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	<description>"Let's get it STRAIGHT!" -- Frank Reynolds (1923-1983)</description>
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		<title>Overlooked Issues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a sense in the air that angry blacks will derail Hillary Clinton's election in the Fall because they are committed to Obama. There's also the rumor that angry women will derail Barack Obama's election because he's not female. Further, proponents of both seem to see conspiracies behind this.

I can't fault either point of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://considered-opinions.org/?p=65</link>
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		<title>Is Anti-Tax Anti-American?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tom Friedman asks in the Sunday, May 4, New York Times "Who Will Tell The People." Good question.

I often feel that Friedman is a dunce, with his flat earth and naive endorsement of globalization.
But even a blind pig finds an acorn occasionally, and here (to mix the metaphor) he hits it out of the park.

I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://considered-opinions.org/?p=64</link>
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		<title>Elizabeth Edwards on Poor Media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The reader should know that many older, experienced journalists bemoan the decline of the media, the decrease in true reporting focused on real issues rather than fluff (what I think of as the People Magazine effect--media as watchers of pop culture rather than finders and presenters of hard news). 

It seems that our concerns are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://considered-opinions.org/?p=71</link>
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		<title>Points of View: Women v. African Americans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm going sour on Hillary Clinton.

I think there are a lot of women out there qualified to be President. What annoys me about Hillary is her campaign tactics (largely the influence of the now-departed but unmourned Mark Penn and Bill Clinton). Bill's remarks over the past few months have alienated many blacks as recent news [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://considered-opinions.org/?p=66</link>
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		<title>Bare Sterns (Note pun)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Feeling curious (don't go there...), I dug up the latest Bear Stearns annual report, 2006. A delightful bit of light reading, which I am sure a rabbi well versed in the Kabbalah could decipher with ease.

What I was looking for was the executive compensation of the insane a—holes who ran this company (one of many, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://considered-opinions.org/?p=62</link>
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		<title>Failure of a Lifetime</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bill Moyers’ Journal Wednesday, April 25, “Buying the War,” was personal for me. 

I’ve been a journalist almost my entire adult life and went into the profession with a sense of idealism. Now I see that, aside from a couple of guys at the Knight Ridder (now McClatchy) bureau in Washington and a handful of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://considered-opinions.org/?p=58</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Toaster Wars&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That’s not my headline, it’s Jim Forbes’. In the ongoing battle for market share between AMD and Intel (not the same since Andy Grove left), the marketing departments of the two companies have failed to offer the end user any real reason to chose between their products. They are toasters, and what’s the difference between [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://considered-opinions.org/?p=57</link>
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		<title>The Last Great Migrations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of what I think of as history took place on the Eurasian continent, and much of this history was the result of the movement of peoples. Agrarian civilizations sprang up around the edges of this landmass (China, Indochina, India, Persia, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Celtic Europe, and the Mediterranean civilizations), but nothing much happened in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://considered-opinions.org/?p=54</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Donald Rumsfeld Must Go&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, the four newspapers devoted to coverage of military matters for members of the military called for the resignation of the Secretary of Defense. All four, Air Force Times, Army Times, Marine Times, and Navy Times made this call in the same words. Here are the concluding paragraphs:"Rumsfeld has lost credibility with the uniformed leadership, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://considered-opinions.org/?p=52</link>
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		<title>The Neocon as Con Artist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More rats are swimming away from the SS Bush (SS as in "swiftly sinking"). This time it is the National Review's Michael Ledeen, also associated with the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute. Now that the Iraq war has become a disadvantage in US politics -- not to mention defining the lives of thousands of US troops [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://considered-opinions.org/?p=51</link>
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