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		<title>Getting Greg Boyle&#8217;s &#8220;Tattoos&#8221;&#8230;.to the Page</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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As you know, Father Greg Boyle&#8217;s wonderful first book &#8220;Tattoos on the Heart,&#8221; has just been published.  This means that, in addition to his quarter century of work with gangs,  LA&#8217;s most famous priest is now officially a writer.
Those who attend authors&#8217; panels at the LA Times Book Festival always seem to want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prisons, Kid&#8217;s Gladiator Fights &amp;  Jon Stewart on the Big Bank Swindle</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Mon &#8211; Thurs 11p / 10c


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		<title>The Boxer Blimp &amp; the Texas Textbook Turmoil On the Filter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Monday, night I was on KNBC&#8217;s The Filter, which has rebooted after hiatus.  The two topics were Carly Fiorina&#8217;s new political video, and about the conservative revisions to Texas&#8217;s text books&#8212;changes that may affect California&#8217;s school texts as well.
FIRST FIORINA: 
 In early February, Carly Fiorina-&#8211;the ex-Hewlitt Packard CEO who wants Barbara Boxer&#8217;s senate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protecting the Vile</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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The Supreme Court will be looking at the case involving the Westboro Baptist Church&#8212;a hate group so uttlerly disturbed that it parodies itself, with members who revile long list of their fellow humans, gays and Catholics, at top of the list.
The court will have to decide whether to protect this group&#8217;s speech under the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do the Tea &amp; Coffee Parties Avoid Prison Reform?</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/prison/2010/admin/why-do-the-tea-coffee-parties-avoid-prison-reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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The Tea Party Movement objects to big government.  
The newly-launched Coffee Party declares itself free of either party&#8217;s ideologies but to be guided by reason. (I&#8217;ll drink coffee to that.)
But, as Doug Berman points out at Sentencing, Law &#038; Policy, neither drink-related party seems to be interested in taking on one of the biggest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alan Grayson&#8217;s Public Option</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Last Wednesday, Florida Congressman Alan Grayson introduced H.R. 4789&#8212;the version of the public option. 
It would give any American the opportunity to buy into Medicare.
Here&#8217;s how the West Orlando News explains it:

The bill would require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish enrollment periods, coverage guidelines, and premiums for the program.  Because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rosa Maria Sanchez Gets Out Because of USC Law Student &#8211; UPDATED</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Rosa Maria Sanchez has been in prison for 23 years for a crime that she has always insisted that she did not commit.  Even the commissioner who presided over Sanchez&#8217; trial said her conviction had haunted him. &#8220;&#8230;it was one of the few times in my 59 years as a lawyer that I think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alex Sanchez:  Why Seal the Record?</title>
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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/arresting-alex-sanchez/2010/admin/alex-sanchez-why-seal-the-record/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arresting Alex Sanchez]]></category>

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Earlier this week Tom Diaz noticed something that I had overlooked with regard to the ongoing legal proceedings in the Alex Sanchez case.  
Back in January, if you will remember, after the 9th Circuit rapped Judge Manual Real on the knuckles for the way he earlier went about refusing Sanchez bail, Real granted Sanchez [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Setting New Education Standards Help?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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After a year of working, a panel of educators released a set of proposed common academic standards on Wednesday.  The panel&#8212;which published its work under the banner of Common Core State Standards Initiative&#8212;formed its standards at the direction of 48 state governors and commissioners (including California&#8217;s).
The panel&#8217;s proposal has been released &#8220;for public comment&#8221;&#8212;a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deadlines, Lost Dogs, Book Launches &amp; Many, Many Student Papers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[bears and alligators]]></category>

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The combination of the above has reduced me to a quivering puddle of exhaustion. (Particularly the lost, elderly wolf-dog&#8212;now thankfully found&#8212;who had me frantically hiking through neighbors&#8217; backyards with a flashlight Tuesday Monday* night, then driving around the area until 4:30 in the morning. The neighbors were nice enough not to shoot at me when [...]]]></description>
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