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		<title>How empty the holiday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s worth remembering that &#8220;Labor Day&#8221; &#8211; the holiday weekend we are in the midst of &#8211; is supposed to be a solemn commemoration of the death of working people by the combined hand of government and business: The first Labor Day in the United States was celebrated on September 5, 1882 in New York [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://xpatriatedtexan.com/blog/2010/09/05/how-empty-the-holiday</link>
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		<title>Why Progressives Can&#8217;t Govern, Part II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just returned from vacation and saw this email waiting for me: Welcome to the Daily Kos action email list. You received this email either because you are a registered member of the Daily Kos community, or because you donated to a Daily Kos operated Act Blue page. To unsubscribe from this list, follow the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://xpatriatedtexan.com/blog/2010/08/22/why-progressives-cant-govern-part-ii</link>
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		<title>Why Progressives can&#8217;t govern</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chris Bowers, at Open Left, offered a supposed &#8220;Serious Question&#8221; today: Does anyone here think that working to stop GOP from destroying the filibuster in 2005 was still a good idea? Wasn&#8217;t that a mistake? Shouldn&#8217;t we have helped them instead? Discuss. It was also sent out on Twitter, and I responded thusly: Yes. If [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://xpatriatedtexan.com/blog/2010/07/30/why-progressives-cant-govern</link>
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		<title>Rush to&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The White House at least has the decency to try to make amends to Shirley Sherrod. The problem is that they never should have put themselves in a position to do so. The &#8220;story&#8221; was &#8220;broken&#8221; (i.e., fabricated) by an activist who was upset that the Tea Party has been called to task for failure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://xpatriatedtexan.com/blog/2010/07/21/rush-to</link>
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		<title>After a brief interruption &#8211; realignment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t been writing much here lately. Not to offer a lame excuse, but I&#8217;ve been doing other things. Obviously. American political scientists sometimes like to talk about something they call &#8220;realignment.&#8221; It&#8217;s a concept that seeks to explain, and perhaps predict, when an entire generation will suddenly and irrevocably change their political identity. It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://xpatriatedtexan.com/blog/2010/07/09/after-a-brief-interruption-realignment</link>
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		<title>Criminal neglect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can someone explain why someone who leaves their kid in the car is automatically charged with child endangerment, but letting your kid sail around the world is not a problem?]]></description>
		<link>http://xpatriatedtexan.com/blog/2010/06/11/criminal-neglect</link>
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		<title>Perspective is important</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve given up on watching TV news, at least until the &#8220;BP Gulf Oil Spill&#8221; saga is over. I&#8217;m simply tired of hearing earnest-sounding news anchors earnestly intone &#8220;the largest oil spill in American history.&#8221; With absolutely no background information &#8211; other than a vague idea about the Exxon Valdez &#8211; those words are pretty [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://xpatriatedtexan.com/blog/2010/06/08/perspective-is-important</link>
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		<title>What to do about morality?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Debra Haffner, whom I deeply respect and admire, has written a thoughtful piece at WaPo&#8217;s &#8220;On Faith&#8221; section. The meaty section of it reads: More than 30 years ago, many religious denominations courageously passed resolutions in support of women&#8217;s moral agency and their right to a safe and legal abortion. Despite numerous legal challenges and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://xpatriatedtexan.com/blog/2010/05/23/what-to-do-about-morality</link>
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		<title>First, seek to understand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post started out with an unbelieving laugh: Now, I think Arizona&#8217;s actually gone off the deep end, or they&#8217;re playing a practical joke on us now. Because now they&#8217;re going after minotaurs. Following the link gives you this: The Arizona state Senate on Thursday passed a bill making it illegal for a person to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://xpatriatedtexan.com/blog/2010/05/02/first-seek-to-understand</link>
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		<title>Too much is not enough</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The headline is more than a bit shocking: AstraZeneca to pay $520M over drug Seroquel. Half a billion dollars. Wow. The case involves AstraZeneca promoting Seroquel for uses that are not approved by federal drug regulators, including insomnia and psychiatric conditions besides schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Oh. My. FREAKING. God. They develop a drug for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://xpatriatedtexan.com/blog/2010/04/27/too-much-is-not-enough</link>
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