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		<title>Three Primary Strategies for GOP in 2012</title>
		<link>http://carolinasoapbox.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/2012gopstrategies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contributed by Shell Suber There are three competing political strategies at work in this primary: 1. RUN HARD RIGHT AND WIN: Supporters of this strategy would have the GOP nominate a far right candidate as a winning strategy. “Make the difference between us and them stark and unapologetic. Voters will be impressed and reward the straightforward [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carolinasoapbox.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14155917&amp;post=1075&amp;subd=carolinasoapbox&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What comes around…</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contributed by Shell Suber When I was 7, my parents left my 5 year old bother and me in the care of my 14, 12 and 10 year old cousins in Pennsylvania and went out to one of those adults-only-drinking-wine-in-the-sun-all-day events that horse people love so much. Naturally, an atomic pillow fight erupted not long [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carolinasoapbox.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14155917&amp;post=1067&amp;subd=carolinasoapbox&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GOP ’12 Top Ten: April 1 – No foolin’</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Carolina Soapbox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contributed by Shell Suber March’s big winner was Tim Pawlenty who had been fading over the last few months but now seems to be everywhere. Big losers were Michele Bachmann and Donald Trump. Bachmann failed a self-administered grade-school geography quiz and got folks wondering what other subjects she flunked. [ie. Dan Quayle] Trump pulled off [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carolinasoapbox.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14155917&amp;post=1059&amp;subd=carolinasoapbox&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time to look inward for energy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contributed by Senator Danny Verdin Most Americans are glad to see people in countries like Egypt and Libya standing up for themselves and overthrowing the tyrannical despots that have oppressed them for too long. But we are not happy to see what it is doing to gasoline and diesel prices. Maybe this will be the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carolinasoapbox.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14155917&amp;post=1055&amp;subd=carolinasoapbox&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GOP ’12 Top Ten: Ides of March</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contributed by Shell Suber ‘Beware the Ides of March’ warns Shakespeare’s soothsayer in Julius Caesar. Two millennia and fifty-five years later, the oracle extends that warning to those giving thought to the Republican Party’s nomination in 2012: If you are running, you can wait no longer&#8230; er, but don’t be first. My March version of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carolinasoapbox.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14155917&amp;post=1046&amp;subd=carolinasoapbox&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The GOP assault on America</title>
		<link>http://carolinasoapbox.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/gop-assault-on-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Carolina Soapbox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contributed by Michael Gass The GOP has begun their assault on America. On some issues, such as busting unions, it is a coordinated assault. Numerous states under GOP rule are trying to bust unions (see Indiana, Wisconsin, and Ohio). On other issues, the attacks aren&#8217;t as coordinated, but, the intent is clear. In Michigan, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carolinasoapbox.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14155917&amp;post=1041&amp;subd=carolinasoapbox&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sacrifice More, You Louts!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 20:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Carolina Soapbox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contributed by Michael Gass In The State newspaper, we get a hint at how the state legislature defines “sacrifice” in this article: “The proposal now is in a House subcommittee. If it makes it to the House floor for a vote, Republicans, who control that body, are expected to support it. They have made its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carolinasoapbox.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14155917&amp;post=1036&amp;subd=carolinasoapbox&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blame DeMint, Tea Party for port losses, not Clyburn</title>
		<link>http://carolinasoapbox.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/blame-demint-not-clyburn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Carolina Soapbox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contributed by Philip Snead The following is a letter to the editor of the Charleston Post and Courier. Dear Editor, Saturday&#8217;s lead editorial, &#8220;Press port-deepening case,&#8221; appears to assign blame to Jim Clyburn for our congressional delegation&#8217;s failure to regain the measly $400,000 Congressional earmark funding that could have directly enabled the needed deepening of our port to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carolinasoapbox.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14155917&amp;post=1032&amp;subd=carolinasoapbox&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to save education in SC</title>
		<link>http://carolinasoapbox.wordpress.com/2011/02/21/how-to-save-education-in-sc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Carolina Soapbox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contributed by Michael Gass Lower taxes. If we don’t regulate business, if we simply stay out of their business, the market will handle itself. That is what the Republican Party has pushed for decades. In South Carolina, the reality is that lower taxes means less revenue to pay for services. Instead of “handling itself”, letting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carolinasoapbox.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14155917&amp;post=1028&amp;subd=carolinasoapbox&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Climate change: The truth is STILL out there</title>
		<link>http://carolinasoapbox.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/truth-about-climate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 16:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Carolina Soapbox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contributed by Warren Mowry The ongoing debate over regulation of “greenhouse gases” and the attempts of the EPA to bypass Congressional legislation by regulating emissions has reached a head recently.  Given the overwhelming number of scandals related to the “scholarship” surrounding climate change activism and the outright fraud associated with much of its statistical analysis, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carolinasoapbox.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14155917&amp;post=1019&amp;subd=carolinasoapbox&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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