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		<title>Why the Guardian is Wrong on Prop 14</title>
		<link>http://postpartisannews.com/?p=3249</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron T. Knapp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The SF Bay Guardian's editors, like so many on the extreme Left, seek a crushing progressive victory over all things "conservative" or "Republican" rather than a workable political system given the diversity and size of our country, and given the inevitability of cyclical movement from one side to the other in American politics.  We need a primary system that mediates between the immutable extremes of American politics, not one that encourages them.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Exceptionalism, Irony and Political Action</title>
		<link>http://postpartisannews.com/?p=3136</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron T. Knapp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the Puritans arrived in the New World in the seventeenth century, they believed they were the Chosen Ones, placed in the Promised Land by the hand of God.  They had extricated themselves from the oppressions and inequalities of the ancien régime and, in hopeful moments, fantasized that the iron laws of decay endemic to western civilization might not apply in the New World.  What they ultimately concluded was that such laws would apply, but only as a test, a rite of passage.  Life in the New World would be, in the words of J.G.A. Pocock, "the imperfect experience of the perfection of history.” ]]></description>
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		<title>In Spite of it All.</title>
		<link>http://postpartisannews.com/?p=2946</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron T. Knapp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The legislative process often operates independent of the problems it is meant to solve.  Behind a given legislative debate there may lurk myriad irrelevancies about which the public has little, if any, knowledge – backroom deals, back-scratching, tit-for-tats, revenge fantasies.  The most dedicated muckrakers can unearth, on a good day, a mere droplet of the primordial sludge out of which legislation is wrought.]]></description>
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		<title>Sunshine Is The Best Disinfectant</title>
		<link>http://postpartisannews.com/?p=2915</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron T. Knapp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having died a thousand deaths in committees for the last 16 years, the proposed Sunshine in Litigation Act has not yet seen the sunshine of the House or Senate floor, let alone been voted on.  Amidst all the hoopla about health care and cap-and-trade, a small cadre of adventurous lawmakers has put this little legislative nugget back on the 2009 calendar.  Will it get the attention it deserves?   ]]></description>
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		<title>The Health Care Conundrum</title>
		<link>http://postpartisannews.com/?p=2857</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron T. Knapp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The status quo is sticky.  It clings.  The nimble spirit of change is invariably tempered, slowed and often halted entirely by the bulky stuff of routine, tradition, convention, the inertia of human life.  Add to that a constitutional structure designed to throw sticks into the spokes of forward motion, and you have a daunting task for a leader seeking to bring sweeping reform, of any kind, to the country.  Which raises the question of health care.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Education Right, Right Now</title>
		<link>http://postpartisannews.com/?p=2739</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron T. Knapp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lincoln once deemed education "the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in."   But if Honest Abe were alive today, would he be happy with our current level of engagement? I fear not. ]]></description>
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		<title>Envisioning America&#8217;s Energy Future</title>
		<link>http://postpartisannews.com/?p=2664</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron T. Knapp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1979, President Carter told Americans that in addressing the unprecedented energy crisis there would be "no way to avoid sacrifice."  In his run for the presidency the next year, then-Governor Ronald Reagan disagreed.  For Reagan, no sacrifice was needed.  Instead, the Gipper suggested, the instant gratification of across-the-board tax cuts, along with a titillating invocation of a "shining city on a hill," would suffice. Americans, of course, took the quick money -- an ill-fated choice that defined an entire era.    ]]></description>
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		<title>Envisioning America&#8217;s Health</title>
		<link>http://postpartisannews.com/?p=2629</link>
		<comments>http://postpartisannews.com/?p=2629#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 18:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron T. Knapp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our crackpot health care system is not just compromising our health.  It is holding us back on a whole host of fronts--psychologically, socially and economically.  President Obama is giving a lot of latitude to Congress in devising a reform plan.  But partisan opponents are already revving up the engines of fear and hyperbole.  We must ensure that what comes out the other end of the political sausage factory solves problems, makes sense for all Americans, and includes more of those shifty Omega-3's.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Parties Without Partisanship</title>
		<link>http://postpartisannews.com/?p=2590</link>
		<comments>http://postpartisannews.com/?p=2590#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 05:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron T. Knapp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How can you have postpartisanship when there are two dominant political parties?  The answer lies in a distinction. ]]></description>
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		<title>Has The Blogosphere Failed Us?</title>
		<link>http://postpartisannews.com/?p=2560</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 03:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron T. Knapp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kerry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rise of the Internet, and specifically the political "blogosphere," after Bush-Gore in 2000 held out the promise of a new day where the American people, who presumably would be more moderate and reasonable than the cross-firing cable commentators, could make their voices heard again.  Let freedom ring on the Web!, we said.

So has the promise of the net-roots been fulfilled?]]></description>
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