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		<title>The Perils of Anonymity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leonard Pitts won a Pulitzer Prize for many good reasons. A recent column on the perils of newspapers offering anonymity to their readers is an excellent example of why Pitts is so good.
A newspaper offering anonymity (the Albuquerque Journal calls it &#8220;Speak Up) is the print equivalent of talk radio. It rarely adds anything of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jimbelshaw.com/2010/04/01/the-perils-of-anonymity/</link>
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		<title>Family Values Bondage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the family values political party comes a bondage/stripper/lesbian story. (No &#8230; really &#8230; bondage/stripper/lesbian &#8230; all on the expense account.
Politico reports:  
The Daily  Caller is standing by a story that was denounced by the Republican  National Committee on Monday highlighting the committee’s decision to  expense nearly $2,000 spent at a “bondage-themed” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jimbelshaw.com/2010/03/29/family-values-bondage/</link>
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		<title>Aggregation Tango</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I decided to take up blogging again (I know, I know, I&#8217;ve been MIA the last few days), I mentioned that I&#8217;d probably be doing a fair amount of aggregating, which is nothing more than an extension of what I do for (to?) friends. I come across stories and columns I think they might [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jimbelshaw.com/2010/03/28/aggregation-tango/</link>
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		<title>History Then and History Now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eric Zorn at the Chicago Tribune has collected a sampling of health reform doomsayers. It makes for interesting reading, especially when juxtaposed with Ronald Reagan&#8217;s view of Medicare way back when.
Zorn writes:
There&#8217;s a wonderful 1961 recording on the Internet (here,  with a transcript) of Reagan opposing a health care  program for seniors. Why? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jimbelshaw.com/2010/03/23/history-then-and-history-now/</link>
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		<title>School Board Heads Will Explode</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Susan Jacoby, writing in The New York Times, brings to mind Dave Sanchez, a retired teacher and administrator I have written about in the past in my Albuquerque Journal column.
Jacoby and Sanchez agree that on many occasions the single biggest obstacle to success in the classroom is the local school board. (Let us now pause [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jimbelshaw.com/2010/03/20/school-board-heads-will-explode/</link>
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		<title>The General Speaks, Unfortunately</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have long maintained that the last publicly acceptable form of bigotry is gay bashing. It is often quite ugly. But it takes a Marine Corps general to make it flat out weird.
A retired Marine general, living somewhere in an alternate universe, testifies before Congress. He tells senators that the Dutch Army  failed to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jimbelshaw.com/2010/03/20/the-general-speaks-unfortunately/</link>
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		<title>If Anyone Is Offended &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tom Cole lights a fire under a politician&#8217;s toes in today&#8217;s Journal ($sub. req.).
Bernalillo County Commissioner Michael Wiener e-mailed a joke to friends.
Here&#8217;s the joke:  &#8220;In a recent survey  requested by President Obama, African-Americans have proved to be the  most likely to have sex in the shower!
  &#8220;In the survey, carried [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jimbelshaw.com/2010/03/20/if-anyone-is-offended/</link>
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		<title>Duck Tape &#8230; Duct Tape &#8230; Well, I Thought I Knew</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone knows the answer, right. Everyone knows it&#8217;s &#8230; except maybe it&#8217;s not.
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		<link>http://www.jimbelshaw.com/2010/03/16/duck-tape-duct-tape-well-i-thought-i-knew/</link>
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		<title>Sister Rose Ann &#8212; MVP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s New York Times sports section, there appears a story that proves (again) that if you really want to you can buck any number of odds. The story concerns one Sister Rose Ann Fleming, the academic adviser for Xavier University.
The Xavier basketball team enters the NCAA tournament with a 24-8 record. Sister Rose Ann&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jimbelshaw.com/2010/03/16/sister-rose-ann-mvp/</link>
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		<title>The Red Badge of Baseball</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tinker to Evers to Twain to Crane. I like the sound of it. It&#8217;s got a nice rhythm.
Now that spring training is under way and we have left behind that time of year that the Washington Post&#8217;s Jonathan Yardley calls the &#8220;void,&#8221; I am happy to report that if you&#8217;re looking for even more reasons [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jimbelshaw.com/2010/03/13/the-red-badge-of-baseball/</link>
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