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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.11.5 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:32:35 GMT--><rss xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Home</title><link>http://tomhayden.com/home/</link><description></description><lastBuildDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:10:58 +0000</lastBuildDate><copyright></copyright><language>en-US</language><generator>Squarespace Site Server v5.11.5 (http://www.squarespace.com/)</generator><item><title>Letter to the LA Times</title><dc:creator>Tom Hayden</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:23:07 +0000</pubDate><link>http://tomhayden.com/home/2010/8/30/letter-to-the-la-times.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">416558:4575776:8726354</guid><description><![CDATA[I say, go Manny! Swing that bat where you are wanted.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://tomhayden.com/home/rss-comments-entry-8726354.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>In Support of California’s Initiative to Legalize Marijuana</title><dc:creator>Tom Hayden</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:16:20 +0000</pubDate><link>http://tomhayden.com/home/2010/8/30/in-support-of-californias-initiative-to-legalize-marijuana.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">416558:4575776:8722540</guid><description><![CDATA[I support the November ballot initiative because our country’s long drug war is a disaster and there is an alternative that is better for our health, safety and democratic process.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://tomhayden.com/home/rss-comments-entry-8722540.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Letter to the LA Times: Manny Pt. 1</title><dc:creator>Tom Hayden</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://tomhayden.com/home/2010/8/27/letter-to-the-la-times-manny-pt-1.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">416558:4575776:8730938</guid><description><![CDATA[I’m nothing but a recreational ballplayer and a retired state senator. I played in five Dodger fantasy camps and have watched every possible televised Dodger game for over 15 years; I have been boiling about two issues all season.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://tomhayden.com/home/rss-comments-entry-8730938.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Feds Have Been Hiding Evidence From Wiretap Courts In Their War on Gangs</title><dc:creator>Tom Hayden</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:47:33 +0000</pubDate><link>http://tomhayden.com/home/2010/8/27/feds-have-been-hiding-evidence-from-wiretap-courts-in-their.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">416558:4575776:8697095</guid><description><![CDATA[Federal prosecutors have used top leaders of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), known as the most violent gang in the US and Central America, as secret informants over a decade of murders, drug-trafficking and car-jackings across a dozen US states and several Central American countries. During that time period, prosecutors obtained more than 21 wiretap approvals, plus extensions, to investigate MS-13, failing to tell judges that the gang leaders were already in custody as informants—a possible violation of federal law.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://tomhayden.com/home/rss-comments-entry-8697095.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>The Mystic and the Machine: California's Young Governor</title><dc:creator>Tom Hayden</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:45:01 +0000</pubDate><link>http://tomhayden.com/home/2010/8/25/the-mystic-and-the-machine-californias-young-governor.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">416558:4575776:8673700</guid><description><![CDATA[It is quiet in Laurel Canyon where the modern houses are tucked away amidst trees and knolls. But things are whirling in his mind. Jerry Brown glances over at the shotgun in the corner, rises out of bed, and enters the shower. Sitting on the toilet he skims a page of Wittgenstein which had been left out on the sink.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://tomhayden.com/home/rss-comments-entry-8673700.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Despite WikiLeaks Revelations, Congress Votes for War Funding</title><dc:creator>Tom Hayden</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:37:44 +0000</pubDate><link>http://tomhayden.com/home/2010/7/28/despite-wikileaks-revelations-congress-votes-for-war-funding.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">416558:4575776:8387820</guid><description><![CDATA[Never was the case so weak for throwing another $33 billion into the Afghanistan sinkhole, but that’s what a defensive US Congress did anyway on Tuesday evening. The vote was 308-114, with Republicans supplying most of the pro-war votes.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://tomhayden.com/home/rss-comments-entry-8387820.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Whose Agent Is Angelina Jolie?</title><dc:creator>Tom Hayden</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:36:47 +0000</pubDate><link>http://tomhayden.com/home/2010/7/27/whose-agent-is-angelina-jolie.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">416558:4575776:8371418</guid><description><![CDATA[It's hard to watch Angelina Jolie's "Salt" without a fantasy stirring, a sense that the film bears too close a relationship to be accidental to the recent arrests and expulsions of the Russian sleeper spies. Whatever the origins of the movie, and fingerprints will be hard to find, it dramatizes the paranoid possibility that the Russians are plotting still, first to kill the Russian president at a New York funeral, then the American president in his bunker below the White House.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://tomhayden.com/home/rss-comments-entry-8371418.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Sherrod, Obama, and the Strength of Roots</title><dc:creator>Tom Hayden</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:02:41 +0000</pubDate><link>http://tomhayden.com/home/2010/7/22/sherrod-obama-and-the-strength-of-roots.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">416558:4575776:8334688</guid><description><![CDATA[How would members of the Obama administration have reacted to racist pressure from the Deep South in the early 60s? Would they have fired Justice Department civil rights monitors who antagonized hard-line segregationists?]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://tomhayden.com/home/rss-comments-entry-8334688.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>What Planet Are They On?</title><category>Afghanistan</category><category>The Long War</category><dc:creator>Tom Hayden</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:34:46 +0000</pubDate><link>http://tomhayden.com/home/2010/7/20/what-planet-are-they-on.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">416558:4575776:8315087</guid><description><![CDATA[President Obama’s pledge to “begin” withdrawals in July 2011 is rendered virtually meaningless by this weeks’ endorsement of  a 2014 timeline for Afghan troops to take  over their country’s security.  By then another 2,000 Americans could be dead and the cost of the war will reach one-trillion dollars.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://tomhayden.com/home/rss-comments-entry-8315087.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Rachel Maddow Misses Cronkite Moment on Afghanistan</title><category>Afghanistan</category><category>The Long War</category><dc:creator>Tom Hayden</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:34:42 +0000</pubDate><link>http://tomhayden.com/home/2010/7/20/rachel-maddow-misses-cronkite-moment-on-afghanistan.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">416558:4575776:8312483</guid><description><![CDATA[Rachel Maddow’s televised roadshow in Afghanistan ended last week with a one-hour personal interview with Richard Holbrooke, an “honor” she said. Maddow is very bright, witty, great in conversation, a pivotal person in the progressive community and among Democrats. But there was a potential Walter Cronkite moment in her interview, and Maddow passed on it.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://tomhayden.com/home/rss-comments-entry-8312483.xml</wfw:commentRss></item></channel></rss>