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		<title>Schieffer Springs the Trap, Gets McCain Slapped on Ayers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So&#8230;.I didn&#8217;t really think McCain would pull the Ayers thing tonight during the debate. I figured that, having warned Obama that it was coming, there would be no surprise. Moreover, before the debate, and even before it came up during the debate, I thought Obama was trying to lure McCain into bringing up the Ayers [...]
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		<title>A Little Pre-Debate Presidential Gamesmanship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In response to Obama&#8217;s comments about being surprised that his relationship with Bill Ayers was not brought up during the second debate, McCain says,
&#8220;I was astonished to hear him say that he was surprised I &#8216;didn&#8217;t have the guts&#8217; to do that, because the fact is, the question didn&#8217;t come up in that fashion,&#8221; McCain [...]
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		<title>What Were They Thinking: Palin&#8217;s Yahoo Account Hacked</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Commentary on the hacking of Governor Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account
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		<title>Craig Newmark Talks about the Internet and Democracy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Discusses some of the ways that the internet is helping to foster a better democracy
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		<title>Pundits, Round 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jon Stewart contrast some of the conflicting statements made by pundits
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		<title>Pundits&#8211;What Good Are They?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rove does an about face on his opinion about how to pick a running mate
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		<title>Underage Chinese Gymnasts: Analysis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Analysis of the arguments and evidence surrounding the use of underage gymnasts by the Chinese team in the 2008 Olympics, particularly He Kexin.
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		<title>Hidden Impacts of Stricter Sentencing</title>
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No politician ever claims to be be soft on crime. Quite the reverse: All politicians call for the legal system to be tough on crime. One result of this, at least in the United States, has been, over the last 30 years, to create a push for stricter and more mandatory sentencing laws. While tightening [...]
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		<title>Hidden Impacts: Keeping It Simple Isn&#8217;t Always Effective</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ One often hears the mantra, &#8220;keep it simple.&#8221; Yet, in our complex world, issues like globalization, global warming, and terrorism have so many variables and dynamic interrelationships that they defy human understanding. Often, desiring to make a difference, some kind of difference, business leaders and politicians, among others, often insist on simple, easily comprehensible [...]
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		<title>Are Food Riots Indicators of the Collapse of Civilization?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a detailed article posted to the blog Climate Change and Sustainability, Lester Brown makes some startling claims about the state of the world. He contends,
This troubling situation is unlike any the world has faced before. The challenge is not simply to deal with a temporary rise in grain prices, as in the past, but [...]
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