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		<title>Whither Healthcare Reform</title>
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		<title>The Obstinacy of Rangel</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The healthcare reform debate seems to have progressed to a point where the largest concern is now how to pay for it (it being the $120 billion a year needed to cover the nearly 50 million uninsured). In his budget, the President has proposed limiting tax deductions on charitable contributions and mortgage interest—deductions mostly enjoyed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democracyintheamericas.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4579453&amp;post=204&amp;subd=democracyintheamericas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem with the Republican Party</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got to say, I may disagree with David Brooks the great majority of the time but you&#8217;d be hard-pressed to find a more thoughtful, intellectually rigorous, and visionary conservative in America today. Below are some ideas he expressed recently at Yeshiva University: &#8220;The problem with the Republican party is that it&#8217;s still essentially a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democracyintheamericas.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4579453&amp;post=200&amp;subd=democracyintheamericas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Questions We Still Have</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I went to talk to a group of students,&#8221; he said, &#8220;and I decided to ask them what they wanted to learn about. So they made a list of questions, and to be honest, I don&#8217;t know how to answer those questions and that is why I am so glad I have run into you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democracyintheamericas.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4579453&amp;post=192&amp;subd=democracyintheamericas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Rich On the Way Up &amp; On the Way Down</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In light of the forthcoming Treasury Department plan to revamp regulation over the financial industry, some thoughts to ponder. &#8220;The [financial] crises have revealed the public&#8217;s attitude toward many in the superclass, highlighting resentment at what is seen as a pattern of gaming the system, of getting rich on the way up and on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democracyintheamericas.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4579453&amp;post=194&amp;subd=democracyintheamericas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The New Physics of Power</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great Charlie Rose interview with Joshua Cooper Ramo, a managing director with Kissinger Associates and author of The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It. Money quote: &#8220;What capitalism appears to be at this point is the most efficient engine for creating inequality [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democracyintheamericas.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4579453&amp;post=186&amp;subd=democracyintheamericas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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