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		<title>We Don&#8217;t Need No Stinking Reserve Currency</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Reuters:
MOSCOW, June 2 (Reuters) - The world needs a wider range of reserve currencies because the economic crisis in the United States has changed perceptions of the dollar, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview published on Tuesday.

A comment From Megan McArdle on the deficit:
Democrats have largely been treating debt and spending as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Can&#8217;t Stop the Beat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My lovely wife finds my tendency to break out dancing in public to be endearing and terribly embarrassing.&#160; I felt roughly the same way about this guy but the power of the dance can’t be denied. (via ze frank)



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		<title>Render Unto Ceasar What is God&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Thomas Nelson has published a new Bible titled, “The American Patriot’s Bible”.&#160; The idea is to target “the spiritual needs of those who love our country” – and by “our country” they mean America.&#160; Here’s the publisher’s description.
Product Description 
THE ONE BIBLE THAT SHOWS HOW &#8216;A LIGHT FROM ABOVE&#8217; SHAPED OUR NATION. Never has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Really Good Sentences – Robert Wright</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interviewed in the latest New York Times Magazine about his latest book, “The Evolution of God,” Robert Wright had this to say about Barack Obama’s self-assurance (says he is “someone who believes God is on his side”):
He shifts between the professorial and the preacherly in a way that is reminiscent of the Apostle Paul, although [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Clinton Plays Second Fiddle in Tune</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really enjoyed reading this week’s cover article in the New York Times Magazine, “The Mellowing of William Jefferson Clinton.”&#160; My interest in politics didn’t really start until after Bill Clinton had already left the White House in 2000 and I didn’t pay any attention to American politics until even later than that, so I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Reasons Not to Twitter</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven’t seen the first video, you should check it out over at Christina’s blog.
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		<title>MediaWatch: Sad State of Affairs Edition</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelcrook.ca/blog/2009/05/mediawatch-sad-state-of-affairs-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 06:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It remains to be seen who the victims of the ongoing carnage in Canadian media will be.&#160; Concerns about the viability of local TV news continue, the perilous position of Canwest is not much improved and now the Globe and Mail finds itself with a new editor.&#160; Meanwhile, a long list of journalistic icons are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inducing Envy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 18:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is mostly for my wife.&#160;&#160; I found a couple pictures (via Wendy Cooper) showing a small cabin that Michael Pollan built for himself - to escape to when he’s writing a book.&#160; I still haven’t read any of his writing (I keep meaning to), but if you’re interested in this little cabin, he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nice Stories to Read on a Monday Morning</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 16:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Warren Kinsella is gloating this morning with a link over at his blog to this story.&#160; It seems that there are lots of Conservative Party political staffers shopping resumes on the street in case they won’t make it back into government after the next election.&#160; It’s exactly the kind of story that Liberals across the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting on Message</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 00:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve always been the guy who got involved in politics to figure out what the right answer is, to ask, “what should be done about X.”&#160; But when I entered the CBC’s “Next Great Prime Minister” contest last fall, I was reminded that being right isn’t what politics is about.
When I was deciding what ideas [...]]]></description>
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