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	     	<title><![CDATA[Propaganda victory for 9/11 mastermind]]></title>
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	     	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - For late-19th-century anarchists, terrorism was the "propaganda of the deed." And the most successful propaganda-by-deed in history was 9/11 - not just the most destructive, but the most spectacular and telegenic.
Now its self-proclaimed a]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:23:29 -0500</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Press justice for Sikhs]]></title>
	     	<link>http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/opinion/editorials_columns/guest_columnists/press_justice_for_sikhs?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit next week reflects the strong relations between our two nations. But it should not be lost that his visit coincides with the 25th anniversary of the Sikh genocide in India.
In November 1984 thousands of Sikhs]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:23:07 -0500</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Letters to the Editor - 11/20/2009]]></title>
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	     	<description><![CDATA[Day of reckoning
Editor: Missing from the Times-Tribune's recent coverage of school employee pensions is the perspective of the employees themselves.
Funding for the Public School Employees' Retirement System is supposed to be a partnership - the employe]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:22:36 -0500</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Hold hearings on lobbying]]></title>
	     	<link>http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/opinion/hold_hearings_on_lobbying?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[State lawmakers and regulators consistently have fallen short of their long-ago promise to make casino gambling in Pennsylvania completely transparent.
State regulation has been marked by internecine warfare between state agencies, after-the-fact revelat]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:22:13 -0500</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Tax collector already taxed]]></title>
	     	<link>http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/opinion/tax_collector_already_taxed?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[Throughout the private and public sectors, managers must deal with the reality of smaller work forces. It is extraordinary that Scranton Tax Collector-elect Bill Courtright, amid the global financial chaos that has driven the official regional unemployme]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:21:49 -0500</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Unconstitutional prognosis]]></title>
	     	<link>http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/opinion/editorials_columns/national_columnists/unconstitutional_prognosis?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[PHOENIX - In 2006, long before there was an Obama administration determined to impose a command-and-control federal health care system, a young orthopedic surgeon walked into the Goldwater Institute here with an idea. 
The institute, America's most poten]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:40:44 -0500</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Rehab quality rental housing to stabilize neighborhoods]]></title>
	     	<link>http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/opinion/rehab_quality_rental_housing_to_stabilize_neighborhoods?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[Now that the $8,000 homebuyer tax credit has been extended, it's time for Congress and the president to move quickly on another front - providing resources to develop rental housing for low-income Americans.
Congress is considering a proposal from the De]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:46:17 -0500</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Hate an effective literary agent]]></title>
	     	<link>http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/opinion/editorials_columns/national_columnists/hate_an_effective_literary_agent?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[I saw the other day that George W. Bush is raising money for his proposed policy institute at Southern Methodist University. 
I did some research and found out that there are something like 3,000 policy institutes, most of them hosting convocations abo]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:44:39 -0500</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Blakely woman kept WWII soldiers connected to home]]></title>
	     	<link>http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/opinion/editorials_columns/christopher_j_kelly/blakely_woman_kept_wwii_soldiers_connected_to_home?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA["We make our friends; we  make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbor."  G.K. Chesterton, 1874-1936 
They were just boys, young, hungry souls who would not be afforded the luxury of becoming men in their own time. 
Most had never traveled more]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:05:04 -0500</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Civility rarely political staple]]></title>
	     	<link>http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/opinion/editorials_columns/national_columnists/civility_rarely_political_staple?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - Growing concern about incivility is one of America's more appealing trends. Increasingly, individuals and institutions are seeking ways to burnish the Golden Rule. 
The concern isn't new - professor P.M. Forni started the Johns Hopkins Civil]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:44:14 -0500</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Ex-assistant DA polling, may run for state Senate]]></title>
	     	<link>http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/opinion/editorials_columns/roderick_random/ex-assistant_da_polling_may_run_for_state_senate?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[Former Lackawanna County Assistant District Attorney Kathleen Granahan Kane is considering a run for public office, including a possible Democratic primary election challenge next spring to state Senate Minority Leader Robert J. Mellow.
Mrs. Kane confirm]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:10:18 -0500</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Medicalizing mass murder]]></title>
	     	<link>http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/opinion/editorials_columns/national_columnists/medicalizing_mass_murder?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - What a surprise - that someone who shouts "Allahu Akbar" (the "God is great" jihadist battle cry) as he is shooting up a room of American soldiers might have Islamist motives. It certainly was a surprise to the mainstream media, which spent]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:10:59 -0500</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Supermajority arrayed against Doherty offers great theater;  but what of government?]]></title>
	     	<link>http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/opinion/editorials_columns/christopher_j_kelly/supermajority_arrayed_against_doherty_offers_great_theater_but_what_of_government?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[Batman would rather see Gotham City razed than admit it, but without the Joker, he'd be just another middle-aged misanthrope acting out his rage fantasies in latex pajamas.
Without Lex Luthor, Superman probably would have bolted Metropolis for Vegas, ope]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 20:22:25 -0500</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Hot air; no hurricanes]]></title>
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	     	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - Intelligent people agree that, absent immediate radical action regarding global warming, the human race is sunk. That is a tautology because those who do not agree are, definitionally, unintelligent.
Britain's intelligent Prime Minister Gor]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 18:14:16 -0500</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Moyle takes high percentage of low turnout]]></title>
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	     	<description><![CDATA[It all went according to Moyle.
Assistant District Attorney Margie Bisignani Moyle's solid victory over fellow Assistant District Attorney Frank Castellano came off much as expected, but it wasn't the kind of dominant win you might expect in a county whe]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 18:02:07 -0500</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Tuesday shows '08 to be fluke]]></title>
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	     	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - Sure, Election Day 2009 will scare moderate Democrats and make passage of Obamacare more difficult. Sure, it makes it easier for resurgent Republicans to raise money and recruit candidates for 2010. But the most important effect of Tuesday's]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 19:46:32 -0500</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Reject 'thuggish liberalism']]></title>
	     	<link>http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/opinion/editorials_columns/national_columnists/reject_thuggish_liberalism?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[SEATTLE - Conservatives here, a droll minority, say that under this city's quota system, when a conservative enters the city, one here is required to leave. 
They also say Washington is actually two states: There is what you can see from atop this city's]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 17:24:36 -0500</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Bond between pets and owners is stronger than death]]></title>
	     	<link>http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/opinion/editorials_columns/christopher_j_kelly/bond_between_pets_and_owners_is_stronger_than_death?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA["Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in."
- Mark Twain, 1835-1910
She looked so peaceful.
I know everyone says that at funerals, but it was true. She lived a long, full life and although those who gathered]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:10:38 -0400</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Good stories key to survival]]></title>
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	     	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - Each time another report surfaces about the decline of newspapers, I feel like a death row inmate counting the warden's footsteps.
The latest echo of doom arrived a few days ago: U.S. newspaper circulation dropped 10 percent from April throu]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:25:33 -0400</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Letters to the Editor - 10/31/2009]]></title>
	     	<link>http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/opinion/letters/letters_to_the_editor_-_10_31_2009?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[Mudslinger
Editor: State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, R-Butler County, made a recent tirade in response to an invitation to meet with the Operation Free Veterans. It is totally unacceptable.
The party of Abe Lincoln has always been very supportive of members of]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:01:20 -0400</pubDate>
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