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		<title>Obama Comes Out for Same-Sex Marriage &#8211; What Would Black Jesus Do?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 22:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday of this week, President Obama announced his support for gay marriage to Robin Roberts on ABC’s Good Morning America.  An hour later, the Right Reverend Doctor Tyrone Jefferson Jackson Clay DD, Chairman of the Southern African-American Methodist Episcopal Baptist Family Values Council, called Gretchen to schedule a consultation with me at the first possible opportunity.  <a href='http://www.tomcollinsblog.com/?p=614'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>GOP and Dems Alike, Everybody Wants to Pound Julia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 17:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poor Mexico &#8211; so far from God, and so close to the United States. - Mexican folk aphorism, often erroneously attributed to José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori Cinco de Mayo isn’t Mexican Independence Day; that’s September 16.  It isn’t the date of the Mexican Constitution &#8211; that’s February 5.  It isn’t the date <a href='http://www.tomcollinsblog.com/?p=607'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bo Xilai and Bo Guagua &#8211; Beaux Yeux or Bo Zeux?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He began calling early Thursday, trying to get a telephone consultation appointment, but I was booked solid.  Since we were working this weekend, Gretchen finally managed to fit him in on Saturday afternoon. Bo: Hello?  Tom Collins? Tom: Yes. Bo: This is Bo Guagua.  How are you? Tom: Fine, thanks.  And you? Bo: I’ve been <a href='http://www.tomcollinsblog.com/?p=601'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Secret Service Bedroom Video Scandal Avoided</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, before taking in Arias with a Twist at the Woolly Mammoth Theater, Cerise and I were relaxing over tapas at Jaleo.  While we waited for our order to arrive, Beaumont noticed me and sidled over.  He’s a very decent sort, and works for the Secret Service.  Some people, of course, might wonder about <a href='http://www.tomcollinsblog.com/?p=597'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Kim Jong Un Endures North Korea’s Failure to Launch</title>
		<link>http://www.tomcollinsblog.com/?p=592</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The unusually warm winter and early spring here in Washington this year resulted in some strange and wonderful things &#8211; the flowering cherry trees, which respond to temperature, came out in advance of the forsythia, which responds to the light cycle.  Crocuses, daffodils and tulips, which ordinarily bloom in a predictable sequence, all decided to <a href='http://www.tomcollinsblog.com/?p=592'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The GSA &#8211; Uncle Sam’s Landlord Knows How to Live</title>
		<link>http://www.tomcollinsblog.com/?p=585</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 22:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ballantine and I went to college together, which is to say, we attended it at the same time and were in several of the same classes.  The last I knew, he was in the Senior Executive Service with GSA Region 9, which is out on the west coast.  So I hadn’t seen him in quite a while <a href='http://www.tomcollinsblog.com/?p=585'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Scalia Says Obamacare Tastes Like Broccoli</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 03:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a mighty glum Mortimer Groenteboer of the American Fruit and Vegetable Council who came to visit my office on the afternoon of Friday March 30.  “He looks,” Gretchen opined in an instant message shortly before showing him in, “like he was weaned on a pickle.” And so he did.  A more unhappy Washington <a href='http://www.tomcollinsblog.com/?p=580'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Etchy, Sketchy Heart of Romney’s Worst Problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As any good political operative will tell you, their role in a campaign is to make their candidate as famous as possible while themselves remaining, if not anonymous, at least thoroughly obscure.  But late yesterday afternoon, Gretchen patched through Eric Fehmstrom, a gentleman who works for the Mitt Romney campaign, and, as many readers of <a href='http://www.tomcollinsblog.com/?p=575'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Kony 2012 Makes Jason Russell Barely Famous</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was relaxing at my home in Great Falls, Virginia this afternoon, preparing to drive over to Fairfax for what my sister-in-law Shannon promises to be a genuine Chicago Irish St. Patrick’s day celebration, when my POTS land line rang.  The caller ID was partially blocked, showing only an 858 area code.  I must confess, <a href='http://www.tomcollinsblog.com/?p=570'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I’m sure most of this Web log’s readers who live in the United States and Europe know about teleconferencing, for the benefit of those in other parts of the world where the practice is not common, what you do is, you pick up your telephone and enter the number of a “bridge” &#8211; sort <a href='http://www.tomcollinsblog.com/?p=565'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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