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	<title><![CDATA[The Exclamation Point at the End of the Story]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-moore/the-exclamation-point-at_b_155144.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Americans have a desperate need to believe. We want to trust our government and our leaders. Our default position is to accept without too much questioning the assertions of our presidents and the institutions of our government. Few of us are easily convinced yet today that America was involved in assassinations and the deposing of democratically-elected leaders of other nations, and as Hamas drops rockets into Israel and Israeli troops sweep through Gaza we conveniently ignore the incontrovertible fact that...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-01-04T20:06:00-05:00</date_published>
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