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		<title>Full of sound and fury</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John McCain wants to label it &#8220;a tale told by an idiot,&#8221; but whether that&#8217;s true or not, GOP US Senate challengers in Arizona J.D. Hayworth is certainly &#8220;full of sound and fury,&#8221; though it remains to be seen if his latest ad campaign in his challenge of McCain for the GOP nod is &#8220;signifying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dean disses Dem strategy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Speaking perhaps from his vacation rental Hawaii-style, former DNC leader Howard Dean shocked the world recently by sounding&#8230; sane. He criticized Dem leaders in Congress and the White House for making the current health care proposals before Congress the hill on which they&#8217;ll live or die.
&#8220;The plan, as it comes from the Senate, hangs out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volunteers honor Gore?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The University of Tennessee waited and waited and now, with the University of East Anglia scandal and the theory of global warming all but froze over&#8230; now UT has decided to award Algore (still vastly in need of ephedra weight loss products) an honorary degree in &#8220;visionary leadership.&#8221; Huh?
Let&#8217;s see, if the 1990ish book Earth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wonderfulpessimist.com/2010/03/04/volunteers-honor-gore/</link>
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		<title>Supremes, mastering the obvious, could affirm gun rights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Supremes &#8211; meaning the folks who sit on the US Supreme Court &#8211; look prepared to demonstrate their ability to re-state the obvious in the gun ownership rights case currently before the high court. With the five justices who decided Heller &#8211; the case that struck down Washington DC&#8217;s outright ban on private ownership [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Announcing Microsoft Taxation 2010!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft Vice President for Trustworthy Computing Scott Charney today unveiled the software giant&#8217;s latest venture: forming government taxation policy. Charney announced in San Francisco at a security conference that he believes the best way to pay for cyber-security programs is to&#8230; tax the American people via an Internet usage tax.
Even though the Web has thrived [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wonderfulpessimist.com/2010/03/04/announcing-microsoft-taxation-2010/</link>
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		<title>Obama playing into GOP hopes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[President Barak Obama is playing right into GOP plans with his latest call for congressional Democrats to ignore the negative polls and political consequences, fall on their swords and pass his health care reform plan, &#8220;now.&#8221; Whether the Dems in both houses, who enjoy overwhelming (if not gripe-proof) majorities, will commit political suicide for their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wonderfulpessimist.com/2010/03/03/obama-playing-into-gop-hopes/</link>
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		<title>Palin teaming with Burnett for reality series</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin and reality TV producer Mark Burnett are teaming up to shop a reality TV series around Hollywood, which would focus on Alaska and the Palin family, according to numerous online reports. Considering a reality show, even if approved for next fall, could spend as much as a year in production [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wonderfulpessimist.com/2010/03/03/palin-teaming-with-burnett-for-reality-series/</link>
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		<title>Obama policy: $7/gallon gas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new Harvard study is that the Obama Administration&#8217;s emissions goals for so-called greenhouse gases, which he wants reduced by 14 percent from 2005 levels by the year 2020, would result in boosting the cost of gas to a staggering seven dollars a gallon, more than four dollars above current prices.
The bulk of the increase [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wonderfulpessimist.com/2010/03/03/obama-policy-7gallon-gas/</link>
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		<title>Perry prevails in GOP primary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two-term incumbent GOP Texas Governor Rick Perry fended off strong challenges from three-term GOP Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson and Tea Party activist Debra Medina to secure his party&#8217;s nomination for an unprecedented third term.
Perry, who has embraced the Tea Party Movement and anti-Obama sentiment, secured 51 percent of his party&#8217;s support, followed by 31 percent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wonderfulpessimist.com/2010/03/02/perry-prevails-in-gop-primary/</link>
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		<title>Tut, Tut: It wasn&#8217;t murder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New DNA studies recently announced have confirmed the cause of death for the mysterious boy king of Egypt, Tutankhamen. Scientists found evidence of severe malaria, possibly brought on by a broken leg. As it turns out, Tut was a sickly lad who probably walked only with the aid of crutches during his brief and tragic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wonderfulpessimist.com/2010/02/18/tut-tut-it-wasnt-murder/</link>
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		<title>Dems&#8217; version of McCain bows out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Evan Bayh, the Democrats&#8217; version of John McCain &#8211; a long-time party member who only voted with his party on occasion &#8211; has decided to call it quits after only two terms as the US Senator from Indiana. While Bayh&#8217;s resignation makes it more possible for the GOP to reclaim the seat once held by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wonderfulpessimist.com/2010/02/18/dems-version-of-mccain-bows-out/</link>
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		<title>Emissions: Perry to the rescue!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Texas governor Rick Perry and several national industry groups filed several separate petitions in Federal court today, questioning the US Government&#8217;s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Generally, Perry and the other groups are arguing that emissions regulations are not a Constitutionally-mandated power and, as such, ought to be left to individual states to decide.
Of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wonderfulpessimist.com/2010/02/18/emissions-perry-to-the-rescue/</link>
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