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		<title>Jerry Brown slurs Whitman &#8212; earns NOW&#8217;s endorsement</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/10/10/jerry-brown-slurs-whitman-earns-nows-endorsement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 15:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Davenport</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The timing couldn&#8217;t be more profound: just one day after California gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown is caught on tape as a campaign aide calls Meg Whitman a &#8220;whore&#8221;, the National Organization for Women announces &#8212; you guessed it &#8212; that it is supporting Jerry Brown for Governor. Proving that liberal orthodoxy trumps gender every time, [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></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, “The Sun Also [...]]]></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>
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		<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>
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		<category><![CDATA[james cameron]]></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 by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Christmas still relevant?</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/12/16/is-christmas-still-relevant/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/12/16/is-christmas-still-relevant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Shepard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Christmas comes, reactions abound. Since the fourth century AD, when Roman Emperor Constantine embraced Christianity, church service attendance in Western Civilization is greatest at Christmas and Easter. Prior to Constantine, Christianity was illegal and thus did not attract people who were not deeply committed. Ironically during this period of intense persecution the number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doubly betrayed: By Hasan &amp; PC elites</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/11/10/doubly-betrayed-by-hasan-pc-elites/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/11/10/doubly-betrayed-by-hasan-pc-elites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Moloney</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Leftists]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Less than two hours after the worst act of terrorism on U.S. soil since 9/11, FBI Director Robert Mueller announced that his investigators were “definitely not discussing terrorism”. Soon after President Obama urged Americans “not to jump to conclusions”. When reporters asked what the President meant by that White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The decline of Western civilization</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/11/02/the-decline-of-western-civilization-proceeds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Reeb</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Speech]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The West has been warned with increasing frequency, most recently by Netherlands MP Geert Wilders, that radical Islam is making such great strides that Europe will become &#8220;Eurabia&#8221; in a few decades and that the United States is not far behind. In a speech he gave at Columbia University on October 21, Wilders spoke alarmingly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Artists don’t live in an alternative universe</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/10/05/artists-don%e2%80%99t-live-in-alternative-universe/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/10/05/artists-don%e2%80%99t-live-in-alternative-universe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Reeb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academic freedom]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The current saga of Roman Polanski, who aspires to the lofty category of &#8220;artist,&#8221; reminds us of the old Puritan suspicion of actors as immoral. It may shock people of all persuasions to learn that all artists–and scientists as well–were subjected to withering criticism by that patron saint of modern liberalism, Jean Jacques Rousseau. &#8220;[T]he depravity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unimaginable leftism in Cambridge case</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/07/28/unimaginable-leftism-in-cambridge-case/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Alexander Madison</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backboneamerica.net/?p=2789</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[John Lennon’s 1971 lyrics to “Imagine” reflected the head Beatle&#8217;s lofty idealism &#8212; which was embraced by many, while others attacked the song&#8217;s brazen, impudent, hardened, and bold promotion of socialism. Imagine there&#8217;s no Heaven , It&#8217;s easy if you try No hell below us, Above us only sky Imagine all the people, Living for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leftist agenda of TV entertainment</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/07/21/leftist-agenda-of-tv-entertainment/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/07/21/leftist-agenda-of-tv-entertainment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rosella Gilbertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month ABC’s crime drama Castle has emerged as the newest entertainment show used by the left-liberal political machine. What else could explain the subject matter which transparently resembled a recent GOP Senator’s love affair scandal to which the main characters made the comment, “so much for family values.” Not to be outdone, the show [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our language controls our political thought</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/07/13/our-language-controls-our-political-thought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Reeb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Modern English . . . is full of bad habits which spread by imitation . . . If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration.&#8221;–George Orwell, 1946 Had George Orwell, author of those dystopian classics 1984 and Animal Farm, lived long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fame is fool&#8217;s gold</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/07/02/fame-is-fools-gold/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/07/02/fame-is-fools-gold/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Kataline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Except for flipping burgers at Jack-In-The-Box, I earned my first paycheck as a professional actress. My mother put me on the stage when I was three years old, and her enchantment with Hollywood was not unlike that of Mama Rose, the determined stage mother in Gypsy. I like to affectionately refer to her effect on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family ties through music</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/06/22/family-ties-through-music-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Reeb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I attended a wedding of a friend at church, followed by the customary reception. After a delightful meal, some charming innovations to commemorate the occasion and the cutting of the cake, there followed hours of dancing, slow and fast, as also is customary. What struck me in this quite ordinary and conventional setting was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open season on conservatives</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/06/13/open-season-on-conservatives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 02:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Davenport</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservatism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jonah Goldberg points out how the left is stringing together two disconnected acts, the killing of abortionist George Tiller and the Holocaust museum shooting, to paint conservatives in dangerous light. Here&#8217;s the link. The crux of the argument should be no surprise to anyone who reads the mainstream media &#8212; namely, that angry right-wingers are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Europe, hope for conservatism</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/06/07/from-europe-hope-for-conservatism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Davenport</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservatism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The left in this country has made much of the big electoral victories that the Democrats won in 2006 and 2008 &#8212; and for good reason.  Not since 1977, when Jimmy Carter swept to victory along with huge Democrat majorities in the House and Senate, has there been such lopsided partisan rule in this country. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama is no friend of Israel</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/06/04/obama-is-no-friend-of-israel/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/06/04/obama-is-no-friend-of-israel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Davenport</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year I wrote a piece that examined the stark dichotomy in political views between American and Israeli Jews. American Jews vote overwhelmingly for Democrats, and see liberal policies &#8212; both domestic and foreign &#8212; as largely consistent with their world view. Indeed, in the 2008 election, 78% of American Jews voted for Obama &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor&#8217;s race colored glasses</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/05/29/sotomayors-race-colored-glasses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 16:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Davenport</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama&#8217;s selection of Sonia Sotomayor is par for the course with this president, a man who ascended the presidency on the basis of a compelling personal story and a bag full of bromides about post-partisan hope and change. Those who bought the Obama schtick may not have known it then, but they elected a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some hard truths</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/03/18/some-hard-truths/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Davenport</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fellow conservative blogger Donald Douglas has an interesting post up that cites Robert Bork&#8217;s recent book entitled: A Time To Speak:Selected Writings and Arguments. Many of you will remember Bork as having been an unfair victim of left-wing demagoguery during his 1987 Senate confirmation hearings after Ronald Reagan nominated him for the U.S. Supreme Court. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Obama Bowl</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/02/02/the-obama-bowl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Red at Heart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What exactly is the connection between NBC and President Obama?  Is it simply a case of mutual love and abiding devotion?  The Super Bowl coverage by NBC looked as much like a post-inauguration celebration as it did a football game.  The Obama interview aired right before the game was a first in Super Bowl history if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s hoping we survive Obama</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/01/19/heres-hoping-we-survive-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/01/19/heres-hoping-we-survive-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Reeb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Bill Clinton was elected President in 1992, I could see nothing to cheer about. A friend calmly assured me that &#8220;The Republic will survive.&#8221; He was right, but only because enough Americans concluded that Clinton must be opposed. We now face the same challenge with the ascension (if that is the right word) of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Captives of the media?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Denver Post, Jan. 18) You, a captive of the media? No way. Nobody mediates for you. You think independently. You gather your own information and decide for yourself. Me too. We don’t need no media mediating for us, no sir. Yeah, right. In our dreams, maybe, but not in America today. The world is so [...]]]></description>
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