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	<description>Conservative, Catholic, ex-newsman, Oak Parker (IL)</description>
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		<title>Newt more than a media-basher</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read this about Newt as more than what&#8217;s advertised by Romney-ites: Tonight&#8217;s debate in Florida may be, as advertised, crucial to the outcome of the race there. But whether Speaker Gingrich knocks this one out of the park or he doesn&#8217;t, one fact stands clear. He&#8217;s survived this long against extraordinary odds and attained the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=346543&amp;post=6410&amp;subd=blithespirit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Catholics under siege</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Catholics and other Americans united in defense of religious liberty should hear what NY Archbishop Dolan has to say about the government forcing church institutions to provide insurance to cover birth control and abortion-inducing drugs. Here is Abp. Dolan on the subject: &#8220;From a human point of view, we may be tempted to surrender, when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=346543&amp;post=6408&amp;subd=blithespirit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AmSpect assumes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[American Spectator fellow on the presidential speech: Aside from the fact that the Democrats didn&#8217;t seem to enjoy being there any more than the Republicans, the address begged a number of different questions. He lost me right there.&#160; Prompted or suggested questions. I&#8217;m cranky as it is when the Obfuscator-in-Chief flaps his lips, then comes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=346543&amp;post=6406&amp;subd=blithespirit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brian Williams bit hand that feeds him</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An entertainer like Brian Williams should know better than ban applause. He&#8217;d be nothin&#8217; but a houn&#8217; dog without it, baying at the moonglow.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=346543&amp;post=6405&amp;subd=blithespirit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sun-Times make non-endorse decision in nick of time</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sun-Times endorsements no more: With this in mind, the Chicago Sun-Times Editorial Board will approach election coverage in a new way. We will provide clear and accurate information about who the candidates are and where they stand on the issues most important to our city, our state and our country. We will post candidate questionnaires [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=346543&amp;post=6403&amp;subd=blithespirit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama vs. Israel, so what?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ed Koch can&#8217;t help lovin&#8217; that guy.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=346543&amp;post=6401&amp;subd=blithespirit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Working stiffs to enviros: Get lost</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that pipeline: The Laborers International Union of North America announced today that it is quitting the BlueGreen Alliance, a major coalition group. LIUNA head Terry O&#8217;Sullivan did not mince words in explaining why they were leaving in a statement released today. &#8220;AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka recently said there was a divide in the labor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=346543&amp;post=6399&amp;subd=blithespirit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On not paying attention at mass</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a question of filtering.&#160; Readers murder the language, chanter squeaks and over-dramatizes, choir delivers warmed-over pop stuff,&#160;people behind you chat, presider (celebrant, mass-sayer, whatever) gives into quirks, offering his own rendition of the words of the mass.&#160; Somehow have your own private mass, ignoring the minister when necessary, trusting in ex opere operato, that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=346543&amp;post=6397&amp;subd=blithespirit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Newt spoke</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NY Sun applauds Newt&#8217;s speech, noting at the end: The synthesis of ideas Mr. Gingrich unfurled in the Palmetto State suggests we are in for one of the great nominating contests of our time. Gentlemen, keep your engines running.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=346543&amp;post=6396&amp;subd=blithespirit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Playoffs embarrass Bears coach &#8211; chicagotribune.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You were wondering about Chi Bears and whom to fire? Chi Trib&#8217;s Rosenbloom fingers Coach Smith, the great stone face of coaching, but also by implication Virginia McCaskey. Which goes with the pregnant thought that she and the rest of the McCaskeys are the ones to fire.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blithespirit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=346543&amp;post=6395&amp;subd=blithespirit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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