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		<title>CNN&#8217;s Rick Sanchez</title>
		<link>http://practicalpolitik.wordpress.com/2010/10/02/cnns-rick-sanchez/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 14:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rick Sanchez was fired this week after launching into a tirade that labeled Jon Stewart and &#8220;elite, Northeastern establishment liberals&#8221; as &#8220;bigots.&#8221;  Rick believes because he is Cuban-American and was raised in Miami that he is treated like a &#8220;second-tier&#8221; &#8230; <a href="http://practicalpolitik.wordpress.com/2010/10/02/cnns-rick-sanchez/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=practicalpolitik.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614020&amp;post=1019&amp;subd=practicalpolitik&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Koran Burning</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[burning]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mockery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Muslims everywhere are up in arms about this Koran burning Pastor Jones of Florida is organizing for tomorrow. Let us strike a deal with them:  We won&#8217;t burn their Koran when they don&#8217;t burn the Bible or the American flag. &#8230; <a href="http://practicalpolitik.wordpress.com/2010/09/10/koran-burning/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=practicalpolitik.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614020&amp;post=1016&amp;subd=practicalpolitik&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>8th Congressional District Thought</title>
		<link>http://practicalpolitik.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/8th-congressional-district-thought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[8th Congressional District]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Flinn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Tanner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Randy Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ron Kirkland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roy Herron]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, I want to congratulate Stephen Fincher on securing the Republican nomination for the 8th Congressional District of Tennessee.  Second, I want to chastise voters in Madison County.  Only 19,000 of you voted and there were more than 60,000 registered voters.  Really? &#8230; <a href="http://practicalpolitik.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/8th-congressional-district-thought/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=practicalpolitik.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614020&amp;post=1013&amp;subd=practicalpolitik&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Presidential Problem</title>
		<link>http://practicalpolitik.wordpress.com/2010/07/10/obamas-presidential-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Citizens United]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Sean Evans]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to direct you, my loyal reader, to a blog post Dr. Sean Evans recently wrote (also published in the June 25th edition of the Jackson Sun).  In this post he reminds us that the Presidency is still, constitutionally, &#8230; <a href="http://practicalpolitik.wordpress.com/2010/07/10/obamas-presidential-problem/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=practicalpolitik.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614020&amp;post=1009&amp;subd=practicalpolitik&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where is the annual Social Security Report?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 00:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Annual Report of the Social Security Board of Trustees]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting somewhere in President Obama&#8217;s desk, hidden away as far as it can be, is my guess. Every year, the Annual Report of the Social Security Board of Trustees comes out between mid-April and mid-May.  Now it&#8217;s July, and there&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://practicalpolitik.wordpress.com/2010/07/09/where-is-the-annual-social-security-report/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=practicalpolitik.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614020&amp;post=1007&amp;subd=practicalpolitik&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LeBronomics</title>
		<link>http://practicalpolitik.wordpress.com/2010/07/09/lebronomics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[income tax]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, why did LeBron pick Miami?  Could it be the great beaches?  D-Wade?  And why not New York, the &#8220;greatest&#8221; city in America?  The spotlight, celebrities, and endorsements are presumably all much bigger in New York.  Let us take a &#8230; <a href="http://practicalpolitik.wordpress.com/2010/07/09/lebronomics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=practicalpolitik.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614020&amp;post=1003&amp;subd=practicalpolitik&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moratorium Denied</title>
		<link>http://practicalpolitik.wordpress.com/2010/06/22/moratorium-denied/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[BP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deepwater Horizon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[judge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin Feldman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moratorium]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[oil spill]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A New Orleans federal judge, one Martin Feldman, has denied President Obama&#8217;s moratorium on deep water drilling today.  He is quoted as saying:  &#8221;The court is unable to divine or fathom a relationship between the findings and the immense scope &#8230; <a href="http://practicalpolitik.wordpress.com/2010/06/22/moratorium-denied/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=practicalpolitik.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614020&amp;post=1000&amp;subd=practicalpolitik&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s First Oval Office Address</title>
		<link>http://practicalpolitik.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/obamas-first-oval-office-address/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Matthews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keith Olbermann]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama, why did you waste 18 minutes of my time last night? Please allow me to list three points of interest from last nights speech: President Obama has no power to force BP to set up an escrow account. &#8230; <a href="http://practicalpolitik.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/obamas-first-oval-office-address/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=practicalpolitik.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614020&amp;post=997&amp;subd=practicalpolitik&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://practicalpolitik.wordpress.com/2010/06/14/the-future-of-afghanistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cobalt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[copper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gold]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[minerals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The future lies in the mines.  The copper, iron, lithium, and other rare earth metals mines to be precise, according to the Pentagon as reported in the New York Times.  Other minerals include cobalt, gold, and lithium, minerals which are &#8230; <a href="http://practicalpolitik.wordpress.com/2010/06/14/the-future-of-afghanistan/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=practicalpolitik.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614020&amp;post=993&amp;subd=practicalpolitik&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is Lost with the Raptor</title>
		<link>http://practicalpolitik.wordpress.com/2010/06/06/what-is-lost-with-the-raptor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 22:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[air superiority]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cuts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[F-22A Raptor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fighter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Atlantic is a monthly magazine in which I have found 3 excellent articles in the last week.  My favorite was an article about the Conficker worm called The Enemy Within by Mark Bowden.  It was an excellent piece about &#8230; <a href="http://practicalpolitik.wordpress.com/2010/06/06/what-is-lost-with-the-raptor/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=practicalpolitik.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4614020&amp;post=982&amp;subd=practicalpolitik&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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