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	<title>Bits &#38; Pieces &#187; Obama</title>
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		<title>Good news for Obama</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/03/good-news-for-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[US payrolls are up by 243,000 in January (vs. expected 150,000) and the jobless rate has dropped to 8.3% in January, the lowest level since February, 2009.]]></description>
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		<title>Political quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/01/27/political-quote-of-the-day-159/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2012/01/27/political-quote-of-the-day-159/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=16819</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For many right-wingers, Obama was a foreign object, whose unexpected entrance into the body politic activated their immune systems &#8212; hence the &#8216;birther&#8217; movement and other bizarre right-wing obsessions. Whether the right&#8217;s aversion to Obama constitutes classic racism is a &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2012/01/27/political-quote-of-the-day-159/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Andrew Sullivan v. Stephen Colbert</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/01/26/andrew-sullivan-v-stephen-colbert/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2012/01/26/andrew-sullivan-v-stephen-colbert/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=16806</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor &#38; Satire Blog,Video Archive You can read Sullivan&#8217;s powerful defense of President Obama in Newsweek here.]]></description>
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		<title>Sullivan pushes back against the right</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/01/17/sullivan-pushes-back-against-the-right/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2012/01/17/sullivan-pushes-back-against-the-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<title>Imperialism quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/10/23/imperialism-quote-of-the-day/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2011/10/23/imperialism-quote-of-the-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 12:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=15335</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Every now and then it&#8217;s worth pausing to reflect on how often we talk about the killing of people by the U.S. Literally, the U.S. government is just continuously killing people in multiple countries around the world. Who else does &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/10/23/imperialism-quote-of-the-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Political quote of the day 2</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/09/19/political-quote-of-the-day-2-6/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2011/09/19/political-quote-of-the-day-2-6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is not class warfare.  It is math. The money is going to have to come from someplace. &#8211; President Obama making the case for a new tax on the very, very wealthy, who also happen to capture an overwhelming &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/09/19/political-quote-of-the-day-2-6/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Political quote of the day (updated)</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/09/19/political-quote-of-the-day-125/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2011/09/19/political-quote-of-the-day-125/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=14709</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By the time I feed my family, I have maybe $400,000 left over. &#8211; Representative John Fleming, (R-LA) explaining why a small business owner like him cannot afford a tax increase. The more these guys talk like this, the stronger &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/09/19/political-quote-of-the-day-125/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Political quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/09/15/political-quote-of-the-day-123/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2011/09/15/political-quote-of-the-day-123/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=14647</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Fire somebody. No &#8212; fire a lot of people. This may be news to you but this is not going well. For precedent, see Russian Army 64th division at Stalingrad. There were enough deaths at Stalingrad to make the entire &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/09/15/political-quote-of-the-day-123/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Close up reporting on the bin Laden raid</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/08/06/close-up-reporting-on-the-bin-laden-raid/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2011/08/06/close-up-reporting-on-the-bin-laden-raid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 11:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=14077</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The New Yorker this week has an article detailing the killing of Osama bin Laden. Worth a full read. Excerpt: When the helicopter began getting away from the pilot, he pulled back on the cyclic, which controls the pitch of &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/08/06/close-up-reporting-on-the-bin-laden-raid/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Political quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/08/05/political-quote-of-the-day-112/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2011/08/05/political-quote-of-the-day-112/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[debt limit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Voters’ Pavlovian reaction may simply be that fiscal austerity equals pain, which could complicate Republican messaging in the long-run. &#8211; Nate Silver, counter-intuitively arguing that yesterday&#8217;s stock market crash could help the President&#8217;s re-election chances.]]></description>
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		<title>Be careful what you wish for&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/08/03/be-careful-what-you-wish-for-4/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2011/08/03/be-careful-what-you-wish-for-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=14005</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From the LA Times: Two years after the last recession ended, Wall Street is showing rising fear that the U.S. economy could be headed for a new downturn&#8230;.Despite some relief that Washington could forge an eleventh-hour compromise on the debt &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/08/03/be-careful-what-you-wish-for-4/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What the &#8220;deal&#8221; means to the economy</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/08/01/what-the-deal-means-to-the-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2011/08/01/what-the-deal-means-to-the-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=13964</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Unemployment will be higher than it would have been otherwise. Growth will be lower than it would be otherwise. And inequality will be worse than it would be otherwise. We have a very weak economy, so withdrawing more spending at &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/08/01/what-the-deal-means-to-the-economy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Who really busted the budget?</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/07/28/who-really-busted-the-budget/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2011/07/28/who-really-busted-the-budget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=13924</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Did George W. Bush or Obama policies cost the most? Check out the numbers. (Outside the Beltway via Newshoggers)]]></description>
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		<title>A curse on both their houses</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/07/19/a-curse-on-both-their-houses/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2011/07/19/a-curse-on-both-their-houses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=13832</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The President and the Republicans are both fiddling while Rome burns. Neither is addressing the real economic problem which is extremely high unemployment and suffering of families as a result. George Parker, writing in The New Yorker, describes the situation &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/07/19/a-curse-on-both-their-houses/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Another new (Obama) war</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/07/03/another-new-obama-war/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2011/07/03/another-new-obama-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 20:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=13589</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am certain that the Obama administration does not view this action as &#8220;hostilities&#8221; triggering the War Power Act, but we are now bombing in Somalia.]]></description>
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		<title>Another Obama fail (updated)</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/06/18/another-obama-fail/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2011/06/18/another-obama-fail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 10:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=13459</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[President Obama, despite campaign pledges to return to fully lawful legal interpretations, over-ruled the top lawyer in the Office of Legal Counsel in the Justice Department and concluded that the US military attacks on Libya do not trigger the need &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/06/18/another-obama-fail/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Obama: the data</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/06/06/obama-the-data/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2011/06/06/obama-the-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=13368</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The more the GOP talks about Medicare &#8220;reform&#8221; or &#8220;saving&#8221; Medicare, the better for the President.]]></description>
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		<title>Inside Job (updated)</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/05/22/inside-job/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2011/05/22/inside-job/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 13:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=13209</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just watched the film &#8220;Inside Job&#8221; (link to trailer) that dissects the causes of the &#8220;great recession&#8221; we are still suffering from. It is the most cogent and understandable explanation of a very complex set of issues I have &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/05/22/inside-job/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Your tax dollars at work</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/05/21/your-tax-dollars-at-work-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 15:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jane Mayer, writing the current issue of The New Yorker, tells an amazing story about a former NSA employee who is charged under the Espionage Act for blowing the whistle on waste, fraud and abuse inside the NSA. The article &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/05/21/your-tax-dollars-at-work-3/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Obi-Wan is dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 19:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or so reports The Galactic Empire Times.]]></description>
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