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	 <title>Rogue en Vogue</title>
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	 <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:44:56 -0500</pubDate>
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	 <description>Has Sarah Palin gone rogue with the meaning of rogue?</description>
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	 <title>Better Dead Than Red :  Burn Your Medicare Card in Protest</title>
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	 <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:22:11 -0400</pubDate>
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	 <description>Don't die socialist. Burn your Medicare enrollment card before it's too late.</description>
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	 <title>Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails</title>
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	 <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:23:46 -0500</pubDate>
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	 <description>The spokesman for angry white males who thinks James Earl Ray should be given a Medal of Honor wants Obama to fail.</description>
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	 <title>Serve this, Laura Bush</title>
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	 <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:19:02 -0500</pubDate>
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	 <description>With the purchase of new china, maybe George and Laura Bush should compare themselves with Louis the Last and Marie Antoinette.</description>
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	 <title>A Song for Sarah</title>
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	 <pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:00:25 -0400</pubDate>
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	 <description>McCain/Palin are having a hard time finding a campaign song. May I suggest one?</description>
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	 <title>Cartoon: Bailing out the Greedy</title>
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	 <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:39:00 -0400</pubDate>
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	 <description>is like Saving the Needy</description>
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	 <title>Palin: conservative Christian or women's libber(al)</title>
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	 <pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:32:50 -0400</pubDate>
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	 <description>Conservative Christians have come a long way, baby.</description>
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	 <title>Whistling Dixie with Jesse Helms</title>
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	 <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:53:29 -0400</pubDate>
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	 <description>What will Senator No  reap in the after life?</description>
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	 <title>What if Rev. Wright had said  . . . ?</title>
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	 <pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:27:55 -0400</pubDate>
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	 <description>As polemical as remarks made were by Barack Obama's minister, they pale in comparison to comments from prominent American conservatives.</description>
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	 <title>So? In Dick's Head</title>
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	 <pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:09:21 -0400</pubDate>
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	 <description>So: one two-lettered word sums up the imperial Republican presidency.</description>
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	 <title>Run, Dick, Run</title>
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	 <pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:04:52 -0400</pubDate>
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	 <description>Why is Dick Cheney breaking tradition by not running for President?</description>
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	 <title>How Goes the Dream?</title>
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	 <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:48:10 -0500</pubDate>
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	 <description>Judge yourself where we stand today on fulfilling Dr. King's words.</description>
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	 <title>Be the Change in '08</title>
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	 <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:07:21 -0500</pubDate>
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	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Had enough of making and breaking trivial New Year resolutions?</description>
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	 <title>What are Conservatives Conserving?</title>
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	 <pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:18:59 -0500</pubDate>
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	 <description>Just whose traditional values are conservatives preserving?</description>
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	 <title>Fight, Republicans, Fight</title>
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	 <pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:27:17 -0500</pubDate>
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	 <description>How stimulating was last night's Republican presidential debacle.</description>
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	 <title>Media for the Masses, not amassed media monopolization</title>
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	 <pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:18:12 -0500</pubDate>
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	 <description>Help stop the Clobber Barons from monopolizing media outlets</description>
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	 <title>If America is a Christian nation then why isn't America more Christlike?</title>
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	 <pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:55:14 -0500</pubDate>
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	 <description>Does the religious right really want America to be Christlike?</description>
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	 <title>Help Stop A Potential Massacre in Myanmar</title>
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	 <pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:03:38 -0400</pubDate>
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	 <description>Sign a petition. Send an email to Myanmar's dictator. Do something now before it's too late..</description>
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	 <title>Hey, Senator Kerry, Answer the Nagging Questions</title>
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	 <pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:51:42 -0400</pubDate>
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	 <description>Ready to email and ask John Kerry to answer Andrew Meyer's questions?</description>
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	 <title>Watch bumbling Bush bungle and fumble down below</title>
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	 <pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:51:14 -0400</pubDate>
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	 <description>WARNING: This video contains raw and graphic stupidity inflicted upon non-consenting adults.</description>
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	 <title>To Flee or Not to Flee: Larry Craig's Question</title>
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	 <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:10:16 -0400</pubDate>
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	 <description>Something is rotten in the head of the dumb mark and it sure does sell.</description>
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	 <title>Whoopi Goldberg defends Michael Vick: he's from the south</title>
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	 <pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:09:13 -0400</pubDate>
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	 <description>Stop already with the southern stereotypes!</description>
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	 <title>Tony Snow gotta go for the dough</title>
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	 <pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:45:20 -0400</pubDate>
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	 <description>Tony Slow becomes the third to exit the White house this month.</description>
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	 <title>Yet another gay-bashing Republican goes down</title>
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	 <pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:02:33 -0400</pubDate>
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	 <description>Does GOP stand for Gay Ol' Pharisees?</description>
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	 <title>Dick Cheney: America shouldn't invade Iraq</title>
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	 <pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:14:23 -0400</pubDate>
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	 <description>Watch Cheney explain why it would be a disaster to topple Saddam.</description>
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	 <title>Turd Blossom Rove Poops Out: Bush's chronic cognitive dissonance continues constipating</title>
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	 <pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:20:25 -0400</pubDate>
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	 <description>Who will shield Bush now that his chief strategist and enabler Karl Rove is sashaying off into the sunset?</description>
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	 <title>Hey, Bill O'Reilly: Put up or shut up</title>
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	 <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:18:24 -0400</pubDate>
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	 <description>Bill O'Reilly is to cleaning-up hate speech what infection is to pus.</description>
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	 <title>Bush's bottom breached: Cheney takes top position</title>
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	 <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:00:32 -0400</pubDate>
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	 <description>President Bush underwent a routine colonoscopy today and transferred power to Dick Cheney. Comedians are going to have a field day.</description>
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	 <title>The United Sicko State of Mammon</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__070713_the_united_sicko_sta.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:34:27 -0400</pubDate>
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	 <description>Greed is good and altruism is evil in the land of Mammon.</description>
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	 <title>Watch Ann Coulter Squirm</title>
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	 <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:10:27 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__070627_watch_ann_coulter_sq.htm</guid>
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	 <description>Ann Coulter squirms and hisses like a cornered snake when confronted by Elizabeth Edwards on Chris Matthews' Hardball.</description>
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	 <title>War is Peace</title>
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	 <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:06:59 -0400</pubDate>
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	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Howard Zinn's &quot;A Power governments cannot suppress&quot; is an impassioned compassionate appeal to we the people to become we the government so that we might finally have liberty and justice for all.</description>
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	 <title>Left Out</title>
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	 <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:51:15 -0400</pubDate>
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	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>What will it take for Jesus' radical anti-greed and social justice message to be heard today?</description>
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	 <title>Mission Accomplished for bin Laden?</title>
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	 <pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 08:06:50 -0400</pubDate>
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	 <description>Osama bin Laden's mission is being accomplished in large part due to Bush's incompetence.</description>
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	 <title>Pat Buchanan blames too much tolerance for Cho's killing rampage</title>
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	 <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:29:56 -0400</pubDate>
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	 <description>Add tolerance to the latest simplistic conservative explanations for Cho's behavior.</description>
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	 <title>Are Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh to blame for Cho's massacre at Virginia Tech?</title>
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	 <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:10:11 -0400</pubDate>
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	 <description>Imagine the reaction if liberal politicians and pundits were blaming conservatives like Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh and other conservatives are blaming liberals for Cho's massacre at Virginia Tech.</description>
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	 <title>Cho's Show and the Sorry State of Homeland Security</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__070422_cho_s_show__26_the_sor.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2007 10:00:23 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__070422_cho_s_show__26_the_sor.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Who's responsible for mass targeted violence in the United States?</description>
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	 <title>Pity Ann Coulter</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__070307_pity_ann_coulter.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:36:49 -0500</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__070307_pity_ann_coulter.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Hell for Ann Coulter is a place without mirrors or anyone to notice her.</description>
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	 <title>Rev. King the Peacemaker</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__070115_rev__king_the_peacem.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:48:05 -0500</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__070115_rev__king_the_peacem.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>It's an eternal dream that had the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.</description>
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	 <title>Peace and the pursuit of happiness</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__070101_peace_and_the_pursui.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2007 10:18:53 -0500</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__070101_peace_and_the_pursui.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>World peace begins at home.</description>
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	 <title>America goes to Pot and Prisons</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061222_america_goes_to_pot_.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:06:03 -0500</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061222_america_goes_to_pot_.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Marijuana is now America's number one cash crop despite the decades-old war on drugs.</description>
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	 <title>Does Mel Gibson's Apocalypto aid and abet al-Qaeda?</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061213_does_mel_gibson_s_ap.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:13:51 -0500</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061213_does_mel_gibson_s_ap.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Just what the devil is the point of Gibson's galore of gore?</description>
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	 <title>What violent video game would Jesus play today?</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061203_what_violent_video_g.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Sun, 03 Dec 2006 09:26:09 -0500</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061203_what_violent_video_g.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>None, thank you.</description>
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	 <title>Will gay unfriendly Southern Baptists expel King James?</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061119_will_gay_unfriendly_.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2006 12:40:14 -0500</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061119_will_gay_unfriendly_.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
	 <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="180373" type="image/png" />
	 <description>Would Queen James be allowed to attend a Southern Baptist Church?</description>
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	 <title>Michael Moore or Southern Baptists: who acts more Christian?</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061117_michael_moore_or_sou.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:27:01 -0500</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061117_michael_moore_or_sou.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Love or condemn thy enemies: which is the Christian thing to do?</description>
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	 <title>A Liberal American Agenda</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061114_a_liberal_american_a.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:02:18 -0500</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061114_a_liberal_american_a.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
	 <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="180373" type="image/png" />
	 <description>Meet the new vision, same as the original</description>
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	 <title>Bush plays the press to perfection</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061110_bush_plays_the_press.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:40:41 -0500</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061110_bush_plays_the_press.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Mammon's Syndicated Media loves to shine a most favorable light on George W. Bush</description>
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	 <title>Hey W., Rumsfeld has got to go</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061104_hey_w__2c_rumsfeld_has.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Sat, 04 Nov 2006 15:11:38 -0500</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061104_hey_w__2c_rumsfeld_has.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Bubba gives Dubya the low-down poop on Donald Rumsfeld and Bob Woodward's &quot;State of Denial&quot;</description>
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	 <title>Flush Rush's Gushes</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061025_flush_rush_s_gushes.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:04:56 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061025_flush_rush_s_gushes.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Rush Limbaugh accusing Michael J. Fox of malingering is but his latest outburst of acute acrimonious verbal diarrhea.</description>
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	 <title>Hannity to Democrats: Stay home because your vote doesn't matter anyway</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061022_hannity_to_democrats.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Sun, 22 Oct 2006 09:37:58 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061022_hannity_to_democrats.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Fair and balanced Fox News' Sean Hannity says Democrats should not vote &quot;for the sake of the nation.&quot;</description>
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	 <title>Hey Bill, are you scared to let Jeff Cohen back on the O'Reilly Factor?</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061019_hey_bill_2c_are_you_sc.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:42:19 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061019_hey_bill_2c_are_you_sc.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Damn if my knees wouldn't be knocking after reading Cohen's new expose, Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media</description>
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	 <title>Time to stop beating around the Bush</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061016_time_to_stop_beating.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2006 08:02:34 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061016_time_to_stop_beating.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>&quot;Keep the course&quot; is Bush-speak for &quot;I'll get my way, no matter what it takes.&quot; No, George, for once in your life, you are going to be restrained and held accountable.</description>
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	 <title>If Foley was only a Democrat named Clinton</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061011_if_foley_was_only_a_.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2006 07:49:41 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061011_if_foley_was_only_a_.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Mark Foley better be glad he wasn't a Democrat caught having sex with a consenting adult female.</description>
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	 <title>If God talks to Bush then why is Karl Rove an agnostic?</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061009_if_god_talks_to_bush.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2006 08:35:52 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061009_if_god_talks_to_bush.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Republican inconsistencies are confounding.</description>
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	 <title>Pop a mint, Newt</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061006_pop_a_mint_2c_newt.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2006 17:14:57 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061006_pop_a_mint_2c_newt.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
	 <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="180373" type="image/png" />
	 <description>Newt Gingrich says something stinks about Democrats questioning the Foley scandal. What Newt is actually smelling is right under his nose.</description>
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	 <title>Republicans blame everybody but Foley</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061005_republicans_blame_ev.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:33:22 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061005_republicans_blame_ev.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
	 <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="180373" type="image/png" />
	 <description>Poor, helpless Republicans can't do a thing wrong without it being mean old liberals' fault for either causing them to do it or for otherwise pointing it out as wrong.</description>
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	 <title>Limbaugh rushes firmly behind Foley</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061004_limbaugh_rushes_firm.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2006 16:26:25 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061004_limbaugh_rushes_firm.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
	 <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="180373" type="image/png" />
	 <description>In &quot;thinking out loud&quot; and claiming that he was not offering any defense of Foley, Rush Limbaugh claimed that the Democrats set up the entire frigging Foley affair to win elections in November.</description>
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	 <title>Have the Republicans adopted Clinton's &quot;Don't ask, Don't tell&quot; policy?</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061003_have_the_republicans.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2006 09:16:38 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061003_have_the_republicans.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>The Republicans seem to have adopted the &quot;don't ask, don't tell&quot; policy for their nobles in Washington but not for us commoners.</description>
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	 <title>Segregationists begat the Religious Right</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061001_segregationists_bega.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2006 20:23:16 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__061001_segregationists_bega.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Randall Balmer's new history shows how the religious right originated among segregationists and how the religious right has distorted the Bible and history to promote its radical agenda.</description>
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	 <title>Hey, Don Bill Quijote O'Reilly de la Manchada, let me review your book</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060927_hey_2c_don_bill_quijot.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:21:45 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060927_hey_2c_don_bill_quijot.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
	 <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="180373" type="image/png" />
	 <description>Don Quijote has met his replacement in &quot;Culture Warrior,&quot; Bill O'Reilly's new fictional nonfiction book.</description>
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	 <title>Are the Republicans finally ready to endorse Martin Luther King, Jr.?</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060925_are_the_republicans_.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2006 19:58:42 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060925_are_the_republicans_.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Or would the neo-con Republicans more than ever think that Dr. King was a communist?</description>
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	 <title>O brother Billy Graham, where art thou?</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060921_o_brother_billy_grah.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:32:19 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060921_o_brother_billy_grah.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>A public appeal to the Rev. Billy Graham to speak up again on the dangers of the religious right.</description>
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	 <title>If you can read this, thank a Liberal</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060918_if_you_can_read_this.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:44:58 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060918_if_you_can_read_this.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
	 <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="180373" type="image/png" />
	 <description>A key feature of liberalism is the right of the individual to know.</description>
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	 <title>An Open Letter to Frances Rice and the National Black Republican Association</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060831_an_open_letter_to_fr.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:23:38 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060831_an_open_letter_to_fr.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>The chairman of the National Black Republican Association accuses me of trying to violate her civil rights as a black female veteran.</description>
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	 <title>Republicans claim Martin Luther King, Jr. as their Own</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060824_republicans_claims_m.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:05:03 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060824_republicans_claims_m.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
	 <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="180373" type="image/png" />
	 <description>The Republicans have become anything but conservative when it comes to revising history to suit their opportunism.</description>
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	 <title>Talking Right: A Guide to Neo-Con Doubletalk in Double Time</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060822_talking_right_3a_a_gui.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:16:16 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060822_talking_right_3a_a_gui.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
	 <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="180373" type="image/png" />
	 <description>Linguist Geoffrey Nunberg tells How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show.</description>
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	 <title>Chomsky challenges America's Double Standards</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060808_chomsky_challenges_a.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2006 13:33:24 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060808_chomsky_challenges_a.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Chomsky calls America on the Carpet.</description>
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	 <title>Neal Boortz wins Mammon's Distinguished Service Award</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060806_neal_boortz_wins_mam.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Sun, 06 Aug 2006 13:33:34 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060806_neal_boortz_wins_mam.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
	 <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="180373" type="image/png" />
	 <description>Boortz goes beyond the call-of-duty in promoting the love of money.</description>
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	 <title>The Devil relays Osama's Thanks to George W.</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060803_the_devil_relays_osa.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2006 18:02:44 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060803_the_devil_relays_osa.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Osama is truly grateful for all that Dubya has done promoting al-Qaeda's objectives.</description>
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	 <title>The Devil tells Mel Gibson: &quot;There'll be hell to pay for this one&quot;</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060731_the_devil_tells_mel_.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:15:47 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060731_the_devil_tells_mel_.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
	 <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="180373" type="image/png" />
	 <description>A drunk but &quot;in control of his senses&quot; Mel Gibsons declares that &quot;Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.&quot;</description>
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	 <title>And the Devil of Media Hype for the Week of July 23 is . . .</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060730_and_the_devil_of_med.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Sun, 30 Jul 2006 11:02:12 -0400</pubDate>
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	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>The Mainstream Media has become hate waves.</description>
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	 <title>Tom Delay declares Democrats' first instinct is to Cut and Run</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060728_tom_delay_declares_d.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:23:51 -0400</pubDate>
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	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Delay all but calls Democrats cowards.</description>
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	 <title>Michelle Malkin alleges that Peace Activists have gone Wild</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060726_michelle_malkin_alle.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:01:08 -0400</pubDate>
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	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Michelle Malkin searches the world over to find &quot;proof&quot; of &quot;unhinged&quot; pacifists full of anger and hypocrisy.</description>
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	 <title>And the Devil of Media Hype for the Week of July 16 is . . .</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060724_and_the_devil_of_med.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:40:04 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060724_and_the_devil_of_med.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>The competition has hellishly heated up this week as word of the coveted award spread like hellfire among right-wing pundits.</description>
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	 <title>Pat Buchanan asks &quot;Where are the Christians?&quot;</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060720_pat_buchanan_asks__22w.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:34:09 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060720_pat_buchanan_asks__22w.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Some 3000 conservative Christians are wearing their best sheepskins to Washington to tell Congress that Israel and America's agendas are one and the same. &quot;Israel is not the problem. Israel is the solution.&quot; Tom DeLay</description>
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	 <title>John Stossel is Inducted into Mammon's Hall of Fame</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060719_john_stossel_is_indu.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:17:05 -0400</pubDate>
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	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>ABC's John Stossel is recognized for years of dedicated service to Mammon and the Mammonization of America.</description>
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	 <title>The Devil Threatens to Sue John Dean for Revealing Trade Secrets</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060718_the_devil_threatens_.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:34:17 -0400</pubDate>
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	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Mammon claims Dean has illegally disclosed closely guarded proprietary rights of mass manipulation and political persuasion.</description>
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	 <title>And the Devil of the Week for Media Hype is . . .</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060714_and_the_devil_of_the.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:56:15 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060714_and_the_devil_of_the.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Which media pundit was the meanest and rashest this week?</description>
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	 <title>How the Religious Right Hijacked Jesus in Broad Daylight</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060713_how_the_religious_ri.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:21:22 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060713_how_the_religious_ri.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Dan Wakefield shows how the religious right commandeered Jesus in &quot;The Hijacking of Jesus: How the Religious Right Distorts Christianity and Promotes Prejudice and Hate&quot;</description>
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	 <title>Ann, Ann, plagiarist, Stole some lines, and a book did write?</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060710_ann_2c_ann_2c_plagiarist.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:03:36 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060710_ann_2c_ann_2c_plagiarist.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Charges of plagiarism are plaguing poor little Ann Coulter as she sits eating her curds and whey.</description>
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	 <title>Sweet Jesus, Bill O'Reilly, Somebody Hates You Enough to Write a Book</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060707_sweet_jesus_2c_bill_o_.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:37:44 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060707_sweet_jesus_2c_bill_o_.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Bill O'Reilly really doesn't want to read &quot;Sweet Jesus, I Hate Bill O'Reilly&quot; by Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer from Nation Books.</description>
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	 <title>The Terrible Beast in the Temple (and Marketplace and Statehouse)</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060706_the_terrible_beast_i.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2006 19:37:01 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060706_the_terrible_beast_i.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>A diabolic review of Kevin Phillip's &quot;American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century&quot;</description>
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	 <title>The Devil's Diary: The forgotten 4th of July</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060704_the_devil_s_diary_3a_t.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2006 19:00:21 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060704_the_devil_s_diary_3a_t.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>It's a big white lie that Europeans brought democracy to America.</description>
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	 <title>The Devil's Diary: O'Reilly and liberal &quot;bomb-throwers&quot;</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060703_the_devil_s_diary_3a_o.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2006 23:06:16 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060703_the_devil_s_diary_3a_o.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Bill O'Reilly loves to call his liberal critics and opponents bomb-throwers. The devil advocates for the underlying realpolitik rationale.</description>
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	 <title>The Devil's Diary: Rape the Earth for God</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060630_the_devil_s_diary_3a_r.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:08:19 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060630_the_devil_s_diary_3a_r.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Ann Coulter must think God is a sadistic voyeur because she once said that God wants us to rape the earth.</description>
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	 <title>The Devil's Diary: Memo to O'Reilly re: &quot;Fighting Fair&quot;</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060628_the_devil_s_diary_3a_m.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2006 18:42:18 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060628_the_devil_s_diary_3a_m.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>The Devil praises O'Reilly for not fighting fair and providing a rotten role model for America's youth.</description>
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	 <title>The Devil's Diary</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060626_the_devil_s_diary.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:30:19 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060626_the_devil_s_diary.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Imagine how the devil could delight if only he kept a journal.</description>
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	 <title>Did Puck zap you, Bill O'Reilly</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060621_did_puck_zap_you_2c_bi.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:29:29 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060621_did_puck_zap_you_2c_bi.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Did Bill O?Reilly really say that he would rule Iraq like Saddam Hussein? Was Bill giving a de facto endorsement of Saddam? Am I having a bad Midsummer Nightmare and Bill?s ears are starting to grow very long?</description>
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	 <title>Does ?Bully Pulpit? mean anything to you, Bill O?Reilly?</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060620_does__93bully_pulpit_94_.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:49:53 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060620_does__93bully_pulpit_94_.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Imagine that havoc a bully could do if only allowed to have a national pulpit.</description>
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	 <title>Is Godot your middle name, Bill O?Reilly?</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060619_is_godot_your_middle.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2006 21:44:03 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060619_is_godot_your_middle.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>We're still waiting to see Media Matters, Greg Palast and Helen Thomas on the O'Reilly Factor, Bill.</description>
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	 <title>Thirty Clues about Guess Who?</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060617_thirty_clues_about_g.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Sat, 17 Jun 2006 11:51:29 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060617_thirty_clues_about_g.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Histrionic sociopathic Narcissists are now commonplace among pundits, politicians and preachers.</description>
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	 <title>Why Did You Sit There Like A Dummy, George Carlin?</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060615_why_did_you_sit_ther.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:45:48 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060615_why_did_you_sit_ther.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>George Carlin needs to promptly challenge Ann Coulter to a real debate or consider conceding being a sell out.</description>
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	 <title>It's about Time</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060614_it_s_about_time.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:57:44 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060614_it_s_about_time.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>The real scandal is not Ann Coulter's but the mainstream media that has nurtured her hate.</description>
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	 <title>Holiness 101: A Primer for Ann Coulter</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060613_holiness_101_3a_a_prim.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:27:24 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060613_holiness_101_3a_a_prim.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Ann Coulter is reported to not be known at the church she claims to attend. Maybe she needs a bit of help in learning the basics of holiness.</description>
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	 <title>Helen Thomas and the Watchdogs of the Golden Bull</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060611_helen_thomas_and_the.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Sun, 11 Jun 2006 13:12:13 -0400</pubDate>
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	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Helen Thomas's new book shows how the mainstream media has miserably failed democracy.</description>
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	 <title>Jezebel calls Coulter ?Classless and Shameless?</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060610_jezebel_calls_coulte.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Sat, 10 Jun 2006 17:42:09 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060610_jezebel_calls_coulte.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>In an exclusive interview from hell with Psychic News Network, Jezebel reveals that she thinks God isn't treating her fairly when compared to Ann Coulter.</description>
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	 <title>The Palast Paladins vs. Coulter's Crusaders</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060609_the_palast_paladins_.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 09:18:58 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060609_the_palast_paladins_.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Imagine a fantasy baseball game between the Palast Paladins - the All Stars of the Liberal League - versus Coulter's Crusaders - the All Farts of the Bush League - for the championship of the press.</description>
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	 <title>Saint Ann Coulter, the Vestal Virgin Defender of the Faith?</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060607_saint_ann_coulter_2c_t.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2006 18:58:34 -0400</pubDate>
	 <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060607_saint_ann_coulter_2c_t.htm</guid>
	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Ann Coulter loves to start a fight. Now she's doing it in the name of religion.</description>
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	 <title>Will You Invite Helen Thomas on The O'Reilly Factor, Bill?</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060605_will_you_invite_hele.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:36:31 -0400</pubDate>
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	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Helen Thomas' new book gives the low-down on how the press has better served the current administration rather than democracy.</description>
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	 <title>Thanks to Bork and Scalia I'm Still Waiting on O?Reilly</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060602_thanks_to_borg_and_s.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 16:23:27 -0400</pubDate>
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	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>It's time to reinstate the FCC's Fairness Doctrine for Mainstream Media</description>
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	 <title>Media Matters Responds; Still Waiting on O'Reilly</title>
	 <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__060601_media_matters_respon.htm</link>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:44:27 -0400</pubDate>
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	 <dc:creator>Richard Mathis</dc:creator>
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	 <description>Media Matters has responded to a call for a live on-air sit down with Bill O'Reilly, who has yet to respond.</description>
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