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		<title>Radical change we could agree on?</title>
		<link>http://unastronaut.wordpress.com/2009/05/20/radical-change-we-could-agree-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 18:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Income Tax is the most ridiculously counter-productive tax we could possibly impose in terms of productivity. We want Americans to be productive. We want them to earn, to create things that others may buy, to create jobs. We do not want them to limit productivity in order to maintain a balance. Americans aren&#8217;t about wading [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unastronaut.wordpress.com&blog=393159&post=654&subd=unastronaut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three things everyone can do to make the economy stronger</title>
		<link>http://unastronaut.wordpress.com/2009/02/07/three-things-everyone-can-do-to-make-the-economy-stronger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I go AWOL every now and again, but certain things pull me out of hibernation. This week&#8217;s shenanigans on the Hill have been tacky melodrama at best. There are so very few politicians who know anything about economics, but many know something about theatre. 
If I wanted to hear something completely familiar delivered by a bad [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unastronaut.wordpress.com&blog=393159&post=646&subd=unastronaut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This week&#8217;s fixations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been getting caught up in thought more often this week than any point in recent memory. Usually when this happens I&#8217;m left with useless revelations about insignificant observations. It&#8217;s probably the same this time.
Quantum theory really only clouds our definitions of the words &#8216;and&#8217; and &#8216;or&#8217;, which blows my mind. Every combination of two [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unastronaut.wordpress.com&blog=393159&post=644&subd=unastronaut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A new trajectory</title>
		<link>http://unastronaut.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/a-new-trajectory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the election is over, this blog will probably turn to focus on other interests of mine. I still love talking politics and the economy, but I&#8217;d like to write more about sports, science, music and possibly chronicle my home-brewing season this year. If you would like to see anything else here, just post a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unastronaut.wordpress.com&blog=393159&post=641&subd=unastronaut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marriage is gay</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prop 8 in California and Prop 102 in Arizona have been the buzz around the water cooler and the subject of daily protests in the street since last Tuesday. Gays are trying to get married, folks. It will ruin civilized society. Much like miscegenation did in 1967.
This is the one issue in national and state [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unastronaut.wordpress.com&blog=393159&post=638&subd=unastronaut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A suspicion about the electoral map in 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
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This is what I imagine could be possible in the very real world if all voters who have shown interest throughout the entire campaign &#8212; on both sides &#8212; shows up on Election Day (or voted early). If the race were to end up being close, with McCain winning the traditionally red states of North [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unastronaut.wordpress.com&blog=393159&post=632&subd=unastronaut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>$150k for clothes? John McCain thinks it erodes public confidence</title>
		<link>http://unastronaut.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/150k-for-clothes-john-mccain-thinks-it-erodes-public-confidence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This &#8216;maverick&#8217; tag must just be slang for a Republican flip-flop. How else would McCain&#8217;s supporters, particularly those excited by the pick of Sarah Palin for VP nominee, justify their admiration for a man who gained his reputation as a maverick by trying to move his own party out of a state of ignorance? McCain [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unastronaut.wordpress.com&blog=393159&post=623&subd=unastronaut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>McCain supporters for the Constitution</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
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It&#8217;s truly great to see some of the subtle stances of the McCain campaign and individual supporters as of late. It has really been too little, too late considering McCain and Palin have been the ones stoking the fires of racism and intolerance. Here some McCain supporters surround another group who are distributing ignorant, un-American [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unastronaut.wordpress.com&blog=393159&post=617&subd=unastronaut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The inherent injustice of trickle-down economics</title>
		<link>http://unastronaut.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/the-inherent-injustice-of-trickle-down-economics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This point is simple. Trickle-down economics is the idea that lower taxes for the wealthy and for corporations will lead to jobs being created. So let me get this straight, we let the wealthy have more money in hopes that they&#8217;ll let the poor work for it? You mean to tell me the people who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unastronaut.wordpress.com&blog=393159&post=615&subd=unastronaut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>McCain campaign lobbyist Ed Rogers&#8217; transparent spin</title>
		<link>http://unastronaut.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/mccain-campaign-lobbyist-ed-rogers-transparent-spin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Hardball with Chris Matthews today, right-wing spinster Ed Rogers made baseless claim after baseless claim while exonerating the McCain campaign for stoking the fires of racism and antipathy toward any opposing viewpoint. Not only is this extremely dangerous, but it completely goes against the free exchange of ideas upon which America&#8217;s strength is built. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unastronaut.wordpress.com&blog=393159&post=601&subd=unastronaut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>McCain campaign offices as empty as the rhetoric</title>
		<link>http://unastronaut.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/mccain-campaign-offices-as-empty-as-the-rhetoric/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You could take every McCain volunteer we’ve seen doing actual work in the entire trip, over six states, and it would add up to the same as Obama’s single Thornton, CO office. Or his single Durango, CO office. These ground campaigns bear no relationship to each other.
Sean Quinn from FiveThirtyEight.com has an interesting story about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unastronaut.wordpress.com&blog=393159&post=597&subd=unastronaut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cindy McCain, your husband was right about you</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, Cindy McCain attacked Barack Obama for voting against funding for the troops. She did this in the most classless way by omitting the fact that her own husband made the same vote two months later. Then she dares Obama to spend a day in her shoes. Are you kidding me?
&#8220;The day that Sen. Obama [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unastronaut.wordpress.com&blog=393159&post=589&subd=unastronaut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How will McCain&#8217;s tax cuts trickle down?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I could ask Senator McCain one question this morning, it would be about his tax cuts. Specifically, I would want to know how he justifies who is getting the tax cuts under his own plan. As ThinkProgress noted during the debate last night, McCain&#8217;s own family would receive over $300,000 in tax cuts under [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unastronaut.wordpress.com&blog=393159&post=577&subd=unastronaut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The four things America needs most</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Election Day should be a national holiday. There is absolutely no reason why people should be receiving days off to celebrate the lives of people they know nothing about &#8212; or don&#8217;t believe in &#8212; when a very public and founding principle is not equally respected. An active citizenry is vital to any democracy, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unastronaut.wordpress.com&blog=393159&post=573&subd=unastronaut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why doesn&#8217;t Sarah Palin have to pay taxes?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading a lot of tax attorneys&#8217; analyses of Sarah Palin&#8217;s tax returns, as I have with the other candidates. This is the first time I&#8217;ve felt compelled to post anything, mostly because I still wonder how this is even possible. Tax evasion is serious business, or so I have been led to believe. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unastronaut.wordpress.com&blog=393159&post=571&subd=unastronaut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>McCain and Palin open the door to their own terrorist sympathies</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John McCain was partly responsible for the last national financial crisis.  I&#8217;ve already linked a photo of McCain with Keating, and now the Obama campaign has created a video to expose the economic &#8220;principles&#8221; of John Sidney McCain III.

The 400 wealthiest Americans have increased their net worth by $670 billion over the last 8 years, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unastronaut.wordpress.com&blog=393159&post=566&subd=unastronaut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. McCain goes to Washington</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He was so gracious as to show his face in Washington, despite having only voted on one issue in the last six months to settle the issue that most said was on track to be worked out overnight. Yesterday, Senator McCain announced his campaign would be suspended today. Today, his campaign is active as any [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unastronaut.wordpress.com&blog=393159&post=561&subd=unastronaut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Naked shorts, and other perverse translations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had a few friends express their inability to understand the current economic crisis and thought a post was probably due. There are a few things I&#8217;d say to set the stage. The situation is intentionally complicated and hard for the layman to understand. People like Senator Phil Gramm, lobbyists Rick Davis and Steve Schmidt, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unastronaut.wordpress.com&blog=393159&post=552&subd=unastronaut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>John McCain and Charles Keating</title>
		<link>http://unastronaut.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/the-picture-mccain-doesn%e2%80%99t-want-you-to-see/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember this really damning picture of McCain celebrating his birthday with Charles Keating, the villain of the last big taxpayer bailout of unrestrained Republican greed? Here&#8217;s the article where bmaz got that photo (pdf from The Phoenix Sun Gazette, September 12, 1993).
Everyone should see this picture and know this story.  It should be a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unastronaut.wordpress.com&blog=393159&post=536&subd=unastronaut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hey Sarah Palin, I dare you to say that on Chicago&#8217;s Southside</title>
		<link>http://unastronaut.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/hey-sarah-palin-i-dare-you-to-say-that-on-chicagos-southside/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;John McCain is the only one who has truly fought for you.&#8221;  She loves this line.  She loves saying he doesn&#8217;t say it himself &#8212; although Lord knows he&#8217;s got it as an excuse if you ask how many houses he owns.  But I certainly doubt she&#8217;d even consider saying it in Chicago.  I&#8217;d love [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unastronaut.wordpress.com&blog=393159&post=531&subd=unastronaut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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