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				<title>Indie Emporium in Tulsa this weekend</title>				
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				 Artwork by Audrey Eclectic, copyright Heather Sleightholm  &amp;nbsp;The independent and local art/ fashion/craft show&amp;nbsp;INDIE EMPORIUM&amp;nbsp;is in Tulsa, Oklahoma this weekend, Friday and Saturday. It is at the VFW post on 6th Street. The doors open ...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:11:59 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Conde Nast shuts down two bridal magazines: good riddance!</title>				
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				First and foremost, it is never pleasant to hear that people are losing jobs; so the news yesterday that Conde Nast Publications is shutting down four magazines and about 180 people will lose their jobs is terribly disheartening. It is sad and madden...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:55:05 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Caster Semenya&apos;s gender identity and the illusion of a male/ female binary.</title>				
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				Maybe you all have heard the story of Caster Semenya, the South African runner who won the 800m gold medal at the world championships recently; she is amazing, and fast, and muscular, and doesn&apos;t wear her hair down when she runs. And, lo and behold, ...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:55:04 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Is young love destined to be unhealthy?</title>				
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				&amp;nbsp;There&amp;rsquo;s been much discussion recently of how Stephanie Meyer&amp;rsquo;s Twilight series paints an unhealthy image of romantic relationships, especially for the millions of young girls that devour the novels and the movies. Not to mention the...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:06:35 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Politics 101: Who are Oklahoma&#39;s US Senators?</title>				
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				Senator James &amp;quot;Jim&amp;quot; Inhofe is a Republican Senator from Oklahoma. He was born in Tulsa and served as mayor of Tulsa in the 1980s. A self-described conservative, his ideological pull toward &amp;ldquo;limited government, individual liberty, and ...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:52:46 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>New restaurant in Tulsa capitalizes on sex, not food</title>				
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				A new restaurant opened in south Tulsa in April called Twin Peaks. It&apos;s a regional chain that already has stores in Dallas, Austin, and Albuquerque, and it&apos;s billed as the main competition of Hooters.  The waitresses wear uniforms of khaki mini-short...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:03:38 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Pope Benedict XVI&#39;s new encyclical is leftist (?) commentary on global recession</title>				
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				The economy seems to be on everyone&amp;rsquo;s mind. Even the Pope&amp;rsquo;s.  Pope Benedict XVI released a new encyclical entitled &amp;ldquo;Charity in Truth&amp;rdquo; Tuesday, July 7, 2009, and it is a 144-page document linking the wrecked economy to a lack o...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:02:13 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Oklahoma&#39;s female prison population: A growing concern is gaining attention</title>				
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				The recent media&amp;nbsp;spotlight on female prisoners enduring sexual assault in northeast Oklahoma&amp;rsquo;s Delaware County jail are worrisome, to say the least. &amp;nbsp;Feminist bloggers across the country are rightly outraged at the allegations of abus...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:56:13 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Today in history: Civil Rights Act signed, 1964</title>				
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				On this day in 1964, the Civil Rights Act was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex as well as race in hiring, promoting, and firing.         The word &amp;quot;sex&amp;quot;...
				
				
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				<category>4th of July</category>
				
				<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:13:07 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Sally Kern blames gays, President Obama, divorcees and others for America&apos;s economic problems</title>				
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				 Oklahoma Representative Sally Kern, a 62-year-old Republican from the 84th district, has written a proclamation blaming America&amp;rsquo;s current economic problems on &amp;ldquo;abortion, pornography, same sex marriage, sex trafficking, divorce, illegitim...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:39:21 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Sam Mendes&apos; Away We Go is a hit thanks to charming refusal to marry</title>				
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				Away We Go is the latest movie by director Sam Mendes. Mendes is the Oscar-winning director of such movies as American Beauty and Revolutionary Road.  He is also, of course, the lucky husband of Kate Winslet.  But what Mendes has done with Away We Go...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:56:05 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Politicians&#39; extramarital affairs expose improbability of monogamy</title>				
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				  Rising star Republicans have had a series of ups and downs lately. First, there was the news of John Ensign, Republican senator from Nevada, having an extramarital affair with his campaign aide.&amp;nbsp; He was the fourth-ranking Republican leader in ...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:57:37 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Is there room for flaming feminists in Oklahoma?</title>				
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				I received my first mean comment today. Before I post the comment, I want to say it was in response to an article I wrote about the lack of non-princess girl leads in Disney/ Pixar movies (that&amp;rsquo;s in a very tiny nutshell; to read the whole artic...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:06:21 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Are we raising girls or princesses?</title>				
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				It&amp;rsquo;s no secret that Disney movies have historically preferred to feature male leads. See classics such as Peter Pan, Robin Hood, Lassie, Jungle Book, Bambi, Pinocchio, and The Lion King. And when females do enter the picture, they are almost al...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:13:56 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Tulsans plan vigil to honor Dr. George Tiller</title>				
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				TULSA, Okla., June 8, 2009 - Members of the Reproductive Health Coalition of Tulsa have scheduled a candlelight vigil and memorial service for the late Dr. George Tiller at 7:30 p.m., Monday, June 8, at Fellowship Congregational Church, 2900 S. Harva...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:59:45 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>DFest headliners not diverse as promised</title>				
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				I know it&apos;s a lot of hard work to put together a music festival as big and fun as Tulsa&apos;s DFest, but I am kinda disappointed with the line-up this year. I don&apos;t have much against the Black Crowes or Cake, but it just seems like for a festival called ...
				
				
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				<category>abortion</category>
				
				<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:45:40 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>On the death of Dr. George Tiller</title>				
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				Dr. George Tiller was killed today in his church, where he was an usher and his wife was singing in the choir.  I was so saddened by this story...maybe because it&apos;s so close to us here in Oklahoma. Or maybe because I felt so sorry for his family. Or ...
				
				
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				<category>abortion</category>
				
				<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 22:07:02 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>The importance of Sonia Sotomayor&apos;s Supreme Court nomination</title>				
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				I have been watching and waiting to see who Obama would pick for the new Supreme Court Justice ever since Justice David Souter announced that he would be retiring. So we have the nominee now, and she is Sonia Sotomayor. It has been really refreshing ...
				
				
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				<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 14:43:55 -0700</pubDate>
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