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		<title>Likely Scenario That Will Be Pretense For War With Iran</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This will be my last post on Not A Pundit. With the birth of my second &#8220;baby pundit&#8221; I find that I am having to squeeze my news posts at odd hours of the day. I leave you all with this final post on what I hope will not come to be true, but I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notapundit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=100181&amp;post=6644&amp;subd=notapundit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GOP Blocks Full-Fledged US Senate Debate Over Iraq</title>
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		<title>FDA Proposes New User-Fee Program For Generic Drugs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Bush Axes Added Oil, Gas Royalty Relief As Unwarranted</title>
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		<title>Bush Delays Private Accounts As Olive Branch To Democrats</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>US Department Of Energy Mulling Creating Ethanol Reserve</title>
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		<title>Social Security Taxes Lower Fertility, Family Formation</title>
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		<title>Loneliness Linked To Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease Risk &#8211; Study</title>
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		<title>US Prosecutors Start Playing Grand Jury Tapes In Libby Trial</title>
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		<title>Bush Budget Has Smaller Pay Hikes For Health Care Providers</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP)&#8211;Health care providers would get smaller pay increases when caring for the elderly, poor and disabled under President George W. Bush&#8217;s budget plan submitted to Congress Monday. The recommendations, if adopted, would trim Medicare spending by $66 billion over five years. That means the health care program for seniors would grow at a 6.7% [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notapundit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=100181&amp;post=6635&amp;subd=notapundit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Giuliani To File &#8216;Statement Of Candidacy&#8217; In US Presidential Race</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP)&#8211;Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor whose popularity soared after his response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, was moving closer to a full-fledged campaign for the Republican presidential nomination on Monday. In a sign that he&#8217;s serious about running for the White House, the two-term mayor was filing a so-called [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notapundit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=100181&amp;post=6634&amp;subd=notapundit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US Defends Policies In Face Of Russian Minister&#8217;s Criticism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>US Threatens Series Of UN Sanctions Against Iran On Nuclear Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP)&#8211;The State Department said Monday it will push for &#8220;incremental&#8221; U.N. Security Council sanctions against Iran if Tehran authorities continue to ignore council demands for suspension of the country&#8217;s uranium enrichment program. Spokesman Sean McCormack said that Iran appears to be continuing &#8220;down the path of isolation&#8221; by its recent announcement on stepped up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notapundit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=100181&amp;post=6632&amp;subd=notapundit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Presidential Candidates Seen Treading Carefully In Iowa, NH On Iraq</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CONCORD, N.H. (AP)&#8211;When it comes to the Iraq war, apparently there is more than one right answer. Among rank-and-file Democrats in early voting states like New Hampshire and Iowa, anti-war passion is so strong that it&#8217;s difficult for their party&#8217;s presidential candidates to come across as too forceful in their opposition to the war. On [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notapundit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=100181&amp;post=6631&amp;subd=notapundit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dow Jones News Top Stories Of The Day &#8211; February 5, 2007</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TRIAD HOSPITALS AGREES TO BE TAKEN PRIVATE FOR $4.7B Triad Hospitals agrees to be acquired by affiliates of CCMP Capital Advisors and GS Capital Partners at a price of $50.25 a share in cash, a premium of 16% over Friday&#8217;s closing price. Deal carries total value of $6.4 billion, including $1.7 billion in debt. Triad [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notapundit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=100181&amp;post=6630&amp;subd=notapundit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Financial Services Top Stories Of The Day &#8211; February 5, 2007</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[STATE STREET TO BUY INVESTORS FINANCIAL State Street agrees to acquire Investors Financial Services for nearly $4.5 billion in stock in deal that combines two firms providing a variety of services to institutional investors. Deal values the company at a 38% premium. State Street falls 6%. MORGAN STANLEY HIKES BONUSES FOR MANAGERS Morgan Stanley is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notapundit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=100181&amp;post=6629&amp;subd=notapundit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pentagon: White House Seeks $623 Billion In FY 2008 Defense Budget</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)&#8211;The White House on Monday submitted $623 billion in requests for fiscal year 2008, along with a request for more war funding in the current fiscal year, according to Defense Department documents. The 2008 defense request includes $481.4 billion in the base budget, plus $141.7 billion in extra funds related to the global [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notapundit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=100181&amp;post=6628&amp;subd=notapundit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bush Budget: Tax Law Crackdown To Raise $29.5 Billion Thru 2017</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)&#8211;The Bush administration is launching an effort to collect an estimated $29.5 billion in uncollected taxes, partly through new reporting requirements on securities sales. The proposals to close part of the estimated $290 billion tax gap are included in the White House&#8217;s proposed $2.9 trillion budget plan for the 2008 fiscal year, released [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notapundit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=100181&amp;post=6627&amp;subd=notapundit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bush 2008 Budget: $168 Million To Begin SPR Expansion To 1.5B Bbl</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)&#8211;U.S. President George W. Bush on Monday proposed to spend $168 million in his 2008 budget to begin expanding the nation&#8217;s Strategic Petroleum Reserve from its current capacity of 727 million barrels to 1.5 billion barrels by 2027. As previously announced, the president also proposed to authorize the filling up current capacity, from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notapundit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=100181&amp;post=6626&amp;subd=notapundit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bush Proposes 50 Basis Point Cut From Student Lender Subsidy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)&#8211;U.S. President George W. Bush is proposing a 50-basis-point cut in student lender rate subsidies and increasing lender risk as part of a plan to save the government $95 billion in entitlement spending by 2012. The proposal would affect Sallie Mae (SLM), Student Loan Corp. (STU) and Nelnet (NNI). Sallie Mae and other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notapundit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=100181&amp;post=6625&amp;subd=notapundit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bush Budget Shows US Deficits Disappearing Over 5 Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)&#8211;Healthy tax receipts and economic growth will help the U.S. federal deficit decline to $244 billion this year and $239 billion in fiscal 2008, the Bush administration said Monday in a budget request that predicts the disappearance of government red ink by 2012. &#8220;The federal deficit is declining and on a path to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notapundit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=100181&amp;post=6624&amp;subd=notapundit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Libby Grand Jury Recordings To Be Released At CIA Leak Trial</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP)&#8211;Recordings of former White House aide I. Lewis &#8220;Scooter&#8221; Libby&#8217;s secret grand jury testimony will be released publicly after they are presented at his trial, the judge at Libby&#8217;s trial ruled Monday. In a victory for the news media, U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton said he has concerns about releasing the recordings during the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notapundit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=100181&amp;post=6623&amp;subd=notapundit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US Justice Department Set To Widen DNA Sampling Net</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Dow Jones)&#8211;The U.S. Department of Justice is completing rules to allow the collection of DNA from most people arrested or detained by federal authorities, a vast expansion of DNA gathering that will include hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants, by far the largest group affected, the New York Times reported Monday. The new [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notapundit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=100181&amp;post=6622&amp;subd=notapundit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pentagon To Try Again With Non-Nuclear Ballistic Missile Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rebecca Christie Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)&#8211;The Pentagon plans to resurrect its quest for a long-range missile that can quickly attack a target on the other side of the world, without using a nuclear warhead, according to Defense Department officials. The new plan will come up in the next round of budget [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notapundit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=100181&amp;post=6621&amp;subd=notapundit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Tapes, California Governor Opines On Border Fence, Immigration</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP)&#8211;Recordings of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger reveal the Republican comparing his post-World War II upbringing in Austria with plans to build a border fence with Mexico, a proposal he has opposed. &#8220;We had the Berlin Wall; we had walls everywhere. But we always looked at the wall as kind of like the outside of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notapundit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=100181&amp;post=6620&amp;subd=notapundit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ukraine Minister Criticizes US Missile Defense System Plans</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KIEV (AP)&#8211;A senior Ukrainian official criticized U.S. plans to deploy its missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic in comments released Monday. &#8220;First of all missiles deployed near our territory are objects for attack by any sides. So it is a threat to involve Ukraine in a direct conflict,&#8221; First Deputy Prime Minister [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notapundit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=100181&amp;post=6619&amp;subd=notapundit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>China: North Korea Talks May Be Prolonged Over Energy Aid</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING (Dow Jones)&#8211;China&#8217;s chief delegate to the six-party talks on North Korea&#8217;s nuclear programs said Monday that while he expects the negotiations to wrap up in three days, they could be extended, depending on discussions over energy aid to Pyongyang, according to a Japanese lawmaker who met him, the Kyodo news service reported. Takeshi Noda, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notapundit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=100181&amp;post=6618&amp;subd=notapundit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US: North Korea Must &#8216;Get Out Of Nuclear Business&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:51:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO (AP)&#8211;North Korea must get out of the nuclear business if it wants energy or economic aid, the chief U.S. negotiator said Monday, adding he believed the North was prepared to negotiate at the coming arms talks in Beijing. However, he refused to speak on news reports that Pyongyang is prepared to freeze a key [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notapundit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=100181&amp;post=6617&amp;subd=notapundit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Syria Ready To Talk To US To Avert Iraq Civil War</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DAMASCUS (AP)&#8211;Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview aired Monday by ABC-TV that Syria is ready to talk to the U.S. about Iraq but isn&#8217;t optimistic Washington will seek a dialogue even though it may be the &#8220;last chance&#8221; to avoid full-scale civil war. Assad criticized U.S. President George W. Bush, saying Bush&#8217;s administration [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notapundit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=100181&amp;post=6616&amp;subd=notapundit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iraqi Violence Leaves 17 Dead In Bomb, Mortar Attacks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BAGHDAD (AP)&#8211;Violence raked the Iraqi capital Monday as at least 17 people died in bomb and mortar attacks by early afternoon. A bomb placed in a garbage bin killed at least eight people and wounded 18 in a central Baghdad neighborhood shortly after 1200, police said. Within minutes two other car bombs blew up in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notapundit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=100181&amp;post=6615&amp;subd=notapundit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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