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							<title><![CDATA[Sorry, Illinois, But Florida Is Doing This Whole Reopening Thing Right&nbsp;]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dennis Byrne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I ordered the brisket and bacon burger slathered with BBQ sauce, cheese, onions and mayonnaise. Yum.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
A diet-buster, surely, weighing in at more than 1,000 calories. But I decided I deserved a break from the mandated coronavirus isolation here in Florida. So, my beautiful wife, Barb,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner Is Dead Meat]]></title>
							<link>http://www.chicagonow.com/dennis-byrnes-barbershop/2018/03/illinois-gov-bruce-rauner-is-dead-meat/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dennis Byrne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 30 years of writing op-ed columns for the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times, I'm hard pressed to recall making any political predictions. I prefer to leave it to the Chicago Tribune's Eric Zorn. But here comes an exception. Bruce Rauner has slit his throat, with his general...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Chicago, the City of Weak Shoulders and 'I Can't']]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/04/18/chicago_the_city_of_weak_shoulders_and_i_cant_133630.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dennis Byrne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO--Mayor Rahm Emanuel has done the unthinkable: He told graduates of the city'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s dismal public school system that he wants them to do something with their diploma. Or else they won'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t get a diploma. 
Something like: get a job, go to college, join the military or even sign...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Transgender Fight Requires Compromise on Privacy Rights]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/02/28/transgender_fight_is_about_shower-room_privacy_rights__133200.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dennis Byrne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump has reignited a battle that many liberals thought they had won: whether pre-teens and teens (children, really) are required to share bath, locker and shower rooms with their transgender peers.
Trump stepped into this quagmire when he rescinded an Obama administration...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Trump Fix the Carnage That Is Chicago?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/01/25/can_trump_fix_the_carnage_that_is_chicago_132893.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dennis Byrne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO -- When President Donald Trump warned this week on Twitter that he would move to fix Chicago'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'carnage'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' if the city doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t, he might not have realized that the feds already had arrived. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  
And thank God that they have, because the ineffective, bumbling and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Murderous Chicago: The City That Doesn't Work]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/murderous-chicago/article/2004363</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dennis Byrne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[ChicagoWhat have 85 years of uninterrupted Democratic rule and unremitting pro-gres-sive dogma gotten Chicago? Murderous gang wars with no armistice in sight.This is a Chicago specialty: The city has had more homicides this year than New York and Los Angeles combined. As crime rates...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Rahm Resign?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/will-rahm-resign/article/2000595</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dennis Byrne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rahm Emanuel still is Chicago'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??s mayor. So far, anyway. Not that any serious students of the Chicago Way expected Emanuel to resign, even in the face of accusations that he covered up the brutal shooting of a black youth by a white cop. He might not have survived last year's mayoral...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Gosnell Case: Could It Happen Again?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-oped-0423-byrne-20130423,0,4363217.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dennis Byrne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Seven infants were savagely murdered in Philadelphia by a serial killer, prosecutors say. But no one was there to weep for them, to grieve for the loss of what they might have been or to scream at the brutality.Those innocents were supposed to have been aborted, but when they were born...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why You're Feeling Broke]]></title>
							<link>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-oped-0226-byrne-20130226,0,4953043.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dennis Byrne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How glad I am that I'm too old to be starting a family.Today's young couples are facing impossible financial expectations and demands. I was reminded of that when a friend told me that her son's college education was costing $54,000 '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' a year.That's more than I spent some 20 years...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Outrageous Corporate Pork]]></title>
							<link>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-oped-0108-byrne-20130108,0,3314641.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dennis Byrne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here's the essence of the deal that the White House and Congress reached to pull America back from the fiscal cliff:Say your family has horrendous financial problems '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';' you're deep in debt, just paying the interest is killing you, but you keep borrowing more because you spend more than...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Getting to the Bottom of Benghazi]]></title>
							<link>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-oped-1120-byrne-20121120,0,6071743.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dennis Byrne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I hadn't planned to add to the cacophony generated by the terrorist raid at Benghazi that resulted in the deaths of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, U.S. Foreign Service information management officer Sean Smith and former Navy SEAL commandos Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty. After all, Obama...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Was Bob Woodward Right About Obama?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-oped-1009-byrne-20121009,0,4232146.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dennis Byrne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Watching liberals unravel after last week's presidential debate has been almost as entertaining as witnessing the thumping that Republican candidate Mitt Romney applied to the Democratic incumbent Barack Obama.Spinning into orbit, liberals have concocted every known excuse for the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Students Are the Collateral Damage]]></title>
							<link>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-oped-0910-byrne-20120911,0,6394835.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dennis Byrne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the Chicago Teachers Union strike ends before this column appears, the damage has been done and can't be repaired. To the union's reputation. And especially to the children, who have been taught the meaning of greed.So, let's begin.Chicago has been a union town for as long as any...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Illinois' Wacky Way of Redistricting]]></title>
							<link>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-oped-0315-byrne-20110314,0,3249102.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dennis Byrne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you thought that Illinois congressional and legislative redistricting was a mystery, take a closer look at what Gov. Pat Quinn and mostly Democratic lawmakers have conjured up.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The  recently signed and deceptively named Illinois Voting Rights Act of  2011 requires that redrawn...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is the Benefits Bubble Bursting?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-oped-0222-byrne-20110222,0,7841218.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dennis Byrne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The crowds mobbing the Wisconsin  Capitol in Madison are right: Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill is indeed an attack on organized government workers.And it's about time.Labor  compensation is the largest component of busted local, state and  federal budgets, and those costs are the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Worst is Yet to Come in Illinois]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/01/27/the_worst_is_yet_to_come_in_illinois_108683.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dennis Byrne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Illinois, the worst is yet to come.
All you state retirees: Do you really believe that your pension was in any way secured by those blow-off-the-roof income tax increases? All you hospitals and social services that are owed billions: Think that check will arrive soon?
Should we think...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Debtors' Prison for Illinois' Deadbeat Pols?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-oped-0111-byrne-20110111,0,4105660.story</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dennis Byrne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Too bad we don't have debtors' prisons anymore. They would be suitable lodgings for House Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, and the rest who are responsible for Illinois' financial demise.We could let Madigan, Gov. Pat Quinn, Senate President John Cullerton and others who are...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Congress Stand Up to Ethanol?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/12/02/can_congress_stand_up_to_ethanol_108121.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dennis Byrne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[December brings the biggest showdown with Illinois' and possibly the nation's most gluttonous corporate freeloader: the corn ethanol industry.
Symbolically, the upcoming battle of budget hawks against ethanol's special pleaders is as significant as the fight over continuing the Bush tax...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why It's Possible to Repeal the Health Law]]></title>
							<link>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/ct-oped-1005-byrne-20101005,0,3014554.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dennis Byrne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Can ObamaCare, the most complex, far-reaching and epically destructive legislation enacted in living memory be repealed?The thought is at once alluring or repulsive, reasonable or batty, depending on your politics. My politics say repeal is necessary and possible.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Poor Students are Stuck in Bad Schools]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/05/14/why_poor_students_are_stuck_in_bad_schools_105582.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dennis Byrne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Some Illinois House Republicans had an opportunity to give 30,000 poor, black children stuck in some of the worst, most overcrowded Chicago public schools a chance for a better education. But when it came to the moment of truth, they tossed the kids overboard.
Those same Republicans...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Stealth VAT Tax]]></title>
							<link>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-oped-0413-byrne-20100413,0,2134988.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dennis Byrne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Where will they strike next?Now that we've been flattened with the crushing weight of what Democrats imagine is health care reform, what additional burdens will follow? Some say it'll be "comprehensive" (there's that word again) immigration reform, providing a "path" for millions of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Taking a Hatchet to Moderate Government]]></title>
							<link>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/ct-oped-0330-byrne-20100330,0,3800986.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dennis Byrne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[54'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('°').';' FMarch 30, 2010Go ahead, attack promoters of moderate government. Paint them as flakes, kooks and goons. Call them unhinged and unglued. Toxic, mean-spirited, shrill and dangerous.Nothing would please us more than your persisting in mislabeling or misunderstanding '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will the Supreme Court Slay ObamaCare?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-oped-0323-byrne-20100323,0,2003916.story</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dennis Byrne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The question with the passage Sunday of Democratic health legislation now becomes: Who will arrive first to slay this monster, the voters in November or the U.S. Supreme Court?Beyond its many policy flaws, the legislation raises some serious constitutional problems that could send the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Beware the Climate Change Alarmists]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/11/13/beware_the_climate_change_alarmists_99090.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dennis Byrne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the next few weeks we'll be relentlessly scrubbed with eyewash, brainwash and hogwash, all designed to cleanse us of any doubts that global warming is a proven menace to mother Earth.
First, there's the Democratic global warming legislation rushing through Congress with a denouement...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gov't Shouldn't Control Health Decisions]]></title>
							<link>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-oped0908byrnesep08,0,4122059.story</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dennis Byrne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While the hawker in chief chilled on Martha's Vineyard, we enjoyed a week of peace and quiet, but now President Barack Obama has accelerated back to full voice as he speaks to America's schoolchildren Tuesday and to a joint session of Congress Wednesday.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Facing Up to Reality]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/07/29/facing_up_to_reality_97679.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dennis Byrne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama's effort to sell Americans on his economic policies isn't working because his own campaign strategy has returned to haunt him. That strategy was designed to cajole voters into believing that former President George W. Bush wasn't blowing away the recession fast...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Keep Yucca Mountain Project Alive]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/05/14/keep_yucca_mountain_project_alive_96479.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dennis Byrne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While President Barack Obama's newly proposed budget would finally allow Nevada to rid itself of a nuclear waste dump planned to be buried in tunnels deep under  Yucca Mountain, it would leave Illinois with the shaft.
Obama's decision to zero out the Nevada nuclear waste repository is a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Government, UAW Take Over the Auto Industry]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/04/29/gm_chrysler_96244.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dennis Byrne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the future of the domestic auto industry becomes clearer Tuesday, it appears that an unprecedented government and organized labor partnership would end up running the companies, and if that doesn't give you pause, nothing will.
Under proposed and tentative agreements, the government...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ta-dah! Softhearted Interrogation Skills]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/04/29/ta-dah_softhearted_interrogation_skills_96233.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dennis Byrne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While reading those controversial, recently declassified memos that provide the Bush  administration's legal justification for "torturing" terrorist detainees, I wondered why they had left out one called "On the Rocks."
My high school Spanish teacher imposed that particular type of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Obama Reaching Too Far Too Quickly?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/02/is_obama_reaching_too_far_too.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dennis Byrne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In just a month, President Barack Obama has saved the banking, financial services and housing industries, changed the way that Washington does business, bailed out the auto industry, settled the Republican hash and saved the economy with the largest spending bill ever passed. In record...]]></description>
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