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		<title>White Supremacist With Ties To Neo-Nazi Groups Elected To Pennsylvania County GOP Committee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Republicans in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania have elected Steve Smith, a lifelong white supremacist with close ties to neo-Nazi groups and groups like Aryan Nations, to the county’s GOP Committee. The elections, which took place in late April, were certified by the committee two weeks ago, and Smith notified supporters of his victory last week by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/05/31/492796/white-supremacist-with-ties-to-neo-nazi-groups-elected-to-pennsylvania-county-gop-committee/</link>
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		<title>House Fails To Pass Sex-Selective Abortion Bill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On a 246-168 vote, the House of Representatives failed to pass Rep. Trent Franks&#8217; (R-AZ) bill to ban physicians from performing abortions based on a fetus’ sex. Republicans couldn&#8217;t garner a two-thirds majority, which was required to pass the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA) under the House&#8217;s suspension of rules. Rather than addressing inequality, PRENDA would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/05/31/493094/house-fails-to-pass-sex-selective-abortin-bill/</link>
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		<title>Neal Stephenson&#8217;s Hieroglyph Project and Relationships and Technology in Science Fiction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reading through Annalee Newitz&#8217;s piece in last month&#8217;s Smithsonian about Neal Stephenson&#8217;s efforts to create a more optimistic science fiction in the wake after reading Emily Nussbaum&#8217;s piece on Community and Doctor Who in the New Yorker, and the combination struck me. The thing that I&#8217;m most interested in seeing in my science [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2012/05/31/492652/neal-stephensons-hieroglyph-project-and-relationships-and-technology-in-science-fiction/</link>
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		<title>CHART: Millionaires Don&#8217;t Leave States Due To High Taxes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A favorite conservative myth is that raising taxes on millionaires at the state level will chase those millionaires away to other states. That was the rationale Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) used to justify vetoing a millionaires surtax&#8230;twice. However, the data doesn&#8217;t back up that claim. Steve Roth at Angry Bear used this chart showing that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/05/31/493055/chart-millionaires-states-taxes/</link>
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		<title>Detroit&#8217;s Prospects May Be Better Than We Think</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Kaid Benfield, via NRDC&#8217;s Switchboard As almost everyone knows, Detroit is a city with some serious problems.  But, as I have written before, it&#8217;s more complicated than some pundits allow:  while it is true that the central city has been famously &#8221;shrinking,&#8221; its suburbs have actually been growing in recent decades.  Looking at Detroit the region [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/05/31/492435/detroits-prospects-may-be-better-than-we-think/</link>
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		<title>REPORT: Anti-LGBT Murders Increased In 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs has released its yearly assessment of hate violence (PDF) against people who are LGBTQ or HIV-affected, and though rates of violence declined by 16 percent in 2011, the number of murders increased to 30, the highest total ever documented. It&#8217;s possible, of course, that there was not an actual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/05/31/493059/hate-violence/</link>
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		<title>Report: Majority Of Israeli Defense Chiefs Oppose Attack On Iran</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Among Israel&#8217;s former top security officials, a growing consensus has emerged over the past several months that a military strike on Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities would be counterproductive to Israeli interests. Yesterday, former Israeli spy chief Meir Dagan emphasized that point, telling an audience that &#8220;a strike could accelerate the procurement of the bomb&#8221; and &#8220;provide [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/05/31/492897/report-majority-of-israeli-defense-chiefs-oppose-attack-on-iran/</link>
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		<title>NEW DATA: Elections Supervisors Throughout Florida Confirm U.S. Citizens Improperly Included In Voter Purge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Gov. Rick Scott&#8217;s (R-FL) administration distributed its controversial lists of possible non-citizen voters last month, state statute required the state&#8217;s 67 county supervisors of elections to send out letters requiring those voters to prove their eligibility to vote within 30 days &#8212; a window that will end in the next couple of weeks in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/05/31/492395/elections-supervisors-confirm-errors-voter-purge-florid/</link>
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		<title>One-Third Of Women Say There Is A &#8216;Wide-Scale Effort&#8217; To Limit Reproductive Health Choices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new poll shows that 31 percent of women say there is a &#8220;wide-scale effort to limit women’s reproductive health choices and services,&#8221; according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. And after the controversy over expanding access to contraception and attacks against Planned Parenthood, 42 percent of women polled said they had taken action on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/05/31/492992/one-third-of-women-say-there-is-a-wide-scale-effort-to-limit-reproductive-health-choices/</link>
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		<title>Occupy Protestors Convince City Of Buffalo To Move Its Money From JP Morgan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Buffalo News reports that Occupy Buffalo protesters have convinced city officials to move $45 million out of an account with JP Morgan Chase, and to transfer the money to First Niagara Financial Group. &#8220;Not only will the funds earn more interest with First Niagara, a major local employer headquartered in Buffalo, but it also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/05/31/492994/occupy-buffalo-move-money/</link>
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		<title>Intermission</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The bridge is yours. -Super, super excited for the debut of This Was Television, a historical TV blog. -The first primetime schedule, from 1946. I would totally watch the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports and Serving Through Science. -Nitsuh Abebe has a playlist to get you through to the end of the week. -Bad dating advice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2012/05/31/492980/intermission-205/</link>
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		<title>DOMA Opinion Analysis: Why Judge Michael Boudin Is Just Like 50 Cent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Alyssa Rosenberg observed recently, America&#8217;s struggle for marriage equality has now reached the stage where people who still harbor anti-gay sentiments are coming to terms with gay couples&#8217; right to equality. Alyssa writes on pop culture, so she spotted this trend in an interview where rapper 50 Cent simultaneously endorsed marriage equality and revealed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/05/31/492912/doma-opinion-analysis-why-judge-michael-boudin-is-just-like-50-cent/</link>
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		<title>Money Where Their Mouths Are Not: Leading Companies Contradict Own Actions on Climate Science, Policy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Half of Reviewed Companies Misrepresented Climate Science Despite Publicly Expressing Concerns Union of Concerned Scientists news release Many of the country’s leading companies have taken contradictory actions when it comes to climate change science while pumping a tremendous amount of resources into influencing the discussion, according to an analysis released today by the Union of Concerned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/05/31/492837/money-where-their-mouths-are-not-leading-companies-contradict-own-actions-on-climate-science-policy/</link>
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		<title>Catholic Cardinal Authorized $20K To Pay Off Pedophile Priests, Then Railed Against &#8216;Immorality&#8217; Of Gay Marriage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cardinal Timothy Dolan has led the charge against same-sex marriage, describing gay and lesbian unions as “unjust,&#8221; &#8220;immoral,” and unnatural. &#8220;This is a very violation of what we consider natural law that’s embedded in every man and woman and we’re really worried as Americans that it’s going to be detrimental to the common good,&#8221; Dolan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/05/31/492898/catholic-archbishop-railed-against-immorality-of-gay-marriage-but-authorized-20k-to-pay-off-pedophile-priests/</link>
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		<title>Report: &#8216;It Has Been Difficult&#8217; To Differentiate Romney&#8217;s Foreign Policy From Obama&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mitt Romney&#8217;s foreign policy is in tatters. His &#8220;quite far to the right&#8221; advisers are divided. The candidate has a tendency to needlessly &#8220;hyperbolize&#8221; his rhetoric and his positions on national security issues are often confusing and incoherent &#8212; which may explain why some GOP foreign policy experts aren&#8217;t hurrying to endorse Romney or why [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/05/31/492892/romney-obama-foreign-policy/</link>
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		<title>40 Percent Of Workers Report Having Their Benefits Reduced In The Last Five Years</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a survey conducted by the non-profit National Endowment for Financial Education, 40 percent of workers have seen their benefits reduced in the last five years. 72 percent of those who experienced benefit cuts reported that their health care was the hardest hit. 25 percent of respondents said that their company &#8220;cut back on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/05/31/492915/benefits-cuts-workers/</link>
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		<title>Meet The Families Fighting For Marriage Equality In Illinois</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week, Lambda Legal and the ACLU announced they were filing suits on behalf of 25 couples arguing that same-sex marriage should be legal under the state constitution of Illinois. The challenge will in many ways parallel the case that led to the neighboring Iowa Supreme Court to rule in favor of marriage equality in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/05/31/492910/meet-the-families-fighting-for-marriage-equality-in-illinois/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;The No. 1 Ladies&#8217; Detective Agency,&#8217; &#8216;The Unusuals,&#8217; and TV&#8217;s Obsession With Murder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a kickoff to summer, I decided to finish up The No. 1 Ladies&#8217; Detective Agency, HBO&#8217;s adaptation of Alexander McCall Smith&#8217;s series of a Botswanan female detective named Precious Ramotswe starring Jill Scott. It&#8217;s a totally charming show, and both its tone and content are incredibly different from anything else on television, which makes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2012/05/31/492609/the-unusuals/</link>
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		<title>In Northern Africa, Climate Change Could Make A Current Refugee Crisis Even Worse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Alice Thomas I’m sitting in the mayor’s office in Abala, a town of about 10,000 people in Niger, West Africa. Niger is the poorest of the nine countries that comprise the Sahel, a belt that stretches across northern Africa from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea bounded by the Sahara desert to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/05/31/492382/northern-africa-climate-change-refugee-crisis/</link>
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		<title>Oklahoma Doctor Refuses To Provide Rape Victim With Emergency Contraception</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An Oklahoma emergency room doctor refused to provide emergency contraception to a 24-year-old female rape victim because the doctor said it went against her personal beliefs. The hospital was also unable to provide the victim with a rape kit, because they had no appropriate nurse on staff to administer the test. According to the victim&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/05/31/492878/rape-victim-refused-emergency-contraception-in-oklahoma/</link>
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