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		<title>Is Obama the next Carter?</title>
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		<title>Yinka Shonibare MBE at the Smithsonian</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a dreary, dark morning in DC, I drove at a steady 12 miles an hour through the District&#8217;s suffocated streets, on my way to a conference on Palestine held at The Jerusalem Fund across town.  Due to a severe underestimation of the navigability of DC&#8217;s surface streets during rush hour (like a true Los [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicalconfetti.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10274015&amp;post=32&amp;subd=politicalconfetti&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Prioritizing &#8220;Women&#8217;s Rights&#8221; is a Bad Idea</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rachel Reid with Human Rights Watch argues that the U.S. Af-Pak policy should focus on ending relations with corrupt warlords, prioritizing women's rights, and limiting the number of foreign troops in the region.  While her argument sounds appealing, it is neither attainable nor desirable if America wants to withdraw from Afghanistan sometime this century.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicalconfetti.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10274015&amp;post=21&amp;subd=politicalconfetti&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>30 Years Later</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
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