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		<title>Gov. Dayton decided to blink, well sorta.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can faintly hear the horns sounding triumphantly as a deal to end the Minnesota government shutdown appears close.  The newspapers, radios and even Yahoo are reporting “Dayton: Will concede to GOP to end Minn. Shutdown.” (Source) The June 30th budget the GOP had proposed to Dayton, “would close a $1.4 billion budget difference by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Body of bin Laden</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 20:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.politablog.com/?p=4156</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was sitting in my 10th grade Chemistry class on September 11th of 2001. I remember my teacher, Mr. Sufka telling us what had happened. We were able to see some images from Yahoo, but the internet was overwhelmed that day and our schools TVs were unfortunately down for repair.  We discussed what happened and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thank you, Basboosa!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brooks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.politablog.com/?p=4148</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On December 17, 2010 in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, a 26 year old street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi lit himself on fire. The theft and beatings from the local government officials had become too much for this man to bear. His livelihood had been ruined and there was nothing he could do about it; he felt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is this how Cheeseheads act?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 01:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.politablog.com/?p=4135</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The collective, society, power as a group. These are concepts that are used to demonize the left. Collective bargaining is bad, whether it is a union or average people looking to negotiate the prices of prescription drugs. In the US it is the individual who is lauded, Microsoft would be nothing without Bill Gates, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flames in the Tinderbox</title>
		<link>http://www.politablog.com/featured/featured-articles/flames-in-the-tinderbox/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 16:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Korean War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Korea has been a troubled peninsula for the last century. The Japanese ruled Korea from 1910 until 1945, they implemented labor camps, stripped the land of its wealth and attempted to erase Korean language, culture, art and history. In 1945 Korea was taken over by the Soviets and the Americans with an agreement for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remember When?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.politablog.com/?p=3970</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is amazing how quickly (or so it seems) that things can change. One decade we have growth, jobs, relative peace and people seemed to get along. One decade later we have economic collapse of numerous corporations and countries, possible war between the two Koreas, a debt crisis in Washington bogged down by partisanship and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Renewed Beginning</title>
		<link>http://www.politablog.com/government/obama-administration/a-renewed-beginning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This is not a time for compromise, and I can tell you that we will not compromise on our principles,&#8221; Boehner said during an appearance on conservative Sean Hannity&#8217;s radio show. He continued; &#8220;To the extent the president wants to work with us, in terms of our goals,  we&#8217;d welcome his involvement.&#8221; The GOP has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death Penalty: The Fallible System.</title>
		<link>http://www.politablog.com/david-brooks/death-penalty-the-fallible-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.politablog.com/?p=2365</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“Our system of criminal justice, for all its protections, is sufficiently fallible that innocent people are convicted of capital crimes with some frequency (United States v. Quinones, p. 466).  The morality of the death penalty has been hotly debated for almost a century in the U.S. The debate has swayed both ways, resulting in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is broadband-access a human right?</title>
		<link>http://www.politablog.com/featured/featured-articles/is-broadband-access-a-human-right/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politablog.com/featured/featured-articles/is-broadband-access-a-human-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Finland]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.politablog.com/?p=3702</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Finland has become the first country in the world to declare that high speed internet access is a legal right. Finnish telecommunications companies will be required to provide the 5.2 million people of Finland with internet access at a speed of one megabit per second. The argument is pretty simple and seems to make sense, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Safe to Assume Naval Power</title>
		<link>http://www.politablog.com/government/obama-administration/safe-to-assume-naval-power/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brooks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The highly anticipated arrival of the new Chinese Anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) is finely upon us and (predictably) many in the US are unnecessarily fretting over this development. With a purported range of up to 1,900 miles, this missile is capable of striking at the core of the US naval power in the pacific. Carrier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preserve Freedom and “slit our wrists.”</title>
		<link>http://www.politablog.com/david-brooks/preserve-freedom-slit-wrists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politablog.com/david-brooks/preserve-freedom-slit-wrists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.politablog.com/?p=797</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Michelle Bachmann was the guest of honor at a recent question and answer session for the Independence Institute, a libertarian organization from Colorado. In response to a question about the current health care proposal she said: “This cannot pass. What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA Marijuana for Profit.</title>
		<link>http://www.politablog.com/david-brooks/usa-marijuana-for-profit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.politablog.com/?p=2830</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is obvious to many people that our nation is undergoing a change and we are trying to do so at a time of unparalleled debt. This can be a tricky thing to do. How can one manage the budget, fight multiple wars and have socially progressive programs? This seems like a recipe for disaster, [...]]]></description>
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