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		<title>Santorum, other republicans ignore broader view of economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Tucker  Rick Santorum &#8212; who gained the media spotlight after coming in a close second to Mitt Romney in Iowa &#8212; has long been a hard-right social conservative: opposed to reproductive rights, adamantly homophobic, hostile to contraceptive use. But he hasn’t previously been known as a race-baiter. The scion of a working-class Pennsylvania [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saying farewell to my mother who just passed away</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Linda Chavez Death is never easy to accept, much less embrace, but it taught me that the end of life need not be frightening. She lived 90 years — the last three of them in my home — healthy, independent and happy, despite a life that others might have regarded as difficult, if not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Special MLK message from reader</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though MLK Jr. died fifteen years before I was even born I still feel a strong connection to his work because he did something that no one was able to do before. He was able to give the African American community their true freedom by helping them to integrate into all corners of society. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: A.D. 2041 &#8212; End of White America?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Pat Buchanan  John Hope Franklin, the famed black historian at Duke University, once told the incoming freshmen, &#8220;The new America in the 21st century will be primarily non-white, a place George Washington would not recognize.&#8221; In his June 1998 commencement address at Portland State, President Clinton affirmed it: &#8220;In a little more than 50 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jalen Rose gets 20 days in jail for drunk driving</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jalen Rose was sentenced Wednesday to 20 days in jail for a March drunken-driving crash near Detroit, despite a recommendation that the ESPN analyst and former NBA player not serve jail time and the public support of several prominent figures, including Detroit&#8217;s mayor. When he pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated in May, Rose told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion:Widening wealth gap between whites, minorities has deep roots</title>
		<link>http://theaustintimes.com/2011/07/opinionwidening-wealth-gap-between-whites-minorities-has-deep-roots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No one who is remotely familiar with American demographics should be surprised to hear that Anglo families, on average, are wealthier than black or Latino families. Nonetheless, the magnitude of the disparity revealed by a new study is staggering. The median wealth of Anglo households is now 20 times that of black households and 18 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: A message for father&#8217;s day from Archie</title>
		<link>http://theaustintimes.com/2011/06/opinion-a-message-for-fathers-day-from-archie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 17:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Look for people to blame for your failure is an indication that you will fail,&#8221; is what I want them to realize before they accept a name that&#8217;s not theirs.  Remember as Madea told a young girl, &#8220;it not what people call you that&#8217;s important, it&#8217;s what you answer to.&#8221; A few days ago, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple has already won against android</title>
		<link>http://theaustintimes.com/2011/05/apple-has-already-won-against-android/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 05:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The war between Apple and Android has supposedly been going on since the first Android handset, the T-Mobile G1, was rushed to market in 2008. But in fact, the two were never even fighting &#8212; at least not directly. Because both Apple and Android are gaining market share, at the expense of things like RIM&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas&#8217; proposal to kick out all illegal immigrants (except the maids)</title>
		<link>http://theaustintimes.com/2011/03/texas-proposal-to-kick-out-all-illegal-immigrants-except-the-maids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; A proposed Texas immigration bill would potentially impose jail time on anyone who hires an illegal immigrant&#8230; unless that illegal immigrants works as domestic help. Best Opinion: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, CNN, Lez Get Real Texas is weighing several immigration proposals modeled on Arizona&#8217;s strict (and controversial) law, but one in particular is drawing nationwide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How health care repeal could backfire on blacks</title>
		<link>http://theaustintimes.com/2011/01/how-health-care-repeal-could-backfire-on-blacks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year ago it seemed that the handful of ultra conservative GOP house representatives and senators were either hopelessly deluding themselves or just enjoyed engaging in mean-spirited saber rattling when they prattled on about dumping the new health care reform law. Their argument for scrapping the law was as tired as it was familiar. It [...]]]></description>
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