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		<title>Benghazi Response Time? Who Cares?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 14:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American Thinker makes the point that we could have responded to the Benghazi attack in time to save some lives: Elite U.S. troops were completely capable of saving Ambassador Chris Stevens during the Benghazi Consulate attacks on September 11, 2012. Elements of the highly specialized Combatant Commanders In-Extremis (CIF) units are always on alert, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaelscomments.wordpress.com&#038;blog=162756&#038;post=21644&#038;subd=michaelscomments&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Obama Charm Offensive Continues</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 14:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In what I suspect is a part of the Obama administration&#8217;s attempt to start redirecting attention away from their multiplicity of scandals, the First Lady visited Savoy Elementary School in DC, leaving us with some odd photos: Patting your head while rubbing your belly isn&#8217;t so hard FLOTUS on stilts Filed under: News<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaelscomments.wordpress.com&#038;blog=162756&#038;post=21637&#038;subd=michaelscomments&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unions Finally Clue In to Obamacare Issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 14:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s so hard to keep a straight face when you read something like this. Apparently many union leaders have figured out that Obamacare ain&#8217;t all that: &#8230; some unions leaders have grown frustrated and angry about what they say are unexpected consequences of the new law — problems that they say could jeopardize the health [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaelscomments.wordpress.com&#038;blog=162756&#038;post=21633&#038;subd=michaelscomments&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bloomberg Gets Excited About Mortgage Rates</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 15:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>geoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is news? &#8220;U.S. Mortgage Rates Rise, With 30-Year at a 2-Month High&#8221; We had a record low last November &#8211; that was newsworthy because it was, like, an all-time record. And the fact that mortgage rates are increasing is certainly important. But it doesn&#8217;t seem worth reporting a &#8220;2-month high.&#8221; Filed under: News<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaelscomments.wordpress.com&#038;blog=162756&#038;post=21631&#038;subd=michaelscomments&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Acronyms I Haven&#8217;t Heard in a While</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 17:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ROPMA: &#8216;Soldier beheaded&#8217; in Woolwich machete attack: latest PIAPS: OPSEC: &#8220;Our government did that, put a tag on my son’s back.&#8220; Filed under: News<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaelscomments.wordpress.com&#038;blog=162756&#038;post=21614&#038;subd=michaelscomments&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Unexpected Soft &#8220;G&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 16:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>geoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a long history of mispronouncing words I&#8217;ve read but never heard, but even given a hard-earned compensatory wariness, I have to confess that I didn&#8217;t see this one coming: Steve Wilhite created the Graphics Interchange Format, or GIF, while working for Compuserve in 1987. On Tuesday, he received a Webby Award for it [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaelscomments.wordpress.com&#038;blog=162756&#038;post=21611&#038;subd=michaelscomments&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Obamanomics Doesn&#8217;t Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 17:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ironman at Political Calculations notes some recent data concerning fiscal multipliers: Research published by the Federal Reserve in January 2013 finds that the fiscal multiplier for government spending is somewhere between +0.6 and +0.7, which applies when unemployment rates are high (above 7.5%). &#8230;For a fiscal multiplier of 0.6 to 0.7, if government spending were [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaelscomments.wordpress.com&#038;blog=162756&#038;post=21608&#038;subd=michaelscomments&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Symptom</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 05:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sobek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading a talk that included the following quote, in which the writer notes &#8220;the striking fact that even as traditional marriage has declined in the United States &#8230; the evidence has mounted for the institution&#8217;s importance to the well-being of children.&#8221; I&#8217;d like to suggest that it&#8217;s not a coincidence that such [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaelscomments.wordpress.com&#038;blog=162756&#038;post=21605&#038;subd=michaelscomments&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It Didn&#8217;t Take a Nostradamus</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 20:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who could have foreseen this? Corporate America’s response to the 40%, “Cadillac Tax” on employee benefits exceeding $10,200 for individuals and $27,500 for families is driving up the cost of healthcare for both workers and taxpayers. The Congressional Budget Office released a report this week that cuts its estimate of revenue from the tax 42 [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaelscomments.wordpress.com&#038;blog=162756&#038;post=21602&#038;subd=michaelscomments&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Liberal Twit Gits Above His Raisin&#8217;, or at Least Far Beyond His Expertise</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some software engineer wrote an article called &#8220;We&#8217;re living in an Ayn Rand economy&#8221; at Salon. It displays absolutely no understanding of Ayn Rand&#8217;s work, and it&#8217;s filled with silliness and misappropriations of various stats, but I&#8217;d like to focus on his primary point: In the past 20 years, corporate profits have quadrupled while the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaelscomments.wordpress.com&#038;blog=162756&#038;post=21599&#038;subd=michaelscomments&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fecal News You Can Use</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 13:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>geoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though Compos Mentis hasn&#8217;t commented here in a couple of years, I think it&#8217;s important to maintain our traditions and keep current on the latest in fecal news. So here you go: Attention swimmers: More than half of the public pools tested in a new study contained bacterial evidence that someone may have pooped [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaelscomments.wordpress.com&#038;blog=162756&#038;post=21591&#038;subd=michaelscomments&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s No Helping These People</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 13:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What the heck, San Francisco? A popular San Francisco restaurant called Bacon Bacon must shut its doors Friday after failed negotiations with neighbors who complained about the smell of bacon. Had they put their restaurant next to me, that sentence would have ended &#8220;&#8230;neighbors who reveled in the aroma of bacon.&#8221; As for SF? Surely [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaelscomments.wordpress.com&#038;blog=162756&#038;post=21587&#038;subd=michaelscomments&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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