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		<title>Scandal at the IRS</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/05/scandal-at-the-irs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 11:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading a variety of reports about the allegations that the IRS singled out Tea Party tax exemption applications for extra scrutiny. So here are a few random observations, culled from those reports and accusations: 1) It&#8217;s worth noting that condemnation has been utterly bipartisan. Liberal blogs and Democratic commentators have been highly critical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And Now a Word from the Doctor</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/05/and-now-a-word-from-the-doctor/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/05/and-now-a-word-from-the-doctor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 23:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[gun regulations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[research]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m relinquishing my space today to my cousin the cardiologist. As he notes, it should be possible to legislate restrictions that will save lives without running afoul of the 2d Amendment. Unfortunately, in our current bipolar political environment, where every issue is painted in black and white &#8211;where complexity and shades of gray are &#8220;elitist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just a Cost of Doing Business</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/05/just-a-cost-of-doing-business/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/05/just-a-cost-of-doing-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 10:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indiana Supreme Court]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[punitive damages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ruling]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=4507</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Indiana Supreme Court has issued yet another unanimous ruling in a case that legal observers considered&#8211;at the very least&#8211;a close call. A few weeks ago, the Court upheld the use of the state&#8217;s educational voucher program to pay parochial school tuition, despite language in the Indiana Constitution that prohibits the payment of state dollars [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Blame Game</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/05/the-blame-game/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/05/the-blame-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 11:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[congress]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Party of No]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=4453</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I first began practicing law, there were still very few women in the profession. One of the very first to have broken the gender barrier was a local divorce lawyer who had become legendary (not in a good way) in the legal community. Whether she&#8217;d become embittered by barriers she&#8217;d faced, or was just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s My Question</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/05/heres-my-question/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/05/heres-my-question/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 11:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asthma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[autism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[big oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A study recently published in The Archives of General Psychiatry adds to a body of evidence linking the growing incidence of autism to early-life exposure to pollution. According to the study, children with autism are two to three times more likely than other children to have been exposed to car exhaust, smog, and other air pollutants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Struggling Against Impotence</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/04/struggling-against-impotence/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/04/struggling-against-impotence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine who lives in Wisconsin sent me a link to a story in his local paper, reporting on a study about hormone levels in the waterways.  &#8220;All over the country, chemicals known to disrupt or act like hormones seem to have permeated the waters and may be harming wildlife — or people. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This is a Test</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/04/this-is-a-test-2/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/04/this-is-a-test-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[background checks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whatever your position on the watered-down background check measure that failed yesterday for lack of a super-majority, you should be appalled by the ability of a  minority to block action desired by an overwhelming majority of the American public, and a clear majority of their representatives. If this were an isolated case, we could shrug [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Balance of Power</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/04/balance-of-power/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/04/balance-of-power/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 12:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[civic literacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[filibuster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[knowledge]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=4337</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Newtown parents have recently reminded us that ordinary citizens with a compelling story can move policy, even in Washington. They were able to do what even the President could not: prevent a filibuster by Republican Representatives intent upon blocking action. The filibuster threat wilted in the face of bereaved mothers and fathers&#8211;a different kind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just the Facts, Ma&#8217;am</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/04/just-the-facts-maam/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/04/just-the-facts-maam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comparative taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax burden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax rates]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=4330</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From the rhetoric routinely employed by politicians trying to curry favor with voters, you&#8217;d think Americans were struggling under a massive tax burden. You&#8217;d also think service delivery and taxation were unconnected&#8211;that we can all have our cake and eat it too. (Just ignore that decaying bridge&#8230;and by the way, it might be a good [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Rest of the Story</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/04/the-rest-of-the-story/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/04/the-rest-of-the-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fox]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Social Security Disability]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=4296</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, I noted that Fox News had actually had kind words to say about a piece run by NPR. I should have known that there was something wrong with that picture&#8211;and there was. In the wake of the NPR report, which addressed perceived overuse of the Social Security Disability program, there have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climate of Denial</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/03/climate-of-denial/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/03/climate-of-denial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gail Collins]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=4269</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As usual, Gail Collins says it all so much better than I could. Read it and weep.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Question of Professionalism</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/03/a-question-of-professionalism/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/03/a-question-of-professionalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[counselors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refusal to treat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tennessee]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=4218</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[First there were the laws that allowed pharmacists to refuse to fill prescriptions for legal medications that violated their religious beliefs. Now, Tennessee and several other states are considering legislation that would protect social workers and mental health professionals who turn away suicidal clients when those clients&#8217; &#8220;life styles&#8221; offend the provider&#8217;s religious beliefs. If [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Countdown</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/03/countdown/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/03/countdown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 11:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[countdown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-destruct sequence]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=4179</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Warning: if you are in a good mood, skip this post, because I&#8217;m finding it very hard not to be depressed by the constant reminders of of American institutional dysfunction. Everywhere you look, there are people who should know better engaging in self-defeating behaviors and magical thinking, fiddling while America burns. I&#8217;ve tried to examine the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fun with Trans-vaginal Probes&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/02/fun-with-trans-vaginal-probes/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/02/fun-with-trans-vaginal-probes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[erectile dysfunction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indiana legislature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trans-vaginal probes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=4118</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was only a momentary diversion, but yesterday the Indiana Senate debated a proposed amendment to the offensive bill requiring (among other things) that poor women wanting prescriptions for abortifacants undergo two trans-vaginal probes. Here&#8217;s the relevant language: &#8220;Before giving, selling, dispensing, administering, prescribing, or otherwise providing an erectile dysfunction drug to a man showing symptoms of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Quote of the Day</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/02/quote-of-the-day-3/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/02/quote-of-the-day-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 12:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[money]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=4072</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From Dick Lugar&#8217;s first address after leaving elective office, an observation worth pondering: Perhaps the most potent force driving partisanship is the rise of a massive industry that makes money off political discord. This industry encompasses cable news networks, talk radio shows, partisan think tanks, direct mail fundraisers, innumerable websites and blogs, social media and [...]]]></description>
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