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		<title>Carrier is a &#8220;shining city upon the sea&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.andybrack.org/2012/02/carrier-is-a-shining-city-upon-the-sea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Brack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On the U.S.A.]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Enterprise]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[FEB. 3, 2012 -- You can feel America’s promise and power aboard a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. It’s where foreign policy meets reality.

A carrier is “100,000 tons of diplomacy that doesn’t need a permission slip,” one officer explained over a weekend tour in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast. “We’ll go where we want and stay as long as we need.”]]></description>
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		<title>Weekend visit to aircraft carrier is just awesome</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Brack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[JAN. 30, 2012 -- Imagine you are sitting facing the back of a plane and someone is pressing an eight-pack of toilet paper onto your chest. Then BAM -- for about two seconds, they punch it really, really hard and keep up the pressure.]

That's what it feels like to land on an aircraft carrier. It takes your breath away. From the moment the tailhook on the C-2 Greyhound cargo plane latched onto the arresting wire on Saturday aboard the USS Enterprise, passengers decelerated from 105 m.p.h. to zero in just two seconds. ]]></description>
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		<title>Recovery is on the way, but it&#8217;s slow</title>
		<link>http://www.andybrack.org/2012/01/recovery-is-on-the-way-but-its-slow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Brack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On South Carolina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[JAN. 27, 2012 -- By the end of the year, a few of South Carolina’s metropolitan areas -- Myrtle Beach, Charleston, Anderson and Columbia -- are projected to be about halfway home or better in terms of making up jobs lost during the Great Recession.

And by the end of 2015, those four metro areas -- plus Greenville, Charlotte and the Augusta/Aiken area -- should have the same number of jobs as they did before the recession, according to a new report commissioned by the U.S. Conference of Mayors. ]]></description>
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		<title>Gingrich did what he does best &#8212; framing his ego</title>
		<link>http://www.andybrack.org/2012/01/gingrich-did-what-he-does-best-framing-his-ego/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Brack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On South Carolina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gingrich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, S.C., Jan. 22, 2012 – Before a discussion of what happened in the South Carolina Republican presidential primary yesterday, you should know this: The Palmetto State isn’t filled with right-wing, tea party nutcases. Sure, we have a fair share of them, but there are progressives here too.]]></description>
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		<title>Is South Carolina better off blue?</title>
		<link>http://www.andybrack.org/2012/01/is-south-carolina-better-off-blue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Brack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On South Carolina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[presidential]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[primary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[JAN. 20, 2012 -- When the email came this week from a person saying she was an editor with the opinion section of The New York Times, I first wondered whether it was spam.

The editor said the paper was looking for a short commentary for its “Room for Debate” section of its online opinion forum: “Here's what we're asking: The Republican primary aside, given the state's economy and the challenges it faces, wouldn't South Carolina be better off with a Democrat as president? In fact, in this case, isn't South Carolina better off with President Obama in the White House?”]]></description>
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		<title>The dream that still inspires a nation</title>
		<link>http://www.andybrack.org/2012/01/the-dream-that-still-inspires-a-nation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Brack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On the South]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Kennedy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today when you hear mention of the name "Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.," it will be easy to recall the sound, captured on black and white film, of his powerful, mellifluous voice in August 1963 urging freedom to ring on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. His "I Have a Dream" speech cemented his place as one of the greatest orators of all time.]]></description>
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		<title>GOP cynics want to fix something that&#8217;s no problem</title>
		<link>http://www.andybrack.org/2012/01/gop-cynics-want-to-fix-something-thats-no-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Brack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On South Carolina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voter ID]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[JAN. 13, 2012 -- South Carolina’s GOP leaders picked up where they left off last year -- trying to solve “problems” that don’t exist to make it look like they’re working. In reality, they’re failing to solve real problems for real people. As the legislature reopened for business this week, guess who preened to television cameras with charged political rhetoric about the evils of the federal government? Yep, Gov. Nikki Haley, House Speaker Bobby Harrell, Attorney General Alan Wilson and a host of GOP spotlight-seekers.]]></description>
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		<title>Where GOP presidential contenders should really visit</title>
		<link>http://www.andybrack.org/2012/01/where-gop-presidential-contenders-should-really-visit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Brack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On South Carolina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[presidential primary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[JAN. 6, 2012 -- Over the next two weeks as Republican presidential candidates flirt with primary voters in South Carolina, it might benefit the state and nation if they’d show up in places different than usual political stops.

Anybody operating under the standard play book is going to opt for more populated areas -- or GOP strongholds -- Greenville, Lexington, Charleston, Myrtle Beach, Hilton Head Island or Florence -- so they can make the TV news and get as much earned (also known as “free”) media as possible.]]></description>
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		<title>A different kind of New Year&#8217;s celebration</title>
		<link>http://www.andybrack.org/2012/01/a-different-kind-of-new-years-celebration/</link>
		<comments>http://www.andybrack.org/2012/01/a-different-kind-of-new-years-celebration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Brack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[For fun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[On Charleston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Don Francisco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Year's]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[JAN. 2, 2012 -- New Year's Eve around the Brack household has developed into something of an odd tradition. For the last four years, we've avoided crowds and stayed home to watch the celebrations on television. But with a twist: We watched the Spanish-speaking network.

We generally have no idea what the folks were saying on Univision, but one thing was clear: they were having a whole lot more fun in a studio filled with cheesy male pop stars with bad haircuts, wannabe divas with push-up bras and shiny dresses, and an ancient host who seemed to revel in peering down plunging necklines.]]></description>
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		<title>2011 offers lesson for 2012 policy priorities</title>
		<link>http://www.andybrack.org/2011/12/2011-offers-lesson-for-2012-policy-priorities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.andybrack.org/2011/12/2011-offers-lesson-for-2012-policy-priorities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Brack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On South Carolina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legislature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palmetto Priorities]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[DEC. 30, 2011 -- Wow. Talk about a one-two federal punch that landed on South Carolina.

On the Thursday before Christmas, a federal judge blocked three major parts of a poll-driven, controversial immigration law that Statehouse conservatives pushed for two years in spite of budget shortfalls and high unemployment. The next day, the U.S. Justice Department said it wouldn’t put up with the state’s new photo identification law for voting because it was what critics argued: discriminatory.]]></description>
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