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	<title>Scrutiny Hooligans &#187; National</title>
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	<description>If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen. â€” Samuel Adams</description>
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		<title>Responding To The Pearl Clutchers</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/05/22/responding-to-the-pearl-clutchers/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/05/22/responding-to-the-pearl-clutchers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 17:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Presidential Race]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[All the fuss over Newark, NJ Mayor Corey Booker&#8217;s comments about Obama&#8217;s &#8220;nauseating&#8221; campaign ad slamming Mitt Romney&#8217;s experience with Bain Capital has Booker backtracking, the White House scolding and Republicans clutching their pearls. How dare he slam the private equity firms for maximizing profits at the expense of workers? No business-friendly politician would do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama at Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Security</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/05/20/obama-at-symposium-on-global-agriculture-and-food-security/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/05/20/obama-at-symposium-on-global-agriculture-and-food-security/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 21:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Security]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This landed in my email inbox. I&#8217;ve shortened it some.
Ronald Reagan Building
Washington, D.C.
May 18, 2012, 10:08 A.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you so much [...] We were originally going to convene, along with the G8, in Chicago. But since we’re not doing this in my hometown, I wanted to bring a little bit of Chicago to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘But I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was’</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/05/18/%e2%80%98but-i-stand-by-what-i-said-whatever-it-was%e2%80%99/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/05/18/%e2%80%98but-i-stand-by-what-i-said-whatever-it-was%e2%80%99/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 21:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Presidential Race]]></category>
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		<title>The TED Talk You Weren&#8217;t Supposed To See</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/05/17/the-ted-talk-you-werent-supposed-to-see/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/05/17/the-ted-talk-you-werent-supposed-to-see/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 23:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy and Logic]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=30268</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So says Adam Mordecai:
Nick Hanauer, self-described &#8220;super-rich&#8221; entrepreneur, gave a pretty compelling TED Talk about how the middle class—not the super-rich—are the real job creators. But TED, which has released over 100 different political videos in the past, thought this one was too partisan and chose not to release it.
Under pressure, they eventually did. Here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Do &#8211; Update and Appeal</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/05/14/we-do-update-and-appeal/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/05/14/we-do-update-and-appeal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 12:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jbeachferrara</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Asking for Money]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=30235</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning, we’re in Asheboro, N.C. At 9:30 a.m., we’ll stand with Barb and Angela as they request &#8211; and are denied &#8211; a marriage license in their home town, surrounded by friends, family and clergy.

It’s been quite a week as we’ve traveled across North Carolina in the days following the passage of Amendment One. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not Your Garden Variety 501(c)3</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/05/12/not-your-garden-variety-501c3/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/05/12/not-your-garden-variety-501c3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 13:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After finding that two of Thom Tillis&#8217; staff members were literally in bed with lobbyists, it makes perfect sense to investigate whether ALEC is in flagrante delicto with legislators. News and Observer:
An advocacy group is asking Attorney General Roy Cooper to investigate the tax status of the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative group that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Results</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/05/09/results/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/05/09/results/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 14:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Buncombe County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cecil Bothwell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBT issues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes the NC Constitutional Amendment passed 61-39, but here in Buncombe it failed. There were a lot of interesting results here at home last night, most of which bode very well for Buncombe. Let&#8217;s get the results train rolling. (Buncombe results) (NC results)
On the 10th Congressional tip, Patsy Keever steamrolled Terry Bellamy 58-26, with also-ran [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Day Before The Day</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/05/07/the-day-before-the-day-2/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/05/07/the-day-before-the-day-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 12:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Board of Commissioners]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cecil Bothwell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Open Thread]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=30080</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the CW on who&#8217;s going to win all these races? Have you already voted? What do you think the GOP Presidential primary vote will look like? I&#8217;m guessing Romney doesn&#8217;t break 58% and that Ron Paul has his best southern state showing.
This would also be a great place to let everyone know where the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How&#8217;s That Austerity Plan Working For Ya?</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/05/06/hows-that-austerity-plan-working-for-ya/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/05/06/hows-that-austerity-plan-working-for-ya/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 21:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stimulus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just in from Paris:
PARIS — Francois Hollande was elected France’s first Socialist president in nearly two decades on Sunday, dealing a humiliating defeat to incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy and shaking up European politics.
[...]
The Socialist has vowed to renegotiate the hard-fought fiscal austerity pact signed by EU leaders in March and to make it focus more on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extraordinary</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/05/02/extraordinary/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/05/02/extraordinary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 15:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ascend of Asheville</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[99%]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=29967</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The shareholders meetings for Duped Energy and Banks Over America are happening in Charlotte. Duke&#8217;s meeting is tomorrow and BOA on the 9th. Both are expected to bring some protests. As if.
Hooligan TJ alluded to it in comments, but I wanted to provide a space for folks to expand on the events themselves, the protests [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So Get With The Economy-Killing Program, Already</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/05/02/so-get-with-the-economy-killing-program-already/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/05/02/so-get-with-the-economy-killing-program-already/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 15:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=29910</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For a Kenyan, Marxist, radical socialist, atheist/Muslim, commie sleeper agent, illegitimate president intent on destroying America, Barack Obama really sucks at his job. Seriously. The S&#038;P 500 closed at 1,405.82 yesterday, and has more than doubled in the last three years. What&#8217;s up with that?
Dow Hits Four-Year High
The ISM [Institute for Supply Management] reading of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doubting the Austerians</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/04/29/doubting-the-austerians/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/04/29/doubting-the-austerians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sunday Sermon]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=29864</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In March 1999, Harvey Cox of Harvard Divinity School wrote of the emergence of a new “Supreme Deity, the only true God, whose reign must now be universally accepted and who allows for no rivals.” &#8212; The Market.
Omnipotent: In a kind of reverse transubstantiation The Market transmutes all things once holy into items for sale. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Just Say It</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/04/28/lets-just-say-it/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/04/28/lets-just-say-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 13:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recommend reading this entire article, though you&#8217;ll run the risk of having some area Republicans and equivalency fetishists gnash their teeth when you share it with them.
Thomas E. Mann is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Norman J. Ornstein is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. This essay is adapted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lindsey&#8217;s Extra Awesome Voter Guide</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/04/19/lindseys-extra-awesome-voter-guide/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/04/19/lindseys-extra-awesome-voter-guide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Action]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=29697</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lindsey Simerly sent this into my email inbox, and I thought I&#8217;d share it here. Lindsey has been involved in lots of Democratic campaigns (Jones, Smith, Newman, Reisinger, Shuler) and is currently working with the Campaign for Southern Equality as well as being Chair of the City of Asheville&#8217;s Affordable Housing Advisory Committee. She also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voting Begins Tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/04/18/voting-begins-tomorrow/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/04/18/voting-begins-tomorrow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time to get your votin&#8217; hat on. Voting prior to May 8th means that you can tell those callers, door knockers, and poliscolds, &#8220;I already voted.&#8221; 

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		<title>NC-11 Open Thread</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/04/13/nc-11-open-thread/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/04/13/nc-11-open-thread/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cecil Bothwell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heath Shuler]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a few weeks before the big primary, so I thought we could start having conversations about specific Democratic primary races in the area. Today: the NC-11 campaign.
Cecil Bothwell has been running for this seat since March of last year. Cecil&#8217;s a dyed-in-the-wool liberal who asserts that his brand of boldness is exactly what Democratic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rep. Tim Moffitt: Busy, busy, busy</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/04/12/rep-tim-moffitt-busy-busy-busy/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/04/12/rep-tim-moffitt-busy-busy-busy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NC Legislature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rep. Tim Moffitt, R-Buncombe, has been a busy fellow. A privatization study committee he is on has strayed from studying into legislating. WRAL reports:
The Republican-led House Select Committee on State-Owned Assets was supposed to consider the sale of some of the state&#8217;s more than 11,000 assets. Instead, the panel narrowly approved the nine-page draft bill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Five, Asheville Open Thread</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/04/08/high-five-asheville-open-thread/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 21:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A River Arts District renaissance, fueled by beer, is on Asheville&#8217;s horizon, observers say
River Arts District sees big benefits from New Belgium
As the politicians and business development associations line up for their photo-ops and back-slapping, I wanted to give props to the real progenitors of Asheville&#8217;s newest industry. In all the New Belgium and Sierra [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your election has been overruled. Signed, Michigan Republican Party.</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/04/06/your-election-has-been-overruled-signed-michigan-republican-party/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/04/06/your-election-has-been-overruled-signed-michigan-republican-party/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 01:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
From Joan McCarter at dKos:
And how they&#8217;ve done this is remarkable. These &#8220;immediate effect&#8221; laws are supposed to get a two-thirds majority. That&#8217;s numerically impossible in the House, because Republicans don&#8217;t have two-thirds majority and Democrats have remained united as a bloc against them. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Development Open Thread</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/04/05/business-development-open-thread/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asheville City Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buncombe County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Victory has a thousand fathers&#8221;, said John F. Kennedy, and this week has made it plain that, in Asheville&#8217;s economic development, this couldn&#8217;t be more true. 
Linamar, based in Canada but with 39 factories based in 11 countries, opened their plant yesterday in south Asheville. By the end of the year they&#8217;ll be employing 140 [...]]]></description>
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