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		<title>9/11 victim George A. Llanes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thoughtfulconservative</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[September 11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carr Futures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DNA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George A. Llanes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[September 11 attacks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first honored George in 2009. I decided this year to give Scott and George their own posts. I found this post with a message from George&#8217;s step-father, and a heart-breaking sentence, We get to see George at a grave site in Staten Island, since a piece had been recovered and matched with DNA. It appears [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtfulconservative.wordpress.com&amp;blog=249843&amp;post=3942&amp;subd=thoughtfulconservative&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>9/11 victim Scott Hazelcorn</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thoughtfulconservative</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[September 11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cantor Fitzgerald]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Hazelcorn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[September 11 2001]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[September 11 attacks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I have for several years previously, I honor Scott Hazelcorn, a young employee at Cantor Fitzgerald who perished in the attacks of September 11. I quoted a New York Times article on the 7th anniversary. “At a memorial service for Scott Hazelcorn, his father learned that there were at least a dozen people who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtfulconservative.wordpress.com&amp;blog=249843&amp;post=3940&amp;subd=thoughtfulconservative&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tenth anniversary of 9/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thoughtfulconservative</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[September 11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History (TV channel)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Graves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[September 11 attacks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago, American life received a jolt as four airplanes were hijacked for the purpose of flying into large buildings. Three succeeded. Here&#8217;s a timeline of that day. We were traveling that day and I was sleeping in at my daughter&#8217;s house in Nashville, TN. My wife and daughter woke me with the news and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtfulconservative.wordpress.com&amp;blog=249843&amp;post=3931&amp;subd=thoughtfulconservative&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Representative Sandy Pasch and Citizen Action of Wisconsin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thoughtfulconservative</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE 2: Via Blogging Blue. The campaign treasurer for Sandy Pasch campaign is also treasurer for Citizen Action of Wisconsin. UPDATE: GOP files complaint into Pasch-Citizen Action tie Via a couple of tweets from Charlie Sykes: Sandy Pasch is on brd of directors of group spending big $ backing her campaign. Coordination between candidate and indy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtfulconservative.wordpress.com&amp;blog=249843&amp;post=3913&amp;subd=thoughtfulconservative&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cartoon of the day 2011-07-18</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thoughtfulconservative</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[government spending]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: government spending, Political cartoons Tagged: Barack Obama, debt ceiling, government spending, Social Security<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtfulconservative.wordpress.com&amp;blog=249843&amp;post=3901&amp;subd=thoughtfulconservative&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, John Glenn</title>
		<link>http://thoughtfulconservative.wordpress.com/2011/07/18/happy-birthday-john-glenn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thoughtfulconservative</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Glenn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NASA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Project Mercury]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is John Glenn&#8217;s 90th birthday. Yesterday&#8217;s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel had a nice article about him in the Crossroads section (Don&#8217;t ask me why there; I just read the paper). He was a hero in two of America&#8217;s wars, then a fabled test pilot, a four-term senator, a presidential candidate, finally a party elder. But [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtfulconservative.wordpress.com&amp;blog=249843&amp;post=3897&amp;subd=thoughtfulconservative&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Political Cartoon of the day 2011-07-13</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 03:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thoughtfulconservative</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Politics<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtfulconservative.wordpress.com&amp;blog=249843&amp;post=3885&amp;subd=thoughtfulconservative&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why most polls suck</title>
		<link>http://thoughtfulconservative.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/why-most-polls-suck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 03:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thoughtfulconservative</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government spending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Polls and polling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nate Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polls and poll taking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Gallup Organization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Any one who reads me, or even hangs around me for any length of time, will find out I&#8217;m not a big fan of polls. There&#8217;s just too many things that can tilt a poll one way or another. Oh, you want me to name some? Gladly. Size of the sample, who&#8217;s in the sample, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtfulconservative.wordpress.com&amp;blog=249843&amp;post=3868&amp;subd=thoughtfulconservative&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The McConnell Plan</title>
		<link>http://thoughtfulconservative.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/the-mcconnell-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 03:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thoughtfulconservative</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., offered a new plan to allow the president to demand up to $2.4 trillion in new borrowing authority by the summer of next year in three separate submissions. via McConnell: Give Obama New Powers on Debt Limit. You can find the details here. Basically it allows the president to demand [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtfulconservative.wordpress.com&amp;blog=249843&amp;post=3861&amp;subd=thoughtfulconservative&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Political cartoon of the day 2011-07-12</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 23:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: LOL! Year corrected&#8230; Amplify’d from theweek.com See more at theweek.com See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/a17pdv Filed under: Politics Tagged: editorial cartoons, nasa final launch, Political cartoons, space program<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtfulconservative.wordpress.com&amp;blog=249843&amp;post=3860&amp;subd=thoughtfulconservative&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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