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	<title>CT Politics &#187; dan@hearstdc.com (Dan Freedman)</title>
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		<title>&#8220;Fast &amp; Furious&#8221; report criticizes ex-U.S. Attorney for leak</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/politics/2013/05/20/fast-furious-report-criticizes-ex-u-s-attorney-for-leak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 20:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan@hearstdc.com (Dan Freedman)</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ATF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cartel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fast & Furious]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[﻿The former U.S. attorney in Phoenix who oversaw the controversial ``Fast &#38; Furious’’ gun-trafficking investigation inappropriately leaked a document to Fox News in an apparent effort to denigrate an ATF whistleblower, the Justice Department inspector general concluded Monday.]]></description>
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		<title>NRA offers plan to arm, train school personnel</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan@hearstdc.com (Dan Freedman)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A National Rifle Association task force on Tuesday recommended a training program to help arm school personnel as a way of preventing a repeat of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that took 26 lives in Newtown, Conn.]]></description>
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		<title>Over the cliff we go</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/politics/2012/12/31/over-the-cliff-we-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 21:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan@hearstdc.com (Dan Freedman)</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The House of Representatives prepared to recess late Monday without voting on a tax measure, guaranteeing the nation would go over the much-feared fiscal cliff. The Senate nevertheless remained in session to possibly vote on a deal that reportedly would wipe away Bush-era tax cuts for those earning over $400,000 individually and $450,000 for couples filing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NRA’s big announcement: Put guns in ‘every school that wants it’</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/politics/2012/12/21/nra%e2%80%99s-big-announcement-put-guns-in-%e2%80%98every-school-that-wants-it%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan@hearstdc.com (Dan Freedman)</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[crime and punishment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun laws]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gun control]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The embattled National Rifle Association today stuck to its guns — in the hands of “good guys’’ — as the best answer to school shootings such as the one in Newtown, Conn., that took 26 lives. Speaking at a long-anticipated news conference, NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre was not in the least bit defensive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NRA breaks silence, pledges ‘meaningful contributions’ to prevent further massacres</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/politics/2012/12/18/nra-breaks-silence-pledges-%e2%80%98meaningful-contributions%e2%80%99-to-prevent-further-massacres/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan@hearstdc.com (Dan Freedman)</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[crime and punishment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guns]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The National Rifle Association on Tuesday broke its silence over the Newtown, Conn., tragedy just enough to say it would offer “meaningful contributions” aimed at preventing another mass-shooting incident. Faced with a crescendo of calls for gun control in the wake of last week’s Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in which a gunman armed with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>True the Vote’s impact said to be negligible</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/politics/2012/11/06/true-the-vote%e2%80%99s-impact-said-to-be-negligible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 02:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan@hearstdc.com (Dan Freedman)</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Catherine Engelbrecht]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Election 2012]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Civil rights lawyers on Tuesday said the national poll-watching effort of Houston-based True the Vote had fizzled even as the organization’s founder, Catherine Engelbrecht, said it was still responding to a deluge of complaints.]]></description>
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		<title>DOJ sending voting observers to 23 states</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/politics/2012/11/02/doj-sending-voting-observers-to-23-states/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/politics/2012/11/02/doj-sending-voting-observers-to-23-states/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 23:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan@hearstdc.com (Dan Freedman)</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Presidential Election 2012]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With Election Day only four days off, the Justice Department is planning to send 780 observers to polls in 23 states including Texas, California and New York.]]></description>
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