<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : politics : All Links : ATOM 0.3</title><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><entry><title><![CDATA[Putting Money Where Mouths Are: Media Donations Favor Dems 100-1]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/69907/1/" /><id>69907</id><summary><![CDATA[Putting Money Where Mouths Are: Media Donations Favor Dems 100-1]]></summary><issued>2008-07-24T14:18:54+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-24T14:18:54+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The New York Times' refusal to publish John McCain's rebuttal to Barack Obama's Iraq op-ed may be the most glaring example of liberal media bias this journalist has ever seen. But true proof of widespread media bias requires one to follow an old journalism maxim: <b>Follow the money...</b>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Who said it:  Bush or Batman?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/69890/1/" /><id>69890</id><summary><![CDATA[Who said it:  Bush or Batman?]]></summary><issued>2008-07-24T11:09:15+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-24T11:09:15+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Very funny questions posed by Comedy Cental.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Novak tries to hit-and-run after knocking into pedestrian]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/69771/1/" /><id>69771</id><summary><![CDATA[Novak tries to hit-and-run after knocking into pedestrian]]></summary><issued>2008-07-23T18:47:02+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-23T18:47:02+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Conservative pundit Robert Novak &#8220;was cited by police after he hit a pedestrian with his black Corvette in downtown Novak initially &#8220;drove away from the scene,&#8221; but turned around when &#8220;a bicyclist stopped him and said, &#8216;You hit someone.&#8217;&#8221; Novak claimed: &#8220;I didn&#8217;t know I hit anybody.&#8221; But this is completely contrary to what happened]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[McCain on the Run: Cancels Press Availability ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/69765/1/" /><id>69765</id><summary><![CDATA[McCain on the Run: Cancels Press Availability ]]></summary><issued>2008-07-23T18:14:43+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-23T18:14:43+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The one scheduled McCain press conference of the week has just been canceled, we are told. No word as to why. After a week of constant mistakes, McCain runs from the press.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Justice Dept called uncooperative on voting rights]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/69759/1/" /><id>69759</id><summary><![CDATA[Justice Dept called uncooperative on voting rights]]></summary><issued>2008-07-23T17:43:41+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-23T17:43:41+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The House Judiciary Committee chairman on Wednesday said the Justice Department is stonewalling efforts to make sure this year's presidential voting operates fairly.<br/><br/>If you would like to call/email and ask the DoJ wth please go here <div style='display:block;width:250px;text-overflow:clip;overflow:hidden;'><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.usdoj.gov/contact-us.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.usdoj.gov/contact-us.html</a></div>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[McCain credits Bush for drop in oil price]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/69753/1/" /><id>69753</id><summary><![CDATA[McCain credits Bush for drop in oil price]]></summary><issued>2008-07-23T16:32:02+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-23T16:32:02+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Republican John McCain on Wednesday credited the recent $10-a-barrel drop in the price of oil to President Bush's lifting of a presidential ban on offshore drilling, an action he has been advocating in his presidential campaign.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Bush caught on Candid Camera...]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/69744/1/" /><id>69744</id><summary><![CDATA[Bush caught on Candid Camera...]]></summary><issued>2008-07-23T15:19:49+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-23T15:19:49+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[After telling the press to turn off the cameras, Bush spoke candidly.<br/><br/>Naturally, all cameras were not off.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[McCain Hoping VP Guessing Game Will Take Steam Off Of Obama's Overseas Visit]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/69633/1/" /><id>69633</id><summary><![CDATA[McCain Hoping VP Guessing Game Will Take Steam Off Of Obama's Overseas Visit]]></summary><issued>2008-07-22T21:09:50+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-22T21:09:50+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[It looks like McCain's camp &quot;leaked&quot; the fact that a choice for VP could be made within a week. A leak that was hoped to take some of the publicity Obama is getting.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[NYT Tells Its Staff Bumper Stickers Are Forbidden.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/69627/1/" /><id>69627</id><summary><![CDATA[NYT Tells Its Staff Bumper Stickers Are Forbidden.]]></summary><issued>2008-07-22T18:57:16+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-22T18:57:16+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[As are donating, campaigning, demonstrate, wear buttons, place signs in their yard. They also can not express political preference or affiliation in any <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.observer.com/2008/media/while-were-it-times-reporters-should-leave-out-facebook-preferences-too" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">website</a> or instant messages.<br/><br/><i>The Times</i> did generously give its employees the permission to vote however]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[NYT REJECTS MCCAIN'S EDITORIAL; SHOULD 'MIRROR' OBAMA]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/69607/1/" /><id>69607</id><summary><![CDATA[NYT REJECTS MCCAIN'S EDITORIAL; SHOULD 'MIRROR' OBAMA]]></summary><issued>2008-07-22T15:33:55+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-22T15:33:55+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An editorial written by Republican presidential hopeful McCain has been rejected by the NEW YORK TIMES -- less than a week after the paper published an essay written by Obama...<br/><br/><i>This broke yesterday, and will be part of this week's &quot;big story.&quot;</i>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[NBC&#8217;s Andrea Mitchell Blasts Obama for &#8216;Fake Interviews&#8217;]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/69604/1/" /><id>69604</id><summary><![CDATA[NBC&#8217;s Andrea Mitchell Blasts Obama for &#8216;Fake Interviews&#8217;]]></summary><issued>2008-07-22T14:51:32+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-22T14:51:32+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Uh oh... maybe the love affair is going to be over?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Media is in love with Barack Obama]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/69599/1/" /><id>69599</id><summary><![CDATA[The Media is in love with Barack Obama]]></summary><issued>2008-07-22T14:14:59+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-22T14:14:59+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[John McCain's strategists have unveiled a new weapon against what they view as fawning coverage of his Democratic rival: mockery.<br/><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/07/22/mccain_mocks_media_love_affair.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Washington Post Article</a>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Nations recycling wealth controlled by a disproportionate few]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/69584/1/" /><id>69584</id><summary><![CDATA[Nations recycling wealth controlled by a disproportionate few]]></summary><issued>2008-07-22T12:38:24+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-22T12:38:24+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[New government report shows that 66 percent of the nation's recyclable assets are now held by the poorest 1 percent of the population. The gap is magnified by a tendency to reinvest can profits in additional redeemables, such as beer.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Ten Handy Tips on How Not To Offend People]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/69467/1/" /><id>69467</id><summary><![CDATA[Ten Handy Tips on How Not To Offend People]]></summary><issued>2008-07-21T16:01:09+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-21T16:01:09+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Follow these handy guidelines and you'll never again have to worry about offending some over-sensitive, woolly minded, sandal-wearing, lentil-casserole slurping do-gooder.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Is Your Bank in danger of failing ??]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/69458/1/" /><id>69458</id><summary><![CDATA[Is Your Bank in danger of failing ??]]></summary><issued>2008-07-21T14:03:07+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-21T14:03:07+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The reason I'm posting this is to ask yet another question. Why would the FDIC official website create a &quot;dropdown&quot; list unless it was going to add more banks??]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Unlike McCain, many seniors depend on the Web ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/69361/1/" /><id>69361</id><summary><![CDATA[Unlike McCain, many seniors depend on the Web ]]></summary><issued>2008-07-20T21:44:13+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-20T21:44:13+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[If Sen. John McCain is really serious about becoming a Web-savvy citizen, perhaps Kathryn Robinson can help.<br/><br/>Robinson is now 106 &#8212; that's 35 years older than McCain &#8212; and she began using the Internet at 98, at the Barclay Friends home in West Chester, Pa., where she lives. &quot;I started to learn because I wanted to e-mail my family,&quot; she says &#8212; in an e-mail message, naturally.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Campaigning, One Comic at a Time]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/69309/1/" /><id>69309</id><summary><![CDATA[Campaigning, One Comic at a Time]]></summary><issued>2008-07-20T01:36:15+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-20T01:36:15+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[By far one of the most unique ways to get your name out there in the political arena.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[&quot;comfort capsules&quot; to be installed on military planes]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/69303/1/" /><id>69303</id><summary><![CDATA[&quot;comfort capsules&quot; to be installed on military planes]]></summary><issued>2008-07-19T23:35:08+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-19T23:35:08+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Terrorism Funds May Let Brass Fly in Style. Production of the first capsule -- consisting of two sealed rooms that can fit into the fuselage of a large military aircraft -- has already begun.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Update:'Bush' sewage plant proposal makes ballot.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/69301/1/" /><id>69301</id><summary><![CDATA[Update:'Bush' sewage plant proposal makes ballot.]]></summary><issued>2008-07-19T21:29:16+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-19T21:29:16+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The measure certified Thursday would rename the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[9/11 billboard draws flak from Florida Democrats, GOP]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/69230/1/" /><id>69230</id><summary><![CDATA[9/11 billboard draws flak from Florida Democrats, GOP]]></summary><issued>2008-07-18T23:45:45+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-18T23:45:45+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A Florida man is using billboards with an image of the burning World Trade Center to encourage votes for a Republican presidential candidate, drawing criticism for politicizing the 9/11 attacks.<br/>Businessman Mike Meehan says he has put up three billboards such as this one around Orlando, Florida.<br/>&quot;Please Don't Vote for a Democrat&quot; reads the type over the picture of the twin towers after hijacked airliners hit them on September, 11, 2001.<br/><br/>PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A PRIVATE CITIZEN, NOT THE REPUBLICANS.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Judge restores protection for N. Rockies wolves]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/69209/1/" /><id>69209</id><summary><![CDATA[Judge restores protection for N. Rockies wolves]]></summary><issued>2008-07-18T20:32:26+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-18T20:32:26+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Wolf populations in the three states were removed from the endangered list in March following a decade-long restoration effort. Environmentalists successfully sued to overturn the decision.<br/>update to: <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/science/l/51633/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">this</a> and <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26083/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">this</a>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Fed Fiddled as Rome Burned]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/68981/1/" /><id>68981</id><summary><![CDATA[The Fed Fiddled as Rome Burned]]></summary><issued>2008-07-16T18:30:12+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-16T18:30:12+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The collection of ne'er do wells, clueless dolts, political hacks, and oh, let's just be blunt and call them what they are -- total Idiots -- expands into an ever larger circle.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[&quot;Barack...he's talking down to black people...telling n&#8212;s how to behave.&quot;]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/68969/1/" /><id>68969</id><summary><![CDATA[&quot;Barack...he's talking down to black people...telling n&#8212;s how to behave.&quot;]]></summary><issued>2008-07-16T16:43:35+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-16T16:43:35+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[When it came out that Jesse Jackson had said he wanted to &quot;cut his [Obama's] nuts out,&quot; that was only part of the story.  The rest was withheld... until today, when it was leaked to TVNewser.<br/><br/>Update to this story:<br/><div style='display:block;width:300px;overflow:hidden;'><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/politics/l/68291/1/" rel="nofollow">http://www.plime.com/politics/l/68291/1/</a></div>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Bush claims executive privilege on CIA leak]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/68962/1/" /><id>68962</id><summary><![CDATA[Bush claims executive privilege on CIA leak]]></summary><issued>2008-07-16T15:31:32+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-16T15:31:32+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[President Bush has asserted executive privilege to prevent Attorney General Michael Mukasey from having to comply with a House panel subpoena for material on the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[New York Attorney General Fights Child Pornography on the Internet]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/68947/1/" /><id>68947</id><summary><![CDATA[New York Attorney General Fights Child Pornography on the Internet]]></summary><issued>2008-07-16T12:26:06+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-16T12:26:06+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Andrew Cuomo is making big strides in the quest to rid the internet of child pornography, coming down especially hard on internet service providers who allow those materials to be accessed via their networks. Tells all ISP's to ban alt.* newsgroups.]]></content></entry></items></xml>