<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : conservatives : ATOM 0.3</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</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[David Brin on the strange direction American conservatives are taking]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/134180/1/" /><id>134180</id><summary><![CDATA[David Brin on the strange direction American conservatives are taking]]></summary><issued>2009-10-06T00:51:20+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-06T00:51:20+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Some are asking &quot;Why Can't We Have Smarter Right Wingers?&quot;. The question bears repeating. Where are the intelligent, consistent right wing conservatives? Instead too many seem to be arguing for argument sake without any agenda other than a negative one.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Top Ten Reasons Conservatives Should Vote For Obama]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/80481/1/" /><id>80481</id><summary><![CDATA[The Top Ten Reasons Conservatives Should Vote For Obama]]></summary><issued>2008-10-28T23:41:53+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-28T23:41:53+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[10. A body blow to racial identity politics. An end to the era of Jesse Jackson in black America.<br/><br/>and 9 other good reasons.<br/><br/><i>Some rather valid points here. </i>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Conservatives Claim Obama Is &#8216;So Bad For The Economy,&#8217; While Wall Street Donates More To Obama]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/72546/1/" /><id>72546</id><summary><![CDATA[Conservatives Claim Obama Is &#8216;So Bad For The Economy,&#8217; While Wall Street Donates More To Obama]]></summary><issued>2008-08-16T11:21:58+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-16T11:21:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Conservatives have been trying to frighten investors about the prospects of a Barack Obama presidency. <br/><br/>Wall Street however, disagrees, and is donating more to Obama&#8217;s campaign than to the campaign of Sen. John McCain]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Study shows conservatives don't know that Colbert is joking ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/110244/1/" /><id>110244</id><summary><![CDATA[Study shows conservatives don't know that Colbert is joking ]]></summary><issued>2009-04-28T09:14:42+01:00</issued><modified>2009-04-28T09:14:42+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[According to a study from The Ohio State University, which proves, with math and stuff, that lots of conservatives seem to not understand the intrinsic, underlying joke of The Colbert Report.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[A Hoax Exposed at Princeton]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/44721/1/" /><id>44721</id><summary><![CDATA[A Hoax Exposed at Princeton]]></summary><issued>2007-12-19T12:11:27+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-19T12:11:27+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The embarrassing episode for the conservative leaders began last week when Francisco Nava, a junior at Princeton, appeared at a hospital with cuts and bruises covering his face. He claimed that two unidentified men repeatedly bashed his head against a brick wall, shouting to &quot;shut the f*ck up.&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Canada to face another election?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/122982/1/" /><id>122982</id><summary><![CDATA[Canada to face another election?]]></summary><issued>2009-06-15T13:14:02+01:00</issued><modified>2009-06-15T13:14:02+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Liberal Leader Ignatieff listed a series of conditions that he said Prime Minister Harper must meet to avoid the Liberals toppling the minority Conservative government and triggering a summer election.<br/><br/>As a taxpayer who will fund this whole fiasco, I'd like to fire ALL of these politicians.  TODAY!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Thou Shalt Not Steal?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/51900/1/" /><id>51900</id><summary><![CDATA[Thou Shalt Not Steal?]]></summary><issued>2008-02-24T18:56:16+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-24T18:56:16+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In the face of what some economists are now calling a recession, many low- and middle-income Americans are turning to payday lenders, creditors who offer short-term, small-sum loans to desperate consumers. The catch? These lenders generally charge exorbitant interest rates that can trap borrowers with loans they often can't repay.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Canada's government faces an upset]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/83363/1/" /><id>83363</id><summary><![CDATA[Canada's government faces an upset]]></summary><issued>2008-12-02T13:10:51+01:00</issued><modified>2008-12-02T13:10:51+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The three parties who failed to win our last election <i>seven weeks ago</i> are attempting to seize power from the Conservative government that <b>won</b> the election.  Unless the government is suspended, the new coalition government could be in power as soon as Monday.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Tea Baggers Swarm Capitol in Last Ditch Effort to Kill HC Bill.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/135399/1/" /><id>135399</id><summary><![CDATA[Tea Baggers Swarm Capitol in Last Ditch Effort to Kill HC Bill.]]></summary><issued>2009-11-05T11:05:15+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-05T11:05:15+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Lets hope the next swarm aren't Dirty Sanchez-ers.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[*Everyone* is playing the wiki-editing game]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/31772/1/" /><id>31772</id><summary><![CDATA[*Everyone* is playing the wiki-editing game]]></summary><issued>2007-08-15T22:25:54+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-15T22:25:54+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Despite what <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/technology/internet/l/31749/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">some</a> <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://hotair.com/archives/2007/08/14/awesome-wikipedia-edit-tracker-shows-whos-editing-which-pages/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">would</a> have you <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2007/08/new-york-times-.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">believe</a>, it <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://auspundits.typepad.com/auspundits/2007/08/wikidiff-nyt-on.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">isn't</a> just conservatives who are <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/08/wiki_tracker?currentPage=all" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">editing</a> wikipedia with false and misleading info to make their rivals look bad. Link allows you to find your own. Wired has a long list already <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/vote-on-the-top.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">gathered</a> for you.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Conservative Who Rants About Family Values Also Publishing Fap Stories?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/132197/1/" /><id>132197</id><summary><![CDATA[Conservative Who Rants About Family Values Also Publishing Fap Stories?]]></summary><issued>2009-09-02T07:27:55+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-02T07:27:55+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Kristin Maguire, an Upstate evangelical and one of South Carolina&#8217;s most respected social conservatives, has been one of the governor&#8217;s closest education policy advisors for years.  She&#8217;s also Sanford&#8217;s appointment to the S.C. Board of Education, which last year elected her its Chairwoman.<br/><br/>It also seems she writes erotic and smutty stories in her spare time]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Would You Slap Your Father? If So, You May Be a Liberal ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/119600/1/" /><id>119600</id><summary><![CDATA[Would You Slap Your Father? If So, You May Be a Liberal ]]></summary><issued>2009-06-02T14:21:18+01:00</issued><modified>2009-06-02T14:21:18+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Studies suggest that conservatives are more often distressed by actions that seem disrespectful of authority, such as slapping Dad. Liberals don&#8217;t worry as long as Dad has given permission. <i>Includes links to a site to take personality tests including a disgust scale.</i>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Study: Political Bent Affects How We View Skin Tone]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/135975/1/" /><id>135975</id><summary><![CDATA[Study: Political Bent Affects How We View Skin Tone]]></summary><issued>2009-11-24T14:05:11+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-24T14:05:11+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A new study suggests that people's political views may affect how they perceive President Obama's skin tone, with liberals tending to &quot;lighten&quot; his skin and conservatives tending to &quot;darken&quot; it.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Texas Board of Education votes against teaching evolution weaknesses]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/90895/1/" /><id>90895</id><summary><![CDATA[Texas Board of Education votes against teaching evolution weaknesses]]></summary><issued>2009-01-24T14:33:05+01:00</issued><modified>2009-01-24T14:33:05+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In a major defeat for social conservatives, a sharply divided State Board of Education voted Thursday to abandon a longtime state requirement that high school science teachers cover what some critics consider to be &quot;weaknesses&quot; in the theory of evolution.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Study finds left-wing brain, right-wing brain]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/35271/1/" /><id>35271</id><summary><![CDATA[Study finds left-wing brain, right-wing brain]]></summary><issued>2007-09-11T02:31:19+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-11T02:31:19+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Even in humdrum nonpolitical decisions, liberals and conservatives literally think differently, researchers show.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[A volatile 2008 for Canadian politics]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/45589/1/" /><id>45589</id><summary><![CDATA[A volatile 2008 for Canadian politics]]></summary><issued>2007-12-31T00:17:59+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-31T00:17:59+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[...even with a bad year, the Dion-led Liberals are still within striking distance of the Harper Conservatives. The positive news for Dion is that the Tories have driven expectations for Dion so low that almost anything will look like an improvement or momentum.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Criticism of Obama's Budget by Conservatives as &quot;assault on small business&quot; Misses the Mark According to Analysis]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/96667/1/" /><id>96667</id><summary><![CDATA[Criticism of Obama's Budget by Conservatives as &quot;assault on small business&quot; Misses the Mark According to Analysis]]></summary><issued>2009-02-26T23:33:12+01:00</issued><modified>2009-02-26T23:33:12+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Funny...AP figured this out, but the entire minority party couldn't be bothered?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Swiss back heroin prescription]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/83195/1/" /><id>83195</id><summary><![CDATA[Swiss back heroin prescription]]></summary><issued>2008-12-01T02:28:03+01:00</issued><modified>2008-12-01T02:28:03+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Swiss voters backed a scheme allowing heroin addicts to obtain the drug under prescription, angering conservatives who believe crime will rise as result.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Canada's Tourism Minister, Diane Ablonczy, punished for doing her job]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/127056/1/" /><id>127056</id><summary><![CDATA[Canada's Tourism Minister, Diane Ablonczy, punished for doing her job]]></summary><issued>2009-07-08T13:23:59+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-08T13:23:59+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Diane Ablonczy thought she should have been praised for giving money to an organization that brings in a million visitors every June. She thought giving less than $400k to make 100's of millions of dollars. The problem? The organization in question was one that promotes <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.pridetoronto.com/news/official-statement-on-federal-funding-issue/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">gay rights</a> including same sex marriages. Conservatives were in a <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/jul/09070615.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">tizzy</a> over such ideas being promoted.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Conservatives Outraged That NYTimes Published CIA Operative Name]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/66525/1/" /><id>66525</id><summary><![CDATA[Conservatives Outraged That NYTimes Published CIA Operative Name]]></summary><issued>2008-06-24T22:28:51+01:00</issued><modified>2008-06-24T22:28:51+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;Too bad, because an otherwise fascinating story about the scramble to build a counterterror apparatus after 9/11, the merits of coercive vs. non-coercive interrogation, and the stings that nailed Abu Zubaydah and KSM is going to be submerged in a debate over their decision to publish the lead interrogator&#8217;s name against his wishes and those of CIA chief Michael Hayden.&quot;]]></content></entry></items></xml>