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	<description>The official site of the Democratic Party of Franklin County, Missouri</description>
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		<title>Santorum: Dominionist</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow. “We were put on this Earth as creatures of God to have dominion over the Earth, to use it wisely and steward it wisely, but for our benefit not for the Earth’s benefit,” Santorum told an audience at the Colorado School of Mines where he was a guest speaker Monday at the Colorado Energy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building The Arch On The Cheap?</title>
		<link>http://www.franklinmodems.org/2012/02/19/building-the-arch-on-the-cheap/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=building-the-arch-on-the-cheap</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darin Gilley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Paycheck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prevailing Wage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend I had the opportunity to take my daughter to the Jefferson National Expansion Museum and to the top of the Arch in downtown St. Louis.  Even with the TSA-style security check, $15 tram fee, and $7.50 movie tickets to see &#8220;Monument to the Dream&#8221; the day was an enjoyable one.   The building of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bumper Sticker Slogan</title>
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		<comments>http://www.franklinmodems.org/2012/02/19/bumper-sticker-slogan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Phillips</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FCDBlog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sadly, in our short-attention-span, fast-food nation, if you can&#8217;t distill your political campaign down to a slogan that will fit neatly onto a bumper sticker you are probably going to have trouble connecting with voters. Josh Marshall at TPM has a suggestion for team Obama: GM is alive; bin Laden is dead.]]></description>
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		<title>Legislative Update: Three Days in February</title>
		<link>http://www.franklinmodems.org/2012/02/16/legislative-update-three-days-in-february/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=legislative-update-three-days-in-february</link>
		<comments>http://www.franklinmodems.org/2012/02/16/legislative-update-three-days-in-february/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lloydk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Desk]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Missouri Senate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, they wanted to fund religious institutions (i.e., private corporations) On Tuesday, Valentine&#8217;s Day, they wanted to fund more private corporations, Virtual Charter Schools AND wanted to tamper with and make more political Missouri&#8217;s Non-Partisan Court Plan On Wednesday, Curtman offers HCR41 to oppose Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act from Missouri NEA Legislative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who is Your Santa Claus? Who Will Shoot Him?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.franklinmodems.org/2012/02/15/who-is-your-santa-claus-who-will-shoot-him/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darin Gilley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Paycheck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reaganomics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican Deficits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thom Hartmann]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How could Republican President George W. Bush turn a 6 trillion dollar projected surplus into a 10 trillion dollar budget deficit without a word from Republicans or the Tea Party?  How has right-wing economics led to almost thirty years of GOP power?  Do you believe in Santa Claus? Our friend Thom Hartmann has the story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOP Losing Its Mojo</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Birth Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Boy, there was a time when Republicans knew how to pick a wedge issue during an election year and mercilessly pummel Democrats with it but they must be losing their touch. A new CBS poll finds that a huge majority of the American people support birth control and believe religious employers should be required to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Knew It Was Coming</title>
		<link>http://www.franklinmodems.org/2012/02/14/we-knew-it-was-coming/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=we-knew-it-was-coming</link>
		<comments>http://www.franklinmodems.org/2012/02/14/we-knew-it-was-coming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lloydk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Desk]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[HERE IT IS &#8211; OUR LEGISLATORS TRYING TO BREAK DOWN SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE (see 2nd item in Legislative Update for 2/13/12) Missouri NEA Legislative Update Week 7, No. 1, February 13, 2012 By Otto Fajen MNEA Legislative Director SCHOOL LEVY ELECTION DATES The Senate Financial &#38; Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee heard SB [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Specific Steps to Help American Manufacturing</title>
		<link>http://www.franklinmodems.org/2012/02/11/specific-steps-to-help-american-manufacturing/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=specific-steps-to-help-american-manufacturing</link>
		<comments>http://www.franklinmodems.org/2012/02/11/specific-steps-to-help-american-manufacturing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darin Gilley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Paycheck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alliance for American Manufacturing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Paul]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[C-Span recently featured an extensive interview with Scott Paul, Executive Director of the Alliance for American Manufacturing in which many aspects of what a successful manufacturing policy were discussed.  Mr. Paul specifically addressed current and proposed tax incentives such as the upfront deduction for plant and equipment and the Value Added Tax to what other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Catholic Church and Contraception</title>
		<link>http://www.franklinmodems.org/2012/02/09/the-catholic-church-and-contraception/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-catholic-church-and-contraception</link>
		<comments>http://www.franklinmodems.org/2012/02/09/the-catholic-church-and-contraception/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Phillips</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FCDBlog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birth Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healthcare Reform]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s just one thing to keep in mind when you hear the outrage coming from The Catholic Church over contraception: When the Church failed to act on child sexual abuse cases committed by priests who preyed on the innocent for decades (possibly centuries), and then actively engaged in covering it up once victims started going public, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old News, But Fun News &#8211; Last Week in the Capitol</title>
		<link>http://www.franklinmodems.org/2012/02/08/old-news-but-fun-news-last-week-in-the-capitol/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=old-news-but-fun-news-last-week-in-the-capitol</link>
		<comments>http://www.franklinmodems.org/2012/02/08/old-news-but-fun-news-last-week-in-the-capitol/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lloydk</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Your Paycheck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor Issues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[WORKPLACE DISCRIMINATION AND WHISTLE-BLOWER LAW Last week the Senate again took up SCS/SB 592 (Brad Lager) for floor debate on February 1.  It was in session debating the bill for nearly fifteen hours before reaching an agreement to end the filibuster effort at about 1:20 a.m. It endorsed legislation early February 2 that would change [...]]]></description>
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