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		<title><![CDATA[A Price Tag on Patriotism]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Will Rogers was wrong. The legendary humorist, speaking of the
responsibilities each of us has as a citizen of this nation, once
observed, "America is a great country, but you can't live in it for
nothing." Unless, it turns out, you're Eduardo ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/markshields/s-1145740</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/19/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Shortcuts for 2012 Campaign]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please accept the following as a small token of appreciation from your
semi-faithful correspondent, who knows how busy life can get, what with
graduations, Memorial Day and everything. We read all the campaign press
releases and candidate ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/markshields/s-1142995</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/12/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Slinging Mud]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Indiana Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels was characteristically candid when
speaking to the Indianapolis Star's Matthew Tully on the nasty tone and
shortage of content in the 2012 campaign for the White House. Daniels
advised unofficial GOP ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/markshields/s-1139195</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/05/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Vice Presidential Choices Do Matter]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the fun things about my job is that I get to ask questions of
semi-famous public people. Of course, these semi-famous people do not
have to answer my questions or anybody else's. But occasionally -- away
from the cameras, the microphones ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/markshields/s-1135548</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/28/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[No Easy Job]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[To charge that your opponent does not know what it means to go to work
every day can be dangerous to your own political health. I learned this
on May 3, 1974, in a Cleveland City Club debate between two Democrats
embroiled in a bruising campaign ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/markshields/s-1128876</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/14/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The 2012 Gerry Ford Test]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was rightly said of President Harry Truman that he liked being Harry
Truman: He was comfortable being Harry Truman; he never thought about
being anybody else but Harry Truman.

Equally comfortable in his own skin was President Gerald R. Ford, ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/markshields/s-1126198</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/07/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Political Humor: A Serious Matter]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every presidential campaign expends enormous amounts of effort and
energy to convince a skeptical press and, more importantly, interested
voters that its candidate possesses a genuine sense of humor. To be
without a sense of humor is probably un-...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/markshields/s-1120084</link>
 
    <pubDate>Mar/31/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[With Friends Like These...]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[You're Mitt Romney, and after six arduous -- sometimes embarrassing --
years of campaigning, the Republican presidential nomination, while
still beyond your reach, may be finally in view.

Just 16 months ago, before the formal campaign began, ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/markshields/s-1116597</link>
 
    <pubDate>Mar/24/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[In 2012, Are We Americans Citizens or Consumers?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2007, my friend and colleague on "PBS NewsHour," Jim Lehrer,
interviewed President George W. Bush and asked the following question
about the U.S. wars then being waged in Iraq and Afghanistan: "Why have
you not, as president of the United ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/markshields/s-1112546</link>
 
    <pubDate>Mar/17/2012</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Authentic Maverick]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The officeholder in the Opposition Party who dares to break from his
side's rigid orthodoxy is admired -- by those of us in Our Party -- as a
courageous maverick who has the guts to take a lonely stand against
party bosses. But when the rebel is ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/markshields/s-1108904</link>
 
    <pubDate>Mar/10/2012</pubDate>
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