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		<title>Jonah Goldberg and the Meaning of Racism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, according to Game Change, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, Senator Harry Reid said (quote via):
that Obama’s political advantages included his light skin tone and his ability to speak &#8220;with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.&#8221;
Based on this quote, he stands accused of racism by numerous critics, including Jonah Goldberg in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.liberalwalrus.com/2010/01/13/jonah-goldberg-and-the-meaning-of-racism/</link>
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		<title>The Future Gets Worse and Worse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, this happened:
Climate researchers now predict the planet will warm by 6.3 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century even if the world&#8217;s leaders fulfill their most ambitious climate pledges, a much faster and broader scale of change than forecast just two years ago, according to a report released Thursday by the United Nations [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.liberalwalrus.com/2009/09/25/the-future-gets-worse-and-worse/</link>
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		<title>On the Hotness of Their Women</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It can be challenging to pick out individual threads from the tapestry of jaw-dropping nuttiness that constitutes the right-wing of the current Republican base. Watching the incoherent, but violent, tempest that was the teabag protest inspired feelings of despair. Here, it seemed, were a mass of people wholly uninterested in fact, in dialogue, who were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.liberalwalrus.com/2009/09/25/on-the-hotness-of-their-women/</link>
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		<title>Plenty of Blame</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his column today, Frank Rich pointed something out that I think us liberals would do well to remember.  President Obama&#8217;s inauguration speech was not only a statement of his intent to make some changes, to rectify some of the mistakes that his predecessor made, but
Obama wasn’t just rebuking the outgoing administration. He was delicately [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.liberalwalrus.com/2009/01/26/plenty-of-blame/</link>
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		<title>A New President</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's the best of times.  It's the worst of times.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.liberalwalrus.com/2009/01/19/a-new-president/</link>
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		<title>The Return</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a long hiatus, this blog returns]]></description>
		<link>http://www.liberalwalrus.com/2009/01/02/the-return/</link>
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		<title>Exxon&#8217;s Huge Profits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As was reported earlier this month (for instance, in this New York Times story), Exxon Mobil made humongous profits in 2007, amounting to $40.6 billion.  Higher prices for oil led to the increase, although Exxon has been making tons of money for a while.  Two divergent responses to such news are possible. On [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.liberalwalrus.com/2008/02/13/exxons-huge-profits/</link>
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		<title>Bringing a Knife to a Gunfight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another element in the developing debate over Bill Clinton&#8217;s behavior and Hillary&#8217;s campaign is the posture of transcendence that the Obama campaign has been adopting.  Obama, the message goes, prefers not to get involved in politics-as-usual mudslinging.  He would rather bring us together than divide us.  This narrative is rhetorically effective, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.liberalwalrus.com/2008/01/28/bringing-a-knife-to-a-gunfight/</link>
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		<title>Frank Rich Decries Billary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love Frank Rich&#8217;s columns in the New York Times.  I look forward to them.  But this week I was a little surprised by his thoughts on the role of Bill Clinton in Hillary&#8217;s campaign for president.  As I have written about, it seems weird to me how every time Bill disagrees [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.liberalwalrus.com/2008/01/27/frank-rich-decries-billary/</link>
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		<title>Abortion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In anticipation of the coming general elections, in which debate about abortion will no doubt figure prominently, I wanted to highlight and discuss two developing debates on that topic.  In both cases, we see groups who do not believe that a woman should have the right to decide what happens to her body willfully [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.liberalwalrus.com/2008/01/26/abortion/</link>
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