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		<title>Metrics for &#8220;Hope&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://knowthecauses.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/metrics-for-hope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I watched the president&#8217;s speech last night with two of my Republican friends, who, despite the occasional doctrinaire outburst that they don&#8217;t bother defending (&#8220;tax cuts work! we just need more tax cuts!&#8221;), raised some valid criticisms.  The best question of the night in my mind came from an ABC reporter, who asked, &#8220;how can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=knowthecauses.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4218244&amp;post=434&amp;subd=knowthecauses&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re supposed to pay taxes?!</title>
		<link>http://knowthecauses.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/were-supposed-to-pay-taxes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://knowthecauses.wordpress.com/?p=432</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t have much knowledge about the tax code other than the fact that it is extremely complicated.  I once went to a luncheon with a tax attorney I worked for about the various different legal entities that doctors could create to shield their practices from law suits and tax liability.  The speaker talked non-stop [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=knowthecauses.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4218244&amp;post=432&amp;subd=knowthecauses&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Politics as Usual&#8221; works the way its supposed to&#8230;at least for once</title>
		<link>http://knowthecauses.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/politics-as-usual-works-the-way-its-supposed-toat-least-for-once/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The withdrawal of Tom Daschle as the Secretary of Health and Human Services, while unfortunate, makes good sense.  Former Senator Daschle seemed like an extremely knowledgable leader of a healthcare transformation and clearly knew how to work with congress since he&#8217;d been the Senate majority and minority leader.  However, his issues with taxes aside, he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=knowthecauses.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4218244&amp;post=427&amp;subd=knowthecauses&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Caroline Kennedy a good choice?</title>
		<link>http://knowthecauses.wordpress.com/2008/12/28/is-caroline-kennedy-a-good-choice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[caroline kennedy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a very tough question. I feel like I should agree with Kennedy&#8217;s critics but then I like the idea of Senator Kennedy so much. Have I fallen victim to the Kennedy mystique? Is there anything to be said for a Senator Kennedy that doesn&#8217;t involve some sort of nostalgia for RFK and JFK? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=knowthecauses.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4218244&amp;post=422&amp;subd=knowthecauses&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Shape of the Race for new energy</title>
		<link>http://knowthecauses.wordpress.com/2008/12/26/the-shape-of-the-race-for-new-energy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 23:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The competition for the development of lithium-ion batteries is justifiably heating up.  Battery technology will be at the center of our future energy consumption patterns.  The progress of wind and solar energy generation are great developments, but the pressing problem is as much where to store the energy as it is how to develop it.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=knowthecauses.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4218244&amp;post=419&amp;subd=knowthecauses&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Boris weighs in</title>
		<link>http://knowthecauses.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/boris-weighs-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From London´s comically English mayor Boris Johnson comes my favorite Obama endorsement yet.  Notwithstanding typical Boris insensitivity to cultural etiquette (referring to his preferred candidate as Barack Hussein Obama, a full name generally reserved for use by the columnists of American nativist blogs and Fox News) and amusingly verbose praise (¨[of Obama for having] no difficulty in orally extemporising [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=knowthecauses.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4218244&amp;post=417&amp;subd=knowthecauses&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Political hackery at its worst</title>
		<link>http://knowthecauses.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/political-hackery-at-its-worst/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you repeat lies long enough do they become true? Thomas Sowell tests this theory in his latest column. Among his most offensive insinuations: that Obama might be a Communist Russian circa the Russian Revolution, or Jim Jones, or Hitler, or Mao, promising &#8220;change&#8221; and delivering the worst kind of it. Plus Sowell repeats the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=knowthecauses.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4218244&amp;post=414&amp;subd=knowthecauses&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Colin Powell endorses Obama: the end of the McCain campaign?</title>
		<link>http://knowthecauses.wordpress.com/2008/10/19/colin-powell-endorses-obama-the-end-of-the-mccain-campaign/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today Colin Powell announced his endorsement of Barack Obama for President. What does this mean? [1] Fewer people making an issue of Barack Obama&#8217;s limited experience. [2] More people wondering what John McCain was thinking when he picked Sarah Palin to be his running mate. [3] More people criticizing McCain for the Bill Ayers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=knowthecauses.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4218244&amp;post=411&amp;subd=knowthecauses&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The fallacy of a more liberal (or progressive or left-wing) Europe</title>
		<link>http://knowthecauses.wordpress.com/2008/10/18/the-fallacy-of-a-more-liberal-or-progressive-or-left-wing-europe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By common consent Europe is more liberal or progressive or left-wing than the United States. Europeans say it, Americans say it, and hardly anyone objects. I object. By only the narrowest of criteria is Europe more liberal or progressive or left-wing than the United States. To my (future) sympathizers I present a defense of this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=knowthecauses.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4218244&amp;post=408&amp;subd=knowthecauses&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A good article and my personal debate scorecard</title>
		<link>http://knowthecauses.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/a-good-article-and-my-personal-debate-scorecard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a good article by Joseph Nye discussing something we probably know but don&#8217;t want to admit: Bin Laden&#8217;s Potential &#8220;October Surprise&#8221; By my count, here&#8217;s how the debate went: 1) On the basis of trade issues, Obama locked up Iowa and made big gains in Ohio, Missouri and Florida. The first rule of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=knowthecauses.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4218244&amp;post=400&amp;subd=knowthecauses&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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