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	<title>Connor Coyne &#187; politics</title>
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		<title>2009 IL Primary Elections &#8211; Blue Skies Falling Endorsements</title>
		<link>http://www.connorcoyne.com/blog/2010/02/2009-il-primary-elections-blue-skies-falling-endorsements/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>connor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s very late in the day, and I&#8217;ve only recently gotten around to researching any of these candidates. That said, if you haven&#8217;t voted yet, and you&#8217;re interested in a pseudo-informed opinion, here&#8217;s who I&#8217;m going for this round. GOVERNOR &#8211; PAT QUINN (D)U.S. SENATE &#8211; DAVID HOFFMAN (D)CONGRESS &#8211; IL 9TH DISTRICT &#8211; JAN [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Event:Pass Health-Care Reform Yesterday!</title>
		<link>http://www.connorcoyne.com/blog/2010/02/eventpass-health-care-reform-yesterday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>connor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been getting progressively more worked up each day the last few weeks and it finally spilled over into this letter I just wrote to my congresswoman and senators. On consideration, I think the analogies here (trite as they seem) are worth sharing precisely because they are so very obvious and applicable. At any rate, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Event: It&#8217;s Friday. Some videos.</title>
		<link>http://www.connorcoyne.com/blog/2009/10/event-its-friday-some-videos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.connorcoyne.com/blog/2009/10/event-its-friday-some-videos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>connor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[gay rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not silly stuff this week. But engaging and worthwhile. Also: Watch this one on Facebook videos.]]></description>
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		<title>Event: My letter to the newspapers.</title>
		<link>http://www.connorcoyne.com/blog/2009/10/event-my-letter-to-the-newspapers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.connorcoyne.com/blog/2009/10/event-my-letter-to-the-newspapers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>connor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear editors, Most Americans understand now that health care reform is necessary. Most of us, eighty percent according to some polls, support a public option. The economic analysis and historical precedents have been examined; nobody proposes we go where angels fear to tread. No death panels, and no debt inflation. The public option is, quite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Event: My letter to Sen. Dick Durbin.</title>
		<link>http://www.connorcoyne.com/blog/2009/10/event-my-letter-to-sen-dick-durbin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.connorcoyne.com/blog/2009/10/event-my-letter-to-sen-dick-durbin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>connor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Senator Durbin, I am a Michigan transplant who has been living and voting in Chicago for the better part of the last ten years. I am writing you today about an issue that will supersede in importance the life of the auto industry; this is a bold statement for me to make as many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Event: My New Letter to Congresswoman Schakowsky.</title>
		<link>http://www.connorcoyne.com/blog/2009/09/event-my-new-letter-to-congresswoman-schakowsky/</link>
		<comments>http://www.connorcoyne.com/blog/2009/09/event-my-new-letter-to-congresswoman-schakowsky/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>connor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My renewal of support. Dear Ms. Schakowsky, In the last election I voted against you because I didn&#8217;t think you had taken as strenuous a stand against funding the war in Iraq as I thought was possible, given the level of support (and strong, progressive support) you&#8217;ve enjoyed here in Chicago. I was also disappointed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Event: Health Care Reform Post #2 &#8211; Interesting Articles</title>
		<link>http://www.connorcoyne.com/blog/2009/08/event-health-care-reform-post-2-interesting-articles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.connorcoyne.com/blog/2009/08/event-health-care-reform-post-2-interesting-articles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>connor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Times: Health Plan Opponents Make Voices Heard. This is one thing that the new (meaning post-1994) generation of conservatives have excelled at; compensating for numbers with virulence. I&#8217;m nont saying that progressives should strive for such shrillness, but we should at least be emphatic. I&#8217;ll be looking for evidence that Americans in favor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Health Post.</title>
		<link>http://www.connorcoyne.com/blog/2009/07/national-health-post/</link>
		<comments>http://www.connorcoyne.com/blog/2009/07/national-health-post/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>connor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m really annoyed at myself for not having covered this more in the past several weeks. Here&#8217;s an astute argument from Uwe Reinhardt: A &#8216;Common Sense&#8217; American Health Reform Plan. And here&#8217;s an unabashedly emotional appeal from Jeff Danziger:]]></description>
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		<title>Event: The Closing of Flint Central (Part 4 of 4)</title>
		<link>http://www.connorcoyne.com/blog/2009/06/event-the-closing-of-flint-central-part-4-of-4/</link>
		<comments>http://www.connorcoyne.com/blog/2009/06/event-the-closing-of-flint-central-part-4-of-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>connor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost to the end. I&#8217;m allowing myself a closing argument. Flint has been in decline since before I was born, and very soon almost the entirety of its residents will only remember the city&#8217;s downfall. In the last fifty years, the population has halved, and Flint has gone from an expansionist vision of a future [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Event: David Letterman, the trenchant observer.</title>
		<link>http://www.connorcoyne.com/blog/2009/04/event-david-letterman-the-trenchant-observer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.connorcoyne.com/blog/2009/04/event-david-letterman-the-trenchant-observer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>connor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monologue, as captured via the New York Times Laugh Lines blog: How about those Somali pirates? So they bring one of the pirates to New York City so they can put him on trial. But he will also be doing some other stuff. Like, tomorrow, he’s going to ring the opening bell at the stock [...]]]></description>
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