<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : politics : All Links : ATOM 0.3</title><link>http://politics.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[PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/politics/l/135448/1/" /><id>135448</id><summary><![CDATA[PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail]]></summary><issued>2009-11-06T20:28:16+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-06T20:28:16+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&#8220;Criminal penalties<br/><br/>Prosecution is authorized under the Code for a variety of offenses.  Depending on the level of the noncompliance, the following penalties could apply to an individual:<br/><br/>&#8226; Section 7203 &#8211; misdemeanor willful failure to pay is punishable by a fine of up to $25,000 and/or imprisonment of up to one year.<br/><br/>&#8226; Section 7201 &#8211; felony willful evasion is punishable by a fine of up to $250,000 and/or imprisonment of up to five years.&#8221; [page 3]<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>According to the Congressional Budget Office the lowest cost family non-group plan under the Speaker&#8217;s bill would cost $15,000 in 2016.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Obama says don't jump to conclusions]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/politics/l/135440/1/" /><id>135440</id><summary><![CDATA[Obama says don't jump to conclusions]]></summary><issued>2009-11-06T15:37:02+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-06T15:37:02+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Obama makes the common sense plea that we do not jump to conclusions on the motives of Major Nidal Malik Hasan. Allow the investigators to do their job first.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Pelosi Breaks Pledge to Put Final Health Care Bill Online for 72 Hours Before Vote]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/politics/l/135433/1/" /><id>135433</id><summary><![CDATA[Pelosi Breaks Pledge to Put Final Health Care Bill Online for 72 Hours Before Vote]]></summary><issued>2009-11-06T12:57:31+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-06T12:57:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD that the speaker will not allow the final language of the health care to be posted online for 72 hours before bringing the bill to a vote on the House floor, despite her September 24 statement that she was &quot;absolutely&quot; committed to doing so.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Obama's Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/politics/l/135432/1/" /><id>135432</id><summary><![CDATA[Obama's Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting]]></summary><issued>2009-11-06T12:54:41+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-06T12:54:41+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[But instead of a somber chief executive offering reassuring words and expressions of sympathy and compassion, viewers saw a wildly disconnected and inappropriately light president making introductory remarks. At the event, a Tribal Nations Conference hosted by the Department of Interior's Bureau of Indian affairs, the president thanked various staffers and offered a &quot;shout-out&quot; to &quot;Dr. Joe Medicine Crow -- that Congressional Medal of Honor winner.&quot;  Three minutes in, the president spoke about the shooting, in measured and appropriate terms. Who is advising him?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[MPs vote to abolish long-gun registry]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/politics/l/135429/1/" /><id>135429</id><summary><![CDATA[MPs vote to abolish long-gun registry]]></summary><issued>2009-11-06T11:29:30+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-06T11:29:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The federal long-gun registry moved a step closer to being abolished as MPs voted Wednesday in the House of Commons to scrap the controversial program.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Bailed Out Companies Spend $71 Million on Lobbying]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/politics/l/135404/1/" /><id>135404</id><summary><![CDATA[Bailed Out Companies Spend $71 Million on Lobbying]]></summary><issued>2009-11-05T15:07:10+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-05T15:07:10+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;A year after taxpayers forked over $700 billion to help rescue the biggest names in banking, insurance and the automotive industry, those same institutions are using portions of the cash to influence legislation with a direct impact on taxpayers.&quot;]]></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://politics.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[Pagan Politician Out of the Broom Closet]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/politics/l/135256/1/" /><id>135256</id><summary><![CDATA[Pagan Politician Out of the Broom Closet]]></summary><issued>2009-10-31T13:45:27+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-31T13:45:27+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[<a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20374754&amp;BRD=2731&amp;PAG=461&amp;dept_id=574902&amp;rfi=6" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Queens NY GOP nominee</a> <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.electdanhalloran.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Dan Halloran</a> is not just any Pagan: he is the &quot;First Atheling,&quot; or King, of <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.normannii.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">New Normandy</a>, which is the Greater New York Area branch of the Th&#233;od faith of pre-Christian Heathen religions. <br/><br/>This should be interesting!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Arnold's Secret Message]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/politics/l/135179/1/" /><id>135179</id><summary><![CDATA[Arnold's Secret Message]]></summary><issued>2009-10-28T13:03:36+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-28T13:03:36+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[*Hint*<br/><br/> it's not nice]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[South Korean &quot;Defects&quot; to North Korea]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/politics/l/135142/1/" /><id>135142</id><summary><![CDATA[South Korean &quot;Defects&quot; to North Korea]]></summary><issued>2009-10-27T05:40:14+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-27T05:40:14+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Must be something defective about him.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Chicago Prosecutors Don't Like Being Shown They Made A Mistake]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/politics/l/135128/1/" /><id>135128</id><summary><![CDATA[Chicago Prosecutors Don't Like Being Shown They Made A Mistake]]></summary><issued>2009-10-26T18:06:08+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-26T18:06:08+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[For more than a decade, students at Northwestern University&#8217;s journalism school have scrutinized convictions looking for any mistakes. Over the years they have helped free a number of innocent people wrongly convicted. Their reward? Chicago prosecutors have subpoenaed the grades, grading criteria, class syllabus, expense reports and e-mail messages of the journalism students themselves.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Health Insurer's profits not that much]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/politics/l/135106/1/" /><id>135106</id><summary><![CDATA[Health Insurer's profits not that much]]></summary><issued>2009-10-26T13:10:49+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-26T13:10:49+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[While the Democrats have labeled the health insurance companies as &quot;evil&quot; and rake in &quot;obscene&quot; returns, their profits rank 35th out of 53 industries.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[U.K. court seizes &#163;3.2bn from elderly]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/politics/l/135099/1/" /><id>135099</id><summary><![CDATA[U.K. court seizes &#163;3.2bn from elderly]]></summary><issued>2009-10-26T10:35:01+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-26T10:35:01+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[2 years a little known, &quot;Court of Protection&quot; was set up to help people who have Alzheimer's or other incapacity who do not have a living will or similar power of attorney. As always when there is so much money floating around, sometimes the court's rulings may be unduly influenced by the value to the court instead of the individual.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[McCain Voters suffered testosterone loss on election night]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/politics/l/134997/1/" /><id>134997</id><summary><![CDATA[McCain Voters suffered testosterone loss on election night]]></summary><issued>2009-10-23T12:30:28+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-23T12:30:28+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Announcing election results dropped testosterone levels in McCain voters according to a study.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Human Rights Watch Founder Blasts Human Rights Watch For Anti-Israel Bias]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/politics/l/134969/1/" /><id>134969</id><summary><![CDATA[Human Rights Watch Founder Blasts Human Rights Watch For Anti-Israel Bias]]></summary><issued>2009-10-22T15:04:53+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-22T15:04:53+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[<a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Bernstein" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert L. Bernstein</a>, the former president and chief executive of Random House, was the chairman of Human Rights Watch from 1978 to 1998. Here in an op-ed piece he laments the obvious bias against Israel that HRW has long been accused of.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Ruling Eases Name Changes For Transgendered]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/politics/l/134968/1/" /><id>134968</id><summary><![CDATA[Ruling Eases Name Changes For Transgendered]]></summary><issued>2009-10-22T13:30:41+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-22T13:30:41+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The New York State Supreme Court ruled that a transgendered person seeking a name change does not have to provide proof of any medical procedure justifying the change, striking down an earlier ruling.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Are You English And Advanced Breast Cancer? No Drugs For You!]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/politics/l/134966/1/" /><id>134966</id><summary><![CDATA[Are You English And Advanced Breast Cancer? No Drugs For You!]]></summary><issued>2009-10-22T13:09:57+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-22T13:09:57+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Despite its use in other European countries, England's rationing body said <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapatinib" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">lapatinib</a>, last chance' drug is too expensive even though its makers will provide the first three months' treatment free of charge. Only a few women would qualify for the drug and it would extend their lives, however NICE feels that it isn't cost effective.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Franken's Anti-Rape Amendment May Be in Danger]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/politics/l/134964/1/" /><id>134964</id><summary><![CDATA[Franken's Anti-Rape Amendment May Be in Danger]]></summary><issued>2009-10-22T12:45:25+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-22T12:45:25+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;Inouye's office, sources say, has been lobbied by defense contractors adamant that the language of the Franken amendment would leave them overly exposed to lawsuits...&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Bankers, Bonuses, Bubbles and Bullsh*t]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/politics/l/134962/1/" /><id>134962</id><summary><![CDATA[ Bankers, Bonuses, Bubbles and Bullsh*t]]></summary><issued>2009-10-22T12:20:20+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-22T12:20:20+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Smug-faced bankers have had a rough time of late with an unprecedented amount of public criticism heading their way. Admittedly, much of it has been empty, vote-pandering rhetoric from world leaders talking tough about their freshly minted &quot;war on greed&quot;.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Democrats lock Republicans out of committee room]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/politics/l/134903/1/" /><id>134903</id><summary><![CDATA[Democrats lock Republicans out of committee room]]></summary><issued>2009-10-20T20:04:27+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-20T20:04:27+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) locked Republicans out of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee room to keep them from meeting when Democrats aren&#8217;t present.<br/><br/>Towns&#8217; action came after repeated public ridicule from the leading Republican on the committee, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), over Towns&#8217;s failure to launch an investigation into Countrywide Mortgage&#8217;s reported sweetheart deals to VIPs.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Republicans divided]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/politics/l/134902/1/" /><id>134902</id><summary><![CDATA[Republicans divided]]></summary><issued>2009-10-20T19:12:19+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-20T19:12:19+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An article written by some group about how the moderate Republican voters and the radical Republican voters are divided in their view of the nature of the Obama administration and the Republican party.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Justice concludes black voters need Democratic Party]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/politics/l/134893/1/" /><id>134893</id><summary><![CDATA[Justice concludes black voters need Democratic Party]]></summary><issued>2009-10-20T13:30:26+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-20T13:30:26+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Voters in Kinston NC voted overwhelmingly to have local elections non-partisan. The Department of Justice overruled the electorate and said partisan elections are needed so that black voters can elect their &quot;candidates of choice&quot; - identified by the department as those who are Democrats and almost exclusively black.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Girl in tuxedo denied a place in school yearbook]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/politics/l/134874/1/" /><id>134874</id><summary><![CDATA[Girl in tuxedo denied a place in school yearbook]]></summary><issued>2009-10-19T18:49:32+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-19T18:49:32+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;M..I..crooked letter, crooked letter, I..crooked letter, crooked letter, I..humpback, humpback..I&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Texas man faces execution after jurors consult Bible to decide fate ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/politics/l/134761/1/" /><id>134761</id><summary><![CDATA[Texas man faces execution after jurors consult Bible to decide fate ]]></summary><issued>2009-10-16T14:34:57+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-16T14:34:57+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A convicted murderer faces execution in Texas after jurors consulted the Bible while deliberating on his sentence]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Alabama party appoints dead man by mistake]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/politics/l/134706/1/" /><id>134706</id><summary><![CDATA[Alabama party appoints dead man by mistake]]></summary><issued>2009-10-15T15:31:47+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-15T15:31:47+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Reynolds Smith Jr. was a stalwart Democratic voter in Alabama. But the Alabama Democratic Party overlooked another fact when it appointed Smith to an interim party panel: He died in November at age 83]]></content></entry></items></xml>