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		<title>Crazy like a Fox!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kenfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As President Barack Obama forwards his political policies with little or nothing to show for it thus far, the bandwagon of hope and change is beginning to lose riders. The latests numbers for cable news ratings now show Fox News as the only TV news outlet to increase viewership since the election one year ago.
As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>University Tuition Hike in California- (The fight is ours as well)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Jacobs, IDS Columnist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear colleagues, friends, and casual observers,
We currently live in a time of increasing economic hardships, as you well know.   We live in a time that sees tuition rising higher and higher, and higher.  We also live in a time that sees student disgust with this upward trend.  But sadly, we find ourselves lacking the necessary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The EU gets a President</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Ammerman, IDS Columnist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The European Council voted today in a closed-door meeting to appoint the low-profile Herman Van Rompuy, the Belgian Prime Minister, to the newly-created position of Permanent President of the European Council, passing over the heavyweight candidacy of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair that was heavily campaigned for by the current British PM, Gordon Brown.
Touted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m the Greatest F&#8212;-r Here</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Straw, IDS Columnist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You don&#8217;t have to look far today to find people talking in plain language how America is the greatest nation in the world. Whether it&#8217;s the correspondents on MSNBC, Newt Gingrich, Fox News, it&#8217;s basically reiterated every time you turn on the TV, and how Obama, by trying to be diplomatic somehow doesn&#8217;t believe in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When they ask you if it hurts, show &#8216;em your Poker Face.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Straw, IDS Columnist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In yet another show of just how out of touch they are with the modern youth, MTV has shown how the Grammys will NOT nominate Lady Gaga for Best New Artist.  I mean, she all ready won the VMA award for the same,  because as MTV says -
Few new artists in recent years have made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If you can&#8217;t beat em, make your own dictionary!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Straw, IDS Columnist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you&#8217;ve lived on a secluded island for the last couple of years, in which case, Hello! And how can I get there?, you have probably heard of Conservapedia, brainemptyshell project of Andrew Schlafly, son of historically unimportant right wing non figure Phyllis Schlafly, a woman unaware of the irony of a woman opposing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bowers Beware</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Kraus, IDS Columnist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, Mr. Obama is being faulted for bowing to a foreign leader.  Here is the video of our president briefly genuflecting to Emperor Akihito of Japan.
Barack Obama bows to Japan&#8217;s Emperor Akihito
All the president is doing is showing his respect for another culture&#8217;s traditions.  I happen to believe that many traditions are antiquated nonsense, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hang&#8217;em High!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hammoor, IDS Columnist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is directly from a Facebook post Sarah Palin put up November 13 regarding the Obama Administration’s use of the American Justice System:
&#8220;Horrible decision, absolutely horrible. It is devastating for so many of us to hear that the Obama Administration decided that the 9/11 terrorist mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will be given a criminal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Videos of the Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Straw, IDS Columnist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s really only one video I&#8217;ve seen this week that&#8217;s worth repeating (besides Rep. Buyer&#8217;s amazing interview) -
1) Auto Tune the News
But in honor of the recent IU conference on Black impact on Rock , I thought that it was worth mentioning the rapper from &#8220;the only place more dangerous than Kandahar,  and that&#8217;s kind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burn him!</title>
		<link>http://www.idsnews.com/blogs/thesamplegates/?p=2874</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Straw, IDS Columnist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, in a manner befitting a democratic society, the &#8220;Teabagger&#8221; groups have decided to burn effigies of Virginia Representative Tom Pereillo and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.  Because nothing says democracy and freedom like burning effigies suggesting to murder democratically elected public officials. In a small session he had with some of the Teabaggers, Rep. [...]]]></description>
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