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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Health Care “Compromise” A Poison Pill For Small Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much ado has been made of the tenuous “compromise” between President Barack Obama and “Blue Dog” Democrats in Washington on the issue of government-run health care. Sadly, the reality is that the latest version of “Obamacare” is still a poison pill for America’s small businesses and the millions of workers they employ. Most small businesses [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howierich.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4059427&amp;post=731&amp;subd=howierich&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arroyo Dismisses Accusations She’s Trying to Extend Term Limits</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Francisco Alcuaz Jr. July 27 (Bloomberg) &#8212; Philippine President Gloria Arroyo dismissed accusations she will attempt to cling to power when her term expires next year by changing the constitution. “I never expressed the desire to extend myself beyond my term,” Arroyo said in her annual policy statement. “Many of those who accuse me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howierich.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4059427&amp;post=728&amp;subd=howierich&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obamacare: Prelude to ‘Public Option’</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama says that his health care program will cut costs and give Americans better coverage and more choices. Obviously, these are concepts which should sell extremely well in a country where we place a premium on savings and selection. Of course, the actual substance of Obama’s $1.5 trillion socialized medicine plan stands in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howierich.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4059427&amp;post=725&amp;subd=howierich&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lake City charter school gains approval</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AKE CITY — Lake City will soon be the home to a new charter school. Dr. Deloris W.B. Brown, director of education for the new Lake City College Preparatory Academy Inc., said in a phone interview July 10 that the school received approval the previous week. To receive approval for a charter school, she said, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howierich.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4059427&amp;post=723&amp;subd=howierich&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Rangel Surtax Debate Exposes “Class Warfare” Myth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Howard Rich “Make the rich pay for it, they can afford it.” For decades, this has been the /modus operandi/ of politicians and public officials who rely on unsustainable government growth and skyrocketing taxpayer debt to pad their patronage and expand their influence. It’s also the driving force behind House Ways &#38; Means Chairman [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howierich.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4059427&amp;post=718&amp;subd=howierich&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama refuses to rule out surtax for health care</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By ERICA WERNER (AP) WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is declining to take a surtax off the table in the escalating debate over how to pay for a new health care system that would cover millions of uninsured people. Obama noted in a nationally broadcast interview Tuesday that &#8220;the House has put forward a surtax,&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howierich.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4059427&amp;post=716&amp;subd=howierich&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Europe Thumps U.S., Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Wall Street Journal On present trends, most of Europe will soon have lower income tax rates than most of America. And now the European Union is stealing another competitive march on Washington, this time on a free trade deal with the world&#8217;s 13th largest economy, fast-growing South Korea. Last week Brussels and Seoul [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howierich.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4059427&amp;post=714&amp;subd=howierich&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s False Choices</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From theWashington Times President Obama pretends to be a unifying figure while consistently denigrating his opponents. This lowers public discourse and makes it harder for the country to move forward as one. The latest example of this disturbing pattern came in a column by Mr. Obama published in Sunday&#8217;s Washington Post. In the column, Mr. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howierich.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4059427&amp;post=709&amp;subd=howierich&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Open Beaches act faces legal challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fifty years ago this week, state lawmakers adopted legislation giving the public free access to all Texas beaches. Property rights activists and beach-front property owners challenged the Open Beaches Act from the beginning, but until now, none of the cases made it as far as the Texas Supreme Court. On Nov. 19, the state’s top [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howierich.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4059427&amp;post=705&amp;subd=howierich&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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