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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary Can't Get Fair Shake From Media]]></title>
							<link>http://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/7/71/894561/gene-lyons-hillary-clinton-cant-catch-fair-shake-media</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Lyons</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Washington Post's Irresponsible Racial Smears]]></title>
							<link>http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130406/OPINION01/304060317/1008/Race-has-nothing-do-mass-shootings</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Lyons</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the exception of sex and religion, nothing makes people more irrational than race. Given the bloody history of racial disputes in American life, one would think that responsible news organizations would take particular care in addressing inflammatory topics. Then there's the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Terrible GOP Field]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2011/12/29/whats_really_wrong_in_iowa/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Lyons</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Pardon me if I fail to join the crowd handicapping next week&rsquo;s Iowa GOP caucuses like race track touts peddling betting tips on the Kentucky Derby.To begin with, I have no clue. Except on the sports page, I normally skip articles speculating about what might happen tomorrow. Damned...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Do People Still Deny Climate Change?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2011/12/15/why_do_people_still_deny_climate_change/singleton</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Lyons</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At the expense of being tedious, from a climatological perspective, 2011 was a real killer &mdash; both figuratively and literally. If not quite so hot as 2010, which tied 1998 for the warmest in recorded history, it&rsquo;s likely to end up among the top 10, all occurring over the past...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Believe the Education &quot;Reformers&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2011/11/18/dont_believe_the_education_reformers/singleton</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Lyons</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Three mildly heretical thoughts about American education: First, given the impossible assignment we&rsquo;ve given them&mdash;an egalitarian mission in a nation rapidly growing more stratified by income and class&mdash;American public schools are probably doing a better job than they...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Perry Plays Up a Bogus &quot;Texanism&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/rick_perry/index.html?story=/politics/feature/2011/09/14/execute</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Lyons</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Everybody who's heard Johnny Cash's classic live album "At Folsom Prison" remembers the audience of convicts erupting in bloodthirsty whoops when the singer growled out the line "I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die." According to Cash's biographer Michael Streissguth, however, it...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Republican Party Divorced From Sanity]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/07/20/lyons_debt_deciling/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Lyons</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No wonder people are cynical. The nation increasingly appears to be governed by cheap political theater: made-for-TV melodrama more like professional wrestling than actual combat. As I write, the United States allegedly hovers on the edge of a fiscal crisis.Should Congress fail to raise...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Obama Is the Favorite for 2012]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/2012_elections/index.html?story=/news/feature/2011/03/17/lyons_obama_reelection</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Lyons</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Many Americans follow politics the way lukewarm fans follow sports,  paying close attention only during the playoffs or presidential  elections. Most would be surprised to be told that most professional  observers in Washington think President Obama's a strong bet to win  re-election in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why They're Picking on Public Workers]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/the_labor_movement/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/03/02/lyons_public_employees</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Lyons</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Under ordinary circumstances, few would dispute that when a nation turns against its educators and reviles scientists as "elitists," it is headed downhill. Not to mention when it attacks working stiffs who drive ambulances, inspect bridges and natural gas wells, maintain sewers and water...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Cash We Trust, But Unions We Bust]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/the_labor_movement/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/02/23/lyons_money_talks</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Lyons</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Recent events in Washington and Wisconsin have me thinking that maybe we should just go ahead and change the national motto to something more truly reflective of today's America. Forget "e pluribus unum" with its elitist overtones. Also, what people who make a big thing over "In God We...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Public Misconceptions About Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/politics/barack_obama/index.html?story=/opinion/feature/2010/10/27/gene_lyons_believe_the_facts</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Lyons</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." -- Will RogersAnybody seeking midterm-election predictions needs to look somewhere else. Here at the sprawling rural campus of Unsolicited Opinions Inc., company policy forbids palm-reading, crystal balls, tea leaves, bird augury and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time to Call Out the GOP Hypocrites]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/feature/2010/10/20/gene_lyons_gop_hypocrites</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Lyons</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the White House wanted to make a real fight of it, President Obama would spend the next two weeks reading aloud from the official correspondence of GOP congressional leaders. But has he got the necessary will?Take Rep. Michelle Bachmann of Minnesota, for example. Campaigning for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Be Fooled by GOP's Sick Healthcare Rhetoric]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/politics/republican_party/index.html?story=/opinion/feature/2010/09/29/gop_healthcare_lyons</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Lyons</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just how gullible are you? Of the many absurdities in the Republican Party's "Pledge to America," the most problematic may be the Republican vow to repeal the Affordable Health Care Act, colloquially called "Obamacare." Not the most ridiculous, mind you. That would have to be the vow to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Good to Have Obama on the Campaign Trail]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/politics/2010_elections/index.html?story=/opinion/feature/2010/09/08/obama_campaign_trail</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Lyons</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Among the enlightened, dialing the psychic hotline is considered superstitious, although watching TV pundits call elections two months before the vote is taken seriously. True, political forecasters have opinion polls to guide them, but then it's also a safe bet that anybody phoning a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Will Stand Up to GOP's War on Islam?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/ground_zero_mosque/index.html?story=/opinion/feature/2010/08/18/gop_islam_war</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Lyons</author>
							<description><![CDATA["It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."-- Thomas Jefferson, "Notes on Virginia"Maybe Republican savants who want to repeal the 14th Amendment should refudiate the First Amendment while they&rsquo;re at it....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Climategate Burned by Reality]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/env/environment/index.html?story=/news/feature/2010/07/07/gene_lyons_climategate</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Lyons</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. ... But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, only in the mind of the Party. ......]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Americans Still Held Captive by &quot;Zombie&quot; Lies]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/tea_parties/index.html?story=/opinion/feature/2010/06/30/economy_fail_right</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Lyons</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's not simply about making the Obama administration look bad. Many  Republicans actually love economic recessions. No better means of  disciplining the labor force has ever been devised.That's the real message behind the GOP's Senate filibuster denying  extended federal benefits to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's No Time to Retreat for Obama, Dems]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/media_criticism/index.html?story=/opinion/feature/2010/02/10/democratic_majority</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Lyons</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The headline of the year appeared in New York's Village Voice: "Scott Brown Wins Mass. Race, Giving GOP 41-59 Majority in the Senate." On CBS Evening News, Katie Couric brightly informed her audience that the former Cosmopolitan centerfold model's swearing-in gave Republicans the power...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Establishing Universal Care is a Good Start]]></title>
							<link>http://salon.com/news/healthcare_reform/index.html?story=/opinion/feature/2009/12/23/imperfection</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Lyons</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Buyer's remorse seems to be setting in among Democrats, even as the U.S. Senate is poised to vote (as I write this) on the most significant piece of social reform since the 1960s.No less a figure than Dr. Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor and Democratic National Committee...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Instead of Rethinking, Republicans Chose to Go Crazy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/feature/2009/11/11/republican_crazies</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Lyons</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For right-wing Republicans, the presidency of George W. Bush began as a dream come true. People calling themselves "conservatives" ran everything in Washington. Even before the GOP won both houses in 2002, Congress gave Bush everything he asked for. Republican apparatchiks controlled...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Public Knows the GOP is Fibbing]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/24/healthcare/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Lyons</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Only Republicans really buy the anti-healthcare reform lies. So why are some Dems settling for such an awful bill?By Gene LyonsRead more: Republican Party, The South, Opinion, Gene Lyons, Barack ObamaAP Photo/Haraz N. GhanbariPresident Obama appears at a town hall meeting on healthcare...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sex Scandals Are Bipartisan, But Preaching Isn't]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/07/02/lyons/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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