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		<title>Do not all judges only have a perspective?</title>
		<link>http://speaktruthtopower.wordpress.com/2009/05/16/do-not-all-judges-only-have-a-perspective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 16:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lindabeth</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://speaktruthtopower.wordpress.com/?p=148</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just reading an article from a few days ago in The New York Times about Judge Sotomayor&#8217;s views about judging that while made in 2001, which are now relevant because of her potential as a Sumpreme Court nominee and also as a way to discuss (or perhaps malign) President Obama&#8217;s desire for a justice with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speaktruthtopower.wordpress.com&blog=2041232&post=148&subd=speaktruthtopower&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ethnocentrism on Meet the Press</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 17:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lindabeth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Meet the Press featured David Gregory&#8217;s interview with President Karzai of Afghanistan.  The last question posed to Karzai was regarding the legality of marital rape under Afghani law.
 
more about &#8220;msnbc.com:Karzai on Afghan law ‘legal&#8230;&#8220;, posted with vodpod
It is important to watch the clip rather than read the transcript, because Gregory&#8217;s tone was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speaktruthtopower.wordpress.com&blog=2041232&post=145&subd=speaktruthtopower&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on &#8220;This Week&#8230;&#8221; or, If You Say it Enough it Will Become True</title>
		<link>http://speaktruthtopower.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/thoughts-on-this-week-or-if-you-say-it-enough-it-will-become-true/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lindabeth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few thoughts on today&#8217;s This Week with George Stephanopoulos
1) Interview with Eric Cantor: Cantor repeats, as many Republicans have, that stimulating the economy via government spending is not what the American people want, that Americans think we are spending too much&#8230;yet polls continue to show that Americans put their support behind Obama&#8217;s ideas over [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speaktruthtopower.wordpress.com&blog=2041232&post=134&subd=speaktruthtopower&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amy Goodman interviews author Mark Schapiro</title>
		<link>http://speaktruthtopower.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/amy-goodman-interviews-author-mark-shapiro/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lindabeth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Democracy Now! features an interview with Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What’s at Stake for American Power author Mark Schapiro.  The whole interview is well worth the listen/watch.
Two things from the interview stuck out at me.
1) The relationship between universal health care and aptness toward regulation of toxic chemicals/testing for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speaktruthtopower.wordpress.com&blog=2041232&post=130&subd=speaktruthtopower&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will economic conservatives learn any lessons from this crisis?</title>
		<link>http://speaktruthtopower.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/will-economic-conservatives-learn-any-lessons-from-this-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lindabeth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Merits and analysis of Obama&#8217;s housing plan aside, I&#8217;m particularly interested in this bit of Republican rhetoric I&#8217;m seeing.
From Politico.com:
The GOP, perhaps predictably, was less enthusiastic. House Republicans released statements, suggesting Obama’s plan rewarded irresponsible borrowers at the expense of the vast majority of homeowners who pay their monthly bills on time.
[...]
He objected most to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speaktruthtopower.wordpress.com&blog=2041232&post=121&subd=speaktruthtopower&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bipartisanship for bipartisanship&#8217;s sake makes for poor economic policy</title>
		<link>http://speaktruthtopower.wordpress.com/2009/02/07/bipartisanship-for-bipartisanships-sake-makes-for-poor-economic-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lindabeth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is anyone else sick of the bipartisanship overkill?  Sure, bipartisanship is a nice idea.  But the economy is falling apart&#8211;fast.  The stimulus bill needs to actually stimulate; a half-assed job is not good enough.  Including non-stimulating or less-stimulating items (i.e. a lot of tax cuts) .  Wrong policy for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speaktruthtopower.wordpress.com&blog=2041232&post=114&subd=speaktruthtopower&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Frank defense of ideological disagreement</title>
		<link>http://speaktruthtopower.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/a-frank-defense-of-ideological-disagreement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lindabeth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lots of blogs have been circulating video clips and transcripts from Feb.1st&#8217;s  &#8220;This Week&#8221; (ABC), hosted by George Stephanopoulous, with guests Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Federal Express CEO Fred Smith, Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), and Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC). The show featured an ideological (some might say &#8220;partisan&#8221;) battle between Frank and DeMint.
A few [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speaktruthtopower.wordpress.com&blog=2041232&post=108&subd=speaktruthtopower&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans&#8217; tax cut rhetoric is misplaced</title>
		<link>http://speaktruthtopower.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/republicans-tax-cut-rhetoric-is-misplaced/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lindabeth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After hearing so many Republican ideologues spouting their &#8220;tax cuts are always the solution for stimulus&#8221; rhetoric, I want to scream. Or maybe cry.

Perhaps there are other economic situations where tax cuts might be the way to go. This is not one of them, and it doesn&#8217;t take an economist to explain it.

The reason why [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speaktruthtopower.wordpress.com&blog=2041232&post=99&subd=speaktruthtopower&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Excellent Bethany McLean interview on PBS&#8217; NOW</title>
		<link>http://speaktruthtopower.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/excellent-bethany-mclean-interview-on-pbs-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lindabeth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this week&#8217;s NOW, host David Brancaccio interviews Bethany McLean (the journalist who broke Enron) about the current financial crisis.  I thought it was a really excellent interview, very clear and detailed, and addresses the complexity of the issues involved.  
Also, her Vanity Fair article on the topic (which I haven&#8217;t read yet) can be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speaktruthtopower.wordpress.com&blog=2041232&post=94&subd=speaktruthtopower&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bush, Big 3: Nope, you can&#8217;t pin this on the &#8216;little guy&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://speaktruthtopower.wordpress.com/2008/12/20/bush-big-3-nope-you-cant-pin-this-on-the-little-guy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 04:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lindabeth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday Bush announced that some of the TARP funds intended for the financial industry will be used as a temporary lifeline to the Big 3 auto makers, after the Senate failed to pass the auto bailout bill last week.
From The New York Times:
The plan pumps $13.4 billion by mid-January into the companies from the fund [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speaktruthtopower.wordpress.com&blog=2041232&post=78&subd=speaktruthtopower&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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