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		<title>Too young to understand politics?  No, not young enough.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While NYRA isn&#8217;t in the business of generational warfare, we have seen our share of artillery barrages from older generational warriors.  So now and then it doesn&#8217;t hurt to peak out from our trenches and fire back.  A fascinating new study gives us some nice ammo:
Political science professors Richard R. Lau of Rutgers University and David [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.youthrights.org/2008/06/17/too-young-to-understand-politics-no-not-young-enough/</link>
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		<title>Stop Child Abuse in Residential Programs for Teens Act of 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What should be NYRA&#8217;s and any other youth advocate&#8217;s top priority now is HR 5876 (read full text here) Take action on the Stop Child Abuse in Residential Programs for Teens Act of 2008 here.

Bill could give federal oversight to private clinics for children and would require FDA inspections
In a move that could have implications [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.youthrights.org/2008/06/12/stop-child-abuse-in-residential-programs-for-teens-act-of-2008/</link>
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		<title>MADD Thinks Only Responsible Adults Should Drink &#038; Drive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MADD just sent out the following e-mail to their supporters.  They want to give Grand Theft Auto (GTA) an adults only rating because it features the crime of drunk driving (apparently all the murder, car jacking and other crimes in it are just fine with MADD).  &#8220;Drunk driving is not a game and not a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.youthrights.org/2008/04/30/madd-thinks-only-responsible-adults-should-drink-drive/</link>
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		<title>MADD&#8217;s Drinking Age Strategy (or lack thereof)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night Instapundit picked up my appearance on Fox News a week or two ago:
SEVEN STATES THINKING OF LOWERING THE DRINKING AGE: They should. And the Federal government should get out of the business of trying to regulate state drinking ages, a subject of no legitimate federal concern whatsoever. it&#8217;s also telling that MADD wouldn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.youthrights.org/2008/04/19/madds-anti-drinking-age-strategy-or-lack-thereof/</link>
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		<title>Why Candice Lightner isn&#8217;t helping to prevent drunk driving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday morning, NYRA’s executive director, Alex Koroknay-Palicz, appeared on Fox News’s Mike and Juliet Show. Joining him in a panel discussion of the drinking age was Candice Lightner, founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Since most of the panel was unreceptive to the idea of a lower drinking age, Alex broached discussion of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.youthrights.org/2008/04/10/why-candice-lightner-isnt-helping-to-prevent-drunk-driving/</link>
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		<title>Why We Do It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why do we defend the rights of youth? Among the numerous reasons, we&#8217;ve had enough of the testimonials.
So many young people come to us with their accounts of their lives at home and school. To what many people would dismiss as dramatic teenage whining, we listen. Unlike everyone else in their lives, we take them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.youthrights.org/2008/03/29/why-we-do-it/</link>
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		<title>Are Women Inferior to Men?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting article critical of women.  Basically makes the case that women are crazy and inferior to men (and written by a woman to boot).  I find it interesting not because of the central argument of the article, but some of the evidence she provides and what implications it has for youth rights.
Depressing as it is, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.youthrights.org/2008/03/03/are-women-inferior-to-men/</link>
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		<title>Board of Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow is our primary here in Maryland, and other than the usual presidential candidate and delegates to pick out, it seems we are also to vote on Board of Education At Large.
I could look up information on these people, see what they promise to do. And I will. Just one problem. Really, I&#8217;m in no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.youthrights.org/2008/02/11/boe/</link>
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		<title>Meet NYRA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is a transcript of this video.
Politicians and public interest groups are always looking to protect youth. They have a long list of so-called bad guys that they believe are a danger to young people. Even if in all this, they ignore the very many actual dangers youth face every day. Maybe there are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.youthrights.org/2008/02/09/meet-nyra/</link>
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		<title>Youth Rights Hits National Op-Ed Pages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tom from SSDP gave me a head&#8217;s up about an excellent op-ed in the New York Times today written by Anya Kamenetz.  She basically makes the Epstein argument that we should create competency tests to grant rights to youth younger and in a more flexible fashion.  Specifically she mentions voting, drinking, and credit card ownership, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.youthrights.org/2008/02/06/youth-rights-hits-national-op-ed-pages/</link>
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