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			<title><![CDATA[Gay marriage goes before the U.S. Supreme Court today]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-03-26 06:50:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO &mdash; As the battle over gay marriage takes center stage at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, a new survey shows that attitudes on same-sex marriage have shifted rapidly. 

Polling data consistently show that knowing a gay person is a...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA['Scoop' follows Jack Nelson's rise to civil rights crusader]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-03-26 10:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[At the top of great social movements, charismatic leaders spin out visions of things that just might be. Closer to the bottom, it's journalists who sometimes force us to confront the way things are. 

Jack Nelson was one of the best journalists of the...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Chief Justice Roberts' lesbian cousin hopes for gay marriage win]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-03-25 20:02:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO &ndash; For Ohio senator Rob Portman, knowing that his son was gay helped change Portman's mind. 

For President Obama, talking with gay White House staffers and learning that his daughters&rsquo; friends had same-sex parents proved...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[McManus: The death of the moderate Republican]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-11-18 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Republicans just lost eight seats in the House. But if you'd wandered into the House of Representatives last week without reading the election returns, you might have concluded that the GOP won big on Nov. 6. 

"We have the second-largest Republican House...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[As Mitt Romney surges, Republican divisions sharpen]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-01-08 18:26:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Republicans just lost eight seats in the House. But if you'd wandered into the House of Representatives last week without reading the election returns, you might have concluded that the GOP won big on Nov. 6. 

"We have the second-largest Republican House...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[On the Media: Tea party, Occupy Wall Street share a moment]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-10-12 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[You likely saw the quirky signs and heard some protesters talk about how they would just as soon disband the government. Then a reporter dutifully informed you that these people had gathered en masse but didn't really know what they wanted. Some in the...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street shifts from protest to policy phase]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-10-12 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[How do you know when a protest movement is starting to scare the pants off the establishment?

One clue is when the protesters are casually dismissed as hippies or rabble, or their principles redefined as class envy or as (that all-purpose insult) "un-...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Michele Bachmann says Bush, GOP embraced 'bailout socialism']]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-11-20 14:57:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Michele Bachmann goes after not only Democrats but also fellow Republicans in her new book, accusing former President George W. Bush and her GOP colleagues in Congress of failing to stay true to conservative, free-market principles when they supported the...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Wendell Teacher Receives Grant to Study in South Africa]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-17 04:14:02</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Troy Hamilton, an adjunct history professor at the College of Southern Idaho and history and government teacher at Wendell High School, received a national award to study in South Africa. 

He is one of 25 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Senate race winners proclaimed tonight]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-14 09:14:02</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[THE 12 winners in the senatorial race will be known today and proclaimed by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) tonight, according to the poll body. 

Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. said in a press briefing that they would be able to pronounce...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Essay: Collins' coming out could accelerate gay acceptance]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-04 17:28:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[There was a time, in 1947 and before, when the mere presence of an African-American on a Major League Baseball team was enough to shake the game and the nation alike. 

Six years after Jackie Robinson smashed the sport's color barrier that year, still...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Conference aims to equalize opportunities in education]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-21 04:44:02</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Substitute teacher Marcus Van made his way across the mazelike grounds of CSU Channel Islands on Saturday, using his tablet computer for directions. 

"Here it is, this way," he said to his three high-school-age cousins as the group neared the building...]]></description>
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