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		<title>Timing And Point Of Contraception Politics Interesting</title>
		<link>http://www.thesunshineempire.com/2012/02/09/timing-and-point-of-contraception-politics-interesting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dutch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m having a difficult time trying to fashion a coherent point regarding the new Catholic-Contraception uproar with the White House. I was raised in the Catholic faith and attended Catholic school until the fifth grade. I also have no issue with contraception availability as a way to stem the growth of unwanted children. The timing [...]
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		<title>What Did We Learn From Last Night: Missouri Is Now Officially Part Of The South</title>
		<link>http://www.thesunshineempire.com/2012/02/08/what-did-we-learn-from-last-night-missouri-is-now-officially-part-of-the-south/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dutch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After last night&#8217;s results from GOP Primary Party Train Part Seven, things again look bad for our boy Mittens. But it should be noted that this year&#8217;s Republican presidential primary is like the weather in Florida. Just give it a minute and it will change drastically. Last night&#8217;s turn had Dan Savage&#8217;s favorite Pennsylvania senator [...]
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		<title>And So It Begins</title>
		<link>http://www.thesunshineempire.com/2012/02/07/and-so-it-begins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The inaugural Sunshine Empire Podcast Empire. The Florida primary and a little football as well. Related posts: TSE: From The Car Update A Battle Begins For Every Office In Florida Florida Has One Season
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		<title>Nuance And Context Now All The Rage In Conservative Circles In The Age Of Mittens</title>
		<link>http://www.thesunshineempire.com/2012/02/01/nuance-and-context-now-all-the-rage-in-conservative-circles-in-the-age-of-mittens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dutch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nuance and context are normally things that the modern conservative shuns when it comes to political discourse. When former Tennessee senator and Vice president Al Gore discussed how he&#8217;d spearheaded the development of the internet for public use through legislation, conservatives and Republicans spent the next decade guffawing about how he&#8217;d claimed he&#8217;d invented the [...]
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		<title>On Mitt Romney Debating Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney, and Mitt Romney</title>
		<link>http://www.thesunshineempire.com/2012/01/16/on-mitt-romney-debating-mitt-romney-mitt-romney-and-mitt-romney/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dutch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today former Utah governor John Huntsman withdrew from the race for the Republican nomination for president. Now, what looked like a crowded race could be over before Florida holds its presidential primary at the end of January. The city of Jacksonville was slated to host a nationally televised presidential debate on January 26th, and the [...]
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		<title>The Making Of The President 2012 Has Begun</title>
		<link>http://www.thesunshineempire.com/2012/01/05/the-making-of-the-president-2012-has-begun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dutch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wonder and spectacle of the Iowa Caucuses has come and gone. I was thinking on Tuesday evening that somewhere, out there in the great beyond, Theodore H. White was sitting down to the typewriter and began the first chapter of The Making Of The President 2012. It&#8217;s normally my custom to write a post [...]
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		<title>Conservative Logic On Victory Laps And Barack Obama Winning The Iraq War</title>
		<link>http://www.thesunshineempire.com/2011/12/16/conservative-logic-on-victory-laps-and-barack-obama-winning-the-iraq-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dutch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The modern conservative&#8217;s relationship with the legacy of George W. Bush is a fantastic, bi-polar, hot mess. At one moment they could be lauding his unabashed Christianity and his keeping us safe for all those years after worst attack in American history. On the other they deny him three times before the rooster crows when [...]
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		<title>The Iraq War Ends, And John McCain Is More The Bitter For It</title>
		<link>http://www.thesunshineempire.com/2011/12/15/the-iraq-war-ends-and-john-mccain-is-more-the-bitter-for-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dutch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last evening before I retired to dreamland, I caught Senator John McCain&#8217;s floor speech marking the end of the 9 year Iraq War. Like many in this nation I have in the past had a very positive view of the senior senator from Arizona. As a Republican primary voter in 2000 I was prepared to [...]
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		<title>Wayne Weaver Stands Among The Giants Of Jacksonville History</title>
		<link>http://www.thesunshineempire.com/2011/12/14/wayne-weaver-stands-among-the-giants-of-jacksonville-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dutch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today will more than likely mark the end an era in the history of Jacksonville Florida. At the NFL owners meetings in Dallas today a vote is all but assured to approve the sale of the Jacksonville Jaguars to Illinois businessman Shahid Khan. Although the sale of the franchise will not be completely final until [...]
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		<title>Facebook A Foot-Soldier In The War On Christmas</title>
		<link>http://www.thesunshineempire.com/2011/12/08/facebook-a-foot-soldier-in-the-war-on-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dutch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook now groups posts according to if the users talk about a similar subject. Lately the discussion of Christmas has been prevalent, and Facebook has been presenting groups of comments under the subheading &#8220;So-and-so and 12 others commented about Christmas.&#8221; But one thing I found interesting. I read a comment from someone that did not [...]
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