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    <title>Resurgence | Big Think</title>
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    <description>&lt;p&gt;Resurgence combines news, research, and Kris Broughton's own life experiences as a politically aware African-American citizen to explore race and the politics of race. Drawing on Broughton's financial services background, the blog also delves into our ongoing banking crisis and the mortgage market meltdown&amp;mdash;as well as the path toward recovery.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>CPACalypse Now</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:15:36 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[   &#13;
 I saw a tweet yesterday—“How Obama Could Have Killed Bin Laden Harder”—that cracked me up. Intrigued, I clicked on the hashtag  <a title="#CPACpanels" href="https://twitter.com/#%21/search?q=%23CPACpanels">
  <strong>#</strong>
  <strong>CPACpanels</strong>
</a>  and saw several people who populate my Twitter timeline making fun of the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) convention in Washington D.C ...<br><br><a href='http://bigthink.com/ideas/42390'>Read More</a>]]>
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      <dc:creator>Kris Broughton</dc:creator>
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      <title>Media Ignores Existing Laws To Push War On Religion Fight  </title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:57:53 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[ Until the good bishops of the Catholic church can figure out how to keep their priests from molesting young boys, I have no use for their histrionics over the Obama administration’s decision to mandate coverage of the cost of contraceptives in healthcare plans. None of the news producers for our ...<br><br><a href='http://bigthink.com/ideas/42375'>Read More</a>]]>
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      <dc:creator>Kris Broughton</dc:creator>
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      <title>Do You See Politics On My Chest?</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:52:06 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[ I have been wondering all week what to write about the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s move against Planned Parenthood, but Linda Burger, a 56-year-old breast cancer survivor who resides in Las Vegas, NV, says it on Youtube better than I or any man can. Standing in her bathrobe in front of her digital ...<br><br><a href='http://bigthink.com/ideas/42312'>Read More</a>]]>
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      <dc:creator>Kris Broughton</dc:creator>
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      <title>Anointing A GOP Presidential Nominee Is Not Democratic </title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:52:10 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[ On the way into work yesterday morning, I listened to Neal Boortz, Atlanta’s local talk radio blowhard, as he tried valiantly to convince one of his callers that Newt Gingrich was not atop the national polls in any category. On the way home, I listened to Sean Hannity’s nationally syndicated radio ...<br><br><a href='http://bigthink.com/ideas/42253'>Read More</a>]]>
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      <dc:creator>Kris Broughton</dc:creator>
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      <title>Red Tails Most Expensive After School Special Ever Made</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:59:07 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[ <em>Red Tails</em> is without a doubt the most expensive ABC after school special ever made.  I went home after seeing it and immediately downloaded <em>
  <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088146/">A Soldier’s Story</a>
</em> from Amazon to flush <em>Red Tail’s</em> god awful dialogue out of my head. I guess I’m supposed to be pleased that George Lucas poured over $100 ...<br><br><a href='http://bigthink.com/ideas/42206'>Read More</a>]]>
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      <dc:creator>Kris Broughton</dc:creator>
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      <title>1Q84 Is Science Fiction Done Right</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:53:06 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[ All I can say is thank you to the readers who suggested that I pick up <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1Q84">1Q84</a> by Haruki Murakami. I loved it. But it wasn’t because of the language, especially since it was a translation. And it wasn’t because of the dialogue, because there wasn’t very much, or the point of view, since it alternated ...<br><br><a href='http://bigthink.com/ideas/42199'>Read More</a>]]>
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      <dc:creator>Kris Broughton</dc:creator>
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      <title>If Newt Gingrich Is The Answer, Who Cares What The Question Was?</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:19:01 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[ After all the media  drama and the newspaper headlines and the cable news show hoopla over Newt Gingrich’s massive win in the South Carolina GOP primary last week has finally died down, the mathematical facts have remained the same—Mitt Romney still has accumulated 5 more total delegates than ...<br><br><a href='http://bigthink.com/ideas/42147'>Read More</a>]]>
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      <dc:creator>Kris Broughton</dc:creator>
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      <title>President Obama Packs State of the Union Address Chock Full Of Imagery</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:34:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[ Barack Obama looked like he enjoys being the president of the United States last night. There was a lot that could have been improved upon in his third State of the Union address, which I have already begun mentally referring to as his “kitchen sink” speech, since everything but the kitchen sink ...<br><br><a href='http://bigthink.com/ideas/42134'>Read More</a>]]>
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      <dc:creator>Kris Broughton</dc:creator>
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      <title>Will Angry White Man Performance Win Gingrich GOP Nomination?</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:15:33 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[S. rarely says much about current events when we get up in the morning. But today she was visibly agitated over the visual of the group, comprised largely of white men, who stood up and clapped when Newt Gingrich angrily put the CNN debate moderator in his place last night. If Gingrich&#x2019;s goal was to ...<br><br><a href='http://bigthink.com/ideas/42054'>Read More</a>]]>
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      <dc:creator>Kris Broughton</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:21:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[I saw <a href="http://melissaharrisperry.com/">Melissa Harris Perry</a> deliver the keynote speech for King Week at Emory University this past Tuesday. Perry is a professor of political science at Tulane University, the new host of an unnamed MSNBC weekend show that debuts next month, and a columnist for <em>The Nation</em> magazine. There is something ...<br><br><a href='http://bigthink.com/ideas/42036'>Read More</a>]]>
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