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		<title>Does Mitt Romney support paid sick days for working mothers?</title>
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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>Gingrich urges students to get jobs, but his wife and family paid for his school</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Karen Tumulty (Washington Post) Newt Gingrich thinks today’s youths have it way too easy.  Gingrich said. “I would tell students: ‘Get through as quick as you can. Borrow as little as you can. Have a part-time job.’ In a 1995 profile for Vanity Fair, author Gail Sheehy discovered that Gingrich financed his own education <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/01/gingrich-urges-students-to-get-jobs-but-his-wife-and-family-paid-for-his-school/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Krassner: Sex, Corruption and the Kool-Aid Massacre</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Krassner (Huffington Post) Jim Jones, founder of the 8,000-member People&#8217;s Temple in San Francisco, once asked Margo St. James, founder of the prostitutes&#8217; rights group, COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics), how he could obtain political power. She answered, sardonically, &#8220;Arrange for some of your women to have sex with the bigwigs.&#8221; <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/11/paul-krassner-sex-corruption-and-the-kool-aid-massacre/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Wealth managers results are no better than a chimpanzee&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By George Monbiot (The Guardian UK) The findings of the psychologist Daniel Kahneman, winner of a Nobel economics prize, are devastating to the beliefs that financial high-fliers entertain about themselves. He discovered that their apparent success is a cognitive illusion. For example, he studied the results achieved by 25 wealth advisers across eight years. He found <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/11/wealth-managers-results-no-better-than-a-chimpanzee/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Foreclosure mill Hallowe’en party ridicules homeless people</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 21:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Joe Nocera (NY Times) On Friday, the law firm of Steven J. Baum threw a Halloween party. The firm, which is located near Buffalo, is what is commonly referred to as a “foreclosure mill” firm, meaning it represents banks and mortgage servicers as they attempt to foreclose on homeowners and evict them from their <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/10/foreclosure-firm-halloween-costumes-ridicule-homeless-people/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mexico is the most tolerant nation for sex scandals</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bob Tourtellotte (Reuters) A Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Thursday shows 57 percent of Mexicans would be either very likely or somewhat likely to tolerate the sexual indiscretions of stars and politicians. They were followed by Belgians at 55 percent. In the United States, the tolerance factor was 48 percent. France, in fact, was way <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/09/mexico-is-the-most-tolerant-nation-for-sex-scandals/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Down for the count:  America&#039;s fascination with royalty</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Walter Brasch (Spectrum) In case you&#8217;re in a funk because you think the reason you didn&#8217;t receive an invitation to the royal wedding is because the Brits are still ticked off about that silly little skirmish back in 1776, the American media have a solution for you. The media had been pumping out news, <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/04/down-for-the-count-americas-fascination-with-royalty/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The enormous talking book sculpture of the Ruhanama</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Wikipedia) Ruhnama (The Book of the Soul), is a book written by Saparmurat Niyazov, late President for Life of Turkmenistan, combining spiritual/moral guidance, autobiography and revisionist history, much of it of dubious or disputed factuality and accuracy. The text includes many stories and poems, including those by Sufi poet Magtymguly Pyragy. It was intended as <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/04/the-enormous-talking-book-sculpture-of-the-ruhanama/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>In 12 Years, income for richest 400 Americans quadruples, tax rate nearly halved</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2011/04/in-12-years-income-for-richest-400-americans-quadruples-tax-rate-nearly-halved/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Judd Legum (ThinkProgress) New data released by the IRS reveals that, over a period of 12 years, tax rates for the richest 400 Americans were effectively cut in half. In 1995, the richest 400 Americans paid, on average, 29.93% of their income in federal taxes. In 2007, the last year for which the IRS <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/04/in-12-years-income-for-richest-400-americans-quadruples-tax-rate-nearly-halved/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Lavish GOP fundraiser costs $212,250 and nets $650</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 22:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Doyle (Bee) Freshman Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Atwater, made a big splash but barely broke even at a glitzy and controversial January fundraiser. Between assorted fees, flowers, catering and other costs, Denham&#8217;s special fundraising committee reported spending $212,250 on the Rimes event. The committee, meanwhile, raised only $212,900 from outside contributors. Denham&#8217;s committee spent <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/04/gop-fundraiser-costs-212250-and-nets-650/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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