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		<title>Pelosi&#8217;s grip on House slips</title>
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By: Jonathan Allen
March 9, 2010 04:39 AM EST


House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is not accustomed to the word she’s been hearing far more frequently in recent days: “no.”
Over the past two weeks, Pelosi has faced a series of subtle but significant challenges to her authority — revolts from Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sean Penn Wants Reporters Jailed for Calling Chavez &#8216;Dictator&#8217;</title>
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 First Amendment be damned . . . If Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn had his way, any journalist who called Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez a dictator would quickly find himself behind bars.
Penn, appearing on HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Real Time with Bill Maher&#8221; on Friday, defended Chavez during a segment in which he detailed his work with the JP [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irnnews.com/2010/03/09/sean-penn-wants-reporters-jailed-for-calling-chavez-dictator/</link>
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		<title>Obama Administration to Ban Fishing?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Montgomery
ESPNOutdoors.com
The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing the nation&#8217;s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.
This announcement comes at the time when the situation supposedly still is &#8220;fluid&#8221; and the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force still hasn&#8217;t issued [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irnnews.com/2010/03/09/obama-administration-to-ban-fishing/</link>
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		<title>Safe Schools Czar Ducks Questions on Past Statements about Homosexuality, Says Department of Education Won’t Dictate Curriculum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday, March 09, 2010
By Fred Lucas, Staff Writer

(CNSNews.com) - Kevin Jennings, the Obama administration&#8217;s openly gay safe-schools czar who previously ran an organization focused on normalizing homosexuality in public schools, declined Monday to directly say whether the U.S. Department of Education should promote teaching school children that homosexual behavior is morally good. 
 
Instead, he pointing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irnnews.com/2010/03/09/safe-schools-czar-ducks-questions-on-past-statements-about-homosexuality-says-department-of-education-won%e2%80%99t-dictate-curriculum/</link>
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		<title>Randy Travis, Collin Raye to Headline Concert to Commemorate 5-Year Anniversary of the Death of Terri Schindler Schiavo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday, March 09, 2010
By Joe Schoffstall


Country music superstar Randy Travis. (Photo courtesy of Randy Travis.com)
(CNSNews.com) &#8211; Country music superstars Randy Travis and Collin Raye are headlining a concert April 11 in Indianapolis to commemorate the 5-year anniversary of Terri Schindler-Schiavo’s court-ordered death by dehydration and starvation.
The concert is sponsored by the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation.
 
“Randy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irnnews.com/2010/03/09/randy-travis-collin-raye-to-headline-concert-to-commemorate-5-year-anniversary-of-the-death-of-terri-schindler-schiavo/</link>
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		<title>Year-Long Celebration Planned to Mark President Ronald Reagan&#8217;s 100th Birthday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday, March 09, 2010
By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer


President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan during the Inauguration Day parade, January 20, 1981. (Wikimedia Commons photo)
(CNSNews.com) - Perhaps the most telling thing about the year-long celebration planned to mark President Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday is that it will not be funded by the American [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irnnews.com/2010/03/09/year-long-celebration-planned-to-mark-president-ronald-reagans-100th-birthday/</link>
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		<title>Sen Corker says sides nearing on consumer watchdog proposal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Karey  Wutkowski &#124; Reuters
March 9,2010
WASHINGTON &#8211; Members of the Senate Banking Committee drafting financial reform have &#8220;about reached a balance&#8221; on the controversial consumer watchdog proposal, Republican Senator Bob Corker said on Tuesday, indicating a bipartisan deal could be reached soon.
Corker, in an interview on CNBC Television, said the committee will work through &#8220;administrative [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irnnews.com/2010/03/09/sen-corker-says-sides-nearing-on-consumer-watchdog-proposal/</link>
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		<title>Google testing TV search service with Dish Network: WSJ</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mar. 8, 2010 (AFP) &#8211; Internet giant Google is testing a new television programming search service with Dish Network Corp., The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
The newspaper, citing &#8220;people familiar with the matter,&#8221; said the service runs on TV set-top boxes using Google&#8217;s Android operating system.
It said it allows users to search content from Dish, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irnnews.com/2010/03/09/google-testing-tv-search-service-with-dish-network-wsj/</link>
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		<title>ID Card for Workers Is at Center of Immigration Plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Laura Meckler &#124; The Wall St. Journal
Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain.
Under the potentially controversial plan still taking shape in the Senate, all legal U.S. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irnnews.com/2010/03/09/id-card-for-workers-is-at-center-of-immigration-plan/</link>
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		<title>Turkey, Angry at U.S., Pledges Support for Iran</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Patrick Goodenough, International Editor&#124;CNSNews.com
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
(CNSNews.com) – As the Obama administration scrambles to contain the diplomatic fallout with Turkey over the “Armenian genocide” resolution in the U.S. Congress, Turkey’s tilt towards Iran continues largely unnoticed.
Turkey’s “formerly Islamist” president, Abdullah Gul, in a weekend telephone conversation with his Iranian counterpart called for a deepening of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irnnews.com/2010/03/09/turkey-angry-at-u-s-pledges-support-for-iran/</link>
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		<title>National Weather Forecast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A stormy week ahead!
by Mark Swaim, Lead Meteorologist &#124; The Weather Channel

South &#124;
The Southern Plains will have improving conditions today while the Carolinas will have one more dry day.
Showers and thunderstorms building over the Lower Mississippi River Valley and the Southeast. Some severe thunderstorms possible today over Arkansas, Louisiana, western Mississippi and even southeast Texas.
Rain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irnnews.com/2010/03/09/national-weather-forecast/</link>
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		<title>New &#8216;hate&#8217; laws in Britain could label kids &#8216;offenders&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Mark Thomas &#124; IRN/USA News
Children in Great Britain could have their names added to &#8216;hate registers&#8217; if they are accused of  using everyday playground insults.  
The London Daily Mail reports that the Department for Children, Schools and Families is set to introduce rules that will require schools to record and report serious [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irnnews.com/2010/03/08/new-hate-laws-in-britain-could-label-kids-offenders/</link>
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		<title>Was the Pentagon Shooter an Obama-approved Pothead?</title>
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By Cliff Kincaid
The left says he was a right-winger; the conservatives say that he was a leftist. What is abundantly clear, from reading his Internet commentaries, is that Pentagon shooter John Patrick Bedell was a psychotic pothead. He hated a government that he believed was standing in the way of his desire to use, grow [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irnnews.com/2010/03/08/was-the-pentagon-shooter-an-obama-approved-pothead/</link>
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		<title>A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Harry R. Jackson, Jr.
Monday, March 08, 2010
Most of us remember the stellar advertising campaign A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste designed at giving underprivileged elementary children a bite at the educational apple. This week Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) decided to use this concept to become an advocate for middle school and high school [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irnnews.com/2010/03/08/a-mind-is-a-terrible-thing-to-waste/</link>
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		<title>Alice in Medical Care: Part IV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Sowell
Some years ago, one of my favorite doctors retired. On my last visit to his office, he took some time to explain to me why he was retiring early and in good health.
Being a doctor was becoming more of a hassle as the years went by, he said, and also less fulfilling. It was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irnnews.com/2010/03/07/alice-in-medical-care-part-iv/</link>
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