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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Ted Rall</title>
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		<title>Is the GOP&#8217;s Rand Paul America&#8217;s leading liberal?</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/10/02/commentary/is-the-gops-rand-paul-americas-leading-liberal/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=is-the-gops-rand-paul-americas-leading-liberal</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Rall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[America's "liberal" president and his Democratic allies aren't fighting the good fight. The most liberal politician in America these days is the right-winger Rand Paul.]]></description>
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		<title>Mandatory organ donation</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/09/26/commentary/mandatory-organ-donation/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=mandatory-organ-donation</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Rall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[organ donation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. health care]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is estimated that 18 people die in the U.S. every day due to a national shortage of organ donations. This crisis could be solved if organ donation were mandatory.]]></description>
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		<title>Obama didn&#8217;t sell war hard enough</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/09/17/commentary/obama-didnt-sell-war-hard-enough/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=obama-didnt-sell-war-hard-enough</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 14:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Rall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[9/11]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[War is what America does best, war is what America does most. So why couldn't U.S. President Barack Obama get public support for a strike on Syria]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking bad: Why a U.S. strike would be illegal</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/09/06/commentary/breaking-bad-why-a-u-s-strike-would-be-illegal/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=breaking-bad-why-a-u-s-strike-would-be-illegal</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2013 14:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Rall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. President Barack Obama and the other warmongers are counting on ignorance and confusion to make their case for an attack on Syria.]]></description>
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		<title>The failure of Tahrir Square 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/08/27/commentary/the-failure-of-tahrir-square-2011/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-failure-of-tahrir-square-2011</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2013 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Rall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago, when I was in the Occupy movement, my comrades and I argued about revolution. Was revolution necessary? What is it? The split that destroyed our movement &#8212; as it did the Left during the 1960s &#8212; pitted revolutionaries against reformists. The most frustrating part of the debate, however, wasn&#8217;t ideological. It was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning the lessons of Egypt</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/08/20/commentary/learning-the-lessons-of-egypt/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=learning-the-lessons-of-egypt</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Rall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not much for sports analogies, but any athlete knows about the home field advantage. It&#8217;s easier to win if you play your game, not your opponent&#8217;s. This is even more true in politics. Playing by your enemy&#8217;s rules is a mug&#8217;s game. For whatever reason, conservatives and right-wing activists &#8212; the latter distinguishable from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Chechen connection</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/04/24/commentary/the-chechen-connection/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-chechen-connection</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/04/24/commentary/the-chechen-connection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beginning in the mid-1990s under the regime of President Boris Yeltsin and continuing into the early part of the 2000s under Vladimir Putin, Russia fought a so-called &#8220;dirty war&#8221; against Chechen separatists in a region of the world that military strategists have long considered among the most indomitable. Even in Afghanistan, where many Chechen fighters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lose your house, collect $300</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/04/17/commentary/lose-your-house-collect-300/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=lose-your-house-collect-300</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. government's settlement of the foreclosure scandal shows how things work in America: The criminals get the big payoffs and the people whose lives they destroyed get $300.]]></description>
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		<title>Stuck in a rut: why can&#8217;t the U.S. move forward?</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/02/27/commentary/stuck-in-a-rut-why-cant-the-u-s-move-forward/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=stuck-in-a-rut-why-cant-the-u-s-move-forward</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Your dearest wish is for our state structure and ideological system never to change, to remain as they are for centuries. But history is not like that. Every system either finds away to develop or else collapses.&#8221; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote that in 1974, in his famous &#8220;Letter to the Soviet Leaders.&#8221; But it could just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S.&#8217; armed, disposable and dangerous system</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/02/19/commentary/u-s-armed-disposable-and-dangerous-system/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=u-s-armed-disposable-and-dangerous-system</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s shocking is that it doesn&#8217;t happen more often. When a heartless system refuses to listen or help, when it crushes and grinds down millions of people day after day, year after year, everywhere, it&#8217;s illogical and unreasonable to assume that all its victims will pick themselves up, dust themselves off and reinvent themselves. Job [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moderation is for losers</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2010/12/21/commentary/moderation-is-for-losers/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=moderation-is-for-losers</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK &#8212; &#8220;Given his druthers (U.S. President Barack) Obama will pursue the most left-leaning course he can get away with.&#8221; So says Jennifer Rubin, a rightwing pundit at the neoconservative-leaning Washington Post. &#8220;Obama,&#8221; Rubin claims, &#8220;would have marched through his entire liberal agenda &#8212; if he had the votes.&#8221; This, of course, assumes that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drawing key lessons from the failure of Obamacare</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2009/08/26/commentary/drawing-key-lessons-from-the-failure-of-obamacare/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=drawing-key-lessons-from-the-failure-of-obamacare</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What worries me: time and time again,&#8221; writes Brendan Skwire in the Philadelphia Weekly about the circuses that are currently passing for Democrats&#8217; town hall meetings on health care, &#8220;[is that] the needs of the stupid and disingenuous are not only treated as valid concerns, but as the greatest concerns.&#8221; Well, yes. This being the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Obama and others of his ilk: Quit now!</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2009/06/02/commentary/to-obama-and-others-of-his-ilk-quit-now/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=to-obama-and-others-of-his-ilk-quit-now</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MIAMI &#8212; We expected broken promises. But the gap between the soaring expectations that accompanied Barack Obama&#8217;s inauguration and his wretched performance is the broadest such chasm in recent historical memory. This guy makes Bill Clinton look like a paragon of integrity and follow-through. From health care to torture to the economy to war, Obama [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ugly truth of antiwar lefties</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK &#8212; Although its appearance in The Nation guaranteed it would receive scant notice, a July 30 essay by Alexander Cockburn was one of the first to seriously address the most troubling internal contradiction of the anti-Iraq War left. War, everyone knows, is a zero-sum game. For one side to win, the other has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America&#8217;s dirty little victory</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2007/08/28/commentary/americas-dirty-little-victory/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=americas-dirty-little-victory</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Rall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK &#8212; &#8220;Just about everyone agrees that the recent conviction of Abdullah al-Muhajir, aka Jose Padilla, is a good thing,&#8221; wrote rightwing pundit Neil Kressel in The New York Post. Indeed, just about everyone did. &#8220;It is hard to disagree with the jury&#8217;s guilty verdict against Jose Padilla, the accused, but never formally charged, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Tenet&#8217;s worst ever career choice</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2007/05/06/commentary/george-tenets-worst-ever-career-choice/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=george-tenets-worst-ever-career-choice</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2007 00:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Rall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[DETROIT &#8212; Four years late and half a trillion dollars short. Why didn&#8217;t George Tenet tell us this stuff when it mattered &#8212; before we invaded Iraq? Tenet could have been a hero. He could have changed history. Imagine the scenario: It&#8217;s Jan. 18, 2003. Congress has signed off on military action. Tens of thousands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No wonder Chavez makes Bush uneasy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Rall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK &#8212; When the hated despots of nations like Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan loot their countries&#8217; treasuries, transfer their oil wealth to personal Swiss bank accounts and use the rest to finance (in the House of Saud&#8217;s case) terrorist extremists, American politicians praise them as trusted friends and allies. But when a democratically elected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush should do the right thing, and quit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Rall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK &#8212; By August 2003, California Gov. Gray Davis&#8217; approval rating had plunged to 22 percent. Two months later, he lost a special recall election. Now it&#8217;s President George W. Bush&#8217;s turn to take a drubbing. The latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll finds that only 37 percent of Americans think he&#8217;s doing a good job, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They impeach murderers, don&#8217;t they?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2003 00:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK &#8212; U.S. President George W. Bush told us that Iraq and al-Qaeda were working together. They weren&#8217;t. He repeatedly implied that Iraq had had something to do with 9/11. It hadn&#8217;t. He claimed to have proof that former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein possessed banned weapons of mass destruction. He didn&#8217;t. As our allies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush&#8217;s legacy of cynicism and contempt</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Nov 2002 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. President George W. Bush and his henchmen stole the presidency. They threw thousands of innocent people into prison without even charging them with a crime. They&#8217;re gearing up to invade Iraq without bothering to come up with a substantial justification. Now some Democrats and progressive Americans are asking the unthinkable about an administration they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time for redesigning tacky U.S. images</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jun 2002 00:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &#8212; This will, for obvious reasons, be the biggest Fourth of July ever. People who tally such things predict record numbers of flag displays, cookouts and youthful fingers blown off by cherry bombs. Expressions of gung-ho patriotic sentimentality are selling briskly, from Royal Doulton firefighter figurines to Lynne Cheney&#8217;s &#8220;America: A Patriotic Primer&#8221; (No. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voter alienation feeds Le Pen&#8217;s success</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2002 00:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK &#8212; On May 5, I voted for a rightwinger. It was my first time, and with any luck it will be my last. I really didn&#8217;t have much choice. Born in the United States of a French parent, I enjoy dual nationality &#8212; a status that Jean-Marie Le Pen had promised to eliminate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why it must be Bush vs. Gore in 2004</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2002 00:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Rall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK &#8212; It is impossible to overstate the importance of tossing U.S. President George W. Bush back onto the unemployment lines in 2004. His illegitimate presidency isn&#8217;t even half-over, yet Bush&#8217;s disreputable Cabinet of tin-pot gangsters has already succeeded in causing irreparable harm to our great nation. When President Bill Clinton left office in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brace yourself for the new McCarthyism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2001 00:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK &#8212; According to The Wall Street Journal I&#8217;m &#8220;probably the most bitterly anti-American commentator in America.&#8221; The National Review calls me &#8220;a big fat zero, an ignorant, talentless hack with a flair for recycling leftist pieties into snarky cartoons that inspired breakfast-table chuckles among the leftist literati and the granola-munching types.&#8221; It&#8217;s not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George W. Bush and the politics of DNA</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2001 00:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Rall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK &#8212; &#8220;Today&#8217;s overwhelming and bipartisan House action to prohibit human cloning is a strong ethical statement, which I commend.&#8221; &#8212; George W. Bush, July 31, 2001 I have absolutely no idea whether the cloning of human beings should be banned. Cloning opponents have some valid points, ranging from their dubious slippery-slope argument &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush places the country on autopilot</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2001 00:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Rall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW ORLEANS &#8212; The nation is reeling in the aftermath of a startling revelation from the White House: For the first time in its history, the United States is functioning entirely without an executive branch. &#8220;We promised to run the presidency like a business,&#8221; noted former Vice President Dick Cheney, who gave an impromptu interview [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If you&#8217;ve still got a job, you&#8217;re a loser</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2001 00:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Rall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK &#8212; From 1996 to 1999, everyone who was anyone knew that the Internet was the place to be. People quit perfectly good jobs at profitable corporations because, as everyone knew, profitability was Old School and Old School was bad. They went to work at places like Henfruit.com and ReplaceThoseMissingExtraSocks.com, not despite the fact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bipartisanship is killing American politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2001 00:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Rall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK &#8212; When I vote for a Democrat, the last thing I worry about is whether he&#8217;ll be able to get along with the Republicans. I never consider his ability to reach across the aisle, or his willingness to act in a bipartisan manner or take conservatives into consideration. Quite the opposite: I expect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This cup of coffee is on George W. Bush</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2001 00:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Rall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK &#8212; I admit it: The money&#8217;s already spent. I know, I know. I should have waited until that huge GOP windfall actually hit my bank account before going out on a wild tax-cut bender, but I just couldn&#8217;t help myself. The mere thought of all that budget surplus loot &#8212; trillions! of dollars! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the land of the militantly mellow</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2001 00:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Rall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK &#8212; San Franciscans, if we&#8217;re to believe reporters who&#8217;ve spent the last week running up their New York employers&#8217; expense accounts, are searching the bottom of their recyclable souls in the aftermath of the death of Diane Whipple. Whipple, 33, was killed by one (or two, according to some sources) 54-kg Canary Island [...]]]></description>
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