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		<title>The Crazy Backwardness of Chemical Regulation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The EPA was notorious during the Bush years for a steep decline in prosecutions against big polluters. Under the Obama administration, there&#8217;s a new sheriff in town. Her name is Lisa Jackson and she&#8217;s a different kind of EPA chief, one who has made big gains in favor of true environmental regulation.
The question is: Will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://duhpookie.com/blog/2010/02/26/the-crazy-backwardness-of-chemical-regulation/</link>
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		<title>Seven Reasons Why We All Need to Pick up a Pitchfork</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since the financial near-collapse of 2008, we&#8217;ve inaugurated a new president, bailed out big banks, and seen Congress fumble an attempt to reform healthcare. Most recently, we&#8217;ve seen our Supreme Court rule that corporations have a right to free speech. None of this sounds outrageously shocking. What&#8217;s the big deal? 
The big deal is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://duhpookie.com/blog/2010/02/05/seven-reasons-why-we-all-need-to-pick-up-a-pitchfork/</link>
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		<title>Supreme Court Removes Corporate Restrictions on Campaign Spending</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WTF?!?!?! Things are so far out of whack in this country. The Supreme Court, stacked with ultra-conservative justices from the Bush era, has just ruled to remove restrictions that limited corporate financing of political candidates based on a corporation&#8217;s right to free speech.
WHAT RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH??!! CORPORATIONS ARE NOT PEOPLE!!!! It&#8217;s truly insane that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://duhpookie.com/blog/2010/01/21/supreme-court-removes-corporate-restrictions-on-campaign-spending/</link>
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		<title>To Regulate or Not to Regulate?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[REGULATE, FOOS!!
It can&#8217;t be undone now, but choosing to tackle a resource-demanding issue like healthcare reform in the midst of such a severe economic downturn was just stupid. Helloo? Obama? Pelosi? Agggh, stupid. I&#8217;d love to see meaningful, substantive healthcare reform, and especially A PUBLIC OPTION, but it just wasn&#8217;t going to go well when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://duhpookie.com/blog/2010/01/20/to-regulate-or-not-to-regulate/</link>
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		<title>Obama Dissed, Volcker Speaks Out Against Bankers Gone Wild</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If anything about the financial crisis made you beet-red angry, then you must read Simon Johnson. Johnson is a former chief economist for the International Monetary Fund who wrote one of the best pieces on the financial crisis in print, the Quiet Coup. This week he urges people to pass on the message of Paul [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://duhpookie.com/blog/2009/12/17/obama-dissed-volcker-speaks-out-against-bankers-gone-wild/</link>
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		<title>Confessions of a Liberal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s tough to be a progressive these days, really tough. When Bush was sauntering around the world, cocky and ignorant (dangerous combo), life was easy. We could rail on fundamental religion, bemoan aggressive US foreign policy, argue for more funding of all the take-better-care-of-the-people programs because back then, at least we weren&#8217;t broke.
But like so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://duhpookie.com/blog/2009/12/16/confessions-of-a-liberal/</link>
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