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		<title>Gov. Dayton decided to blink, well sorta.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can faintly hear the horns sounding triumphantly as a deal to end the Minnesota government shutdown appears close.  The newspapers, radios and even Yahoo are reporting “Dayton: Will concede to GOP to end Minn. Shutdown.” (Source) The June 30th budget the GOP had proposed to Dayton, “would close a $1.4 billion budget difference by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costs of GOP Government Shutdown</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<title>The Body of bin Laden</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 20:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.politablog.com/?p=4156</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was sitting in my 10th grade Chemistry class on September 11th of 2001. I remember my teacher, Mr. Sufka telling us what had happened. We were able to see some images from Yahoo, but the internet was overwhelmed that day and our schools TVs were unfortunately down for repair.  We discussed what happened and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bachmann details $400 billion-plus in spending cuts</title>
		<link>http://www.politablog.com/current-events/bachmann-details-400-billion-plus-in-spending-cuts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politablog.com/current-events/bachmann-details-400-billion-plus-in-spending-cuts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Bachmann]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For weeks, Rep. Michele Bachmann has touted $450 billion in spending cuts to help get the country’s debt under wraps. A detailed list of the cuts, which actually add up to a little more than $430 billion, reveals a conservative wish-list of federal programs to be downsized or outright eliminated. Bachmann’s spending cuts span across [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Franken becoming Dems Future Leader?</title>
		<link>http://www.politablog.com/david-brooks/franken-becoming-dems-future-leader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 02:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brooks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brooks Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minnesota]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Administration]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Al Franken]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Lieberman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sen. Franken has faced a daunting challenge in his first year as a US Senator. He barely won a highly contested and much publicized election with Norm Coleman and is part of a party/movement that is losing momentum rather quickly. Franken has also had to overcome a number of other obstacles. Many people (Republicans) have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cash Money</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mid Term Elections]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.politablog.com/?p=3929</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I found two interesting and contradictory articles online recently.One of these is a Politico article by James Hohmann. He says in his byline, “More bad polls. More bad fundraising numbers. More dreary talk on the Sunday shows.” Many of you may see this and say, ‘so what?’ In a very contradictory article, CNN.com (a more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOP campaign roughed up and handcuffed a reporter</title>
		<link>http://www.politablog.com/current-events/gop-campaign-roughed-up-and-handcuffed-a-reporter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joe Miller]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Miller, the candidate for Senate in Alaska has also gotten some bad press lately. This time it is because his security staff who reportedly roughed up and handcuffed a reporter after it was found out he wanted to ask Miller about his past. From CNN.com: The reporter, Tony Hopfinger, said he was trying to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>She&#8217;s a Nut Job</title>
		<link>http://www.politablog.com/current-events/shes-a-nut-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christine O'Donnell]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.politablog.com/?p=3921</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Meghan McCain, the daughter of Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain has made some interesting and enlightening statements regarding Christine O’Donnell, the Republican candidate for Joe Biden’s senate seat in Delaware. &#8220;Christine O&#8217;Donnell is making a mockery of running for public office. She has no real history, no real success in any kind of business.&#8221; &#8220;I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sharia Sharon</title>
		<link>http://www.politablog.com/current-events/sharia-sharon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sharon Angle]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.politablog.com/?p=3841</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently witnessed an astonishing thing. Not so unordinary, but still something to behold. On one of the random political threads somewhere in the vast expanse of internet there was a conservative woman arguing with democrats. Nothing too shocking here, right? Lately, it seems as if everyone is at each other’s throats over trivial matters. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The new GOP (i.e. Tea Party) lies.</title>
		<link>http://www.politablog.com/current-events/the-new-gop-i-e-tea-party-lies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politablog.com/current-events/the-new-gop-i-e-tea-party-lies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Beck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Bachman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michele Bachmann]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.politablog.com/?p=3801</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of us believe that the Tea Party is bad for America. That they will send us down a course that our Founding Fathers did not intend. Some of the ideas that have been proposed are as follows: Abolishing or Privatizing Social Security Privatizing Veterans Affairs Lowering the minimum wage Getting rid of public education [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To purge or not to purge.</title>
		<link>http://www.politablog.com/government/obama-administration/to-purge-or-not-to-purge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politablog.com/government/obama-administration/to-purge-or-not-to-purge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Correa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fear and panic that grips a country when laws are not enforced cannot be underestimated. In Ecuador on 9-30-2010 there was an alleged coup attempt that was allegedly orchestrated by various members of the police. From CNN.com: &#8220;This is a coup attempt,&#8221; President Rafael Correa said in a TV interview from the hospital, where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wiretapped phones, now Internet?</title>
		<link>http://www.politablog.com/government/obama-administration/wiretapped-phones-now-internet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politablog.com/government/obama-administration/wiretapped-phones-now-internet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet Censorship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wiretaps]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &#8211; Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations of the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is &#8220;going dark&#8221; as people increasingly communicate online instead of by telephone. Essentially, officials want Congress to require all services that enable communications &#8212; including encrypted [...]]]></description>
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