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<item><title><![CDATA[ From Berlin to Baghdad ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/22/AR2008072202113.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/22/AR2008072202113.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The city is in dire straits -- its economy shattered, its citizens desperately hungry. Random violence is rising, electricity is sporadic. Three years after the invasion, hope for a brief occupation has faded. The mission is to build democracy from the ruins of dictatorship, but sober analysts question whether a flaw in the national character makes freedom unattainable. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[From]]></category><category><![CDATA[Berlin]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baghdad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Berlin]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andrei Cherny]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harry S. Truman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hal Halvorsen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baghdad]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hermann Rorschach]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu Ghraib]]></category><category><![CDATA[Central Intelligence Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S.S.R.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Utah]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Scandal In Plain Sight ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/15/AR2008071502424.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/15/AR2008071502424.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A sitting president collecting secret cash in unlimited sums from corporations and wealthy favor-seekers. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Scandal]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Plain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sight]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eric Dos]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marc Rich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen Payne]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Askar Akayev]]></category><category><![CDATA[Condoleezza Rice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dan Bartlett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Heydar Aliyev]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen Hadley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ted Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Azerbaijan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Inaugural Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kyrgyzstan]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Times of London]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Free This Detainee ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/08/AR2008070802463.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/08/AR2008070802463.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ There's someone I'd like to introduce to President Bush. Also to Chief Justice John Roberts and Sen. John McCain. His name is Huzaifa Parhat, and that get-together might be tricky to arrange. Parhat is also known as ISN (Internment Serial Number) 320 at Guantanamo Bay. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Free]]></category><category><![CDATA[This]]></category><category><![CDATA[Detainee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lewis Carroll]]></category><category><![CDATA[East Turkestan Islamic Movement]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Taliban]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Roberts (Chief Justice)]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Sentelle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sabin Willett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Griffith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ When a Flip Isn't a Flop ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/01/AR2008070102233.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/01/AR2008070102233.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In footwear, flip-flops are what you slip on when you want something comfortable and easy. In politics, flip-flops are the sloppy intellectual equivalent: what you talk about when you're looking for a comfortable and easy way to attack the opposition.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302434102093" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302434102093" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[When]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Flip]]></category><category><![CDATA[Isn't]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Flop]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Patriot Games ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/24/AR2008062401216.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/24/AR2008062401216.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When in the course of political events it becomes advantageous for a presidential candidate to dissolve a campaign promise, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that the candidate at least refrain from wrapping himself in the Declaration of Independence. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Patriot]]></category><category><![CDATA[Games]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Plouffe]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Hancock]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mayflower Hotel]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Court McCain Wants ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/17/AR2008061702009.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/17/AR2008061702009.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Conservatives, seizing on the Supreme Court's ruling last week on Guantanamo detainees, want to turn the court into election fodder. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wants]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonin Scalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harriet Miers]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Paul Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Roberts (Chief Justice)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samuel Alito]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fort Leavenworth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican National Committee]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Billing The Grandkids ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/10/AR2008061002531.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/10/AR2008061002531.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ By the time Congress finishes the latest "emergency" war spending bill, a mere seven years into the emergency, the cost of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan will have exceeded $860 billion. For the first time in American history, every penny of that amount will have been borrowed. For the first time, billions more will have been borrowed to finance tax cuts in the midst of war. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Billing]]></category><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grandkids]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Washington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harry Reid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Thorndike]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kirk Stark]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lyndon Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ross Perot]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sam Rayburn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom DeLay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steven Bank]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Federal Reserve]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ For Obama, The Right Way to Win ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/03/AR2008060303157.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/03/AR2008060303157.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ For Barack Obama in June 2008, Ulysses Grant in April 1865 offers a useful role model.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302434103694" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302434103694" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[Obama,]]></category><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Right]]></category><category><![CDATA[Way]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Win]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ulysses S. Grant]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert E. Lee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Don Fowler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harold Ickes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jay Winik]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Pfleger]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert F. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Barney Unleashed ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/29/AR2008052903265.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/29/AR2008052903265.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ I know what they'll say. "This doesn't sound like Barney, it really doesn't." "A completely different canine is emerging in this book than the one we knew." "Frankly, I don't remember him barking up about these things at the time." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Barney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Unleashed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andrew Card]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ari Fleischer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bigshot Investigative Reporter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dana Perino]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Karl Rove]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lewis Libby]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Secret Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Our Own Glass Ceilings ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/27/AR2008052702557.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/27/AR2008052702557.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ As Hillary Clinton cracks her head against what she likes to call "the highest and hardest glass ceiling," there's no doubt that she craves the presidency as much as any man does. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Our]]></category><category><![CDATA[Own]]></category><category><![CDATA[Glass]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ceilings]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jennifer Lawless]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Fox]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Brookings Institution]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michelle Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beloit College]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brown University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loyola Marymount University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Ground Clinton Broke ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/20/AR2008052001567.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/20/AR2008052001567.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Hillary Clinton isn't going to be elected the first female president -- not this year, anyway. The reasons for this outcome have gratifyingly little to do with her gender. It may not seem that way right now to Clinton supporters seething over her treatment, but the 2008 campaign has propelled the country significantly closer to the moment when a woman takes the oath of office. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ground]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Broke]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Edwards (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ High Court Caricature ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/13/AR2008051302302.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/13/AR2008051302302.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The court stepped in, summarily overturning laws in 16 states. Tossing aside evidence that the constitutional provision was never intended to apply to the situation at hand, the court instead looked to what it grandly described as the "broader, organic purpose of a constitutional amendment."<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302434103977" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302434103977" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[High]]></category><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Caricature]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mildred Loving]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Court of Appeals]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony M. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonin Scalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Paul Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Posner]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Cable Satellite Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Mitzvah and the Mania ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/06/AR2008050602445.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/06/AR2008050602445.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ My family knew I was losing it when I started growing grass. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitzvah]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mania]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.J. Doug]]></category><category><![CDATA[Disneyland Resort]]></category><category><![CDATA[MTV Networks Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Dreams on a Collision Course ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/29/AR2008042902396.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/29/AR2008042902396.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Some people play fantasy baseball. I've got a thing for fantasy budgets. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Dreams]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Collision]]></category><category><![CDATA[Course]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Blanche Lincoln]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kent Conrad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Max Baucus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitch McConnell]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Congressional Budget Office]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arkansas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kentucky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montana]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Dakota]]></category><category><![CDATA[Upstate New York]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Supple-Side Economics ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/22/AR2008042202521.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/22/AR2008042202521.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Economic theories come in many flavors. There are supply-siders and deficit hawks, monetarists and Marxists. As Richard Nixon once said, and the recent bipartisan bout of economic pump-priming proved, "We are all Keynesians now." John McCain has devised yet another approach to the dismal science -- "that was then, this is now." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Supple-Side]]></category><category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Douglas Holtz-Eakin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Phil Gramm]]></category><category><![CDATA[Terry Gross]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tax Policy Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Congressional Budget Office]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Why John Yoo Must Stay ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/15/AR2008041502666.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/15/AR2008041502666.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The March 14, 2003, memo "Re: Military Interrogation of Alien Unlawful Combatants Held Outside the United States" is an abhorrent document. Better known as John Yoo's torture memo, it is shoddy in its legal reasoning, outrageous in its far-reaching assertion of presidential power and repellent in its purpose -- to offer legal cover to U.S. personnel who commit torture.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302434104261" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302434104261" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Why]]></category><category><![CDATA[John]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yoo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Must]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher Edley]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Yoo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Berkeley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boalt Hall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Pearlstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack Goldsmith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Princeton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scott Horton]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ward Churchill]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Shockley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Columbia Law School]]></category><category><![CDATA[DOJ Office of Legal Counsel]]></category><category><![CDATA[World Trade Center]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ When a Watchdog Isn't ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/08/AR2008040802900.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/08/AR2008040802900.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In an era of lousy customer service, when there is never an actual human being at the end of the alleged help line, it may seem refreshing to encounter an institution still guided by the principle that the customer comes first. Unfortunately, that institution is the federal government, and the coddled customers are, all too often, the industries it is supposed to regulate. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[When]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Watchdog]]></category><category><![CDATA[Isn't]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Aviation Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southwest (Washington, DC)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mine Safety and Health Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Utah]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southwest Airlines Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Crandall Canyon Mine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Treasury Undersecretary Robert Steel]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House of Representatives]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Too Soon To Stop This Movie ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040102141.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040102141.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The unyielding arithmetic of the Democrats' delegate selection rules makes Hillary Clinton's prospects of winning the nomination dim -- and that's the rosy scenario. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Too]]></category><category><![CDATA[Soon]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stop]]></category><category><![CDATA[This]]></category><category><![CDATA[Movie]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward Rendell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Howard Dean]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Danny DeVito]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward M. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gary Hart]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter Mondale]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Hijabs at a Harvard Gym ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/25/AR2008032502295.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/25/AR2008032502295.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It's a measure of America's multicultural journey over the past half-century that we've gone from "God and Man at Yale" to Allah and Woman at Harvard. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Hijabs]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gym]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard Crimson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ivy League]]></category><category><![CDATA[William F. Buckley, Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard Yard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minneapolis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Western Europe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard University]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yale University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Debate Dream Team ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/18/AR2008031802648.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/18/AR2008031802648.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Democratic voters are having a hard time choosing between two strong candidates. Here's an idea that could help them decide: debates.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302434104539" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302434104539" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Debate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dream]]></category><category><![CDATA[Team]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philadelphia]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Christian Science Monitor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rick Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Spitzer's Tragic Flaw ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/11/AR2008031102459.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/11/AR2008031102459.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The brave hero brought low by his own arrogance. The unyielding warrior undone by the kind of fatal flaw he could not abide in others. The tragedy of the Emperors Club VIP Client 9, better known as Eliot Spitzer, is one of Greek dimensions. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Spitzer's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tragic]]></category><category><![CDATA[Flaw]]></category><category><![CDATA[Albany]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ann Richards]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Vitter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eliot Spitzer]]></category><category><![CDATA[George H.W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Hightower]]></category><category><![CDATA[Larry Craig]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Foley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Monica Lewinsky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reinhold Niebuhr]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Force of Gender ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/04/AR2008030402333.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/04/AR2008030402333.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ "Gender," Gloria Steinem wrote in the New York Times, "is probably the most restricting force in American life, whether the question is who must be in the kitchen or who could be in the White House." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Force]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gender]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Geoff Garin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gloria Steinem]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Times Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ann Richards]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Penn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ruth Mandel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tammy Wynette]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eagleton Institute of Politics]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rutgers University]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Universal Coverage's Mavericks ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/26/AR2008022602651.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/26/AR2008022602651.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Away from the distorting glare of the campaign trail, away from the inflammatory rhetoric about socialized medicine and Hillarycare, garnished wages and millions left uncovered, a remarkable thing is happening in the national health-care debate. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Universal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Coverage's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mavericks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Bennett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ron Wyden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Todd Stottlemyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Idaho]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mississippi]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tennessee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Utah]]></category><category><![CDATA[Safeway Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Lewin Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andy Stern]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chuck Grassley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Debbie Stabenow]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Judd Gregg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lamar Alexander]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Crapo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steve Burd]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trent Lott]]></category><category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Federation of Independent Business]]></category><category><![CDATA[Service Employees International Union]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Democrats' To-Do Lists ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/19/AR2008021902339.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/19/AR2008021902339.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama face opposite challenges in pursuing the Democratic nomination. Clinton's is to find the compelling narrative to complement her laundry list -- and I say this as a fan of laundry lists. Obama's is to find the way to better knit together inspiration and policy.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302434104802" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302434104802" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democrats']]></category><category><![CDATA[To-Do]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lists]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deval Patrick]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manassas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]></category><category><![CDATA[General Motors Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Neil Kinnock]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Democrats' Undemocratic System ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/12/AR2008021201996.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/12/AR2008021201996.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The wonder, really, is that the nomination train wreck confronting the Democratic Party didn't happen years earlier. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democrats']]></category><category><![CDATA[Undemocratic]]></category><category><![CDATA[System]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jesse Jackson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Dukakis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tad Devine]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony Corrado]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harold Ickes]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gary Hart]]></category><category><![CDATA[George McGovern]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter Mondale]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Defrosting the Republican Base ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/07/AR2008020703496.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/07/AR2008020703496.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ On the day that he became the all-but-certain Republican nominee, John McCain walked into a cavernous Washington ballroom -- to a hail of boos from unhappy members of his own party's base. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Defrosting]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican]]></category><category><![CDATA[Base]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ralph Reed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beverly Hills (California)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Allen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack Abramoff]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julia Roberts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Gere]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Coburn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christian Coalition]]></category><category><![CDATA[Conservative Political Action Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Worth the Paper It's Printed On ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/05/AR2008020502880.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/05/AR2008020502880.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Every year, on a Monday morning in early February, a shrink-wrapped set of budget documents arrives on my desk with the gratifying thwack that comes only with 9.8 pounds of historical tables and pie charts. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Worth]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paper]]></category><category><![CDATA[It's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Printed]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Nussle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abigail J. Sellen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard H.R. Harper]]></category><category><![CDATA[T.S. Eliot]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Kahn]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Government Printing Office]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Budget Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Kumbaya Caucus ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/29/AR2008012902214.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/29/AR2008012902214.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ One of the most interesting contrasts between last year's State of the Union address and this year's has nothing to do with President Bush. It involves the transformed tone of the Democratic response, from partisan lion to post-partisan lamb.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302434105080" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302434105080" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Kumbaya]]></category><category><![CDATA[Caucus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Webb]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kathleen Sebelius]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kansas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mother Jones Magazine]]></category><category><![CDATA[MyDD.com]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Edwards (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Theodore Roosevelt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Todd Beeton]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Whose Stimulus Makes the Grade?  ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/22/AR2008012202614.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/22/AR2008012202614.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ One of the benefits of an extended presidential campaign is that it presents real-world tests for candidates. Some take the form of pop quizzes assessing contenders' instincts in a crisis. Others are more like take-home exams -- the latest, and perhaps most revealing, being competing plans for an economic stimulus. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Whose]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stimulus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Makes]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grade?]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Edwards (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Huckabee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Economy.com Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ben Bernanke]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Stephanopolous]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rudolph Giuliani]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard Business School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Congressional Budget Office]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Parsing Tsunami Tuesday ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/15/AR2008011502863.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/15/AR2008011502863.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ On the morning of June 6, 1984, Walter Mondale's campaign aides woke the Democratic presidential candidate to inform him of a big problem. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Parsing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tsunami]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tuesday]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter Mondale]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Edwards (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gary Hart]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Committee]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Man Who Won't Go Away ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/08/AR2008010803542.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/08/AR2008010803542.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Standing alone in the fluorescent-lit shabbiness of American Legion Post 29, ringed by an audience of veterans sitting on metal folding chairs, John McCain was arguing that he was still relevant. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Man]]></category><category><![CDATA[Who]]></category><category><![CDATA[Won't]]></category><category><![CDATA[Go]]></category><category><![CDATA[Away]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Claremont]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Huckabee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Orson Swindle]]></category><category><![CDATA[The American Legion]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Douglas Macarthur]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fred Thompson (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roger Clemens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ron Paul]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Magnetism of a Message ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/04/AR2008010403409.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/04/AR2008010403409.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ INDIANOLA, Iowa -- Arlys Breuklander, first-time caucusgoer, came into Thursday night's caucus agonizingly uncertain about her choice and torn among the three Democratic front-runners. "I'm trying to decide who would be the most electable," Breuklander, 59, said just minutes before the caucusing began. "I used to think it was Hillary; she's such a strong woman with strong experience."<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302434105348" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302434105348" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Magnetism]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Message]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Huckabee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kristie Fisher]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlys Breuklander]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Edwards (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Richardson (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cedar Rapids]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher Dodd]]></category><category><![CDATA[Des Moines]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indianola]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scoop Jackson]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indianola High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Learning From Jamie Lynn and Juno ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/25/AR2007122500865.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/25/AR2007122500865.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ I didn't have to figure out how to break the news of Jamie Lynn Spears's pregnancy to my kids. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Learning]]></category><category><![CDATA[From]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jamie]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lynn]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Juno]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Who Elected Iowa? ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/18/AR2007121801635.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/18/AR2007121801635.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ KNOXVILLE, Iowa -- It isn't until his seventh stop, almost two hours into his work on an icy Sunday afternoon, that James Ahn hits pay dirt, in the form of Jennie and Arvin Van Waardhuizen. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Who]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elected]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa?]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Gentlemen First ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/11/AR2007121101836.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/11/AR2007121101836.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Dick Cheney is worried that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has shrunken the "big sticks" of the once-tough guys who were the vice president's colleagues in Congress. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Gentlemen]]></category><category><![CDATA[First]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barbara Walters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lynne Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jennifer Senior]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim VandeHei]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Dingell]]></category><category><![CDATA[John F. Harris]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Murtha]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Allen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Newt Gingrich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary's Cabinet]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
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