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		<title>Live blogging the GOP Iowa Debate</title>
		<link>http://dedmon.wordpress.com/2011/12/10/live-blogging-the-gop-iowa-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 02:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Dedmon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last few days have not been lacking in newsworthy events.. I&#8217;ve read a lot of reactions to the European Council Summit and Cameron&#8217;s &#8220;veto&#8221; etc.. and have a lot of thoughts but haven&#8217;t as yet produced anything blog worthy. Equally, the President&#8217;s Osawatomie speech caused a bit of a stir, and I&#8217;ve been going over [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dedmon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2309631&amp;post=357&amp;subd=dedmon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Woolf Inquiry</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 04:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Dedmon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I received an email yesterday from the LSE reminding me yet again that my alma mater faces seeing its credibility reduced further as a result of its questionable and enigmatic relationship with Libya and the Gaddafi family and to notify me of the publication of the Woolf Inquiry, the independent assessment of said relationship. The report identifies some rather serious shortcomings [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dedmon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2309631&amp;post=350&amp;subd=dedmon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>But they&#8217;re not wrong!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Dedmon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A harsh critique of the GOP presidential field from Der Spiegel&#8230; &#8220;Africa is a country. The Taliban rule in Libya. Muslims are terrorists. Immigrants are mostly criminals, Occupy Wall Street protesters are always dirty. And women who claim to have been sexually molested should kindly keep quiet&#8230; Welcome to the wonderful world of the Republican [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dedmon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2309631&amp;post=345&amp;subd=dedmon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign Policy Absurdities</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Dedmon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve only just recently managed to watch the GOP presidential hopefuls duke it out over foreign policy / national security etc, and while I&#8217;m, unsurprisingly, hardly moved by their grasp of foreign affairs (save potentially for Jon Huntsman), I don&#8217;t exactly find myself outraged either. It may be that watching all 70 of the other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dedmon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2309631&amp;post=339&amp;subd=dedmon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Agency, inequality, and the populists</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Dedmon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will Wilkinson has a now two week old post over at Big Think contrasting the Occupy movement and the Tea Party on the &#8220;ideology of responsibility&#8221; that has really had me thinking. There is a very appropriate discussion of the close ideological relationship between Conservatism and Libertarianism on the point of personal responsibility, despite the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dedmon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2309631&amp;post=327&amp;subd=dedmon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>#occupyaway</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Dedmon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So #occupywallstreet has been raising hell and making the news for a few weeks now, and I will take this opportunity to admit my initial skepticism and slightly elitist denouncement of the character, though not the spirit, of the movement. I found the contrast drawn by the occupiers between themselves and the Tahrir Square demonstrators [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dedmon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2309631&amp;post=320&amp;subd=dedmon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Europe and its discontents: Eurozone in crisis</title>
		<link>http://dedmon.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/eurozone-in-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Dedmon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another installment over at examiner.com!  The project of European integration is often likened to riding a bicycle; only by moving forward will you be able to keep from falling off. It might appear that this mantra was written precisely for crises like the one presently plaguing the eurozone. German Chancellor Angela Merkel finds herself at centre-stage again [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dedmon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2309631&amp;post=314&amp;subd=dedmon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on the Guillotine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 04:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Dedmon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll refrain from commenting too in-depth on the specifics of the Troy Davis case, as what I do know I&#8217;ve learned only in the past few days. However, even with limited facts I feel confident in saying that, given the circumstances, we&#8217;ve witnessed a gross miscarriage of justice. If original witnesses recanting their indictments, coupled [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dedmon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2309631&amp;post=311&amp;subd=dedmon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On religion and politics: review of Raised Right</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Dedmon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most difficult parts of leaving behind religion as the primary paradigm through which I understand the world is that it has made it often difficult to reclaim the discourse of the &#8220;meaning of life.&#8221; Raised Right: How I untangled my faith from politics was a very meaningful description of the growing dissatisfaction many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dedmon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2309631&amp;post=308&amp;subd=dedmon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My thoughts on Sept 11</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Dedmon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was younger, September 11th was key to how I understood myself as an American and, as such, a human more generally. It was integral to my own personal version of our national myth. The solemn response from the likes of Mayor Giuliani, Pres. Bush etc.. were inspiring to me; the idea of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dedmon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2309631&amp;post=303&amp;subd=dedmon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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