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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>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>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>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>When &#8216;stand your ground&#8217; is black vs. white, the sentence is life in prison</title>
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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>MPAA&#8217;s former tech policy chief condemns Stop Online Piracy Act</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2012/04/mpaas-former-tech-policy-chief-condemns-stop-online-piracy-act/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Declan McCullagh (CNET) Paul Brigner, until last month a senior vice president at the Motion Picture Association of America, now opposes SOPA and Protect IP. A senior executive that Hollywood hired last year to be its chief technology policy officer has undergone a remarkable about-face: he now opposes the Stop Online Piracy Act. Paul <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/04/mpaas-former-tech-policy-chief-condemns-stop-online-piracy-act/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pennsylvania primary is as &#8216;useless as a Department of Ethnic Studies at Bob Jones University&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2012/04/the-late-great-commonwealth-catching-up-to-the-republican-primary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter Brasch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Walter Brasch (Moronia) When other states, including those settled by Puritans, got rid of their “blue laws,” Pennsylvania still bans the sale of cars on Sundays. By archaic practices, it still allows municipal governments and school districts to raise taxes and create more buildings without giving the people the right of a vote, common in <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/04/the-late-great-commonwealth-catching-up-to-the-republican-primary/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fracking: Corruption is a part of Pennsylvania’s heritage</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2012/03/fracking-corruption-a-part-of-pennsylvanias-heritage/</link>
		<comments>http://moronia.us/front/2012/03/fracking-corruption-a-part-of-pennsylvanias-heritage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter Brasch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Walter Brash (Moronia) The history of energy exploration, mining, and delivery is best understood in a range from benevolent exploitation to worker and public oppression. A company comes into an area, leases land in rural and agricultural areas for mineral rights, increases employment, usually in a depressed economy, strips the land of its resources, <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/03/fracking-corruption-a-part-of-pennsylvanias-heritage/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Now they tell us: Israelis agree Iran hasn&#8217;t even decided on atom bomb</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2012/03/now-they-tell-us-israelis-agree-iran-hasnt-even-decided-on-atom-bomb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Amy Teibel (AP) Despite saber-rattling from Jerusalem, Israeli officials now agree with the U.S. assessment that Tehran has not yet decided on the actual construction of a nuclear bomb, according to senior Israeli government and defense figures. Several senior Israeli officials who spoke in recent days to The Associated Press said Israel has come around <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/03/now-they-tell-us-israelis-agree-iran-hasnt-even-decided-on-atom-bomb/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Power makes executives stupid, but the antidote is humiliation</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2012/03/power-makes-executives-stupid-but-the-antidote-is-humiliation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Frederick E. Allen (Forbes) Four university professors found that power breeds overconfidence, and overconfidence leads to bad decisions. People who had been primed to think of themselves as more powerful had more confidence in their answers — and yet their answers were actually less accurate. The fifth and final experiment the four conducted found <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/03/power-makes-executives-stupid-but-the-antidote-is-humiliation/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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