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		<title>MLA: Open Letter to Arizona Governor</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At its May 2010 meeting, the Executive Council approved the following open letter to Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona. Dear Governor Brewer, We write regarding legislative and policy initiatives in the State of Arizona that concern us as teachers and scholars of language and literature. You have recently signed legislation (SB 1070) that may place [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americapress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5878279&amp;post=262&amp;subd=americapress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cities in Support of Boycotting Arizona</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 09:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Lightborn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many U.S. cities across this nation have taken a respectable stance against the state of Arizona for its &#8220;immigration law.&#8221; Austin, TX became the latest in a growing list of cities that are boycotting Arizona in some capacity to protest the law, which makes it a state crime to be in the country illegally and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americapress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5878279&amp;post=257&amp;subd=americapress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coffee Party USA Continues To Percolate Nicely</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Lightborn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Founded by Annabel Park, the Coffee Party Movement (CPM), is put simply a &#8220;democracy advocacy group.&#8221; The movement began with something we all are likely familiar with: the Facebook Status Update. The CPM founded around these simple principles: The slogan is “Wake Up and Stand Up.” The mission statement declares that the federal government is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americapress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5878279&amp;post=233&amp;subd=americapress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moonhowlings: Al Alborn Part 3 (Coffee Party)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Lightborn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Army veteran Alan P. Alborn expands upon his thoughts found on the Coffee Party USA YouTube channel: Coffee Party USA You might remember the two videos featuring me that Moon Howler posted on the anti-BVBL website earlier this week. I was approached by Annabel Park ant Eric Byler for the past couple of weeks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americapress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5878279&amp;post=230&amp;subd=americapress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Coffee Party Inspires Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Lightborn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are anything like me then the recent lapse in any kind of reasonable or civil debate in our politics has you feeling frustrated and uncertain of what to do. I fall back upon my classic standards of political partisanship and playing to the left-base, but in truth I am not satisfied by this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americapress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5878279&amp;post=227&amp;subd=americapress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Neither A Dove, Nor A Hawk</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Lightborn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I realize I am casting myself unto outcast island with my support of the Afghan Surge, but this was exactly the policy I was advocating the president take in the first place. A increase in troops only under the predication of a withdrawal time line and clear goals set that are attainable. In essence the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americapress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5878279&amp;post=225&amp;subd=americapress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. History in the Making (Health Care)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Lightborn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Big3News) My political predictions have once again proven true. I predicted at the onset of the national and Congressional debate over health care coverage in the US that we would see a bill pass both House and Senate but that it would a &#8220;watered-down&#8221; bill that addressed preexisting conditions and state-to-state plan probability more than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americapress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5878279&amp;post=223&amp;subd=americapress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;ClimateGate&#8221; and the Biased Conservative Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Lightborn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you heard the latest right-wing, anti-environmentalist talking point? &#8220;ClimateGate&#8220; Tony Hake of The San Francisco Examiner was one of the first to break the real story on the web: Britain’s Climate Research Unit, University of East Anglia, suffered a data breach in recent days when a hacker apparently broke into their system and made [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americapress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5878279&amp;post=220&amp;subd=americapress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan; Operation Enduring Freedom Continues</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Lightborn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama West Point Speech During the 2008 Presidential Campaign then-candidate Barack Obama promised the mother a fallen American soldier to not only end the war in Iraq, but the war in Afghanistan as well. I am of the mind that now-president Barack Obama has not forgotten that promise. Many of my fellow Democrats [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americapress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5878279&amp;post=218&amp;subd=americapress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kudos to LiberalViewer of YouTube</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Lightborn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever seen this YouTube Channel called &#8220;LiberalViewer&#8220;? I personally would aspire toward having a blog more to the nature of the work of LiberalViewer in days to come. See for yourself. Posted in Corruption, Government, Media Coverage, National Affairs, Newsmedia, Politics Tagged: bias, blog, blogger, cable, ethics, fact, fairness, FOX, honesty, journalism, kudos, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americapress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5878279&amp;post=214&amp;subd=americapress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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