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		<title>Yes!</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2010/03/22/yes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There doesn’t seem to be any point in my pretending not to be thrilled by the historic House vote that sent health care reform legislation to President Obama.   
The victory is even more astounding when you consider that just a few short weeks ago health care reform was being pronounced dead upon the election of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Joke</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2010/03/11/no-joke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s obvious from the fight that’s going on in Congress over whether to even form a Consumer Protection Agency and where to put it that American consumers have a major problem: Namely, that collectively they don’t have even one pocket deep enough for Congress to fit in.
This is in stark contrast to the banking industry’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dodd Dodders</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2010/02/03/dodd-dodders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By this time we all know how very very difficult it is to get anything done in the U.S. Senate, so it is not surprising that Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., was upset about President Obama’s proposals regarding banks—what businesses they can or cannot be in under certain conditions and how big they should be.
One can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not A Peep</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2010/02/02/not-a-peep/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Funny how one election has thrown everything up in the air.
Of course I’m talking about the election of Scott Brown as the Republican senator from the bluest of states, Massachusetts, on January 19. The result has been that Democrats of all stripes are running scared, while Republicans can’t stop crowing about the renewed vigor that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear President Obama&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2010/01/21/dear-president-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know you are probably getting tons of advice from all corners about what you should do now in the aftermath of the upset election of Scott Brown, a Republican, as a senator in the bluest of states, Massachusetts.
You, and we, are hearing from the punditocracy that it was a repudiation of your overreaching agenda, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just One Word</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2010/01/04/just-one-word/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an age where millions of people get off on conveying their thoughts in 140 characters (not words) or less, the art of crafting a one-word description of anything seems like a next logical step.
So if, after witnessing the U.S. Senate during the month of December, you were asked to describe that legislative chamber in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going Public</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/12/07/going-public/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So rarely do I find myself agreeing with anything Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., has to say (actually, I don’t think it’s ever happened) that I feel compelled to recognize a gesture of his with which I feel in complete agreement.
Coburn likes to play the spoiler and I believe that was the impetus behind his introducing [...]]]></description>
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