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		<title>Russian subs can probably stop oil leak, if only someone high up would ask</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/07/09/russian-subs-can-probably-stop-oil-leak-if-only-someone-high-up-would-ask/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 01:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A BBC report offers the most intriguiging possibility yet for stopping the Deepwater Horizon wellhead leak &#8212; using powerful Russian submersible craft that work at depths of 6,000 meters, far deeper than the disaster site. A skipper of one of the Mir subs is reported as saying the subs are already at work in Lake [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Earmarks bring some Democrats money but could cost them plenty in November</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/07/04/earmarks-bring-some-democrats-money-but-could-cost-them-plenty-in-november/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/07/04/earmarks-bring-some-democrats-money-but-could-cost-them-plenty-in-november/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 07:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earmarks and the senators and representatives who arrange them aren&#8217;t all bad, but the potential for abuse is always there, and too often realized. Earmarks can bring to states and congressional districts worthwhile projects and economic benefits that otherwise would never make it through budgetary and legislative processes. The practice gets dirty when taxpayers&#8217; hard-earned [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Job numbers point up economy&#8217;s longterm ills</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/07/03/job-numbers-point-up-economys-longterm-ills/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/07/03/job-numbers-point-up-economys-longterm-ills/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 07:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[restoring the economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Despite dismal job-creation numbers for June, it&#8217;s probably premature to say the U.S. economy is slipping into the second decline of a double dip recession. What&#8217;s abundantly clear, though, is that America&#8217;s hollowed-out, seriously eroded economy is hard put to create sufficient jobs even when there is no recession. Experts say the economy must create [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hoyer says pay-go is alive, well and working</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/06/27/hoyer-says-pay-go-is-alive-well-and-working/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/06/27/hoyer-says-pay-go-is-alive-well-and-working/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 07:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/?p=3701</guid>
		<description><![CDATA["Democrats have also been wrongly criticized for not sticking to PAYGO’s promise. PAYGO often means saying no to policies we like, and for that very reason those decisions aren’t often reported. They’re like the dog that didn’t bark. They are all the bills that never see the light of day because we can’t find offsets for them; they are the decisions committees make to scale back the policies they want to fit within the savings they can find. . ."]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Post-disaster chicanery exposes need for on-scene federal law enforcement</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/06/10/post-disaster-chicanery-exposes-need-for-on-scene-federal-law-enforcement/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/06/10/post-disaster-chicanery-exposes-need-for-on-scene-federal-law-enforcement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 07:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where does BP America get off, blocking journalists from property the giant oil corporation doesn&#8217;t own because the media were out to show the suffering and mass deaths of creatures, and today interfering with an ABC News reporter doing his job on a public beach? For that matter, why did BP stiff, and why is [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Capturing, containing oil a better approach</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/05/30/capturing-containing-oil-a-better-approach/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/05/30/capturing-containing-oil-a-better-approach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 06:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After trying to shut off BP America&#8217;s massive undersea oil leak — and failing — with several long-shot approaches, the company will finally try instead to capture most of the escaping oil. This makes more sense than anything tried so far, offering the best hope for limiting damage from the 12000 to 19,000 barrels of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>BP opposed requirement for device that might well have averted disaster</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/05/04/bp-opposed-requirement-for-device-that-might-well-have-averted-disaster/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/05/04/bp-opposed-requirement-for-device-that-might-well-have-averted-disaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 00:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/?p=3509</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This episode is yet one more example of corporate greed and stupidity trumping all other considerations. It’s just the latest in a long, fast-growing list of examples of the bitter fruits of deregulation and inexcusably lax regulation, of people in government who should know better erring on the side of keeping big businesses happy.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Derivatives gambling should be illegal</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/04/26/derivatives-gambling-should-be-illegal/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/04/26/derivatives-gambling-should-be-illegal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/?p=3467</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Suppose that in a weak moment you agree to lend a relative with a mixed record for keeping his word $500, on his promise to repay the loan with 10 percent interest in six months. Other family members start ribbing you about your questionable judgment, whereupon you challenge them to put their money where their [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Columnist makes sense of taxing subject</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/04/15/columnist-makes-sense-of-taxing-subject/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/04/15/columnist-makes-sense-of-taxing-subject/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/?p=3454</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This being federal income tax deadline day, we think it fitting to point you toward one of the most sensible expositions about taxation we&#8217;ve ever seen: columnist Froma Harrop&#8217;s Five Commandments of Tax Reform. Here&#8217;s a teaser: &#8212; Thou shall simplify with care: Rep. Paul Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin, proposes a much simplified income-tax system. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Insurer&#8217;s empty pledge adds to case for a universal single-payer system</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/03/18/insurers-empty-pledge-adds-to-case-for-a-universal-single-payer-system/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/03/18/insurers-empty-pledge-adds-to-case-for-a-universal-single-payer-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aconspicuously missing argument in the debate about health care reform is that health insurers are doing a good job of operating in the public interest, and a well-done Los Angeles Times story provides evidence why no one is making that case. The story concerns Wellpoint, the nation&#8217;s No. 2 health insurer, No. 32 in the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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