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							<title>Divided States of America</title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 03:55:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<description><![CDATA[American politics has assumed many of the unhealthy characteristics of its Indian counterpart, such as communal vote banks divided along religious and caste lines — reflected by Southern evangelist and white voters on the Republican side, arrayed against minority and women voters on the Democratic side. ]]></description>
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							<title>What’s So Hot About Celebrities?</title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2012 10:06:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<description><![CDATA[Why do pop stars, movie divas and sports hunks drive us nuts?]]></description>
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							<title>Crime &amp; Punishment</title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2012 00:55:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<description><![CDATA[Incarceration is always painful and it penalizes not just criminals — both white collar and “hardened types” — but equally innocent members of their families. But all this hand-wringing by those sympathetic to Gupta glosses over the enormous iniquities inherent in the U.S. justice system on a daily basis.]]></description>
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							<title>How About a National Dumb Day?</title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 01:50:00 -0400</pubDate>
							<description><![CDATA[We live in a cool, informal and let-it-all-hang-out-environment. Nothing is sacrosanct and irreverence towards buttoned-down conventions and established norms is the new popular mantra.]]></description>
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							<title>Republican Sunset</title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 01:58:00 -0400</pubDate>
							<description><![CDATA[Indian Americans have not experienced the frontal brunt of the GOP’s hostile policies toward immigrants and minorities. Yet, Democrats enjoy far stronger support among Indian Americans than they do, for example, among Hispanics, who are significantly more impacted by the GOP’s uncompromising stance on immigration and welfare. ]]></description>
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							<title>GOP Convention of Liars</title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 04:56:00 -0400</pubDate>
							<description><![CDATA[The Republican Party, which has nominated an Ayn Rand faddist Paul Ryan as its nominee for vice president to placate the extremist wing of the party, recognizes well that the vision of dismantling the widely popular social safety net of social security, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment insurance, etc., would be toxic and disastrous in an election.]]></description>
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							<title>McCarthyism Redux</title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 06:04:00 -0400</pubDate>
							<description><![CDATA[All minorities and religious groups should be affronted and alarmed by these reckless and unfounded accusations against decent and honorableAmericans who happen to be Muslims.]]></description>
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							<title>Let&#039;s Celebrate Liars</title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:22:00 -0400</pubDate>
							<description><![CDATA[Xavier Alvarez is one in a continuing line of outcasts -- anarchists, Communists, flag burners, racists, fringe religious and political fanatics -- to whom we owe an eternal debt of gratitude for keeping the embers of free speech alive.]]></description>
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							<title>Right Side of History</title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 01:44:00 -0400</pubDate>
							<description><![CDATA[Economic forces and Pres. Obama’s legendary timidity in the first half of his presidency could yet doom the Democratic Party’s presidential and Congressional aspirations during this election cycle. ]]></description>
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							<title>India’s Gutless Media</title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
							<description><![CDATA[That a deep pocketed media house like the India Today Group folded its tent without resistance in the face of Abhishek Manu Singhvi’s legal threats, while an obscure activist with a checkered free speech history dared to resist, is a permanent blot on a storied media house, for which it owes its readers and the public an apology and an explanation. ]]></description>
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