<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine</title><link>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/</link><description>Sanity is Taken for Radicalism. </description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:01:37 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:24:54 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Working Families Flexibility Act: Increases Flexibility For Employers, Not Workers</title>
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If you were led to believe that the Working Families Flexibility Act will help working families, I can understand your confusion. Unfortunately, the title is misleading. Even though the bill is being&nbsp;advertised as a solutionfor workers who need flexibility to care for fami&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></source><link>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/15/18274357-working-families-flexibility-act-increases-flexibility-for-employers-not-workers</link><guid>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/15/18274357-working-families-flexibility-act-increases-flexibility-for-employers-not-workers</guid><category>labor</category><category>politics</category><category>republicans</category><category>middle-class</category><category>99</category><category>tea-party</category><category>40-hour-work-week</category><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 13:32:50 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=feliznavidad0FAF483D-BA3B-3AEC-49EE-4FDEB6114F02.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="279" width="279" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=feliznavidad0FAF483D-BA3B-3AEC-49EE-4FDEB6114F02.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>UN To Decide If J Edgar Hoover Killed the Kids at Kent State </title>
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FBI director J. Edgar Hoover had compiled surveillance tapes and documents on everyone from the Kennedy family to MLK, Jr. and while his top secret files were destroyed upon his death, there is no reason to believe he did not run a series of intelligence programs based at monit&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></source><link>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/07/18104918-un-to-decide-if-j-edgar-hoover-killed-the-kids-at-kent-state</link><guid>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/07/18104918-un-to-decide-if-j-edgar-hoover-killed-the-kids-at-kent-state</guid><category>human-rights</category><category>politics</category><category>right-wing</category><category>cover-up</category><category>kent-state</category><category>j-edgar-hoover</category><pubDate>Tue, 7 May 2013 14:51:14 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title> The new pledge that Congress should take - </title>
<description><![CDATA[Our nation&rsquo;s Legislature is utterly paralyzed, deadlocked over issues big and small as the United States tumbles closer to a dangerous fiscal cliff. In the meantime, many members of Congress have blithely signed pledges that they would not &mdash; under any circumstances &n&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></source><link>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/22/17867905-the-new-pledge-that-congress-should-take</link><guid>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/22/17867905-the-new-pledge-that-congress-should-take</guid><category>congress</category><category>politics</category><category>fools</category><category>american-people</category><category>accomplishments</category><category>republians</category><category>recalcitrant</category><pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 02:16:55 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Republican State Senator Exchanges Series of 'Unbelievably Insane' Emails with Angry Constituent</title>
<description><![CDATA[Letters from Nieves to a constituent wanting to be removed from his e-mail list:]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></source><link>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/19/17830631-republican-state-senator-exchanges-series-of-unbelievably-insane-emails-with-angry-constituent</link><guid>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/19/17830631-republican-state-senator-exchanges-series-of-unbelievably-insane-emails-with-angry-constituent</guid><category>politics</category><category>republicans</category><pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 01:26:07 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=feliznavidadBA28C36A-8B36-A337-2A36-C42EFE363588.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="200" width="200" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=feliznavidadBA28C36A-8B36-A337-2A36-C42EFE363588.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>New Hampshire Republican refers to women as 'vaginas'</title>
<description><![CDATA[OK-- what's next? A Binder full of vaginas?&nbsp;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></source><link>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/16/17784157-new-hampshire-republican-refers-to-women-as-vaginas</link><guid>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/16/17784157-new-hampshire-republican-refers-to-women-as-vaginas</guid><category>politics</category><category>republicans</category><category>respect</category><category>war-on-women</category><pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:49:40 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=feliznavidadD046A3B0-9F5F-1BC5-62B3-9E5D6B94D152.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="225" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=feliznavidadD046A3B0-9F5F-1BC5-62B3-9E5D6B94D152.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="68" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Unsurprising News: Major Organic Food Company Run By Christian Right Nutters | The Raw Story</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></source><link>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/14/17751026-unsurprising-news-major-organic-food-company-run-by-christian-right-nutters-the-raw-story</link><guid>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/14/17751026-unsurprising-news-major-organic-food-company-run-by-christian-right-nutters-the-raw-story</guid><pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 23:48:01 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=feliznavidadCA896CF1-A31B-5197-05DB-A1CF3A6C6EF2.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="284" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=feliznavidadCA896CF1-A31B-5197-05DB-A1CF3A6C6EF2.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="86" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Press Finally Calling Out Paul Ryan</title>
<description><![CDATA[Finally -- one of a series of Paul Ryan's stupid budgets gets dissed --just because this guy has no personality does not make him a "wonk." It's about time the American media started asking real questions --- and started acting like "The Fourth Estate" -- not the republican peanu&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></source><link>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/14/17313696-press-finally-calling-out-paul-ryan</link><guid>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/14/17313696-press-finally-calling-out-paul-ryan</guid><category>media</category><category>budget</category><category>medicare</category><category>politics</category><category>republicans</category><category>news</category><category>ryan</category><category>paul-ryan</category><category>chuck-todd</category><category>tgop</category><pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:06:47 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=feliznavidadD20CD845-34A5-F694-0965-383CAE629ECB.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="166" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=feliznavidadD20CD845-34A5-F694-0965-383CAE629ECB.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="50" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Pastors increasingly pushing politics, despite IRS regulations</title>
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When the Catholic bishop of Peoria, Ill., compared President Obama to Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin during a homily last April, the Freedom From Religion Foundation wrote a letter to the Internal Revenue Service.
And when the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association &mdash; just&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></source><link>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/11/17270276-pastors-increasingly-pushing-politics-despite-irs-regulations</link><guid>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/11/17270276-pastors-increasingly-pushing-politics-despite-irs-regulations</guid><category>politics</category><category>irs</category><category>separation-of-church-and-state</category><category>non-profit-status</category><pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:39:51 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Krugman to Ron Johnson: 'Your facts are false' and 'non-facts' </title>
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Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman on Sunday accused tea party-backed Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) of using &ldquo;non-facts&rdquo; to argue that earned benefits programs like Social Security and Medicare needed to be cut in order to be saved.
&ldquo;Unless we do something,&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></source><link>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/11/17268069-krugman-to-ron-johnson-your-facts-are-false-and-non-facts</link><guid>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/11/17268069-krugman-to-ron-johnson-your-facts-are-false-and-non-facts</guid><category>medicare</category><category>politics</category><category>social-security</category><category>krugman</category><pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:47:02 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=feliznavidadD4206F89-EA59-11DB-8A0C-2C7D4F284785.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="225" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=feliznavidadD4206F89-EA59-11DB-8A0C-2C7D4F284785.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="68" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Real voter fraud comes from Republicans</title>
<description><![CDATA[
On Wednesday night&rsquo;s episode of &ldquo;The Ed Show,&rdquo; host Ed Schultz listed off numerous actual instances of Republican-spun voter fraud schemes, mocking the&nbsp;seemingly perpetual paranoia many conservatives have about the community group ACORN, which doesn&rsquo&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></source><link>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/08/17236745-real-voter-fraud-comes-from-republicans</link><guid>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/08/17236745-real-voter-fraud-comes-from-republicans</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 8 Mar 2013 14:16:41 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title> The Bible Isn't The History You Think It Is</title>
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The Old Testament contains a wide range of texts in addition to stories: laws, prayers, moral codes, and more. But even the stories come in more than one variety. Noah and the Great Flood are not in the same category as Moses and the Ten Commandments, and both are different tha&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></source><link>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/04/17185146-the-bible-isnt-the-history-you-think-it-is</link><guid>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/04/17185146-the-bible-isnt-the-history-you-think-it-is</guid><category>religion</category><category>r</category><category>bible</category><category>fundamentalism</category><pubDate>Tue, 5 Mar 2013 02:11:55 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Peter King Declares Civil War Against Southern Republicans</title>
<description><![CDATA[Many people have noticed the GOP is increasingly becoming a southern party. So has New York Republican Peter King. The congressman is getting tired of his colleagues insulting his state and then begging it for money. On Thursday, he complained of two new slights: Sen. Marco Rubio&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></source><link>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/01/17145098-peter-king-declares-civil-war-against-southern-republicans</link><guid>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/01/17145098-peter-king-declares-civil-war-against-southern-republicans</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 1 Mar 2013 11:40:58 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=feliznavidad61399D8A-45C4-FB2F-D08D-A29545672961.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="250" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=feliznavidad61399D8A-45C4-FB2F-D08D-A29545672961.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="75" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Is the pressure to be perfect Christians undermining the church?</title>
<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;You&rsquo;re a Christian, right?&rdquo; a friend asked me recently.
Years ago, I would have given a knee-jerk, &ldquo;Of course!&rdquo; However these days, I find myself offering a long explanation, one that lays out my internal conflict with claiming Christianity without&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></source><link>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/28/17134886-is-the-pressure-to-be-perfect-christians-undermining-the-church</link><guid>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/28/17134886-is-the-pressure-to-be-perfect-christians-undermining-the-church</guid><category>religion</category><pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:49:28 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>The Wage Theft Epidemic -</title>
<description><![CDATA[Thanks to a wave of government cuts, there&rsquo;s no one to stop your boss from withholding your pay.
From the Article: &nbsp;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></source><link>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/20/17032747-the-wage-theft-epidemic</link><guid>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/20/17032747-the-wage-theft-epidemic</guid><category>slavery</category><category>politics</category><category>minimum-wage</category><category>workers-rights</category><category>llabor</category><pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:20:42 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Unmasking the GOP Great American Gerrymander Machine </title>
<description><![CDATA[
You may be surprised by the state of our democracy when one party's congressional candidates win 1.1 million more votes than the other but end up being greatly outnumbered in the House of Representatives.
You may be alarmed when one party's congressional candidates win 83,000 &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></source><link>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/17/16996156-unmasking-the-gop-great-american-gerrymander-machine</link><guid>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/17/16996156-unmasking-the-gop-great-american-gerrymander-machine</guid><category>politics</category><category>gop</category><category>pittsburgh</category><category>republican</category><category>gerrymandering</category><category>voter-suppression</category><category>free-and-fair-elections</category><pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 22:45:36 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Debtors' Prisons Make a Comeback</title>
<description><![CDATA[Kawana Young, a single mother of two kids, was arrested in Michigan after failing to pay money she owed as a result of minor traffic offenses. She was recently laid off from her job, and could not pay the fees she owed because she couldn&rsquo;t find another source of employment.&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></source><link>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/16/16984854-debtors-prisons-make-a-comeback</link><guid>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/16/16984854-debtors-prisons-make-a-comeback</guid><category>politics</category><category>justice</category><category>poverty</category><category>for-profit-prisons</category><pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 14:05:49 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>  Arkansas law jails tenants who don&amp;#8217;t pay their rent | The Raw Story</title>
<description><![CDATA[Under a state law in Arkansas, renters can be imprisoned for failing to pay their rent.&nbsp;According to a report by Human Rights Watch, titled &ldquo;Pay the Rent or Face Arrest: Abusive Impacts of Arkansas&rsquo;s Criminal Evictions Law,&rdquo; hundreds of tenants each year ar&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></source><link>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/09/16914160-arkansas-law-jails-tenants-who-dont-pay-their-rent-the-raw-story</link><guid>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/09/16914160-arkansas-law-jails-tenants-who-dont-pay-their-rent-the-raw-story</guid><category>politics</category><category>law</category><category>tea-party</category><category>debtors-prisons</category><pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 01:55:09 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=feliznavidad860E6105-4A3D-4F6B-2059-A6F2F2FAD9D0.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="225" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=feliznavidad860E6105-4A3D-4F6B-2059-A6F2F2FAD9D0.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="68" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Hacker reveals George W. Bush's naked self-portraits</title>
<description><![CDATA[Three of the images also show paintings Bush created, including&nbsp;one of himself in the shower,&nbsp;another of himself in a bath, and a third of him crouched over&nbsp;a canvas depicting a church.Raw Story&nbsp;(http://s.tt/1zxE1)]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></source><link>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/08/16902417-hacker-reveals-george-w-bushs-naked-self-portraits</link><guid>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/08/16902417-hacker-reveals-george-w-bushs-naked-self-portraits</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 8 Feb 2013 21:27:07 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=feliznavidad7DC667B1-F236-EB69-2DF4-BD292A550978.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="225" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=feliznavidad7DC667B1-F236-EB69-2DF4-BD292A550978.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="68" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title> Australian Heat Literally Off the Charts</title>
<description><![CDATA[
It&rsquo;s been a big couple of weeks in climate change news &ndash; not that you&rsquo;ve heard about it in the media, because the United States continues to have its head shoved firmly up its backside on this issue. Unfortunately, ignoring it will not make it go away, so buck&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></source><link>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/15/16528998-australian-heat-literally-off-the-charts</link><guid>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/15/16528998-australian-heat-literally-off-the-charts</guid><category>economy</category><category>global-warming</category><category>australia</category><category>politics</category><category>climate-change</category><category>antarctica</category><category>fossil-fuels</category><category>ice-caps</category><category>green-news</category><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:08:34 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=feliznavidad94E36163-B142-D738-17B0-E50A7A8AFC19.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="200" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=feliznavidad94E36163-B142-D738-17B0-E50A7A8AFC19.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="60" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Drug Testing Unemployment Measures To Get Boost In GOP State Legislatures</title>
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States will soon try to fulfill the Republican goal of making unemployed people pee in cups to prove they're not on drugs.
Last February, congressional negotiators and the White House included&nbsp;reforms to the unemployment insurance system&nbsp;in a broader spending bill. O&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></source><link>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/15/16528250-drug-testing-unemployment-measures-to-get-boost-in-gop-state-legislatures</link><guid>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/15/16528250-drug-testing-unemployment-measures-to-get-boost-in-gop-state-legislatures</guid><category>politics</category><category>unemployment</category><category>republicans</category><category>drug-testing</category><category>tgop</category><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:07:49 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=feliznavidadCD36742C-34B3-8DEB-BC6B-DB412D3A04FC.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="269" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=feliznavidadCD36742C-34B3-8DEB-BC6B-DB412D3A04FC.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Why Paul Krugman should be President Obama's pick for US treasury secretary</title>
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President Obama hasn't picked a treasury secretary yet for his second term, so he has a chance to do something different.
He could ignore what Wall Street and conservative media interests want and pick somebody who would represent what the electorate voted for. And not even ju&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></source><link>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/06/16384971-why-paul-krugman-should-be-president-obamas-pick-for-us-treasury-secretary</link><guid>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/06/16384971-why-paul-krugman-should-be-president-obamas-pick-for-us-treasury-secretary</guid><category>cabinet</category><category>obama</category><category>middle-class</category><category>krugman</category><category>u-s-treasury</category><pubDate>Mon, 7 Jan 2013 03:04:58 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=feliznavidad37BEEEE1-C0B6-6F0B-C1E1-CD491524A233.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="84" width="140" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=feliznavidad37BEEEE1-C0B6-6F0B-C1E1-CD491524A233.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="72" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>The Year of the Code of Silence: Putting a Gag on Democracy</title>
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Truthout recently posted an article about a federal civil jury finding that the City of Chicago, currently under Mayor Rahm Emanuel, is responsible for allowing a Chicago Police Department&nbsp;"code of silence."&nbsp;This "blue curtain" often prevents the prosecution of not on&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></source><link>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/01/16288064-the-year-of-the-code-of-silence-putting-a-gag-on-democracy</link><guid>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/01/16288064-the-year-of-the-code-of-silence-putting-a-gag-on-democracy</guid><category>politics</category><category>civil-liberties</category><category>first-amendment</category><category>police-state</category><category>police-brutality</category><pubDate>Tue, 1 Jan 2013 23:31:27 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=feliznavidadF921259B-4EFA-C40E-185D-05C5AB18E22A.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="150" width="220" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=feliznavidadF921259B-4EFA-C40E-185D-05C5AB18E22A.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="82" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>GOP Redistricting Project Sealed Control of the House</title>
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If somewhere in the recesses of your mind you were wondering how, despite President Barack Obama&rsquo;s re-election victory and the Democratic Party&rsquo;s gains in the Senate, Republicans continue to control the House of Representatives, think redistricting.
Redistricting i&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></source><link>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/27/16192773-gop-redistricting-project-sealed-control-of-the-house</link><guid>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/27/16192773-gop-redistricting-project-sealed-control-of-the-house</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 18:15:02 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Documents Show ALEC Preparing for IRS Audit</title>
<description><![CDATA[Back in April, Common Cause&nbsp;filed a complaint&nbsp;with the IRS regarding the&nbsp;American Legislative Exchange Council, or&nbsp;ALEC. They maintained that the group&rsquo;s political lobbying negates their status as a non-profit organization:]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></source><link>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/24/16129388-documents-show-alec-preparing-for-irs-audit</link><guid>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/24/16129388-documents-show-alec-preparing-for-irs-audit</guid><category>politics</category><category>republicans</category><category>alec</category><category>tea-party</category><category>koch-brothers</category><category>tgop</category><pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2012 19:42:10 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=feliznavidadF8BE94C4-504D-972B-25F5-4626059BA593.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="200" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=feliznavidadF8BE94C4-504D-972B-25F5-4626059BA593.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="60" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Trifecta: Michigan Senate Passes Emergency Manager Bill </title>
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It really does suck to be a Michigander right now, because your Republican lawmakers apparently hate you &ndash; with a passion.
Let&rsquo;s see, in the span of less than one week, they have managed to pass a pair ofunprecedented union-busting bills&nbsp;&ndash; signed, sealed&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[feliznavidad]]></source><link>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/18/15997629-trifecta-michigan-senate-passes-emergency-manager-bill</link><guid>http://feliznavidad.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/18/15997629-trifecta-michigan-senate-passes-emergency-manager-bill</guid><category>labor</category><category>politics</category><category>michigan</category><category>republicans</category><category>democracy</category><category>abortion-rights</category><category>tgop</category><pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:38:11 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=feliznavidad14A8989C-E205-D516-2D4A-F863D40B552C.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="50" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=feliznavidad14A8989C-E205-D516-2D4A-F863D40B552C.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="15" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item></channel></rss>