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    <description>Michael Medved's daily syndicated radio talk show reaches one of the largest national audiences every weekday between 3 and 6 PM, Eastern Time. Michael Medved is the author of eleven books, including the bestsellers What Really Happened to the Class of '65?, Hollywood vs. America, Right Turns and, most recently, The Ten Big Lies About America.</description>
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      <title>When It Comes to Rewarding Inefficiency, Washington Puts Wall Street to Shame</title>
      <description>   The public feels rightly outraged at lavish pay-packages for executives in government-assisted companies that have blown billions in recent years.  But why hasn't the restive public developed comparable indignation re</description>
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      <title>Americans Show Conservative Instincts, Not Ideology</title>
      <description>Why President Eisenhower Represents the Right Model for GOP Revival

It's true that the American people are fundamentally conservative - but not in the angry, doctrinaire sense suggested by so many of my fellow radio...</description>
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      <title>Who was the top G.O.P. vote-getter of all time?</title>
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Among Republican presidents, who counts as the top vote-getter of all time? The surprising answer to that question provides important perspective for todays efforts to rebuild the GOP.

In terms of raw votes, George...</description>
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      <title>Real Pilgrims Sought Purity, Not Tolerance or Diversity</title>
      <description>As American families sit down to their traditional Thanksgiving feasts they will naturally recall the familiar story of the Pilgrims taught to every school kid and, in the process, distort the true character of the...</description>
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      <title>Personal Choices, Not the System, Make for Bad Health Outcomes</title>
      <description>Careless About Litter, Careless About Health
Regardless of the future of Obamacare, the most important health decisions wont be made by Congress, or bureaucrats, or insurance companies, or doctors, or hospitals, but by...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Conventional Wisdom Recycles Lies About Recent Elections</title>
      <description>Mistakes, distortions and outright lies appeared so frequently in media coverage of the elections of 2009 that they made accurate analysis all but impossible. 


 

The most serious of these errors built upon gross...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Six Election Day Lessons</title>
      <description>1.	Money Doesn't Matter. Mike Bloomberg broke records by spending at least $90 million of his own money on a race for a third term as New York's Mayor, saturating the world's most costly media market for endless...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:59:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Don't Sneer at GOP Victories</title>
      <description>Signs of Republican revival in Tuesday's election will leave some conservatives cheering, and others sneering; cynics insist that it doesn't matter which half of the two-party power structure controls the levers of...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>All Independent Candidates Are Not Created Equal</title>
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A third party vote is almost always an idiotic gesture that promotes enemies and punishes allies, but in next Tuesdays elections two strong independent candidates deserve serious consideration. One of them Doug...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Obama and Balloon Boy</title>
      <description>In the Age of Obama, all dramatic developments connect somehow to the Dear Leader himself even a seemingly frivolous distraction like Balloon Boy. In fact, the strange but thoroughly publicized non-flight of young...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>GOP Needs More Conservative Substance, More Moderate Tone</title>
      <description>New polling brings good news and bad news for beleaguered Republicans yearning for a comeback in the Age of Obama.

The encouraging message suggests that Americans strongly prefer conservative policies and values to...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:02:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Only Way to Beat Obamanism: Elect More Republicans</title>
      <description>For those Americans who want to fight back against the menacing expansion of government and the insanely irresponsible spending of the Obama administration, there is only one way to succeed: electing more Republicans to...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:01:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Top Liberal Agrees: Cost of Health Reform Could Wreck Economy</title>
      <description>Startling revelations sometimes turn up in unexpected places. For instance, one of the nation's most thoughtful, influential liberals recently conceded in a New York Times book review that Democratic plans for health...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Congressional Takeover by GOP Would Save, not Wreck, Obama Presidency</title>
      <description>The last 65 years of presidential history show one clear, consistent preference on the part of the American electorate: the public feels vastly more comfortable with divided government, and grows worried and...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Real Political Divide: Attitudes Toward America</title>
      <description>Everyone knows that Americans are bitterly divided over politics but what is the fundamental nature of that division? What is the core disagreement that separates conservatives from liberals, right from left?

Norman...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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