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	<title>Peter Principle &#187; Politics</title>
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	<description>Rising to my level of incompetence</description>
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		<title>Devolution in Texas</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2009/03/25/devolution-in-texas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Texas School Board Set to Vote on Challenge to Evolution
The Texas Board of Education will vote this week on a new science curriculum designed to challenge the guiding principle of evolution, a step that could influence what is taught in biology classes across the nation.
The proposed curriculum change would prompt teachers to raise doubts that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four key decisions that led to the crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2009/03/12/key-decisions-that-led-to-the-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Slate magazine is running a series on  Making sense of the credit debacle. Recently Barry Ritholtz of The Big Picture blog, listed a couple of key decisions that he thinks contributed to the crisis.
What led to the current situation were numerous legislative, ideological, and business decisions that worked together to create a systemic failure. Consider [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That&#8217;s why they call it money</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2009/02/04/thats-why-they-call-it-money/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2009/02/04/thats-why-they-call-it-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lately, I&#8217;ve been listening to a lot of podcasts from National Public Radio. One of my favorites is &#8220;Planet Money&#8220;, which is  the best practical explanation I&#8217;ve heard of what&#8217;s going on in the economy. They don&#8217;t track the market, or hype investments, or all that stuff you get on CNBC.
But they ask much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FBI saw mortgage fraud early</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2009/01/29/fbi-saw-mortgage-fraud-early/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2009/01/29/fbi-saw-mortgage-fraud-early/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: FBI saw mortgage fraud early
&#8220;We knew that the mortgage-brokerage industry was corrupt,&#8221; the first of the retired FBI officials told the Seattle P-I. &#8220;Where we would have gotten a sense of what was really going on was the point where the mortgage was sold knowing that it was a piece of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Like a breath of fresh air</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2009/01/24/like-a-breath-of-fresh-air/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2009/01/24/like-a-breath-of-fresh-air/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Obama&#8217;s Inaugural Address
As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals.  Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils that we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man &#8212; a charter expanded by the blood of generations.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2008/10/02/the-seven-habits-of-highly-ineffective-terrorists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2008/10/02/the-seven-habits-of-highly-ineffective-terrorists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The conventional view of terrorists is that they are focussed on political or economic gains. So a common strategy to prevent terrorism is to provide people with non-violent ways of achieving those goals. But Max Abrahms of Stanford has studied terrorist groups, and he concludes their motivation is not political gain.
The Seven Habits of Highly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The cynical appeal of drilling</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2008/09/15/the-cynical-appeal-of-drilling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2008/09/15/the-cynical-appeal-of-drilling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Making America Stupid
Why would Republicans, the party of business, want to focus our country on breathing life into a 19th-century technology — fossil fuels — rather than giving birth to a 21st-century technology — renewable energy? As I have argued before, it reminds me of someone who, on the eve of the I.T. revolution — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Northern Campaign</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2008/09/12/northern-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2008/09/12/northern-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Stephen Harper just called a federal election for October 14. So Canadians will have to endure a 5 week long political campaign. Compare that to the seemingly endless campaign cycle in the US.
On the other hand, this is also the 3rd Canadian election in 4 years. Canada has been struggling with minority govermments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palin Pun</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2008/09/04/palin-pun/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2008/09/04/palin-pun/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A friend was watching the Republican Convention:
&#8220;Boy, Palin is good!&#8221;
Me: &#8220;You thinking of changing sides?&#8221;
&#8220;No, but I am still amazed at her delivery.&#8221;
Me: &#8220;No wonder. She&#8217;s had lots of practice with deliveries.&#8221;
Thank you, I&#8217;ll be here all week&#8230;
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		<title>Paying for your right to TV</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2008/05/06/paying-for-your-right-to-tv/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2008/05/06/paying-for-your-right-to-tv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 20:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tech Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An article in Popular Mechanics estimates the cost of the upcoming transition to digital TV in the US: Digital Television Transition Funding &#8211; Do Americans Have a Right to TV?
The federal government is spending about $1.5 billion of taxpayer&#8217;s money on education and incentives.  Is this really how we want to be spending money from [...]]]></description>
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