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	<title>Backbone America &#187; John Andrews</title>
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	<description>Rallying citizens to shoulder personal responsibility and restore consitutional government.</description>
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		<title>How free are we really?</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2012/01/29/how-free-are-we-really/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Denver Post, Jan.29) So now we’ve heard the State of the Union according to Obama and the State of the State according to Hickenlooper. We’ve seen Gingrich’s debating prowess and Romney’s tax returns, Santorum’s sweaters and Ron Paul’s scowl. But how much does that really tell us about the shape America is in? If we’re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Candidates in stark contrast</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2012/01/18/candidates-in-stark-contrast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama&#8217;s goals and record will make a stark contrast with those of Mitt Romney or whoever the GOP nominates, says John Andrews in the January round of Head On TV debates. Hardly, scoffs Susan Barnes-Gelt: Romney&#8217;s positions are vague and the overall Republican field is weak. John on the right, Susan on the left, also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My 2012 survival kit</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/12/31/my-2012-survival-kit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Denver Post, Jan. 1) “Let us eat and drink,” said the beautiful people at last night’s glittering parties, “for tomorrow we shall die.” Maybe they thought their insouciance fitting as 2011 ticked away, but they could not have thought it original. It was Obama’s favorite economist, John Maynard Keynes, the original Mr. Stimulus, who remarked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2011 valedictions &amp; 2012 predictions</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/12/18/head-on-dec2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 02:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fantasy presidential nominations for Ross Perot, Olympia Snowe, and John Hickenlooper, along with bouquets for Douglas County school vouchers and brickbats for the Denver police, enliven the air waves this month as Head On completes its 15th year on Colorado Public Television. John Andrews on the right and Susan Barnes-Gelt on the left offer their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Show some backbone</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/11/28/show-some-backbone/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/11/28/show-some-backbone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Denver Post, Nov. 27) “Thanksgiving and Christmas 2011, now those were tough times. The House and Senate couldn’t agree on raising taxes. Denver and Aurora couldn’t agree on the Stock Show. Democrats couldn’t get excited about Obama. Republicans couldn’t get excited about anyone. It was grim, I tell you. Worse than 1933, with unemployment over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disgusted with the Occupiers</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/11/11/disgusted-with-the-occupiers/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/11/11/disgusted-with-the-occupiers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 03:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Occupy movement is a childish tantrum that is taking on Brownshirt overtones, says John Andrews in the November round of Head On TV debates. Wrong, replies Susan Barnes-Gelt: it&#8217;s an authentic protest widely echoing that famous movie line, &#8220;Mad as hell.&#8221; John on the right, Susan on the left, also go at it this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Road to 2020</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/10/30/the-road-to-2020/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 14:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Denver Post, Oct. 30) In a year and a week, we’ll know who Americans want for president. Anybody who claims much certainty about it until then is howling at the moon. I have no prescience about the race, other than to implore my fellow Republicans against over-confidence in the face of Obama’s potent incumbency and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vote no on Proposition 103</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/10/17/vote-no-on-proposition-103/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/10/17/vote-no-on-proposition-103/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes & TABOR]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a no-vote on Prop 103, and so should you be. The ballot issue raising Colorado&#8217;s income tax rate and sales tax rate for the next five years (ostensibly to fund education, but with no guarantee of doing so), is but the latest effort by the spending lobby to avoid hard choices about reining in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vote Republican in local races on Nov. 1</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/10/17/vote-republican-in-local-races-on-nov-1/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/10/17/vote-republican-in-local-races-on-nov-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[centennial city council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[denver school board]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[douglas county school board]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jefferson county school board]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the wrong-headed Colorado statute barring party affiliations from the ballot in local elections, we all know it matters a lot whether any office in the land, high or low, is held by a Democrat or a Republican. Democrats generally favor government solutions, unions, collectivist approaches, taxes and spending. Republicans are more generally skeptical of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Class warfare won&#8217;t work</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/10/13/class-warfare-wont-work/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/10/13/class-warfare-wont-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 02:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama&#8217;s class warfare theme, learned from Alinsky and abetted by the Occupy Wall Street movement, won&#8217;t save him in 2012, says John Andrews in the October round of Head On TV debates. Don&#8217;t underestimate its Main Street appeal, replies Susan Barnes-Gelt. John on the right, Susan on the left, also go at it this month [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democrats vs. democracy</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/09/25/democrats-vs-democracy/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/09/25/democrats-vs-democracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 02:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Denver Post, Sept. 25) Why are the Democrats so afraid of democracy? Do they worry that the will of the people won’t go their way? So it would seem. Several Colorado court cases illustrate the pattern. The Fenster suit to annul the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, the Lobato suit to increase education spending, and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hick &#8217;16? Zip, zero, zilch</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/09/21/hick-16-zip-zero-zilch/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/09/21/hick-16-zip-zero-zilch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 04:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Hickenlooper needs to accomplish a thing or two as governor before floating his 2016 trial balloon for president, scoffs John Andrews in the September round of Head On TV debates. Why not, replies Susan Barnes-Gelt, since America loves quirky, and Hick is quirk personified. John on the right, Susan on the left, also go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Color us red in 2012?</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/08/28/color-us-red-in-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/08/28/color-us-red-in-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 21:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Denver Post, Aug. 28) I wish Tom Tancredo was Governor of Colorado. I wish Scott McInnis was. Heck, I wish the ill-starred Dan Maes was governor. Any Republican, any conservative, rather than the limousine liberal Democrat we’re stuck with, John Hickenlooper. Whence these idle fantasies? Not heat stroke from recent egg-frying temperatures. Not oxygen deprivation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hang onto your wallet</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/08/23/hang-onto-your-wallet/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/08/23/hang-onto-your-wallet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 02:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coloradans had better brace to fend off the same bad idea as President Obama wants to impose nationally: higher taxes, warns John Andrews in the August round of Head On TV debates. No, replies Susan Barnes-Gelt, the idea is a good one and indeed doesn&#8217;t go far enough. John on the right, Susan on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Responsibility movement grows</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/07/23/responsibility-movement-grows/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/07/23/responsibility-movement-grows/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 21:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Denver Post, July 24) Will Barack Obama go the way of Jimmy Carter, and lose reelection after demonstrating weak leadership in a troubled economy? One Coloradan with a keen nose for the political wind signaled last week that he thinks it might happen. Gov. John Hickenlooper told a reporter the president would “have a hard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obamacare worse and worse</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/07/17/obamacare-worse-and-worse/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/07/17/obamacare-worse-and-worse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 02:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HeadOn TV]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Conflicts of interest may discredit Colorado&#8217;s newly formed health insurance exchange, worries Susan Barnes-Gelt in the July round of Head On TV debates. Look closer and you&#8217;ll see the exchange concept itself is pure corporate statism, replies John Andrews, adding this is one more reason Obamacare must go. John on the right, Susan on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another American century?</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/07/17/another-american-century/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 20:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By John Andrews Will the USA be around to celebrate 2076? Or will America&#8217;s goodness and glory be but a sad memory to our grandchildren? Historians warn that great nations undo themselves with moral and fiscal laxity after about 250 years. My new book, Responsibility Reborn: A Citizen&#8217;s Guide to the Next American Century, looks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A lioness in the White House?</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/06/26/a-lioness-in-the-white-house/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/06/26/a-lioness-in-the-white-house/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[michele bachmann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sarah palin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Denver Post, June 26) “The best man in the cabinet.” That’s how Golda Meir was described by her colleague, David Ben-Gurion. She went on to lead Israel to victory in one of its darkest hours, the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Meir once attended Denver’s North High School, and you can visit her girlhood home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sober up, spenders!</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/06/09/sober-up-spenders/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/06/09/sober-up-spenders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 02:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington spenders are like drunks on a binge, says John Andrews in the June round of Head On TV debates. It&#8217;s bad, agrees Susan Barnes-Gelt, but she contends the solution must include tax hikes as well as entitlement reform. John on the right, Susan on the left, also go at it this month over Hancock&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Save us from the voters</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/05/28/save-us-from-the-voters/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/05/28/save-us-from-the-voters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 21:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Memo to: Justice Anthony Kennedy From: Coloradans for Benevolent Despotism Re: Enough with the Uppity Teabaggers (Denver Post, May 29) Tony, can we use first names? You have your dignity to think of, U.S. Supreme Court and all that – but we have a spending racket to sustain, so here goes. Let’s drop the formalities [...]]]></description>
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