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	<title>John Avlon &#187; President Obama</title>
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		<title>NSA Spying Shows Obama’s Machine Out of Control &#8211; The Daily Beast</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 05:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Avlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With news that Verizon was required to hand over supposedly private domestic phone records to the government as part of a national security dragnet, the second-term curse just got much more real for the Obama administration. To date, however, the &#8230; <a href="http://johnavlon.com/my_column/obama/nsa-spying-shows-obamas-machine-out-of-control-the-daily-beast-4429">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>American Way: Don&#8217;t Impose Watergate on the Scandals Facing Obama &#8211; They Stand on Their Own &#8211; The Telegraph</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 05:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Avlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere Richard Nixon is smiling. Four decades after Watergate and two decades after his death, we still can&#8217;t stop talking about the dark anti-hero of American politics. His five-o&#8217;clock shadowy visage remains too convenient a metaphor for lazy critics looking &#8230; <a href="http://johnavlon.com/my_column/obama/american-way-dont-impose-watergate-on-the-scandals-facing-obama-they-stand-on-their-own-the-telegraph-4370">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>CNN Podcast: Big Three – Obama’s Worst Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Avlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week on The Big Three, we take a look at what might have been Obama’s worst week ever – as a negative trifecta of scandals threaten to overwhelm his administration and derail his ambitious legislative agenda. We get a &#8230; <a href="http://johnavlon.com/my_column/obama/cnn-podcast-big-three-obamas-worst-week-4387">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Holder, Carney Under Attack as Scandal-Gate Widens &#8211; The Daily Beast</title>
		<link>http://johnavlon.com/my_column/obama/holder-carney-under-attack-as-scandal-gate-widens-the-daily-beast-4360</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 03:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Avlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For journalists, privacy concerns and the Patriot Act just got personal. In two brutal press conferences Tuesday afternoon, the Obama administration caught both barrels from a newly aggressive press corps. Confronting a hailstorm of questions on the Justice Department’s secret &#8230; <a href="http://johnavlon.com/my_column/obama/holder-carney-under-attack-as-scandal-gate-widens-the-daily-beast-4360">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>CNN Podcast: Big Three – Benghazi: Search for Truth or Witch Hunt?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 15:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Avlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dean Obeidallah, John Avlon and Margaret Hoover kick off this week&#8217;s episode of &#8220;The Big Three&#8221; podcast by tackling Congress&#8217; Benghazi hearings from three distinct perspectives. Listen to the Podcast here:]]></description>
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		<title>CNN Podcast: Big Three – Close Guantanamo?</title>
		<link>http://johnavlon.com/my_column/obama/cnn-podcast-big-three-close-guantanamo-4396</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 15:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Avlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The week on &#8220;The Big Three,&#8221; The Daily Show&#8217;s Aasif Mandvi joins John Avlon, Margaret Hoover, and Dean Obeidallah in a discussion on whether the prison at Guantanamo Bay should stay open. Also, the gang talks Jason Collins&#8217; coming out &#8230; <a href="http://johnavlon.com/my_column/obama/cnn-podcast-big-three-close-guantanamo-4396">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ricin Scare at the White House: An Eerie Post-9/11 Echo &#8211; The Daily Beast</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Avlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day after the first terrorist attack against civilians on U.S. soil since 9/11, an envelope addressed to a U.S. senator is found packed with poison. Suddenly, some of the chill from the fall of 2001 feels like it’s back—the &#8230; <a href="http://johnavlon.com/my_column/obama/ricin-scare-at-the-white-house-an-eerie-post-911-echo-the-daily-beast-4241">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Budget Catching Hell From Both Sides: Why That’s a Good Sign &#8211; The Daily Beast</title>
		<link>http://johnavlon.com/my_column/obama/obama-budget-catching-hell-from-both-sides-why-thats-a-good-sign-the-daily-beast-4232</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Avlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall catch hell from both sides.” So said a sign on the Justice Department wall of Burke Marshall at the height of the civil rights era. But it could also apply to President Obama’s &#8230; <a href="http://johnavlon.com/my_column/obama/obama-budget-catching-hell-from-both-sides-why-thats-a-good-sign-the-daily-beast-4232">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>CNN Podcast: Big Three &#8211; Margaret Hoover, Dean Obeidallah, John Avlon</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 06:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Avlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to The Big Three &#8212; a CNN Radio podcast on the big three stories of the week, featuring three contributors who write for CNN Opinion &#8212; myself, my bride, Margaret Hoover, and political comedian Dean Obeidallah, who is of &#8230; <a href="http://johnavlon.com/my_column/obama/podcast-three-voices-three-big-stories-margaret-hoover-dean-obeidallah-john-avlon-4167">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Budget Wars Begin, With Paul Ryan Firing the First Volley &#8211; The Daily Beast</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 02:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The budget wars are under way. And that’s a good thing. It’s been four years since our country has operated with a budget instead of careening between continuing resolutions, always one tantrum away from a government shutdown. But now House &#8230; <a href="http://johnavlon.com/my_column/obama/the-budget-wars-begin-with-paul-ryan-firing-the-first-volley-the-daily-beast-4148">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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