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		<title>Keep the $50 the Same!</title>
		<link>http://thekosmo.com/current-affairs/wanna-read-something-really-relevant</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Shoemaker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[To the Left]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voices/The Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[david harvey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neoliberal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patrick mchenry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conservative - 1. disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change. 2. cautiously moderate or purposefully low: e.g. a conservative estimate. The last time I checked, Representative Patrick T. McHenry (R &#8211; N.C.) had an (R), not a (D), which means that he&#8217;s part of the GOP, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who is Rick Michigan?</title>
		<link>http://thekosmo.com/current-affairs/who-is-rick-michigan</link>
		<comments>http://thekosmo.com/current-affairs/who-is-rick-michigan#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Pugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kalamazoo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[To the Left]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voices/The Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ann arbor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democratic Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[governor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gubernatorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[one tough nerd]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[rick michigan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rick snyder]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thekosmo.com/?p=2881</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rick Snyder, the GOP candidate for governor and Ann Arbor businessman, seems to be struggling with more than just weak name recognition. You may have seen an advertisement aired by the Rick for Michigan campaign during the Super Bowl &#8211; labeling him as &#8220;One Tough Nerd&#8220;. Now, last summer during the Mackinac Island conference and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Damning Punditry</title>
		<link>http://thekosmo.com/current-affairs/damning-punditry</link>
		<comments>http://thekosmo.com/current-affairs/damning-punditry#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Pugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[To the Left]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voices/The Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democratic Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Beck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ronald reagan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sarah palin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thekosmo.com/?p=2842</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Political strategists of all stripes have been pulling their hair out over the last year about the seeming fragmentation of the US into five voting blocs &#8211; progressives, Democratic Party faithful, centrists, GOP faithful, and the so-called Tea Party. The reason this is so problematic for US politics is because the United States has a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our New(d) Senator</title>
		<link>http://thekosmo.com/current-affairs/our-newd-senator</link>
		<comments>http://thekosmo.com/current-affairs/our-newd-senator#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Shoemaker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[To the Left]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voices/The Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cosmopolitan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[House of Representatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[martha coakley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[massachusetts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scott brown]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ted Kennedy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thekosmo.com/?p=2747</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, everyone worried about Ted Kennedy&#8217;s death and what it would mean to any meaningful change to the health care system in the United States.  Apart from all the unwarranted hysteria about the Kennedy curse (he was old and he died&#8230;), I thought the press handled it pretty well, including The Kosmopolitan Online, which wrote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virg Bernero for Governor</title>
		<link>http://thekosmo.com/current-affairs/virg-bernero-for-governor</link>
		<comments>http://thekosmo.com/current-affairs/virg-bernero-for-governor#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Pugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[To the Left]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the last few months, speculation has abounded regarding the November 2010 Michigan gubernatorial election. But both sides face the same issue: electability in a general election for a likely primary winner. For the Democratic Party, the frontrunner seems to be Lieutenant Governor John Cherry, who despite his support from the party establishment is staring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talk about LGBT Rights, Not Film</title>
		<link>http://thekosmo.com/current-affairs/talk-about-lgbt-rights-not-film</link>
		<comments>http://thekosmo.com/current-affairs/talk-about-lgbt-rights-not-film#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Lenkey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The BLT G-Spot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[To the Left]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voices/The Times]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thekosmo.com/?p=2535</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the state legislature, Michigan has become the premier market for motion picture filming outside of Hollywood. The Michigan Film Incentive Program has brought vitalized growth to our movie industry. Chances are at some point over the past year (or in the near future), a Michigan made picture will be making its way to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State Budget Crisis</title>
		<link>http://thekosmo.com/current-affairs/state-budget-crisis</link>
		<comments>http://thekosmo.com/current-affairs/state-budget-crisis#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Pugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[To the Left]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democrat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[governor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[governor jennifer granholm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[granholm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gubernatorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lansing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state budget]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thekosmo.com/?p=2503</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;m sure many readers are already aware, the Michigan state legislature sent a series of emergency continuation budgets to Governor Granholm&#8217;s desk at around 2 am the morning of October 1, narrowly avoiding a shutdown of state government and sending the state&#8217;s services into what was essentially regarded the 13th month of fiscal year 2009. Four [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Vote for Equality – Kalamazoo Ordinance 1856</title>
		<link>http://thekosmo.com/current-affairs/a-vote-for-equality-%e2%80%93-kalamazoo-ordinance-1856</link>
		<comments>http://thekosmo.com/current-affairs/a-vote-for-equality-%e2%80%93-kalamazoo-ordinance-1856#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Shoemaker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kalamazoo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[To the Left]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thekosmo.com/?p=2368</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An unlikely piece of legislation has taken precedence over the City Commissioner race in the Kalamazoo November 3rd elections next month.  A referendum to Ordinance 1856 seeks to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of attributes against which employers, landlords, and even neighbors cannot legally discriminate.  Voters will be asked to vote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America&#039;s Healthy Future (Sponsored by Max Baucus)</title>
		<link>http://thekosmo.com/current-affairs/americas-healthy-future-sponsored-by-max-baucus</link>
		<comments>http://thekosmo.com/current-affairs/americas-healthy-future-sponsored-by-max-baucus#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander Morgan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[To the Left]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bipartisan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democrat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, the Senate Finance Committee will hold a long-awaited vote on Sen. Max Baucus’ America’s Healthy Future Act. What is most surprising may not be that this bill is finally getting a vote after months of negotiations and holdups, but that it may be the bill that finally makes its way out of Congress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capitol Catfight and Careerist Caucus</title>
		<link>http://thekosmo.com/current-affairs/capitol-catfight-and-careerist-caucus</link>
		<comments>http://thekosmo.com/current-affairs/capitol-catfight-and-careerist-caucus#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander Morgan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kalamazoo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[To the Left]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bipartisan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capitol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democrat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[michigan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[republican]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few months I’ve been at the forefront of Michigan’s budget battle witnessing first hand the bitter partisan politics that drive the Great Lakes state. Michigan is well known these days a the state that shut down two out of the past three years due to budget woes, but to say that partisan [...]]]></description>
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