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		<title>No Candidate Left Behind</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama was not the only African American running for president in the 2008 elections. But few knew of Cynthia McKinney, Georgia’s first African-American Congresswoman and this year’s Green Party Candidate. In a plurality-takes-all political climate, little knowledge of the third-party candidates is understandable. Many believe that voting for a third party is a waste [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is There any Excuse for TV News?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[- Written after watching a segment about soldier risk in Iraq &#8220;We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Main and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.&#8221; ––Henry David Thoreau History of our demise: The telegraph gave us context-free information; information about which we knew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to Ralph Nader</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[- written on Monday, November 10, 2008 Dear Mr Nader, I am an undergraduate at The New School in New York. I&#8217;m old enough to remember the reasons why my mother voted for you in 2000 and voted for you myself in 2004, but realized that by the time the 2008 elections came about, although [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Natural Choice?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“This mixture of vagueness and sheer incompetence is the most marked characteristic of modern English prose, and especially of any kind of political writing… Political language is designed to make our lies sound truthful, and murder respectable” — George Orwell, Politics and the English Language, 1946. “See, in my line of work you got to [...]]]></description>
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