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		<title>Kitten on the Keyboard 2008-11-21 03:35:40</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div style="center;"><span style="italic;"><span style="bold;"><span style="x-large;"><span style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Secret to a Long and Happy Marriage</span></span></span></span></div><br />
<div style="justify;"><span style="italic;"><span style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A couple was celebrating their golden wedding anniversary on the beaches in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Their domestic tranquility had long been the talk of the town.</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span style="italic;"><span style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span style="italic;"><span style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">People would say, 'What a peaceful &#38; loving couple'.</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span style="italic;"><span style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span style="italic;"><span style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The local newspaper reporter was inquiring as to the secret of their long and happy marriage.&#160;The Husband replied: 'Well, it dates back to our honeymoon in America, explained the man. 'We visited the Grand Canyon, in Arizona and took a trip down to the bottom of the canyon by horse. We hadn't gone too far when my wife's horse stumbled and she almost fell off. My wife looked down at the horse and quietly said, 'That's once.'</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span style="italic;"><span style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span style="italic;"><span style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'We proceeded a little further and her horse stumbled again. Again my wife quietly said, 'That's twice.'</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span style="italic;"><span style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span style="italic;"><span style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We hadn't gone a half-mile when the horse stumbled for the third time my wife quietly removed a revolver from her purse and shot the horse dead. </span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span style="italic;"><span style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span style="italic;"><span style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I SHOUTED at her, 'What's wrong with you, Woman! Why did you shoot the poor animal like that, are you *%&#38; # @$ crazy!?'</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span style="italic;"><span style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span style="italic;"><span style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She looked at ME, and quietly said, 'That's once.'</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span style="italic;"><span style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span style="italic;"><span style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And from that moment..... we have lived happily every after.'</span></span></div>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><span><span><span><span>The Secret to a Long and Happy Marriage</span></span></span></span></div><br />
<div><span><span>A couple was celebrating their golden wedding anniversary on the beaches in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Their domestic tranquility had long been the talk of the town.</span></span></div><div><span><span><br />
</span></span></div><div><span><span>People would say, 'What a peaceful &amp; loving couple'.</span></span></div><div><span><span><br />
</span></span></div><div><span><span>The local newspaper reporter was inquiring as to the secret of their long and happy marriage.&nbsp;The Husband replied: 'Well, it dates back to our honeymoon in America, explained the man. 'We visited the Grand Canyon, in Arizona and took a trip down to the bottom of the canyon by horse. We hadn't gone too far when my wife's horse stumbled and she almost fell off. My wife looked down at the horse and quietly said, 'That's once.'</span></span></div><div><span><span><br />
</span></span></div><div><span><span>'We proceeded a little further and her horse stumbled again. Again my wife quietly said, 'That's twice.'</span></span></div><div><span><span><br />
</span></span></div><div><span><span>We hadn't gone a half-mile when the horse stumbled for the third time my wife quietly removed a revolver from her purse and shot the horse dead. </span></span></div><div><span><span><br />
</span></span></div><div><span><span>I SHOUTED at her, 'What's wrong with you, Woman! Why did you shoot the poor animal like that, are you *%&amp; # @$ crazy!?'</span></span></div><div><span><span><br />
</span></span></div><div><span><span>She looked at ME, and quietly said, 'That's once.'</span></span></div><div><span><span><br />
</span></span></div><div><span><span>And from that moment..... we have lived happily every after.'</span></span></div>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div style="center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="x-large;">Steele on Rebuilding the GOP</span></span></span></span></div><div style="center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;">by  Martha Zoller </span></span></div><div style="center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;">11/18/2008</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;">Michael Steele is a busy man. Between his duties as GOPAC Chairman, this past weekend Steele was keeping tabs on the Republican Governors Association meeting in Southern Florida and addressing a group at “Restoration Weekend” sponsored by David Horowitz’s Freedom Center. Steele moderated a panel with me, Rep. Mike Pence, Ward Connerly and Pat Caudell. </span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;">Last week, Steele announced he will be seeking the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee. There with us in Florida, Steele began telling Republicans what we have to do to rebuild. Steele made no apologies for the ’08 elections or for conservatism. </span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;">The lessons of the losses are fresh and still coming with three Senate seats hanging in the balance in Alaska, Minnesota and Georgia. “What I learned is that you can’t please everyone, but you can certainly make them mad at you at the same time,” said Steele. “We have over the course of the last seven or eight years ticked off a lot of people in this county. Not because we’re conservatives…but because we failed to speak to those issues -- because we failed to lead on these issues.”</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;">Steele asked, “So despite the results of the recent elections, do you think America is saying to itself, oh, we want to be liberals? We want to nationalize our health care system? Do you think that was the result? I’ll answer it for you, no.” Then he said, “Because we failed to speak to the realness of that, America followed the only voice they heard.”</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;">Steele took the time to frame to 300 or so conservatives in attendance what it means for him to be a conservative Republican in America and in the African-American community. The easy thing in America is for a black man to be a liberal. But Steele will tell you that he can take you into any black church in America, save for Trinity United in Chicago, and you will think you are in a “Republican Revival.” </span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;">Steele was the Lt. Gov. of Maryland -- the first black man elected to the job, and you didn’t hear the heavens open up on the other side praising the barrier being broken down. And when he lost the U.S. Senate race to Ben Cardin, there were no wringing of hands in the black community about what a great loss this was. </span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;">For Michael Steele committed the sin of being conservative while black. Even his blessed mother, who raised him without government assistance and never made more than $3.38 an hour, asked him when he told her that he had registered Republican, “Baby, why would you do that?” His answer was, “Because that’s what you taught me, Mom.” </span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;">Steele spoke eloquently about the problems in the conservative movement today and how we got there: “Over the past decade or so, conservatives seem to have lost their way. The disparity between our rhetoric and our actions has grown to the point that our credibility has snapped. People just don’t believe us.” </span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;">“We’ve become our own worst enemy,” said Steele. “We in fact as much as anyone else have become the party of big government. We lost our principles our credibility, we dishonored our nation. Frankly, we behaved like Democrats.” </span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;">“But Lincoln reminds us when he said, ‘the probability that we may fail in trying to restore ourselves, trying to move forward in this struggle, ought not to deter us from a cause we believe is just,’” said Steele, a self-described Lincoln Republican.</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;">“The cause of the conservative movement in this country is alive and well. It is strong only if we let it be strong, only if we acknowledge its principles only if we prepare to go into the town squares and the halls of America and speak truth to power. If we are to regain the trust of the American people and restore the credibility of our ideas, we must break with that which went wrong and once again stand for what is right.”</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;">With all this rhetoric, Steele has not lost sight of the future. He understands even some people who call themselves conservatives in the “punditocracy” of the media want to say it is the conservative ideology that lost the election -- that conservatives are exclusive and out of the mainstream. Steele disagrees. He makes the case that conservatives cannot allow liberals to define them. </span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;">Steele is the face of the Republican party of Ronald Reagan. Many pundits say the Reagan era is over. Even Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota acknowledged that if Republicans are going to reach the 18-30 year olds who voted 2-1 for Barack Obama, we are going to have to update our icons. But that doesn’t mean Reagan Republicanism doesn’t work -- it means that it needs a new face. Reagan was the new face for a new generation of Goldwater Republicans, and Steele is the new face for Reagan Republicans. </span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;">“If you have any interest in reviving the Republican Party you will put it in this man’s hands and not a political hack in that job who likes to represent people who like to represent themselves. People in politics. It will get you nowhere. This man [Michael Steele] I have known for years -- he has vision, he has principles and more than that he is smart about politics,” said Pat Caudell, a “rogue” democrat strategist.</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;">Haley Barbour, former RNC Chair and Governor of Mississippi, said the time to fix things is when you are out of power. It allows new ideas and new people to bubble up to the top. While I stood with Steele during a long day of politicking, he told me he was up for the battle and ready to take the message around the country. </span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;">Steele closed by saying, “Our best hope for a brighter future is in the empowerment of individuals and families; not in constraints imposed by a bloated bureaucracy. It is still morning in America because America is morning. My mother told me that. She knew that the freedoms may not reach her doorstep, but she had faith that it would reach mine…Don’t make excuses for what we believe in -- that time is over, let’s get busy.”</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;">Ms. Zoller is a political analyst and conservative talk show host for WDUN AM 550 in Gainesville, Georgia and syndicated on The Georgia News Network. She is one of the Talkers Magazine "Heavy Hundred" Talk Shows in America for 2005-2007. She can be seen regularly on cable news. She is the author of "Indivisible: Uniting Values for a Divided America." You may contact her through www.marthazoller.com.</span></span></div>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Steele on Rebuilding the GOP</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">by  Martha Zoller </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">11/18/2008</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Michael Steele is a busy man. Between his duties as GOPAC Chairman, this past weekend Steele was keeping tabs on the Republican Governors Association meeting in Southern Florida and addressing a group at “Restoration Weekend” sponsored by David Horowitz’s Freedom Center. Steele moderated a panel with me, Rep. Mike Pence, Ward Connerly and Pat Caudell. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Last week, Steele announced he will be seeking the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee. There with us in Florida, Steele began telling Republicans what we have to do to rebuild. Steele made no apologies for the ’08 elections or for conservatism. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">The lessons of the losses are fresh and still coming with three Senate seats hanging in the balance in Alaska, Minnesota and Georgia. “What I learned is that you can’t please everyone, but you can certainly make them mad at you at the same time,” said Steele. “We have over the course of the last seven or eight years ticked off a lot of people in this county. Not because we’re conservatives…but because we failed to speak to those issues -- because we failed to lead on these issues.”</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Steele asked, “So despite the results of the recent elections, do you think America is saying to itself, oh, we want to be liberals? We want to nationalize our health care system? Do you think that was the result? I’ll answer it for you, no.” Then he said, “Because we failed to speak to the realness of that, America followed the only voice they heard.”</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Steele took the time to frame to 300 or so conservatives in attendance what it means for him to be a conservative Republican in America and in the African-American community. The easy thing in America is for a black man to be a liberal. But Steele will tell you that he can take you into any black church in America, save for Trinity United in Chicago, and you will think you are in a “Republican Revival.” </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Steele was the Lt. Gov. of Maryland -- the first black man elected to the job, and you didn’t hear the heavens open up on the other side praising the barrier being broken down. And when he lost the U.S. Senate race to Ben Cardin, there were no wringing of hands in the black community about what a great loss this was. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">For Michael Steele committed the sin of being conservative while black. Even his blessed mother, who raised him without government assistance and never made more than $3.38 an hour, asked him when he told her that he had registered Republican, “Baby, why would you do that?” His answer was, “Because that’s what you taught me, Mom.” </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Steele spoke eloquently about the problems in the conservative movement today and how we got there: “Over the past decade or so, conservatives seem to have lost their way. The disparity between our rhetoric and our actions has grown to the point that our credibility has snapped. People just don’t believe us.” </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">“We’ve become our own worst enemy,” said Steele. “We in fact as much as anyone else have become the party of big government. We lost our principles our credibility, we dishonored our nation. Frankly, we behaved like Democrats.” </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">“But Lincoln reminds us when he said, ‘the probability that we may fail in trying to restore ourselves, trying to move forward in this struggle, ought not to deter us from a cause we believe is just,’” said Steele, a self-described Lincoln Republican.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">“The cause of the conservative movement in this country is alive and well. It is strong only if we let it be strong, only if we acknowledge its principles only if we prepare to go into the town squares and the halls of America and speak truth to power. If we are to regain the trust of the American people and restore the credibility of our ideas, we must break with that which went wrong and once again stand for what is right.”</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">With all this rhetoric, Steele has not lost sight of the future. He understands even some people who call themselves conservatives in the “punditocracy” of the media want to say it is the conservative ideology that lost the election -- that conservatives are exclusive and out of the mainstream. Steele disagrees. He makes the case that conservatives cannot allow liberals to define them. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Steele is the face of the Republican party of Ronald Reagan. Many pundits say the Reagan era is over. Even Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota acknowledged that if Republicans are going to reach the 18-30 year olds who voted 2-1 for Barack Obama, we are going to have to update our icons. But that doesn’t mean Reagan Republicanism doesn’t work -- it means that it needs a new face. Reagan was the new face for a new generation of Goldwater Republicans, and Steele is the new face for Reagan Republicans. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">“If you have any interest in reviving the Republican Party you will put it in this man’s hands and not a political hack in that job who likes to represent people who like to represent themselves. People in politics. It will get you nowhere. This man [Michael Steele] I have known for years -- he has vision, he has principles and more than that he is smart about politics,” said Pat Caudell, a “rogue” democrat strategist.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Haley Barbour, former RNC Chair and Governor of Mississippi, said the time to fix things is when you are out of power. It allows new ideas and new people to bubble up to the top. While I stood with Steele during a long day of politicking, he told me he was up for the battle and ready to take the message around the country. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Steele closed by saying, “Our best hope for a brighter future is in the empowerment of individuals and families; not in constraints imposed by a bloated bureaucracy. It is still morning in America because America is morning. My mother told me that. She knew that the freedoms may not reach her doorstep, but she had faith that it would reach mine…Don’t make excuses for what we believe in -- that time is over, let’s get busy.”</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Ms. Zoller is a political analyst and conservative talk show host for WDUN AM 550 in Gainesville, Georgia and syndicated on The Georgia News Network. She is one of the Talkers Magazine "Heavy Hundred" Talk Shows in America for 2005-2007. She can be seen regularly on cable news. She is the author of "Indivisible: Uniting Values for a Divided America." You may contact her through www.marthazoller.com.</span></span></div>
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		<description><![CDATA[State Rep. Marty Kiar really fought hard on our behalf last legislative session against those deceptively-named academic freedom bills. It looks like we&#8217;ll see plenty more of him in the upcoming session. Why don&#8217;t you send him a note of thanks and encouragement?
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		<title>Kitten on the Keyboard 2008-11-21 01:01:43</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div style="center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="x-large;">Repeal Sarbanes-Oxley</span></span></span></span></div><div style="center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;">Newt Gingrich,David W. Kralik</span></span></div><div style="center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;">Wednesday, November 5, 2008</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;">It has been six years since Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act after the devastating accounting irregularities of Enron and WorldCom. While the intent of the law was to prevent corporate fraud, there is growing evidence that it has done more harm than good, and is undermining the venture-capital industry in Silicon Valley. Now, with signs that our economy is moving toward recession, Congress should take this opportunity to repeal the law.</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;">Rep. Michael G. Oxley, R-Ohio, recently said in an interview with the International Herald Tribune that Sarbanes-Oxley was passed in haste. "Frankly, I would have written it differently. ... Everyone felt like Rome was burning."</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;">Sarbanes-Oxley went too far in regulating corporate governance, resulting in at least three unintended consequences.</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;">-- It was insufficient at preventing insolvencies and accounting shortfalls in companies such as Bear Sterns, Lehman Bros., American International Group (AIG) and Merrill Lynch.</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;">Estimates from leading figures in the venture-capital community indicate the average company will now take 12 years before it can successfully issue an initial public offering (up from five years pre-Sarbanes-Oxley) because they do not have enough capital to cover the estimated $4.36 million hidden tax in yearly compliance costs, according to an estimate by the Financial Executives International. (The initial estimate from the Securities and Exchange Commission was approximately $91,000 per company on average.) Sarbanes-Oxley turned out in practice to cost small companies 50 times more than the SEC estimated. Oxley said the law gave the accounting industry "almost carte blanche to do almost everything they wanted to do, which turned out to be far more expensive than anticipated. ... They just went crazy."</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;">In addition, by creating criminal liabilities for board members, Sarbanes-Oxley has made it harder to find experienced members to join corporate boards.</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;">-- It initiated a movement among smaller public companies to return to private status or merge. In 2006, the law firm Foley &#38; Lardner LLP conducted a survey of 114 public companies on the effects of Sarbanes-Oxley. Twenty-one percent of companies were considering going private, 10 percent were considering selling the company, and 8 percent were considering merging with another company. These respondents mostly were companies with less than $1 billion in annual revenue.</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;">-- It is resulting in a trend where companies choose to go public on foreign, not American, stock exchanges. In 2005, a report by the London Stock Exchange cited that about 38 percent of the international companies surveyed said they had considered issuing securities in the United States. Of those, 90 percent said the onerous demands of the new Sarbanes-Oxley corporate governance law had made London listing more attractive.</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;">The effect of Sarbanes-Oxley in Silicon Valley has been especially dramatic. In the second quarter of 2008, there were no public offerings of Silicon Valley venture capital-backed companies, a phenomenon not seen since 1978. In the third quarter, there was only one. Sarbanes-Oxley has had a direct effect on venture capital. Indeed, if Sarbanes-Oxley is not repealed, then we could see Silicon Valley's status as a hotbed of innovation erode and see more and more of the future invented outside of the United States.</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;">Bernie Marcus has indicated that he could not have founded Home Depot under Sarbanes-Oxley rules. With a new presidential administration and a Congress convening in less than three months, now is the time to begin thinking through the solutions needed to address our economic challenges. Economic growth in a sound market economy requires smart regulation, not destructive regulation that hurts economic growth. Sarbanes-Oxley fails that test. It should be repealed.</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;">Newt Gingrich is the former speaker of the House of Representatives and general chairman, and David W. Kralik is director of Internet strategy and manager of the Silicon Valley office of American Solutions.</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;">http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/05/ED2813T8O9.DTL</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="italic;">This article appeared on page B - 17 of the San Francisco Chronicle</span></span></div>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Repeal Sarbanes-Oxley</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Newt Gingrich,David W. Kralik</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Wednesday, November 5, 2008</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">It has been six years since Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act after the devastating accounting irregularities of Enron and WorldCom. While the intent of the law was to prevent corporate fraud, there is growing evidence that it has done more harm than good, and is undermining the venture-capital industry in Silicon Valley. Now, with signs that our economy is moving toward recession, Congress should take this opportunity to repeal the law.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Rep. Michael G. Oxley, R-Ohio, recently said in an interview with the International Herald Tribune that Sarbanes-Oxley was passed in haste. "Frankly, I would have written it differently. ... Everyone felt like Rome was burning."</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Sarbanes-Oxley went too far in regulating corporate governance, resulting in at least three unintended consequences.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">-- It was insufficient at preventing insolvencies and accounting shortfalls in companies such as Bear Sterns, Lehman Bros., American International Group (AIG) and Merrill Lynch.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Estimates from leading figures in the venture-capital community indicate the average company will now take 12 years before it can successfully issue an initial public offering (up from five years pre-Sarbanes-Oxley) because they do not have enough capital to cover the estimated $4.36 million hidden tax in yearly compliance costs, according to an estimate by the Financial Executives International. (The initial estimate from the Securities and Exchange Commission was approximately $91,000 per company on average.) Sarbanes-Oxley turned out in practice to cost small companies 50 times more than the SEC estimated. Oxley said the law gave the accounting industry "almost carte blanche to do almost everything they wanted to do, which turned out to be far more expensive than anticipated. ... They just went crazy."</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">In addition, by creating criminal liabilities for board members, Sarbanes-Oxley has made it harder to find experienced members to join corporate boards.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">-- It initiated a movement among smaller public companies to return to private status or merge. In 2006, the law firm Foley &amp; Lardner LLP conducted a survey of 114 public companies on the effects of Sarbanes-Oxley. Twenty-one percent of companies were considering going private, 10 percent were considering selling the company, and 8 percent were considering merging with another company. These respondents mostly were companies with less than $1 billion in annual revenue.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">-- It is resulting in a trend where companies choose to go public on foreign, not American, stock exchanges. In 2005, a report by the London Stock Exchange cited that about 38 percent of the international companies surveyed said they had considered issuing securities in the United States. Of those, 90 percent said the onerous demands of the new Sarbanes-Oxley corporate governance law had made London listing more attractive.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">The effect of Sarbanes-Oxley in Silicon Valley has been especially dramatic. In the second quarter of 2008, there were no public offerings of Silicon Valley venture capital-backed companies, a phenomenon not seen since 1978. In the third quarter, there was only one. Sarbanes-Oxley has had a direct effect on venture capital. Indeed, if Sarbanes-Oxley is not repealed, then we could see Silicon Valley's status as a hotbed of innovation erode and see more and more of the future invented outside of the United States.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Bernie Marcus has indicated that he could not have founded Home Depot under Sarbanes-Oxley rules. With a new presidential administration and a Congress convening in less than three months, now is the time to begin thinking through the solutions needed to address our economic challenges. Economic growth in a sound market economy requires smart regulation, not destructive regulation that hurts economic growth. Sarbanes-Oxley fails that test. It should be repealed.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Newt Gingrich is the former speaker of the House of Representatives and general chairman, and David W. Kralik is director of Internet strategy and manager of the Silicon Valley office of American Solutions.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
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</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">This article appeared on page B - 17 of the San Francisco Chronicle</span></span></div>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is all sorts of cool science news out there recently!
Could we actually see wooly mammoths roaming the land in the future? In the New York Times: Regenerating a Mammoth for $10 Million.
You can name the next Mars rover at NASA. And speaking of Mars, glaciers have apparently been found lurking underground. Oh, and if [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is all sorts of cool science news out there recently!</p>
<p>Could we actually see wooly mammoths roaming the land in the future? In the New York Times: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/science/20mammoth.html?_r=1">Regenerating a Mammoth for $10 Million</a>.</p>
<p>You can <a href="http://marsrovername.jpl.nasa.gov/">name the next Mars rover</a> at NASA. And speaking of Mars, glaciers have apparently been <a href="http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_space_thewritestuff/2008/11/more-ice-found.html">found lurking underground</a>. Oh, and if you find a stray spider hanging around, <a href="http://www.abcactionnews.com/mostpopular/story.aspx?content_id=78bc6c1e-11ad-4305-807d-c5298be50af6">please let NASA know</a>.</p>
<p>I had trouble finding a news story on this in the American press; there are quite a few mentions in other countries&#8217; media. <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081119140705.htm">It&#8217;s about eye evolution</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Researchers unravel how the very first eyes in evolution might have worked and how they guide the swimming of marine plankton towards light.</p></blockquote>
<p>A few Florida students are advancing in the prestigious Siemens Foundation <a href="http://www.gatorsports.com/article/20081119/NEWS/811192989">Math, Science, Technology Competition</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>On first glance, Jared Goodman and Jonathan Wang seem more the high school honor athletes they are than veteran scientists who have spent several years in the laboratory coming up with a way to treat someone who has suffered a traumatic brain injury.</p>
<p>Jared and Jonathan, who have already gained international attention with their work, will travel this weekend to the Georgia Tech in Atlanta to participate in the regional Siemens Foundation Math, Science, Technology Competition.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>The seniors from Oak Hall School are two of six students in the regional finals from Florida. The region also includes students from Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina.</p></blockquote>
<p>I had no idea that some frogs actually <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/news/action-line/story/777063.html">don&#8217;t do the free swimming tadpole thing</a>.</p>
<p>The Big Picture has <a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/11/peering_into_the_micro_world.html">some smaaaaaaal subjects</a>!</p>
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		<title>Balkwell Gives Deputies a Black Eye</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sheriff Bill Balkwill decided not to pursue charges. He decided not to refer the matter to the State's Attorney's Office for a determination as to the]]></description>
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		<title>Balkwell Gives Deputies a Black Eye</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sheriff Bill Balkwill decided not to pursue charges. He decided not to refer the matter to the State's Attorney's Office for a determination as to the]]></description>
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