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		<title>Health Care, Crack, Housing, &amp; $$ 4 Hemet Attacks Info</title>
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WHY WE REFORM
As the drama of the health care reform bill enters its final act, presumably on its way to passage,  in Friday&#8217;s NY Times Paul Krugman reminds us why reform, imperfect though it may be, is so crucial.
&#8230;As it happens, Reuters published an investigative report this week that powerfully illustrates the vileness of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rosa Sanchez Released&#8230;..and Deported</title>
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If you&#8217;ll remember, Rosie Sanchez owned a clothing store in downtown LA.  In 1985, a fire at the store of one of her competitors killed the owner&#8217;s father, who was spending the night in the store.  Although Sanchez reportedly had a list of four alibi witnesses plus other indications that she was not, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teenagers, Sexting, Online Threats, and the Law</title>
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In a couple of cases this week, sanity has prevailed.  (And lord knows we need some sanity on the national scene these days.  Read on, my dears:

TEENAGE SEXTING AND PORN
 This one  does a kinda Double McTwist 12, legally speaking.
It involves the first criminal &#8220;sexting&#8221; case to reach a federal appeals court. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Greg Boyle&#8217;s &#8220;Tattoos&#8221;&#8230;.to the Page</title>
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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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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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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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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>
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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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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>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/national-politics/2010/admin/alan-graysons-public-option/</link>
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		<title>Rosa Maria Sanchez Gets Out Because of USC Law Student &#8211; UPDATED</title>
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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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