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		<title>The GOP:  The Party that Doesn&#8217;t Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republicans profess an unmatched love of country, but what they have is an unmatched disdain for the people who inhabit it. There’s a line from the 1995 movie “The American President” starring Michael Douglas and Annette Bening that just keeps ringing in my head.  I’ve used the line in past posts, and I’m sure I’ll [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicsoffootball.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11851288&#038;post=517&#038;subd=politicsoffootball&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Save KLSD:”  The Corporate Consolidation of America’s Airwaves</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[San Diego’s last progressive talk radio station a victim of the loosening of media ownership laws Talk radio has become big business in the last decade and a half, particularly conservative talk radio, which has seen an explosion in popularity and influence.  Progressive talk radio?  Not so much. San Diegans have become accustomed to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicsoffootball.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11851288&#038;post=513&#038;subd=politicsoffootball&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dissecting the Supreme Court&#8217;s &#8220;Obamacare&#8221; Decision</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dissecting the Supreme Court&#8217;s &#8220;Obamacare&#8221; Decision The Supreme Court today upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, the signature legislative accomplishment of the Obama Administration in a 5-4 decision, a majority that included conservative Chief Justice John Roberts.  This is a big day for the Obama Administration, and for Democrats nationwide.  This was the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicsoffootball.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11851288&#038;post=508&#038;subd=politicsoffootball&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Myth of Exorbitance in the San Diego Police Department</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In San Diego and elsewhere across the country, public employees are the bane of conservatives’ existence, including, as we found out, police and fire services. City Beat’s Kelly Davis has a great story up about the Police Officer’s Association and their efforts at their own pension reform.  The union, it turns out, came up with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicsoffootball.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11851288&#038;post=503&#038;subd=politicsoffootball&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bob Filner Not Doing San Diego Any Favors by Not Releasing Pension Details</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Debate at Joyce Beers Community Center in Hillcrest between Todd Gloria and Lani Lutar sharpens the contrast between Prop B pension reform proponents and opponents, the real motivations behind the June, 2012 ballot initiative, and the real costs to the city if it passes. Last week the OB Rag sat down with Congressman and San [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicsoffootball.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11851288&#038;post=499&#038;subd=politicsoffootball&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If the healthcare mandate is unacceptable, then why is an auto insurance mandate perfectly fine?</title>
		<link>http://politicsoffootball.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/if-the-healthcare-mandate-is-unacceptable-then-why-is-an-auto-insurance-mandate-perfectly-fine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, then you’ve probably heard that the Supreme Court’s hearing on the Affordable Care Act, or “Obamacare” as Republicans so love to derisively call it, has begun in earnest over the last two days.  At issue is the matter of whether or not the individual mandate—the requirement that everyone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicsoffootball.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11851288&#038;post=495&#038;subd=politicsoffootball&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NFL Pro Days a “sham?”  Not hardly.  Not even a little.</title>
		<link>http://politicsoffootball.wordpress.com/2012/03/23/nfl-pro-days-a-sham-not-hardly-not-even-a-little/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In ProFootballTalk.com&#8217;s Mike Florio&#8217;s opinion, the pro days are a waste of time.  Which just shows how very little he knows about what the NFL scouts actually do. ProFootballTalk.com’s Mike Florio ranted today about what a “sham” the NFL pro day workouts that take place on college campuses all across the country in front of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicsoffootball.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11851288&#038;post=485&#038;subd=politicsoffootball&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Religious Freedom is a Two Way Street</title>
		<link>http://politicsoffootball.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/religious-freedom-is-a-two-way-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 09:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Limiting the availability of contraception to women or the denial of civil rights to gays and lesbians on the basis of religious objections is itself a denial of religious freedom.  How Conservatives misunderstand the concept of religious liberty. I was born a Jew.  Which really doesn’t mean a whole heck of a lot since I’ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicsoffootball.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11851288&#038;post=481&#038;subd=politicsoffootball&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The 19th Century called.  They want their reality back.</title>
		<link>http://politicsoffootball.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/the-19th-century-called-they-want-their-reality-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I must be having some sort of nightmare from which I can’t wake up.  I could swear that this was the year 2012, but I must be mistaken.  How else can you explain the current slate of Republican social policies that have become the topics du jour?  Are Republicans really so dumb as to think [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicsoffootball.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11851288&#038;post=473&#038;subd=politicsoffootball&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Clint Eastwood and Chrysler Ruffle Republican Feathers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess the truth hurts, don’t it?  I didn’t watch the entire Super Bowl on Sunday (I know, right?  Me?  Not watch the Super Bowl?).  I got home just after halftime began and tuned out Madonna’s program.  Turned the volume back up just in time to see what was probably the single best commercial bar [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicsoffootball.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11851288&#038;post=465&#038;subd=politicsoffootball&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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