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	<title>Larry Hayes - view from Ft. Wayne</title>
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		<title>Welcome to my world!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m the retired editorial page editor and columnist for the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, a former minister, high school and college instructor and activist.  I’m the author of Mental Illness and Your Town and Monday I’ll Save the World. My expertise lies in such fields as mental health and mental illness, juvenile justice,  education, racial [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.larryhayes.com/?p=135</link>
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		<title>Deficit Delusions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I just can&#8217;t get my head around it.&#8221; Dave was talking about the trillion dollar deficit. He blames Obama. Well, he wasn&#8217;t happy with Bush, either. He was against invading Iraq. Yes, he was even against invading Afghanistan, although &#8211; he grants &#8211; the Taliban had been harboring Islamic terrorists. He knows that was all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.larryhayes.com/?p=127</link>
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		<title>Bill Taylor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An old friend died the other day. Bill Taylor wasn&#8217;t just anybody either.  Not to me.  Not to the country. Indeed, his obit ran in The New York Times and other major newspapers. They told how he was a major civil rights attorney, starting his career with Thurgood Marshall, then head of the NAACP Legal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.larryhayes.com/?p=123</link>
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		<title>Champion for justice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An old friend died the other day. Bill Taylor wasn&#8217;t just anybody either.  Not to me.  Not to the country. Indeed, his obit ran in The New York Times and other major newspapers. They told how he was a major civil rights attorney, starting his career with Thurgood Marshall, then head of the NAACP Legal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.larryhayes.com/?p=121</link>
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		<title>When a child kills, Kosciusko County IN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When a child kills, in Kosciusko County I can only guess at the anger and the hurt a mother or father must feel when a son or daughter  takes the life of another person.   And what about the crime where the victim has been a family member? We read the news accounts and can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.larryhayes.com/?p=112</link>
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		<title>Not pills alone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was delighted to see it: The psychiatrist is on to something. Oh, I&#8217;ve been there before.  In various ways, in various formats, I&#8217;ve made the argument that it usually takes a lot more than drugs to help somebody who is suffering from anxiety, depression or wild mood swings. And if you&#8217;ve battled mental illness [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.larryhayes.com/?p=108</link>
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		<title>I Can &#8211; With Your Help</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;re Churchill. The Lufwaffe has been raining down bombs on London for days. For most Londoners, a stiff upper lip is no match for such terror. But you&#8217;re the Prime Minister. You stand before the House of Commons, shake your fist, and proclaim, &#8220;Never give up. Never give up. Never give up.&#8221; No, you&#8217;re not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.larryhayes.com/?p=106</link>
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		<title>Wages of America&#8217;s sin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Of course, I&#8217;m referring to America&#8217;s original sin, slavery.   Nothing more poignantly defines our history. That&#8217;s what I preached about last Sunday, honoring black history.   Civil rights has been a passion of mine all my adult life.   But in this sermon, I didn&#8217;t merely want to remind the congregation of the past, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.larryhayes.com/?p=99</link>
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		<title>Voodoo we love so well</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know who got the Haiti earthquake more wrong. Pat Robertson or Jeffrey Johnson Sr. The Rev. Johnson is the senior pastor at the megachurch Eastern Star in Indianapolis.    The Rev. Robertson is, well, every atheist&#8217;s religious  crackpot. Johnson was the by-God spellbinder who had the amen corner at Plymouth Church in downtown [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.larryhayes.com/?p=89</link>
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		<title>The poor ye drug</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wouldn&#8217;t say never. If family therapy hasn&#8217;t helped the child settle down, if the psychotherapy for him or her hasn&#8217;t turned things around, if vigorous exercise hasn&#8217;t lifted the depression &#8211; then I might say go ahead and try an antipsychotic drug for the child. But when you consider that over 300,000 kids in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.larryhayes.com/?p=85</link>
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