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            <title><![CDATA[How DADT Was Repealed]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Today's historic vote to repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell was the result of a behind-the-scenes effort in which gay activists of all stripes banded together-and won the day. 
This afternoon 65 senators, including six Republicans, voted to repeal Don't Ask,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Don't Ask, Don't Tell Turncoats]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Conservatives swear by the army and the sanctity of marriage. Liberals, not so much. So why are the battle lines so confused over gays in the military? By Linda Hirshman. 
Yesterday afternoon, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced that the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[White Women Dump the Dems]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[According to Gallup polling data exclusive to The Daily Beast, white women are deserting the Democratic Party in droves. Linda Hirshman on where the disaffected voters are heading.
Downcast Democrats have generated a boomlet of optimism in the last...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Clinton Team Attacks Obama's]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Among the biggest critics of the Obama administration's approach to same-sex marriage: President Clinton's gay rights team. Linda Hirshman reports.
The Obama administration has less than 60 days to decide whether it wants to renew its vows to defend...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[This Candidate Is Bad For Women]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Carly Fiorina was one of a wave of GOP women to win the primaries. But anti-abortion, pro-Obamacare repeal candidates aren't what women need on Capitol Hill, says Linda Hirshman.
The talking heads were full of blather about the year of the woman after...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:39:48 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sexual Orientation and the Supremes]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Who cares whether potential high-court pick Elena Kagan is gay or not? Linda Hirshman on the stigma of calling someone a lesbian-and why it's time to appoint an openly gay justice. 
The blogosphere is alight with chatter about conservative scribe Ben...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Worst Governor for Women]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ It's hard enough for domestic-violence victims to speak up in the best of circumstances. That's what makes the allegations against Gov. Paterson so profoundly disturbing.
Reviewing the scandal-plagued record of the nation's governors Thursday...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Meet the Mini-Palins]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin may not be on the ballot this fall, but four candidates cast from her mold are mounting serious campaigns. They're youngish, attractive-and seriously pro-life. 
Longtime Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison got whipped on Tuesday in the Republican...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Bizarre Case Against Gay Marriage]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As the Prop 8 case draws to a close in California, lawyers defending the gay- marriage ban offer a scary argument: anyone who isn't marrying to have kids is out of bounds. 
The gay-marriage trial, which just closed in San Francisco, scared me to...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gay Marriage's Great Hope]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  The gay-marriage case now unfolding in a San Francisco courtroom may be the most important battle between tradition and modernity since the Scopes trial.
On the second day of the gay marriage trial, Harvard historian Nancy Cott testified that the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Gay Marriage Fiasco]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[New Jersey is the latest state to bail on same-sex marriage. Linda Hirshman on how the gay community's strategy is failing and why they're running out of options.
Facing certain failure, the sponsors of a bill to legalize same-sex marriage pulled it...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:20:32 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ladies Night on Capitol Hill]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Women hold the balance of power in the Senate health-care debate. But Linda Hirshman argues their influence is shakier than it seems.
Word from the Senate is that negotiations over health-care reform are going hot and heavy... in the Ladies Room.  Two...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Time to End Pantsuit-Gate]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[With viewers tuned into Palin's much-anticipated Oprah interview, Linda Hirshman explains the sexist double-standard at work over the fuss about the clothes the RNC bought her. Plus, view our gallery of Palin's fashion.
On Monday, October 20, 2008,...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:32:56 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Michelle Is Sliding]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As the first lady wades into the health-care debate, she's grappling with an 11-point drop in the polls. Linda Hirshman on why being first lady is harder than ever. 
Party giver Michelle Obama snagged the White House East Room for her soiree this...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:54:58 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Get Gay Marriage Off the Ballot]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The Maine gay-marriage initiative went down to defeat Tuesday. But the real tragedy is that it should never have been put to a vote in the first place.
I had hoped gay marriage would win out in Maine.  I even gave them a little money (thank you to...]]></description>
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