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		<title>Missing the podium</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunday brought a merciful end to the 21st Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver and concluded our quadrennial reminder of just why most of these sports languish in obscurity.
It was an Olympics bookended by the continuing tragedy in Haiti and an new one in Chile while suffering one of its own when Georgian athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://monoblogue.us/2010/03/14/missing-the-podium/</link>
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		<title>Maryland GOP: &#8216;Told you so!&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, sometime awhile back I already used &#8220;in the category of &#8216;duh&#8217;&#8221; and I didn&#8217;t wish to use it again. But, surprisingly, the best-laid plans of Martin O&#8217;Malley and Free State Democrats didn&#8217;t work, and Maryland Senate Republicans didn&#8217;t hesitate to point this fact out:
Final tax data from 2008 now proves what many predicted but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://monoblogue.us/2010/03/13/maryland-gop-told-you-so/</link>
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		<title>Friday night videos episode 25</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bringing back the FNV franchise again after a week off, so let&#8217;s see what the extra week has given me to work with.
Lots of video on the health care debacle, as you might expect. Pollster Scott Rasmussen talks to the Washington News-Observer on the upcoming midterm elections and about how unpopular Obamacare really is:

It wasn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://monoblogue.us/2010/03/12/friday-night-videos-episode-25/</link>
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		<title>Earmarks: the gauntlet has been thrown down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the 2010 elections looming and the lack of fiscal responsibility by Washington becoming a larger issue, both parties are taking steps to curb the use of earmarks, which are loosely defined as appropriations added to spending bills to benefit a particular interest, usually within the sponsor&#8217;s state or district.
Democrats Wednesday proposed an end to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://monoblogue.us/2010/03/12/earmarks-the-gauntlet-has-been-thrown-down/</link>
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		<title>Applause for Chile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Needless to say, the South American country of Chile has been through a lot lately. As most who haven&#8217;t been under a rock the last month know, its northern region was pummeled by an earthquake a few weeks back, and aftershocks continue to plague the recovery.
But aftershocks yesterday did not interrupt the peaceful transfer of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://monoblogue.us/2010/03/12/applause-for-chile/</link>
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		<title>The final march for ruination</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have so much fun with the e-mails from Organizing For Against America. Now they&#8217;ve undertaken a week-long &#8220;Final March for Reform&#8221; with steps their minions are supposed to take in order to achieved their desired result of Obamacare.
Step 1 was yesterday, where participants were supposed to &#8220;get the facts out.&#8221; So here are some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://monoblogue.us/2010/03/11/the-final-march-for-ruination/</link>
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		<title>Wargotz wins beauty contest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Much as a straw poll is somewhat helpful in determining grassroots support &#8211; but isn&#8217;t necessarily an indication of how an election will turn out &#8211; U.S. Senate Dr. Eric Wargotz may have proven he has the best supporters for stacking a straw poll.
My U.S. Senate poll came to a close early this morning (by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://monoblogue.us/2010/03/10/wargotz-wins-beauty-contest/</link>
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		<title>Obamacare reaches its climax</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, it sounds like we&#8217;re at the tipping point for nationalizing one-sixth of our economy and the question is whether the House will pass the Senate bill or not. Forget reconciliation &#8211; there would be no need for it once the House swallows real hard and the dam is broken.
This is a sampling of some of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://monoblogue.us/2010/03/10/obamacare-reaches-its-climax/</link>
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		<title>Pollitt warms up the local campaign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You wouldn&#8217;t expect Wicomico County Executive Rick Pollitt to be a &#8220;one-and-done&#8221; termer if he could help it, so this news is not unexpected. From Progressive Delmarva:
Rick Pollitt will kick off his re-election effort to return as Wicomico County Executive with a fundraising dinner this Saturday.
The beef and dumplings dinner will cost $30 a ticket [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://monoblogue.us/2010/03/09/pollitt-warms-up-the-local-campaign/</link>
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		<title>Thinking about tea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a beautiful morning outside, and the snow pile that lay across the street from the driveway here has finally disappeared, so it must be spring! It&#8217;s not the type of morning which makes one think about doing taxes &#8211; as it happens, I haven&#8217;t done mine yet either &#8211; but it is the kind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://monoblogue.us/2010/03/09/thinking-about-tea/</link>
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		<title>Is it really a race, or hype?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As of today, we have a little under eight months before presumptive Democrat nominee (and incumbent governor) Martin O&#8217;Malley tangles with assumed Republican choice (and former governor) Bob Ehrlich. Both face primary challengers but it&#8217;s likely these two will be the guys come November.
I noted the other day that Ehrlich is closing the gap and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://monoblogue.us/2010/03/08/is-it-really-a-race-or-hype/</link>
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		<title>Amedori launches online petition, calls on Mikulski to oppose reconciliation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Breaking news comes to me this morning from U.S. Senate candidate Carmen Amedori&#8217;s camp.
In an effort to contrast herself with longtime incumbent Barbara Mikulski and create pressure on the Democrat to forgo a vote for reconciliation (should it become necessary), Amedori has set up an online petition:
Today, Carmen Amedori, Republican candidate for United States Senate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://monoblogue.us/2010/03/08/amedori-launches-online-petition-calls-on-mikulski-to-oppose-reconciliation/</link>
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