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		<title>The VAT: coming to America</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/03/30/the-vat-coming-to-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Davenport</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I know I&#8217;ve been on an ObamaCare kick for the past few months, and I wouldn&#8217;t blame you if you are tired of it by now.  I wish I could abandon it for some other topic &#8212; any other topic, in fact.  But, alas, I cannot.  Why? Because I see this new law as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old movies and unwelcome history</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/01/08/old-movies-and-unwelcome-history/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/01/08/old-movies-and-unwelcome-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Reeb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The moment the Japanese Empire bombed Pearl Harbor, the vast majority of Americans were committed heart and soul to winning the world war that the sneak attack abruptly brought our nation into. But as welcome as the ultimate victory was, World War II’s conclusion was, like most wars, a mixed blessing. For while the Nazis, fascists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s become of the spirit of &#8217;81?</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/11/24/whats-become-of-the-spirit-of-81/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/11/24/whats-become-of-the-spirit-of-81/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paoli</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backboneamerica.net/?p=3544</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mention the French Riviera and most people will conjure up images of le casino in Monte Carlo, le port in Saint Tropez, la Croisette in Cannes, or la Promenade des Anglais in Nice. Less obvious are visions of Grasse, a small town tucked away in the hinterland, a 30-minute drive north of Nice, and proudly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Young skulls full of green mush</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/11/20/young-skulls-full-of-green-mush/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/11/20/young-skulls-full-of-green-mush/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paoli</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Leftists]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backboneamerica.net/?p=3527</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As any visitor to Cuba will tell you, slogans like &#8220;Hasta la victoria siempre&#8221; (towards victory always) or &#8220;Socialismo or muerte&#8221; (socialism or death) are dotted here and there all over the Caribbean island for fear that the long-suffering local population might lose sight of the ill-fated goals of the communist revolution that took place [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revisionists diss Reagan in Berlin</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/11/10/revisionists-diss-reagan-in-berlin/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/11/10/revisionists-diss-reagan-in-berlin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Davenport</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Civilization]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As many of you know, yesterday was the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. And do you know what? In all the hoopla surrounding the celebration yesterday &#8212; not one person at the commemoration event in Berlin mentioned the role of Ronald Reagan. Can you imagine that? Tom Brokaw &#8212; like many [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/11/02/the-decline-of-western-civilization-proceeds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Reeb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Civilization]]></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>Europe&#8217;s Nobel peaceniks handcuff Obama</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/10/11/europes-nobel-peaceniks-handcuff-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/10/11/europes-nobel-peaceniks-handcuff-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Davenport</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Leftists]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a reflection of the political inclinations of the Norwegian Nobel Committee – a group of five former lawmakers and politicians from one of Europe’s most liberal countries. The list of winners over the past two decades include Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, Kofi Anan and Yasser Arafat, and reads [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is this the best we can do?</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/05/22/is-this-the-best-we-can-do/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/05/22/is-this-the-best-we-can-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 23:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Davenport</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics & Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backboneamerica.net/?p=2297</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Much is being made of the Dick Cheney vs. Barack Obama &#8220;debate&#8221; now going on in the media over national security. The Wall Street Journal has it on the front page today, after Cheney and Obama gave dueling speeches yesterday &#8212; Obama from the rotunda of the National Archives and Cheney from the American Enterprise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speak softly and carry a limp stick</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/05/11/speak-softly-and-carry-a-limp-stick/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/05/11/speak-softly-and-carry-a-limp-stick/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 03:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Davenport</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backboneamerica.net/?p=2244</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Way back in July, 2005 &#8212; just days after the deadly terrorist attack on the London Transport system that killed 51 people &#8212; I wrote a post at my blog entitled Britain&#8217;s Homeless. The post was prompted by a report issued by the Royal Institute of International Affairs that linked the London attack to British [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sorry for saving the world</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/04/07/sorry-for-saving-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/04/07/sorry-for-saving-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Davenport</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backboneamerica.net/?p=1854</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most frustrating things about the left is that they seem to have little use for history and even less regard for objective facts. Facts have little use when you just &#8220;know&#8221; &#8212; in your gut and with every fiber of your being &#8212; that you are right. Emotion trumps rationality every time. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There will be blood</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/03/12/there-will-be-blood/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/03/12/there-will-be-blood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Davenport</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bailout & stimulus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I wrote a piece noting that Obama&#8217;s economic policies are less about fixing the economy and more about retributive justice &#8211; a pernicious form of wealth redistribution designed to achieve a liberal social agenda. This agenda is at the heart of Obama&#8217;s philosophical orientation &#8212; that same &#8220;spreading the wealth around&#8221; view that he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Merci, Monsieur le Président</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/01/21/merci-monsieur-le-president/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/01/21/merci-monsieur-le-president/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paoli</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conservatism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[World War III]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear President George W. Bush: As you open a new chapter in your life down in Crawford, Texas, after eight, sometimes turbulent years as the 43rd President of the United States, I would like to take this opportunity to publicly express my eternal gratitude to you for strengthening my faith in America’s destiny as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BHO steers US toward Eurosocialism</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/01/14/bho-steers-us-toward-eurosocialism/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/01/14/bho-steers-us-toward-eurosocialism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paoli</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conservatism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Liberalism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Barack Obama is about to be inaugurated as America’s 44th President, a huge question mark hangs over the future of American society and, by extension, over the future of freedom in the world: Will a majority of the American people turn their backs on individual responsibility, free enterprise and the Constitution and follow in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enough with the Euro-smugness</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/10/17/enough-with-the-euro-smugness/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/10/17/enough-with-the-euro-smugness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Krefft</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ideas]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backboneamerica.net/2008/10/17/enough-with-the-euro-smugness/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From east to west, living room to board room, Americans are watching a slew of disturbing TV news stories . The focus of the citizen is overwhelmingly on the economy and his or her own, modest and hard earned treasure pile. This is not surprising, after all the Dow is behaving like a drunken clam [...]]]></description>
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