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		<title>Matheson meets with the editorial board</title>
		<link>http://perspectivesonthenews.blogs.deseretnews.com/2012/05/30/matheson-meets-with-the-editorial-board/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 14:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Evensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Utah&#8217;s only Democrat in Congress, Rep. Jim Matheson, asked for a meeting with the Deseret News editorial board Tuesday. He had a lot to say about the federal budget and his role as a so-called &#8220;blue dog&#8221; Democrat — a &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://perspectivesonthenews.blogs.deseretnews.com/2012/05/30/matheson-meets-with-the-editorial-board/">Continue reading<span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Will Ron Paul&#8217;s supporters accept defeat?</title>
		<link>http://perspectivesonthenews.blogs.deseretnews.com/2012/05/15/will-ron-pauls-supporters-accept-defeat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 17:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Evensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read Ron Paul’s statement that he won’t compete in upcoming primaries and, vague though it may be, there can be little doubt he isn’t expecting to win in 2012. That is news to many die-hard supporters who blame any bad &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://perspectivesonthenews.blogs.deseretnews.com/2012/05/15/will-ron-pauls-supporters-accept-defeat/">Continue reading<span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Lugar an omen for Hatch?</title>
		<link>http://perspectivesonthenews.blogs.deseretnews.com/2012/05/09/lugar-an-omen-for-hatch/</link>
		<comments>http://perspectivesonthenews.blogs.deseretnews.com/2012/05/09/lugar-an-omen-for-hatch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 18:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Evensen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Campaign 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Utah issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hatch]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The question on a lot of lips is whether Richard Lugar’s primary loss signals anything about Orrin Hatch, who now is the undisputed longest-serving Republican in the Senate. &#160; According to an account in the Atlantic, at FreedomWorks headquarters Tuesday &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://perspectivesonthenews.blogs.deseretnews.com/2012/05/09/lugar-an-omen-for-hatch/">Continue reading<span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Obama makes terrorists pinky-swear</title>
		<link>http://perspectivesonthenews.blogs.deseretnews.com/2012/05/07/obama-makes-terrorists-pinky-swear/</link>
		<comments>http://perspectivesonthenews.blogs.deseretnews.com/2012/05/07/obama-makes-terrorists-pinky-swear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 22:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Evensen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Are they prisoners of war or enemy combatants? More than a decade after the United States launched its attack on Afghanistan, we still haven’t really confronted that question. Oh sure, President Barack Obama officially renounced the term in 2009. But &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://perspectivesonthenews.blogs.deseretnews.com/2012/05/07/obama-makes-terrorists-pinky-swear/">Continue reading<span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Secret Service sex scandal is not new</title>
		<link>http://perspectivesonthenews.blogs.deseretnews.com/2012/04/27/secret-service-sex-scandal-is-not-new/</link>
		<comments>http://perspectivesonthenews.blogs.deseretnews.com/2012/04/27/secret-service-sex-scandal-is-not-new/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Evensen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Secret Service]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The interesting thing isn’t that a Secret Service sex scandal is dominating the news. It’s that we suddenly care. Richard Nixon’s apologists used to say that he did the same things previous presidents had done, but he was the only &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://perspectivesonthenews.blogs.deseretnews.com/2012/04/27/secret-service-sex-scandal-is-not-new/">Continue reading<span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mayor Becker and SkiLink</title>
		<link>http://perspectivesonthenews.blogs.deseretnews.com/2012/04/25/mayor-becker-and-skilink/</link>
		<comments>http://perspectivesonthenews.blogs.deseretnews.com/2012/04/25/mayor-becker-and-skilink/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Evensen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Utah issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While a new group called the Utah Lift Coalition was holding a press conference Tuesday in support of a proposed mountain gondola that would link the Canyons Resort in Summit County to Solitude Mountain Resort in Salt Lake County, Salt &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://perspectivesonthenews.blogs.deseretnews.com/2012/04/25/mayor-becker-and-skilink/">Continue reading<span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reefer nuttiness</title>
		<link>http://perspectivesonthenews.blogs.deseretnews.com/2012/04/24/reefer-nuttiness/</link>
		<comments>http://perspectivesonthenews.blogs.deseretnews.com/2012/04/24/reefer-nuttiness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Evensen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The words of a 19-year-old man who would identify himself only as Dylan summed up the argument as he saw it. &#8220;We&#8217;re not hurting anybody,&#8221; he said. Dylan was referring to the annual march in favor of marijuana legalization that &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://perspectivesonthenews.blogs.deseretnews.com/2012/04/24/reefer-nuttiness/">Continue reading<span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tax day and high school grads</title>
		<link>http://perspectivesonthenews.blogs.deseretnews.com/2012/04/17/tax-day-and-high-school-grads/</link>
		<comments>http://perspectivesonthenews.blogs.deseretnews.com/2012/04/17/tax-day-and-high-school-grads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Evensen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Utah issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While Republicans and Democrats are using Tax Day to buffet (or is that Buffett?) each other over whether to sock it to the rich, the Alliance for Excellent Education has a slightly different take on the only thing in life, &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://perspectivesonthenews.blogs.deseretnews.com/2012/04/17/tax-day-and-high-school-grads/">Continue reading<span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why don&#8217;t Gingrich and Paul quit?</title>
		<link>http://perspectivesonthenews.blogs.deseretnews.com/2012/04/12/why-dont-gingrich-and-paul-quit/</link>
		<comments>http://perspectivesonthenews.blogs.deseretnews.com/2012/04/12/why-dont-gingrich-and-paul-quit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Evensen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Campaign 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Romney]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To use a Titanic reference (that’s trendy right now), Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul seem to be fighting over control of the rudder, making sure they steer the thing into an iceberg no matter what Captain Mitt Romney may want. &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://perspectivesonthenews.blogs.deseretnews.com/2012/04/12/why-dont-gingrich-and-paul-quit/">Continue reading<span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Utah&#8217;s primary looming large</title>
		<link>http://perspectivesonthenews.blogs.deseretnews.com/2012/03/20/utahs-primary-looming-large/</link>
		<comments>http://perspectivesonthenews.blogs.deseretnews.com/2012/03/20/utahs-primary-looming-large/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Evensen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Campaign 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Utah issues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ironically, the Mitt Romney campaign once tried to get Utah to move its presidential primary up so that, according to a Salt Lake Tribune story from last year, it “might play a bigger role in the nomination process.” That’s ironic &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://perspectivesonthenews.blogs.deseretnews.com/2012/03/20/utahs-primary-looming-large/">Continue reading<span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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