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		 <title>J.R. Block's hatred</title>
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		 <description><![CDATA[Hell-bent on letting no good deed go unpunished (if not to shamelessly smear the name of a dead woman), the Post-Gazette has published a screed in which it went out of its way to try to discredit Colcom's support of the community's G-20 preparations.]]></description>
		 <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		 <title>Shhhh! Secret!!</title>
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		 <description><![CDATA[What is it that turns to moronic mush the brains of those who are elected to represent the people of Pennsylvania in the state Legislature? ]]></description>
		 <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		 <title>Sunday pops</title>
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		 <description><![CDATA[It's July 5. The day after Independence Day. Summer is in full swing. And we've already spotted our first advertisements for Christmas items. Sigh.]]></description>
		 <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		 <category>Colin McNickle at Large</category>
		 <title>The American parade</title>
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		 <description><![CDATA[This is the perfect weekend -- and given the economic assault on our liberties from the Obama administration, the most apropos of times -- to pause, study and reflect on the intellectual underpinnings of this grand American republic.]]></description>
		 <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		 <category>Columnist Salena Zito</category>
		 <title>Senators: Appointed &amp; anointed</title>
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		 <description><![CDATA[Thanks to vacancies created by last fall's election, then-president-elect Barack Obama faced the drama of finding credible, re-electable bodies to fill those seats.]]></description>
		 <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		 <category>Columnist Tom Purcell</category>
		 <title>Playboy for sale</title>
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		 <description><![CDATA[It was one of the chief reasons kids built shacks in the early 1970s: to hide their stash of Playboy magazines.]]></description>
		 <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:31:54 -0400</pubDate>
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		 <category>Columnist George F. Will</category>
		 <title>Meg Whitman's suicide-prevention plan</title>
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		 <description><![CDATA[California's campaigns introduce candidates not only to the state's voters but to its immensity. In Bakersfield, Meg Whitman, 52, the former CEO of eBay who is campaigning for the 2010 Republican gubernatorial nomination, learned about carrots.]]></description>
		 <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		 <category>Columnist Brad Bumsted</category>
		 <title>Rohrer's pipe dream</title>
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		 <description><![CDATA[It's a bill that will never see the light of day. But it should.]]></description>
		 <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		 <category>Dateline D.C.</category>
		 <title>An alliance of Social Democrats?</title>
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		 <description><![CDATA[As June was ending in Washington, German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived for a two-purpose meeting with President Barack Obama.]]></description>
		 <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		 <category>Columnist John Browne</category>
		 <title>Who's in charge?</title>
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		 <description><![CDATA[In America and elsewhere, citizens experience increasing frustration as their cry of &quot;Who's in charge?&quot; goes unanswered.]]></description>
		 <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		 <category>Guest Columnists</category>
		 <title>Seamy racial politics</title>
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		 <description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court's decision in Ricci v. DeStefano, the case of the New Haven, Conn., firefighters, was a ringing endorsement of the Civil Rights Act of 1964's ban on racial discrimination.]]></description>
		 <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		 <title>The &lt;em&gt;Ricci&lt;/em&gt; case: Blind-eyed court</title>
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		 <description><![CDATA[From The Philadelphia Inquirer: In attempting to correct alleged &quot;reverse discrimination&quot; against white firefighters, the Supreme Court has made it easier to disregard past bias against minorities in making employment decisions.]]></description>
		 <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		 <title>Clarence Thomas is definition of an 'activist' judge</title>
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		 <description><![CDATA[Anyone who believes that only &quot;liberal&quot; judges are &quot;activists&quot; should read Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' dissent in Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District No. 1 v. Holder.]]></description>
		 <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		 <category>Guest Columnists</category>
		 <title>Fame: I'm (not) gonna live forever</title>
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		 <description><![CDATA[What English poet John Keats wrote in &quot;On Fame&quot; is worth re-reading as we overindulge in the recent deaths of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett.]]></description>
		 <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		 <title>A study in celebrity contrasts</title>
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		 <description><![CDATA[The surrealism of celebrity pop culture erupts when a major celebrity dies.]]></description>
		 <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		 <title>Gambling on the Iraq pullout</title>
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		 <description><![CDATA[American troops have started leaving Iraqi cities in compliance with both former President Bush's negotiated start date for withdrawal and President Obama's campaign pledge.]]></description>
		 <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		 <title>Junk this 'science'</title>
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		 <description><![CDATA[Four hundred years ago, astronomer Galileo Galilei and philosopher Francis Bacon changed the scientific process forever.]]></description>
		 <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		 <title>Abandon all hope for Bernie</title>
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		 <description><![CDATA[In Perugia, Italy, where American student Amanda Knox has been standing trial for the murder of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, a curious carving of Lady Justice hangs above the courthouse entrance. According to the Perugians, the lady is smiling.]]></description>
		 <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		 <category>Guest Columnists</category>
		 <title>Rationing health care is our choice</title>
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		 <description><![CDATA[Even though more and more Americans have no health insurance at all, Americans consider health care to be a right. Not just that: We consider the best possible health care to be a right.]]></description>
		 <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		 <category>Guest Columnists</category>
		 <title>Political laughing matters</title>
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		 <description><![CDATA[Sen. Al Franken. Get used to it. Or get over it, as the case may be.]]></description>
		 <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		 <title>Best of the Blogs</title>
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		 <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		 <category>Whispers</category>
		 <title>Palin's punchline</title>
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		 <description><![CDATA[Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin didn't take John Kerry lame joke lying down.]]></description>
		 <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		 <category>Letters to the Editor</category>
		 <title>Keep libraries strong</title>
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		 <link><![CDATA[http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/letters/s_632080.html?source=rss&feed=5]]></link>
		 <description><![CDATA[State Senate Bill 850, which would cut millions in state funds from public library budgets, could cost our area libraries valuable programs and reduce their number of books, &quot;e-government&quot; resources and children's programming.]]></description>
		 <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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