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		<title>My take on McCain</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 02:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It will be interesting to see how Obama matches up against McCain.
I do think McCain deserves credit for his military service and the years spent as a POW. But he was a very junior officer and the most useful thing he gained from getting beaten up in the camps was the ability to identify a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s win</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 02:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am so relieved that Obama has won the primary.
Both Bill and Hillary are brilliant, determined, and relentless politicians but it is all about their own ambitions and ego. Bill was a mediocre president&#8230; It is only the contrast with his dreadful successor that casts him as anything else.
I have, for some time, felt that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>100 hours&#8230; And then back to &#8220;Sleaze as Usual&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So much for Speaker Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s 100 hour blitzkrieg to return Capitol Hill to a higher ethical standard.  Not only is she weakening her message by demanding that the Pentagon fly her around in a personal 757&#8230; But it is already evident that her new rules designed to curb the influence of lobbyists is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq and Vietnam?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 03:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of differences between Iraq and Vietnam but it&#8217;s probably worth looking back on Vietnam as we consider what course to take in Iraq.
Should we &#8220;cut and run&#8221; or should we keep sending soldiers and marines over there to secure &#8220;peace with honor.&#8221;
When our political and military leadership have no clear plan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The battle between Universal and Single-Payer Healthcare has begun</title>
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		<comments>http://2centsworth.info/government/the-battle-between-universal-and-single-payer-healthcare-has-begun#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 01:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US healthcare system is a disaster. If you total up all the healthcare costs (government tax dollars, private insurance premiums, etc.), US healthcare costs about twice as much per person as the healthcare in any European country, Canada, or Japan. And yet we have 40 million or so uninsured and on virtually every measure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now that he&#8217;s left town&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://2centsworth.info/general/now-that-hes-left-town</link>
		<comments>http://2centsworth.info/general/now-that-hes-left-town#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2007 13:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Boston Globe has an article (February 3, 2007 by Rick Klein) entitled Romney distances self from Mass. health plan. Just as GW slunk off to Washington leaving various disasters in Texas, Mitt is doing the same.
As pointed out in the Globe article:
The plan for statewide, near-universal health coverage was the centerpiece of Romney&#8217;s administration, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector debacle</title>
		<link>http://2centsworth.info/government/massachusetts-state-mandated-healthcare</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2007 18:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well the citizens of Massachusetts (and, indeed, the State Legislature) are waking up to just what a mess this so-called universal healthcare initiative actually is.
The front page of the Boston Globe (January 27, 2007) has an article talking about the bloated salaries being paid to the administers of this quasi-state agency (the official name is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cold Pills, Lobbyists, and Meth Addiction&#8230; Time for a class action lawsuit?</title>
		<link>http://2centsworth.info/government/cold-pills-meth-addiction-time-for-a-class-action-lawsuit</link>
		<comments>http://2centsworth.info/government/cold-pills-meth-addiction-time-for-a-class-action-lawsuit#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw a very interesting program on PBS FrontLine the other night about the growing epidemic of addiction to meth-amphetamines. You can find out more at the The METH EPIDEMIC page on the pbs.org website.
The program describes how the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) attempted to head off the problem of meth-amphetamine addiction 20 years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Universal Coverage&#8230; Or Universal Rip-off?</title>
		<link>http://2centsworth.info/government/universal-coverage-or-universal-rip-off</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s (January 20, 2007) Boston Globe there is an article entitled Sticker shock for state care plan talking about the new Massachusetts state-mandated health plan&#8230;
State-mandated, to be clear, means that all citizens are going to be required to have state-approved health coverage. If you cannot show that you have state-approved coverage then you will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Desperately seeking integrity&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://2centsworth.info/politics/desperately-seeking-integrity</link>
		<comments>http://2centsworth.info/politics/desperately-seeking-integrity#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I look at the array of likely 2008 presidential candidates, from both parties, I feel a bit queasy. I am an independent, I have voted for both Republican and Democratic candidates in the past. I do certainly pay attention to a candidates policy stands but I am would prefer to vote for candidates that [...]]]></description>
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