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		<title>House Bill 786 &#8211; Defection of the Rank and File Exposes Short Shrift for Citizens</title>
		<link>http://politicalanimalblog.com/2013/04/24/house-bill-786-defection-of-the-rank-and-file-exposes-short-shrift-for-citizens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jude Eden, Jane of Trades</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The below is an open letter to Warren committee members in North Carolina that was shared with me to post. &#8220;To:     thom.tillis@ncleg.net, phil.berger@ncleg.net Cc:     jonathan.jordan@ncleg.net, chuck.mcgrady@ncleg.net, john.faircloth@ncleg.net, rick.glazier@ncleg.net, pat.hurley@ncleg.net, mickey.michaux@ncleg.net, Paul.Stam@ncleg.net, rob.bryan@ncleg.net, debra.conrad@ncleg.net, leo.daughtry@ncleg.net, valerie.foushee@ncleg.net, joe.queen@ncleg.net, bobbie.richardson@ncleg.net Subject: House Bill 786 &#8211; Defection of the Rank and File Exposes Short Shrift for Citizens [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicalanimalblog.com&#038;blog=32193753&#038;post=637&#038;subd=judeeden&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter to Senator Richard Burr</title>
		<link>http://politicalanimalblog.com/2013/04/23/an-open-letter-to-senator-richard-burr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jude Eden, Jane of Trades</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://politicalanimalblog.com/?p=632</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[April 23, 2013 Senator Burr, On April 11th, to our dismay, you joined 15 other Republicans in a vote to proceed on the Reid gun legislation (S 649) inappropriately named the “Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act of 2013.” As we know, procedural votes are policy votes and one should never bring bad bills to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicalanimalblog.com&#038;blog=32193753&#038;post=632&#038;subd=judeeden&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Gang of 8</title>
		<link>http://politicalanimalblog.com/2013/04/19/dear-gang-of-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jude Eden, Jane of Trades</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There should be no discussion whatsoever about changing or amending immigration policy without first securing our border, enforcing current immigration law, and implementing E-verify.  The Boston Marathon bombing perfectly illustrates why we should insist that our borders be secured and our immigration policy vigorously enforced. Our borders are wide open and we all know it.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicalanimalblog.com&#038;blog=32193753&#038;post=629&#038;subd=judeeden&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Thrives and Terror Will Never Prevail!</title>
		<link>http://politicalanimalblog.com/2013/04/18/boston-thrives-and-terror-will-never-prevail/</link>
		<comments>http://politicalanimalblog.com/2013/04/18/boston-thrives-and-terror-will-never-prevail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jude Eden, Jane of Trades</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://politicalanimalblog.com/?p=613</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Updated 4/19&#8230;now that we know the bombers were&#8230;wait for it&#8230;.MUSLIM TERRORISTS!&#8230; Last night I was playing music with my buddy Jeff, the other half of our cello-guitar duo Upstarts &#38; Rogues.  I had been thinking about Boston and a couple of songs that I wrote after the  9-11 attacks.  One of them is on our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicalanimalblog.com&#038;blog=32193753&#038;post=613&#038;subd=judeeden&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Terror and The Cover-Up President</title>
		<link>http://politicalanimalblog.com/2013/04/16/boston-terror-the-cover-up-president/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jude Eden, Jane of Trades</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://politicalanimalblog.com/?p=610</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The only thing more sickening than yesterday’s terrorist attack on Boston is Barak Obama’s response to it, and the knowledge that nothing will really be done unless it is despite this administration.  It was a terrorist attack regardless of who is responsible because the terror tactic of bombing – to maim and kill as many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicalanimalblog.com&#038;blog=32193753&#038;post=610&#038;subd=judeeden&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Happened to “Never Again”?</title>
		<link>http://politicalanimalblog.com/2013/04/11/what-happened-to-never-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jude Eden, Jane of Trades</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://politicalanimalblog.com/?p=590</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Human Rights activist Pamela Geller was scheduled to speak at the Great Neck Synagogue on April 14th until the synagogue’s officials caved to the bully tactics of Islamic bigot Habeeb Ahmed and others who relentlessly threatened and browbeat them should they go through with her speaking engagement.  Ahmed’s kind loath open dialogue and ruthlessly vilify [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicalanimalblog.com&#038;blog=32193753&#038;post=590&#038;subd=judeeden&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on Autism Awareness</title>
		<link>http://politicalanimalblog.com/2013/04/02/reflections-on-autism-awareness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 01:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jude Eden, Jane of Trades</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://politicalanimalblog.com/?p=580</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dedicated to my mother, father and my brother Josh April 2nd is “World Autism Day,” and April is Autism Awareness month.  From the 1940’s to the 1970s, Autism was a misunderstood set of symptoms associated with schizophrenia and often treated as the result of parental neglect. We certainly have come a long way from routine [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicalanimalblog.com&#038;blog=32193753&#038;post=580&#038;subd=judeeden&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Persuasion, Not Pandering</title>
		<link>http://politicalanimalblog.com/2013/03/25/persuasion-not-pandering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jude Eden, Jane of Trades</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://politicalanimalblog.com/?p=576</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the GOP struggles with “rebranding” and how they can turn around the 2012 defeat and win the future the answer is simple.  It has nothing to do with any particular group or moving farther left – those are the same ideas that have failed the Republicans for years.  Instead of pandering to individual groups [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicalanimalblog.com&#038;blog=32193753&#038;post=576&#038;subd=judeeden&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gun Control 2.0: You’re Crazy ‘Cause I Said So, Now Hand Over Your Guns</title>
		<link>http://politicalanimalblog.com/2013/03/13/gun-control-2-0-youre-crazy-cause-i-said-so-now-hand-over-your-guns/</link>
		<comments>http://politicalanimalblog.com/2013/03/13/gun-control-2-0-youre-crazy-cause-i-said-so-now-hand-over-your-guns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jude Eden, Jane of Trades</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg reports today that in California they are seizing guns from formerly legal gun owners who no longer qualify to own them because of criminal charges or commitment to a mental hospital.  Taking guns from criminals? Good.  Taking guns from the mentally ill and unstable?  Also good, since they make up 99.9% of those who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicalanimalblog.com&#038;blog=32193753&#038;post=573&#038;subd=judeeden&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sequestration: Say Goodbye to Our First Line of Defense</title>
		<link>http://politicalanimalblog.com/2013/02/26/sequestration-say-goodbye-to-our-first-line-of-defense/</link>
		<comments>http://politicalanimalblog.com/2013/02/26/sequestration-say-goodbye-to-our-first-line-of-defense/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jude Eden, Jane of Trades</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Between Leon Panetta’s unconstitutional order that combat units be opened to women and impending Sequestration this week, America can kiss goodbye its military superiority and ability to fight wars effectively.  As readiness goes, so goes our security both at home and abroad. Under Sequestration, equipment isn’t the only thing on the chopping block.  Personnel will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicalanimalblog.com&#038;blog=32193753&#038;post=568&#038;subd=judeeden&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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