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		<title>Check Out Ames&#8217; New Art Zine!</title>
		<link>http://amesprogressive.org/2012/01/09/blogs/check-out-ames-new-art-zine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>garonsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Wednesday, the new art zine Gestalt launched at a Space for Ames release party. The inaugural issue&#8217;s contributors include past and present Ames Progressive collaborators Dave Atchison, Hannah Johnson, Rick Lem, Nikki Rains, and Jordan Zantow (see his Gestalt sketch below), as well as our editors Molly McDonald and Nate Logsdon. Check out the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iowa! New Hampshire! South Carolina! Santorum! God!</title>
		<link>http://amesprogressive.org/2012/01/06/commentary/iowa-new-hampshire-south-carolina-santorum-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bob Vander Plaats (Mr. Clappy) at Santorum’s Iowa victory speech The Iowa Republican caucuses found Mitt Romney winning in an eight-vote landslide over Rick Santorum. Not 8 percent – eight votes. Santorum’s showing was impressive and more of a win than Romney’s. The candidates packed up and left for New Hampshire, Bachmann dropped out, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Poison Control Center&#8217;s Patrick Tape Fleming Talks New Album (And Ames Music History!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>garonsen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nate Logsdon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The locally legendary rock band the Poison Control Center is set to release a limited edition vinyl record of their previously unreleased rock opera A Nice Old-Fashioned Romance With Love Lyrics and Everything on Maximum Ames Records (with which I, Mr. Blogsdon, am affiliated). In this video, Patrick Tape Fleming talks to the music writer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Iowa State-9/11 Inside Job Connection</title>
		<link>http://amesprogressive.org/2011/12/19/blogs/iowa-state-911-inside-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>garonsen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ames Prog Blog]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, deconstructing some of the arguments of the conspiracy group Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth reminded me of one particular video trying to prove 7 World Trade Center was felled by a controlled demolition. &#8220;Compare the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 with stock footage of controlled demolitions,&#8221; the video&#8217;s description reads. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christopher Hitchens, 1949 &#8212; 2011</title>
		<link>http://amesprogressive.org/2011/12/16/blogs/christopher-hitchens-1949-2011-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>garonsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The British polemicist Christopher Hitchens, perhaps best known in later years for his unwavering opposition to organized religion and for butting heads with his comrades on the Left over the Iraq war, died last night of pneumonia after a yearlong struggle with esophageal cancer. In his 62 years, Hitchens wrote more than a dozen books [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fallon Forum&#8217;s Baffling Promotion of 9/11 Trutherism</title>
		<link>http://amesprogressive.org/2011/12/15/commentary/the-fallon-forums-baffling-promotion-of-911-trutherism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>garonsen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gavin Aronsen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On November 2, I was dismayed when a Facebook wall post from local radio show host Ed Fallon popped up on my news feed. It displayed a video of architect Richard Gage, founder of Architects &#038; Engineers for 9/11 Truth, who proclaimed that he knew the Bush administration perpetrated the worst domestic attacks in US [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Citing Pok&#233;mon, Herman Cain Suspends Campaign, Gives Romney Headache</title>
		<link>http://amesprogressive.org/2011/12/03/blogs/citing-pokmon-herman-cain-suspends-campaign-gives-romney-headache/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 23:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>garonsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Politico, quoting Herman Cain&#8217;s campaign-suspension speech: &#8220;I believe these words came from the Pokemon movie,&#8221; Cain said. &#8220;Life can be a challenge. Life can seem impossible. It’s never easy when there’s so much on the line. But you and I can make a difference. There’s a mission just for you and me.&#8221; Cain finally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ed Fallon Talks Occupy Des Moines</title>
		<link>http://amesprogressive.org/2011/11/29/interviews/ed-fallon-talks-occupy-des-moines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>garonsen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nikki Rains]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I met former State Rep. Ed Fallon in Des Moines coffee house Ritual Café, with his friend and fellow Occupy organizer Gabriel De La Cerda, on November 18. Nursing serious colds with organic herbal teas, we talked for about an hour about Occupy Des Moines, his thoughts on Gov. Terry Branstad, and the 2012 elections, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KURE Fest Prepares to Rock the M Shop</title>
		<link>http://amesprogressive.org/2011/10/24/blogs/kure-fest-m-shop/</link>
		<comments>http://amesprogressive.org/2011/10/24/blogs/kure-fest-m-shop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 01:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>garonsen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nate Logsdon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The AP Lounge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The second annual KURE Fest is coming up on Thursday, October 27, at the M Shop. The fest is in its second year. Last year, the event featured a big lineup of local talent. This year, the organizers decided to go for some national talent and managed to get the awesome bands Neon Indian and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protest-Bashing Branstad, Former Protester of Vietnam War Protesters</title>
		<link>http://amesprogressive.org/2011/10/20/blogs/protest-bashing-branstad-former-protester-of-vietnam-war-protesters/</link>
		<comments>http://amesprogressive.org/2011/10/20/blogs/protest-bashing-branstad-former-protester-of-vietnam-war-protesters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>garonsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, Under the Golden Dome unearthed a gem about Terry Branstad. Last week, our protest-bashing governor told Iowa Public Radio, responding to questions about the Occupy Des Moines demonstrators, that he had never participated in a protest himself because he was &#8220;too busy working on the farm&#8221; and &#8220;didn’t have time for that.&#8221; Not [...]]]></description>
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