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<title>There's news, and then there's Palin news</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:01:00 PST</pubDate>
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<description>''Good evening, and welcome to another installment of &amp;#8216;Global Glimpses.' I'm James Prynterzink, joined as always by Wendell...</description>
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<title>Taxes aren't the solution</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:01:00 PST</pubDate>
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<description>If this is what a recovery feels like, you can be excused for wondering how it's different from a recession.</description>
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<title>Let the dreamers dream and explore</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:01:00 PST</pubDate>
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<description>Regarding the Tuesday letter, ''Spending money to blow up a rock?'':</description>
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<title>Let's try a dash of responsibility</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:01:00 PST</pubDate>
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<description><I>Wow</I>! Could you imagine balancing your family budget like the government does? Wouldn't it be cool to not have to worry about buying...</description>
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<title>He doesn't speak for majority</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:01:00 PST</pubDate>
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<description>Regarding Tim Eyman's Nov. 14 guest commentary, ''Voters weren't saying, &amp;#8216;OK, tax us more' '':</description>
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<title>Bill does provide for imprisonment</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:01:00 PST</pubDate>
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<description>This is in response to the Wednesday letter that states there is no jail provision in the House health-care bill.</description>
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<title>Readiness in S.C. belies &amp;#8216;recent' decision</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:01:00 PST</pubDate>
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<description>Well, it's been three weeks since Boeing made its announcement of building the second line for the 787 in South Carolina. Friday was the...</description>
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<title>Hobbs shows he cannot be bought </title>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:01:00 PST</pubDate>
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<description>Regarding Jerry Cornfield's Nov. 15 column, ''Unions see Dunshee as Hobbs' successor'':</description>
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<title>Oil's expanding frontiers</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:01:00 PST</pubDate>
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<description>WASHINGTON -- What city contributed most to the making of the modern world? The Paris of the Enlightenment and then of Napoleon, pioneer of mass...</description>
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<title>Intelligentsia against intelligence</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:01:00 PST</pubDate>
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<description>In the parlance of our times, the term ''Idiocracy'' means a nation run by idiots -- and the term ''idiot'' is defined by...</description>
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<title>The civic price of courting corporations</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:01:00 PST</pubDate>
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<description>Amtrak riders passing through New London, Conn., can catch an odd sight in an otherwise picturesque New England setting: a fancy corporate center...</description>
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<title>Obama's Afghanistan decision: How much time to buy</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:01:00 PST</pubDate>
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<description>WASHINGTON -- While military officers wait for President Obama to conclude his agonizingly slow review of Afghanistan policy, they've been...</description>
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<title>Justice: battlefield in the war of ideas</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:01:00 PST</pubDate>
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<description>WASHINGTON -- Critics of Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to bring the self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and four...</description>
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<title>Health bills still aren't realistic on the cost side</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:01:00 PST</pubDate>
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<description>WASHINGTON -- It's simply not true that America is ambivalent about everything when it comes to the Obama health plan.</description>
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<title>Why gay-marriage friends, foes need one another</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:01:00 PST</pubDate>
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<description>Same-sex marriage advances in one region, then retreats in another, making the United States a two-nation nation on this issue -- now and for...</description>
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