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					<description>Get Informed. Choose Your News.</description>
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				<title>Bush's fiercest critic may be senator / Majority leader Reid has called him a liar and King George</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/bushs_fiercest_critic_may_be_sen/</link>
				<description>Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, has called President Bush a loser and a liar and has referred to him derisively as King George. Reid also has apologized - but only, he likes to point out, for the &quot;loser&quot; line.

Mostly, the Nevada Democrat calls</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-12-21 08:14:52</pubDate>
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					<name>SF Gate</name>
					<link>http://feeds.sfgate.com/~r/sfgate/rss/feeds/news/~3/203914960/article.cgi</link>
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					<rating>Interesting [7]</rating>
													<credibility>100</credibility>
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				<title>US agency apologizes for news conference on fires</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/us_agency_apologizes_for_news_co/</link>
				<description>The U.S. government's main disaster-response agency apologized on Friday for having its employees pose as reporters in a hastily called news conference on California's wildfires that no news organizations attended.

The Federal Emergency Management Agen</description>
				<type>news</type>
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				<pubDate>2007-10-26 22:42:20</pubDate>
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					<name>Reuters</name>
					<link>http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN26366100</link>
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								<credibility>93</credibility>
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					<rating>Interesting [14]</rating>
													<credibility>100</credibility>
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				<title>'Bridge to nowhere' abandoned</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/bridge_to_nowhere_abandoned/</link>
				<description>Some called it a bridge to the future. Others called it the bridge to nowhere.

On Friday, Alaska decided the bridge really was going nowhere, officially abandoning the project in Ketchikan that became a national symbol of federal pork-barrel spending.</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-09-23 20:51:14</pubDate>
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					<name>CNN</name>
					<link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/22/alaska.bridge.ap/index.html</link>
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								<credibility>94</credibility>
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					<rating>Interesting [14]</rating>
													<credibility>100</credibility>
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				<title>Bush Aide Blocked Report</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/bush_aide_blocked_report/</link>
				<description>A surgeon general's report in 2006 that called on Americans to help tackle global health problems has been kept from the public by a Bush political appointee without any background or expertise in medicine or public health, chiefly because the report did</description>
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				<category>politics</category>
				<pubDate>2007-07-29 10:39:11</pubDate>
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					<name>Washington Post</name>
					<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/28/AR2007072801420.html</link>
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								<credibility>94</credibility>
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					<rating>Important [6]</rating>
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				<title>Bush calls for immigration bill by year's end</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/bush_calls_for_immigration_bill_/</link>
				<description>One day after the Senate agreed to take up the issue again, President Bush on Friday called on Congress to pass an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws by year's end.

&quot;Each day our nation fails to act, the problem only grows worse. I will contin</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>politics</category>
				<pubDate>2007-06-15 12:21:28</pubDate>
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				<source>
					<name>USA Today</name>
					<link>http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/usatoday-NewsTopStories/~3/124844046/2007-06-14-bush-immigration_N.htm</link>
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								<credibility>91</credibility>
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					<rating>Important [8]</rating>
													<credibility>100</credibility>
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				<title>Gates won't say who's winning war on terror</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/gates_wont_say_whos_winning_war_/</link>
				<description>Declining to say whether the U.S. and its partners are winning the war on terror, Defense Secretary Robert Gates called Saturday for more focus on combating poverty and other underlying causes of extremism.

&quot;I think we are still early in this contest,&quot;</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-06-02 11:19:53</pubDate>
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					<name>USA Today</name>
					<link>http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/usatoday-NewsTopStories/~3/121587592/2007-06-02-gates-war-terror_N.htm</link>
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					<rating>Interesting [13]</rating>
													<credibility>100</credibility>
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				<title>Officers: Ex-CIA chief Tenet a 'failed' leader</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/officers_ex-cia_chief_tenet_a_f/</link>
				<description>In a letter written Saturday to former CIA Director George Tenet, six former CIA officers described their former boss as &quot;the Alberto Gonzales of the intelligence community,&quot; and called his book &quot;an admission of failed leadership.&quot;

The writers said Ten</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>politics</category>
				<pubDate>2007-04-29 21:15:38</pubDate>
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					<name>CNN</name>
					<link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/29/tenet.letter/index.html</link>
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					<rating>Important [23]</rating>
													<credibility>80</credibility>
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				<title>Bush Vows to Veto U.S. Troop Withdrawal From Iraq Bill</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/bush_vows_to_veto_us_troop_withd/</link>
				<description>House Democrats called for a new direction in Iraq on Friday, passing a measure ordering President Bush to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Iraq by September 2008.

Bush vowed to veto the measure if it makes it to his desk.

&quot;A narrow majority in the</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>politics</category>
				<pubDate>2007-03-24 05:10:34</pubDate>
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				<source>
					<name>FOX News</name>
					<link>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,260560,00.html</link>
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								<credibility>82</credibility>
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					<rating>Important [18]</rating>
													<credibility>100</credibility>
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				<title>Bush wants to cut U.S. gasoline use by 20 percent</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/bush_wants_to_cut_us_gasoline_us/</link>
				<description>President George W. Bush on Tuesday called for Americans to cut their gasoline use by 20 percent over a decade, mostly through a nearly five-fold increase in use of home-grown fuels such as ethanol by 2017.</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-01-25 01:23:21</pubDate>
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					<name>Reuters</name>
					<link>http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&amp;storyid=2007-01-24T034452Z_01_WBT006468_RTRUKOC_0_US-BUSH-SPEECH-ENERGY.xml&amp;src=rss</link>
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								<credibility>93</credibility>
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					<rating>Interesting [6]</rating>
													<credibility>60</credibility>
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				<title>Edwards calls for pullout of troops training Iraqis</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/edwards_calls_for_pullout_of_tro/</link>
				<description>Toward this end, Mr. Edwards called at the time for establishing a more effective program to train Iraqi troops and channeling reconstruction work to Iraqis instead of American contractors. While he called for removing a significant number of American for</description>
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				<pubDate>2008-01-03 08:25:09</pubDate>
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				<source>
					<name>MSNBC</name>
					<link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22466398/</link>
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								<credibility>95</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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				<title>Bush calls service members on holiday</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/bush_calls_service_members_on_ho/</link>
				<description>President Bush, who visited troops in Iraq on Thanksgiving after the U.S. invasion in 2003, called several servicemen and women Thursday to extend best wishes and say it was “the least I can do.”

Three of those receiving holiday greetings are in th</description>
				<type>news</type>
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				<pubDate>2007-11-23 08:29:33</pubDate>
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					<name>MSNBC</name>
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								<credibility>95</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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				<title>Jackson criticizes Obama: Presidential candidate’s response to Jena, La., case called too weak</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/jackson_criticizes_obama_preside/</link>
				<description>The Rev. Jesse Jackson called Tuesday on Democrats seeking the 2008 nomination for president to give S.C. voters “something to vote for” when they go to the polls in January.</description>
				<type>news</type>
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				<pubDate>2007-09-19 15:33:36</pubDate>
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				<source>
					<name>TheState.com</name>
					<link>http://www.thestate.com/local/v-print/story/177514.html</link>
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								<credibility>95</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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				<title>Dems call for ending tax cuts for rich</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/dems_call_for_ending_tax_cuts_fo/</link>
				<description>Democratic presidential candidates Thursday called for ending tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans in a debate focusing on domestic issues related to minorities.

The Democratic hopefuls called for a more direct presidential role in addressing racism t</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>politics</category>
				<pubDate>2007-06-29 08:20:15</pubDate>
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					<name>USA Today</name>
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								<credibility>91</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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				<title>GOP Skepticism On Iraq Growing</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/gop_skepticism_on_iraq_growing/</link>
				<description>Key Republican senators, signaling increasing GOP skepticism about President Bush's strategy in Iraq, have called for a reduction in U.S. forces and launched preemptive efforts to counter a much-awaited administration progress report due in September.</description>
				<type>news</type>
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				<pubDate>2007-06-27 14:10:23</pubDate>
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				<source>
					<name>Washington Post</name>
					<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/26/AR2007062602056.html</link>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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				<title>Bush calls for global emissions goals</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/bush_calls_for_global_emissions_/</link>
				<description>President Bush called Thursday for an international conference on global warming involving all major industrial nations, including the USA, China and India.

In a speech devoted to his agenda for next week's Group of Eight summit of industrialized nat</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>politics</category>
				<pubDate>2007-05-31 16:37:16</pubDate>
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				<source>
					<name>USA Today</name>
					<link>http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/usatoday-NewsTopStories/~3/121126684/2007-05-31-bush-emissions_N.htm</link>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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				<title>Will Durst: You Gotta Love Cheney</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/will_durst_you_gotta_love_cheney/</link>
				<description>When Hugo Chavez called President Bush the devil at the U.N., he was way out of line. Everybody knows Bush isn't the devil. Cheney is.

You've got to love Vice President Cheney. He made another unannounced visit to Iraq in his unofficial capacity as hea</description>
				<type>opinion</type>
				<category>politics</category>
				<pubDate>2007-05-22 08:00:24</pubDate>
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				<source>
					<name>Alter Net</name>
					<link>http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/52190/</link>
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								<credibility>86</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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				<title>My Response to the McCain Campaign's Attacks on Planned Parenthood</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/my_response_to_the_mccain_campai/</link>
				<description>A McCain staffer has called Planned Parenthood &quot;one of the most radical pro-abortion groups in the country.&quot; Here's Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards' response.

John McCain's presidential campaign has taken a troubling turn. This week, the L</description>
				<type>opinion</type>
				<category>politics</category>
				<pubDate>2007-05-11 16:59:45</pubDate>
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				<source>
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				<description>Voters around the country get the recorded messages — called robocalls — up to five times a day, telling them to vote for Republican and Democratic candidates in their region.</description>
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