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		<title>Groping, or not Groping? The Short Congressional Career of Eric Massa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As most of you probably know by now, Democratic Representative from New York, Eric Massa, has resigned his post, which he has held only since 2009.
The official House of Representatives website of the former congressman resolves into one, where Office of the Clerk informs that:
“Office of the Twenty-Ninth Congressional District of New York
Formerly the Office [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2010/03/10/groping-or-not-groping-the-short-congressional-career-of-eric-massa/</link>
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		<title>Lets Get to the Core of the Problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is little doubt that without finally solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict we can probably forget about ending all kinds of jihads, anti-western and anti-American conflicts and movements and can comfortably continue to wage Bush’s “war on terror” for the foreseeable future.
Here is a fragment of one of Washington Post’s Tuesday editorials:” THE OBAMA administration appears [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2010/03/09/lets-get-to-the-core-of-the-problem/</link>
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		<title>Dumb Gordon Brown, just Like Bush’s Poodle Defends Iraq Invasion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The present British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said it was right to go to war, also saying that the United States dismissed warnings of chaos and violence once Saddam Hussein was toppled.  Brown testified for over four hours before a public inquiry panel about Britain&#8217;s role in the conflict and its aftermath.
Defending his role in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2010/03/05/dumb-gordon-brown-just-like-bush%e2%80%99s-poodle-defends-iraq-invasion/</link>
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		<title>Another Bushie Tries to Justify Iraq Mess</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bush’s top aide Karl Rove just wrote a memoir, entitled Courage and Consequence, in which he claims that Bush 43 did not mislead the nation about weapons of mass destruction as a way to &#8220;lie us&#8221; into a war.
Crap! Remember the memoirs by other neocons, such as Douglas Feith, who has denied any responsibility in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2010/03/03/another-bushie-tries-to-justify-iraq-mess/</link>
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		<title>Leno Victoriously Brings His Bulk Back to Late Night</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As was probably expected – at least by some- Jay Leno opened his return to The Tonight Show Monday night with an &#8220;it was all a dream&#8221; gag, waking in a sepia-toned, Dorothy delirium from The Wizard of Oz.
It was, we suppose a bit like a bad dream &#8211; a nation-wide late-night hallucination &#8211; in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2010/03/02/leno-victoriously-brings-his-bulk-back-to-late-night/</link>
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		<title>Canada Owns the Podium After All</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper encouraged Canadians to express their patriotism in support of Canadian athletes at the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver. Harper urged Canadians to shed their usual humility and not be shy about supporting the country and its athletes.
The Canadian Olympic Committee has also launched the &#8220;Own the Podium -2010&#8243; program.
Although Canada [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2010/02/28/canada-owns-the-podium-after-all/</link>
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		<title>Wordless Friday: Republican &#8216;Health Care&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We offer you another excellent view on the Republican approach to health care by Washington Post&#8217;s Tom Toles.




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		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2010/02/26/worldless-friday-republican-health-care/</link>
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		<title>Health Care Summit or Photo Op?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Republicans and Democrats attending the a Bipartisan Meeting on Health Reform meeting at the Blair House across from the White House have very different definitions of the event.
President Obama urged lawmakers on both sides to focus on areas of agreement. An email from the so-called GOP Action Team in turn says in part: “After pledging [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2010/02/25/health-care-summit-or-photo-op/</link>
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		<title>What’s the Real Purpose of Latest Afghan Operation?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The battle of Marja, in Afghanistan’s southern poppy belt has been going on for a couple of weeks now. Some 11,000 U.S. and Afghan troops fighting to defeat a few hundred Taliban fighters won&#8217;t really change much in Afghanistan. The greater significance of the battle appears to be in how it is perceived in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2010/02/22/what%e2%80%99s-the-real-purpose-of-latest-afghan-operation/</link>
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		<title>Therapy, for What Exactly?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The picture of the unhappy-looking individual on the right shows of course the world’s number one golfer Tiger Woods.
Woods talked for more than 13 minutes Friday from the clubhouse at the TPC Sawgrass, home of the PGA Tour. About 40 people were in the room, including his mother. The event was tightly controlled, with only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2010/02/19/therapy-for-what-exactly/</link>
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		<title>GOP Gets Cozy with Tea Baggers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About 50 leaders of the &#8220;tea party&#8221; movement will meet in Washington on Tuesday with Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele and other top GOP honchos to discuss campaign strategies and conservative principles.
Tuesday’s meeting on Capitol Hill will mark the first time that a broad coalition of tea party organizers &#8211; who, let’s not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2010/02/15/gop-gets-cozy-with-tea-baggers/</link>
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		<title>GOP Tries the ‘Love&#8217; Angle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We’re not sure why the GOP Chairman Michael Steele keeps sending us emails, beginning with “Dear Fellow Republican”, but some of them, including the now seemingly defunct Weekly Trunk newsletter are usually pretty funny.
The GOP’s latest effort is Valentine’s Day greeting e-cards. The mailing says among other things:” This Valentine&#8217;s Day, show the most important [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2010/02/12/gop-tries-the-%e2%80%98love-angle/</link>
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		<title>‘Bonus’ Snowfall Should Not Gratify Climate Change Deniers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The facts are that areas of the U.S. and in particular the Mid-Atlantic region have been hit with record, or near-record amounts of snow this winter. Europe got snowed in rather severely as well. As far as we know at this time, avalanches have killed at least 165 people in Afghanistan.
These facts of course are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2010/02/10/%e2%80%98bonus%e2%80%99-snowfall-should-not-gratify-climate-change-deniers/</link>
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		<title>Toyota Tries to Regain Reputation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In public, Toyota is running apologetic TV ads, vowing to win back customer trust. Behind the scenes, the Japanese carmaker is trying to learn all it can about congressional investigations, maybe even steer them along if it can.
It is all a part of an all-out drive by the world&#8217;s biggest automaker to redeem its once [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2010/02/09/toyota-tries-to-regain-reputation/</link>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Not Forget The Struggle of Venezuelan Students</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although Venezuela&#8217;s President Hugo Chavez has managed to make himself eligible for re-elections indefinitely, he does of course claim to be a &#8220;democratically elected&#8221; both the chief of state and head of government.
It appears that he has gotten the majority of votes largely thanks to the unwashed electoral majority, but the fact remains that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2010/02/07/lets-not-forget-the-struggle-of-venezuelan-students/</link>
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		<title>‘Snowmageddon’ Panics Nation’s Capital</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Washington, DC area got hit with the largest snowstorm in years last December, and then in late January a few more inches fell. Despite the fact that cross country skiing was just sublime in both cases, these events caused all kinds of problems, partly because the people responsible for clearing the roads were relying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2010/02/05/%e2%80%98snowmageddon%e2%80%99-panics-nation%e2%80%99s-capital/</link>
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		<title>Some Sanity Injected into Dealings with Banks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker wants to prohibit commercial banks from some high-risk trades, saying that this should be an essential component of broader financial regulations and would cut back on institutions deemed &#8220;too big to fail.&#8221;
That’s seems eminently reasonable to us and we are glad to see Paul Volcker brought to the front [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2010/02/02/some-sanity-injected-into-dealings-with-banks/</link>
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		<title>The Almighty Dollar Stands in Way of Helping Haitians</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It appears that despite the huge Haitian relief effort so far, the question of costs has stopped the transportation of critically ill, or injured Haitian patients to Florida hospitals.
Republican Florida Governor Charlie Crist (don’t for a moment confuse him with Christ) has asked the federal government to help pay for care. A reasonable request on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2010/01/30/the-almighty-dollar-stands-in-way-of-helping-haitians/</link>
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		<title>Lady Gaga Expands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Polaroid recently named Lady Gaga as its new creative director.
Polaroid says that the pop singer possesses five essential qualities, which make her a natural partner:
1-	Fan of Polaroid
2-	Inspirational
3-	Creative
4-	Connected to fans
5-	Empowering
Lady Gaga expressed her enthusiasm about her new role, saying: “…what I’m excited about doing is working with Polaroid and taking the iconic image of the Polaroid [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2010/01/29/lady-gaga-expands/</link>
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		<title>Neocons…are they Back?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Newsweek magazine has a very interesting and lengthy article, entitled “The Return of the Neocons” by David Margolick.
Here’s a short excerpt: “One prominent activist on the libertarian end of the party &#8211; who hates what he sees as their costly foreign &#8211; policy adventurism and the GOP electoral losses (i.e., the presidency and both [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2010/01/26/neocons%e2%80%a6are-they-back/</link>
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		<title>Timidly Chipping Away at US Deficit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A day before President Obama’s State of the Union address, we pretty much already know that the Massachusetts Senate election results seemed to have greatly influenced what the president is going to actually address.
Under mounting pressure to curb government spending, the president is to propose in his State of the Union address a three-year freeze [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2010/01/26/timidly-chipping-away-at-us-deficit/</link>
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		<title>Windmills and Health Care Reform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The  Republican gubernatorial victories in New Jersey and Virginia, along with Scott Brown taking over Ted Kennedy&#8217;s seat in the U.S. Senate have sprouted all kinds of suppositions, &#8221; I told yous&#8221; and even a bit of a reshuttle at the White House.
There is no doubt that the Democrats have screwed up on many fronts. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2010/01/24/windmills-and-health-care-reform/</link>
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		<title>Anchors, Reporters, Crews Crowd Into Haiti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The headline is not strictly true any longer, as the “star” anchors of all three U.S. TV networks have returned to New York by now.
But was there ever any real need to have Catie Couric, Diane Sawyer, or Brian Williams anchor the evening newscasts from the Port-au-Prince airport?
Of course, large contingents of reporters, technical crews [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2010/01/19/anchors-reporters-crews-crowd-into-haiti/</link>
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		<title>Many ‘Cadillac’ Health Plans are Just as Crappy as Cadillacs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of you must have heard by now that the Senate finance committee passed its version of health care reform legislation. The bill would expand coverage without increasing the deficit, according to the Congressional Budget Office, in part by taxing the most expensive health insurance plans, the so-called &#8220;Cadillac plans.&#8221;
The problem is that many of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2010/01/17/many-%e2%80%98cadillac%e2%80%99-health-plan-are-just-as-crappy-as-cadillacs/</link>
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		<title>Credit Card Companies Getting Richer off Haiti Donations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the tragedy in Haiti continues, Americans are generously donating millions of dollars to aid organizations by many different means.
But when they do so by the way of their credit cards, in most cases the credit card companies keep 3 percent of the donation as a &#8220;transaction fee,&#8221; even though that is considerably more than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2010/01/15/credit-card-companies-getting-richer-off-haiti-donations/</link>
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		<title>Pat Robertson on Haiti Quake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is not that we didn’t expect it. After all, evangelical broadcaster Pat Robertson has said many a dumb thing in the past, but his latest opinion on the Haiti earthquake, simply goes way beyond any boundaries of civility, decency, taste and common sense.
Robertson has said and we quote: &#8220;Something happened a long time ago [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2010/01/14/pat-robertson-on-haiti-quake/</link>
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		<title>Why Did it Have to Happen There?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unknown numbers lay dead and or buried in the rubble of Haiti&#8217;s worst earthquake ever.
It is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. The International Red Cross says the 7.0 earthquake in Haiti leaves close to a third of the population in need of emergency aid.  Thousands or even tens of thousands are feared dead.
President Barack [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2010/01/13/why-did-it-have-to-happen-there/</link>
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		<title>Federal Heritage Months: Would You Add, or Remove a Few?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
At this point there’s a whole slew of official, Federal Heritage Months.
Some are obviously appropriate, a whole bunch is very obviously missing from the list and some are at least somewhat questionable.
You be the judge:
February is Black History Month
March is Women’s History Month
March is also Irish American Heritage Month
We can only assume that Irish women [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2010/01/11/federal-heritage-months-would-you-add-or-remove-a-few/</link>
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		<title>Mountaintop Removal – an Abomination</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mountaintop mining consists basically of blowing off entire mountain peaks, or entire mountains, in order to easily and relatively cheaply extract coal. It occurs mainly in West Virginia and Kentucky, although mountaintop removal is also carried out in far-Southwest Virginia and in Tennessee. Peaks are sheared off with heavy machinery and explosives, exposing the coal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2010/01/08/mountaintop-removal-%e2%80%93-an-abomination/</link>
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		<title>Knee Jerk Reactions Can Often Fail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anne Applebaum wrote a very insightful op-ed piece in the Washington Post today, basically about how different events influence our policies post factum. We fully agree with the notion that such knee-jerk reactions, which are usually implemented way after the fact are too often bound to fail.
Here’s Anne Applebaum’s article:
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All of you frequent fliers out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2010/01/05/knee-jerk-reactions-can-often-fail/</link>
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		<title>Push for Another War Seems to Have Already Started</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The “Independent” senator from Connecticut has already stated, quoting as he says, a U.S.  official:“…if we don’t act preemptively, Yemen will be tomorrow’s war”.

At the same time, there are some still unanswered questions about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s failed attempt to destroy Northwest Airlines flight 253.
According to some passengers of flight 253, there were some pretty [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2010/01/04/push-for-another-war-already-started/</link>
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		<title>What Will They Think of Next?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here’s a product, of which we have never heard before, although it might be of interest to some, as we start still another decade of the 21st Century.
It is called The Flat-D (flatulence deodorizer). According to the seller “is a high-tech filter that was originally designed to defend against chemical warfare. It was used in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2010/01/01/what-will-they-think-of-next/</link>
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		<title>Air Travel Security Debacle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest – fortunately failed – attempt to bring down an airliner has been on top of the news for about a week now.
We do know that a Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who has joined al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, has tried to detonate an explosive charge, hidden in his underwear.
We also know that a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2009/12/31/air-travel-security-debacle/</link>
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		<title>US East Coast, Europe Again Surprised by Snow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An almost coordinated series of winter storms has wreaked havoc on most of the U.S. East Coast, in many European countries as well as in China. It is not hard to imagine the glee of the global warming deniers, who appear to think that because it does get colder somewhere for a few days, or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2009/12/21/us-east-coast-europe-again-surprised-by-snow/</link>
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		<title>Lieberman – the Independent?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It isn’t hard to question the judgment, motives, and sanity of Joe Lieberman, the so-called independent senator from Connecticut, who has almost single-handedly derailed any meaningful health care reform legislation.
The strange thing is that for years Lieberman has been a strong advocate of universal health care. Campaigning for vice-president in 2000, he first proposed resolving [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2009/12/17/lieberman-%e2%80%93-the-independent/</link>
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		<title>Gitmo Inmates Heading for Colder Climes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We finally have the first, concrete step in the direction of closing the now infamous Guantanamo Bay prison.
The news reports say, “President Barack Obama has ordered the federal government to acquire an underused state prison”, the Thomson Correctional Center in rural Illinois.
According to the Illinois Department of Corrections’ website, Thomson is not so much “underused”, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2009/12/15/gitmo-inmates-heading-for-colder-climes/</link>
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		<title>Rebranding Doesn’t Help in Clearing Out the Smell &#8211; Tiger Edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having heard that Accenture &#8211; formerly hugely disgraced Anderson Consulting – has decided to terminate the sponsorship of Tiger Woods, due to his peccadilloes, we have decided to re-post this piece, originally published on February 27, 2009.
We also wonder if Accenture being directly linked to Arthur Andersen and its connections with Enron could possibly be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2009/12/13/rebranding-doesn%e2%80%99t-help-in-clearing-out-the-smell/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Obama you won it, now earn it!&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That’s the text of a banner held by a group of Norwegians, gathered in Oslo, as President Barack Obama was making his acceptance speech, being the latest laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Mr. Obama’s speech was twice as long as his inaugural address. He spoke at length about the circumstances that push nations to war [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2009/12/10/obama-you-won-it-now-earn-it/</link>
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		<title>Taliban Gets Organized Politically</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we get deeper and deeper into the Afghan quagmire, ostensibly to defeat al-Qaida, along with its ever-mysterious Osama bin Laden and to defeat the Taliban, in order to prop up the Karzai government, it appears that the Taliban is always a step, or two ahead.
At this point, nearly every Afghan province has two governors [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2009/12/08/taliban-gets-organized-politically/</link>
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		<title>Bin Laden Remains as Elusive as Ever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s been many years since the 9/11 attacks and America’s favorite boogieman Osama bin Laden is apparently still out there…Or is he? Nobody seems to know for sure, it seems.
U.S. National Security Adviser, James Jones, says bin Laden, believed hiding mainly in a rugged area of western Pakistan, may be periodically slipping back into Afghanistan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2009/12/06/bin-laden-remains-as-elusive-as-ever/</link>
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		<title>Oh Tiger, Tiger&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Much has been said and heard about Tiger Woods crashing his Caddillac Escalade (which, by the way, still belongs to General Motors)  through a fire hydrant and into a tree.
As most of you have also heard, the rumor goes that Tiger&#8217;s wife Elin Nordegren after hearing the crash outside their Florida house went to her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2009/12/04/oh-tiger-tiger/</link>
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		<title>Is South Africa Really Fit to Host World Cup?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Preparations for the first football (soccer) World Cup to be held on the African continent are in full swing in South Africa.
Billions of dollars have been invested, several new stadiums have been built and the pride and excitement seem to be overflowing.
At first sight, this would seem to be a very positive development, but there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2009/12/03/is-south-africa-really-fit-to-host-world-cup/</link>
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		<title>Will Setting Afghan Withdrawal Date Lead to Talibs Going on Vacations?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[President Obama has stated that after inserting an additional 30, 000 U.S. troops, along with several thousand NATO soldiers into Afghanistan, the U.S. contingent will be withdrawn within 18 months.
“After 18 months, our troops will begin to come home. These are the resources that we need to seize the initiative, while building the Afghan capacity [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2009/12/01/test/</link>
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		<title>Lets Figure Out Afghan Mission’s Objectives First</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While everybody is awaiting President Obama&#8217;s Tuesday evening speech on Afghanistan strategy to be broadcast out of the United Military Academy at West Point, we are still awaiting some definition of what it is that we are trying to achieve there. To the best of our knowledge nobody has defined either the Iraqi, nor the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2009/11/27/lets-figure-out-afghan-mission%e2%80%99s-objectives-first/</link>
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		<title>The Real Origins of Thanksgiving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is no doubt that Thanksgiving is a very nice, family holiday and that it holds a special place in people’s calendars and hearts.
There’s nothing wrong with of at all… except that the pervading myth about the whole feast and its de rigueur menu, which supposedly originated with the Pilgrims in the first half of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2009/11/24/the-real-origins-of-thanksgiving/</link>
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		<title>Health-Care Bill Clears Senate Hurdle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Democrats united Saturday night to push the health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama.
The Republican&#8217;s position does indeed appear to be a continuation of the campaign to defeat the president&#8217;s initiatives, rather than proposing anything constructive and helpful to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2009/11/21/health-care-bill-clears-senate-hurdle/</link>
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		<title>Russia &#8211; a Great Market for Cars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We enjoyed the preceding series on Soviet and Russian cars and driving so much, that we decided to follow up with some additional material.
Volkswagen has made it clear that it considers Russia to be a great market for its cars.
That, considering the rate of car destruction in Russia, could very well be true. Has anybody [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2009/11/20/russia-a-great-market-for-cars/</link>
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		<title>Why We Love Russia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are probably numerous reasons to both like and hate Russia.
There certainly is no shortage of Russians who like to have a good time. Even though their definition of a good time might be quite different from yours.  Click on the video and see for yourself.

Couldn&#8217;t resist posting this great video heralding communism&#8217;s great achievements [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2009/11/18/why-we-love-russia/</link>
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		<title>Before You Bite Into That T-bone Steak…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The livestock industry as a result of its reliance on corn and soy-based feed accounts for over half the synthetic fertilizer used in the United States, contributing more than any other sector to marine dead zones. It consumes about 70 percent of the water in the American West &#8211; water so heavily subsidized that if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2009/11/16/before-you-bite-into-that-t-bone-steak%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<title>Condi Rides Again!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former National Security Council chief Stephen Hadley are teaming up as the latest participants in the endless battle of the groups, such as: the Kissinger Group, the Scowcroft Group, the Chertoff Group and other outfits of that genre.
The official launch of the RiceHadley Group, which styles itself as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.politicus.us/2009/11/13/condi-rides-again/</link>
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