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	<title>The Public Philosopher &#187; Obama</title>
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		<title>Has Stewart gone soft?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/28/has-stewart-gone-soft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comedian interviews president&#8211;credentials revoked? After Jon Stewart&#8217;s interview of Barack Obama on last night&#8217;s Daily Show (the comedian&#8217;s first of a sitting president), New York Times blogger Alessandra Stanley asks, &#8220;whether a political satirist loses credibility when hobnobbing with a sitting president.&#8221; One of Stewart&#8217;s hallmarks is ability, even zeal, to skewer journalists who not [...]


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		<title>Ignore them. They&#8217;re insane.</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/22/ignore-them-theyre-insane/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The possible contradiction at the heart of Stewart and Colbert&#8217;s rallies. Jon Stewart’s upcoming “Rally to Restore Sanity” and Stephen Colbert’s mock counter-rally, “March to Keep Fear Alive”—satirical (yet deeply seriously) responses to Glen Beck’s “Restore Honor” rally—are a rare form of politics, and not because comedians are leading the way. There are, very generally, [...]


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		<title>Do ask, do tell –later, when you’re a little older</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/13/do-ask-do-tell-%e2%80%93later-when-you%e2%80%99re-a-little-older/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday, a federal judge in California ruled Don’t Ask Don’t Tell unconstitutional on First and Fifth Amendment grounds for restricting the rights of gay service members to free speech, free association, and due process.  The case put the Obama administration in a slightly awkward position, having to defend a standing law that it is [...]


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		<title>Are you a demand-sider or a supply-sider?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/07/are-you-a-demand-sider-or-a-supply-sider/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC reports that the Obama administration has designated $50 billion dollars for infrastructure improvements as part of efforts to jump-start the US economy. The claim that the project will help jump-start the economy is contestable, but difficult to prove either way. Broadly speaking, there are two influential schools of macroeconomic thought. One is the [...]


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		<title>Obama: read this blog</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/23/obama-read-this-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Political consultants ask Obama to do more philosophizing A lengthy piece in today&#8217;s Politico quotes a wide range of political consultants, former high-level White House advisers, and pollsters who all reiterate the same shortcoming about President Obama: By declining to speak clearly and often about his larger philosophy — and insisting that his actions are [...]


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		<title>It&#8217;s the economy, stupid</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/23/its-the-economy-stupid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Equality butts heads with freedom Jonathan Martin and Ben Smith write at Politico that a new debate about first principles and the role of government has replaced the social issues at stake during the “culture wars” of the last three decades. This dispute over first principles is deeply entwined with questions of national identity and [...]


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		<title>Mosque-ing the the real problem</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/17/mosque-ing-the-the-real-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon &#8211; Thurs 11p / 10c Mosque-Erade www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party Mainstream media lets us down.  Again. Last night&#8217;s Daily Show had its usual fun with the political controversy engulfing plans to build a mosque and Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero.  We&#8217;re going [...]


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		<title>Sensitivity and principle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, President Obama weighed in publicly on the mosque at ground zero. In doing so, he has joined Mayor Bloomberg as one of few major political figures who have openly voiced support for the project on the basis of freedom of religion. However, polls indicate that Americans as well as New Yorkers overwhelmingly oppose [...]


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		<title>The nuclear arsenal and promise-keeping</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ethan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article in the L.A. Times reports that the Obama administration plans to greatly increase spending on the nuclear arsenal. Obama has made the reduction of nuclear weapons a serious and oft-repeated promise both during his campaign and throughout his time in office so far. Indeed, the plan calls for a reduction in the amount [...]


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		<title>The Obama paradox</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How transformational change and buck-passing make odd bedfellows Despite a tough economy, weakening approval ratings, and a recalcitrant Republican opposition, President Obama has managed to chase down two longtime liberal white whales, and is hot on the heels of a third (or fourth). Earlier this year he signed into law a health care reform bill [...]


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