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		<description><![CDATA[Tea Partiers Hit Capitol:

They arrived as early as 8:30 a.m., by bus, car and plane — from Bluffton, S.C., Des Moines and Dorris, Calif. — to rally with conservative lawmakers and possibly roam the halls of Congress.
&#8220;Can you hear us now!&#8221; they chanted from the foot of the Capitol, as they awaited the arrival of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cockingasnook.wordpress.com&blog=416101&post=5842&subd=cockingasnook&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Campaign in Poetry, Govern in Prose</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Matt Frei for BBC News on this first anniversary of the historic election:
The old saying that you campaign in poetry and govern in prose was only partially true for Obama.
By late summer of 2008, he had already switched to prose. The cautious and calculating pragmatist who now runs this country was beginning to unpeel himself [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cockingasnook.wordpress.com&blog=416101&post=5834&subd=cockingasnook&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maine Repeals Gays as Human; Public School Parent Protests Gays as Animals</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dan Delong of Carlinville, Ill., at teacher at Southwestern High School in the nearby town of Piasa, will face a school board hearing November 2, after being suspended from teaching.  A parent of one unidentified student thought the optional reading assignment was inappropriate for her child . . .
When this and this coincide in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cockingasnook.wordpress.com&blog=416101&post=5829&subd=cockingasnook&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>See Google This Morning and Smile!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Then call any handy family members over to share the smile.
I just did.
  
UPDATE: See CSM&#8217;s favorite video clips from the 40-year run.  And here&#8217;s one of mine, as a sax lover:

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		<title>Mike Lux on America&#8217;s &#8220;Historical, Hysterical Conservatives&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They have used the same arguments &#8212; for tradition and states rights, against &#8220;big government socialism&#8221; &#8212; in every era. In those past eras, history was not on their side. It is not in our time, either.
. . .These conservative arguments have always been tinged with more than a little hysteria, just like today. And [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cockingasnook.wordpress.com&blog=416101&post=5820&subd=cockingasnook&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Young Son the Political and Cultural Cynic</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you know he&#8217;s been reading Les Miserables, all 1,400 pages.
I guess it makes sense he would relate the author&#8217;s social themes to his own present reality as synched up with his own favorite social commentary artists by night, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, and as opposed to the years of rantings and vitriol he&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cockingasnook.wordpress.com&blog=416101&post=5806&subd=cockingasnook&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Do You Define What&#8217;s Up (at pussy)Cat&#8217;s?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest round of thinking parents playing &#8220;What&#8217;s in a Name?&#8221; as a floating blog-game of religion and politics costumed as each other for Halloween, apparently started with Lynn and JJ and many commenters both places, riffing on Frank Schaeffer&#8217;s books and his new MSNBC repudiation of the evangelical radicalism he was weaned on, taught [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cockingasnook.wordpress.com&blog=416101&post=5801&subd=cockingasnook&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>War, War, War Revisited</title>
		<link>http://cockingasnook.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/war-war-war-revisited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[See Because Liz Cheney is a War Criminal too in the rogues&#8217; gallery detailed, then proceed:

Liz Cheney, former Vice President Dick Cheney’s daughter, is founding a new group called “Keep America Safe” that will coordinate a campaign of fear intended to paint the President as an appeaser disinterested in protecting America.
The Cheneys have never been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cockingasnook.wordpress.com&blog=416101&post=5794&subd=cockingasnook&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Science doesn&#8217;t kill people, people kill people.  With politics and mind games.
And &#8220;fear spreads as rapidly as any virus . . .&#8221;
David Shenk is the author of five books; his next book, The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You&#8217;ve Been Told about Genetics, Talent and IQ is Wrong, will be published by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cockingasnook.wordpress.com&blog=416101&post=5786&subd=cockingasnook&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last fall, we went on tour debating the topic &#8220;Is Religion Good For The World?&#8221; Our arguments were captured on film for a new documentary, Collision. Are our morals dictated to us by a supreme entity or do discoveries made by science and reason, make Atheism a natural conclusion? You decide.
Christopher Hitchens and Pastor Douglas [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cockingasnook.wordpress.com&blog=416101&post=5775&subd=cockingasnook&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You are not half. You are a whole soul living in a divided world. &#8220;
There Is No Such Thing as Half
by Joanna Brooks
What comes out when a Mormon and a Jew raise a kid? 
. .You are a body spun from ancient dust and ancient water; you are the glorious hope of legions of ancestors [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cockingasnook.wordpress.com&blog=416101&post=5770&subd=cockingasnook&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spunky is blogging a Mensa study done by that organization&#8217;s foundation to research the nature of intelligence:
First-year college performance:
A study of home school graduates and traditional school graduates
The academic performance analyses indicate that home school graduates are as ready for college as traditional high school graduates and that they perform as well on national college [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cockingasnook.wordpress.com&blog=416101&post=5762&subd=cockingasnook&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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