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			<title><![CDATA[Robert Weitzel: Hillary&#39;s &#39;Dr. Strangelove&#39; shtick]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/column//index.php?ntid=286608</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ During an April 22 interview with ABC&#39;s Chris Cuomo, Hillary Clinton vowed to attack Iran and &quot;totally obliterate&quot; the majority of the Persian race in a furnace of primordial fire should the Iranian government attack Israel with nuclear weapons, which they do not now possess.  Missing in Clinton&#39;s campaign trail pandering to America&#39;s pro-Israel lobbies and the mushrooming evangelical Christian Zionist movement is the &quot;inconvenient truth&quot; that Israel has the most modern and most deadly military ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Weitzel]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Andrew J. Bacevich: The &#39;Long War&#39; fallacy]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/column//index.php?ntid=286611</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Donald Rumsfeld is today a discredited and widely reviled figure. Robert Gates, Rumsfeld&#39;s successor as defense secretary, is generally admired for manifesting qualities that Rumsfeld lacked -- a willingness to listen not least among them. Yet on one crucial point, the two see eye to eye: Both believe that the United States has no alternative but to wage a global war likely to last decades.  In the wake of Sept. 11, 2001, Rumsfeld wasted no time ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew J. Bacevich]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Connie Schultz: It&#39;s now mainstream to be sexist]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/column//index.php?ntid=286610</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ It seems a growing number of Americans are hoping the yearlong vitriol aimed at strong women will evaporate right along with the presidential candidacy of Hillary Clinton.  &quot;Whew,&quot; the collective sigh will sound. &quot;Glad that&#39;s over.&quot;  Don&#39;t pop the corks just yet.  Last week, I was invited to celebrate the opening of the new Women&#39;s Center at Ohio University. About a hundred people, mostly female students, gathered for me to say a few words and then for them ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Connie Schultz]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Amy Goodman: Army whistle-blower says hotel with journalists on target list]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/column//index.php?ntid=286487</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ More than five years have passed since the invasion of Iraq, since President Bush stood under the &quot;Mission Accomplished&quot; banner on that aircraft carrier. While these fifth anniversaries got some notice, another did not: the shelling of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad by a U.S. Army tank on April 8, 2003.  The tank attack killed two unembedded journalists, Reuters cameraman Taras Protsyuk and Jose Couso, a cameraman for the Spanish television network Telecinco. Couso recorded his ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Laura Whitmore: Goodman Pool works to break trend]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/column//index.php?ntid=286473</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A recent national study by USA Swimming Foundation found that about&nbsp;six out of 10 African-American children are unable to swim, nearly twice as many as their Caucasian counterparts. The number is 56 percent for Hispanic and Latino children.  The report goes on to say that the major factor in children&#39;s inability to swim is that their parents never learned to swim. Goodman Pool, Madison&#39;s first public swimming pool, has been working to break that trend ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura Whitmore]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan: HIV phobia at the border]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/column//index.php?ntid=286474</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Twelve countries ban HIV-positive visitors from their territory: Armenia, Brunei, Iraq, Libya, Moldova, Oman, Qatar, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Sudan and ... the United States. China recently acted to remove its ban because it feared embarrassment ahead of the Olympics. But America&#39;s ban remains.  It seems unthinkable that the country that has been the most generous in helping people with HIV should legally ban all non-Americans who are HIV-positive. But it&#39;s true: The ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Donna P. Hall: Family planning must be a priority]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/column//index.php?ntid=286475</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ American women, like those in other industrialized countries, take our family planning for granted. But we shouldn&#39;t. It&#39;s only been 40 years since family planning was recognized as an international human right.  It was May 13, 1968, that the International Conference on Human Rights, held in Tehran, declared: &quot;Parents have a basic human right to determine freely and responsibly the number and the spacing of their children.&quot;  It is an understatement to say that for women worldwide, ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donna P. Hall]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Phil Haslanger: &#39;Thank you for not giving up on us&#39;]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/column//index.php?ntid=286140</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ PORTAGE -- James P. Hill stood before his fellow graduates, pride in his stance and in his voice. But his words were not what you might expect to hear at the graduation ceremonies that will be occurring this spring.  &quot;I am deeply sorry for all the crimes that I have caused,&quot; he said. Then he added a few words on behalf of his fellow graduates dressed in dark green shirts sitting before him. &quot;We thank you ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Haslanger]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Margaret Krome: The big lie of tax cuts]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/column//index.php?ntid=285990</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ One thing you can say about the Democratic primary debates: Hillary Clinton&#39;s appalling &quot;holiday gas tax cut&quot; finally prompted public ridicule of tax cuts as a road to fair treatment of the middle class or to the nation&#39;s economic health.  Election years only highlight the perennial temptation to appeal to the public&#39;s tax antipathy and fantasy that smoke, mirrors and tax cuts can create economic vigor and federal budget health. Thus John McCain criticized President Bush&#39;s ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Margaret Krome]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[E.J. Dionne: Hillary emerges from the shadow of Bill]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/column//index.php?ntid=286135</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- Hillary Clinton still has a lot to win this year, but not the presidency and not the vice presidency.  With Barack Obama having effectively secured the Democratic presidential nomination, it is hard for the Clinton camp to focus on her successes in this contest. But Clinton now possesses strengths she did not enjoy when the campaign began.  She is, more than ever before, her own person, having emerged decisively from the shadow of her husband. ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[E.J. Dionne]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Bill Berry: State must blaze energy trail]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/column//index.php?ntid=285985</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Can we all just get together and talk about our energy future?  Wisconsin needs a prolonged study that brings as many stakeholders to the table as possible. Forget about this happening at the national level. The states are better incubators for new ideas and strategies anyway, so let&#39;s blaze the trail.  Yes, some of our universities and other organizations have held colloquiums and brief discussions on energy. Our governor and lawmakers have joined the chorus of other ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Berry]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Hecker & Perry: It&#39;s the plutonium, stupid]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/column//index.php?ntid=286152</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The Bush administration&#39;s North Korea strategy is being criticized from the right and the left for letting Pyongyang off the hook. Some advocate scuttling the six-party talks. Others suggest slowing our own compliance with the agreement to get North Korea to make a full declaration of its nuclear program first. We disagree with both positions. Our mantra should be: It&#39;s the plutonium, stupid.  North Korea does have the bomb -- but a limited nuclear arsenal and ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Siegfried S. Hecker and William J. Perry]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Daoud Kuttab: Palestinians yearn for independent homeland]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/column//index.php?ntid=285992</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ In the spring of 1948, my father, George Kuttab, and his brother Qostandi fled Musrara, a Jerusalem neighborhood just outside the walled city, after their sister Hoda&#39;s husband was killed in front of her and their children.  When Dad used to tell us about the Naqba, the catastrophe that befell Palestinians in 1948, he never talked politics or hatred. He would laugh as he told us how his brother secured their home near Damascus Gate. To ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daoud Kuttab]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Richard Holbrooke: Truman stood fast for Israel]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/column//index.php?ntid=285991</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- In the celebrations surrounding Israel&#39;s 60th anniversary, it should not be forgotten that there was an epic struggle in Washington over how to respond to Israel&#39;s declaration of independence on May 14, 1948. It led to the most serious disagreement President Harry Truman ever had with his revered secretary of state, George Marshall.  Twenty years ago, when I was helping Clark Clifford write his memoirs, I reviewed the historical record and interviewed all the ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard Holbrooke]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barbara Quirk: Beware of notch baby scam]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/column//index.php?ntid=285821</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ These guys are not exactly snake oil salesmen, but their tactics are verifiably shady. They prey on vulnerable older Americans with misinformation and solicitation of money. They also misrepresent the positions of government leaders while promising to influence hikes in Social Security payments.  Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin&#39;s office has recently received a number of calls from Social Security beneficiaries who believe they are not receiving fair Social Security payment. These people have been asked through mailings to ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara Quirk]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-11T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ellen R. Malcolm: Quitters never win]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/column//index.php?ntid=285893</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ When I was growing up in the 1960s, I wanted to play basketball. The rules said girls could dribble only three steps and then had to pass the ball. And we weren&#39;t allowed to cross the half-court line. It&#39;s a wonder our fans (our mothers) could stay awake when a typical game&#39;s final score was 14-10.  It&#39;s remarkable that my generation of women entered the work force and began to compete in business, politics and the ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen R. Malcolm]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Rosa Brooks: Hillary&#39;s &#39;right&#39; not the right thing]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/column//index.php?ntid=285891</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Is it finally time for Sen. Hillary Clinton to give up?  After Tuesday&#39;s North Carolina and Indiana primaries, Sen. Barack Obama has added to his virtually insurmountable lead in delegates and the popular vote, but Clinton&#39;s still hanging in there. Depending on your political preferences, she&#39;s like the Energizer Bunny or Rocky -- or the zombies in &quot;Night of the Living Dead.&quot;  I know, I know, Clinton has a right to stay in the race. In fact, ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rosa Brooks]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Deb Price: Sneakiness wins in Michigan court]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/column//index.php?ntid=285892</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ When Michigan voters headed to the polls in 2004 to decide the fate of a proposed amendment to the state constitution, they&#39;d been told the following by its lead proponent:  &quot;(This) has nothing to do with taking benefits away. This is about marriage between a man and a woman,&quot; said Marlene Elwell, campaign director of Citizens for the Protection of Marriage.  CPM&#39;s Web site declared the group&#39;s purpose was &quot;for defining marriage as the union of one ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Deb Price]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Connie Schultz: There&#39;s no equal footing in sex with boss]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/column//index.php?ntid=285774</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Well, here we go again.  This time it&#39;s in Ohio, where Attorney General Marc Dann insists that his extramarital affair with a subordinate was consensual.  That suggests an equal footing. It also suggests that Dann thinks the rest of us are as dimwitted as the buddies he fired recently.  Jessica Utovich is virtually half Dann&#39;s age, has a smidgeon of his higher education, earned about a third of his income and was employed at his mercy. If you ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Connie Schultz]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-10T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Roland S. Martin: Dems need more than hard-working whites]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/column//index.php?ntid=285780</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Excuse me if a look of bewilderment continues to cross my face when a surrogate of Sen. Hillary Clinton starts off on the we-need-hard-working-white-workers-to-win-in-November mantra. In fact, the candidate herself now has made that the primary -- and latest -- argument to the superdelegates in order to convince them that she&#39;s the best person to beat Sen. John McCain in November.  &quot;I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,&quot; she told USA ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roland S. Martin]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-10T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Frida Ghitis: To help Burma, pressure China]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/column//index.php?ntid=285781</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ During a visit to Burma a few years ago, I decided to avoid the country&#39;s legendarily deadly airlines and instead hire a car to take me along the somewhat less deadly roads. Distances that on the map looked like they should take an hour to cover took entire days.  The criminal extent of the country&#39;s neglect was already obvious in Rangoon, where I saw a mother sitting with a large crowd on a downtown sidewalk, despondently ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frida Ghitis]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-10T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Fabu: Obama has already won]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/column//index.php?ntid=285646</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ If I weren&#39;t black in America, I couldn&#39;t believe the twists and turns of the Democratic presidential primary contest. Being black, free and over 21, I&#39;m not shocked at the Hillary Clinton campaign.  When I was a young woman voting in Tennessee, there was always primary and election fraud to keep out anyone who wasn&#39;t white. Now that I&#39;m a mature woman voting in Wisconsin, Madison has both city and county elected women officials. Citizens here ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fabu]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[E.J. Dionne: Newt knows attacking Obama not enough]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/column//index.php?ntid=285648</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama&#39;s victory in the North Carolina primary was actually the second important election result for his campaign this month.  The first, which has not received enough notice, was the triumph of Louisiana Democrat Don Cazayoux in the race for an open U.S. House seat despite an aggressive Republican campaign to link the moderate Cajun to Obama, liberalism and high taxes.  That the Obama link did not bring down Cazayoux in a district that voted ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[E.J. Dionne]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Desmond Tutu: Unjust debt weighs down poor nations]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/column//index.php?ntid=285645</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ In April, the U.S. House showed leadership in the fight against global poverty by passing the Jubilee Act for Responsible Lending and Expanded Debt Cancellation of 2008, which would extend lifesaving debt cancellation to more poor nations around the globe.  Too many of the world&#39;s poor children needlessly starve or go without education because too many impoverished nations -- even after the laudable debt relief provided to date -- are still funneling scarce resources to multilateral ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Desmond Tutu]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[What Do You Think? Should Hillary Clinton quit the presidential race?]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/column//index.php?ntid=285642</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Should Hillary Clinton quit the presidential race?  &quot;I&#39;m conflicted about that. I&#39;ve been an Obama supporter but I think she has the right to campaign until the convention. I don&#39;t know if that&#39;s in the best interest of the party but what matters is how she runs her campaign. If she starts taking cheap shots at Obama, that could damage his campaign in the general election and that would be bad.&quot;  Kate Price  student  Madison  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ***************  &quot;Yes. I don&#39;t ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Murphy]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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