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		<title>Historic Health Care Reform Bill Signed into Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After months of wrangling and heated debates, President Barack Obama delivered on his campaign promise to make health care affordable to Americans by signing Tuesday a historic health care reform bill into law.  While the newly-signed law does not provide for a single payer system being pushed by progressives, it is lauded by many liberals [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bystanderviews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7581289&amp;post=88&amp;subd=bystanderviews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Universal Access Health Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite intense opposition from Republicans in Congress, President Barack Obama hopes to sign a government-run health care system by the end of the year.  A universal health care program or what is popularly known as universal access &#8211; or deridedly called socialized health care by conservatives &#8211; is simply a health care system run by the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bystanderviews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7581289&amp;post=78&amp;subd=bystanderviews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Domestic Terrorism and Hate Crimes</title>
		<link>http://bystanderviews.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/domestic-terrorism-and-hate-crimes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the stereo-typical portrayal of a terrorist as one with an Arabic ancestry, wearing an explosive vest and blowing himself up in a crowded place, you&#8217;d think all terrorists are like this.  But recent and current events have once again brought us back to the reality that even among us, there are those who are ready [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bystanderviews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7581289&amp;post=74&amp;subd=bystanderviews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Talk About Empathy</title>
		<link>http://bystanderviews.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/talk-about-empathy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When President Obama mentioned empathy as one of the qualities he seeks in a Supreme Court nominee, Republicans and conservatives spared no time lambasting him, saying &#8220;empathy&#8221; is a code word for an activist judge or one who would interpret the law not in accordance with the intent of those wrote it but according to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bystanderviews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7581289&amp;post=67&amp;subd=bystanderviews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Abortion Debate</title>
		<link>http://bystanderviews.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/the-abortion-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rybautistajr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite all the hubbub about General Motors entering into bankruptcy and the looming confirmation hearing of Federal Appeals Court Judge, now Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, the abortion debate managed to share the headlines after the recent murder of so-called &#8220;abortion doctor&#8221; George Tiller of Kansas.   Dr. George Tiller became popular and, I should say, notorious for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bystanderviews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7581289&amp;post=65&amp;subd=bystanderviews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gratuitous Claims</title>
		<link>http://bystanderviews.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/gratuitous-claims/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 17:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rybautistajr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republicans who have mounted vicious attacks against Obama&#8217;s Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor have unwittingly formed themselves in a circular firing squad.  By stooping low in their attacks, such as engaging in inane name-calling and by employing specious arguments, even their fellow and respected partymates disagree with them and are now the ones taking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bystanderviews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7581289&amp;post=54&amp;subd=bystanderviews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rebuffing Bush and Cheney</title>
		<link>http://bystanderviews.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/rebuffing-bush-and-cheney/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 14:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rybautistajr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Vice President Dick Cheney has been busy doing the rounds lately defending Bush-sanctioned interrogation techniques.  He claims that torture . . . I mean &#8221;enchanced interrogation&#8221;  has enabled the US to extract valuable information from suspected terrorists that saved hundreds, possibly thousands, of American lives.  Cheney says there are CIA memos that would back his claim and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bystanderviews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7581289&amp;post=47&amp;subd=bystanderviews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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