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	<title>Polemic®</title>
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	<description>Reinvented Liberal Policy 2002-2008. Now serving it…</description>
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		<title>Douthat: Wrong About Everything. Again.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It could have been a setup for a pretty good punchline. Instead it was yet another example of Conservatronogenesis. They seem to pay attention to the first year of classes in college and then think they&#8217;ve got everything figured out before they take on the upper division messiness. (Probably about the time they finish The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://polemicmag.net/2010/03/douthat-wrong-about-everything-again.html</link>
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		<title>Headline FAIL of 2010. So Far.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Man angry at IRS crashes plane into building (AP)&#8221;
Yeah, and men angry at US crash planes into buildings. IOKIYAR.
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		<link>http://polemicmag.net/2010/02/headline-fail-of-2010-so-far.html</link>
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		<title>Palin again.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No, you don&#8217;t get it. They like her because she&#8217;s obviously personally interested in the retard thing. See, libruls who try to take care of everyone, equally take care of people that don&#8217;t look like me.
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		<link>http://polemicmag.net/2010/02/palin-again.html</link>
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		<title>Evan Bayh is a wanker.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That is all.
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		<link>http://polemicmag.net/2010/02/evan-bayh-is-a-wanker.html</link>
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		<title>Just in case</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Next time we have to talk about Michelle Malkin.
Oxford English Dictionary:

malkin, mawkin Obs. exc. dial.
(ˈmɔːkɪn)
†1.1 Used as a female personal name; applied typically to a woman of the lower classes, esp. in various proverbial expressions. Obs.
†b.1.b The proper name of a female spectre or demon. (In 17th. c. app. associated with sense 5 a.)
†c.1.c = Maid [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://polemicmag.net/2010/02/just-in-case.html</link>
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		<title>Tom Friedman Fail #23,108</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a typical piece of Friedmanian shit. (Though at least he&#8217;s not wetting himself over what Republicans think like the usually wonderful Franck Rich.)
Shorter version: Somehow we need to figure out how to make Muslims stop believing they are the victims of the West.
Maybe we should stop doing things confirming that belief.
Seriously, this is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://polemicmag.net/2010/02/tom-friedman-fail-23108.html</link>
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		<title>Sarah Palin Declares War on Iran</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Update: Palin wants war with Iran, but if Obama does it he's "playing the war card." She's not even aware of the "____ card" reference resonating with "race card," which of course reminds us Obama is black. It's funny, usually when Republicans use dog whistle language they're doing it on purpose. This is her answer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://polemicmag.net/2010/02/sarah-palin-declares-war-on-iran.html</link>
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		<title>Strange.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m experiencing a phenomenon that may explain the &#8220;Reagan Democrat&#8221; or whatever you want to call it. I&#8217;m in a situation where I&#8217;ve come to rely on unemployment—basically a form of insured welfare—when my main escape is through the meager remaining social safety net of bankruptcy, and I would really love it if the government&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://polemicmag.net/2010/01/strange.html</link>
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		<title>Polemic March 2009=The Nation January 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I said fuck Geithner then. They say it now. Why prevent something when you can blame after the fact, right?
As I so delicately put it about a year ago:
Anyway, Geithner must have a small dick that too many of these ass holes have seen in the sauna at the Harvard club or something and he’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://polemicmag.net/2010/01/polemic-march-2009the-nation-january-2010.html</link>
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		<title>What the hell?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When was the last time either party had a 59-41 advantage in the Senate and yet the Democrats are &#8220;chastened?&#8221; This has to be the most pusillanimous reaction by the Dems in a long history of pussy behavior.
When you believe that the other people say and internalize their message that you&#8217;re wrong and then act like you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://polemicmag.net/2010/01/what-the-hell.html</link>
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		<title>Twitter Updates for 2010-01-20</title>
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Polemic is calling MA-SEN for Brown on the basis of the latest set of results and benchmark maps. Sigh. #

(Note: this was Tweeted at 5:36 p.m., almost an hour before the major nets. The model I used held up just as well as it did on election night 2008. It&#8217;s not all that complicated, really. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://polemicmag.net/2010/01/twitter-updates-for-2010-01-20.html</link>
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		<title>Obama Year 1: A Report Card</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While others appear to find it nearly impossible to have any criticisms of a politician and still fervently support him, I hope in what follows it will be considered that I do support Obama and am intolerant of the political games played by the anti-Democratic-Party left to hurt him politically. Some of these criticisms reflect [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://polemicmag.net/2010/01/obama-year-1-a-report-card.html</link>
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		<title>Rescissionist Revisionists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I subscribed again to Harper&#8217;s magazine after letting my subscription lapse a few years back. If I hadn&#8217;t paid just $5 for it, I would be mad. It is a thoroughly depressing read. The academic left which forms the constituency of this magazine has apparently chosen to simply disengage from the political world and criticize [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://polemicmag.net/2010/01/rescissionist-revisionists.html</link>
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		<title>Twitter Updates for 2010-01-14</title>
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Going to watch the results, so no more tweets for a while. But, I think it&#39;s over. #
Virginia  starting to close in. Rachel Maddow, still very annoying. #
O wins Ohio. It&#39;s over for real now. Blow me Joe the Douchebag! #
McSame blacking out news at &#34;rally&#34;. Ignoring reality to the end. #
Obama goes officially [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://polemicmag.net/2010/01/twitter-updates-for-2010-01-14.html</link>
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		<title>Benefiting from your own wrongs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a number of legal precepts that prohibit people from benefitting from their own wrongs. One example is the so-called &#8220;Son of Sam Laws&#8221; that prevent murderers from selling books and movies about their stories for profit.
But our electorate isn&#8217;t going to see it that way.
They aren&#8217;t going to see that 30 years of Reaganomics [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://polemicmag.net/2010/01/benefiting-from-your-own-wrongs.html</link>
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		<title>Something I might have actually said first</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Usually someone else thinks of something before me, but this time, I think I got there first.
One of the reasons the filibuster is unconstitutional is because the Constitution says the VP breaks ties when they are equally divided. Here&#8217;s my argument on November 23, 2009. And here&#8217;s an article in the New York Times, today.
At [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://polemicmag.net/2010/01/something-i-might-have-actually-said-first.html</link>
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		<title>An End of the Decade Tirade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a society we are not even close to owning up to the Fear Years. That horrible epoch that reached its peak in 2002-2003 but did not completely dissipate until 2007. How do we square the fact that everyone understood that the evil Iraq attack was a tragic mistake in 2007, but to even suggest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://polemicmag.net/2010/01/my-end-of-the-decade-tirade.html</link>
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		<title>Avatar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spoiler alert! I&#8217;m about to spoil the whole movie; so if you care stop reading.
In the early 1960s Rod Serling observed that, in his teleplays, he could have aliens say things that Democrat and Republican characters could not. From that observation sprang &#8220;The Monsters are Due on Maple Street&#8221; and &#8220;Eye of the Beholder,&#8221; two [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://polemicmag.net/2009/12/avatar.html</link>
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		<title>Individual Mandate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I guess there&#8217;s going to be a split within the left between those that want to act like teabagger and those that don&#8217;t. FailDogLake&#8211;er FireDogLake&#8211;is taking the lead on that part.
I guess that makes me just a plain old liberal. Anyway, I voted for Hillary because she supported the individual mandate that was projected [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://polemicmag.net/2009/12/individual-mandate.html</link>
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		<title>Time to start again.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We felt a terrible disturbance in the force that night 9 years ago this month.
After the laughing gas childishness of the 1980s ended in an uplifting end of the Cold War, we went through an increasingly solipsistic if comfortable and optimistic decade in the 1990s. Competent, if not inspiring, administration led the country and even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://polemicmag.net/2009/12/time-to-start-again.html</link>
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		<title>The Bush Doctrine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rachel Maddow says Obama is following the Bush doctrine by escalating in Afghanistan. Specifically, because there is no threat there, fighting a war to prevent a threat means following the Bush doctrine.
Do you see how badly even smart folks are bamboozled by Bush? The &#8220;Bush Doctrine&#8221; may stink in the world of diplomacy, but it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://polemicmag.net/2009/12/the-bush-doctrine.html</link>
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		<title>Sweden and Israel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know what the deal with Sweden is. It&#8217;s a wonderful country that cares about its people. It has an open, tolerant society. But it&#8217;s history in foreign affairs has always been strange. Despite the intense rivalries, it is closest with Denmark, Norway, and Finland—the latter two of which gladly saw it go as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://polemicmag.net/2009/12/sweden-and-israel.html</link>
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		<title>Afghanistan Exit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a lot of liberal angst over Obama&#8217;s rumored escalation, but early word is it is in fact an exit strategy. If that&#8217;s the case, then it sounds like a good decision to me. Meanwhile, the additional troops, I presume, will try and give breathing room to the central government.
I wouldn&#8217;t support staying unless [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://polemicmag.net/2009/12/afghanistan-exit.html</link>
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		<title>The War on Christmas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every year we hear the O&#8217;Reillys of the world whine about the indignity of having to say &#8220;happy holidays&#8221; instead of &#8220;Merry Christmas.&#8221; (Everyone who insists on saying Merry Christmas is, of course, a huge defender of Israel. lol.) They apparently take offense at the notion that not everyone is wrapped up in their &#8220;holiday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://polemicmag.net/2009/11/the-war-on-christmas.html</link>
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		<title>Afghanistan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just to top off a day of heavy blogging so that I can get all of these thoughts off my chest.
I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;m on board with the leave Afghanistan crowd quite yet. That said, I&#8217;m not sure I understand what the escalation is for.
I recently learned in Where Men Win Glory that the entire [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://polemicmag.net/2009/11/afghanistan.html</link>
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