<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine</title><link>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/</link><description>Porter Rockwell: Interesting Times</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:16:17 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 19:11:21 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>House GOP campaign drops Mark Sanford</title>
<description><![CDATA["National Republican Congressional Committee on Wednesday ended its role in Mark Sanford's campaign"
&nbsp;
They can recognize a loser when they see one.
&nbsp;
South Carolina! You can do better than this lying cheater.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></source><link>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/18/17810524-house-gop-campaign-drops-mark-sanford</link><guid>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/18/17810524-house-gop-campaign-drops-mark-sanford</guid><category>politics</category><category>south-carolina</category><category>republican</category><category>sanford</category><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:15:58 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=PorterRockwell6A8DE42F-E5FD-AAF7-D4B4-82BC2AA5FB25.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="113" width="150" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=PorterRockwell6A8DE42F-E5FD-AAF7-D4B4-82BC2AA5FB25.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="91" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Republican group parts with Sanford after trespassing report</title>
<description><![CDATA[From the article:
"National Republican Congressional Committee on Wednesday ended its role in Mark Sanford's campaign"
&nbsp;
They can recognize a loser when they see one.
South Carolina! You can do better than this lying cheater.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></source><link>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/18/17810485-republican-group-parts-with-sanford-after-trespassing-report</link><guid>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/18/17810485-republican-group-parts-with-sanford-after-trespassing-report</guid><category>politics</category><category>south-carolina</category><category>republican</category><category>sanford</category><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:13:06 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=PorterRockwellE713A861-5EBF-B6D5-43EA-0A0F74A27368.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="195" width="298" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=PorterRockwellE713A861-5EBF-B6D5-43EA-0A0F74A27368.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="79" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Cardinals fail to elect pope after three ballots</title>
<description><![CDATA[" ... the vote of 77 cardinals are required to elect a new pope ... "
(Sung to the tune of "76 trombones in the big parade" from the Broadway muscial.)
Seventy-Six old men just aren't quite enough.Another old man must vote before you're pope.Almighty God needs help to decide if&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></source><link>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/13/17297407-cardinals-fail-to-elect-pope-after-three-ballots</link><guid>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/13/17297407-cardinals-fail-to-elect-pope-after-three-ballots</guid><category>vatican</category><category>religion</category><category>pope</category><category>catholic</category><pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:48:05 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Oklahoma Bombing Fund Bosses Pay Themselves First!</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Oklahoma City bombing attack took place in 1995. Good hearted citizens created a fund to care for the victims. Now, over 15 years later, fund administrators are sitting on ten million, refusing to distribute it to the victims as the donors intended, so they can keep their cus&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></source><link>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/01/17152485-oklahoma-bombing-fund-bosses-pay-themselves-first</link><guid>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/01/17152485-oklahoma-bombing-fund-bosses-pay-themselves-first</guid><category>oklahoma</category><category>fund</category><category>bombing</category><category>us-news</category><pubDate>Sat, 2 Mar 2013 03:33:30 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Goodbye ...</title>
<description><![CDATA[The only thing that is really interesting to me about the new format of NewsVine&nbsp;is, &ldquo;Why did you do it?&rdquo;
I proceed from a basic assumption that, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s all about the money.&rdquo; Since Facebook made its owners fabulously wealthy, every other web site&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></source><link>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/08/16904128-goodbye</link><guid>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/08/16904128-goodbye</guid><category>newsvine</category><pubDate>Sat, 9 Feb 2013 01:09:13 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Guns and the United States: There was a time ....</title>
<description><![CDATA[One year ago tomorrow, I wrote an article for the Vine:
﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿Guns and the United States
There were over 300&nbsp;comments to that article. More&nbsp;than any other I have written. In general, the gun nuts hooted me down. What a difference a year makes.
My liberal &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></source><link>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/04/16838323-guns-and-the-united-states-there-was-a-time</link><guid>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/04/16838323-guns-and-the-united-states-there-was-a-time</guid><category>guns</category><category>us-news</category><category>nra</category><category>krugman</category><pubDate>Mon, 4 Feb 2013 15:33:09 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Weighing the End of Life - NYTimes.com</title>
<description><![CDATA[I didn't see a comments section in the New York Times where I could discuss this article. Besides, the Times policy on comments doesn't encourage the free flow of discussion. I'm interested in seeing what others have to say about a growing phenominon for our time.
What about "en&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></source><link>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/02/16821483-weighing-the-end-of-life-nytimescom</link><guid>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/02/16821483-weighing-the-end-of-life-nytimescom</guid><category>aging</category><category>social-security</category><category>us-news</category><pubDate>Sat, 2 Feb 2013 21:50:08 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=PorterRockwellD329D4B2-BB18-A0D4-B088-49FBDCFF644C.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="286" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=PorterRockwellD329D4B2-BB18-A0D4-B088-49FBDCFF644C.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="86" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>﻿Things Are Looking Good For President Obama and America</title>
<description><![CDATA[The doomsayers are out in force about the fights to come.
Talking heads on TV are full of predictions about a triplet of mini-"Fiscal Cliff" confrontations ahead and how tough it's going to be for President Obama.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></source><link>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/02/16311605-things-are-looking-good-for-president-obama-and-america</link><guid>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/02/16311605-things-are-looking-good-for-president-obama-and-america</guid><category>politics</category><category>spending</category><category>republican</category><category>boehner</category><category>sequester</category><category>fiscal-cliff</category><pubDate>Thu, 3 Jan 2013 03:30:38 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Apology for Mike Lee</title>
<description><![CDATA[My profound apology in behalf of the State of Utah for inflicting the mistake and embarrassment that is Mike Lee onto the nation.
Senator Mike Lee of Utah is one of the "Stone Age Eight" who voted against the eleventh hour Senate bill to do something about the fiscal cliff. (Actu&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></source><link>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/01/16283445-apology-for-mike-lee</link><guid>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/01/16283445-apology-for-mike-lee</guid><category>politics</category><category>utah</category><category>mike-lee</category><category>fiscal-cliff</category><pubDate>Tue, 1 Jan 2013 15:37:15 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Definitions - Philosophy, Metaphysics, Religion, and Science</title>
<description><![CDATA[I just received this in an email. It's too good to keep to myself.
&nbsp;
Philosophy is like looking for a black cat in a dark room.
Metaphysics is like looking for a black cat that isn't there&nbsp;in a dark room.
Religion is like looking for a black cat that isn't there in a da&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></source><link>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/30/16254420-definitions-philosophy-metaphysics-religion-and-science</link><guid>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/30/16254420-definitions-philosophy-metaphysics-religion-and-science</guid><category>religion</category><category>philosophy</category><category>metaphysics</category><pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:58:53 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Do Humanists Need More Structure?</title>
<description><![CDATA[No ... We already have one.
In an article by regular staffer Samuel Freedman, the New York Times questions whether we secular humanists (An umbrella term "for those who call themselves atheists, agnostics, secularists and freethinkers, among other terms".) are somehow defaulting &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></source><link>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/29/16238076-do-humanists-need-more-structure</link><guid>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/29/16238076-do-humanists-need-more-structure</guid><category>church</category><category>state</category><category>religion</category><category>catholic</category><category>welfare</category><category>humanist</category><category>athiest</category><category>newtown</category><pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2012 22:40:45 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Religion and Government - Catholics and Ireland </title>
<description><![CDATA[The Catholic Church's last ditch stand to control Ireland shows the danger in allowing churchs to meddle in government.
In a Christmas message to the Irish people, the head of Ireland's Catholic Church, Cardinal Sean Brady, campaigned against the Irish government's plans to allow&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></source><link>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/24/16133102-religion-and-government-catholics-and-ireland</link><guid>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/24/16133102-religion-and-government-catholics-and-ireland</guid><category>ireland</category><category>abortion</category><category>religion</category><category>catholic-church</category><category>sean-brady</category><pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2012 01:51:23 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>How Will Republicans Try To Spin It When They Lose? (Poll)</title>
<description><![CDATA[He doesn't talk about it much in press conferences, but President Obama is a poker player. According to Randall Lane, former editor-at-large at Newsweek and The Daily Beast, and editor of Forbes, "decisive presidents like Jackson and Truman and Teddy Roosevelt" used poker to hone&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></source><link>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/01/15597027-how-will-republicans-try-to-spin-it-when-they-lose-poll</link><guid>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/01/15597027-how-will-republicans-try-to-spin-it-when-they-lose-poll</guid><category>obama</category><category>us-news</category><category>boehner</category><category>fiscal-cliff</category><pubDate>Sat, 1 Dec 2012 15:38:51 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Does Your Representative Want Your Taxes to Go Up???</title>
<description><![CDATA[Republican congressmen know that your taxes will go up unless they agree to a tax structure where the top 2% start paying their fair share. They could keep your taxes where they are in a heartbeat ... but they want to protect millionaires and billionaires more than they want to p&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></source><link>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/28/15518383-does-your-representative-want-your-taxes-to-go-up</link><guid>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/28/15518383-does-your-representative-want-your-taxes-to-go-up</guid><category>tax</category><category>us-news</category><category>fiscal-cliff</category><pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:11:21 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=PorterRockwellD3872CAA-BFE3-63FA-75B4-870E77022F2D.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="400" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=PorterRockwellD3872CAA-BFE3-63FA-75B4-870E77022F2D.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Quo Vadis Microsoft?*</title>
<description><![CDATA[The head of the tech equities research department at Nomura Securities ... a guy named Rick Sherlund ... just issued a new report on Microsoft reducing his estimates due to the "awkward" debut for Windows 8. Funny. Back in November of last year, he liked the stock at $32. It's we&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></source><link>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/28/15514268-quo-vadis-microsoft</link><guid>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/28/15514268-quo-vadis-microsoft</guid><category>business</category><category>microsoft</category><category>ibm</category><category>windows</category><category>commentid-business</category><pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:47:08 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Is God Perfect? (Poll)</title>
<description><![CDATA[Today's New York Times has an opinion piece asking (and answering) the question:
Is God Perfect?
What's your answer? Take the poll at the end of the article. The question above is also a link to the article.
(Poll taken offline 28 Nov 2012 - See my last post.)]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></source><link>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/26/15456179-is-god-perfect-poll</link><guid>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/26/15456179-is-god-perfect-poll</guid><category>mormon</category><category>religion</category><category>god</category><category>jewish</category><category>christian</category><pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:58:05 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=PorterRockwell9F10DA89-DD62-C467-CF07-D7AA4937BAB8.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="325" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=PorterRockwell9F10DA89-DD62-C467-CF07-D7AA4937BAB8.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="98" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>HP - A Poster Child For Bad and Overpaid Management</title>
<description><![CDATA[Flashback: 1939 - Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard found a company making electronic instruments in a one car garage in Palo Alto, California with an initial investment of $538. The garage is now a historic site. Bill and Dave work hard and build a historically great company.
Today:&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></source><link>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/22/15365077-hp-a-poster-child-for-bad-and-overpaid-management</link><guid>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/22/15365077-hp-a-poster-child-for-bad-and-overpaid-management</guid><category>us-news</category><category>hp</category><category>executive-compensation</category><category>hostess</category><category>commentid-us-news</category><pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2012 17:32:29 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Israel's Worst Enemy !</title>
<description><![CDATA[Israel !
A few days ago, I posted a short article asking the simple question, "Where is the balance?" Israel feels perfectly entitled to assassinate the military head of Hamas. What if Hamas had managed to assassinate Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak? No doubt Israel would see&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></source><link>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/17/15247167-israels-worst-enemy</link><guid>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/17/15247167-israels-worst-enemy</guid><category>israel</category><category>palestine</category><category>world-news</category><category>al-jabari</category><category>gershon-baskin</category><pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2012 01:10:03 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Race Based Tweets</title>
<description><![CDATA[Yes, race was a big factor in the election ...
After the election, tweet twits were all over the web, incensed that a black man had been elected President again.
Sample: "They used to call it the White House!" Others, I don't care to repeat.
The top states were the ones you might&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></source><link>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/17/15242008-race-based-tweets</link><guid>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/17/15242008-race-based-tweets</guid><category>mississippi</category><category>alabama</category><category>us-news</category><category>racist</category><category>commentid-us-news</category><category>commentid-racist</category><pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2012 16:54:22 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>The Secret Plan Against Immigrants Discovered !</title>
<description><![CDATA[Our stealthy investigation discovers how shadowy forces really plan to eliminate immigration to the US.
Anyone who follows Faux News knows that the socialist pinko libbie leftists in Congress are close to passing laws that will flood America with immigrants and push aside real Am&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></source><link>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/16/15217898-the-secret-plan-against-immigrants-discovered</link><guid>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/16/15217898-the-secret-plan-against-immigrants-discovered</guid><category>immigration</category><category>obesity</category><category>us-news</category><pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:13:44 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Israel - Where is the balance?</title>
<description><![CDATA[Israel assassinates a top member of the government of Gaza. What if the shoe was on the other foot?
Suppose the headline read ...
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak killed by bomb in Jerusalem. Hamas takes credit for the kill.
Can you imagine the response? Dozens of warplanes wo&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></source><link>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/14/15169978-israel-where-is-the-balance</link><guid>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/14/15169978-israel-where-is-the-balance</guid><category>israel</category><category>hamas</category><category>world-news</category><category>ahmed-al-jabari</category><pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 23:16:23 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Utah and &quot;In God We Trust&quot;</title>
<description><![CDATA[What do you think was controversial when Utah decided to offer a customized license plate featuring "In God We Trust"?
The Salt Lake Tribune recently reported that a group in Provo ...
(Provo is actually the capital of Mormonism in Utah in spite of the fact that the Church is bui&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></source><link>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/14/15169288-utah-and-in-god-we-trust</link><guid>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/14/15169288-utah-and-in-god-we-trust</guid><category>religion</category><category>god</category><category>utah</category><category>license</category><category>license-plates</category><category>mormons</category><category>commentid-religion</category><pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:16:03 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Will The Republican Party Die?</title>
<description><![CDATA[It's a serious question. Vote in the poll. (At the end of the article)
It's instructive to consider where the Republican party came from.
1854: Disgusted with the lack of action from existing parties, activists in northern states form their own party.
1856: The new Republican par&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></source><link>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/14/15165048-will-the-republican-party-die</link><guid>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/14/15165048-will-the-republican-party-die</guid><category>politics</category><category>party</category><category>republican</category><category>commentid-politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:10:38 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Camp Followers</title>
<description><![CDATA[Or, We have met the enemy again!
Yesterday, I noted (correctly, I still believe) that the Petraeus/Broadwell/Jill Kelley sex scandal is just a repeat of the Clinton/Monica/Linda Tripp scandal of over a decade ago. In that case, the nation wasted years of time and millions over no&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></source><link>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/14/15163112-camp-followers</link><guid>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/14/15163112-camp-followers</guid><category>us-news</category><category>petraeus</category><category>commentid-us-news</category><category>paula-broadwell</category><category>jill-kelly</category><pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:24:57 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Who is the Tea Party ?</title>
<description><![CDATA[It's the Club for Growth !
The Tea Party isn't an actual organization. That makes pinning it down hard.
It's popular these days to blame the Tea Party for handing the Republicans their ass in the recent election. While that's fun, it's not very productive. One of the biggest reas&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Porter Rockwell]]></source><link>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/13/15145314-who-is-the-tea-party</link><guid>http://porterrockwell.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/13/15145314-who-is-the-tea-party</guid><category>politics</category><category>tea-party</category><category>club-for-growth</category><category>cocula</category><pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:58:19 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=PorterRockwell75B67DA3-9DCD-8A5B-EFC5-C18E4466FFC1.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="585" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=PorterRockwell75B67DA3-9DCD-8A5B-EFC5-C18E4466FFC1.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="175" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;The right wing conspiracy to corrupt the young!&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item></channel></rss>