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	<title>Jeff Wartman &#187; Jeff</title>
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		<title>Congressional Insider Trading Needs to End</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The blatant insider trading among members of Congress needs to end.  From the Washington Post: It is bad practice for members of Congress to own and trade in individual stocks. That is particularly true in areas of their direct involvement, such as defense stocks for members of the Armed Services committees. President Obama, in applauding the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wisdom from President Dwight D. Eisenhower</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An oldie but a goodie from President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study:  Low Intelligence Linked to Prejudice and Conservatism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I was an elected Republican committeeman, I never self identified as a conservative, although I never would have expressed these sentiments in public even though I certainly have had an inkling of this for a long time. Are racists dumb? Do conservatives tend to be less intelligent than liberals? A provocative new study from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Post Hits the Nail on the Head</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s obvious to any informed observer that we have fiscal and economic crises in going on in this country.  Whether it&#8217;s the deficit or it&#8217;s unemployment, the writing on the wall is clear:  unless we have structural changes in our economic system, there will be a day of reckoning coming.  The Washington Post had a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contributions to the deficit, Bush vs. Obama.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cost of President Bush&#8217;s policies to raising the deficit:  $5.1 trillion. The cost of President Obama&#8217;s policies to raising the deficit:  $983 billion. I&#8217;d love to hear more mindless Republican bumper stick talking points about how they are fiscally responsible.  If you vote Republican, you&#8217;re supporting much bigger government than if you were voting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looks like Edward Lewis from &#8220;Pretty Woman&#8221; is the Republican Presidential Nominee</title>
		<link>http://jeffwartman.com/looks-like-edward-lewis-from-pretty-woman-is-the-republican-presidential-nominee/</link>
		<comments>http://jeffwartman.com/looks-like-edward-lewis-from-pretty-woman-is-the-republican-presidential-nominee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember Richard Gere&#8217;s character, Edward Lewis, from Pretty Woman?  Clearly the character had a lot in common with Mitt Rommey: Vivian: You don&#8217;t actually have a billion dollars, huh? Edward: No. I get some of it from banks, investors… it&#8217;s not an easy thing to do. Vivian: And you don&#8217;t make anything… Edward: No. Vivian: … and you don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want to Give Me a Birthday Gift?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So seeing that today is my birthday, I&#8217;m requesting a simple gift from each of you. Drop the rigid, mindless ideology and read a policy book.  As a nation, we won&#8217;t be anywhere if we continue the mindless and misinformed babble that currently substitutes for political discourse.  I will suggest &#8220;Back to Work&#8221; by Bill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NYT:  Obama Right to Support Birth Control</title>
		<link>http://jeffwartman.com/nyt-obama-right-to-support-birth-control/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day we start allowing certain medical procedures and not others, or covering certain medications but not others based on morality is the day we take a step back in our progress as a society.  There is no excuse for denying medical coverage for birth control. It was good news that the Obama administration withstood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speaker Madigan:  Schools and Teachers Need to Pay Their Fair Share of Pensions</title>
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		<comments>http://jeffwartman.com/speaker-madigan-schools-and-teachers-need-to-pay-their-fair-share-of-pensions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, who rarely ever speaks much in public, held a forum at my alma mater last week and got into some issues that have been ignored for a long time &#8212; namely the problem with state pensions.  Underfunded Illinois pensions are one of the most significant problems with the Illinois economy, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John McCain:  Stop the Debates</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John McCain has an ingenious way for Republicans to gain traction again:  just have people stop listening to them at debates. He expressed serious concerns on Capitol Hill Tuesday, claiming the debates have taken on an &#8220;inordinate influence&#8221; that was absent in 2008. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s very harmful to Republicans, because instead of the candidates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jan Brewer Has Been Embarrassing Herself For a Long Time</title>
		<link>http://jeffwartman.com/jan-brewer-has-been-embarrassing-herself-for-a-long-time/</link>
		<comments>http://jeffwartman.com/jan-brewer-has-been-embarrassing-herself-for-a-long-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all saw the picture of Arizona Governor  Jan Brewer wagging her finger in the face of President Obama.  Of course, Jan Brewer is typical of many Southern Republicans.  She uses thinly cloaked bigotry to push a regressive and backward thinking ideology.  Most of that can be attributed to the fact that she&#8217;s not very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republican Jesus</title>
		<link>http://jeffwartman.com/republican-jesus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<title>More Ugly Rhetoric From Rick Santorum on Rape Victims</title>
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		<comments>http://jeffwartman.com/more-ugly-rhetoric-from-rick-santorum-on-rape-victims/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Still unsure how anyone can take this guy seriously&#8230; GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorumexplained his opposition to abortion even in cases of rape during an interview Friday, saying that women who face such circumstances should &#8220;make the best out of a bad situation.&#8221; Asked by CNN&#8217;s Piers Morgan what he would do if his own daughter approached [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on the State of the Union</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ll come right out and say it:  President Obama gave one of the best speeches of his career and the Congress heard one of the best State of the Union addresses in recent memory.  Financial pragmatism and responsibility were main themes. A tax code that allows for millionaires to pay less of a percentage of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mitch Daniels&#8217; Poor Grasp of Facts</title>
		<link>http://jeffwartman.com/mitch-daniels-poor-grasp-of-facts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mitch Daniels stated last night that President Obama was trying to form a middle class using government jobs, but he fails to mention that President Obama has cut government jobs while creating more net private sector jobs in his first three years in office than President Bush did during his entire eight years. Tell me [...]]]></description>
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