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		<title>Same sex marriage is legal in California (again)</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/07/same-sex-marriage-is-legal-in-california/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/07/same-sex-marriage-is-legal-in-california/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Equal Protection Clause]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Proposition 8]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[right to marry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today ruled that Proposition 8, amending the California Constitution by eliminating the previously determined right to same-sex marriage under California law, was unconstitutional under the United States Constitution. The decision was made on narrow &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/07/same-sex-marriage-is-legal-in-california/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Getting to know Mitt</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/07/getting-to-know-mitt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=17037</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[Note: Scroll to the right to see the latest poll numbers.] The more you learn about Mitt, the less you like him.]]></description>
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		<title>Proposition 8 ruling tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/06/proposition-8-ruling-tomorrow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[California Proposition 8]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=17021</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow, sometime around or before 10 am, west coast time, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will release its opinion regarding California&#8217;s proposition 8. I will go out on a limb and predict that the court will conclude that (i) &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/06/proposition-8-ruling-tomorrow/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The end of Wall Street?</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/06/the-end-of-wall-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=17005</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, we can hope. But there does seem to be a fundamental change going on. The full article is a must read. The crash four years ago was shocking enough to the financial class. But what is happening on Wall &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/06/the-end-of-wall-street/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Political quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/06/political-quote-of-the-day-162/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/06/political-quote-of-the-day-162/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chrysler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clint Eastwood]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Karl Rove]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=16996</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was, frankly, offended by it. I’m a huge fan of Clint Eastwood, I thought it was an extremely well-done ad, but it is a sign of what happens when you have Chicago-style politics, and the President of the United &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/06/political-quote-of-the-day-162/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Globalization quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/05/globalization-quote-of-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Such moral outrage is common among the opponents of globalization — of the transfer of technology and capital from high-wage to low-wage countries and the resulting growth of labor-intensive Third World exports. These critics take it as a given that &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/05/globalization-quote-of-the-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Punk economics</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/05/punk-economics/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/05/punk-economics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David McWilliams]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=16972</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The truth about events in Europe from David McWilliams of Punk Economics. Europe&#8217;s economy is increasingly run for the benefit of banks, with strong support from France and Germany, countries whose banks have large exposure to European sovereign debt. (via &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/05/punk-economics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Your tax dollars at work</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/04/your-tax-dollars-at-work-5/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/04/your-tax-dollars-at-work-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=16960</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The FBI is circulating a set of flyers purported to identify suspicious behaviors that indicates possible terrorist activities that therefore should be reported to the FBI by all good citizens.  The flyers are headlined &#8220;Communities Against Terrorism&#8221; and there are &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/04/your-tax-dollars-at-work-5/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Who is Mitt Romney? Really?</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/03/who-is-mitt-romney-really/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Rich]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=16937</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Frank Rich, writing in New York Magazine, has a great essay trying to decipher the true Mitt Romney. It is worth a full read. Excerpt: Even as the Republican Establishment continues to prop up Mitt, it remains in denial about &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/03/who-is-mitt-romney-really/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Good news for Obama</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/03/good-news-for-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=16941</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[US payrolls are up by 243,000 in January (vs. expected 150,000) and the jobless rate has dropped to 8.3% in January, the lowest level since February, 2009.]]></description>
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		<title>SOPA quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/02/sopa-quote-of-the-day-3/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/02/sopa-quote-of-the-day-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=16933</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;, the industry is fighting what amounts to a new popular culture. Unlike the old pop culture Hollywood dominated, this one is largely independent of the music, movie and broadcast industries. In fact, people who spend hours online instead of &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/02/sopa-quote-of-the-day-3/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How to break democracy</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/02/how-to-break-democracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is yet another example of the IP industry seeking to protect itself via secret agreements behind closed doors, thereby avoiding public input. This time it involves a trade agreement called the Trans Pacific Partnership.  Apparently a secret meeting between &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/02/how-to-break-democracy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Political quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/02/political-quote-of-the-day-161/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gail Collins]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=16918</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m not concerned about the very poor. &#8211; Mitt Romney, yesterday morning, during a CNN interview. To be fair, he followed up the above comment with the following: &#8220;We have a safety net there. If it needs a repair, I’ll &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/02/political-quote-of-the-day-161/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Flipper</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/01/flipper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<title>Dogs against Romney</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/01/30/dogs-against-romney/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here and here.]]></description>
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		<title>Better late than never</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/01/30/better-late-than-never/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally. Bowing to mounting evidence that austerity alone cannot solve the debt crisis, European leaders are expected to conclude this week that what the debt-laden, sclerotic countries of the Continent need is a dose of economic growth. A draft of &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2012/01/30/better-late-than-never/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Political quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/01/30/political-quote-of-the-day-160/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We need to let President Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, (audience boos) and my dear friend the chairman of the Democrat National Committee, we need to let them know that Florida ain&#8217;t on the table. Take your message of equality &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2012/01/30/political-quote-of-the-day-160/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Alt History</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/01/28/alt-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alternative history is a genre of media focused on the theoretical history that would have occurred had actual history not occurred.  What if the Confederacy had won? What if Nazi Germany had won? An excellent example of the genre from &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2012/01/28/alt-history/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Political quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/01/27/political-quote-of-the-day-159/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many right-wingers, Obama was a foreign object, whose unexpected entrance into the body politic activated their immune systems &#8212; hence the &#8216;birther&#8217; movement and other bizarre right-wing obsessions. Whether the right&#8217;s aversion to Obama constitutes classic racism is a &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2012/01/27/political-quote-of-the-day-159/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>1929-style income inequality</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/01/26/1929-style-income-inequality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nouriel Roubini argues that the United States faces massive income inequality which seriously threatens and already fragile economy. This reduces aggregate demand in the economy which holds down growth and employment. Related articles 5 Republican Lies About Income Inequality (alternet.org) &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2012/01/26/1929-style-income-inequality/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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