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		<title>The GOP&#8217;s Lady Problems</title>
		<link>http://aliciamenendez.com/2012/04/10/the-gops-lady-problems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 02:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From NBCLatino: Women do care about jobs and the economy. That’s actually why the GOP lost women voters when they went retrograde and spent political capital railing against contraception and reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. That’s how we ended up here. Republicans’ too-sharp pivot from contraception to the economy reveals they don’t understand— or naively hope voters [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aliciamenendez.com&#038;blog=3236815&#038;post=1258&#038;subd=aieise&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why is no one talking about gun control?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From NBCLatino: Even in the wake of the Arizona shootings — what should have been a pinnacle of support for restrictionist measures — Americans remained split on gun control: 46 percent said laws should be made more strict, 38 percent said they should be “kept as is” and 13 percent said they should be less [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aliciamenendez.com&#038;blog=3236815&#038;post=1254&#038;subd=aieise&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nostalgic for Super Tuesday 2008</title>
		<link>http://aliciamenendez.com/2012/03/06/nostalgic-for-super-tuesday-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Latina]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From my latest piece for NBCLatino.com: Many of the states that held primaries on Super Tuesday 2008 boasted large Hispanic electorates: Arizona, Colorado, California, Illinois, New Jersey, New Mexico, and New York. The Clinton and Obama campaigns, along with third party groups, led efforts that resulted in a surge in new citizenship and voter registration. And then, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aliciamenendez.com&#038;blog=3236815&#038;post=1250&#038;subd=aieise&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Romney, In Bad Company</title>
		<link>http://aliciamenendez.com/2012/02/21/romney-in-bad-company/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Latina]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From my new NBCLatino piece: Romney believes that he can call the DREAM Act a “handout” and sell Draconian immigration laws to those of us who are citizens by telling us that they only affect those of us who are not. He claims that he’s pro-legal immigration, just anti-illegal immigration, as though that clarifies the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aliciamenendez.com&#038;blog=3236815&#038;post=1247&#038;subd=aieise&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fotos: &#8220;Power Play&#8221; at CPAC 2012</title>
		<link>http://aliciamenendez.com/2012/02/16/fotos-power-play-at-cpac-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Latina]]></category>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>My Interview with Best Actor Oscar Nominee Demián Bichir</title>
		<link>http://aliciamenendez.com/2012/02/06/my-interview-with-best-actor-oscar-nominee-demian-bichir/</link>
		<comments>http://aliciamenendez.com/2012/02/06/my-interview-with-best-actor-oscar-nominee-demian-bichir/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Headlines]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stuff I Thought Everybody Knew About but I Was Wrong]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From NBCLatino: “I’m the one whose been always moving, moving, moving a lot,” Demián Bichir tells NBC Latino of his decision to leave Mexico and pursue acting in the United States. “Ever since I was a kid I couldn’t stand still.  They used to call me “Papa de Perro.” Bichir may be driven by that frenetic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aliciamenendez.com&#038;blog=3236815&#038;post=1235&#038;subd=aieise&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mitt’s Mexicanaissance</title>
		<link>http://aliciamenendez.com/2012/01/29/mitts-mexicanaissance/</link>
		<comments>http://aliciamenendez.com/2012/01/29/mitts-mexicanaissance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Latina]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From my new NBCLatino.com piece: Has Mitt Romney found his inner-Mexican? At last night’s Republican debate, as Romney and fellow front-runner Newt Gingrich sparred over immigration, Romney found refuge in his roots. “I’m not anti-immigrant,” Romney fired back against Gingrich. “My father was born in Mexico.” Just the day before, at a candidates’ forum, Univision’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aliciamenendez.com&#038;blog=3236815&#038;post=1231&#038;subd=aieise&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Electability As Much About &#8220;Where&#8221; as &#8220;Who&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://aliciamenendez.com/2012/01/24/electability-as-much-about-where-as-who/</link>
		<comments>http://aliciamenendez.com/2012/01/24/electability-as-much-about-where-as-who/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Latina]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[2012 elections]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From my new NBCLatino piece: While Republicans each claim the mantle of electability, determining who is most likely to beat Barack Obama is as much about the path to victory each party pursues as it is about the candidate they send down that path. The Obama brain trust has laid out five different yellow brick [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aliciamenendez.com&#038;blog=3236815&#038;post=1227&#038;subd=aieise&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Are Animal-Act Circuses Bad for Kids?</title>
		<link>http://aliciamenendez.com/2012/01/22/are-animal-act-circuses-bad-for-kids/</link>
		<comments>http://aliciamenendez.com/2012/01/22/are-animal-act-circuses-bad-for-kids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A thought provoking op-ed in The Miami Herald (written by a friend) highlights the animal cruelty prevalent in circuses that feature animal acts: Fear and deprivation are inherent in the training of circus animals. You will not see a circus animal act without sticks, whips, electric prods or bullhooks. Watch for them. They may not be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aliciamenendez.com&#038;blog=3236815&#038;post=1225&#038;subd=aieise&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>And&#8230; We&#8217;re Live! Power Play on Cristina Radio SiriusXM Channel 146</title>
		<link>http://aliciamenendez.com/2012/01/19/and-were-live-power-play-on-cristina-radio-siriusxm-channel-146/</link>
		<comments>http://aliciamenendez.com/2012/01/19/and-were-live-power-play-on-cristina-radio-siriusxm-channel-146/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m happy to share my first piece of big news for 2012: I&#8217;m co-hosting a new radio show on SiriusXM.  My co-host is the smart and funny Bettina Inclán, who was recently named Director of Hispanic Outreach for the RNC.  Our show airs on the newly launched Cristina Channel, named for Latina icon Cristina Saralegui and run by National Latino [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aliciamenendez.com&#038;blog=3236815&#038;post=1219&#038;subd=aieise&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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