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	<title>SmartRemarks &#187; Constitution</title>
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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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		<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 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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1806</guid>
		<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>Torture and death squads and Cheney, oh my&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/07/torture-and-death-squads-and-cheney-oh-my/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/07/torture-and-death-squads-and-cheney-oh-my/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1458</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What have we learned this week, boys and girls? We&#8217;ve learned that every time we think we know the worst about Dick Cheney, every time we think we understand the fetid depths of the clandestine government that sick fuck and his neocon cabal were running out of the Bush White House, every time we fool [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Obama DOMA drama</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/06/the-obama-doma-drama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1410</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On June 12, even as the election in Iran was happening and sweeping everything else out of the news cycle (a subject on which much digital ink has been spilled, to which I have nothing to add except that it&#8217;s nice to see a population care enough about democracy to take to the streets over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Equal marriage:  a shifting tide</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/06/equal-marriage-a-shifting-tide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When people look back years from now, they may well mark spring of 2009 as the point when America really changed its attitude toward same-sex marriage. Call it &#8220;gay marriage,&#8221; call it what you will—I prefer the simple descriptive term &#8220;equal marriage&#8221;—it seems clear that we&#8217;ve passed a tipping point.
At the start of this year, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The politics of paranoia and paralogia</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/05/the-politics-of-paranoia-and-paralogia/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/05/the-politics-of-paranoia-and-paralogia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 02:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1336</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Where did we leave off? 
I was writing about the difficulty of finding something meaningful to say in the wake of all the full-time, professional political bloggers out there. Too often I feel like I&#8217;m just offering a synthesis of what others have said, rather than any new insight.
Perhaps I&#8217;m holding myself to an arbitrarily high [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shameless servility to power</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/01/shameless-servility-to-power/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=892</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If anyone wonders how (A) a nation can move step-by-step down the path toward fascism, or (B) why the mainstream press in this country is held in such increasingly dismal regard, this week&#8217;s cover story in Newsweek provides a searing case study.
Co-authors Stuart Taylor Jr. and Evan Thomas—both award-winning, Ivy League-educated journalists who move in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A festival of ideas</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2008/11/a-festival-of-ideas/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2008/11/a-festival-of-ideas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=566</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Once in a while it&#8217;s nice to get away from the computer for a couple of days. That&#8217;s what my lady love and I did this past weekend, predominantly so as to enjoy the final weekend of the Chicago Humanities Festival.
One of the things I enjoy most about big city life is the cultural amenities, [...]]]></description>
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