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	<title>Daily Nexog &#187; Jeff Nettleton</title>
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		<title>What do conservatives want, exactly?</title>
		<link>http://blog.dailynexus.com/shallow/politicsetal/what-do-conservatives-want-exactly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Nettleton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The political spectrum in the United States has long varied to some extent from those in the rest of the developed world. While the Democrats are host to a range of ideological stances that range from the traditional left to the center-right, the Republicans and those with associated or similar positions hold many beliefs that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unnerved by Responsibility, Democrats Signal a Yearning for the Minority</title>
		<link>http://blog.dailynexus.com/shallow/politicsetal/unnerved-by-responsibility-democrats-signal-a-yearning-for-the-minority/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Nettleton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our country’s pathetic excuse for an “organized” left, the Democratic Party, has once again begun to disappoint, much to the dismay of those that the party so vigorously claims to represent. Although time and again the Democrats have promised massive change and reform for America, the postwar and post-FDR left in the United States is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gift of Fear</title>
		<link>http://blog.dailynexus.com/shallow/politicsetal/listen-to-the-gift-of-fear-its-there-for-a-reason/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dailynexus.com/shallow/politicsetal/listen-to-the-gift-of-fear-its-there-for-a-reason/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Nettleton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the middle of his show that aired on September 24, 2009, after playing a clip of schoolchildren celebrating Barack Obama&#8217;s being the first black President by singing a song (during Black History Month) to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic that lauded the President&#8217;s accomplishments, Glenn Beck encouraged Americans to &#8220;listen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Faith to Persevere</title>
		<link>http://blog.dailynexus.com/shallow/politicsetal/the-faith-to-persevere/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dailynexus.com/shallow/politicsetal/the-faith-to-persevere/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Nettleton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, my fellow Daily Nexus political blogger Audrey wrote a piece detailing the &#8220;disinformation&#8221; that she believed Obama was spreading about health care reform. After reading her post, and feeling entirely unmoved vaguely interested, I knew that my terrible impulse control would, per usual, betray me and before I realized it, my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lost Generation</title>
		<link>http://blog.dailynexus.com/shallow/politicsetal/the-lost-generation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Nettleton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For decades, America has been in a slowly worsening state of stagnation that was initiated by the new neoliberal economics of the postwar era and has been perpetuated by the apathy and disillusionment of those living in the formidable shadow of the achievements of the greatest generation and the failures of its successors. The United [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Although Kennedy Has Gone, His Dream Will Never Die</title>
		<link>http://blog.dailynexus.com/shallow/politicsetal/although-kennedy-has-gone-his-dream-will-never-die/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Nettleton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senator Edward Morse Kennedy, long known as the &#8220;liberal lion,&#8221; a champion of the causes of the disenfranchised and downtrodden, died Wednesday after a long battle with brain cancer. His death marks the end of the political powerhouse that was his generation of Kennedys, and although he lost all three of his brothers whom he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Town Halls Actually a Cover for Republican Self-Help Meetings</title>
		<link>http://blog.dailynexus.com/shallow/politicsetal/town-halls-actually-a-cover-for-republican-self-help-meetings/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dailynexus.com/shallow/politicsetal/town-halls-actually-a-cover-for-republican-self-help-meetings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Nettleton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John McCain&#8217;s town hall meeting in Sun City, Arizona, which was broadcast live Tuesday morning on CNN, was a surprising change from those that have been receiving the most air time as of late. Unlike town halls hosted by Democratic legislators, I was refreshed to see that there were no strung out right-wing extremists comparing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, like Clinton, Will Not Be Jimmy Carter 2.0</title>
		<link>http://blog.dailynexus.com/shallow/politicsetal/obama-like-clinton-will-not-be-jimmy-carter-2-0/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Nettleton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was concern in the days leading up to and including the early Clinton presidency, according to Hunter S. Thompson in his account of the 1992 United States Presidential Campaign, Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie, that Bill Clinton &#8220;might fail utterly, like Jimmy Carter, and bring another 12 years of greey Republican [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Politics Finally Grows a Backbone</title>
		<link>http://blog.dailynexus.com/shallow/politicsetal/american-politics-finally-grows-a-backbone/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dailynexus.com/shallow/politicsetal/american-politics-finally-grows-a-backbone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Nettleton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Howard Dean, the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, told Democratic lawmakers today that if they did not back the public option, there would be Democratic primaries in their district in the next election, according to the Huffington Post. His threat, which would represent a major problem for lawmakers long accustomed to utilizing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Politics: A Deeply and Irreparably Flawed System</title>
		<link>http://blog.dailynexus.com/shallow/politicsetal/american-politics-a-deeply-and-irreparably-flawed-system/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dailynexus.com/shallow/politicsetal/american-politics-a-deeply-and-irreparably-flawed-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Nettleton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Electoral politics in the United States is a very interesting game. As opposed to the parliamentary systems used in the vast majority of other democracies across the globe, here in the U.S., the ballot lists people instead of parties. Additionally, our system has other fun quirks, such as electoral votes and an inherently unfair and [...]]]></description>
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