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				<title>Best Sarah Palin Tribute Ever!</title>
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			Lloyd Marcus, a Florida-based Republican singer wrote this brilliant, brilliant  ditty, "Sarah Smile," about the moose hunter VP candidate. He's touring the nation with a PAC called Our Country D...]]></description>
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				<title>RNC Arrests: Police State of Mind</title>
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A weird thing happens to your nervous system when a flashbang grenade explodes close enough for you to smell it. The higher vestiges of your consciousness evaporate and you suddenly go into slo...]]></description>
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				<title>Field notes from the RNC protests</title>
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			Since my story isn't as dramatic as Andy Mannix's -- a few shoves, some jostling, and a gentle love-tap with a club or two -- I'm just going to run down some Thursday anecdotes that have fallen t...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:27:32 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>RNC riot trip report: one journalist&apos;s encounter with mace</title>
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			By Andy Mannix

It was almost 6:30 p.m. on the corner of Cedar Street and 12th Street in St. Paul Thursday, and what had set out to be a symbolic march protesting the last day of the Republican N...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:02:00 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>The View&apos;s Elisabeth Hasselbeck interviews Stephen Baldwin at the RNC</title>
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			Before the festivities yesterday, Elisabeth Hasselbeck was on the floor of the Xcel filming footage for a segment on The View. She interviewed Stephan Baldwin, who, like her, is among the minorit...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:53:16 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>Weirdest RNC Conspiracy Theory: Obama murdered gay lover</title>
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			Spotted in the audience where Chris Matthews was taping Hardball on Wednesday:





			...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:32:49 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>Liveblogging the RNC day 4: John McCain is a POW.</title>
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One final day. One final speech. The most famous POW gets to tell his tale of POWing out to the masses. Bring your chips and popcorn. Bristol, hold hands with Levi. The RNC ends with CODEPINK cr...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:00:30 -0600</pubDate>
				<author>Bradley Campbell</author>
			
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				<title>The RNC’s most obscure protester</title>
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			By Ben Westhoff

From ending the war in Iraq to Israel out of Palestine to universal health care to legalized weed, the refrains of the protesters have grown predictable on day four. But the harv...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:54:28 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>Best T-shirts, Signs, and Outfits of the RNC, Part 1</title>
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			By Ben Westhoff

With the RNC winding down, we're already getting nostalgic. Here are a few of our favorite T-shirts, signs, outfits -- and one necklace -- we've seen around the RNC this week. Fe...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:51:16 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>Politically masked</title>
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			By Ben Westhoff

According to Gallup’s daily tracking poll, Obama leads McCain 49 percent to 43. But who’s leading when it comes to presidential mask sales? For the answer to this important quest...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:41:17 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>Protesters in standoff with riot police, gas attack may be imminent</title>
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			-by Jeff Shaw via phone





Protesters are in a standoff with riot police at Rice Street and John Ireland Boulevard in St. Paul. 

When marchers tried to reach the Xcel Center, they were blocked...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:33:37 -0600</pubDate>
				<author>Ward Rubrecht</author>
			
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				<title>On the prowl: The Republicaniest Republican of them all</title>
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			For Republicans with red blood running through their veins--blood that connects them to the murdered unborn, that boils at the thought of higher taxes for the wealthy, and that, they will concede...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:32:23 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>Infiltrator hijacks RNC floor pass, charges trip to College Republicans</title>
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			Mike Connery thought he had found a golden ticket: a contest he could easily win that would pay his freight to the Republican National Convention. If all went right, he'd even gain a coveted floo...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:55:16 -0600</pubDate>
				<author>Jeff Shaw</author>
			
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				<title>Anarchists Unmasked</title>
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After two years of strenuously avoiding any and all media, core members of notorious anarchist group the RNC Welcoming Committee held a press conference this morning in their “convergence cente...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:49:21 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>Wellstone Action! responds to Palin&apos;s bust on community organizing</title>
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Elana Wolowitz of Wellstone Action, a leadership training center founded in honor of Paul and Sheila, responds to the community organizing busts made by RNC elites. While Palin's speechwriters a...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:35:42 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title>MinnPost: Cindy McCain dresses classy and young people love John McCain!</title>
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			MinnPost item: Delegates dig "classy" Cindy McCain's awesome outfit!

Quick retort: That outfit cost roughly $300,000. $300,000! That's about 150 percent of what the median home price is in Minne...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:54:22 -0600</pubDate>
				<author>Jeff Shaw</author>
			
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				<title>Was &quot;pitbull with lipstick&quot; line scripted?</title>
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The line of the night for Sarah Palin was, “You know the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick.” It seemed to be a spontaneous reaction to seeing the "hockey moms for Palin" ...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:52:42 -0600</pubDate>
				<author>Kevin Hoffman</author>
			
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				<title>Ben Stein hates Sarah Palin, but loves Cossetta&apos;s</title>
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			"Confused and disturbed" is how comedian and Republican activist Ben Stein described his reaction to John McCain's choice of running mate. The actor, whose most famous role was as Ferris Bueller'...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:33:45 -0600</pubDate>
				<author>Jeff Shaw</author>
			
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				<title>Lieberman on McCain&apos;s foreign policy, almost</title>
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			Confession: I like exploring the nuts and bolts of foreign policy. So when I heard the University of Minnesota was hosting an event examining what a McCain administration's foreign policy would l...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:00:11 -0600</pubDate>
				<author>Jeff Shaw</author>
			
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				<title>George W. Bush: Evidently no longer a Republican</title>
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			After listening to hour after hour of speeches last night, I heard the words "change," "reform," and "outsider" in my sleep. Over and over again, in fact. 

That's because every Republican speake...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:23:53 -0600</pubDate>
				<author>Jeff Shaw</author>
			
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