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		<title>The decline and fall of the beautiful game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Exactly forty years ago a 22-year old kid from Parry Sound, Ontario, launched himself vertically 5 feet above the ice after scoring the winning goal for the Boston Bruins in the 1972 Stanley Cup championship game.   The splendid photo that caught Bobby Orr in mid-flight on that spring evening, also caught the thrill of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All Politics Are Loco</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The wasteland of the American political landscape is matched by the emptiness of what passes for political reporting and analysis. How&#8217;s this for a list of candidates for the presidency who have been treated seriously at one time or another by the national press &#8211; print and TV?: Donald Trump who built a campaign on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May Day: Europe and the United States Compete for Worst Economic Policy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a battle for world supremacy for economic stupidity America&#8217;s Paul Ryan is taking on Angela Merkel in a battle for the ages. While Ryan is only one of 435 Representatives in the U.S. Congress he has become the intellectual leader of the party that gave us the $3 Trillion Iraq War, the huge Bush [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://politicsandpress.com/2012/may-day-europe-and-the-united-states-compete-for-worst-economic-policy/</link>
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		<title>Trudeau in stunning upset</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the biggest upset in boxing since Pee Wee Hermann scored a TKO on Cassius Clay in that famous fight in Lewiston, Maine, Pierre Trudeau Junior (aka as Justin), a  3-1 underdog, brawled his way to a TKO in the third round of a charity challenge fight over tough-guy aboriginal Tory senator Patrick Brazeau.  By accepting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rick Santorum: The Catholic  Church&#8217;s Trojan Horse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Republican primaries continue to amaze and entertain with Mitt finding new ways to sink lower into the mire of pandering to the lowest common denominator, the aptly named Newt Gingrich self inflating at the sight of a microphone &#8211; any microphone &#8211; and Rick Santorum ranting against the joys of sex. Of particular recent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tom Lehrer &#8211;  Where are you when we need you?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Let&#8217;s make peace the way we did in Stanleyville and Saigon&#8221;.  The lines are 50 years old, but the Harvard math  lecturer  who wrote them is still alive, as far as we know: the great (and final?) Amurcan political satirist Tom Lehrer.  Where are the comic writers of today who could sing their way to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://politicsandpress.com/2012/tom-lehrer-where-are-you-when-we-need-you/</link>
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		<title>Save a tear for Germany</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pity poor Germany.  It made such a mess of the twentieth  century that it just can&#8217;t do anything right in the twenty-first.  The truth is it is about the only country doing anything right in Europe these days, but no matter what it does, the folks it tries to help dig out Granddad&#8217;s old war [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://politicsandpress.com/2012/save-a-tear-for-germany/</link>
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		<title>Auschwitz 77 years later</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Exactly 77 years ago the Red Army entered a large relatively  new settlement built outside the old Polish garnison city of Oswiecim and discovered the relics of  Auschwitz,the largest of more than half a dozen Nazi killing centres.  In the Auschwitz Protocol its genocidal purpose had been described in detail almost a year earlier by the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://politicsandpress.com/2012/auschwitz-77-years-later/</link>
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		<title>Living in Lies: America Goes to the  Polls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Truth and love must prevail over lies and hatred. &#8212;&#8212; Vaclav Havel The late Vaclav Havel promoted the concept of “living in truth” as a revolutionary strategy for overcoming the authoritarian crimes committed on the Czech people by the Soviet regime. A frequently jailed dissident, Havel led the Czechoslovak people through their Velvet Revolution, became [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://politicsandpress.com/2012/living-in-lies-america-goes-to-the-polls/</link>
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		<title>The CFL at 99 and counting, what Canadian football could teach  the Yanks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So the big game is over, the Grey Cup has been  presented in its ninety-ninth year to aVancouver team that lost its first five games and won nine of its next ten, including today&#8217;s down to the wire victory at home against Winnipeg.  56, ooo people sold out its new half billion dollar upgraded stadium, [...]]]></description>
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