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			<title><![CDATA[Transparency needed on issue ads]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//303698</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The new Wisconsin Government Accountability Board is considering going where the state Legislature refuses to go by requiring organizations that run so-called &quot;issue advocacy ads&quot; to reveal who paid for them and subjecting the expenditures to the state&#39;s campaign finance limits.  The board, which is the successor to both the old Elections Board and Ethics Board, recently heard arguments for and against such administrative rules, and then voted to direct its staff to come up ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[An editorial]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-05T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[What do you think? Did John McCain&#39;s selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate affect your vote for president?]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//303697</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ &quot;It would make me think about it twice. McCain seems to be a pretty good candidate, but I&#39;m kinda&#39; for Obama already. I think McCain made a choice for change in choosing Palin. I think it did his campaign some good. It just won&#39;t affect my vote, however.&quot;  Jesse Woodard   maintenance worker  Madison   &quot;I&#39;m voting for him. I didn&#39;t expect Palin. It was a wise ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Compiled by Kevin MurphyCorrespondent for The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-05T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Rosa Brooks: Taking a closer look at Palin&#39;s independence]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//303695</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ That John McCain -- he&#39;s such a maverick!  Just when you thought you had him figured out, McCain threw another curveball -- picking rookie Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, whom he barely knows, as his running mate.  As ex-Democrat Joe Lieberman told the Republican convention Tuesday night, everyone recognizes McCain&#39;s &quot;record of independence. ... God only made one John McCain, and he&#39;s his own man.&quot;  Uh-huh. Some might call it reckless for a 72-year-old to offer ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rosa Brooks]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-05T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Roland S. Martin: We must confront teen pregnancy]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//303693</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ It didn&#39;t take long for Republicans -- or even some Democrats -- to try to dissuade those of us in the media from focusing on the news that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin&#39;s 17-year-old daughter is five months pregnant and plans on marrying the father.  Aides to Sen. John McCain quickly took to the airwaves to deplore any conversation regarding Bristol Palin, saying the issue is a private matter. Even. Sen. Barack Obama made it clear ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roland S. Martin]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-05T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Chris Schneider: Road tests rev up interest in fuel-cell vehicles]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//303696</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Fuel-cell vehicles could replace all our current cars and be refueled by one-third of the 55 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day produced in America.  Amazingly, I got the chance to drive six hydrogen-powered vehicles on the morning of Aug. 22. And I have RITA to thank. RITA (Research and Innovative Technology Administration) of the U.S. Department of Transportation took the initiative to coordinate eight automobile manufacturers with two ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Schneider]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-05T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Editorial cartoon (9/6)]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//303692</link>
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			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-05T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The GOP&#39;s multiple-ownership society]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//303513</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ George Bush promised America &quot;an ownership society ... where more Americans than ever will be able to open up their door where they live and say, welcome to my house, welcome to my piece of property.&quot;  And the Republican ticket of 2008 realizes that promise.  Presidential candidate John McCain and newly selected vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin can open up their doors where they live and say: &quot;Welcome to my house, welcome to my piece ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[An editorial]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-04T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[State Debate: Paper mill workers rightly dig in heels]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//303577</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Paper mill workers rightly dig in heels, says the Appleton Post-Crescent.  The recent decision to close NewPage paper mill in Kimberly comes as an obvious blow to its 600 workers. But in this case, they aren&#39;t taking it lying down. Workers are rallying to keep the mill open.  White signs with the slogan, &quot;Run the Mill or Sell It!&quot; dot&nbsp;yards in the region in preparation for a Saturday afternoon rally in Kimberly. At ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Compiled by Judie Kleinmaier]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-05T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dave Zweifel&#39;s Plain Talk: At least religious right embracing pregnant teens]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//303512</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ I went browsing the Web earlier this week after the news broke about vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin&#39;s pregnant 17-year-old daughter.  Barack Obama was rightfully telling his people to lay off, that kids of the candidates should be off limits and he&#39;d fire any staffer who attempted to make hay from the situation.  Nevertheless, many of the right-wing bloggers were insisting that the Obama backers and the &quot;liberal&quot; media were making it an issue and ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Zweifel]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-04T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Mike Doogan: Palin&#39;s nice, but she&#39;s not ready]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//303511</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Most Alaskans like Sarah Palin. I know I do. Both as a politician and a person, there&#39;s a lot to like.  Despite the fact that we&#39;re from different parties, for the 20 months that we&#39;ve both been in office we&#39;ve been allies on oil and gas issues, which are important in a state where 85 percent of the government&#39;s general revenue comes from oil production. I&#39;ve appreciated the way she has not ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Doogan]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-04T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Connie Schultz: Finally, we care about a teen pregnancy]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//303510</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Under normal circumstances, it&#39;s sad, but it&#39;s hardly news when an unwed 17-year-old girl ends up pregnant.  As of this week, though, there&#39;s nothing normal about this teenager&#39;s world, which is why this anguished time in her young life has become fodder for media and bloggers around the globe. That&#39;s what happens when your mother knows you&#39;re expecting but runs for vice president anyway and then sees fit to release a statement about your pregnancy ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Connie Schultz]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-04T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Robert Weitzel: Biden&#39;s Zionism is a liability for U.S.]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//303509</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ &quot;If I were a Jew, I would be a Zionist. I am a Zionist. You don&#39;t have to be a Jew to be a Zionist.&quot; -- Sen. Joseph Biden  Considering the last eight years and the current options, I&#39;ll admit to wanting Barack Obama in the White House in January. Undoubtedly, more people around the world will have a better chance of surviving the next four years with his finger on -- or rather off ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Weitzel]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-04T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson: GOP steers clear of economic woes]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//303508</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Maybe it&#39;s a good thing for Republicans that Hurricane Gustav has abbreviated their convention. On an issue of some concern to Americans -- the economy -- they seem to have nothing to say.  I have combed the schedule of events here without finding a single forum, workshop or kaffeeklatsch devoted to what John McCain and the Republican Party propose to do about America&#39;s short- and long-term economic challenges. I&#39;ve found four ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-04T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Editorial cartoon (9/5)]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//303507</link>
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			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-04T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[George Bush&#39;s very low blow]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//303348</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Did George Bush, in his valedictory address to the last Republican National Convention of his presidency, actually compare liberal critics of his administration and his party to North Vietnamese guards who were accused of torturing prisoners of war?   Yes, he did.   Speaking via a live video feed from the White House on the second night of the convention, Bush enthusiastically endorsed the man his campaign smeared in the 2000 Republican presidential primary campaign. ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[An editorial]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-03T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[State Debate: Don&#39;t be alarmed by high expulsion rate]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//303429</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Don&#39;t be alarmed by high expulsion rate, says the Beloit Daily News.  The School District of Beloit expels about 1 percent of its student body -- the rate leads Wisconsin districts.  There are some extremely serious problems with aberrant, violent behavior among young people in the community. If a tough line is being taken in the schools, the adult population should applaud.  Never forget: The first responsibility in operating the schools is to ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Compiled by Judie Kleinmaier]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-04T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Amy Goodman: Arrested for doing our job in St. Paul]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//303446</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Government crackdowns on journalists are a true threat to democracy. As the Republican National Convention meets here this week, police are systematically targeting journalists.  I was arrested with my two colleagues, Democracy Now! producers Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar, while reporting on the first day of the RNC. I have been wrongly charged with a misdemeanor. My co-workers, who were simply reporting, may be charged with felony riot.  The Democratic and ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-04T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[WisOpinion - The Show: Featuring Stu Levitan]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//303420</link>
			<description><![CDATA[BRIGHTCOVE[1772128934]The Sept. 5 edition of &quot;WisOpinion.com:
the Show&quot; features a &quot;Two Minute Take&quot; with Stu Levitan of 92.1 the
Mic on the left and John Murray of Speaker Huebsch&#39;s office on the
right debating how the national GOP convention and the Gov. Palin veep nomination will play in Wisconsin. Levitan and Murray follow with their risings and fallings of the week, focusing on the presidential race.<br ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-04T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[John Nichols: Ed Garvey and the roots of Fighting Bob Fest]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//303347</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Fighting Bob Fest will be bigger and better than ever this year.  Friday night&#39;s 7:30 p.m. pre-fest event at the Barrymore Theatre in Madison will feature a screening of Phil Donahue&#39;s brilliant new film &quot;Body of War,&quot; as well as visits from special guests Phil Donahue and Jim Hightower.  Saturday&#39;s festival at the Sauk County Fairgrounds starts at 8:30 a.m. and will feature Donahue, Hightower, Doris &quot;Granny D&quot; Haddock, Scott Ritter, Bill McKibben, Gwen Moore, ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Nichols]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-03T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Mark Halperin: If he goes for big win, Obama could lose]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//303344</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Right now, Barack Obama is favored over John McCain in the race to secure the 270 electoral votes required to claim the White House. But when you listen to the tough-talking senior aides running his campaign, you realize that Obama wants something more than just a victory. That could be his undoing.  Most national polls suggest that the 2008 race is very tight. Yet Obama seems to be targeting enough states to net a total ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Halperin]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-03T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Shirley S. Abrahamson: Wisconsin jurors invaluable to justice, democracy]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//303346</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Gov. Jim Doyle has proclaimed September as juror appreciation month in Wisconsin, and the Wisconsin Senate and Assembly each have approved citations in support of the occasion.  On behalf of the judges in the state, I join my colleagues in the executive and judicial branches of government in thanking all the jurors who have served in the courthouses across the state of Wisconsin. Jurors play a critical role in our court system and our democracy. ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shirley S. Abrahamson]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-03T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Editorial cartoon (9/4)]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//303345</link>
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			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-03T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Kelda Helen Roys for Assembly]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//303094</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The 81st Assembly District covers a lot of territory. It includes Madison&#39;s far east and north sides and Middleton&#39;s 8th Ward; the villages of Mazomanie, Cross Plains, Black Earth and Waunakee; and the towns of Berry, Burke, Black Earth, Westport and Springfield.  Urban, suburban and rural, it includes racially and ethnically diverse city neighborhoods and longtime family farms, pockets of poverty and million-dollar homes, historic villages and some of Dane County&#39;s newest housing developments.  Though ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[An editorial]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-02T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[John Nichols: Palin&#39;s &#39;troopergate&#39; could be the real problem]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//303102</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ ST. PAUL -- Barack Obama&#39;s right. The families of candidates for high office ought generally to be &quot;off limits.&quot; And that is especially true when it comes to their kids.  So let&#39;s put aside the discussion of whether her child&#39;s out-of-wedlock pregnancy raises any questions about whether it was wise for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the presumptive Republican nominee for vice president, to promote abstinence education.  Pay attention, instead, to the wholly legitimate -- and ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Nichols]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-02T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dave Zweifel&#39;s Plain Talk: Why we need strong regulation]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//303099</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ In the new book &quot;Journals: 1952-2000,&quot; a compilation of the diary entries penned by the late Arthur Schlesinger Jr., one of the country&#39;s most politically connected historians, there&#39;s a revealing snippet about Harry Truman.  Schlesinger had a private meeting with the president in late 1952, near the end of Truman&#39;s last year in office.  Truman was miffed at a rash of stereotypical attacks on &quot;politicians,&quot; who some of the attackers insisted were nothing but a ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Zweifel]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-02T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Phil Haslanger: Tightening ties between food and faith]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//303097</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ At the grocery store, you might notice that some of the food is marked kosher, produced to meet the requirements of traditional Jewish dietary laws.  You may be aware that as Muslims begin observing Ramadan this week, abstaining from food during the day is a central part of their life for this month.  If you enjoy Friday night fish fries in Wisconsin, you may know that they are a remnant of Catholic rules for abstaining ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Haslanger]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-02T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Charles Wilson: Guns not enough to keep nation secure]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//303107</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Russia&#39;s invasion of Georgia has led to a more serious foreign policy discussion in the presidential campaign. As tensions rise in the Caucasus and violence once again erupts in Afghanistan, we should recall the lessons we learned from our response to earlier Russian adventurism. We must recognize now, as we learned years ago, that a strong military alone is not enough to ensure our long-term national security.  In a scene near the end of the ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Wilson]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-02T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Susan Shaer: Military spending not best way to create new jobs]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//303126</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Good jobs are simply the backbone of what keeps a society running. They pay for houses, food, education, recreation, transportation and government. As jobs evaporate, the huge engine of our economy sputters and slows, so it&#39;s no wonder we are so protective of any project that creates or protects good jobs.  This atmosphere of protection wraps itself around the elements of the federal budget that create jobs, and affects our federal spending priorities more than ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Shaer]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-02T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Editorial cartoon (9/3)]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//303165</link>
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			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-02T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[&#39;Straight Talk Express&#39; takes a detour]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//302986</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ John McCain is getting a bit testy these days.  There was a time not too long ago when he invited reporters to ask him about anything, maintained that he has nothing to hide, and said there was no such thing as a dumb question. He even dubbed his campaign bus the &quot;Straight Talk Express&quot; when he was campaigning in the Iowa primary.  When he started flying around the country as the presumptive Republican nominee, he ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[An editorial]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-01T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[State Debate: Cut mercury emissions 90% by 2015]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//303059</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Cut mercury emissions 90% by 2015, says the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.  One has to wonder what some Assembly Republicans were thinking last month when they voted along party lines to try to block a new rule on mercury emissions by the Department of Natural Resources. The rule is aimed at cleaning up Wisconsin&#39;s air and waters and will provide public health benefits that far outweigh their cost.  The new air rule is aimed ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Compiled by Judie Kleinmaier]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-02T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[John Nichols: Too bad GOP didn&#39;t listen to Bill Steiger]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//302987</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ ST. PAUL -- The Republican Party that meets this week in national convention was not always the party of reaction and conservatism. This is the party of Lincoln, after all. It was at a Republican convention that an African-American man, Frederick Douglass, earned the vote of a delegate for the presidency. It was at a Republican convention that the name of a woman, Margaret Chase Smith, was formally placed in nomination. And it is at ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Nichols]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-01T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Pascual and Talbott: Next president&#39;s decisions on global warming crucial]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//302988</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The world may have only seven years to start reducing the annual buildup in greenhouse gas emissions that otherwise threatens global catastrophe within several decades. That means that between Inauguration Day in January 2009 and 2015, either John McCain or Barack Obama will face the most momentous political challenge of all time.  Reflecting a consensus of hundreds of scientists around the world, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has affirmed that greenhouse gas emissions are ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carlos Pascual and Strobe Talbott]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-01T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Douglas B. Johnson: State fails to make right &#39;green&#39; moves]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//302990</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Like Jon Foley, I do environmental work. And just as he is leaving the University of Wisconsin-Madison for a better opportunity at the University of Minnesota, I too left Wisconsin at the end of July.  In 1996 I received my doctorate from the UW&#39;s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. I own an 8-year-old environmental management consulting firm.  In 2005, I developed the first environmental management system (EMS) based on the ISO 14001 standard for a ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Douglas B. Johnson]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-01T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Happy 114th birthday, Labor Day!]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//302947</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Happy Labor Day!  Many people today don&#39;t know it, but the history of Labor Day goes all the way back to 1894, when Congress decided that the first Monday in September each year would be set aside to honor American workers for the contributions they have made to the strength, prosperity and well-being of the country.  The idea had been actively promoted by the organized labor unions of the day as a tribute to their ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-01T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Editorial cartoon (9/2)]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//302982</link>
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			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-01T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[State Debate: It takes a region to fight poverty]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//302965</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ It takes a region to fight poverty, says the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.   For how long will the region tolerate Milwaukee&#39;s poverty ranking before realizing that only unified, concentrated action will remedy this?  Think of a rowing team on one of Wisconsin&#39;s shimmering blue lakes. A crew of seven works in unison; when one is hurting, the rest pull harder to ensure that the craft speeds ahead. Now think of that crew as ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Compiled by Judie Kleinmaier]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-01T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dave Zweifel&#39;s Plain Talk: The definitive book on &#39;Fighting Bob&#39;]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//302952</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ While we&#39;re getting ready for the seventh incarnation of Fighting Bob Fest this coming Saturday at the Sauk County Fairgrounds, it&#39;s a good time to give Professor Nancy Unger&#39;s book a plug because, above all, it deserves one.  For those of you who don&#39;t know the colorful La Follette story and what &quot;Fighting Bob&quot; meant not only to Wisconsin but to the entire nation, Unger&#39;s book is just what the doctor ordered.  &quot;Fighting Bob La ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Zweifel]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-01T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[John E. Schwarz: Thank government activism for industry innovation]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//302946</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The mantra of the free market has gained such a hold on Americans that Sen. John McCain recently aired an ad exclaiming, as if it&#39;s a given: &quot;Higher taxes, more government spending, so fewer jobs.&quot; A similar obvious &quot;truth&quot; for many Americans these days, in the words of Rush Limbaugh, is that &quot;the government can&#39;t create wealth; it can only destroy it or confiscate and redistribute it.&quot;  If it is true that higher government taxation ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[John E. Schwarz]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-01T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[David McGrath: Labor Day recalls the struggle for strikers]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//302943</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ For Midwesterners, 25 degrees is practically jacket weather in the second week of January. But we had been standing on the frozen concrete since early morning, and the persistent wind off the lake was beginning to penetrate the layers of clothing we had thought would sustain us through another day on the picket line.  It was my second teachers&#39; strike, and I was having private doubts about the entire union thing, and my future, and ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[David McGrath]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-01T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barbara Quirk: Elder abuse on rise, but so is response]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//302945</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ It&#39;s enough to make a grown man cry.  A new study conducted at the University of Chicago concludes that nearly 13 percent of America&#39;s older adults suffer some form of abuse. Specifically, 9 percent reported they have suffered from verbal mistreatment, 3.5 percent from financial mistreatment, and 0.2 percent from physical mistreatment.  The team of researchers, headed by Edward O. Laumann, Ph.D., based their findings on interviews with more than 3,000 community-dwelling residents aged 57 ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara Quirk]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-09-01T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[John Nichols: Donahue! Hightower! Bob Fest too!]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//302845</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ DENVER -- Jim Hightower and I shared the stage at the big rally organized by Progressive Democrats of America and other groups on the eve of the Democratic National Convention here. And, of course, we talked about the historic events that would unfold over the course of the week in which, for the first time in American history, a major party would nominate an African-American candidate for president.  For progressives, who have struggled to open ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Nichols]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-08-30T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Phil Scanlan: Americans getting burned on water damage coverage]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//302847</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The language of a homeowners insurance policy is such that if we don&#39;t read it carefully, we can have big problems.  If you thought that your standard homeowners insurance protected you from increasingly common disasters like earthquakes or flooding, you&#39;re wrong. The standard homeowners policy covers:  Wind damage.  Wind-driven rain/hail (including rain entering through windows, doors or a roof).  Fire.  Theft.  Damage caused by fallen trees.  While such coverage is necessary, in today&#39;s changing climate ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Scanlan]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-08-30T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Roland S. Martin: Race is Obama&#39;s to win or lose]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//302905</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ DENVER -- All throughout the week, strategists, analysts and pundits were chirping and complaining that the party&#39;s convention was too soft in the beginning by not blasting away at Sen. John McCain and President Bush.  My CNN colleague James Carville, one of the chief architects of Bill Clinton&#39;s victory in 1992, was among those leading voices, believing that the Democrats didn&#39;t have a consistent message to counter the GOP.  Yet that was never the view ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roland S. Martin]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-08-31T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Shashi Tharoor: China and India don&#39;t make &#39;Chindia&#39;]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//302850</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ It has become rather fashionable these days to speak of India and China in the same breath. These are the two big countries said to be taking over the world. Some even speak of &quot;Chindia,&quot; as if the two nations were joined at the hip in the international imagination.  But if anyone wanted confirmation that such twinning is preposterous, all they&#39;d have to do is look at the medals tally at the Beijing Olympics. China ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shashi Tharoor]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-08-30T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Editorial cartoon (8/31)]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/mad/opinion//302851</link>
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			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-08-30T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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