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							<title><![CDATA[Last Call to Greatness -- Before It's Too Late]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David M. Abshire</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Are America&rsquo;s greatest days behind us? Is the country still capable of producing, let alone rallying behind, the kind of transformational leaders that in the past called Americans to greatness? Given a political culture increasingly characterized by hyper-partisanship, gridlock and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[&quot;Men of Principle&quot; and the Lost Art of Compromise]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David M. Abshire</author>
							<description><![CDATA["I won't compromise on my principles!" -- it's the battle cry of the modern congressional candidate. It also reduces campaigns to fights over which principles will not be compromised and produces a Congress where there is agreement on just two things:
1. &ldquo;Even though voters...]]></description>
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