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		<title>Constitution Day 2009</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/09/21/constitution-day-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Schaller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions By Greg Schaller On September 17, 1787, thirty-nine of the delegates at the Constitutional Convention, having met for four long, hot, and humid summer months in Philadelphia, had finally completed their task. On that day, they lined up and signed their names to the completed document. The debates had often [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Listen, think, decide</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/09/01/listen-think-decide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Starin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor: You thought blogging was inherently overheated? This coolly reasoned piece asks for our best as deliberative citizens sifting for truth in the health care melee. Scott Starin is Boulder County Republican chairman, a former candidate for Congress, and an aerospace engineer. The Art of Persuasion In his book, &#8220;Rhetoric,&#8221; Aristotle describes three fundamental methods [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawyers &amp; judges endangering elections</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/12/01/lawyers-judges-endangering-elections/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/12/01/lawyers-judges-endangering-elections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Hillman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world has marveled at the orderliness of America&#8217;s &#8220;peaceful revolutions&#8221; ever since Jefferson&#8217;s Democratic-Republicans first wrested power from the Federalist Party of Washington and Adams, But how long will voters remain peaceful when their will is cynically undermined by partisan lawyers and willful judges whose lust to see their interests prevail eviscerates any pretense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glass way more than half full</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/11/28/glass-way-more-than-half-full/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/11/28/glass-way-more-than-half-full/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Kafer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Thanksgiving season, no one has more reason to be grateful than us. Though the media, politicians, Hollywood and a growing number of cap-in-hand special interest groups would like you to believe otherwise, Americans enjoy an unrivaled degree of prosperity. Even the 12.5 percent of Americans identified by the census bureau as poor are well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanksgiving honors founders&#8217; faith</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/11/25/thanksgiving-honors-founders-faith/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/11/25/thanksgiving-honors-founders-faith/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Hillman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For anyone born in the last 50 years, &#8220;separation of church and state&#8221; is inculcated secular orthodoxy. I well remember the family discussion during which my dad informed me that the phrase appears nowhere in the Constitution, and I recall spending the next two hours searching my history books in futility to prove him wrong. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Primer: Repeat after me</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/11/20/primer-repeat-after-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Weissmann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is not the government’s responsibility to save Chrysler, GM, or Ford. Looking back, it was not the government’s responsibility to save AIG, Citigroup, or any other financial institution. Looking ahead, it is not the government’s responsibility to save coal companies, homebuilders, retailers, manufacturers, or hot dog carts. It is not the government’s responsibility to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discouragement isn&#8217;t an option</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/11/05/discouragement-isnt-an-option/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/11/05/discouragement-isnt-an-option/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Reed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For all of us who believe in liberty, yesterday’s ballot offerings all over the country were hardly inspiring. Predictably, the results this morning may be more than a little dispiriting. Just in case you might be feeling somewhat “down” at the moment, let me offer what I hope will be some cheerful thoughts. Eternal optimist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At least they really debated</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/09/24/at-least-they-really-debated/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/09/24/at-least-they-really-debated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When or if the McCain-Obama debate takes place on Sept. 26, and ditto for the Palin-Biden faceoff on Oct. 2, little of the fulsome rhetoric will resemble the statesmanlike duels classically understood as debating. What we call &#8220;debates&#8221; today are nothing but joint press conferences, with journalists asking the questions and virtually no direct cross-examination [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Prager &amp; Sirota faced off</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/09/23/when-prager-sirota-faced-off/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/09/23/when-prager-sirota-faced-off/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Davenport</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday at South High in Denver, a big crowd came out to see the noted conservative writer and radio host Dennis Prager debate Denver-based &#8220;progressive&#8221; writer David Sirota. The debate centered on a fundamental question that should be of interest to everyone in this election season: Whether liberal or conservatives ideas and ideals are better [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memo to Dems: We&#8217;re not subjects</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/09/17/americans-are-citizens-not-subjects-of-the-government/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/09/17/americans-are-citizens-not-subjects-of-the-government/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Reeb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We Americans generally understand and appreciate the value of our citizenship. We know that we are fortunate to be living in the freest, most prosperous and most powerful country on earth. We thank our lucky stars that we were born in the United States rather than in Russia, China or Zimbabwe, and welcome new citizens [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Constitution Day event for teens</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/09/15/constitution-day-event-for-teens/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/09/15/constitution-day-event-for-teens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimmy Sengenberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Saturday, Sept. 20, the Liberty Day organization invites teenagers to its 2008 Constitution Celebration at CU-Denver. A nonpartisan organization dedicated to educating youth about the contents of the U.S. Constitution, Liberty Day held its very first high school “Constitution Celebration” at same location one year ago. The conference was both a success and an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diversity for its own sake? Why?</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/09/02/diversity-for-its-own-sake-why/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/09/02/diversity-for-its-own-sake-why/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Delta Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a woman on one ticket and a black on the other, let&#8217;s not forget that the popular slogan that &#8220;diversity is our strength” rests on a historically and empirically unwarranted premise. The notion was started by the Marxist in the 1950’s as a divide and conquer strategy, no more no less. I remember going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mason Tvert, our own Michael Moore</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/08/30/mason-tvert-our-own-michael-moore/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/08/30/mason-tvert-our-own-michael-moore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Krefft</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor: If you define a Michael Moore as someone who practices political provocation, lacks manners, and dishes it out but can&#8217;t take it, Denver&#8217;s own Mason Tvert, pot prophet and McCain hater, would seem to qualify. So our contributor Jim Krefft can testify from experience. He writes: My War with Mason Tvert Standing up for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ford vs. Carter again?</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/08/18/ford-vs-carter-again/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/08/18/ford-vs-carter-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Crater</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our electoral situation feels like the 1970’s again. McCain is Gerald Ford, Obama is Jimmy Carter with a college kid cool factor. His speech at Invesco will have a JFK-like media aura about it, and even many Republicans, especially in the party hierarchy, will join in the swooning. Conservatives are in the wilderness for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SF Mayor flunks civics</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/07/23/sf-mayor-flunks-civics/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/07/23/sf-mayor-flunks-civics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Reeb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;They don’t like our Constitution,&#8221; asserted Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco. That incredible remark, uttered on television the other day by the chief executive of &#8220;Baghdad by the Bay,&#8221; referred to the supporters of real marriage, who qualified a constitutional amendment for this November’s general election ballot to reaffirm what the voters decided with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diagnosing Obama&#8217;s religious confusion</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/07/15/diagnosing-obamas-religious-confusion/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/07/15/diagnosing-obamas-religious-confusion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hilmar von Campe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Hussein Obama needs to straighten himself out. Growing up between Islamic teachings and socialist theories apparently has confused his concepts. We are not a Muslim nation, a Jewish nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, or a nation of nonbelievers as he stated in a speech in June 2006 to the liberal Christian group, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hick&#8217;s weakness shows again</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/07/07/hicks-weakness-shows-again/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/07/07/hicks-weakness-shows-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Thank you, Miss Marie, that was beautiful. And now, since it&#8217;s important to honor our country and our flag on such an occasion as this, I invite all of you to stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.&#8221; That&#8217;s what Mayor John Hickenlooper could have said, but didn&#8217;t, when the self-aggrandizing singer &#8220;switcheroo&#8217;d&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One American&#8217;s Credo</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/06/30/one-americans-credo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Ritchie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am of Scottish and Danish stock: what could be sterner stuff? Yes, Braveheart and Norsemen. My people made Europe with their blood and sweat–and the Faith that elevated the Continent and the British Isles. That point in time came in the early 1700’s when my people felt and bore the crushing weight of religious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tutoring Justice Thomas</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/05/30/tutoring-justice-thomas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 21:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slated on Backbone Radio, June 1 Listen every Sunday, 5-8pm on 710 KNUS, Denver&#8230; 1460 KZNT, Colorado Springs&#8230; and streaming live at 710knus.com. If Obama is elected President, it will be because of civic illiteracy. Is that too highbrow for you? I&#8217;m saying it will be because American politics finally turned into &#8220;American Idol,&#8221; the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dare your graduate to read</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/05/30/dare-your-graduate-to-read/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 21:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Denver Post, June 1) It was a graduation to remember. Our grandson and his classmates looked great in their blue mortarboard caps with gold tassels. Parents beamed and cameras flashed. The speaker was brief, taking his text from Psalms: “Children are a gift from God.” Ian’s dad caught the whole thing on video. Did I [...]]]></description>
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