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		<title>Mark Sanford Beats Colbert Busch By 9% In SC 1st District Special Election</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 09:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford easily won the special election for the Tim Scott&#8217;s vacated congressional seat, representing South Carolina&#8217;s 1st District. Even though Sanford was outspent 5 to 1 by Colbert Busch, the contest wasn&#8217;t that close, with the former SC Governor out performing his opponent by more than 9 percentage points. Many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Immigration System Isn&#8217;t Broken &#8211; Laws Are Simply Not Being Enforced</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 01:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Politicians, along with their media allies, are constantly parroting the lie that our immigration system is broken. Actually, there is very little wrong the immigration system we have in place, except for enforcement of our current immigration laws, and the fact that our borders are not being protected and secured. When criminal illegal aliens are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sanford Schools Colbert In Congressional Debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 08:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The South Carolina 1st District Congressional debate between Former Governor Mark Sanford and Elizabeth Colbert Busch demonstrated a stark difference between the two candidates. While Governor Sanford demonstrated a knowledge and command of the issues, Colbert Busch appeared uninformed and defensive. Sanford highlighted his excellent track record of fiscal conservatism. On the other hand, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unprincipled GOP Senators Betray Constituents With Vote For Massive Tax Increases With No Cuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As predicted in my December 2nd thread entitled: Likely Outcome Of So Called Fiscal Cliff Negotiations, progressive GOP establishment hacks voted to raise taxes today, while at the same time, putting aside the needed cuts agreed to during the debt ceiling debate. My (cough) representative, Senator Lindsay Graham, can be counted as one of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boehner’s Rejection Of Tea Party Hastens GOP&#8217;s Demise</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a misguided lurch to the left, leader of the HOR and GOP establishment puppet, John &#8220;Cry Baby&#8221; Boehner, has removed several Tea Party members from key committee assignments. Boehner’s steering committee stripped four rank-and-file members of coveted committee assignments, including conservatives David Schweikert of Arizona, Justin Amash of Michigan, and Tim Huelskamp of Kansas. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Full List Of Obama Administration&#8217;s New Taxes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 07:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama&#8217;s New Taxes (Implemented Or Soon To Be) Largest Tobacco Tax Hike In History 10% Tanning Tax Health Care Insurance Mandate Tax (as ruled by SCOTUS) Five Major New Taxes In Obamacare Full List Of 20 Hidden Taxes In Obamacare Standard deductions Will Rise in 2013 Obama Administration&#8217;s Proposed New Taxes $1.6 Trillion New Taxes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Likely Outcome Of So Called Fiscal Cliff Negotiations</title>
		<link>http://upstatevoice.com/likely-outcome-of-so-called-fiscal-cliff-negotiations/</link>
		<comments>http://upstatevoice.com/likely-outcome-of-so-called-fiscal-cliff-negotiations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 03:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Politicians and their media allies have been screaming for months that the so called &#8220;fiscal cliff&#8221; will spell the end of America. While most people agree that raising taxes in our slow economy would be a bad idea, the real purpose for all the chicken little, &#8220;Sky is falling&#8221;, rhetoric is purely political. The real [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Holds America Hostage In Attempt To Punish Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama is threatening to allow Federal taxes to increase on the 54% of Americans who actually pay Federal taxes, unless the GOP agrees to increase taxes on families and small businesses who earn more than 250k per year. There is no justification for increasing these taxes, being the tax increase does nothing to offset [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Romney Scores TKO Over Obama In Presidential Debate</title>
		<link>http://upstatevoice.com/romney-scores-tko-over-obama-in-presidential-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 05:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Romney came out swinging during the first presidential debate in Colorado, keeping Obama on the defensive for the entire event. President Obama appeared uncomfortable and unprepared, as he was unable to defend his domestic policies. Romney hammered the President on his handling of the economy, a high unemployment rate and his ineffective energy policy, pointing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Say Goodbye To Free Speech and Hello To War</title>
		<link>http://upstatevoice.com/say-goodbye-to-free-speech-and-hello-to-war/</link>
		<comments>http://upstatevoice.com/say-goodbye-to-free-speech-and-hello-to-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 05:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The left and their media allies, in an attempt to distract from Obama&#8217;s failed foreign policy, covered up the latest 9/11 terror attacks by AQ (which killed 4 Americans). The Obama administration claimed it was just an unruly mob, angry over some anti-Muslim YouTube film trailer that practically no one has seen, or even knew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s State Of The Union Speech Decoded</title>
		<link>http://upstatevoice.com/obamas-state-of-the-union-speech-decoded/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama&#8217;s State of The Union speech was filled with soaring rhetoric, and teleprompter reading worthy of a Oscar winner, but we must make a real effort to see beyond campaign year rhetorical flourishes and take a hard look what was actually being proposed. We should seek to look beyond the cult of personality distractions/Kabuki Theater [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Santorum&#8217;s Iowa Win/Loss/Performance Brings Scrutiny Over His Conservative Record</title>
		<link>http://upstatevoice.com/santorums-iowa-performance-brings-scrutiny-over-his-fiscal-conservative-record/</link>
		<comments>http://upstatevoice.com/santorums-iowa-performance-brings-scrutiny-over-his-fiscal-conservative-record/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 07:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Santorum&#8217;s Narrow Iowa loss (or win, no one may ever really know), expect the see his opponents bring out the big knives. Coming out of nowhere, Santorum is a relative unknown to many GOP voters, at least on a national level. Most fiscal conservatives might not know that Santorum endorsed Arlen Specter, over Pat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy New Year 2012 From Upstate Voice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 04:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wishing everyone a happy, healthy and prosperous 2012. My resolution this year is to do all I can to promote liberty, freedom and uphold the principles set forth in the U.S. Constitution. I will expose those who trample our rights and will defend those who champion our freedoms. Let 2012 be the year we wisely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neocon Nikki Haley Endorses Progressive Mitt Romney</title>
		<link>http://upstatevoice.com/neocon-nikki-haley-endorses-progressive-mitt-romney/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 01:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those in the Tea Party movement, who were skeptical of Governor Haley&#8217;s anti-establishment message during the campaign, had their suspicions confirmed today, as Necon Nikki rejected Tea Party constitutional conservative Michele Bachmann and instead, endorsed big government progressive Mitt Romney. It certainly makes one wonder what might be next on Haley&#8217;s agenda. Perhaps it&#8217;s the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOP Cowards Who Refuse To Answer Questions From Donald Trump</title>
		<link>http://upstatevoice.com/gop-cowards-who-refuse-to-answer-questions-from-donald-thrump/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who needs a presidential candidate too cowardly to answer questions from Donald Trump, who will be moderating the NewsMax debate in Iowa on December 27th? The list of cowards now include progressive hacks Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman, along with the incompetent Rick Perry. More surprising is the fact that both Ron Paul and Michele [...]]]></description>
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