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      <title><![CDATA[Turn Up That Damned Music! | The Gen X-Millennial generation gap]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Every 20 years, Time depicts people in their 20s as "lazy, entitled, selfish and shallow." This time the target is the Millennial generation (Americans born between roughly 1980 and 2000 to Boomer parents). According to the Boomer-run media, twentysomethings/Gen Y/Millennials are narcissists.

Whate... By Ted Rall.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Immigration Reform is Treason | High unemployment, and we're importing workers]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Unemployment is sky-high. Sustained long-term unemployment is at record levels. So why the hell are we importing foreign workers?

The immigration reform bill moving through Congress will throw open the door to millions of new foreigners to enter the country to work. And we're not talking about crap... By Ted Rall.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[The Real Reason to Impeach Obama | Why is the FBI helping a monstrous dictator?]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Forget the IRS, AP and Benghazi. The real scandal this week -- the corrupt politicization of the nation's top law enforcement agency -- is President Obama's decision to carry water for one of the world's most evil dictators.

In a little-noticed move, Obama's FBI has arrested Fazliddin Kurbanov, a 3... By Ted Rall.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Investigating the Investigations | IRS targeting: scandal. CIA targeting: business as usual]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[We're fighting for you!"

That's what the Democratic Party tells Democratic voters and what the Republican Party tells Republicans. But even their "battles" reveal how similar the two parties really are.

Case study: what gets investigated.

Less than a week after the news broke that the IRS engaged... By Ted Rall.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[War and Wordplay | Not-so-secret "secret bombings"]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Did Israel bomb Damascus back on May 5? Of course it did. According to Syrian rebel sources, 42 Syrian army soldiers were killed. But Israel won't admit it. This has happened before. Usually, Syria doesn't say anything about Israeli airstrikes. (The Syrian government's complaint about Sunday's airst... By Ted Rall.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Why Closing Guant&aacute;namo is Easy | Obama doesn't need Congress, he needs Travelocity]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Guantanamo is complicated. Everyone says so.

Everyone is wrong.

There's nothing complicated about it: Guantanamo should be closed.

Mainstream media pundits don't get it. They suggest a lame hodgepodge of solutions: a few repatriations here, a few extraordinary renditions there, maybe convincing s... By Ted Rall.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Whys and Wherefores | When you ask "Why?" mean it]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Why would anybody want to kill innocent people?

That's what Americans -- led by the media reporters and pundits who set the agenda for discussion -- ask after every terrorist attack, particularly those carried out by foreigners.

Our mystified national cluelessness begs the question. Why do people... By Ted Rall.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Seeking Validation | It's not just an honor to be nominated]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Every year, there is angst-filled anticipation over the announcement of the winners of the Pulitzer Prizes for journalism, and every year, the results are greeted with a collective shrug. Someday, one hopes, people will learn not to anticipate something that proves so disappointing so frequently. Yo... By Ted Rall.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Tokenism Revisited | This time, it's gender]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The last few weeks have seen a full-court press by MSNBC and other Democratic media organs to either--one can't be sure which, but it's definitely one or the other--promote Hillary Clinton as the Party's 2016 standard-bearer or run her up the flagpole to see if anybody salutes.

Another Clinton? Sou... By Ted Rall.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[The Mayors of Brokesville | To be young and shilly at SXSW]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It's not like I didn't know what I was getting into.

This was my second year at South by Southwest, the Austin music festival that has morphed into a trilateral Comic Con of the tattered remnants of the music industry, the on-the-ropes independent film sector, and a New Third Thing, the tantalizing... By Ted Rall.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Gone Conservative | Gay push of the '70s is no more]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I miss the gays of the 1970s.

Before AIDS made them fearful.

When they were wild. On the fringe. A threat to decent society.

Decent society sucks.

I miss the gay-rights movement that came out of Stonewall. I miss the hilariously profane gay pride parades that prompted upright straights to assert... By Ted Rall.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[The Quagmire Pattern | Syria turning into repeat of Iraq]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Quagmire Pattern always seems to play out the same way.

There's a civil war in some country deemed by the CIA to be Of Strategic Importance (i.e., energy reserves, proximity to energy reserves, or potential pipeline route to carry energy reserves).

During this initial stage, a secular socialis... By Ted Rall.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Cash In | Why Sheryl Sandberg is evil]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Sheryl Sandberg is the author of a new book that you've heard of if you're connected enough to be reading this, promoted by one of those PR tsunamis that publishers inflict upon the public every year or two in hopes of recouping six- or seven-figure advances: Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lea... By Ted Rall.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Is the GOP Doomed? | In a two-party system, the loser is us]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Stalin called bourgeois parties "the dancing bears of social democracy." Toothless and undignified distractions, these non-movements personify the function of electoral politics -- to channel the energies of the oppressed into bullshit discussions about trivia and inanities.

Uncle Joe's hilariously... By Ted Rall.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Is Your Brain Really Your Own? | Cannibals, thoughtcrime, and a rising police state]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I was going to be tied up by my feet and my throat slit and they would have fun watching the blood gush out of me because I was young," the wife of 28-year-old NYPD "cannibal cop" Gilberto Valle testified at his trial.

After she installed keyboard-tracking software on his laptop, Kathleen Mangan-Va... By Ted Rall.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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