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		<title>Everyone Calm Down On Obama DOJ’s DOMA Brief!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Liberties]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://centerblue.org/?p=474</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The blogosphere is on fire because of the recent brief submitted by Obama&#8217;s DOJ in response to a lawsuit, Smelt v. United States, seeking to overturn the federal Defense of Marriage Act that states marriage to be only between a man and a woman. The fires are being stoked by Americablog, which in my opinion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Obama Code</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Liberties]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://centerblue.org/?p=471</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is probably the best, most intellectual article on politics I have read in years. It not only goes into Obama&#8217;s values and agenda, but also defines the core moral value differences between progressives and conservatives&#8211;and why the latter feel so threatened by the current economic crisis. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; The Obama Code By George Lakoff Berkeley, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Crisis of Credit</title>
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		<comments>http://centerblue.org/468/the-crisis-of-credit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy/Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic crisis]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://centerblue.org/?p=468</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Want to better understand the economic crisis that is engulfing the world? Watch this very amusing 11 minute video that very simply and effectively explains why we&#8217;re all in the hole we&#8217;re in. The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.]]></description>
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		<title>Want recovery? Nationalize the banks, stop the foreclosures</title>
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		<comments>http://centerblue.org/463/want-recovery-nationalize-the-banks-stop-the-foreclosures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[economic crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreclosure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insolvent banks]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://centerblue.org/?p=463</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Obama&#8217;s stimulus plan is ambitious, but it won&#8217;t be enough to get us out of the economic cesspool we&#8217;re in. It only addresses one of three areas of concern that absolutely have to be addressed in order for the economy to recover: 1) Nationalize the banks. Heaven forbid Americans should talk about nationalization! But the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Response to Republican Economic Ignorance</title>
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		<comments>http://centerblue.org/460/a-response-to-republican-economic-ignorance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy/Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama stimulus plan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://centerblue.org/?p=460</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Steven Pearlstein&#8217;s recent searing criticism of ignorant Republicans (and a few Democrats) debating the stimulus bill is so good that it can only be posted in its entirety: &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; Wanted: Personal Economic Trainers. Apply at Capitol. By Steven Pearlstein Friday, February 6, 2009; D01 As long as we&#8217;re about to spend gazillions to stimulate the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the Day</title>
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		<comments>http://centerblue.org/454/quote-of-the-day-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Liberties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guantanamo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://centerblue.org/?p=454</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The United States will not torture. The orders that I signed today should send an unmistakable signal that our actions in defense of liberty will be as just as our cause and we, the people, will uphold our fundamental values as vigilantly as we protect our security.&#8221; President Obama, on closing Guantanamo Bay Prison It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The World’s Newspapers Say Good-Bye to Bush</title>
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		<comments>http://centerblue.org/451/the-worlds-newspapers-say-good-bye-to-bush/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://centerblue.org/?p=451</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Germany&#8217;s Sueddeutsche Zeitung under a headline of &#8220;The Failure:&#8221; &#8220;He confused stubbornness with principles. America has become intolerant and it will take a long time to repair that damage.&#8221; Canada&#8217;s Toronto Star: &#8220;Goodbye to the worst president ever. Bush was an unmitigated disaster, failing on the big issues from the invasion of Iraq to global [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Lost Decade</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://centerblue.org/?p=447</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8217;s sad to say, but we really went nowhere for almost ten years, after you extract the boost provided by the housing and mortgage boom. It&#8217;s almost a lost economic decade.&#8221; &#8211;Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody&#8217;s Economy.com, and an informal adviser to John McCain&#8217;s campaign. That epitaph is as good as any for describing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A loss for the whales at the Supreme Court</title>
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		<comments>http://centerblue.org/441/a-loss-for-the-whales-at-the-supreme-court/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[us navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[whales]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://centerblue.org/?p=441</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In an outrageous decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that the US Navy can use sonar that has been demonstrated to seriously injure whales and other marine life, in an unrestricted fashion. The Navy has been embroiled in a dispute with environmental groups over use of the sonar in training exercises. Lower courts had ruled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Obama’s election means to me</title>
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		<comments>http://centerblue.org/438/what-obamas-election-means-to-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[call to service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://centerblue.org/?p=438</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m still having trouble not choking up when I think about what Obama achieved. His election reminds me with the force of a thunderclap that America remains the land of opportunity, the place where anyone can achieve what you put your mind to if you work hard enough. It brings to mind my youthful idealism [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did Democrats learn their lesson?</title>
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		<comments>http://centerblue.org/430/did-democrats-learn-their-lesson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Liberties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://centerblue.org/?p=430</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Obama won by a landslide. It wasn&#8217;t even close, and his perfect campaign will forever be the model of future candidates aspiring to the White House. He leveraged technology to the hilt for raising funds from millions of small donors and keeping them in constant touch with the campaign. His ground game and &#8220;get out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Victory</title>
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		<comments>http://centerblue.org/425/victory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Admin]]></category>

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		<title>Yes, young voters care</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/centerblueorg/~3/JEsSHMFuSbM/</link>
		<comments>http://centerblue.org/423/yes-young-voters-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2008-election]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://centerblue.org/?p=423</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Young voters are among the most affected by the economy, with their job prospects bleak and often heavily indebted with student loans. They&#8217;re mad too, and they aren&#8217;t going to take it anymore. Below: almost 1000 students stand in line to vote in State College, PA.]]></description>
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		<title>Judgment Day; Fear not, my conservative friends</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/centerblueorg/~3/rfsc57OgxIc/</link>
		<comments>http://centerblue.org/419/judgment-day-fear-not-my-conservative-friends/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2008-election]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://centerblue.org/?p=419</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Judgment Day has arrived. The day to finally repudiate the disaster of the last eight years is here. The moment of a new movement for progressive change is at hand&#8211;an opportunity for us to finally get serious about the crushing problems facing our nation. From the economy to healthcare, from environmental protection to education, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last Thoughts Before The Election</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/centerblueorg/~3/RIQvvnMsuik/</link>
		<comments>http://centerblue.org/408/last-thoughts-before-the-election/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Liberties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2008-election]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://centerblue.org/?p=408</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On the cusp of this historic election I find myself walking down memory lane. Sixteen years ago on election day 1992 I stood above a crowd gathered in front of Cornell&#8217;s student union building, Willard Straight Hall. As a student leader in those days I had been invited to speak by the Get Out The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Like Rats Abandoning Ship (or, the Death of Anti-Intellectualism)</title>
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		<comments>http://centerblue.org/398/like-rats-abandoning-ship-or-the-death-of-anti-intellectualism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2008-election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mccain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://centerblue.org/?p=398</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the Obama juggernaut looms like a tsunami on the horizon, we are witnessing nothing less than the final, well-deserved, and overdue destruction of the Republican Party in its current form. Not only is Obama ahead by double digits in the polls, he is strongly ahead in ridiculously red states like Indiana, North Carolina, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Vacation</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/centerblueorg/~3/HQ6Wa3Bjv0c/</link>
		<comments>http://centerblue.org/393/on-vacation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Admin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://centerblue.org/?p=393</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m off to Vermont and Quebec for a couple of weeks&#8217; worth of much-needed R&#038;R. See everyone soon!]]></description>
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		<title>Everyone wants to know about economics</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/centerblueorg/~3/vmM9_9GOtho/</link>
		<comments>http://centerblue.org/391/everyone-wants-to-know-about-economics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy/Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic crisis]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://centerblue.org/?p=391</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Crooks &#038; Liars rather deridingly posts that now everyone is an economist, posting on previously inscrutable topics like &#8220;mortgage-backed securities&#8221; and &#8220;credit default swaps.&#8221; I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s a bad thing at all. I think it&#8217;s GREAT. There has been a poison spreading secretly in our economy for years, false growth fueled by speculation and [...]]]></description>
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