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	<description>Smelling the funk of politics and other communicable diseases.</description>
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		<title>Witnessing a catastrophe that basically wasn&#8217;t.</title>
		<link>http://excontra.com/2011/08/witnessing-a-catastrophe-that-basically-wasnt/</link>
		<comments>http://excontra.com/2011/08/witnessing-a-catastrophe-that-basically-wasnt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Appanage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why would someone watch 14 hours of hurricane coverage?  That&#8217;s easy.  We love train wrecks and we gravitate towards anything that will heighten our emotions &#8211; particularly fear.  In other words, the &#8216;emotional hit&#8217; we obviously lack in our routine day to day. It&#8217;s just a shame the media panders to our weakest feelings, like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AZ Senator Jon Kyl says President Obama told him he&#8217;s holding off securing border for political gain.</title>
		<link>http://excontra.com/2010/06/az-senator-jon-kyl-says-president-obama-told-him-hes-holding-off-securing-border-for-political-gain/</link>
		<comments>http://excontra.com/2010/06/az-senator-jon-kyl-says-president-obama-told-him-hes-holding-off-securing-border-for-political-gain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Appanage</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://excontra.com/?p=261</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While attending a Tea Party town hall meeting in North Tempe, Arizona Republican Senator Jon Kyl told the audience at a that during a private, one-on-one meeting with President Obama in the Oval Office, Obama and he discussed securing the Mexican Border. Kyle quoted the president as claiming as problematic “If we secure the border, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take comfort in knowing BP cares about “the small people”.</title>
		<link>http://excontra.com/2010/06/take-comfort-in-knowing-bp-cares-about-%e2%80%9cthe-small-people%e2%80%9d/</link>
		<comments>http://excontra.com/2010/06/take-comfort-in-knowing-bp-cares-about-%e2%80%9cthe-small-people%e2%80%9d/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Appanage</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[golf oil spill]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://excontra.com/?p=259</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Did the BP chairman really say this?  Wow, they really don&#8217;t get it, do they?]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, Gingrich, Carlson, the gulf oil crisis address, and the use of God in the speech.</title>
		<link>http://excontra.com/2010/06/obama-gingrich-carlson-the-gulf-oil-crisis-address-and-the-use-of-god-in-the-speech/</link>
		<comments>http://excontra.com/2010/06/obama-gingrich-carlson-the-gulf-oil-crisis-address-and-the-use-of-god-in-the-speech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Appanage</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://excontra.com/?p=257</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Gretchen Carlson of Fox thinks it&#8217;s &#8220;disingenuous&#8221; when the President references God in a speech when he doesn&#8217;t go to church every week. We think it&#8217;s disingenuous when Gretchen Carlson decides her Fox and Friends role entitles to play God by judging the actions of others while brainwashing her TV followers. More from Mediaite.]]></description>
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		<title>Gay marriage: another reason Elena Kagan&#8217;s left right wingers with no line of attack.</title>
		<link>http://excontra.com/2010/06/gay-marriage-another-reason-elena-kagans-left-ring-wingers-with-no-line-of-attack/</link>
		<comments>http://excontra.com/2010/06/gay-marriage-another-reason-elena-kagans-left-ring-wingers-with-no-line-of-attack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Appanage</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://excontra.com/?p=254</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re really enjoying the Elena Kagan interview process.  It&#8217;s almost like getting interrogated by hundreds of overly confident questioners for a crime you didn&#8217;t commit (and frankly for a crime which doesn&#8217;t exist.  Each member seems to think they&#8217;re going to be the one blowing the doors open to some new revelation that makes Kagan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama pleads for $50 billion in state and local aid.</title>
		<link>http://excontra.com/2010/06/president-obama-pleads-for-50-billion-in-state-and-local-aid/</link>
		<comments>http://excontra.com/2010/06/president-obama-pleads-for-50-billion-in-state-and-local-aid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 14:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Appanage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://excontra.com/?p=252</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the fundamental difference between how Republicans and Democrats view the world.  Republicans generally go to the people who need the police for money while the Democrats prefer to collect and distribute it way up at the federal level.  Logical?]]></description>
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		<title>Soldier leaked Google attack investigation details, hacker says.</title>
		<link>http://excontra.com/2010/06/soldier-leaked-google-attack-investigation-details-hacker-says/</link>
		<comments>http://excontra.com/2010/06/soldier-leaked-google-attack-investigation-details-hacker-says/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 14:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Appanage</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://excontra.com/?p=250</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An Army analyst jailed for allegedly leaking a video of a controversial Iraq air strike also allegedly leaked classified information about a U.S. investigation into cyberattacks on Google that originated in China, the hacker who turned in the analyst told CNET on Saturday. More.]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan supports the Taliban directly, says report.</title>
		<link>http://excontra.com/2010/06/pakistan-supports-the-taliban-directly-says-report/</link>
		<comments>http://excontra.com/2010/06/pakistan-supports-the-taliban-directly-says-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 14:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Appanage</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://excontra.com/?p=248</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pakistani military intelligence not only funds and trains Taliban fighters in Afghanistan but is officially represented on the movement’s leadership council, giving it significant influence over operations, a report said. More.]]></description>
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		<title>Connie Chung gets snippy at Newseum.</title>
		<link>http://excontra.com/2010/05/connie-chung-gets-snippy-at-newseum/</link>
		<comments>http://excontra.com/2010/05/connie-chung-gets-snippy-at-newseum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 17:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Appanage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dang!  Connie Chung was awfully tough on her husband, Maury Povich, at their Newseum symposium the other night. I guess it reaffirms there&#8217;s a pretty fine line between love and hate, doesn&#8217;t it?]]></description>
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		<title>Fineman: Today&#8217;s America parallels Timothy McVeigh / OKC Bombing era.</title>
		<link>http://excontra.com/2010/05/fineman-todays-america-parallels-timothy-mcveigh-okc-bombing-era/</link>
		<comments>http://excontra.com/2010/05/fineman-todays-america-parallels-timothy-mcveigh-okc-bombing-era/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 16:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Appanage</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://excontra.com/?p=242</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Howard Fineman thinks we&#8217;re in another Timothy McVeigh era in the United States, and he provides interesting examples. My guess is those who don&#8217;t watch cable news likely don&#8217;t agree at all.  Then again, those who do probably think we&#8217;re in an even more volatile time. Solution: stop watching this crap on prime time cable [...]]]></description>
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