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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Supreme Court: still drifting to the right</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/05/obamas-supreme-court-still-drifting-to-the-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 22:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why? Why does a presidential administration that came into office on the diligent labor and fervent hopes of progressives continue to send progressives the message that it doesn&#8217;t need them, indeed that it doesn&#8217;t even care what they think, that their principles and passions are nothing more than chips to be bargained away as evidence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s like Congress is being tested</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/05/its-like-congress-is-being-tested/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 16:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick observation prompted by events in recent weeks. These events are unrelated, yet they form a pattern. Together, they put Washington on the hot seat and shine a spotlight on its (questionable) ability to act in the public interest.
Specifically, if&#8230;
&#8230;despite an offshore oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico so devastating that it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orwellian or Kafkaesque? I can&#8217;t decide.</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/04/orwellian-or-kafkaesque-i-cant-decide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=2089</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Either way, it&#8217;s definitely disturbing, and (a term I don&#8217;t often use) un-American.
What is? The fact that the Obama White House has ordered the CIA to assassinate an American citizen, wherever and whenever he may be found. A man who&#8217;s been charged with no crime, much less convicted of one.
The ostensible reason? &#8220;Terrorism,&#8221; of course.
That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health care is making me sick</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/03/health-care-is-making-me-sick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1814</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the health care reform debate enters what appears to be the home stretch (albeit not for the first time), what Washington is offering us (the citizenry) boils down to a choice between bad and worse. The legislation now under consideration, both the Senate bill and the slight variation on same presented as &#8220;Obama&#8217;s bill,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economic inequality increases social problems: who&#8217;da thunkit?</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/02/economic-inequality-increases-social-problems-whoda-thunkit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1903</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[And now, a brief interlude from all the Sherlockiana for a bit of politics and economics. After hearing a radio interview today about a fascinating new book, I&#8217;ve done a bit of digging and realized I may have come a bit late to the game, for—at least in England—this book has been gathering serious attention [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health care and disinformation</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/12/health-care-and-disinformation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s inbox contained a political e-mail message forwarded by my girlfriend&#8217;s parents. They&#8217;re not especially political people; their sensibilities (to the extent they&#8217;ll even discuss them) tend toward a somewhat mushy moderate conservatism, the kind of folks who instinctively vote Republican, even though the party&#8217;s center of gravity has moved far away from them. Indeed, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things that make your jaw drop</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/10/things-that-make-your-jaw-drop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1788</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been preoccupied with other affairs lately, and haven&#8217;t been much inclined to write blog entries, as the date stamp will attest. However, sometimes events crop up in ways that just demand to be shared and commented upon.
Two news stories this week converged (at least in my mind) to compel the question:  just how do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laugh so you don&#8217;t weep (at the wingnut insanity)</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/09/laugh-so-you-dont-weep-at-the-wingnut-insanity/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/09/laugh-so-you-dont-weep-at-the-wingnut-insanity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1731</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the midst of the cesspool of paranoia and paralogia into which the ranting right is dragging so much of our political discourse these days&#8230; the latest iterations thereof being the Fox-driven hypocritical demagoguery about ACORN, and (even worse) the WSJ&#8217;s incredible suggestion that this(!) of all things somehow merits a special prosecutor&#8230;
&#8230;a reader comment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Baucus bill looks to be DOA</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/09/the-baucus-bill-looks-to-be-doa/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/09/the-baucus-bill-looks-to-be-doa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1717</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(And thank heaven for that.)
So Sen. Max Baucus&#8217;s Finance Committee has finally released a health care &#8220;reform&#8221; bill, months after every other committee charged with the task. (Or a &#8220;Chairman&#8217;s Mark&#8221; version of one, at least—i.e., something actually readable by laymen [pdf]).
The predictable result? It&#8217;s awful. Any Democrat who would vote for a bill that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s speech and the &#8220;reset button&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/09/obamas-speech-and-the-reset-button/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/09/obamas-speech-and-the-reset-button/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, where did I leave off?
&#8230;That&#8217;s right, there was a speech Wednesday night. A pretty significant one, in fact, for reasons I described at some length.
What of it, then?
I can&#8217;t deny that it was a very, very good speech. Rhetorically powerful. And yet, what it says about the direction of health care policy, and thus [...]]]></description>
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