickly lost his own conservative luster when he used the word &quot;heartless&quot; about his Republican rivals.
Want to see...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/10/do_you_speak_conservative_113079.html</link>
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					<author>Mona Charen</author>					
					<category>Mona Charen</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/10/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Freedom From Religion</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- &quot;We don&apos;t need you, so shut up!&quot; That&apos;s the message the Obama administration has sent loud and clear to America&apos;s Roman Catholics. And it&apos;s a message now being sent to U.S. military chaplains -- to the detriment of our armed forces.
During World War II, the War Department and the Department of the Navy urged -- the operative word is &quot;urged,&quot; not &quot;ordered,&quot; mind you -- U.S. military chaplains to encourage soldiers, sailors, airmen, guardsmen and Marines that God was on our side in the global battle against fascists, Nazis and the...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/10/freedom_from_religion_113077.html</link>
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					<author>Oliver North</author>					
					<category>Oliver North</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/10/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Sarah Palin Set to Re-emerge at CPAC</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ At last year&apos;s CPAC gathering, the mere sight of a Sarah Palin impersonator was enough to throw some attendees into a star-struck frenzy.
Such was Palin&apos;s clout among conservative activists in February 2011, just a few months after she played a critical role in the 2010 midterms and when she was stoking speculation about her own presidential ambitions.
This year, CPAC attendees won&amp;rsquo;t have to settle on a doppelganger, as the former Alaska governor is slated to deliver the event&amp;rsquo;s keynote address on Saturday.
But, with the Michigan and Arizona primaries looming at...]]></description>
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					<author>Scott Conroy</author>					
					<category>Scott Conroy</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/10/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Playing the Anti-American Card</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- Recent provocations by Egypt are both serious and mysterious. In December, its government conducted a series of armed raids on respected human rights and democracy organizations. Egyptian courts are pursuing transparently fraudulent prosecutions against several dozen employees of those groups, including 19 Americans. Six American citizens are being kept in Egypt against their will. One is Sam LaHood, the son of the secretary of transportation.
All these actions seem designed to offend. But who in Egypt is capable of doing the designing? With Hosni Mubarak gone, the government is...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/10/playing_the_anti-american_card_113078.html</link>
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					<author>Michael Gerson</author>					
					<category>Michael Gerson</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/10/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>&quot;To Stop the Multiplication of the Unfit&quot;</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ If you aren&apos;t creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren&apos;t listening closely enough. The anesthetic of progressive benevolence always dulls the senses. Wake up.
When a bunch of wealthy white women and elite Washington bureaucrats defend the trampling of religious liberties in the name of &quot;increased access&quot; to &quot;reproductive services&quot; for &quot;poor&quot; women, the ghost of Margaret Sanger is cackling.
As she wrote in her autobiography, Sanger founded Planned Parenthood in 1916 &quot;to stop the...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/10/to_stop_the_multiplication_of_the_unfit_113083.html</link>
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					<author>Michelle Malkin</author>					
					<category>Michelle Malkin</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/10/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Obama Has Picked the Wrong Fight</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ The firestorm over the Obama Administration requiring religiously affiliated institutions to provide employees with health benefits that cover birth control rages on, as Catholic leaders mobilize the faithful and pundits warn that this may cost Obama the Catholic vote. The battle has been framed as one of religious freedom versus reproductive rights. But it also illustrates two troubling phenomena unrelated to religion: intrusive micromanagement of insurance options under the new federal health care law, and the redefinition of contraception as a public good rather than a personal choice.
The...]]></description>
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					<author>Cathy Young</author>					
					<category>Cathy Young</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/09/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Path to a Brokered GOP Convention Emerges</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ For many conservative Republicans, the dream outcome of the primary season is a brokered convention. Disappointed in the four remaining choices, they hope to change horses in August, and draft their preferred candidate, be it Jeb Bush, Mitch Daniels, Chris Christie, or Paul Ryan.
I&apos;ve been adamant that such an outcome is extremely unlikely. For a brokered convention to occur, there has to be an almost perfect storm of events; the GOP elites can&amp;rsquo;t just declare shenanigans on the primary season and select a new nominee. Instead, something has to prevent any of the current...]]></description>
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					<author>Sean Trende</author>					
					<category>Sean Trende</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/09/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>The Anti-Romney Vote</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ A funny thing happened to Mitt Romney on the way to his coronation as the inevitable Republican candidate for President of the United States. Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado happened. Rick Santorum beat him in all three states on the same day -- and beat him by huge margins in two of those states, as well as upsetting him in Colorado, where the Mormon vote was expected to give Romney a victory.
The Republican establishment, which has lined up heavily behind Romney, has tried to depict him as the &quot;electable,&quot; if not invincible, candidate in the general election this November. But it...]]></description>
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					<author>Thomas Sowell</author>					
					<category>Thomas Sowell</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/09/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>The Chaos in Cairo</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- What kind of democratic revolution in Egypt is it that brings charges against 19 American NGO workers who have been advocating democracy? The answer is that it&apos;s a confused revolution, looking for people to blame for its troubles. The U.S. should stifle its anger for now -- and avoid a hasty cutoff of aid that would make a bad situation worse.
The Egyptian revolution, a year on, is struggling to establish a government amid chaos. The spontaneous, leaderless uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak has given way, all too predictably, to a disorderly muddle in which...]]></description>
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					<author>David Ignatius</author>					
					<category>David Ignatius</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/09/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>GOP Must Convince Young People It&#039;s the Party of Options</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ The Republican presidential candidates, except for Ron Paul, haven&apos;t been paying much attention to young voters in the primaries and caucuses so far. But any Republican nominee -- which is to say probably Mitt Romney, or maybe Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum -- had better be paying attention to them in the summer and fall.
The reason three of the four Republicans haven&apos;t paid much attention to young voters is that the under-30 folks have been turning out in the Republican contests in miniscule numbers.
According to entrance and exit polls, voters under 30 accounted for 15 percent of...]]></description>
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					<author>Michael Barone</author>					
					<category>Michael Barone</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/09/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Big Brother Is &#039;Sharing&#039;</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ My, how you&apos;ve changed, Big Brother. What happened to the sourpuss in &quot;1984,&quot; George Orwell&apos;s grim novel about a thought-controlled future? Gone are the piercing eyes and the perennial threat: &quot;Big Brother is Watching.&quot;
You&apos;ve had quite the fashion update. I like how you dress in T-shirts and sweats, just like the proles. I like your boyish grin. No longer a tyrant without a name, you&apos;re now Facebook&apos;s founder and supreme leader, Mark Zuckerberg.
The old Big Brother sought to conquer and oppress. You exude benevolence as you explain in perfect...]]></description>
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					<author>Froma Harrop</author>					
					<category>Froma Harrop</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/09/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Appease This!</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ On April 1, 2001, a U.S. spy plane and a Chinese fighter collided over the South China Sea, forcing the Americans to make an emergency landing on Chinese soil. But the Chinese government said it would not release the crew until it got an apology.
The Bush administration tried to find other ways to satisfy the Chinese. Secretary of State Colin Powell expressed regret. Then the president did the same. No result.
Vice President Dick Cheney said the U.S. would not apologize. He was wrong. In the end, the administration got the crew back only after sending the Chinese a letter saying it was...]]></description>
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					<author>Steve Chapman</author>					
					<category>Steve Chapman</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/09/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Iran 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ On the campaign trail, presidential candidate Barack Obama once called for a &quot;reset&quot; policy with Iran. Supposedly, the unpopularity of the Texan provocateur George W. Bush and his administration&apos;s inability to finesse &quot;soft power&quot; had needlessly alienated the Iranian theocracy.
After all, the widely quoted but highly politicized 2007 National Intelligence Estimate claimed that Iran had ceased work on a bomb in 2003 and would not have a weapon for the foreseeable future. That flawed analysis fueled another popular talking point: that the Bush-Cheney warmongers were...]]></description>
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					<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>					
					<category>Victor Davis Hanson</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/09/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Clint, Rick and the Limits of Pessimism</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- What do Rick Santorum and Clint Eastwood have in common?
Sorry Rick, you haven&apos;t made it yet as an Eastwood-style make-my-day cultural icon. But in different ways, Santorum and Eastwood have demonstrated the limits of both an entirely negative slant on politics and a pessimistic take on America&apos;s future.
Santorum&apos;s Tuesday sweep of Republican presidential contests in Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado was a sharp rebuke to Mitt Romney, the on-again, off-again &quot;inevitable&quot; GOP nominee who has built his campaign almost entirely on attacks. His primary target...]]></description>
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					<author>E.J. Dionne</author>					
					<category>E.J. Dionne</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/09/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Aren&#039;t Republicans Supposed to Be Colorblind?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ &quot;Which of our Hispanic leaders would you consider to serve in your Cabinet?&quot; A woman attending the last Republican debate in Florida asked this of the four Republican rivals.
Oh, for crying out loud! Ethnic-based Cabinet appointees? Do we still need to go out and &quot;seek&quot; people of a certain color or religion to show &quot;fairness and inclusion&quot;? What about considering the best people possible -- isn&apos;t that the only appropriate answer to that question?
But Republicans go all Democrat, all too often, in front of black and brown audiences. They say things to show...]]></description>
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					<author>Larry Elder</author>					
					<category>Larry Elder</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/09/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Interview with Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ BLITZER: Meanwhile, the Newt Gingrich campaign certainly has lost its momentum, but the candidate himself has some ideas on how he can push forward to victory. My interview with Newt Gingrich is next.
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BLITZER: Rick Santorum&apos;s sweep in the Republican contest was a big setback for Mitt Romney, but the big loser may actually have been Newt Gingrich. He finished third in Colorado, finished fourth in Minnesota, wasn&apos;t even on the ballot in Missouri.
But a new ARG poll taken before those results shows Gingrich leading the GOP field in Oklahoma, less than a month before...]]></description>
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					<author>The Situation Room</author>					
					<category>The Situation Room</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/08/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Interviews with John McCain and Michele Bachmann</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ KING: As we reported a few moments ago, CNN has learned the Pentagon is compiling contingency plans for humanitarian assistance and possible, possible military options.
But the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations tells CNN in her words the aim is to resolve this through peaceful means.
Is there more the White House could and should do?
Arizona Senator John McCain is the ranking Republican on the Armed Services Committee.
Senator, should the Obama White House, should the administration be doing more on a unilateral basis?
MCCAIN: I think we can do a lot more on a multinational basis,...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/08/interviews_with_john_mccain_and_michele_bachmann_113073.html</link>
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					<author>John King, USA</author>					
					<category>John King, USA</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/08/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>White House Lays Low as Birth Control Dispute Heats Up</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ If the White House had been searching for an issue that could draw sharper contrasts with Republicans over women&apos;s health, economic opportunities and freedom, a skirmish with Catholic bishops and others over a requirement that health insurance cover contraception costs might just do it.
For yet another day, the White House hung back while the discussion in Washington took on distinctly partisan and gender-rich overtones.
House Speaker John Boehner on Wednesday vowed to legislatively block the Obama administration rule finalized by the Department of Health and Human Services in January....]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/08/white_house_lays_low_as_birth_control_dispute_heats_up_113072.html</link>
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					<author>Alexis Simendinger</author>					
					<category>Alexis Simendinger</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/08/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Obama Leads Republican Rivals in Virginia</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ President Obama is seeing signs of life for his re-election campaign in the critical battleground state of Virginia, where a new poll shows him leading all of the Republican presidential candidates.
Obama made history in 2008 by becoming the first Democrat since Lyndon Johnson to win the Old Dominion. But his candidacy there has been lagging this time around: Plagued by poor job performance grades, he trailed Republican front-runner Mitt Romney in several polls late last year.
However, a Quinnipiac University survey released Wednesday shows the president leading the former Massachusetts...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/08/obama_leads_republican_rivals_in_virginia.html</link>
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					<author>Caitlin Huey-Burns</author>					
					<category>Caitlin Huey-Burns</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/08/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Santorum Wins Colorado, Minnesota, Missouri</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON (AP) -- A resurgent Rick Santorum won Minnesota&apos;s Republican presidential caucuses with ease Tuesday night and was declared the victor in Colorado as well, a stunning sweep that raised fresh questions about front-runner Mitt Romney&apos;s appeal among the ardent conservatives at the core of the party&apos;s political base.&amp;nbsp;
Santorum triumphed, as well, in a nonbinding Missouri primary that was worth bragging rights but no delegates.
&quot;Conservatism is alive and well in Missouri and Minnesota,&quot; the jubilant former Pennsylvania senator told cheering supporters...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/08/jubilant_santorum_wins_minnesota_missouri_113058.html</link>
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					<author>David Espo and Philip Elliott</author>					
					<category>David Espo and Philip Elliott</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/08/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Government Can&#039;t Make Us Happy</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson called the pursuit of happiness an unalienable right. This was a radical idea. For most of history, most people didn&apos;t think much about pursuing happiness. They were too busy just trying to survive.
Then came the liberal revolution based on the idea of individual freedom. Only then did they start thinking that happiness might be possible on earth.
Unfortunately, somewhere along the way, the right to pursue happiness has been perverted into a government-backed entitlement to happiness.
British Prime Minister David Cameron says,...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/08/government_cant_make_us_happy_113052.html</link>
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					<author>John Stossel</author>					
					<category>John Stossel</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/08/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Super PAC-Men: Obama Bundlers Gone Wild!</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ The White House didn&apos;t blow a dog whistle for deep-pocketed liberal donors on Monday. No, the administration whipped out a supersized vuvuzela. Blaring message: Let loose the campaign finance-bundling hounds of super PAC war!
President Obama&apos;s campaign manager, Jim Messina, who served as White House deputy chief of staff for operations before assuming 2012 re-election duties, announced the super PAC super-flip-flop in a mass e-mail to supporters and a blog post published on the left-wing Huffington Post website. In a related conference call to major campaign finance bundlers,...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/08/super_pac-men_obama_bundlers_gone_wild_113053.html</link>
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					<author>Michelle Malkin</author>					
					<category>Michelle Malkin</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/08/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Syria: World War I Continues</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ In a Feb. 1 Wall Street Journal essay, the always eloquent and astute Fouad Ajami characterized Syria&apos;s bitter and bloody struggle as the Cold War&apos;s last battle.
Ajami&apos;s Cold War frame is very instructive -- to a point. The ongoing diplomatic defense of Syria&apos;s Assad dictatorship by Russia&apos;s Vladimir Putin, with the semi-fraternal support of (still communist) China, has definite Cold War echoes. Syria was a Soviet client state; deep ties remain between Putin&apos;s Moscow and Bashir Assad&apos;s Damascus.
Ajami noted other Cold War elements threading the Syrian...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/08/syria_world_war_i_continues_113054.html</link>
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					<author>Austin Bay</author>					
					<category>Austin Bay</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/08/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
                              <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:28:50 -0600</pubDate></item>
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					<title>Foreign Policy Team Preps Romney for World Stage</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ On paper at least, Mitt Romney has a long way to go before he can even think about sealing the Republican nomination.
But with several world trouble spots flaring up in recent weeks, Romney&apos;s foreign policy team is operating at a general election-like level in both size and scope. This robust group of advisers is busy preparing a former governor with limited experience in foreign affairs to be ready take over as commander-in-chief in less than a year.
Though world events continue to receive relatively short shrift on the trail, Romney has a deeply experienced team working on his behalf....]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/08/foreign_policy_team_preps_romney_for_world_stage_113055.html</link>
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					<author>Scott Conroy</author>					
					<category>Scott Conroy</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/08/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Shaky Grounds for Prop. 8 Ruling</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Two of three judges on a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Tuesday found Proposition 8 unconstitutional. Judge Stephen Reinhardt stipulated that the ruling skirted the larger issue of whether same-sex couples have a right to marry. That&apos;s a shame, because at least an equal-right-to-marry claim makes for a clean argument.
Reinhardt praised himself for overturning Prop. 8 on &quot;the narrowest ground.&quot; It is also on the shakiest ground. The narrow ruling is based on the fiction that Prop. 8 eliminated a right without a legitimate reason. Prop. 8 was born of &quot;animosity...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/08/shaky_grounds_for_prop_8_ruling_113056.html</link>
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					<author>Debra Saunders</author>					
					<category>Debra Saunders</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/08/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Obama&#039;s Halftime Hypocrisy</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ On Super Bowl Sunday, America was treated to the most expensive political commercial in history -- brought to you by Chrysler -- called &quot;It&apos;s Halftime in America.&quot;
In a series of vapid non sequiturs, Clint Eastwood&apos;s gravelly voice pinned the promise of a city -- no, a nation -- to government dependency, claiming that &quot;the people of Detroit&quot; lost almost everything but because &quot;we&quot; pulled together and the &quot;Motor City is fighting again&quot; -- punching, roaring, imbued with American grit -- we survived.
Or, some might argue, after screwing...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/08/obamas_halftime_hypocrisy_113057.html</link>
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					<author>David Harsanyi</author>					
					<category>David Harsanyi</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/08/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Obama&#039;s Remarks at the White House Science Fair</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ 11:53 A.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you so much. Thank you, everybody. Everybody have a seat.
Well, welcome to the White House Science Fair. (Applause.) It is -- I just spent some time checking out some of the projects that were brought here today, and I&amp;rsquo;ve got to say, this is fun. It&amp;rsquo;s not every day that you have robots running all over your house. (Laughter.) I am trying to figure out how you got through the metal detectors. I also shot a marshmallow through a air gun, which was very exciting. (Laughter.)
Science is what got several of our guests...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/07/obamas_remarks_at_the_white_house_science_fair.html</link>
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					<author>Barack Obama</author>					
					<category>Barack Obama</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/07/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Interview with Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ BLITZER: We&apos;re only eight minutes away. You can see from the top of the hour, that&apos;s when the caucuses will start. We got three battleground states competing tonight. We&apos;re going to -- we have cameras, caucus cameras in some of these caucuses. We&apos;re going to show you democracy in action on this important night.
But right now, joining us is Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House. Mr. Speaker, thanks very much for coming in.
Correct me if I am wrong, you have basically given up on these three important battleground states, is that...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/07/interview_with_presidential_candidate_newt_gingrich_113061.html</link>
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					<author>CNN</author>					
					<category>CNN</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/07/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Rick Santorum&#039;s Victory Speech</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ St. Charles, Missouri
RICK SANTORUM (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Wow! Conservatism is alive and well in Missouri and Minnesota. Thank you all so very, very much. It is great to be here. I just can&apos;t thank the people of Missouri. We doubled them up here and in Minnesota.
I want to also thank, I have to always thank -- first off, let me just thank God for giving us the grace to be able to persevere through the dog days, and blessing us and blessing our family.
My wife Karen here, what a rock. I mean, what a rock through the last few weeks. We have had -- we have had more drama than any...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/07/rick_santorums_victory_speech_113060.html</link>
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					<author>Rick Santorum</author>					
					<category>Rick Santorum</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/07/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>In Reversal, Obama Embraces Super PAC</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ President Obama wants to bring more knives to a knife fight, judging from the announcement Tuesday that White House and administration officials will join senior campaign aides to support super PACs working for Obama&apos;s re-election.
In a policy turnabout, the president is now encouraging his surrogates from the White House and the campaign to actively back the independent political action committees. This comes despite Obama&apos;s oft-stated condemnation of the &quot;corrosive effects&quot; on American politics of unlimited money from businesses, unions and other special interests. The...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/07/in_reversal_obama_reluctantly_embraces_super_pac_113051.html</link>
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					<author>Alexis Simendinger</author>					
					<category>Alexis Simendinger</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/07/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Bob Kerrey Won&#039;t Run for Senate in Nebraska</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Democrat Bob Kerrey opted Tuesday not to run for Nebraska&apos;s open Senate seat, virtually clearing the way for a Republican win in the Cornhusker State.
Kerrey, a former senator, governor and one-time presidential candidate, was considered the Democrats&apos; last best chance to keep the seat being vacated by Ben Nelson.
But his no-go decision isn&apos;t all that surprising: Even with his past record and national profile, it was clear he would be a long shot in a state that has been trending redder since Kerrey&apos;s days in office. Even Nelson, considered among the most moderate of...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/07/bob_kerrey_wont_run_for_senate_in_nebraska.html</link>
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					<author>Caitlin Huey-Burns</author>					
					<category>Caitlin Huey-Burns</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/07/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Poll: Romney Leads in Colorado, Santorum Up in Minnesota</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ A new poll shows Mitt Romney with a double-digit lead over his GOP rivals in Colorado while Rick Santorum leads in Minnesota as those states&apos; voters prepare to caucus on Tuesday.
The Public Policy Polling (D) survey shows the former Massachusetts governor leading with 37 percent in Colorado. Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, comes in second with 27 percent; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has 21 percent; and Texas Rep. Ron Paul has 13 percent.
In Minnesota, however, Santorum leads with 33 percent support. Romney is in second with 24 percent, just two points ahead of Gingrich....]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/07/poll_romney_leads_in_colorado_santorum_up_in_minnesota_113048.html</link>
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					<author>Kyle Adams</author>					
					<category>Kyle Adams</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/07/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Romney Support Falls Back in States He Won</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Under the original election calendar, the Romney campaign foresaw victories in New Hampshire and Nevada as a firewall protecting the candidate&apos;s path to the GOP nomination: Post big wins in both states, use the momentum to get a major win in Florida, and then lock up the whole thing. Nevada ended up moving its nominating contest back to follow the Sunshine State&amp;rsquo;s, but Romney still posted double-digit victories in all three contests.
And so everything&apos;s gone according to plan.
There&amp;rsquo;s just one problem: After waging warfare on his GOP competitors in each of those...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/07/romney_support_falls_back_in_states_he_won_113047.html</link>
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					<author>Erin McPike</author>					
					<category>Erin McPike</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/07/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>A Defining Moment</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Governor Mitt Romney&apos;s statement about not worrying about the poor has been treated as a gaffe in much of the media, and those in the Republican establishment who have been rushing toward endorsing his coronation as the GOP&apos;s nominee for president -- with 90 percent of the delegates still not yet chosen -- have been trying to sweep his statement under the rug.
But Romney&apos;s statement about not worrying about the poor -- because they &quot;have a very ample safety net&quot; -- was followed by a statement that was not just a slip of the tongue, and should be a defining moment in...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/07/a_defining_moment_113044.html</link>
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					<author>Thomas Sowell</author>					
					<category>Thomas Sowell</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/07/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>The Uninspired GOP Electorate</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- OK, now it&apos;s settled, right? I mean, it must be settled by now. Mitt Romney is going to be the nominee. Eat your peas, Republicans, and then fall in line, because Romney&apos;s the guy. Right?
Probably.
Even at this point, after Romney trounced Newt Gingrich in the Florida primary and the Nevada caucuses, there are some fairly compelling reasons for Republicans to pause before bowing to the party establishment&apos;s decision that Mitt must be It.
First is the fact that so many GOP voters still can&apos;t summon much enthusiasm for their likely standard-bearer. In a poll...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/07/the_uninspired_gop_electorate__113041.html</link>
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					<author>Eugene Robinson</author>					
					<category>Eugene Robinson</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/07/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Romney Told Catholic Hospitals to Administer Abortion Pills</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ A defining moment in Mitt Romney&apos;s post-pro-life-conversion political career came in his third year as governor of Massachusetts, when he decided Catholic hospitals would be required under his interpretation of a new state law to give rape victims a drug that can induce abortions.
Romney announced this decision &amp;mdash; saying it was the &quot;right thing for hospitals&quot; to do &amp;mdash; just two days after he had taken the opposite position.
The story begins in 1975, when Massachusetts enacted a law that said, &quot;No privately controlled hospital .. shall be required to permit...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/07/romney_told_catholic_hospitals_to_administer_abortion_pills_113046.html</link>
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					<author>Terence Jeffrey</author>					
					<category>Terence Jeffrey</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/07/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Red Lines in the Sand</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ There are three red lines when it comes to Iran&apos;s nuclear program. The first is the moment when Iran tunnels so deeply underground that Israeli bombs will be incapable of doing real damage. The second is when the tunneling goes even deeper and the United States&apos; &quot;bunker buster&quot; bombs will be insufficient. And the third, well, that has already passed. It is the conviction that the current Iranian regime will never let Israel live in peace.
That third red line is of utmost importance. It explains why Israel is more likely than not to strike Iran, even if it triggers a...]]></description>
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					<author>Richard Cohen</author>					
					<category>Richard Cohen</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/07/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Removing Planned Parenthood&#039;s Fig Leaf</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Planned Parenthood would appear to have won this latest skirmish in the abortion wars. The Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation having first decided to withdraw future grants to the world&apos;s largest abortion provider, quickly retreated under a barrage of accusations, complaints and threats.
No fewer than 26 Democratic senators signed a letter to Komen saying, in part that, &quot;It would be tragic if any woman --let alone thousands of women -- lost access to these potentially life-saving screenings because of a politically motivated attack. We earnestly hope that you will put...]]></description>
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					<author>Mona Charen</author>					
					<category>Mona Charen</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/07/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>What Komen Affair Means for November</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ The blowup at Susan G. Komen for the Cure set off a political alarm that Republicans dare not ignore. The leading breast cancer group, Komen tried playing Republican-base politics by cutting its funding to Planned Parenthood for breast-health services. The sisterhood and its allies exploded, and Komen reversed course with abject apologies.
&quot;I have to believe that the Republican Party is noticing what just happened in a matter of 24 hours,&quot; Kellie Ferguson told me. Ferguson is executive director of a group called the Republican Majority for Choice. &quot;Our members were...]]></description>
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					<author>Froma Harrop</author>					
					<category>Froma Harrop</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/07/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Who Wants War With Iran?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Appearing alongside CIA Director David Petraeus before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week, James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, said of Iran:
&quot;We don&apos;t believe they&apos;ve actually made the decision to go ahead with a nuclear weapon.&quot;
Before the hearing, as James Fallows of The Atlantic reports, Clapper released his &quot;Worldwide Threat Assessment.&quot; It read, &quot;We do not know ... if Iran will eventually decide to build nuclear weapons.&quot;
Clapper thus reaffirmed the assessment of 16 U.S. intelligence agencies in 2007, reportedly...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/07/who_wants_war_with_iran_113039.html</link>
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					<author>Pat Buchanan</author>					
					<category>Pat Buchanan</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/07/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
                              <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:59:15 -0600</pubDate></item>
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					<title>Obama&#039;s Assault on the Poor</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- Some issues fade; others fester. The Obama administration&apos;s contraceptive mandate on religious charities, hospitals and universities is the festering kind.
The initial reaction concerned the rights of institutions. Catholic organizations naturally resent being forced to buy health insurance that covers sterilization, contraceptives and drugs that can end a pregnancy soon after conception. The Obama administration seems to have calculated that since contraceptives are popular and the Catholic Church is not, the outcry would be isolated.
But religious liberty is also popular,...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/07/obamas_assault_on_the_poor_113038.html</link>
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					<author>Michael Gerson</author>					
					<category>Michael Gerson</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/07/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
                              <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:36:43 -0600</pubDate></item>
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					<title>Gingrich Should Have Kept It In Vegas</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Losing candidates usually congratulate the winner -- first by telephone and then in front of their supporters. Not Newt Gingrich. When he loses, Gingrich doesn&apos;t even bother to pretend to be a good sport.
Already, insiders are calling Newt&apos;s Saturday Las Vegas news conference the modern equivalent of Richard Nixon&apos;s pronouncement &quot;You won&apos;t have Nixon to kick around anymore.&quot;
Saturday night, after placing a distant second place in the GOP Nevada caucuses, Gingrich dispensed with the customary concession speech and instead held a news conference. The former...]]></description>
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					<author>Debra Saunders</author>					
					<category>Debra Saunders</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/07/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
                              <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:55:26 -0600</pubDate></item>
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					<title>Interview with Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ KING: Rick Santorum won the first contest of the 2012 presidential sweepstakes, but he&apos;s fared poorly in the four states since Iowa, insisting, though, all along, he would get a chance to prove he, not Newt Gingrich, is the better conservative alternative to Mitt Romney.
Well, tomorrow night might be his last best chance. Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado are voting. And while no delegates are immediately at stake, all three states offer Senator Santorum an opportunity to prove his argument.
Senator Santorum with us live tonight from Golden in Colorado. And let&apos;s just get straight to...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/06/interview_with_presidential_candidate_rick_santorum_113050.html</link>
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					<author>John King, USA</author>					
					<category>John King, USA</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/06/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
                              <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:04:49 -0600</pubDate></item>
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					<title>Obama Leads Romney in National Poll</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ President Obama has moved into the lead over Republican front-runner Mitt Romney, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll released Monday morning.
The poll shows Obama leading Romney, 51 percent to 45 percent, among registered voters. The fierce GOP primary race as well as recent gaffes appear to have taken a toll on Romney&apos;s numbers.&amp;nbsp;Last month, the former Massachusetts governor led the president, 48 percent to 46 percent. Now, 53 percent of adults surveyed say Obama better understands the economic problems facing Americans while only 36 percents ay the same of Romney....]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/06/obama_leads_romney_in_national_poll.html</link>
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					<author>Caitlin Huey-Burns</author>					
					<category>Caitlin Huey-Burns</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/06/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>A Demographic Divide: Could Evangelicals Block Romney?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Jay Cost wrote an important piece last week regarding the divide within the Republican Party that has emerged during the primary process. He observed that conservative voters in northern states like Iowa and New Hampshire are much more sympathetic toward Mitt Romney&apos;s candidacy than those in the South, and concluded that &quot;a geographical split among conservatives and Tea Partiers&quot; was emerging in the GOP primary. He concluded, &amp;ldquo;This is geography, not ideology.&amp;rdquo;
I think Cost is right that the split is about something other than ideology. Romney&amp;rsquo;s...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/06/a_demographic_divide_could_evangelicals__block_romney_113031.html</link>
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					<author>Sean Trende</author>					
					<category>Sean Trende</category>
					<pubdate>2012/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/06/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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