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		<title>Santorum Family&#8217;s Miscarriage is Off-Limits</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalcrush.com/blog/3251?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=santorum-familys-miscarriage-is-off-limits</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalcrush.com/blog/3251#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 18:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Coeli</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.politicalcrush.com/?p=3251</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.politicalcrush.com/blog/3251"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" height="150" src="http://www.politicalcrush.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Rick-and-Karen-150x150.jpg" class="alignleft tfe wp-post-image" alt="Rick and Karen" title="Rick and Karen" /></a>I’m a pro-choice liberal Democrat, a fierce feminist and a sworn enemy of Rick Santorum.  But there are people re-circulating an old story about Santorum and a tragic miscarriage that he and his wife suffered through, and they shouldn’t be.  [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I’m a pro-choice liberal Democrat, a fierce feminist and a sworn enemy of Rick Santorum.  But there are people re-circulating an old story about Santorum and a tragic miscarriage that he and his wife suffered through, and they shouldn’t be.  It was a highly intimate, deeply painful family affair that some of this man’s opponents are trying to use for political gain, and that is reprehensible.
In 1997, presi <a href='http://www.politicalcrush.com/blog/3251'>Read More</a>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Dictator Obama’s Power Grab</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalcrush.com/blog/3244?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=dictator-obamas-power-grab</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Veguilla</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conspiracies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress and the Supreme Court]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dictator Obama’s Power Grab]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[statist minions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.politicalcrush.com/?p=3244</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.politicalcrush.com/blog/3244"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" height="150" src="http://www.politicalcrush.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/obama-dictator-150x150.jpg" class="alignleft tfe wp-post-image" alt="obama dictator" title="obama dictator" /></a>Barack Obama’s appointment of 3 National Labor Board members was an unprecedented move that was labeled unconstitutional by many members of congress.  In typical statist, big government action, the president is only allow to make those appointments if congress is [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Barack Obama’s appointment of 3 National Labor Board members was an unprecedented move that was labeled unconstitutional by many members of congress.  In typical statist, big government action, the president is only allow to make those appointments if congress is not in session: however, congress was in session and the president had no constitutional authority to make those appointments.
Obama enraged Republican <a href='http://www.politicalcrush.com/blog/3244'>Read More</a>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>At A Time When We Need A Strong Military</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalcrush.com/blog/3241?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=at-a-time-when-we-need-a-strong-military</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Veguilla</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[At A Time When We Need A Strong Military]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cut military funding]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.politicalcrush.com/?p=3241</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.politicalcrush.com/blog/3241"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" height="150" src="http://www.politicalcrush.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/military-150x150.jpg" class="alignleft tfe wp-post-image" alt="military" title="military" /></a>At a time when the United States needs a strong military, our dear leader, Barack Hussein Obama, wants to cut military funding for ground troops by tens of thousands over the next decade. According to a Reuters news agency report: [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[At a time when the United States needs a strong military, our dear leader, Barack Hussein Obama, wants to cut military funding for ground troops by tens of thousands over the next decade.
According to a Reuters news agency report: “Though specific budget cut and troop reduction figures are not set to be announced on Thursday, officials confirmed to Reuters they would amount to a 10-15 percent decline in Army and  <a href='http://www.politicalcrush.com/blog/3241'>Read More</a>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Winner of the Iowa Caucus: Barack Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalcrush.com/blog/3228?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-winner-of-the-iowa-caucus-barack-obama</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Coeli</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Campaign Trail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iowa caucus winner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mitt romney 2012]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.politicalcrush.com/?p=3228</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.politicalcrush.com/blog/3228"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" height="150" src="http://www.politicalcrush.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/resized_obama_laughing1-150x150.jpg" class="alignleft tfe wp-post-image" alt="resized_obama_laughing1" title="resized_obama_laughing1" /></a>I&#8217;ll tell you who won last night&#8217;s Iowa caucus for the Republican presidential nomination, and it wasn&#8217;t one of the two guys that essentially tied for the win:  It was a Democratic president by the name of Barack Hussein Obama. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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I&#8217;ll tell you who won last night&#8217;s Iowa caucus for the Republican presidential nomination, and it wasn&#8217;t one of the two guys that essentially tied for the win:  It was a Democratic president by the name of Barack Hussein Obama.
Rick Santorum&#8217;s strong performance (replete with premature victory speech just as Mitt Romney was inching up in the count) means absolutely nothing.  Considering t <a href='http://www.politicalcrush.com/blog/3228'>Read More</a>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Photo Finish – Iowa Surprises Everyone</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalcrush.com/blog/3234?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=photo-finish-iowa-surprises-everyone</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Regina Tayman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Campaign Trail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gingrich fourth will not quit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP candidates on to New Hampshire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iowa 2012 Caucus in the books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iowa nailbiter keeps everyone hanging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iowa results stun pundits and politicians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Romney and Santorum neck and neck race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Romney squeks through Iowa]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.politicalcrush.com/?p=3234</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.politicalcrush.com/blog/3234"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" height="150" src="http://www.politicalcrush.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/photo-finish-150x150.jpg" class="alignleft tfe wp-post-image" alt="photo finish" title="photo finish" /></a>The Iowa Caucuses were “Too Close to Call” until the bitter end. In case you were one of the intelligent folks that went to bed long before the final tally came in, I will walk you through it as it [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Iowa Caucuses were “Too Close to Call” until the bitter end. In case you were one of the intelligent folks that went to bed long before the final tally came in, I will walk you through it as it is happening.
At 1:54 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, the votes are still too close to call and Party Officials could not, would not or at least have not yet given any definitive answer as to why the final results are st <a href='http://www.politicalcrush.com/blog/3234'>Read More</a>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Why the Hell is the Tea Party Supporting Santorum?</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalcrush.com/blog/3203?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=why-the-hell-is-the-tea-party-supporting-santorum</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Coeli</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Campaign Trail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[santorum front runner]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.politicalcrush.com/?p=3203</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.politicalcrush.com/blog/3203"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" height="150" src="http://www.politicalcrush.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/santorum1-150x150.jpg" class="alignleft tfe wp-post-image" alt="santorum" title="santorum" /></a>Rick Santorum is about as far as is humanly or politically possible for a candidate to be from what Tea Partiers say they believe in.  But he&#8217;s surging in Iowa right now, and a lot of that is thanks, in [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Rick Santorum is about as far as is humanly or politically possible for a candidate to be from what Tea Partiers say they believe in.  But he&#8217;s surging in Iowa right now, and a lot of that is thanks, in part, to Tea Party support.
Unfortunately, I believe that the Tea Party started out in 2009 with some very principled, strong ideas, but have devolved into a group of purely reactionary conservatives, unconce <a href='http://www.politicalcrush.com/blog/3203'>Read More</a>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Obama Mouthpiece Calls Iowa &#8220;Too White&#8221; After State Voted for POTUS</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalcrush.com/blog/3210?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=obama-mouthpiece-calls-iowa-too-white-after-state-voted-for-potus</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RogueOperator</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Campaign Trail]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.politicalcrush.com/?p=3210</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.politicalcrush.com/blog/3210"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" height="150" src="http://www.politicalcrush.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/andrea-mitchell1-150x150.jpg" class="alignleft tfe wp-post-image" alt="andrea mitchell" title="andrea mitchell" /></a>It&#8217;s been a long, warm winter in Iowa, but it got a little whiter when the Caucasian-heavy MSNBC helicoptered in, and put their Christian Dior boots in the land of knee-high cowpies to cover the  Hawkeye cauci. Andrea Mitchell, MSNBC [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a long, warm winter in Iowa, but it got a little whiter when the Caucasian-heavy MSNBC helicoptered in, and put their Christian Dior boots in the land of knee-high cowpies to cover the  Hawkeye cauci.
Andrea Mitchell, MSNBC News, stoked the cooling embers of racial animosity by alleging the whitebread state was unrepresentative of the rest of the country. This after Iowa got bungle fever in 2008 an <a href='http://www.politicalcrush.com/blog/3210'>Read More</a>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Exiting the Iowa Swamp</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalcrush.com/blog/3189?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=exiting-the-iowa-swamp</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RogueOperator</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Campaign Trail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iowa caucus occupy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.politicalcrush.com/?p=3189</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.politicalcrush.com/blog/3189"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" height="150" src="http://www.politicalcrush.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/iowa91-150x150.jpg" class="alignleft tfe wp-post-image" alt="iowa9" title="iowa9" /></a>A paradoxically tumultuous and exceptionally boring Iowa campaign stretch will mercifully be put out of our misery today with the staging of the Hawkeye state&#8217;s caucus. Exiting the corn swamp will be a tremendous accomplishment for conservatives, who have witnessed [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A paradoxically tumultuous and exceptionally boring Iowa campaign stretch will mercifully be put out of our misery today with the staging of the Hawkeye state&#8217;s caucus. Exiting the corn swamp will be a tremendous accomplishment for conservatives, who have witnessed a succession of &#8220;Not Romneys&#8221; rise and fall like the flood waters of the Mississippi. Who, or what, will be left standing in America&# <a href='http://www.politicalcrush.com/blog/3189'>Read More</a>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Massive Tax Increases for the New Year</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalcrush.com/blog/3184?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=massive-tax-increases-for-the-new-year</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Regina Tayman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bush tax cuts die]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.politicalcrush.com/?p=3184</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.politicalcrush.com/blog/3184"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" height="150" src="http://www.politicalcrush.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/tax-bill-1-150x150.jpg" class="alignleft tfe wp-post-image" alt="tax bill 1" title="tax bill 1" /></a>Has anyone been paying attention to anything other than the upcoming Iowa caucuses, Obama’s $4 Million dollar tax-payer paid Hawaiian vacation or the just winding up holiday season? I am speaking directly about the upcoming tax increases that are going [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Has anyone been paying attention to anything other than the upcoming Iowa caucuses, Obama’s $4 Million dollar tax-payer paid Hawaiian vacation or the just winding up holiday season? I am speaking directly about the upcoming tax increases that are going to clobber a whole bunch of people, small businesses nationwide and nearly every tax group in America.
In the month of December we all witnessed another monumental <a href='http://www.politicalcrush.com/blog/3184'>Read More</a>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Countdown Iowa: Brace for Impact!</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalcrush.com/blog/3179?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=countdown-iowa-brace-for-impact</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Regina Tayman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Campaign Trail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gingrich battles Romney and Paul]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[media ignoring important Iowa issues]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.politicalcrush.com/?p=3179</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.politicalcrush.com/blog/3179"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" height="150" src="http://www.politicalcrush.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/iowa-caucus-1-150x150.jpg" class="alignleft tfe wp-post-image" alt="iowa caucus 1" title="iowa caucus 1" /></a>We are one day away from the Iowa Caucuses. Politicians and pundits alike have been telling us for months, heck years even, just how important Iowa is to picking any presidential candidate. It is said if a candidate wants to [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[We are one day away from the Iowa Caucuses. Politicians and pundits alike have been telling us for months, heck years even, just how important Iowa is to picking any presidential candidate. It is said if a candidate wants to have any shot at all of becoming their party’s nominee, they must either “Win, place or show” in Iowa. Which means candidates must come in 1st, 2nd or 3rd in order to have momentum going  <a href='http://www.politicalcrush.com/blog/3179'>Read More</a>]]></content:encoded>
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