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		<title>Good Luck, Hitch!</title>
		<link>http://informedspeculation.com/2010/07/01/good-luck-hitch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 05:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hitchens the Great]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well, you may have heard the bad news by now&#8230;Christopher Hitchens, a writer of considerable courage and integrity, as well as rarely surpassed erudition and elegance, has been diagnosed with esophageal cancer.  Hitchens is the sort of writer who has offended almost everyone at some point, but he has consistently, in his days of association [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As Good As It Gets</title>
		<link>http://informedspeculation.com/2010/06/23/as-good-as-it-gets/</link>
		<comments>http://informedspeculation.com/2010/06/23/as-good-as-it-gets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 03:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrities / Pop Culture / Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In Praise Of]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You know the moments: the Miracle on Ice comes to mind.  For Texas Tech and college football fans, the Graham Harrell pass to Michael Crabtree to knock off #1 UT.  The Immaculate Reception.  Those moments that will stand frozen forever in the minds of the sports fans fortunate enough to witness them. Such is Landon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The World Cup 2010: International Soccer Reaches Maturity</title>
		<link>http://informedspeculation.com/2010/06/20/the-world-cup-2010-international-soccer-reaches-maturity/</link>
		<comments>http://informedspeculation.com/2010/06/20/the-world-cup-2010-international-soccer-reaches-maturity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrities / Pop Culture / Sports]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The most remarkable thing about this current World Cup is not that it has resurrected this blog (I&#8217;m still alive!), nor that America got robbed (as it surely did of the winning goal against Slovenia), nor the omnipresent droning of the vuvuzelas. It is that this is the first World Cup where you can honestly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday Fun: Young and Hungry Edition</title>
		<link>http://informedspeculation.com/2010/04/04/sunday-fun-young-and-hungry-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://informedspeculation.com/2010/04/04/sunday-fun-young-and-hungry-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrities / Pop Culture / Sports]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In all the years of great musical performances on Saturday Night Live, I think my all-time favorite is the one below (couldn&#8217;t do YouTube, because YouTube keeps yanking it down).  This is DEFINITELY the most energetic performance I&#8217;ve ever seen on SNL, and I think you can chalk it up to a band that was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Trend Emerges</title>
		<link>http://informedspeculation.com/2010/04/03/a-new-trend-emerges/</link>
		<comments>http://informedspeculation.com/2010/04/03/a-new-trend-emerges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 16:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[POTUS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://informedspeculation.com/?p=7585</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember when the whole lefthand side of the blogosphere was all aflutter over a spot poll passed in the immediate wake of the passage of health care reform that showed that the public actually approved of the Democratic plan to bankrupt the nation &#8211; er, pass health care reform?  This despite months of polling showing [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fineman&#8217;s Revelation, And The Coming Entitlement Depression</title>
		<link>http://informedspeculation.com/2010/03/31/finemans-revelation-and-the-coming-entitlement-depression/</link>
		<comments>http://informedspeculation.com/2010/03/31/finemans-revelation-and-the-coming-entitlement-depression/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 03:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://informedspeculation.com/?p=7583</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Meant to blog on this yesterday, when the whole world was, but got busy&#8230;in case you missed it, Howard Fineman dropped quite a bombshell: A Democratic senator I can&#8217;t name, who reluctantly voted for the health-care bill out of loyalty to his party and his admiration for Barack Obama, privately complained to me that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The CBO and Partisan Hypocrisy &#8211; A Response</title>
		<link>http://informedspeculation.com/2010/03/29/the-cbo-and-partisan-hypocrisy-a-response/</link>
		<comments>http://informedspeculation.com/2010/03/29/the-cbo-and-partisan-hypocrisy-a-response/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Donkeys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[POTUS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As long as there has been a Congressional Budget Office, there has been a lot of crying from one side or the other of the partisan divide about their latest estimates.  So when a conservative such as myself says I don&#8217;t believe this health care boondoggle will reduce the deficit, the immediate accusation is one of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Memory&#8217;s Sweet Afterglow</title>
		<link>http://informedspeculation.com/2010/03/28/memorys-sweet-afterglow/</link>
		<comments>http://informedspeculation.com/2010/03/28/memorys-sweet-afterglow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrities / Pop Culture / Sports]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://informedspeculation.com/?p=7574</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a little Sunday fun &#8211; in October, 2006, the Rolling Stones played, incredibly, Zilker Park in Austin in front of about 45,000 people.  It boggled the mind to ponder it, and the show was, even more incredibly, better than anyone thought it could be.  It was one of those glorious evenings that, for those [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Listen Carefully, Folks: One Poll Does Not A Trend Make</title>
		<link>http://informedspeculation.com/2010/03/24/listen-carefully-folks-one-poll-does-not-a-trend-make/</link>
		<comments>http://informedspeculation.com/2010/03/24/listen-carefully-folks-one-poll-does-not-a-trend-make/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://informedspeculation.com/?p=7569</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The liberal blogosphere and even commenters who lean left here were trumpeting a new poll released earlier this week that showed the public in favor of the health care reforms passed Sunday after months and months of polling showing the public as consistently opposed.  It is not surprising that the health care reforms would get [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>About That Deficit Reduction</title>
		<link>http://informedspeculation.com/2010/03/24/about-that-deficit-reduction/</link>
		<comments>http://informedspeculation.com/2010/03/24/about-that-deficit-reduction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donkeys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://informedspeculation.com/?p=7565</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I based my opposition to health care reform on a simple premise I repeated over and over &#8211; we can&#8217;t afford it.  I never believed the bill would reduce the deficit and I still don&#8217;t.  And I&#8217;m not alone &#8211; here&#8217;s Jay Cost: Between now and the next presidential election, ObamaCare is going to pay [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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