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      <title><![CDATA[13 Vs. 2,000,000 | Fort Hood shootings a shocker; why not U.S. war crimes?]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=28524</link>
      <description><![CDATA[American lives are worth a lot. So when Americans get killed, it&#39;s a big story. There are lots of editorials. Congressmen call for investigations. We want to find out what happened, why it happened and how to make sure it never happens again.

The lives of foreigners, on the other hand, are pret... By Ted Rall.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Stock Market Shuffle | The stock market appears to be on the rebound, but it doesn't mean it's out of the woods]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It is usually the stock market that psyches us out, not the other way around.

There's something about stocks that turns us upside down. For example, normally when something goes on sale, we tend to buy more of it; yet, when stock prices fall, many investors want to buy less.

This reminds me of Bar... By Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Kiss and Make Up? | Is it time to revisit term limits to give representatives more time to develop long-term, comprehensive plans?]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Admit it -- it felt good to stick it to The Man.

Sure, it was almost two decades ago that Oklahomans vented frustration with politics-as-usual and became the first state to slap term limits on a Legislature widely regarded as overpaid, under-worked and loutish.

Yet, it seems like only yesterday th... By Arnold Hamilton.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Love Letters/Hate Mail ]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=28519</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Spewing Hate

Dear Editor:

(In response to Ted Rall's "Dithering while America Sneezes" in the Nov. 12-18 issue of Urban Tulsa Weekly)

This guy is the biggest douchebag around. His columns are full of &quot;truth-stretching&quot; and trumped up accusations, whether they are against Bush or Obama,...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Dithering While America Sneezes | Failure on H1N1 highlights a bigger crisis]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[America&#39;s scandalous lame (non-)response to the swine flu pandemic isn&#39;t a big deal. Not compared to, say, the melting of the polar ice cap. It isn&#39;t torture. Or war. It pales next to giving hundreds of billions of dollars to wealthy bankers and nothing to homeowners facing foreclosure.... By Ted Rall.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Obama's Two Achilles' Heels | Obama's personality and drive for expansive government might be his presidential downfall]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In my recent article "Checkmate," I made the case that President Obama's grand strategy has outfoxed the opposition, dooming us all to a massive increase in the scope and power of Uncle Sam. Is the situation hopeless? Never! If Americans who believe in individual liberty and free markets rally to th... By Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Where's the Watchdog? | If you need mainstream media, you better have assault rifles, an American Idol, or two-headed triplets]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It's come to this: Two state senators camped near the Capitol steps on a crisp November night, hoping to shame the governor, the House Speaker, the Senate president -- anyone -- into coughing up enough money to keep providing Oklahoma seniors at least one hot meal a day.

A publicity stunt? Absolute... By Arnold Hamilton.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <description><![CDATA[From One Desert to the Other

Dear Editor:

(In response to "Food, Food, Everywhere " in the Nov. 5-11 issue of Urban Tulsa Weekly)

I read this story and I think this man (Scott Smith, proprietor of the Blue Jackalope) has a great idea. Now I'm not business savvy by no means. I'm from Salt Lake Cit...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Love Letters/Hate Mail | The Special Karaoke EditionFeelin' Kitschy?]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dear Editor:

(In response to "Kitsch 'N' Sync" in the Live Music section of Urban Tulsa Weekly)

All of us karaoke fans around Tulsa really do appreciate the slander your magazine has thrown our way with the Kitsch &#39;N&#39; Sync joke. What is really appreciated is the refusal to end the ongoing...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Obama's Real Death Panels | President maintains &quot;right&quot; to kill American citizens]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=28395</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Shortly after 9/11, George W. Bush secretly signed two executive orders. Both violated basic constitutional protections as well as U.S. obligations under international treaties, yet both carried the force of law.

They still do.

The first order grants the president (and other officials, including t... By Ted Rall.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Think Before You Vote | Reconsider the past and its issues before going to the voting booth for District 4]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Tulsans will be facing a very critical city office election on Nov. 10. Recent local headline news accounts of the Mayor&#39;s decision to lay off Tulsa Police Officers has rightfully skyrocketed the issue of public safety into the forefront. Whatever you do, don&#39;t turn away from voting due to t... By Ridge Kayser.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Don't Fall for the Hype | Tom Adelson brings reality without the gimmicks]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=28392</link>
      <description><![CDATA[In the cult movie classic "Idiocracy", Americans involved in a government experiment accidently get thrust into a future in which people are dumb and lazy. They don't think for themselves, and their leaders reflect that. Partly as a result, they and their leaders come to believe the crazy marketing/... By Adam Kupetsky.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[The Sensible Candidate | Dewey Bartlett has saavy and qualities for city]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=28391</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Many Tulsans', including me, have lamented over the tone of the current mayoral campaign. Looking at it objectively it is hard to second guess the political consultants and strategists who design these campaigns when a significant percentage of the electorate is too busy or indifferent to spend the... By Bill Leighty.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[No Senior Left Behind? | Hot meals for elderly likely to feel sting of budget cuts]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=28389</link>
      <description><![CDATA[So it turns out Marie Antoinette probably never did utter the infamously dismissive, "let them eat cake."

Neither, so far as we know, did Oklahoma's top elected officials -- but they might as well have.

Their appalling indifference to deepening budget cuts that eliminated thousands of hot meals pr... By Arnold Hamilton.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Drop the Drones | Remote attacks inflame Afghan anti-Americanism]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=28326</link>
      <description><![CDATA["The killing of Afghan civilians, usually caused by inadvertent American and NATO airstrikes, has become the most sensitive issue between the Afghans and their Western guests.&quot;

So reports The New York Times Magazine in the latest installment of its ongoing &quot;There&#39;s a new general in ch... By Ted Rall.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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