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		<title>&#8216;Dog on the Roof!&#8217; book pokes fun at Romney, SF</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/06/06/dog-on-the-roof-book-pokes-fun-at-romney-sf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 23:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 presidential election]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received today a copy of “Dog on the Roof! On the Road with Mitt &#38; The Mutt,” a political satire novelty picture book by Bruce Kluger and David Slavin. The small book lampoons Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s now infamous family vacation, a cross-country road-trip for which they put their dog, Seamus, in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Election overload? Go read a book.</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/10/13/election-overload-go-read-a-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 23:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[California Crackup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James W. Douglass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JFK and the Unspeakable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Matthews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Paul]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Restoring the American Dream]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can’t turn on your television or radio without seeing and hearing political ads. Your phone is ringing off the hook with political robocalls. Your mailbox is stuffed with political mailers. Maybe some political precinct-walker is knocking at your door even now. Ah, election season. What better time to get away from it all with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the bookshelves&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/01/12/on-the-bookshelves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[A New American Tea Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Sharpsteen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dirty Water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Doonesbury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Footnotes in Gaza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[G.B. Trudeau]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garry Trudeau]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Sacco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John O'Hara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tee Time in Berzerkistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few recent books for the politically minded… “A New American Tea Party: The Counterrevolution Against Bailouts, Handouts, Reckless Spending and More Taxes” by John M. O’Hara (Wiley, $24.95) The spokesman for the conservative Heartland Institute tees off on the tea party movement, presenting “the voices behind the growing discontent among everyday citizens with increased [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books for the already-convinced</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/12/17/books-for-the-already-convinced/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Betsy Reed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Going Rogue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Going Rouge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two new titles crossed my desk this week: “Inside Obama’s Brain” (Portfolio, $24.95) by Sasha Abramsky, and “Going Rouge – Sarah Palin: An American Nightmare,” (Health Communications, $15.95) edited by Richard Kim and Betsy Reed. Both are likely to please the people who are likely to buy them. Abramsky – a Sacramento-based freelance journalist and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some recent political books for holiday reading</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/11/24/some-recent-political-books-for-holiday-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, I’ve not read Palin’s book. Or Plouffe’s. But I’ve very much enjoyed Thomas Fleming’s “The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers” (Smithsonian Books, $27.99), which examines the women behind the men who launched our nation. A young George Washington was head-over-heels for his half-brother’s wife’s hot, young, married sister-in-law long before he met the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helen Thomas to speak at Mills College</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/09/24/helen-thomas-to-speak-at-mills-college/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/09/24/helen-thomas-to-speak-at-mills-college/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political events]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Barbara Lee]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iconic White House reporter Helen Thomas will speak at Mills College in Oakland on Oct. 12 with Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland. Thomas is promoting her new book, &#8220;Listen Up, Mr. President: Everything You Always Wanted Your President To Know and Do.&#8221; The free event is open to the public. Here are the details per the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notable new books for the policy-minded</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/09/21/notable-new-books-for-the-policy-minded/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/09/21/notable-new-books-for-the-policy-minded/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dispatches from Juvenile Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[J. Samuel Walker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Aarons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[juvenile justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linda Wagner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lisa Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Melvin Urofsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pantheon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Penguin Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[radioactive waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Road to Yucca Mountain]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes an interesting new public-policy title crosses my desk, and from now on I&#8217;ll be making more of an effort to share them with you&#8230; “The Road to Yucca Mountain: The Development of Radioactive Waste Policy in the United States,” by J. Samuel Walker (University of California Press, $34.95) – Walker, the historian of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rockridge Institute to close April 30</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2008/04/21/rockridge-institute-to-close-april-30/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Democratic politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rockridge Institute, a Berekely based progressive think-tank formed to combat its better funded conservative counterparts, is closing its doors due to lack of money. The institute was founded by UC Berkeley linguist professor and author George Lakoff, who gained fame after Democrats tapped into his &#8220;framing&#8221; concept in the book, &#8220;Don&#8217;t Think of An [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Author of new Pelosi tome to sign books in Moraga</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2008/04/09/author-of-new-pelosi-tome-to-sign-books-in-moraga/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2008/04/09/author-of-new-pelosi-tome-to-sign-books-in-moraga/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Political events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[House Speaker Nancy Pelosi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marc Sandalow]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Journalist Marc Sandalow, author of “Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s Life, Times and Rise to Power,” will hold a book-signing on April 17 at Saint Mary’s College Bookstore. Sandalow, the former Washington, D.C., bureau chief for the San Francisco Chronicle, has written about how Pelosi rose in political influence to become the first woman Speaker of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chicken soup for the (political) junkie</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2008/02/13/chicken-soup-for-the-political-junkie/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2008/02/13/chicken-soup-for-the-political-junkie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2008 presidential election]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[2008 presidential conventions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicken Soup for the Soul]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You just can&#8217;t make this stuff up. A press release showed up in my email this morning from the publisher of the New York Times bestseller series, &#8220;Chicken Soup for the Soul&#8221; series. The publisher is looking for heart-warming stories about politics for use in its upcoming &#8220;Chicken Soup&#8221; for the souls of Democrats and [...]]]></description>
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