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	<description>Reclaiming American Democracy</description>
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		<title>National Magazine Award Winners</title>
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National Geographic has always been a photo magazine of high quality.  The focus in recent years has shifted from exotic people and locales to the health of the earth, still with incredible photography but now with reportage and science about the challenges being faced all over the world.  It is good to see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2008/05/09/national-magazine-award-winners/</link>
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		<title>The Race for 2008:  Timber!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As reported by the Portland Oregonian&#8217;s Matthew Preusch, the Clinton and Obama campaigns are generating more than partisan enthusiasm: &#8220;Around the corner from Clinton&#8217;s office, at the Jackson County Democrats&#8217; headquarters, two books on Hillary Clinton were on display at a small lending library. Next to them was a sign reading, &#8220;All Obama books are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2008/05/09/the-race-for-2008-timber/</link>
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		<title>Iran:  Feigning a Crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Charleston Gazette takes a day off from politics to contemplate the stupidity of a war that the Bush administration seems keen to fight: &#8220;In December, the U.S. National Intelligence Estimate, assembled by all U.S. intelligence agencies, reported that Iran has no atomic bomb program. Nonetheless, the administration insists that Iranians are developing bombs. Bush [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2008/05/09/iran-feigning-a-crisis/</link>
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		<title>Lebanon:  Political Mediocrity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Beirut&#8217;s Daily Star puts the blame for renewed street violence squarely on the inadequate leadership shown by both ruling and opposition parties: &#8220;The question is not whether these and other political leaders in Lebanon will ultimately agree on a comprehensive compromise that they can live with. That is as certain as the breeze. The unknown [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2008/05/09/lebanon-political-mediocrity/</link>
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		<title>McCain&#8217;s Spiritual Advisor</title>
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&#8220;one of the truly great leaders in America, a moral compass, a spiritual guide&#8221;—
 John McCain, of Reverend Rod Parsley
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		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2008/05/08/mccains-spiritual-advisor/</link>
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		<title>Falluja III</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the bloody months of November and December 2004 US and British forces drove through Falluja in operation Phantom Fury and laid it waste.
The city, once referred to as the &#8220;City of Mosques&#8221;, had 200+ pre-battle mosques of which 60 or so were destroyed in the fighting. Perhaps half the homes suffered at least some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2008/05/08/falluja-iii/</link>
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		<title>Last 6 Primaries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No delegate count here, but a quick summary of the last 6 Dem primaries by Taegan Goddard
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		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2008/05/08/last-6-primaries/</link>
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		<title>Organize, Organize, Organize!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is about the most interesting set of posts I&#8217;ve read in a long time.  Tell me if you don&#8217;t think so.
The Obama Party?
dday at Hullabaloo
On Saturday, in over 100 locations across the country, the Obama Vote for Change campaign will roll out with kickoff events all over the country designed to register and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2008/05/08/organize-organize-organize/</link>
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		<title>Income Taxes: Cindy and Teresa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may have heard that Cindy McCain will never, never, never release her Income Tax Returns.
Maybe the good old boys in the right wing who were so incensed that Teresa Heinz Kerry would only release a two page summary of hers haven&#8217;t heard.  They hounded Heinz Kerry and husband plain old John until our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2008/05/08/income-taxes-cindy-and-teresa/</link>
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		<title>Campaign Trail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Obamamania on House Floor
&#8220;Sen. Barack Obama was mobbed on the House floor this morning as he hunted for superdelegates to lock up the Democratic nomination. Republicans, Clinton supporters, his own backers and more than a few undecided Democrats received the Illinois senator as if he were already the nominee. 
&#8230; He headed over to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2008/05/08/campaign-trail/</link>
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		<title>Lebanon:  New Threats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Al Jazeera is providing regular updates on the escalating violence between Hezbollah and government forces: &#8220;Fears that the political conflict in Lebanon could escalate into sectarian conflict were heightened when Mohammed Rashid Kabbani, Lebanon&#8217;s Sunni grand mufti, spoke against Hezbollah for the fist time.
&#8220;Sunni Muslims in Lebanon have had enough,&#8221; Kabbani said in a televised [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2008/05/08/lebanon-new-threats/</link>
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		<title>The CPI Gimmickry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Phillips, once a conservative and now their scourge, writer [American Theocracy; American Dynasty and recently Bad Money] and thinker has a post at HuffingtonPost called &#8220;Washington&#8217;s Great No Inflation Hoax&#8221;  If you keep track of your grocery bill, or clothing bill and wonder at the claims of little or no inflation pushed out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2008/05/08/the-cpi-gimmickry/</link>
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		<title>War Funding Bill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;As House leaders pulled the emergency supplemental spending bill from Thursday’s calendar, they face new problems from the party’s left wing in even getting the bill to the floor.
A leader of the Out-of-Iraq Caucus, upset that the spending bill continues the war well into 2009, said this morning that liberal members may join conservative Democrats [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2008/05/08/war-funding-bill/</link>
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		<title>The Middle East:  Gloomy Forecast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writing in Beirut&#8217;s Daily Star, Rami Khouri sees trouble ahead for many of the region&#8217;s countries and peoples: &#8220;The demographics of the Middle East also increase economic and political stresses. The population of the region is now mostly urban, young, educated, and defined by rising expectations, while at the same time it is politically frustrated. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2008/05/08/the-middle-east-gloomy-forecast/</link>
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		<title>Climate Security Act</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Climate Security Act, otherwise known as the Lieberman-Warner Bill &#8212; now S. 2191 &#8212; is coming up to crunch time in the Senate.  Today the NRDC (National Resource Defense Council) put full page ads in the New York Times and other places urging letters demanding support to your Senators, asking for help to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2008/05/08/climate-security-act/</link>
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		<title>The Race for 2008:  Pump it Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Chris Satullo condemns the &#8216;pandering&#8217; over gas prices that has linked two of the three standing candidates for president: &#8220;What we need is not a holiday from the gas tax, but from cynical politics of the type McCain and Clinton now pursue, arms linked together.&#8221;
Kumbaya
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		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2008/05/08/the-race-for-2008-pump-it-up/</link>
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		<title>The Race for 2008:  Tent City</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Daily News&#8217; Mike Lupica thinks its time for Hillary&#8217;s tent to come down: &#8220;She plods ahead now, only in the race because she won Indiana by the size of a Knicks crowd, and all Hillary Clinton has left is giving people another month of reasons not to vote for the black guy.
She [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2008/05/08/the-race-for-2008-tent-city/</link>
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		<title>The Race for 2008:  Almost Heaven</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite calls for her to get out of the race, and as reported by the Charleston Gazette&#8217;s Tom Searls, Hillary and Bill are barnstorming across West Virginia hoping that her poll numbers in the state reflect the actual mood of voters: &#8220;A recent poll showed Clinton easily defeating her opponent, U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2008/05/08/the-race-for-2008-almost-heaven/</link>
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		<title>The Opposite of Green</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Americans rank last in a new National Geographic-sponsored survey released Wednesday that compares environmental consumption habits in 14 countries.
Americans were least likely to choose the greener option in three out of four categories — housing, transportation and consumer goods_ according to the assessment.
McClatchy

Very interesting, the source:  National Geographic.  As the science has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2008/05/07/the-opposite-of-green/</link>
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		<title>100,000 Thought to be Dead in Burma</title>
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The number 100,000 is now being heard about the deaths in Burma/Myanmar.  Impossible to believe.  Though at least their suffering is over.  Drinkable water is hard to find.  Food is disappearing fast.  And the corrupt Generals who are called the government can not mobilize the response that is needed nor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2008/05/07/100000-thought-to-be-dead-in-burma/</link>
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