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		<title>Obama: A Father’s Hope</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our president is a compassionate father, and his eloquent, passionate letter to his daughters espouses that. Via the letter, he sent a message to America when he shared what he wants for Malia and Sasha – and every child in America. The letter sings with sincerity, and we can surmise that letter isn’t for publicity [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vivd917.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6052309&amp;post=49&amp;subd=vivd917&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Burden Of The Beast</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The battle of the bulge is a beast that destroys health and self-esteem. Oprah Winfrey and I along with millions of Americans – children and adults – feel the pain every day. When I learned about Oprah’s plight of regaining 40 pounds that she struggled so hard to lose, I said, “Oh, no.” When I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vivd917.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6052309&amp;post=32&amp;subd=vivd917&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Black Legislators Make History</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sandwiched between the countdown for President-elect Barack Obama to assume office and the controversy surrounding the seating of Roland Burris in the U.S. Senate, some may have noticed that the Colorado General Assembly was making a little history of its own. With the swearing-in Wednesday of Terrance Carroll as speaker of the state House of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vivd917.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6052309&amp;post=12&amp;subd=vivd917&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Freeze on Burris</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roland Burris should have just said “No thank you” to that Senate-seat appointment by Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. But there he was this week standing before the U.S. Senate, which closed the door on Burris. But after meeting with Senate leadership on Wednesday, Burris now believes  the Senate will seat him soon. A resolution of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vivd917.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6052309&amp;post=10&amp;subd=vivd917&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The New Welfare</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I told everybody so. As one who hates to say, “I told you so,” I cannot resist it now. In the ‘90s, women on welfare were considered tax burdens and reforms were touted to save taxpayers money, but left corporate welfare untouched. Little or no attention was paid to the fact that these women spent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vivd917.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6052309&amp;post=3&amp;subd=vivd917&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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