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		<title>Gauging Glenn Beck, Tea Party Effects on Midterms</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read my Latest Article on Glenn Beck and his Restoring Honor Speech here &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-&#62; http://bit.ly/d9pSnz
Over  the weekend Glenn Beck drew a huge crowd to the National Mall with the  &#8216;Restoring Honor&#8217; gathering. Judy Woodruff talks to Kate Zernike of the  New York Times and David Von Drehle of Time Magazine, to assess [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America is at a crossroads and we must decide.</title>
		<link>http://www.politablog.com/featured/featured-articles/america-is-at-a-crossroads-and-we-must-decide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. Glenn Beck held a rally on the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr’s  “I Have a Dream” speech. He held his rally for ‘Restoring Honor’ at the same location as MLK did 47 years ago as well. I watched the whole speech and was surprised by his out-of-character appeals for unity, positivity and [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Finland]]></category>
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		<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, “We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Address: No Corporate Takeover of Our Democracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The President calls out Republicans for blocking campaign finance  reforms that would address last year&#8217;s Supreme Court decision opening  the floodgates of corporate money into elections.
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		<title>Rallies Over Mosque Near Ground Zero Get Heated</title>
		<link>http://www.politablog.com/featured/featured-video/rallies-over-mosque-near-ground-zero-get-heated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The proposed mosque near ground zero drew hundreds of fever-pitch  demonstrators Sunday, with opponents carrying signs associating Islam  with blood, supporters shouting, &#8220;Say no to racist fear!&#8221; and American  flags waving on both sides.  (Aug. 22)
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		<title>Aid Group Struggle to Help Pakistani Flood Victims</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read the Transcript:  http://to.pbs.org/c3Swyw
With  a shortage of immediate aid, some worry that victims of the flooding in  Pakistan are at high risk of waterborne diseases, such as cholera, in  the hardest-hit areas. Jeffrey Brown talks to Michael Young of the  International Rescue Committee about the risks facing flood victims.
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		<title>News Update: US Unemployment Rate Holds at 9.5%, 71,000 Jobs Added in June</title>
		<link>http://www.politablog.com/featured/featured-video/news-update-us-unemployment-rate-holds-at-9-5-71000-jobs-added-in-june/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The U.S. economy shed more jobs than expected in July while the  unemployment rate held steady at 9.5%, a further sign the economic  recovery may be losing momentum.
Nonfarm payrolls fell by 131,000  last month as the rise in private-sector employment was not enough to  make up for the government jobs lost, [...]]]></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>Fri, 06 Aug 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 Strike [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MoveOn has Joined the Boycott!</title>
		<link>http://www.politablog.com/featured/featured-articles/moveon-has-joined-the-boycott/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have all been frustrated over Target’s decision to enter into the world of politics. Fortunately, we are not the only ones pissed off.
We won&#8217;t stand for big corporations like Target buying the elections. That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re organizing nationwide rallies calling on politicians to stand with the Other 98% of us and not with corporate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palin on the Bush Tax Cuts</title>
		<link>http://www.politablog.com/featured/featured-video/palin-on-the-bush-tax-cuts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<title>Personal Issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emmer smash! Emmer mad! Grrrr! Emmer unable to form complex human emotions. Emmer Sad.

Oh Tommy boy, you seem to miss the mark on so many issues. This Target donation gaffe is just the latest in a long run of absurdities.
Emmer had this to say to MN public Radio:
&#8220;We have to get over this personal issue. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consumer Vents At Target For Right-Wing Donation</title>
		<link>http://www.politablog.com/featured/featured-video/consumer-vents-at-target-for-right-wing-donation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week Target Corporation gave $150,000 to Minnesota Forward, an  anti-gay groups supporting Republican Tom Emmer&#8217;s campaign for Minnesota  governor. This donation, clearly acceptible under the new Citizens  United Supreme Court ruling angered many in the state, seeing this as a  $150,000 contribution to fund ant-gay politics.One Eden Prairie mom and [...]]]></description>
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