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		<title>It&#8217;s all relative</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a time, I wasn&#8217;t wholly sure what my stance was on trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in civilian trials, or mirandizing Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. I really understand both sides of the argument. On the one hand, Republicans point out that if we&#8217;re at war with Al Qaeda then they should be treated like enemy combatants, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firesideblogging.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8511393&amp;post=145&amp;subd=firesideblogging&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[The president&#8217;s budget came out on in full on Monday, though there were the usual leaks here and there over the weekend and a bit of last week too. On the whole, there are many things to like about this budget. Tax cuts for the middle class, tax credits to help encourage businesses to get [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firesideblogging.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8511393&amp;post=140&amp;subd=firesideblogging&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bungled, mismanaged and miscalculated</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Democrats are upset at their now only near-super majority in the Senate. With the election of Brown over Coakley, as numerous media outlets have pointed out, Democrats only have 59 seats in the Senate and can&#8217;t stop a filibuster. This story has several implications, aspects, realities attached to it, whatever phrasing you prefer. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firesideblogging.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8511393&amp;post=135&amp;subd=firesideblogging&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The final stretch &#8230; in a car</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seems like cheating. Merging the House and Senate bills without a conference committee almost has the feel of being unconstitutional. It&#8217;s not, but it does feel that way. Conference committees are almost always used to merge the House and Senate versions of bills. I&#8217;m not sure if, on such a major bill, that hasn&#8217;t happened [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firesideblogging.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8511393&amp;post=128&amp;subd=firesideblogging&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Improving Health Care, Pt. 3/3</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last two reforms go hand-in-hand: end-of-life counseling and review panels for Medicare/Medicaid. The first of those is not controversial where it’s understood properly. And the facts back it up. “Researcher found that these conversations between patients and physicians led to fewer cases of aggressive care, which saved money and resulted in a far more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firesideblogging.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8511393&amp;post=124&amp;subd=firesideblogging&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Improving Health Care, Pt. 2/3</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another item on the list of modifications is to end the anti-trust exemption health insurer’s have. Perhaps they needed it 60 years ago, perhaps not. But the $800 billion in waste, 18 percent ($144 billion) of which is from administrative inefficiency and redundant paperwork, argues they don’t need it anymore (Fox, 2009). The House bill [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firesideblogging.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8511393&amp;post=121&amp;subd=firesideblogging&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Improving Health Care, Pt. 1/3</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For one of my classes I had to write a paper on what I propose for health care reform, backing up my own ideas and explaining what&#8217;s wrong with congressional ideas if I chose not to back the plans in Congress. Here is that paper, in three parts, with hyperlinks instead of a works cited [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firesideblogging.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8511393&amp;post=118&amp;subd=firesideblogging&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>War of Necessity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Veteran&#8217;s Day, Armistice Day, it seems appropriate to discuss a foreign war. The War on Iraq&#8217;s been off the radar lately, but the War in Afghanistan has been all over the news. When I first heard that President Obama was going to review the Afghan strategy, I didn&#8217;t fully grasp what was meant by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firesideblogging.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8511393&amp;post=111&amp;subd=firesideblogging&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama vs O&#8217;Reilly</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The president&#8217;s attacks on Fox News have become part of normal conversation. Everyone from Bill O&#8217;Reilly to Jon Stewart is talking about his &#8220;war&#8221; on Fox News. I&#8217;m not wholly sure what&#8217;s happened to media in this country. The partisan bickering seems not to be reflected in the media as much anymore, but is just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firesideblogging.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8511393&amp;post=105&amp;subd=firesideblogging&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cartoon worth 1000 words</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This sums up the media in this country right now. It&#8217;s not entirely the fault of the media, the balloon story mattered a lot more to people, and that&#8217;s why it was aired. This nation needs to start noticing what&#8217;s going on around it. We&#8217;ve all heard the pathetic statistics about how many people can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firesideblogging.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8511393&amp;post=102&amp;subd=firesideblogging&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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