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		<title>Kids and guns and the War on Terror</title>
		<link>http://defmech.blogivists.com/2008/07/19/kids-and-guns-and-the-war-on-terror/</link>
		<comments>http://defmech.blogivists.com/2008/07/19/kids-and-guns-and-the-war-on-terror/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>defmech</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the June 24th issue of The Denver Post, on Page 13 B, &#8220;Opinion,&#8221; there is a picture of an eleven-year old boy wearing a helmet.  He is shown with a machine gun on top of a Humvee.  The article in question is &#8220;Summer camp sets sights on military kids,&#8221; June 20th, Denver [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pew Research: News and Political Aptitude Quiz</title>
		<link>http://elizabethcrum.blogivists.com/2008/07/19/pew-research-news-and-political-aptitude-quiz/</link>
		<comments>http://elizabethcrum.blogivists.com/2008/07/19/pew-research-news-and-political-aptitude-quiz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[See here for a fun news aptitude Quiz from the Pew Research Center.]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter stream at RightOnline</title>
		<link>http://nickycheese.blogivists.com/2008/07/19/twitter-stream-at-rightonline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Cheese</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in Austin, Texas, at AFP&#8217;s RightOnline. Consider it the right&#8217;s answer to the Yearly Kos.
Anyways, I - along with a whole bunch of other attendees - have been collectively twittering the conference minute by minute here. Check it out.]]></description>
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		<title>Right Online and Netroots Twitter Streams</title>
		<link>http://ericodom.blogivists.com/2008/07/19/right-online-and-netroots-twitter-streams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Odom</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Live Twitter streams are available now via Twemes. You can catch Right Online live here, and Netroots here.
Also catch Right Online at The Right Tweets.]]></description>
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		<title>AFP Crashes Al Gore Speech</title>
		<link>http://ericodom.blogivists.com/2008/07/19/afp-crashes-al-gore-speech/</link>
		<comments>http://ericodom.blogivists.com/2008/07/19/afp-crashes-al-gore-speech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caught this video on FOX news last night while here at the AFP Right Online conference.]]></description>
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		<title>Congressman Steve Kagen REFUSES to Address Question</title>
		<link>http://captkarl.blogivists.com/2008/07/18/congressman-steve-kagen-refuses-to-address-question/</link>
		<comments>http://captkarl.blogivists.com/2008/07/18/congressman-steve-kagen-refuses-to-address-question/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>captkarl</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I am providing this information to you to prove the utter contempt that Congressman Kagen (D-WI - Green Bay, Brown County, Oconto County, Marinette County and surrounding areas) has for all of us.]]></description>
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		<title>Nancy Pelosi to Cancel Free Speech Rights of Conservatives</title>
		<link>http://captkarl.blogivists.com/2008/07/18/nancy-pelosi-to-cancel-free-speech-rights-of-conservatives/</link>
		<comments>http://captkarl.blogivists.com/2008/07/18/nancy-pelosi-to-cancel-free-speech-rights-of-conservatives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>captkarl</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Pelosi is now clearly on record supporting government censorship of our free speech rights. She also insinuated that The Broadcaster Freedom Act wouldn't see the light of day, and added there is strong, support for a revival of the "Fairness Doctrine."]]></description>
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		<title>The Governator and Trans Fats</title>
		<link>http://midnightrider.blogivists.com/2008/07/18/the-governator-and-trans-fats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>midnightrider</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HELLO FROM THE AMERICAN DREAM SUMMIT IN AUSTIN TX!
It seems that Arnold Schwarzenegger is being pressured to ban Trans Fats in his state, which would be the largest ban of its kind if implimented.
The governator will defend business owners and annihilate this fascist demand in a fiery explosion!
OK back to the conference&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>A Marxist by Any Other Name…</title>
		<link>http://autonomy.blogivists.com/2008/07/18/a-marxist-by-any-other-name/</link>
		<comments>http://autonomy.blogivists.com/2008/07/18/a-marxist-by-any-other-name/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m currently hanging around the Defending the American Dream Summit in Austin, Texas; I&#8217;ve been passing the time talking to a cute LP spokeswoman and checking out some of the other booths. It seems that there&#8217;s a lot of support for John McCain around here&#8211; that&#8217;s a bandwagon I cannot in good conscience jump on.
Don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Market Speculators:  Schumer’s Dirty Word</title>
		<link>http://elizabethcrum.blogivists.com/2008/07/18/market-speculators-schumers-dirty-word/</link>
		<comments>http://elizabethcrum.blogivists.com/2008/07/18/market-speculators-schumers-dirty-word/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is maddening that the same people who want to spend billions on economy-choking “climate change” measures that might (MIGHT!) reduce temperatures by one quarter degree over the next one-half century cannot see the wisdom of opening a tiny piece of ANWR in return for a sure thing over the next one to ten years.]]></description>
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		<title>Cubs Parking.  Pork Reporting.</title>
		<link>http://porkreport.blogivists.com/2008/07/18/cubs-parking-pork-reporting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Pork Project of the Day is an $875,000 FIF fund (i.e. slush fund) grant given to a Chicago organization named NeighborSpace.  The funds were used to allow the organization to purchase a parcel of land adjacent to another property it had already purchased so that another non-profit could develop the lots into a park.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Al Gore’s Hypocrisy</title>
		<link>http://rightwave.blogivists.com/2008/07/18/al-gores-hypocrisy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rightwave</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, I know.  Long time no write.  But, I just had to share this video with you from Ed Frank at Americans for Prosperity.  The AFP team staked out the esteemed former Vice President&#8217;s &#8220;major address&#8221; on climate change, and below are the results:

While you&#8217;re at it, check out this update with pictures of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stay Awake for the Brownouts</title>
		<link>http://captkarl.blogivists.com/2008/07/18/stay-awake-for-the-brownouts/</link>
		<comments>http://captkarl.blogivists.com/2008/07/18/stay-awake-for-the-brownouts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>captkarl</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, ever more people are moving into the area. But the officials in charge of allowing new electric infrastructure to be set in place are refusing to grant permission to lay down the miles of new high-voltage electric lines the increasing demand requires.]]></description>
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		<title>Pelosi stands firm against offshore drilling</title>
		<link>http://captkarl.blogivists.com/2008/07/18/pelosi-stands-firm-against-offshore-drilling/</link>
		<comments>http://captkarl.blogivists.com/2008/07/18/pelosi-stands-firm-against-offshore-drilling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>captkarl</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi and Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, appear intent on holding the line against calls to approve drilling in areas now off limits. They mount the counterargument that the oil and gas industry is not aggressively exploring large expanses it has already leased on land and offshore. They also have urged Bush to pour some fuel from national reserves into the commercial supply chain in an effort to lower prices.]]></description>
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		<title>New D.C. gun regulations seem to flout Supreme Court decision</title>
		<link>http://defmech.blogivists.com/2008/07/17/new-dc-gun-regulations-seem-to-flout-supreme-court-decision/</link>
		<comments>http://defmech.blogivists.com/2008/07/17/new-dc-gun-regulations-seem-to-flout-supreme-court-decision/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>defmech</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not an attorney, and I don&#8217;t even play one on TV, but it seems to me that D.C. is treading on thin ice with its new gun regulations in at least two areas.  First, the new law requires that registered handguns be kept unloaded and disassembled or locked up unless the gun is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democratic Legislation Seeking to Blunt Coastal Drilling Fails in House</title>
		<link>http://captkarl.blogivists.com/2008/07/17/democratic-legislation-seeking-to-blunt-coastal-drilling-fails-in-house/</link>
		<comments>http://captkarl.blogivists.com/2008/07/17/democratic-legislation-seeking-to-blunt-coastal-drilling-fails-in-house/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>captkarl</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Are we going to let them do this to us or are we going to do something?  Everybody must rise up and show these despots that We The People of the Land Of The Free and Home Of The Brave stand UNITED.  To do that you, reading this must act!  We must fight the U.S. Congress at every turn.  And above all, WE MUST NOT LET THEM STEAL OUR FREEDOM!]]></description>
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		<title>GALLUP: Congressional Approval Hits Record-Low 14%</title>
		<link>http://elizabethcrum.blogivists.com/2008/07/17/gallup-congressional-approval-hits-record-low-14/</link>
		<comments>http://elizabethcrum.blogivists.com/2008/07/17/gallup-congressional-approval-hits-record-low-14/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gallup is reporting the lowest Congressional job approval rating since Gallup started polling 34 years ago.  This dismally low number reminds me of&#8230;hm&#8230;Something&#8230;oh Yes!  It&#8217;s Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid recently saying the following in re: to comments about a possible presidential veto by Senator Mitch McConnel (quoted from Mark Hemingway&#8217;s June 30 column @ National Review Online):
SEN. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEIU Protests in Chicago, Disorganized and Confusing</title>
		<link>http://newwhig.blogivists.com/2008/07/17/seiu-protests-in-chicago-disorganized-and-confusing/</link>
		<comments>http://newwhig.blogivists.com/2008/07/17/seiu-protests-in-chicago-disorganized-and-confusing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today around 1:25 pm CST, about 125 SEIU members wearing purple Obama t-shirts and carrying signs decrying KKR &#38; Co began protesting on the corner of Wacker and Washington. 

The protesters were organized as to block traffic on the eastern sidewalk and were beating drums and yelling to get their message across. But what message [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Staircase crisis avoided. Thank you pork spenders!</title>
		<link>http://porkreport.blogivists.com/2008/07/17/staircase-crisis-avoided-thank-you-pork-spenders/</link>
		<comments>http://porkreport.blogivists.com/2008/07/17/staircase-crisis-avoided-thank-you-pork-spenders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently there was a staircase crisis in East Moline a couple of years back.  Today&#8217;s Pork Project of the Day is a $4,945.00 FIF fund grant to the city of East Moline to replace a staircase at its water treatment plant.
Does anyone get the feeling, after reading over the FIF fund projects highlighted here on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People vs. City of Miami and Miami-Dade County</title>
		<link>http://libertyisforme.blogivists.com/2008/07/17/people-vs-city-of-miami-and-miami-dade-county/</link>
		<comments>http://libertyisforme.blogivists.com/2008/07/17/people-vs-city-of-miami-and-miami-dade-county/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>emoney</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MIAMI – Auto dealer and philanthropist, Norman Braman, recently filed a lawsuit against a pending $3 billion City of Miami and Miami-Dade County public works initiative, nicknamed the “Miami Mega Plan.” The plan would authorize the construction of a truck tunnel leading to the Port of Miami, a pair of museums inside Bicentennial Park, [...]]]></description>
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