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		<title>Bieber and others like him deserve a fair trial in the court of public opinion</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paternity suits seem to be a new rite of passage for any male international headliner nowadays. Seventeen-year-old heartthrob and superstar Justin Bieber is the latest victim. A twenty year-old Los Angeles woman named Mariah Yeater is now claiming her three month-old baby, named Tristan, is her and Bieber’s lovechild following a thirty second tryst after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who is truly to blame for redistricting shenanigans in Arizona?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ashley Atkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cate Marquis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Janaca Scherer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jennifer Meahan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeremy Zschau a]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matthew Poposky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minho Jung]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[shenanigans in Arizona]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 2000, when it looked like the Florida recount was beginning to turn against them, the Republicans resorted to other means &#8211; in that case, legal intervention &#8211; to get the outcome they desired, and it worked. Bush v. Gore ended with a court-ordered halt to the Florida recount, and as a result, Bush became [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boxing world wants women to wear skirts; no reason required</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Officials from The International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) have stirred up some controversy recently by suggesting that Olympic female boxers may soon be required to wear skirts in the ring. Dr. Ching-Kuo Wo, the president of the association, has argued that it would help viewers tell the difference between male and female fighters. Because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Tis the season: the “war on Christmas” rears its ugly head</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Out of left field It is one of the less joyful aspects of the Christmas season: every year, conservatives find some excuse to charge liberals and government with conducting a “war on Christmas.” This year, the right could not even wait until Thanksgiving was over and done with to come up with an excuse to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bieber’s accuser’s claims cannot simply be dismissed without thought</title>
		<link>http://thecurrent-online.com/opinions/pt-cpt/biebers-accusers-claims-simply-dismissed-thought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Celebrity indiscretions are a fact of life and teen superstar Justin Bieber is the latest to discover this. It is true that Bieber is a teenage boy and teenage boys have impulses. Of course, that does not excuse the young woman, Mariah Yeater, who made the accusation. She was 19 when the alleged tryst took [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America’s death penalty is guilty of being unethical, as well as outdated, overused</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Counter Point Should capital punishment remain a part of the justice system? The case of the State of Georgia v. Troy Davis is like something out of a television crime drama. Unlike in a TV ending, though, the conclusion of Troy Davis’ story &#8211; his execution on September 21 by lethal injection &#8211; leaves more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fair and balanced: Media bias more even than some think</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Out of Left Field One of the most enduring concepts to have come out of the 2000 presidential election was the idea of media bias. While it may not have been a new concept, conservatives turned it into a buzzword in the fall of 2000 with their claims that the media was being unfair and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The death penalty is a practical and even necessary aspect of U.S. criminal justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lliu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Point Should capital punishment remain a part of the justice system? On September 21, 2011, the state of Georgia executed a man named Troy Davis, convicted years ago of murder. After the execution, some were shocked, some were saddened and all were sobered at the fate of a man whose guilt was in question. Whether [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No sense in delaying the inevitable, survivors should simply accept their fate</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[zombie apolocolypse]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Counterpoint &#160; How would you respond to a zombie apocalypse? &#160; So Z-Day has finally arrived, has it? The end of the world as we know it is quickly coming and now is the time to decide: fight the undead or give in and become one of them? What is there to fight for? The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The only thing we have to fear is still fear itself</title>
		<link>http://thecurrent-online.com/opinions/fear-fear/</link>
		<comments>http://thecurrent-online.com/opinions/fear-fear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Zschau</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[9/11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patriot Act]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thecurrent-online.com/?p=4808</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Out of Left Field In 1775, Benjamin Franklin warned against sacrificing liberty to achieve temporary security. During World War II, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt exhorted the American people not to succumb to the scourge of fear. In the novel “Dune” by Frank Herbert, a common axiom states that “fear is the mind-killer.” Fear is among [...]]]></description>
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