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		<title>President should appoint Warren for practical and political reasons</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/07/30/president-should-appoint-warren-for-practical-and-political-reasons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Elizabeth Warren might be responsible for the very idea of a financial consumer protection agency and unquestionably the best-qualified, most-suitable person on the planet to head one, but so far President Obama can&#8217;t seem to bring himself to appoint her. Obama&#8217;s reluctance leads us to wonder if he&#8217;s up-ended because the person he&#8217;d prefer [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Democrats launch kick-ass video</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/07/28/democrats-launch-kick-ass-video/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/07/28/democrats-launch-kick-ass-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That’s right, folks. The same people who brought us millions of home foreclosures; double-digit unemployment; 100 bank failures so far this year, with no end in sight; and two deadly, horrendously expensive and seemingly interminable Mideast wars, want to regain control of Congress so they can continue wrecking the economy, crushing organized labor, pushing taxpayers’ money to their corporate patrons and plowing the middle class under.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rep. Wamp: Sedition is OK; health care reform&#8217;s not OK</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/07/24/rep-wamp-seditions-ok-health-care-reform-is-not-ok/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/07/24/rep-wamp-seditions-ok-health-care-reform-is-not-ok/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 05:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[extremist groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican hypocrisy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wingnuttery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rep. Zach Wamp, a patriotic Tennessee conservative Republican competing in a three-way primary race for governor, is talking secession and threatening to not implement federal health care reform. I hope that the American people will go to the ballot box in 2010 and 2012 so that states are not forced to consider separation from this [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Breitbart and Fox News – a carnival of fraud</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/07/21/breitbart-and-fox-news-%e2%80%93-a-carnival-of-fraud/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/07/21/breitbart-and-fox-news-%e2%80%93-a-carnival-of-fraud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican dirty tricks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Breitbart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dirty-tricks operative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racial discord]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[right-wing noise machine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sherrod]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vilsack]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/?p=3794</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By now you&#8217;ve heard all about how Republican dirty-tricks operative Andrew Breitbart and Fox News used a carefully edited video to trash the reputation and career of African American Agriculture Department staffer Shirley Sherrod of Georgia. Breitbart and Fox are serial offenders when it comes to perpetrating fraud aimed at stirring racial disharmony, having used [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ex-convict allegedly shoots at cops due to outrage about leftist policies</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/07/19/ex-convict-allegedly-shoots-at-cops-due-to-outrage-about-leftist-policies/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/07/19/ex-convict-allegedly-shoots-at-cops-due-to-outrage-about-leftist-policies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wingnuttery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With nausea pills at the ready, we await Sean Hannity or another Fox mouthpiece talking  Williams up as some kind of right-wing martyr driven to desperation by the socialist excesses of the power-mad Kenyan in the White House and his fellow leftists in Congress.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bachmann in bid to be teabagger minority of one</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/07/16/bachmann-in-bid-to-be-teabagger-minority-of-one/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/07/16/bachmann-in-bid-to-be-teabagger-minority-of-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 06:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fringe kooks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[R epublican Rep. Michelle Bachmann of Minnesota has come up with a way to launch herself into a leadership position while advancing the tea party as a legitimate, established force in Congress. To accomplish this exercise in smarmy self-promotion and flaky fantasy, Bachmann has filed papers to establish a House Tea Party Caucus as &#8220;an [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>32</slash:comments>
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		<title>Iowa GOP surrogates liken Obama to Hitler, Lenin</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/07/14/iowa-gop-surrogates-liken-obama-to-hitler-lenin/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/07/14/iowa-gop-surrogates-liken-obama-to-hitler-lenin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican dirty tricks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anything to win]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fringe kooks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/?p=3772</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[L oons and lowlifes of the tea party kind in Mason City, Iowa, have a billboard up showing Adolf Hitler, President Obama and Vladimir Lenin side by side. This despicable attempt at propaganda neatly overlooks the fact Hitler is infamous for military aggression against smaller, weaker countries &#8212; something ex-President George W. Bush is guilty [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>30</slash:comments>
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		<title>Enough of worshiping false free-market god</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/07/06/enough-of-worshiping-false-free-market-god/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/07/06/enough-of-worshiping-false-free-market-god/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quote]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trade and globalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate greed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic policy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/?p=3720</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just after eight years in which unconstitutional means to un-American ends were peddled as consummate patriotism, we’re in a period in which criminal greed is ferociously defended and hair of the rabid dog that bit our economy is touted as the best cure for what ails us.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>30</slash:comments>
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		<title>Earmarks bring some Democrats money but could cost them plenty in November</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/07/04/earmarks-bring-some-democrats-money-but-could-cost-them-plenty-in-november/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/07/04/earmarks-bring-some-democrats-money-but-could-cost-them-plenty-in-november/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 07:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats behaving badly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political death wish]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Earmarks and the senators and representatives who arrange them aren&#8217;t all bad, but the potential for abuse is always there, and too often realized. Earmarks can bring to states and congressional districts worthwhile projects and economic benefits that otherwise would never make it through budgetary and legislative processes. The practice gets dirty when taxpayers&#8217; hard-earned [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Job numbers point up economy&#8217;s longterm ills</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/07/03/job-numbers-point-up-economys-longterm-ills/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/07/03/job-numbers-point-up-economys-longterm-ills/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 07:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[restoring the economy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/?p=3704</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite dismal job-creation numbers for June, it&#8217;s probably premature to say the U.S. economy is slipping into the second decline of a double dip recession. What&#8217;s abundantly clear, though, is that America&#8217;s hollowed-out, seriously eroded economy is hard put to create sufficient jobs even when there is no recession. Experts say the economy must create [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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