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	<description>He's right about Texas politics. And also left.</description>
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		<title>And now a discussion that really matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama, his administration, and attoney general Eric Holder, have come under heavy attack from critics who say that trying Guantanamo terrorists in federal court opens the door to all sorts of mischief &#8212; in particular, allowing terrorists the right to demand access to classified information and to seek the shelter of rights that are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The first Hutchison TV spot</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hutchison is shown sitting in a living room, or perhaps a hotel suite. She is wearing a white blouse with a dark vest, brown or perhaps purple. A lamp is lit on a desk behind her left shoulder. In the foreground is a built-in segment of a bookcase. A red sofa is in the background [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The first Perry TV spot</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It opens with an angled shot looking upward at the U.S. Capitol dome, through trees. Over it is superimposed a red line, as if to suggest a graph of an economic indicator, and general direction is down. The effect is very busy without being distracting; there&#8217;s a lot going on visually. The word DEFICITS flashes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Strake Jr. is a busy fellow</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[cathie adams]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In addition to the letter that I posted and wrote about on Wednesday, in which Strake urged Republicans to ask Kay Bailey Hutchison not to run for governor, Strake, as several published reports have noted, is the new campaign treasurer for Tom Mechler&#8217;s campaign for Republican Party chairman, a position that is currently filled by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The last word on the Strake letter</title>
		<link>http://www.texasmonthly.com/blogs/burkablog/?p=5378</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulburka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is posted, undated, on the governor&#8217;s web site. It contains this statement at the bottom:
&#8220;Political Ad Paid for and Reprinted by Texans for Rick Perry&#8221;
While the letter might seem to be a closed subject, Mark Miner of the Perry campaign told me yesterday, &#8220;It&#8217;s more relevant than ever.&#8221;
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		<title>More on the Strake letter</title>
		<link>http://www.texasmonthly.com/blogs/burkablog/?p=5376</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulburka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note to readers:
The letter in the post that follows this one was sent to me by a Perry supporter. It was undated. The Hutchison campaign has contacted me to say that the letter was dated in late October 26 and carried the information that it was paid for by the Perry campaign. I am awaiting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas leads in metro areas with high performing economies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is from the Brookings Institution&#8217;s Metro Monitor: 
Texas has six of the top twenty performing metro economies in the country.  One of these is the only metro area in the country to record growth in both employment and output. Here are the six metro areas. Which one is it? The metro areas are [...]]]></description>
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