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	<title>Backbone America &#187; John Andrews</title>
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		<title>Long road to November</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/03/21/long-road-to-november/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Andrews in Print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2010 election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[caucuses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dan maes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jane norton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ken buck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scott mcinnis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Denver Post, Mar. 21) Political inexperience was the gold standard among 30 of my neighbors at a precinct caucus in Centennial last week.  Fellow Republicans viewed the 2010 contenders for senator and governor with the hard eyes of swindle victims or jilted lovers.  The less involved a candidate had been with our party’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business beware: Hick &amp; Ritter are faking</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/03/20/business-beware-hick-ritter-are-faking/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/03/20/business-beware-hick-ritter-are-faking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hickenlooper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ritter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[governor's race]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How convenient, now that Bill Ritter is no longer running for governor and John Hickenlooper is hoping to succeed him, Hick suddenly discovers after months of silence that the incumbent Democrat was &#8220;anti-business&#8221; in brutalizing the oil and gas industry last year and &#8220;crazy&#8221; in raising taxes during a recession this year.  Meanwhile the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>He painted the true Colorado</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/03/07/he-painted-the-true-colorado/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/03/07/he-painted-the-true-colorado/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Andrews in Print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ 
(Denver Post, Mar. 7) “Isn’t it pretty to think so?” mutters a world-weary American to his paramour at the end of a Hemingway novel.  The acid dismissal of love typifies suspicion of idealism in any form, a timeless temptation for humankind.  Hemingway gave his story a modern setting but borrowed its title, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No to corporate welfare in Aurora</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/03/05/no-to-corporate-welfare-in-aurora/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/03/05/no-to-corporate-welfare-in-aurora/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes & TABOR]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As the Aurora City Council prepares to vote on a highly questionable real estate subsidy Monday night, I have lent my voice to a robo-call opposing the deal.  Citizens for Responsible Aurora Government paid for the recorded message to 67,000 households on Thursday.  Here is the text of that message, along with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Students Turn Right: Hear the Podcast</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/03/05/students-turn-right-hear-the-podcast/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/03/05/students-turn-right-hear-the-podcast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Students]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s widely believed that America’s campuses belong exclusively to liberals, progressives, radicals, and worse.  Unfortunately that’s often true.  But it’s not the whole story.  Across the country, and right here in Colorado, some clear-thinking college students are going against the grain with a conviction that conservative ideas offer the best hope for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lamborn ranks #1 in House scorecard</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/02/28/lamborn-ranks-1-in-house-scorecard/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/02/28/lamborn-ranks-1-in-house-scorecard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the National Journal scorecard on which Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO5) tied for #1 among all congressmen in his conservative voting record.  Click for scorecard.
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		<title>Tax hikes slam Colo. economy</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/02/27/tax-hikes-slam-colo-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/02/27/tax-hikes-slam-colo-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HeadOn TV]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s folly for Colorado Democrats to raise taxes and then hope for job creation, says John Andrews in the February round of Head On TV debates.  But Susan Barnes-Gelt chalks up the state&#8217;s budget problems to TABOR and other constitutional provisions.  John on the right, Susan on the left, also go at it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TABOR suit assumes we&#8217;re sheep</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/02/20/tabor-suit-assumes-were-sheep/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/02/20/tabor-suit-assumes-were-sheep/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Andrews in Print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes & TABOR]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Denver Post, Feb. 21) Mobilize the militia.  Fire up the Humvee.  Get down the musket off the mantelpiece.  Boulder is preparing to invade Colorado. Yes, a lawyer from up in the progressive paradise says that your right to vote on taxes violates his constitutional entitlement to ever-increasing teacher salaries and NEA indoctrination [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sign the Mount Vernon Statement</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/02/20/sign-the-mount-vernon-statement/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/02/20/sign-the-mount-vernon-statement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservatism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Timely & Relevant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2010 elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contract with america]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mount vernon statement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By John Andrews
&#8220;We recommit ourselves to the ideas of the American Founding.  Through the Constitution, the Founders created an enduring framework of limited government based on the rule of law.&#8221; So begins the Mount Vernon Statement, an important and timely declaration of principles issued on Feb. 17 by the heads of 16 major conservative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bennet &amp; Obama: Misery Loves Company</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/02/07/bennet-obama-misery-loves-company/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/02/07/bennet-obama-misery-loves-company/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Bennet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jane norton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Romanoff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colorado Senate race]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s either pathetic or funny to see Sen. Michael Bennet desperately embracing President Obama for a Feb. 18 campaign event in Denver. (Read his manager&#8217;s breathless email below.)  The two out-of-touch liberal incumbents, each dropping like a rock, must hope they can defy gravity by holding hands.  
Bennet just fell further behind GOP [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pick up that pencil</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/02/06/pick-up-that-pencil/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/02/06/pick-up-that-pencil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Andrews in Print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizens united decision]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizenship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grassroots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legislature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political parties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Parties]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Denver Post, Feb. 7) “Both ends of the political spectrum are disgusting,” said reader Bill Hoppe in an email after my Jan. 24 column on bipartisan irresponsibility. “It becomes increasingly difficult to believe in our legislature at any level.” Deborah Kelly’s letter to the editor, published here on Jan. 31, was equally despairing: “I can’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I&#8217;m skipping &#8216;Avatar&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/02/04/why-im-skipping-avatar/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/02/04/why-im-skipping-avatar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Americanism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[academy awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[avatar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hollywood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[james cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberal media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oscars]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Avatar&#8221; with its leftist plotline, where capitalism and America are villains, is amusingly debunked by Mike Rosen in his Denver Post column today. Reviews in National Review, Weekly Standard, and Commentary did likewise. I&#8217;ll be skipping this overhyped dud.  
After posting the above on Twitter and Facebook a short time ago, I was informed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Brown can do for you</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/02/03/what-brown-can-do-for-you/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/02/03/what-brown-can-do-for-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HeadOn TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bill ritter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[haiti relief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[john hickenlooper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[massachusetts election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scott brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scott mcinnis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Massachusetts voters sent Democrats a severe warning with Scott Brown&#8217;s win for US Senator, says John Andrews in the January round of Head On TV debates.  But Susan Barnes-Gelt chalks up the outcome to a poor campaign on the other side and generalized disgust with the in-crowd.  John on the right, Susan on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Element R takes charge</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/01/22/element-r-takes-charge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Andrews in Print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2010 elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[era of responsibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[massachusetts election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scott brown]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Denver Post, Jan. 24) Why did Gov. Bill Ritter fold his reelection campaign?  Why is Sen. Michael Bennet so far behind in the polls? Why did Scott Brown win in Massachusetts?  Why is Barack Obama struggling to save his presidency, one year after taking office in triumph?  Because Americans have completely lost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bankruptcy for owner of Denver Post</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/01/16/bankruptcy-for-owner-of-denver-post/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/01/16/bankruptcy-for-owner-of-denver-post/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media critic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newspapers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dean Singleton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Denver Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MediaNews Group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newspaper bankruptcies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You have to read closely to see it, so elegant are the euphemisms, but the company that owns the company that owns the Denver Post is taking bankruptcy to get out from under $1 billion in loans it can&#8217;t repay. (&#8221;Pact lets Post&#8217;s owner cut debt,&#8221; Jan. 16.)  
I note this with sadness, not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why won&#8217;t GOP call jihad by name?</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/01/12/why-wont-gop-call-jihad-by-name/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jihad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christmas bomber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fort hood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jane norton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mike coffman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war on terror]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[David Petteys of Act for America, Denver chapter, and Michael Del Rosso of the Claremont Institute recently compared notes on the strange reluctance of Republicans running for office to identify our jihadist enemy in plain language.  Here is their exchange:
PETTEYS: Our friend Michael Del Rosso recommended that the following question be asked of every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rebound on the right?</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/01/09/rebound-on-the-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 03:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Backbone Radio]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This could be a big comeback year for conservatives.  I say &#8220;could.&#8221;  Clearly Republicans will benefit politically from Democrats in disarray, here in Colorado where Gov. Ritter is the first casualty, as well as in Washington where Obama, Pelosi, and Reid have wildly overreached. But GOP electoral gains don&#8217;t necessary mean the return [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imagine a better legislature</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/01/09/imagine-a-better-legislature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 03:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Andrews in Print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legislature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While others play the personality game of who succeeds Bill Ritter, let’s talk policy.  Imagine Colorado making itself so attractive to employers that we lead all 50 states in creating new jobs, instead of lagging in 20th place as we did in the decade past (our second-worst showing since 1890).  Imagine Colorado becoming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do tell: Who pushed Ritter out?</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/01/07/do-tell-who-pushed-ritter-out/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/01/07/do-tell-who-pushed-ritter-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media critic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ritter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kid-glove treatment by the Denver Post on Gov. Bill Ritter&#8217;s decision not to run again, makes me miss the Rocky Mountain News as never before.  And it increases my gratitude for the feisty skepticism still alive and well in talk radio and the blogosphere. 
In three days of coverage on the Ritter story by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coloradan of the Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Denver Post, Dec. 27) Remember those times when we thought the world had changed, but it hadn’t?  Eight years ago after jihadists attacked the US homeland, and again last year after America elected its first black president, the talk of “forever different” was soon quieted by life’s old patterns.  The world does not [...]]]></description>
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