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	<title>Plato's Beard &#187; Politics</title>
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	<description>whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must make random noises</description>
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		<title>Bobby Jindal</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/405</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Some quick insights into &#8220;Indian-American&#8221; Bobby Jindal, Rhodes scholar, creationist, governor of Lousiana and possibly your next President:
The Latest Face of Creationism in the Classroom: Scientific American
Professors routinely give advice to students but usually while their charges are still in school. Arthur Landy, a distinguished professor of molecular and cell biology and biochemistry at Brown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monbiot on US politicians</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/397</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/397#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Rightisms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How These Gibbering Numbskulls Came to Dominate Washington &#124; CommonDreams.org
How was it allowed to happen? How did politics in the US come to be dominated by people who make a virtue out of ignorance? Was it charity that has permitted mankind&#8217;s closest living relative to spend two terms as president? How did Sarah Palin, Dan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McCain on immigration</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/392</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/392#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nobody should mistake McCain for a leftist, but I wonder if Obama would stand up to an angry crowd and defend basic decency (albeit with implicit caveats) as McCain does here, in a rally in Michigan, during his presidential bid:



But I will tell you this, ma&#8217;am. I am not going to call up a soldier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meanwhile back in the White House&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/386</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/386#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The NYT documents the final days shennanigans of BushCo:
Editorial - So Little Time, So Much Damage - NYTimes.com
President Bush’s aides have been scrambling to change rules and regulations on the environment, civil liberties and abortion rights, among others — few for the good. Most presidents put on a last-minute policy stamp, but in Mr. Bush’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t vote!</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/380</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/380#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Liberalism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This a &#8220;PSA&#8221; from various movie and sports personalities (Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Aniston, Ellen Degeneres, Dustin Hoffman&#8230; even Sarah Silverman who otherwise has built a career out of anti-establishment behaviour, albeit with obligatory &#8220;radical&#8221; bra removal tricks and reference to herpes):

It is split into two parts. The first part has the personalities urging you to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Olmert: Israel withdrawal needed</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/375</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/375#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BBC NEWS &#124; Olmert: Israel withdrawal needed
Outgoing PM Ehud Olmert says Israel must withdraw from almost all the land it occupied in 1967 if it wants peace with Syria and the Palestinians.
He said this would include parts of East Jerusalem, which Palestinians want as the capital of their future state.
Mr Olmert also said any peace [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dean Baker&#8217;s free book: The Conservative Nanny State</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/373</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/373#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[found via a post to PEN-L by Jim Devine]

The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer - Upload a Document to Scribd
Also available for download.
]]></description>
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		<title>UN due influence</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/360</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/360#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Arrogance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[East vs West]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Without any hint of irony or humour, The Guardian worries that Western influence within the United Nations is waning &#8212; worrisome because it wrecks &#8220;efforts to entrench human rights, liberties and multilateralism&#8221;.
Drop in influence at UN wrecks western attempts to push human rights agenda
The west&#8217;s efforts to use the United Nations to promote its values [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rangel keeps the party going</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/352</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/352#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Liberalism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[House Chairman Failed to Report $75,000 in Income - NYTimes.com
Representative Charles B. Rangel has earned more than $75,000 in rental income from a villa he has owned in the Dominican Republic since 1988, but never reported it on his federal or state tax returns, according to a lawyer for the congressman and documents from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The worm&#8217;s turn</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/350</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/350#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Arrogance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Liberalism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[People]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[House politics strikes ones of its savviest players:
House Tables Resolution to Censure Rangel - New York Times
The House of Representatives decided on Thursday afternoon to table, by a vote of 254 to 138, a Republican resolution to censure Representative Charles B. Rangel, the powerful New York Democrat who is chairman of the Ways and Means [...]]]></description>
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