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<description><![CDATA[Party Drafts Political Newcomers as Candidates in a Bid to Capitalize on Voters' Anti-Incumbent, Anti-Washington Mood                                                  Seeking to tap into growing anti-establishment discord among voters, the Republican Party is actively seeking can&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cornhusker4Palin]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Cornhusker4Palin]]></source><link>http://cornhusker4palin.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/06/3863935-for-gop-no-experience-is-no-problem</link><guid>http://cornhusker4palin.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/06/3863935-for-gop-no-experience-is-no-problem</guid><category>congress</category><category>politics</category><category>gop</category><category>reforms</category><category>tea-party</category><category>newcomers</category><category>2010-campaign</category><pubDate>Sat, 6 Feb 2010 23:34:38 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>The Citizenship Surge</title>
<description><![CDATA[About the only point of agreement on immigration in this country is that newcomers who play by the rules — fill out their forms, pay their fees and wait their turn — are welcome.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ShaunV]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[ShaunV]]></source><link>http://svforbes.newsvine.com/_news/2007/11/27/1124545-the-citizenship-surge</link><guid>http://svforbes.newsvine.com/_news/2007/11/27/1124545-the-citizenship-surge</guid><category>immigration</category><category>us-news</category><category>federal-government</category><category>newcomers</category><category>emilio-gonzales</category><category>citizenship-surge</category><category>play-by-the-rules</category><category>flood-of-applications</category><category>visa-overload</category><pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:23:52 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Meta:  Iron Skin and Asbestos Underwear</title>
<description><![CDATA[
In days of yore quests were raised by noble, and often not so noble, knights to find fonts of wisdom, holy grails, eternal youth, the sovereign specific, the philosopher's stone and such oddities as a potion, philter or talisman of Iron Skin.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Boothby]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Tim Boothby]]></source><link>http://boothby.newsvine.com/_news/2007/11/13/1093527-meta-iron-skin-and-asbestos-underwear</link><guid>http://boothby.newsvine.com/_news/2007/11/13/1093527-meta-iron-skin-and-asbestos-underwear</guid><category>newsvine</category><category>philosophy</category><category>welcome</category><category>meta</category><category>newbies</category><category>newcomers</category><pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:11:55 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=http3A2F2Fwww.newsvine.com2F_vine2Fimages2Fusers2FBoothby2F1093540.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="300" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=http3A2F2Fwww.newsvine.com2F_vine2Fimages2Fusers2FBoothby2F1093540.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;To some the Internet is a full contact sport, beware of that which might bite, stab or stick you, and what warms you today might burn your butt tomorrow.&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs">fl|ccatt|http://www.flickr.com/people/76074333@N00/|[Flickr User]</media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=http3A2F2Fwww.newsvine.com2F_vine2Fimages2Fusers2FBoothby2F1093545.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="533" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=http3A2F2Fwww.newsvine.com2F_vine2Fimages2Fusers2FBoothby2F1093545.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="160" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;The Ultimate Tinfoil Hat, you can probably get it from Ronco for $19.95&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs">fl|ccatt|http://www.flickr.com/people/bombardier/|Joel Bombardier</media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=http3A2F2Fwww.newsvine.com2F_vine2Fimages2Fusers2FBoothby2F1093555.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="300" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=http3A2F2Fwww.newsvine.com2F_vine2Fimages2Fusers2FBoothby2F1093555.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Not every hug is friendly, and not every stern word is hostile, sometimes you need to read deeper.&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs">fl|ccatt|http://www.flickr.com/people/69er/|Mohammed Al-Naser</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>'Our Town':  Defining Seattle's evolving Soul</title>
<description><![CDATA[SOMETIMES I WISH you'd all just go away.

Northwest newcomers, I mean. The driven who are striven toward condo-livin' and who want to remodel our soggy Eden into an urban, glossy facsimile of wherever rat cage they escaped from.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Redruby]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Redruby]]></source><link>http://redruby.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/28/541399-our-town-defining-seattles-evolving-soul</link><guid>http://redruby.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/28/541399-our-town-defining-seattles-evolving-soul</guid><category>northwest</category><category>seattle</category><category>us-news</category><category>newcomers</category><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:48:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>