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		<title><![CDATA[Benghazi Interview: Pickering Dissects Congressional Follies, Media Coverage and 'Cover-Up' Charges]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[No doubt the degraded quality of congressional oversight astonishes
Thomas Pickering, the distinguished American diplomat who oversaw the
State Department's Benghazi review board -- although he tries not to say
so too directly. For his demanding ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/joeconason/s-1329576</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/23/2013</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Newsmaker Memo: an Interview With Ron Wyden, the Senate's Powerful Policy Wonk]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having served in Congress for more than three decades -- and in the
upper chamber since 1996 -- Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden has established a
reputation as one of the Senate's more serious and diligent members.
Over the years on Capitol Hill, he has...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/joeconason/s-1325868</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/16/2013</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Watergate Revenge: Republicans Yearning to Impeach Obama Over Benghazi 'Cover-Up']]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Less than four months after Barack Obama's inauguration, the right-wing
propaganda machine is already promoting the only imaginable conclusion
to a Democratic administration that dares to achieve a second term:
impeachment. Once confined to the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/joeconason/s-1322451</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/09/2013</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Overdue Questions: What Might Be Missing From Bush's Presidential Library]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like all such monuments that former presidents construct to edify the
public, the George W. Bush Presidential Center -- opened with great
ceremony in Texas last week -- is mounted from its subject's point of
view.

My own invitation to the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/joeconason/s-1318910</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/02/2013</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Newsmaker Memo: An Interview With Pioneering Climate Scientist James Hansen]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having directed NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies for most of
the past four decades, Dr. James E. Hansen retired this month to devote
himself to the scientific activism that has brought both awards and
catcalls during his long and ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/joeconason/s-1315290</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/25/2013</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Soft on Crime: Protecting the 'Second Amendment Rights' of Thugs and Terrorists]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[What can Americans learn from the bitter debate over the gun reform
bill?

Perhaps the most obvious lesson is that the leadership of the National
Rifle Association, the Gun Owners of America and their tame Republican
politicians have all earned an...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/joeconason/s-1312036</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/19/2013</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Her Tea Party: What Margaret Thatcher Really Meant to England and the World]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amid all the suffocating claptrap celebrating Margaret Thatcher in the
media, only the British themselves seem able to provide a refreshing hit
of brisk reality. Over here, she is the paragon of principle known as
the "Iron Lady," devoted to ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/joeconason/s-1307878</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/11/2013</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Long Before Hillary Decides for 2016, Scandal Trolls Are Coming Back]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[By all accounts, Hillary Rodham Clinton has not yet decided whether to
seek the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. But the prospect of
her candidacy, combined with her undeniable popularity, is agitating
certain commentators so deeply that ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/joeconason/s-1304939</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/04/2013</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Without Fear or Favor: the Heresies and Vindications of Anthony Lewis, 1927 to 2013]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anthony Lewis, the former New York Times reporter and columnist who died
Monday at the age of 86, shaped the American conscience on a broad range
of issues, from civil liberties and civil rights to war and diplomacy,
for almost 50 years. During ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/joeconason/s-1300762</link>
 
    <pubDate>Mar/28/2013</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Newsmaker Memo: an Interview With AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, recently spoke with The
National Memo about the sequester's automatic budget cuts, the danger of
cuts to Social Security, the Keystone XL pipeline, immigration reform,
President Obama and how to defend ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/joeconason/s-1297150</link>
 
    <pubDate>Mar/21/2013</pubDate>
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