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		<title>Mitt Romney ‘Competent Turk’ of 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 14:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Evangelical Christian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Presidential Election]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today at 10 a.m. Eastern, a crowd estimated at more than 34,000 gathered for commencement activities at Liberty University, the world&#8217;s largest Christian university, in Lynchburg, Va.  Regardless of what he told those in attendance, Mitt Romney stood out as the &#8220;odd duck&#8221; for one reason. Not because he&#8217;s the presumptive Republican nominee for president. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Was A Bad Week in ‘Clintonville’</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 05:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[By Paul R. Hollrah]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger Bill Clinton is the stereotypical southern Democrat politician: smooth, personable, sly as a fox, everyman’s friend on the outside, but tough, manipulative, hard as nails, and totally corrupt on the inside.  He and his wife have been through many adventures and misadventures together, and when their final story is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Request for Copy of ‘Green-On-Blue’ Handbook Results in 30 Days of Stonewalling by Army</title>
		<link>http://bobmccarty.com/2012/05/10/request-for-copy-of-green-on-blue-handbook-results-in-30-days-of-stonewalling-by-army/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 20:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Freedom of Information / Sunshine Law]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Freedom of Information Act]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After waiting 30 days &#8212; so far &#8212; for the U.S. Army to fulfill my request via the Freedom of Information Act, I&#8217;ve concluded that Army officials would rather keep certain unclassified information about the so-called &#8220;green-on-blue&#8221; attacks in Afghanistan out of the public eye.  Below is an update to my May 1 post on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labor Department to Smother Press Freedom</title>
		<link>http://bobmccarty.com/2012/05/09/labor-department-to-smother-press-freedom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 20:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This afternoon, I received an email from my friends at the Online News Association about a letter sent by the head of the Sunshine In Government Initiative to Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis.  In short, the letter implores Solis to reconsider the implications of her agency&#8217;s new &#8220;Press Lock-Ups Policy, which could inhibit the quality, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oklahoma Soldier to Spend Fourth Birthday Behind Bars for Killing Known Al-Qaeda Operative in Iraq</title>
		<link>http://bobmccarty.com/2012/05/08/oklahoma-soldier-to-spend-fourth-birthday-behind-bars-for-killing-known-al-qaeda-operative-in-iraq/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 13:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michael Behenna]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the story of Army Ranger 1LT Michael Behenna has been a long and winding process that, to date, has required more than 50 posts to explain.  Today&#8217;s installment comes in the form of an update from his parents, Scott and Vicki Behenna: To the thousands of Michael Behenna supporters, Many of you have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illinois State Senate Candidates:  Stark Differences</title>
		<link>http://bobmccarty.com/2012/05/05/illinois-state-senate-candidates-stark-differences/</link>
		<comments>http://bobmccarty.com/2012/05/05/illinois-state-senate-candidates-stark-differences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 23:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Illinois Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Albracht]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illinois senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Jacobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quad cities]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I try to limit my political reporting to topics impacting my state of residence, Missouri, and/or the nation as a whole, but I couldn&#8217;t resist a story taking shape a few hours north of St. Louis in Illinois. The long and the short of it goes like this:  The differences between two candidates vying for [...]]]></description>
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