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		<title>SOCIALISM??!!! Are You Fracking Kidding Me?!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why on earth are these republicans dusting off the old Socialism talking point? This isn&#8217;t the Red Scare and 1950s McCarthyism! We aren&#8217;t fighting the Soviets! We have a graduated income tax. McCain is for a graduated income tax. His hero Teddy Roosevelt was ardently for a graduated income tax. For the McCain campaign to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lars5.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8830&amp;post=55&amp;subd=lars5&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fox News Strikes Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This time online. An article at tech website oreilly.com points out that Fox News had edited a portion of Comedian Al Franken&#8217;s Wikipedia entry. A quote of all things, that changed from Reflecting later on the lawsuit during an interview on the [[National Public Radio]] program &#8221;[[Fresh Air]]&#8221; on [[September 3]], [[2003]], Franken said that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lars5.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8830&amp;post=54&amp;subd=lars5&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Survey and Maybe a Change</title>
		<link>http://lars5.wordpress.com/2007/08/09/a-survey-and-maybe-a-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 22:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the LSAT coming and a new Wii to occupy my free time, i&#8217;m having trouble trying to get back into political blogging. It doesn&#8217;t help that keeping up with the news can be time consuming and sometimes depressing. But I digress. The point is I surprisingly have gotten over a thousand hits and have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lars5.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8830&amp;post=53&amp;subd=lars5&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>16 Military Wives</title>
		<link>http://lars5.wordpress.com/2007/06/07/16-military-wives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 01:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Decemberist&#8217;s 16 Military Wives Global geopolitics in a 5 minute music video. Well the quarter&#8217;s over, next week is finals, and I&#8217;m going on vacation after&#8230; haven&#8217;t decided whether or not I&#8217;ll keep this up. Maybe I&#8217;ll bring back insight from the other side of the pond.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lars5.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8830&amp;post=52&amp;subd=lars5&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Now That&#8217;s a Republican</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, yeah I might be kinda throwing in with Ron Paul, but really, finally a republican who is for small government and means it. But if he isn&#8217;t the republican candidate, I&#8217;m voting Dem. These other Republican candidates just don&#8217;t cut it. Funny how the Daily Show has become a staple of political campaign stops. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lars5.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8830&amp;post=51&amp;subd=lars5&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Funny Thing About the Internet is</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Announcement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On June 4th I had a spike in web traffic. According to my wordpress blogstats, I had 108 hits on that day, nearly double my previous high total of 56. I went from around 5 hits a day,with 10 on a good day, to 108, and that doesn&#8217;t include a good average of 10 readers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lars5.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8830&amp;post=50&amp;subd=lars5&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nice Try Brits</title>
		<link>http://lars5.wordpress.com/2007/06/04/nice-try-brits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The British newspaper, The Independent, has this little graphic to demonstrate the spending habits of citizens in comparison to the amount of foreign aid their nations contribute. I agree that this is a very important issue. It&#8217;s ridiculous that German women spend more money on shoes than Germany spends on foreign aid&#8230; although its ridiculous [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lars5.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8830&amp;post=49&amp;subd=lars5&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Response to Hugh Hewitt</title>
		<link>http://lars5.wordpress.com/2007/06/04/in-responce-to-hugh-hewitt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hugh Hewitt gave a lecture as a guest speaker in my blogs and politics class and I would like to respond to two claims: 1. Republicans are logical 2. Good political blogs don&#8217;t assail the other side of the aisle I came across shelleytherepublican.com. At first I thought that it must have been a satirical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lars5.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8830&amp;post=48&amp;subd=lars5&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>50 Politicians Who Take Money from the RIAA</title>
		<link>http://lars5.wordpress.com/2007/06/02/50-politicians-who-take-money-from-the-riaa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2007 23:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time to get active. There is a list of 50 politicians who have received contributions from the RIAA at consumerist.com I encourage everyone to contact their respective representative(s) and express their disapproval. The RIAA has no regard for the consumer and has historically attempted to stop any form of advancement in the technology of music [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lars5.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8830&amp;post=47&amp;subd=lars5&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finally Somebody Said It</title>
		<link>http://lars5.wordpress.com/2007/06/02/finally-somebody-said-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2007 23:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was going to post on the whole &#8220;They hate us for our freedoms&#8221; BS line that the Bush administration keeps shoving down our throats. I heard that for the first time six years ago, when I was 15, and even then I knew immediately that that slogan was so overly simplistic, it bordered on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lars5.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8830&amp;post=43&amp;subd=lars5&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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