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<channel><title><![CDATA[washingtonpost.com - Al Kamen's In The Loop Column]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032402404.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><description><![CDATA[Al Kamen's In the Loop column reports on the latest comings and goings in official Washington,from White House personnel to lobbyists to members of Congress.]]></description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com?nav=rss</link><url>http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif </url></image>
<item><title><![CDATA[ No More 'ASEAN Idol'? ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/24/AR2008072403424.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/24/AR2008072403424.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ There may have been some hints of progress to report from the annual Asia-Pacific security meeting this week in Singapore. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met "informally" with her North Korean counterpart during the 27-country regional forum. More talks, at the foreign minister level, are scheduled among the key players working on the North Korean nukes problem. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[No]]></category><category><![CDATA[More]]></category><category><![CDATA['ASEAN]]></category><category><![CDATA[Idol'?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Association of Southeast Asian Nations]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Condoleezza Rice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eric Boswell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jay Leno]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sean McCormack]]></category><category><![CDATA[Singapore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dennis Kucinich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adolf Hitler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colin Powell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dar Es Salaam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Darth Vader]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerusalem]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jesus Christ]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Conyers]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Negroponte]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madeleine Albright]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nairobi]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nouri al-Maliki]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Zoellick]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sergei Lavrov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Surin Pitsuwan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yevgeny Primakov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Austria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madonna Lebling]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mississippi River]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tanzania]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Jerusalem Post]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Times Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Village People]]></category><category><![CDATA[YMCA]]></category><category><![CDATA[YouTube LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ And a Wildebeest in Every Pot ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/22/AR2008072202641.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/22/AR2008072202641.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Sometimes even the most altruistic notions come to naught. Take the nifty idea of Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) to help the neediest of the needy: the 230,000 refugees in Chad who have fled the slaughter in Darfur and are desperately in need of food. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[And]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wildebeest]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Every]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pot]]></category><category><![CDATA[Duncan Hunter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chad]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zalmay Khalilzad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wendy M. Hilton]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Civil Liberties Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[Central Intelligence Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category><category><![CDATA[Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tanzania]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Darfur]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category><category><![CDATA[Condoleezza Rice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kabul]]></category><category><![CDATA[N'djamena]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen Hadley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julie Tate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cable News Network LP LLLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Government of Chad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Nations General Assembly]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Nations World Food Programme]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southern Africa]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Put a Caipirinha in Your Tank ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/17/AR2008071703062.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/17/AR2008071703062.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The country's looking for independence from foreign oil. Lawmakers are listening to ethanol promoters tout the value of plant-based fuels -- corn or switch grass or sugar cane -- as an alternative. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Put]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Caipirinha]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Your]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tank]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen Payne]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Chertoff]]></category><category><![CDATA[Larry Craig]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brasilia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Condoleezza Rice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oslo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rio de Janeiro]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rome]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen Colbert]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen Hadley]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Association of Port Authorities]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aspen Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Development Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[Homeland Security Advisory Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iguassu Falls]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kyrgyzstan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Norway]]></category><category><![CDATA[Slovenia]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Times of London]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. News & World Report LP]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Press International Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hilton Hotels Corporation]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Not a Green-Letter Day on Capitol Hill ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/15/AR2008071502875.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/15/AR2008071502875.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ B arbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, asked Vice President Cheney on Nov. 1 for documents on the White House's reported watering down of testimony by the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about global warming's harmful effects on public health.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3024104827866" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3024104827866" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Not]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Green-Letter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Day]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hamid Karzai]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chuck Grassley]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gons Gutierrez Nachman]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alex Conant]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Addington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Timothy J. Russert]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cable News Network LP LLLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[AFC East Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Football Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[Buffalo Bills]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Football League]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tibet]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beijing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gerald Bruce Lee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Orchard Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Gates]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works]]></category><category><![CDATA[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dirksen Senate Office Building]]></category><category><![CDATA[Meet the Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBC Universal Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Okinawa Prefecture]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Iran Apparently in Possession of Photoshop ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/10/AR2008071002709.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/10/AR2008071002709.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It's customary for nations to do a bit of chest-thumping as they are about to begin negotiations, which Iran has agreed to consider in a meeting next week with European Union official Javier Solana. The idea is to do something that your opponents will see as a sign of strength before talks begin, especially, in this case, when the talks involve your nuclear program. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Apparently]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Possession]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Photoshop]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nouri al-Maliki]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeff Runge]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reuters Group plc]]></category><category><![CDATA[Javier Solana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlotte]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ehud Olmert]]></category><category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ibrahim al-Jaafari]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jacob Lawrence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeffrey H. Birnbaum]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kim Jong-il]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tehran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adobe Photoshop]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Agence France-Presse]]></category><category><![CDATA[Air Transport Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[British Broadcasting Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps]]></category><category><![CDATA[Islamic Republic News Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kuwait]]></category><category><![CDATA[LittleGreenFootballs.com]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Times]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Gallery of Art]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Highway Traffic Safety Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[StopOilSpeculationNow.com]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Times Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Phillips Collection]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tribune Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Sorry About That 'Political Dilettante' Part, Mr. Prime Minister ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/08/AR2008070802652.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/08/AR2008070802652.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Six months to go and the wheels seem to be seriously wobbling on the Bush administration. First, the White House had to apologize to South Korea for announcing prematurely that President Bush would be visiting that country in conjunction with his trip to the Olympics in Beijing. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Sorry]]></category><category><![CDATA[About]]></category><category><![CDATA[That]]></category><category><![CDATA['Political]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dilettante']]></category><category><![CDATA[Part,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prime]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minister]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jesse Helms]]></category><category><![CDATA[Silvio Berlusconi]]></category><category><![CDATA[G-8]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brussels]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kabul]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kristen Silverberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tony Fratto]]></category><category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alice Crites]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baghdad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beijing]]></category><category><![CDATA[C. Boyden Gray]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dio Mio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Little Rock]]></category><category><![CDATA[London]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madrid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Kinsley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paris]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rome]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Neumann]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Pic]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zalmay Khalilzad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Academy of Diplomacy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bethesda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bloomberg LP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carnegie Endowment for International Peace]]></category><category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ray Baronie]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Korea]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Times Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[UK Daily Mail]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter Reed Health Care System]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Where Will Fredo Pop Up Next? ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/03/AR2008070302725.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/03/AR2008070302725.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ First he popped up at Friday night's baseball game between the Nats and the O's. Next thing you know, he's in the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday as an op-ed columnist. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Where]]></category><category><![CDATA[Will]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fredo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pop]]></category><category><![CDATA[Up]]></category><category><![CDATA[Next?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alberto Gonzales]]></category><category><![CDATA[Food and Drug Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Douglas Feith]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Ashcroft]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andrew Card]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Comey]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lawrence Wilkerson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Free Will Baptist School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Times]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Pentagon]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Agriculture]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Government Accountability Office]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ I Feel Pretty and Witty and . . . What? ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/01/AR2008070102523.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/01/AR2008070102523.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Having an "auto-replace" filter seemed like a good notion at the time to folks at the conservative American Family Association's OneNewsNow.com Web site. There were certain words that would pop up from time to time in the Associated Press stories that moved onto the site that were a bit salacious, or unacceptable to post.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3024104828714" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3024104828714" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[I]]></category><category><![CDATA[Feel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pretty]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Witty]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[.]]></category><category><![CDATA[.]]></category><category><![CDATA[.]]></category><category><![CDATA[What?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fred Jackson]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Condoleezza Rice]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Bolton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rudy Homosexual]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shaha Riza]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[The World Bank Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alice Crites]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Family Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antoine Chedid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beirut]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Feltman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jong Two]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kim Jong-il]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Wolfowitz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pyongyang]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rafik Hariri]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rudy Gay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen Hadley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tyson Gay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hezbollah]]></category><category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category><category><![CDATA[People for the American Way]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States Olympic Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lebanon]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Mobile Social Network Loopt Sues Loop'd Network, Over Name Similarity ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/30/AR2008063001361.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/30/AR2008063001361.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:00:03 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Loopt, the mobile social network which is backed by Sequoia and NEA, has filed a lawsuit against Loop'd Network, a social network for action sports athletes and enthusiasts, over alleged trademark infringement, alleging that the two names are too similar and cause confusion. Loopt is asking the court to enjoin Loop'd Network from continuing to use the name, and is also seeking damages and three times the profit that Loop'd Network has earned, PEHub reports. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[mocoNews]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Mobile]]></category><category><![CDATA[Social]]></category><category><![CDATA[Network]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loopt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sues]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loop'd]]></category><category><![CDATA[Network,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Over]]></category><category><![CDATA[Name]]></category><category><![CDATA[Similarity]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Desert Sand in Iraq, Sandbags in Iowa, and . . . ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062603375.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062603375.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Thousands of National Guard troops are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Others have been rushed to the flood-ravaged Midwest. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Desert]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sand]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sandbags]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa,]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[.]]></category><category><![CDATA[.]]></category><category><![CDATA[.]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Price]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Shelby]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Army National Guard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Easter Island]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hezbollah]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category><category><![CDATA[ProPublica]]></category><category><![CDATA[Galapagos Islands]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Curl]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Gertz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brad Miller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dafna Linzer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Danny Ayalon]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Corn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hassan Nasrallah]]></category><category><![CDATA[Homam Ali]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jackson Hole]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Cooper]]></category><category><![CDATA[Keith Ellison]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lois Capps]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mel Watt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Morton Kondracke]]></category><category><![CDATA[Springfield (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tehran]]></category><category><![CDATA[60 Minutes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adjutants General Association of the United States Spring]]></category><category><![CDATA[CBS Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chile]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democracy Assistance Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Liberia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mauritania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Times]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Secret Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Caribbean]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minnesota]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tennessee]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Virgin Islands]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wyoming]]></category><category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The DOT Cafeteria, Not So Accommodating ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/24/AR2008062401351.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/24/AR2008062401351.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Disabled employees at Department of Transportation headquarters are most unhappy these days with their new digs down by the Navy Yard in Southeast Washington. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[DOT]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cafeteria,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Not]]></category><category><![CDATA[So]]></category><category><![CDATA[Accommodating]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[FEMA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Douglas Feith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seoul]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[G-8]]></category><category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Transportation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dana Perino]]></category><category><![CDATA[Darrell Issa]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Addington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Bond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerrold Nadler]]></category><category><![CDATA[John C. Yoo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kim Jong-il]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lawrence Wilkerson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lee Myung-bak]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tony Blair]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tucker Bounds]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ursula Andress]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zalmay Khalilzad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Camp David]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Public Radio Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Korea]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Access Board]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. General Services Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Bad Blood and an Empty Chair ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/19/AR2008061903150.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/19/AR2008061903150.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The stage was set Wednesday afternoon at the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, civil rights and civil liberties to hear former deputy undersecretary of defense Douglas J. Feith testify about the use of harsh interrogation techniques on detainees.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3024104829002" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3024104829002" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Bad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Blood]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[an]]></category><category><![CDATA[Empty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chair]]></category><category><![CDATA[Douglas Feith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lawrence Wilkerson]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Moustakas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colin Powell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alphonso Jackson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rod Paige]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tommy Franks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Benjamin Harrison]]></category><category><![CDATA[Decatur]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward Reddington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Packer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerrold Nadler]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Conyers]]></category><category><![CDATA[John D. Podesta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lafayette]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lee H. Hamilton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maria Anderson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marian Anderson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Norman Mineta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Wolfowitz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard N. Perle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ryan Crocker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sisseretta Jones]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen Hadley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Burger King Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category><category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Likud Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Times]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican National Congressional Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Pentagon]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Secret Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Your Government at Work. No Peeking. ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/17/AR2008061702812.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/17/AR2008061702812.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Tales of life here in the nation's capital. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Your]]></category><category><![CDATA[Government]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[Work.]]></category><category><![CDATA[No]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peeking.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Owen Cargol]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cuba]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Slovenia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Dobbs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Decatur]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Agresto]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[American University of Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Central Intelligence Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adel Abdul Mahdi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hiroshima]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iyad Allawi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jalal Talabani]]></category><category><![CDATA[John F. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[London]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert McNamara]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Mueller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sulaymaniyah]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zalmay Khalilzad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu Dhabi University]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Horse Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[Coalition Provisional Authority]]></category><category><![CDATA[District of Columbia Court System]]></category><category><![CDATA[France]]></category><category><![CDATA[Google Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Center for Journalists]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Judicial Academy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Arizona University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Redbrick Partners LP]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Arizona Republic]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Secret Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maine at Augusta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ He Won't Have Paris -- at Least Not This Time ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/12/AR2008061203781.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/12/AR2008061203781.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Everyone who's anyone is gathering in Paris these days for the big international donors conference on Afghanistan. Laura Bush was there for the opening yesterday. Her husband arrives late tonight. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other senior State Department officials, joined by delegates from 65 other countries and 15 international organizations, will be on hand. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[He]]></category><category><![CDATA[Won't]]></category><category><![CDATA[Have]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paris]]></category><category><![CDATA[--]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[Least]]></category><category><![CDATA[Not]]></category><category><![CDATA[This]]></category><category><![CDATA[Time]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hamid Karzai]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zalmay Khalilzad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Zoellick]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Taliban]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paris]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Lieberman]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category><category><![CDATA[Condoleezza Rice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marwan Muasher]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Wolfowitz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[E. Richard Mills]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ed Meese]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eddie Bernice Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Costa]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Tanner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kabul]]></category><category><![CDATA[Laura Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mazar-e Sharif]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ted Strick]]></category><category><![CDATA[Asia Society]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Slovenia]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[The World Bank Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Commerce]]></category><category><![CDATA[Galapagos Islands]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tennessee]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Get Thee to an Airport! ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/10/AR2008061002803.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/10/AR2008061002803.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Bummed that you missed that spectacular congressional trip last month to Slovenia and Italy? Not to worry. There's an even better one leaving tomorrow for . . . drumroll . . . the Galapagos! ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Get]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thee]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[an]]></category><category><![CDATA[Airport!]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul C. Light]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Inglis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brian Baird]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frank Lucas]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Glassman]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Tanner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Quito]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Broadcasting Board of Governors]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Central Intelligence Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Slovenia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ben Chandler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Darwin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clay Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Condoleezza Rice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dan Quayle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Darlene Hooley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eddie Bernice Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edwin Meese]]></category><category><![CDATA[G. Calvin Mackenzie]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jamie Rubin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lyndon Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pendleton James]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Holbrooke]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russ Feingold]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alice Crites]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colby College]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ecuador]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Security Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Radio Marti]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Armed Forces]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Voice of America]]></category><category><![CDATA[Galapagos Islands]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oklahoma]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tennessee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ AL KAMEN ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/22/AR2008052203703.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/22/AR2008052203703.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Al Kamen is away. His column will resume when he returns.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3024104829941" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3024104829941" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[AL]]></category><category><![CDATA[KAMEN]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Italian Job ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/20/AR2008052001520.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/20/AR2008052001520.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ No plans for Memorial Day? Then hurry: Seats are still available for one of the best, not-to-be-missed congressional delegations of the spring season -- featuring a night at the opera -- "Tosca," of course -- in Venice! ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Italian]]></category><category><![CDATA[Job]]></category><category><![CDATA[Venice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Naples]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shelley Berkley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Giacomo Puccini]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[James J. Yee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eliot Engel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gary L. Ackerman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Costa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loretta Sanchez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russ Carnahan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steve Israel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ljubljana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andrews Air Force Base]]></category><category><![CDATA[Slovenia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cliff Stearns]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward Whitfield]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grand Rapids]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joe L. Barton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ljubljana Castle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Olympia (Washington)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Phil Gingrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pompeii]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tiziana Caruso]]></category><category><![CDATA[West Point]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aviano Air Base]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cuba]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[European Parliament]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grand Hotel Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gulf of Naples]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gulf of Salerno]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hotel Excelsior]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kevlar]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Archaeological Museum]]></category><category><![CDATA[Regina Hotel]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Pentagon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Michelin Group]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Holes in the Memory ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/15/AR2008051503538.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/15/AR2008051503538.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ President Bush has been ridiculed and chastised in the liberal blogosphere for saying he gave up golf to show solidarity with the troops fighting in Iraq. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Holes]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Memory]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Agriculture]]></category><category><![CDATA[Blackwater Worldwide]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sergio De Mello]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nicholas Burns]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bonjean Co.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aung San Suu Kyi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baghdad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dennis Hastert]]></category><category><![CDATA[Don Evans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward A. Powell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henrietta Fore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jon Kyl]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Wolfowitz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Gates]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert P. McNamara]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robin Cleveland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ron Bonjean]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saddam Hussein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trent Lott]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yangon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Agency for International Development]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andrews Air Force Base]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bosnia and Herzegovina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Burmese Army]]></category><category><![CDATA[Commission on the Prevention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cyclone Nargis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Department of Defense Senior Executive Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kuwait]]></category><category><![CDATA[Myanmar]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Republican Senatorial Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Pentagon]]></category><category><![CDATA[The World Bank Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[Union Solidarity and Development Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Veteran GOP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wilson Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[NATO]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pacific Northwestern States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[White House National Security Council]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ One Palestinian State, Hold the Swiss ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/13/AR2008051303260.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/13/AR2008051303260.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ President Bush took off last night for the Middle East and another round of peace chats. With Israel's prime minister weakened by scandal and the Palestinian half-president rumored to be resigning, it doesn't seem as though much is going to happen. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[One]]></category><category><![CDATA[Palestinian]]></category><category><![CDATA[State,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hold]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Swiss]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul C. Light]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julie Myers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marwan Muasher]]></category><category><![CDATA[DR-CAFTA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Steel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Maer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ahmed Qurei]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexander Hamilton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Buenos Aires]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Boehner]]></category><category><![CDATA[King Abdallah II]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Knoller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rahm Emanuel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tzipi Livni]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter Reed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category><category><![CDATA[60 Minutes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category><category><![CDATA[Camp David]]></category><category><![CDATA[CBS Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[CBS Radio Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Effexor]]></category><category><![CDATA[G-8]]></category><category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category><category><![CDATA[NASA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sea Island Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement]]></category><category><![CDATA[Uruguay]]></category><category><![CDATA[York University's Wagner School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Standing for Change in the Courts? Good Luck. ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/08/AR2008050803438.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/08/AR2008050803438.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) made it clear this week that he's just itching to get into the Oval Office to end "the common and systematic abuse of our federal courts" by out-of-control, wackadoodle, ACLU-loving judges.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3024104831661" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3024104831661" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Standing]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Change]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Courts?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Good]]></category><category><![CDATA[Luck.]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlen Specter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Helene White]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jon Kyl]]></category><category><![CDATA[Raymond Kethledge]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Civil Liberties Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony M. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonin Scalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clarence Thomas]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Vitter]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack Abramoff]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Doolittle]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Paul Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Larry Craig]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lyndon Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manuel L. Real]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minneapolis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick Leahy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rick Renzi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roy Bernardi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vito Fossella]]></category><category><![CDATA[Internal Revenue Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Court of Appeals]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Federal Judicial Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Just Can't Shake That Nazi Party Hangover ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/06/AR2008050602698.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/06/AR2008050602698.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Tough news last night in the closely watched Republican primary in Indiana's 2nd Congressional District. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Just]]></category><category><![CDATA[Can't]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shake]]></category><category><![CDATA[That]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nazi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hangover]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tony Zirkle]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary Gade]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen L. Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tribune Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Chocola]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Darlene Williams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henry Waxman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Luke Puckett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Socialist Workers Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerry Brown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adolf Hitler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alphonso Jackson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Atlanta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barbara Boxer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bharat Mathur]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlie Chaplin]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Goshen (Indiana)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Roush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marcus Peacock]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fannie Mae]]></category><category><![CDATA[Freddie Mac Holdings]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lake Huron]]></category><category><![CDATA[Office of Policy Development and Research]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saginaw Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Dow Chemical Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Times of Northwest Indiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ That Banner, That Ship. Remember? ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/01/AR2008050103223.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/01/AR2008050103223.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Antiwar folks and media critics were preparing all week for the annual Bush-bashing yesterday on the fifth anniversary of the president's appearance on the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln with that "Mission Accomplished" banner behind him. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[That]]></category><category><![CDATA[Banner,]]></category><category><![CDATA[That]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ship.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Remember?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dana Perino]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maybe Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald L. Rodgers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Woodward]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donald H. Rumsfeld]]></category><category><![CDATA[Helen Thomas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Journal Sentinel Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Lardner Jr]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Diedrich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reggie Walton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roger Adams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alice Crites]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Park Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Times Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ If You Don't Show Up, Everybody Talks About You ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/29/AR2008042902561.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/29/AR2008042902561.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The New York Times has been taking hits of late for its new policy of boycotting the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner. The Times apparently has decided that the media-politician chumminess is unseemly and maybe even borderline unethical. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[If]]></category><category><![CDATA[You]]></category><category><![CDATA[Don't]]></category><category><![CDATA[Show]]></category><category><![CDATA[Up,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Everybody]]></category><category><![CDATA[Talks]]></category><category><![CDATA[About]]></category><category><![CDATA[You]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Craig Ferguson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Douglas Feith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bureau of Land Management]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Nelson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Condoleezza Rice]]></category><category><![CDATA[El Paso]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hussein Haqqani]]></category><category><![CDATA[Larry Craig]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Times Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[White House Correspondents' Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Benazir Bhutto]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ciudad Juarez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henri R. Bisson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jayson Blair]]></category><category><![CDATA[Judith Miller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Kimmitt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martha Raddatz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Wolfowitz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pervez Musharraf]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard R. Medina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Springfield]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tucson]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona Daily Star]]></category><category><![CDATA[Blames Congress]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boston University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Congressional Quarterly Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Counterterrorism Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Sun One SL LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Pentagon]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of the Interior]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Wacky Canadians Still Believe in Privacy ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/24/AR2008042403617.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/24/AR2008042403617.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff caused a little ruckus up north a couple weeks ago as he was pushing his plan to share databases of international air travelers' fingerprints with the Canadians, Brits and Aussies.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3024104831947" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3024104831947" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Wacky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Canadians]]></category><category><![CDATA[Still]]></category><category><![CDATA[Believe]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Privacy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Chertoff]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ed Rollins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jendayi Frazier]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fred Fielding]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Laxalt]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Timmons]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Michel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Byron R. White]]></category><category><![CDATA[Condoleezza Rice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frank Fahrenkopf]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greenfield]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jennifer Stoddart]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Nicholson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Linda Thomas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Huckabee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category><category><![CDATA[P.X. Kelley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Swire]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ron Kaufman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ted Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Warren E. Burger]]></category><category><![CDATA[William H. Rehnquist]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carnegie Endowment for International Peace]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for American Progress]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dutko Worldwide]]></category><category><![CDATA[Liberia]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Counterterrorism Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stanford University]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[White House National Security Council]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Baghdad Embassy, a W Hotel ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/22/AR2008042202465.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/22/AR2008042202465.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ There's been constant grousing that the gigantic, $750 million U.S. Embassy in Baghdad is way too big and expensive, even though it came in at scarcely more than 20 percent over budget (and nearly a year late). ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baghdad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Embassy,]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[W]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hotel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Richardson (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Douglas Feith]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alphonso Jackson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Gallucci]]></category><category><![CDATA[Big East Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown Hoyas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baghdad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ben Affleck]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bobby Jindal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colin Firth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Craig Ferguson]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Vitter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donald H. Rumsfeld]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edwin Edwards]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fidel Castro]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jenny McCarthy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Omar al-Bashir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pamela Anderson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick Duddy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roy Bernardi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saddam Hussein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Supriya Jindal]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Embassy in Baghdad]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Mall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Air Force One]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hamas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sudan]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Times-Picayune Publishing Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Chamber of Commerce]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vatican]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Najaf]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Yes, We Can -- Eh? ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/17/AR2008041703870.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/17/AR2008041703870.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Virgin Mobile Canada, which has been featuring U.S. political figures in newspaper ads for its cellular telephone service, has, as promised, unveiled a trio featuring Sen. Barack Obama (D- Ill.). These follow ads starring former New York governor Eliot L. Spitzer as Love Client No. 9, who is tired of being "treated like a number," and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), depicted thinking, "I wish my bill weren't so out of control." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Yes,]]></category><category><![CDATA[We]]></category><category><![CDATA[Can]]></category><category><![CDATA[--]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eh?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andy Fishburn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Medellin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sean Spicer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seoul]]></category><category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virgin Mobile Telecoms Ltd.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adlai Stevenson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beverly Hills (California)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eliot Spitzer]]></category><category><![CDATA[James H. Freis Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Berk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pope Benedict XVI]]></category><category><![CDATA[Financial Crimes Enforcement Network]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[NAFTA]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Cable Satellite Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Office of the United States Trade Representative]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Korea]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ambien]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ At a Portrait Party, a Portrait of Party Tension ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/15/AR2008041502791.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/15/AR2008041502791.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Monday's unveiling of former secretary of state Madeleine K. Albright's stunning official portrait brought back many folks from her days in charge, including former deputy secretary Strobe Talbott, undersecretary Thomas Pickering, chief of staff Elaine Shocas and spokesman Jamie Rubin. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[At]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Portrait]]></category><category><![CDATA[Party,]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Portrait]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tension]]></category><category><![CDATA[Condoleezza Rice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madeleine Albright]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Gates]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Pentagon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Adams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elaine Shocas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jamie Rubin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Strobe Talbott]]></category><category><![CDATA[Susan Rice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Pickering]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Geoff Morrell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greg Craig]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jane Harman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Josef Korbel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leon Fuerth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael G. Mullen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Norman Mineta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen G. Breyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steven Polson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Philpott]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alice Crites]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Civil Liberties Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[France]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Military.com]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paris]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Jefferson]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Army Corps of Engineers]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Tribute for a Washington Painter by Way of Holland ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/11/AR2008041101157.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/11/AR2008041101157.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When the elevator doors slide open, and you're in Willem de Looper's big show of big Washington paintings at American University Museum, the first one you see is a 1965 abstraction that isn't only an abstraction: It's also a tulip. Elegiac, transitory, decorous and Dutch, it sets a tone.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3024104832273" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3024104832273" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Richard]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tribute]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Painter]]></category><category><![CDATA[by]]></category><category><![CDATA[Way]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Holland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Willem de Looper]]></category><category><![CDATA[Willem de Kooning]]></category><category><![CDATA[Netherlands]]></category><category><![CDATA[Benjamin Forgey]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[American University Museum]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edouard Vuillard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Giorgio Morandi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henri Matisse]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack Rasmussen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Johan H. Huizinga]]></category><category><![CDATA[Morris Louis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nesta Dorrance]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pierre Bonnard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Diebenkorn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rotterdam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sean Scully]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zanzibar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hoboken]]></category><category><![CDATA[Katzen Arts Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Phillips Collection]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chávez Family Values ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/10/AR2008041003357.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/10/AR2008041003357.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Okay. Everyone says Iraq and other commitments have stretched the armed forces dangerously thin. But how much longer will Washington tolerate Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's deliberate provocations? ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chávez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Family]]></category><category><![CDATA[Values]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pamela Anderson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Venezuela's Federal Communications Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Go Back to Iraq or Attend a Chamber of Commerce Function? Tough Call. ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/10/AR2008041003358.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/10/AR2008041003358.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Check your calendars! We got an e-mail Wednesday evening from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker will not, repeat, will not, be able to make it to the Chamber on Monday. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Go]]></category><category><![CDATA[Back]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[or]]></category><category><![CDATA[Attend]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chamber]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Commerce]]></category><category><![CDATA[Function?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tough]]></category><category><![CDATA[Call.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ryan Crocker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zalmay Khalilzad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob McCurley]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Petraeus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Karen P. Hughes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Penn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oliver Stone]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Jefferson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Luxembourg]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Chamber of Commerce]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thandie Newton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baghdad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Basra]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carlos Gutierrez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Condoleezza Rice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dana Perino]]></category><category><![CDATA[Halle Berry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jean-Claude Juncker]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Negroponte]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paris]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Grenell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sadr City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sally Hemings]]></category><category><![CDATA[Truman Balcony]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alabama Law Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Business Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Burger King Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Burson-Marsteller Ltd.]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Monetary Fund]]></category><category><![CDATA[NAFTA]]></category><category><![CDATA[NATO]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samford University]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[The World Bank Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Alabama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alabama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rhode Island]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Gone but Still Giving ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/08/AR2008040803035.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/08/AR2008040803035.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ You could call it Cash From the Living Dead. No, not a sequel by George Romero, but a way some folks stay politically active and influential even after their demise. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Gone]]></category><category><![CDATA[but]]></category><category><![CDATA[Still]]></category><category><![CDATA[Giving]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeff Gerth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Laura Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Pentagon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Election Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[FEMA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel Inouye]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eleanor Roosevelt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Irene Hirano]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nouri al-Maliki]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nebraska]]></category><category><![CDATA[Honolulu Star-Bulletin]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Times Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alan Greenspan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alice Crites]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlottesville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Romero]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvey Johnson (Public Official)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ibrahim al-Jaafari]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Bunning]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lyndon LaRouche]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Mobbs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mirek Topolanek]]></category><category><![CDATA[Moscow Kremlin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Muqtada al-Sadr]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nita Lowey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pope Benedict XVI]]></category><category><![CDATA[Undersecretary Douglas Feith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Effective Congress]]></category><category><![CDATA[Japanese American National Museum]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York State Department of Motor Vehicles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tanzania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vatican]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Gone, Baby, Gone ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/03/AR2008040304318.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/03/AR2008040304318.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ President Bush hates long, windy meetings, and NATO sessions can drag on and on. That may be why Bush suddenly left the final session of the Bucharest summit last night -- not bothering to wait for the official group photo. He hustled back to the hotel so unexpectedly that he left some of his motorcade behind, including the press pool, our colleague Peter Baker reports.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3024104832588" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3024104832588" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Gone,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baby,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gone]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Richardson (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Hobson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carlos Greene]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gordon England]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[Condoleezza Rice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen Hadley]]></category><category><![CDATA[FEMA]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[ArmsControlWonk.com]]></category><category><![CDATA[Athenee Palace Hilton Hotel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dennis Anthony]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federico Pena]]></category><category><![CDATA[Isaac Livingston]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Carville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeffrey G. Lewis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Karen Livingston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary Beth Sheridan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nicolas Sarkozy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Norman Mineta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Baker]]></category><category><![CDATA[R. David Paulison]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Gates]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Jose]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen Harper]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Daley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Flag Office]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Sunny Australia Sure Beats a Senate Hearing ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040102478.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040102478.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), who chairs the Environment and Public Works Committee, is quite put out these days with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen L. Johnson. Seems Boxer had been working for several weeks to have Johnson -- no stranger to being hauled before her committee -- come up and chat about ozone, mercury, global warming . . . that sort of thing. Committee aides had been trying to get dates in April when Johnson might be able to testify. But the EPA folks didn't seem to want to commit to a specific time. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Sunny]]></category><category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sure]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beats]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hearing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alphonso Jackson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development]]></category><category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henry Hager]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jenna Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Queensland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[Amy Klobuchar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hubert Humphrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bali]]></category><category><![CDATA[New South Wales]]></category><category><![CDATA[eBay Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Hager]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andrew Cuomo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beijing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Benjamin Grumbles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Great Barrier Reef]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henry Cisneros]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hubert H. Humphrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack Kemp]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary Ann Akers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mel Martinez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert McCallum]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russell Crowe]]></category><category><![CDATA[India]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kyoto Protocol]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Council on Disability]]></category><category><![CDATA[Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican Party of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yale University]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ No Solidarity for Envoys to Poland ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/27/AR2008032702969.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/27/AR2008032702969.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ At the State Department, the ideological splits usually divide the hawks and doves, the internationalists and the isolationists, the pragmatists and the human rights supporters. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[No]]></category><category><![CDATA[Solidarity]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Envoys]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Poland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Laura Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Major League Baseball]]></category><category><![CDATA[National League (Baseball)]]></category><category><![CDATA[NL East Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Nationals]]></category><category><![CDATA[Easter Bunny]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[NAFTA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Poland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Romania]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saskatchewan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Albert Belle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bucharest]]></category><category><![CDATA[Condoleezza Rice]]></category><category><![CDATA[East Asia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ellen Engleman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fred Fielding]]></category><category><![CDATA[Houston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Thome]]></category><category><![CDATA[Johnson Space Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kenny Lofton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lech Walesa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manny Ramirez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Omar Vizquel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sandy Alomar Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saskatoon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Warsaw]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Burns]]></category><category><![CDATA[AL Central Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[American League (Baseball)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cleveland Indians]]></category><category><![CDATA[Croatia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gilligan's Island]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Federal Communications Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. National Transportation Safety Board]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ukraine]]></category><category><![CDATA[White House National Security Council]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Iraqi Spies and the Voodoo Secret ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/25/AR2008032503055.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/25/AR2008032503055.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Media reports on the Pentagon's five-volume translation of truckloads of Saddam Hussein- era documents tended to skim the surface, picking the highlights and the obvious, such as the absence of evidence of an "operational relationship" between Hussein and al-Qaeda. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Iraqi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spies]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Voodoo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Secret]]></category><category><![CDATA[Condoleezza Rice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Oberstar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Food and Drug Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michelle Kwan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saddam Hussein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federation of American Scientists]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abd al Wahhab]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Rosenker]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barbara Barrett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minnesota]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Buenos Aires]]></category><category><![CDATA[Caracas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Craig Barrett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Damascus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dina Powell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Leavitt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minneapolis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steven Aftergood]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Pentagon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Pawlenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chile]]></category><category><![CDATA[Defense Intelligence Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Aviation Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Finland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stanford University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Nations General Assembly]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Singer Was Bush's Mystery Dinner Host. No, Not That Singer. ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/18/AR2008031802693.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/18/AR2008031802693.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The mystery is solved. Thanks to a devoted Loop Fan, we now know that the host of Friday's $1.4 million Republican National Committee fundraiser at the famed Beresford co-op in New York -- headlined by President Bush -- was none other than Paul Singer, the hedge fund billionaire and renowned "vulture capitalist."<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3024104832930" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3024104832930" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Singer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Was]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bush's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dinner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Host.]]></category><category><![CDATA[No,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Not]]></category><category><![CDATA[That]]></category><category><![CDATA[Singer.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Singer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rose Mary Woods]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Blanton]]></category><category><![CDATA[FEMA]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard T. Race]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Bradley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Schumer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christine Whitman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Claude M. Kicklighter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eliot Spitzer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henry M. Paulson]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitch McConnell]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category><category><![CDATA[R. David Paulison]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rudolph Giuliani]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom DeLay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Emergency Management Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peru]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Swift Boat Veterans for Truth]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Defense]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of the Treasury]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Politicians Spanked by Virgin ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/13/AR2008031303844.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/13/AR2008031303844.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Seems just about everyone has been seizing on New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's misfortune to score legislative points or make a buck. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Politicians]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spanked]]></category><category><![CDATA[by]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virgin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eliot Spitzer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samir Geagea]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen L. Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dianne Feinstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virgin Mobile Telecoms Ltd.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonin Scalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[East Asia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nathan Rosenberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beijing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Condoleezza Rice]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kim Jong-il]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pyongyang]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Branson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard V. Allen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen Hadley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen J. Solarz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tiananmen Square]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Collegiate Athletic Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Football League]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Zealand]]></category><category><![CDATA[Professional Golfers' Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Committee for Human Rights]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ OMG, DHS! ASICs and OTMs! ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/11/AR2008031102670.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/11/AR2008031102670.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The illegal immigration issue seems to have quieted some on the presidential campaign trail. But Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) tried valiantly to highlight the problem at a House Homeland Security Committee markup of a bill designed to protect the country from chemical attack. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[OMG,]]></category><category><![CDATA[DHS!]]></category><category><![CDATA[ASICs]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[OTMs!]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Schieffer]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Meehan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ed Rogers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eliot Spitzer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Haley Barbour]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dennis Hastert]]></category><category><![CDATA[Karen P. Hughes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Kirk]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[BGR Holding LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[CBS Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barbour Griffith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeff Birnbaum]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maria Cantwell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Broun]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Asia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Winnetka]]></category><category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category><category><![CDATA[MoveOn.org]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Military Academy at West Point]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Secret Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Face of DHS Looks a Little Pale ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/06/AR2008030603609.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/06/AR2008030603609.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff apparently forgot the adage "When you're in a hole, stop digging." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Face]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[DHS]]></category><category><![CDATA[Looks]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Little]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pale]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fred Thompson (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mel Watt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Chertoff]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu Musa]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Burns]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adam Ereli]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baghdad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Janice O'Connell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert C. Scott]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shaun Donnelly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steve Gill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bahrain]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nicholas Burns]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stonebridge International LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Budapest]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher Dodd]]></category><category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fred Factor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hart Senate Office Building]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Beyrle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category><category><![CDATA[Moscow]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nashville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patty Murray]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philip Reeker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Balkans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bulgaria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Longtime Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Association of Manufacturers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sri Lanka]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ 'Regime' Changed ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/04/AR2008030402486.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/04/AR2008030402486.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The annual State Department human rights reports on conditions in various countries often spark internal tussling over tone and nuance.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3024104833236" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3024104833236" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA['Regime']]></category><category><![CDATA[Changed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Wolfowitz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ana Palacio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kristie Kenney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Mukasey]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philippines]]></category><category><![CDATA[The World Bank Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eagleionline.com]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Salt Lake Tribune]]></category><category><![CDATA[YouTube Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alberto Gonzales]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al-Haj Murad Ebrahim]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chad Hudgens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Farley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Condoleezza Rice]]></category><category><![CDATA[East Asia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ed Markey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Erica Barks-Ruggles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Glyn Davies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Judd Gregg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kevin Kellums]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kim Jong-il]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manila]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Cellucci]]></category><category><![CDATA[Provo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Zoellick]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robin Cleveland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen G. Breyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boston College Law School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Moro Islamic Liberation Front]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saturday Night Live]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington University in St. Louis]]></category><category><![CDATA[White House National Security Council]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Not All of the Old Clinton Gang Is Backing Another Clinton ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/28/AR2008022804068.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/28/AR2008022804068.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:51:58 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The painful endorsement switch Wednesday by John Lewis, the Democratic congressman from Georgia and civil rights icon, from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) to Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) reflects the difficulties some members of former president Bill Clinton's Cabinet have been going through as they decide between the candidates. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Not]]></category><category><![CDATA[All]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Old]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gang]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Backing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Another]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Meredith Atwell Baker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Neil Patel]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Telecommunications and Information Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Lewis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Center for Public Integrity]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[5W Public Relations LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[InferX Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Richardson (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dallas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henry Cisneros]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Baker]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julie Tate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lawrence Summers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madeleine Albright]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Espy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Norman Mineta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Reich]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Antonio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Veronica Escobar]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Daley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arabian Horse Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton's Cabinet]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Convention's Host Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[El Paso County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Election Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[FEMA]]></category><category><![CDATA[France]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard University]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Collegiate Athletic Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[NATO]]></category><category><![CDATA[Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Vice Presidential Contest Heats Up -- at Least Here ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/26/AR2008022603059.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/26/AR2008022603059.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is emerging as consensus pick for vice president among both Republicans and Democrats. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Vice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Presidential]]></category><category><![CDATA[Contest]]></category><category><![CDATA[Heats]]></category><category><![CDATA[Up]]></category><category><![CDATA[--]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[Least]]></category><category><![CDATA[Here]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Richardson (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Larry Craig]]></category><category><![CDATA[Blackwater Worldwide]]></category><category><![CDATA[Idaho]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Mitchell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Bloomberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arkansas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Chiropractic Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Court Hotel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Willard Intercontinental Hotel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony Zinni]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cairo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlie Crist]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher Dodd]]></category><category><![CDATA[Condoleezza Rice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Glenn Kessler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Webb]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Edwards (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Lieberman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kay Bailey Hutchison]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lindsey Graham]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mel Martinez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Huckabee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Moyock]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rayburn House Office Building]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rob Portman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roger Clemens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spiro Agnew]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ted Strickland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Pawlenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Union Station]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wesley Clark]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ireland]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Low Income Housing Coalition]]></category><category><![CDATA[NATO]]></category><category><![CDATA[Satellite Industry Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Society of American Florists]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Office of Management and Budget]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Let's Just Say Obama's the Nominee. So, Who's the Running Mate? ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/21/AR2008022102712.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/21/AR2008022102712.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Let's face it. It's over. Teamsters President James P. Hoffa may have provided the last bit of muscle Wednesday with his union's endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.). Barring a serious meltdown in the debates -- or a sensational revelation -- Obama will be the Democratic presidential nominee this fall. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Let's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Just]]></category><category><![CDATA[Say]]></category><category><![CDATA[Obama's]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nominee.]]></category><category><![CDATA[So,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Who's]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Running]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mate?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alberto Gonzales]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Charles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roland Arnall]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBC Universal Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln]]></category><category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chuck Todd]]></category><category><![CDATA[Janet Huckabee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jermain Taylor]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mississippi]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vermont]]></category><category><![CDATA[eBay Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[MGM Mirage Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reuters Group plc]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Francisco Chronicle]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Times Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Times]]></category><category><![CDATA[Accra]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hooters Casino Hotel]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kufuor]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Major]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jon Ward]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kelly Pavlik]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kigali]]></category><category><![CDATA[Las Vegas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maureen Dowd]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Huckabee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Baker]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Hague]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cayman Islands]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ghana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Netherlands]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rwanda]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington University in St. Louis]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ HUD's Exhibitionist ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/19/AR2008021902606.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/19/AR2008021902606.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Spring is almost here. And that means tourists are on their way to see the monuments, the pandas, and exhibits at the new National Portrait Gallery, the National Gallery's East Building or the National Museum of Natural History.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3024104833611" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3024104833611" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[HUD's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Exhibitionist]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alphonso Jackson]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sidney Blumenthal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fidel Castro]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steven Hatfill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ted Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Toni Locy]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Virgin Islands]]></category><category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBC Universal Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[USA TODAY]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anchorage]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Negroponte]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nashua (New Hampshire)]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Gallery of Art]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reggie Walton]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cuba]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[FEMA]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Museum of Natural History]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Mall]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Politics 101: Pose With Young People ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/14/AR2008021403435.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/14/AR2008021403435.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has been tarring Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) as creatures of the bad old, really old, ways of Washington. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><category><![CDATA[101:]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pose]]></category><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[Young]]></category><category><![CDATA[People]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonin Scalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher White]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack Bauer]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike McConnell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Royal Institute of International Affairs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Transportation Security Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lawrence Wright]]></category><category><![CDATA[Apple iPod]]></category><category><![CDATA[BlackBerry Mobile Devices]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category><category><![CDATA[British Broadcasting Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[CTVglobemedia Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aga Khan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cincinnati]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dianne Feinstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Helen Mirren]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kufuor]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julius S. Caesar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madeleine Albright]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Pentagon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wesley Clark]]></category><category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[G-8]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S Council on Foreign Relations]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Defense]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Navy Reserve]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on Intelligence]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Rumsfeld Wins a Noble Prize ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/12/AR2008021202377.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/12/AR2008021202377.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Save the date! Feb. 23. It's the black-tie gala Founders' Day Celebration and 104th birthday of the University Club. The club is giving the highly coveted William Howard Taft Public Service Award -- named in honor of the club founder, former president and Supreme Court justice -- to former defense secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen ]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Rumsfeld]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wins]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Noble]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prize]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donald H. Rumsfeld]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Randall Tobias]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tony Garza]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wal-Mart Stores Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indianapolis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tony Snow]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arkansas]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Indianapolis Star]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beijing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bentonville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ceci Connolly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clark Randt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dan McDermott]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ed Markey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greg Ballard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lucinda Williams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Managua]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Huckabee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anaheim Ducks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indianapolis Airport Authority]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Hockey League]]></category><category><![CDATA[NHL Pacific Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[NHL Western Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Embassy in Mexico City]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Treading Hot Water ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/07/AR2008020703735.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/07/AR2008020703735.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The 2008 Loop Award for Water Ballet goes to . . . drumroll, please . . . Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Treading]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hot]]></category><category><![CDATA[Water]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lawrence Wright]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike McConnell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carlos Romero]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dianne Feinstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Raymond Molina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mississippi]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Energy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Puerto Rico]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ed Markey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Haley Barbour]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Read]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Juan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vanee Vines]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pulitzer Prize Committee]]></category><cat