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		<title>The 7 Billionth Person</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/11/01/the-7-billionth-person/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the United Nations, the 7 billionth person came into the world the other day.
I was wondering why it felt kind of crowded around here.
The 1 billionth person arrived when Thomas Jefferson was president. No. 2 billion came when Calvin Coolidge was president, the 3 billionth when Dwight Eisenhower was president, the 4 billionth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Basketball</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/28/on-basketball/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[“Prayer for a Perfect Season.”]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3689</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“Get your head out of your ass.”
We were in the locker room of a high school gym in the South Side of Chicago, and the coach of my team, Paul Jackson, was not too pleased with our team’s play in the first round of the basketball tournament.
We were sophomores and frankly, we were playing like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rich Are Different</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/27/the-rich-are-different/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Babe Ruth]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the Koch brothers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Mars family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The rich]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3678</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The rich are different than you and me.
And it isn’t only that they have more money.
The rich have come under attack recently, so I decided to take a look at who is really, really rich.
And what I found was a group of people who have changed our world profoundly.
Think of the Walton family, responsible for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Campaign Theories</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/26/campaign-theories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3671</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is generally assumed that Herman Cain will not be the Republican nominee for President.  Likewise, it is assumed that Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann, Jon Huntsman and Gary Johnson won’t get the nomination either.
That leaves Rick Perry and Mitt Romney.
The Perry campaign assumes that the dominant conservative wing of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama’s Hollow Victories</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/25/obama%e2%80%99s-hollow-victories/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/25/obama%e2%80%99s-hollow-victories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3665</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The president does a pretty good job of declaring victory. He doesn’t do a particularly good job of explaining the cost.
He ended last week declaring that our troops in Iraq will be home for Christmas. What he didn’t explain was that decision was reached because the Iraqis are kicking us out of their country and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Viva Las Vegas</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/24/viva-las-vegas-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3661</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Politicians in Washington rushed Nevada into Statehood in 1864 to assure Abraham Lincoln a comfortable margin in his bid for reelection smack dab in the middle of the Civil War, and ever since then, the Silver State has played a unique role in American political history.
Nevada is mostly desert, so it has always been a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rubio and the Hispanic Vote</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/21/rubio-and-the-hispanic-vote/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/21/rubio-and-the-hispanic-vote/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3657</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chris Matthews thought he would get me with his question on Marco Rubio.  He asked me, breaking news style, what I thought about the revelations that Rubio’s family fled Cuba two whole years before Castro came to power.
I didn’t scratch my head on camera, but I did so in my mind.
What the hell is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Private Sector Doing Just Fine?</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/20/is-the-private-sector-doing-just-fine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said yesterday:  &#8220;It&#8217;s very clear that private sector jobs have been doing just fine, it&#8217;s the public sector jobs where we&#8217;ve lost huge numbers, and that&#8217;s what this legislation is all about.”
He was talking about his plan to give more money to states so they can give more money [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bickering</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/19/bickering/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/19/bickering/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newt Gingrich had the line of the night towards the end of the debate when he complained that the moderator encouraged a level of bickering that could only make it harder for the GOP to get the White House.
I don’t think Anderson Cooper was really trying to sink the Republican nominee for President in this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obamaville</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/18/obamaville/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wasting away again in Obamaville.

Looking for my lost shaker of salt.
Some people claim that George Bush is still to blame.
But I know.
It’s Barack Obama’s fault.
In the wake of the stock market crash of 1929, and in the depths of the Great Depression, shantytowns sprung up around America.
Called Hoovervilles, these itinerant communities came to symbolize the [...]]]></description>
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