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		<title>2012 in review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary L Hunt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Political Values Choices]]></category>

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		<title>Fiscal Farce</title>
		<link>http://civicchoices.wordpress.com/2012/12/28/fiscal-farce/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 23:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary L Hunt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Political Values Choices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; President Obama returned from his holiday vacation to meet with Congressional leaders in an effort to resolve the differences between the parties over the &#8216;fiscal cliff&#8217; issues. &#160; Big surprise&#8212;no deal? &#160; Why?  Because no serious negotiations are really going on.  President Obama has demonstrated he really isn&#8217;t interested in a deal unless, of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=civicchoices.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16449201&#038;post=3050&#038;subd=civicchoices&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Did the Feared October Surprise Arrive Early?</title>
		<link>http://civicchoices.wordpress.com/2012/09/13/did-the-feared-october-surprise-arrive-early/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 01:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary L Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The killing of the US Ambassador to Libya and three of his staff, the sacking of the US embassy in Egypt and a copycat attach on our embassy in Yemen is projecting foreign policy into the heart of the 2012 presidential election campaign.  In the Middle East, the facts surrounding the attacks are still being [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=civicchoices.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16449201&#038;post=3009&#038;subd=civicchoices&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Regulation and Common Sense Often Don&#8217;t Mix</title>
		<link>http://civicchoices.wordpress.com/2012/07/24/regulation-and-common-sense-often-dont-mix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary L Hunt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment Choices for Competitive Advantage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In California, Proposition 65 requires that retailers and manufacturers disclose the use of any chemicals that may pose an environmental health risk.    Sounds like common sense, right?  Except go to virtually any retail or commercial or office building in California and pasted on the front door will be a sign that reads:  Chemicals are used [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=civicchoices.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16449201&#038;post=3002&#038;subd=civicchoices&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time to Boil Political Frogs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2012 17:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary L Hunt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Political Values Choices]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It must be an election year!  How do I know, because politicians of both parties are spouting talking points about the need for fiscal responsibility even while they do the opposite.  These same politicians have set up themselves and the rest of us for what is being called the ‘fiscal cliff’ at the beginning of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=civicchoices.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16449201&#038;post=2985&#038;subd=civicchoices&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Give the President What He Wants&#8212;-and Give It To Him Hard!</title>
		<link>http://civicchoices.wordpress.com/2012/06/28/give-the-president-what-he-wants-and-give-it-to-him-hard-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary L Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The decision by the US Supreme Court upholding the Affordable Care Act mandate as a tax was a stunning surprise to many.  Probably no one was more surprised that President Obama.  He has seemed apprehensive that his signature legislative accomplishment was about to be thrown out. What was also surprising was that the swing vote [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=civicchoices.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16449201&#038;post=2973&#038;subd=civicchoices&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It is Still the Economy Stupid</title>
		<link>http://civicchoices.wordpress.com/2012/06/06/it-is-still-the-economy-stupid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary L Hunt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Political Values Choices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The phrase made famous by Bill Clinton’s political campaign has a habit of creeping back into the conversation.  It happened again when the former President made two statements to the press that appeared to undermine the sitting President.  Clinton first said that he thought the US was now back in recession given the falling economic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=civicchoices.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16449201&#038;post=2967&#038;subd=civicchoices&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Playing Politics with National Security</title>
		<link>http://civicchoices.wordpress.com/2012/06/03/playing-politics-with-national-security/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2012 14:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary L Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How is it that the New York Times is able to write elaborately detailed stories about the cyber-attacks on Iran from Stuxnet and Olympic Games, the code names for the computer viruses allegedly used to infect Iran’s nuclear enrichment program?  The NYT even is able to produce a graphic that shows the detailed business process [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=civicchoices.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16449201&#038;post=2960&#038;subd=civicchoices&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>October Surprise</title>
		<link>http://civicchoices.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/october-surprise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 19:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary L Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While most of the speculation about an October surprise has revolved around the probability of an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear capability, or a financial collapse in Spain or Italy that drags the Eurozone to the depths, it could be that we already know the October surprise but are either ignoring it or hoping, against [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=civicchoices.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16449201&#038;post=2949&#038;subd=civicchoices&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crucify! Crucify!</title>
		<link>http://civicchoices.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/crucify-crucify/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 22:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary L Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know we are still in the season of Easter but this is not an Easter story.  By now you’ve heard the news report of EPA Region 6 Administrator Al Armendariz’ remarks at a local Texas government officials meeting in 2010 where he used a crude analogy to describe his &#8220;philosophy of enforcement.&#8221; &#8220;It was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=civicchoices.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16449201&#038;post=2939&#038;subd=civicchoices&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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