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	<title>The People&#039;s Republic of Moronia &#187; Scams</title>
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		<title>Gail Collins: &#8216;Instantly, like a daffodil in spring, a new committee popped up&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2012/05/gail-collins-instantly-like-a-daffodil-in-spring-a-new-committee-popped-up-in-charlotte-called-new-american-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 14:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gail Collins (NY Times) The cities that want to be a convention site create committees, which promise to raise copious cash if chosen. The host committee in Charlotte, for instance, is pledged to raise $36.65 million. This is turning into something of a struggle, particularly since the Democrats, in a little-noted reform effort, prohibited <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/05/gail-collins-instantly-like-a-daffodil-in-spring-a-new-committee-popped-up-in-charlotte-called-new-american-city/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Extract of Chinese herb kudzu reduces alcohol consumption</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2012/05/extract-of-chinese-herb-kudzu-reduces-alcohol-consumption/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 12:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternate medicine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(McLean Hospital) An extract of the Chinese herb kudzu dramatically reduces drinking and may be useful in the treatment of alcoholism and curbing binge drinking, according to a new study by McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School researchers. &#8220;Our study is further evidence that components found in kudzu root can reduce alcohol consumption and do <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/05/extract-of-chinese-herb-kudzu-reduces-alcohol-consumption/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Video of police fatally beating homeless man causes spectators to leave courtroom</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 13:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Richard Winton (Los Angeles Times) On the ground and screaming that he was &#8220;sorry,&#8221; a shirtless Kelly Thomas is shown being hit again and again with fists, a baton and finally the butt of a stun gun by Fullerton police officers in a dramatic video that was shown for the first time Monday in <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/05/video-of-police-fatally-beating-homeless-man-causes-spectators-to-leave-courtroom/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Gene Weingarten is alarmed at how cheap he&#8217;d sell his moral integrity</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2012/05/gene-weingarten-is-alarmed-at-how-cheap-hed-sell-his-moral-integrity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 12:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[1st World Problems]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gene Weingarten (Washington Post) It is said that everyone has a price, a sum of money large enough to corrupt his moral integrity. I always suspected that I might have a price, too, but was a little alarmed recently to discover it is $125. That was the price of the speed-camera ticket that arrived <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/05/gene-weingarten-is-alarmed-at-how-cheap-hed-sell-his-moral-integrity/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Privatized prison labor competes with regular business at 93 cents a day</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2012/04/privatized-prison-labor-competes-with-regular-business-at-93-cents-a-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Steve Fraser and Joshua B. Freeman (AlterNet) Prisoners, whose ranks increasingly consist of those for whom the legitimate economy has found no use, now make up a virtual brigade within the reserve army of the unemployed whose ranks have ballooned along with the U.S. incarceration rate.  The Corrections Corporation of America and G4S formerly Wackenhut, two prison privatizers, sell inmate labor at <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/04/privatized-prison-labor-competes-with-regular-business-at-93-cents-a-day/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>There is no invisible hand</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2012/04/there-is-no-invisible-hand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antidotes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jonathan Schlefer (Harvard Review) Adam Smith suggested the invisible hand in an otherwise obscure passage in his Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations in 1776. He mentioned it only once in the book, while he repeatedly noted situations where &#8220;natural liberty&#8221; does not work. Let banks charge much more <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/04/there-is-no-invisible-hand/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Does Mitt Romney support paid sick days for working mothers?</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2012/04/does-mitt-romney-support-paid-sick-days-for-working-mothers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 23:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By  Melissa Boteach (ThinkProgress) Ann Romney has tweeted, “All moms are entitled to choose their path.” But unfortunately for low-wage working moms and nearly half of private sector workers, the” choice” is either “go to work and send my sick kid to school” or “stay at home with my sick child and risk losing my <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/04/does-mitt-romney-support-paid-sick-days-for-working-mothers/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>No such thing as &#8216;women and children first&#8217; without threats of physical force</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2012/04/no-such-thing-as-women-and-children-first-without-threats-of-physical-force/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 11:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(The Local) Scientists at Uppsala University have found that the widespread belief that women and children are saved first in maritime disasters is a myth, unless the men are threatened with physical violence like on the Titanic. “It is expected that the crew should rescue passengers, but our results show that captains and crew are <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/04/no-such-thing-as-women-and-children-first-without-threats-of-physical-force/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>When &#8216;stand your ground&#8217; is black vs. white, the sentence is life in prison</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2012/04/when-stand-your-ground-is-black-vs-white-the-sentence-is-life-in-prison/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rania Khalek (Salon) As the shooting death of Trayvon Martin and the failure of authorities to arrest his killer, George Zimmerman, continues to grab headlines, many conservatives and gun rights advocates insist that race has nothing to do with it. Some have also rallied to the defense of Florida’s “stand your ground” law, the <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/04/when-stand-your-ground-is-black-vs-white-the-sentence-is-life-in-prison/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>For Army troops, prescription drugs may add to fog of war</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2012/04/for-army-troops-prescription-drugs-may-add-to-fog-of-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kim Murphy (Los Angeles Times) &#8220;Prior to the Iraq war, soldiers could not go into combat on psychiatric drugs, period. Not very long ago, going back maybe 10 or 12 years, you couldn&#8217;t even go into the armed services if you used any of these drugs, in particular stimulants,&#8221; said Peter Breggin, a New <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/04/for-army-troops-prescription-drugs-may-add-to-fog-of-war/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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