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		<title>Want to reduce your taxes? Get rich</title>
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Want to reduce your taxes? Get rich 
Duped. That&#8217;s the only thing I can say here. Republicans in general have been falling in line like lambs to the slaughter - yelling and screaming that the Bush &#8220;tax cuts&#8221; must be made permanent. See, Republicans hate tax increases&#8230;and they are going to decry any increases&#8230;even if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arkansaspolitics.com/blog/2008/05/12/want-to-reduce-your-taxes-get-rich/</link>
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		<title>As Losses Mount, GOP Begins Looking in the Mirror</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s hope that Mississippi sends a message &#8220;better dead than red&#8221;. Expect this Republican stronghold seat to go D.

The stakes in the 1st District special election couldn&#8217;t be higher, strategically or symbolically. The loss of a traditionally GOP seat to a Democrat would be the third in a special election this spring and the second [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arkansaspolitics.com/blog/2008/05/11/as-losses-mount-gop-begins-looking-in-the-mirror/</link>
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		<title>Bush: Spend it, it&#8217;ll make ME look SMART!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The so-called &#8220;rebates&#8221; are just a shell game. First, it&#8217;s taxable income. Yes, next year, if you owe taxes you’re going to pay tax on this little gift. But more importantly, Bush wants us to spend our newfound treasure and spend it on stuff. You see, that&#8217;ll bring an artificially induced boost to the economy&#8230;then Junior [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arkansaspolitics.com/blog/2008/05/04/bush-spend-it-itll-make-me-look-smart/</link>
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		<title>Will Trade Gold for Gas or Food</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is why talking about tax cuts for the rich (making over 200K) will cost McCain and the Republican Party the White House and substantially shrinking numbers of representation in both houses. This was an article in of all places - the bastion of Republicanism&#8230;Northwest Arkansas.
Residents turn to pawn shops for extra money 



Whether the experts are calling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arkansaspolitics.com/blog/2008/05/04/will-trade-gold-for-gas-or-food/</link>
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		<title>Hard Freeze hits the GOP in LA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the reddest of red Congressional Districts (06) in LA, a democrat takes the open seat. No Democrat has held that seat since 1970, 38 years ago. If the GOP can&#8217;t hold a Congressional seat in a reddist or red states in one of the reddist of red districts, they will be part of one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arkansaspolitics.com/blog/2008/05/04/hard-freeze-hits-the-gop-in-la/</link>
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		<title>Who is the keeper here?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wright&#8217;s Remarks Irrelevant

Is a presidential candidate his pastor&#8217;s keeper?
Is Barack Obama in any way &#8220;responsible&#8221; for the opinions of Rev. Jeremiah Wright?
Obama obviously doesn&#8217;t believe so - having denounced Wright&#8217;s most recent public performance as &#8220;a bunch of rants that aren&#8217;t grounded in truth.&#8221; and his campaign has to be hoping that voters will take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arkansaspolitics.com/blog/2008/05/02/who-is-the-keeper-here/</link>
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		<title>The Empty Flight Suit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mary Mapes from the Huffington Post has a lot to say about the empty flight suit.

Has it really been five years since we were treated to that breathtaking &#8220;Mission Accomplished&#8221; scene aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln?


Yup, almost 4,000 dead and 28,000 wounded since Bush declared &#8220;Mission Accomplished&#8221;

Besides, it is already clear that the bravado and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arkansaspolitics.com/blog/2008/05/02/the-empty-flight-suit/</link>
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		<title>Fair Play For False Prophets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do white right-wing preachers have it easier than black left-wing preachers? Is there a double standard?

Does a bear defacte in the woods? Rev. Wrights said shortly after 9/11 that &#8220;the chickens have come home to roost&#8221;, meaning our sins against many nations have caught up with us. Fawell and Robertson being the good &#8220;Christian&#8221; men, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arkansaspolitics.com/blog/2008/05/02/fair-play-for-false-prophets/</link>
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		<title>Clinton Has No Reason To Quit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Morning News up in NWA this morning answers a question;  &#8220;Clinton Has No Reason to Quit&#8221;.  I concure wholeheartedly with their assesment.
Why won&#8217;t Hillary Clinton quit?
That&#8217;s a question that keep lurking around the edges of the Democratic Party&#8217;s presidential contest, with the unspoken but implied message that she somehow owes it to the party [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arkansaspolitics.com/blog/2008/04/25/clinton-has-no-reason-to-quit/</link>
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		<title>Clinton Smacks Obama</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lord, Lucas Roebuck made some since this morning. Mind you he&#8217;s managed to throw the necessary red meat to the family, throwing Obama and Clinton under the bus, but he also has put a voice to what a good share of the Democrats in this state are seeing. Clinton is tougher than nails, she&#8217;s proven [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arkansaspolitics.com/blog/2008/04/25/clinton-smacks-obama/</link>
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		<title>History&#8217;s Verdict</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wish the editorial writers at the Dem Gaz would take a lesson here, this is a great op-ed about how our country became a &#8220;terrorist&#8221; nation and how we’ll be judge unkindly by history for our nation&#8217;s torture policies&#8230;and it was said with 203 words, not 1000.

Recently, the Associated Press - using one of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arkansaspolitics.com/blog/2008/04/25/historys-verdict/</link>
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		<title>An Epitaph for the Religious Right</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne, author of &#8220;Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics after the Religious Right,&#8221; will be online Tuesday, March 11 at 10 a.m. ET to discuss his Outlook article about how the arc of the current primaries bode poorly for the continued influence of social conservatives &#8212; and the historical precendent for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arkansaspolitics.com/blog/2008/03/10/an-epitaph-for-the-religious-right/</link>
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		<title>Katrina nation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Technically I agree with Pat Buchannan here, except for one thing that both the Republican and Democratic pundits never address. That is, this immigration mess will never be &#8220;fixed&#8221; until Mexico implements economic and environmental policies that guarantee that its citizens have jobs that pay well enough that they aren&#8217;t forced to leave just feed their families.
Katrina [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arkansaspolitics.com/blog/2008/03/10/katrina-nation/</link>
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		<title>Protecting Secrets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Exactly
Protecting Secrets
Some believe the White House is anxious to win retroactive immunity for the telecommunications industry to protect itself, not the nation. Lawsuits brought against telecom companies that cooperated with the administration&#8217;s warrantless wiretapping program may be the nation&#8217;s best chance to find out the true scope of the surveillance
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		<link>http://arkansaspolitics.com/blog/2008/03/10/protecting-secrets/</link>
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		<title>Absolutely no Credibility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Couldn&#8217;t of said it better myself.
President Bush is playing politics with the nation&#8217;s security, and as he has done many times since 9 / 11, he is proving himself willing to frighten Americans with the specter of terrorism to get what he wants.
House Democrats are right to resist his efforts to expand the program of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arkansaspolitics.com/blog/2008/02/29/absolutely-no-credibility/</link>
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		<title>Chief Justice Roberts Defends ExxonMobil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good Question!!! Great Answer!!!
It appears our Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is more interested in protecting Big Oil and Corporate America (a Junior nominee) than he is in protecting America. Big Surprise.
&#8220;So what can a corporation do to protect itself against punitive-damages awards such as this?&#8221; Roberts asked in court.
The lawyer arguing for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arkansaspolitics.com/blog/2008/02/29/chief-justice-roberts-defends-exxonmobil/</link>
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		<title>Does This Make George H.W. Bush Unpatriotic?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Does this make the old man not &#8220;American&#8221; enough?


Huffington Post  &#124;  February 25, 2008 at 05:55 PM
The Conservative blogosphere says that Barack Obama isn&#8217;t patriotic enough to be President because he was photographed without his hand over his heart during the National Anthem.
Here&#8217;s a photograph of George H.W. Bush at a ceremony commemorating the 10th [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arkansaspolitics.com/blog/2008/02/29/does-this-make-george-hw-bush-unpatriotic/</link>
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		<title>The Last &#8216;Yes, We Can&#8217; Candidate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If Obama is the nominee, and it looks like he is a train that Clinton cannot stop, then I concur with E.J. Dionne here. Obama will be the Democrats Reagan and a man McCain and the Republican Party in their arrogance will continue to dismiss at their own peril. One difference, the criminal element, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arkansaspolitics.com/blog/2008/02/29/the-last-yes-we-can-candidate/</link>
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		<title>Some Straight Talk - Hey?</title>
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A Hole in McCain’s Defense?
An apparent contradiction in his response to lobbyist story
I am sure you have heard the dust up about the New York Times hit piece on McCain this week. It implied that McCain might have had an inappropriate relationship with a female lobbyist. However, the article was really about McCain’s speaketh with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arkansaspolitics.com/blog/2008/02/23/some-straight-talk-hey/</link>
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		<title>Why they can’t vote for McCain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This in a Northwest Arkansas paper - Why they can’t vote for McCain
Though he served on the commission for five years and made several attempts to meet with Mc-Cain to discuss the issues, Smith was rebuffed. The two did accidentally meet outside a hearing room in 2004 when they were both scheduled to testify before [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arkansaspolitics.com/blog/2008/02/17/why-they-can%e2%80%99t-vote-for-mccain/</link>
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