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	<title>tobia, eo nomine &#187; Politics</title>
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	<description>Demystifying corporate culture, traversing finance, exploring music and occasionally dabbling in oenophilia.</description>
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		<title>Educating our Youth</title>
		<link>http://blog.tobia.org/2010/05/18/educating-our-youth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 15:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Megan McArdle,  a shocking expose by Newmark&#8217;s Door of the struggles of some of our high school students in the AP History Exam DBQs (Document Based Questions). In particular, the following response.. Question 3: Analyze the social, political, and economic forces of the 1840’s and early 1850’s that led to the emergence of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The district sleeps alone tonight</title>
		<link>http://blog.tobia.org/2009/11/30/the-district-sleeps-alone-tonight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Trips]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[declaration of independence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[magna carta]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In all the years that I have been visiting our nation&#8217;s capitol, whether it was for business or pleasure, there is surprisingly one thing that I had not done&#8230; visit the National Archives and view our Declaration of Independence and Constitution. This revelation, made earlier today as I was roaming the halls of this historical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition</title>
		<link>http://blog.tobia.org/2009/08/11/i-have-no-spur-to-prick-the-sides-of-my-intent-but-only-vaulting-ambition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[barack obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Chris Good of The Atlantic writes, Meeting with the presidents of Mexico and Canada in Guadalajara, President Obama said Monday that he&#8217;ll start pursuing comprehensive immigration reform later this year. Is this too ambitious? After all, energy and health care are still up in the air. I say yes.]]></description>
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		<title>The City of Green Love?</title>
		<link>http://blog.tobia.org/2009/01/30/the-city-of-green-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syracuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle class]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainability]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today, Joe Biden announced a Middle Class Task Force that has been formed to look into ways of strengthening the middle class. As a member of said middle class, I was naturally curious as to the details. According to the White House Blog, the task force consists of the Secretaries of Labor, Health and Human [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unbiased?</title>
		<link>http://blog.tobia.org/2009/01/23/unbiased/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tobia.org/2009/01/23/unbiased/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[barack obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[george w bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inauguration]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.tobia.org/?p=683</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw this on a friend of mine&#8217;s facebook page. I won&#8217;t say I am speechless, but what more can you do than laugh? Headlines on 20 January 2005: &#8220;Republicans spending $42 million on inauguration while troops die in unarmored Humvees&#8221; &#8220;Bush extravagance exceeds any reason during tough economic times&#8221; &#8220;Fat cats get their $42 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Speech Word Count</title>
		<link>http://blog.tobia.org/2009/01/20/obama-speech-word-count/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tobia.org/2009/01/20/obama-speech-word-count/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top 200 Words that Obama Spoke: nation 12 new 11 america 9 every 8 must 8 because 8 people 7 less 7 today 7 world 7 time 6 common 6 work 6 cannot 6 generation 5 know 5 day 5 spirit 5 meet 4 things 4 seek 4 come 4 men 4 through 4 end [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What would you tell him? To Shrug.</title>
		<link>http://blog.tobia.org/2009/01/12/what-would-you-tell-him-to-shrug/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tobia.org/2009/01/12/what-would-you-tell-him-to-shrug/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[atlas shrugged]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wall street journal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Moore has an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal titled &#8220;&#8216;Atlas Shrugged&#8217;: From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years&#8221;. Moore discusses how eerily similar the current situation in Washington is to the events in Ayn Rand&#8216;s epochal novel. This hit home for me in that I have been reading &#8216;Atlas Shrugged&#8217; for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not so Sweet Caroline</title>
		<link>http://blog.tobia.org/2008/12/18/not-so-sweet-caroline/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tobia.org/2008/12/18/not-so-sweet-caroline/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syracuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[byron brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[caroline kennedy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[matt driscoll]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[roann destito]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[upstate new york]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the heiress apparent to the Senate seat soon to be vacated by Hillary Clinton visited Syracuse as well as several other &#8220;Upstate&#8221; New York cities. Caroline Kennedy believes, or in the very least wants us to believe, that she is prepared to be the next Senator from New York. Political positioning aside (I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When you think you have heard it all&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.tobia.org/2008/12/02/when-you-think-you-have-heard-it-all/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tobia.org/2008/12/02/when-you-think-you-have-heard-it-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syracuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[central new york]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hillary clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The PostStandard tweets that, &#8220;Central New York leaders praise Clinton&#8217;s legacy&#8220;. The only &#8220;legacy&#8221; she has is that she promised 200,000 new jobs for Upstate New York in 6 years and delivered none in eight. Actually, all she has accomplished is at least 32,000 lost jobs in Upstate New York. That is a hell of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You say you want a revolution?</title>
		<link>http://blog.tobia.org/2008/11/04/you-say-you-want-a-revolution/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tobia.org/2008/11/04/you-say-you-want-a-revolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aaron burr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alexander hamilton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alien and sedition acts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[revolution of 1800]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thomas jefferson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Revolution of 1800. If you don&#8217;t know about it, you should. Because the same thing is essentially happening today. In 1800, the country was mostly fed up with members of the Federalist Party who were using the Alien and Sedition Acts to silence their critics. The Alien and Sedition Acts were four separate bills [...]]]></description>
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