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		<title>The Bible &amp; the Republic</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/08/28/the-bible-the-republic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 02:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One need not be Christian or Jewish to embrace America&#8217;s founding principles, but there is no denying that those principles are rooted in the Old and New Testaments. So it&#8217;s strange to see individuals or institutions that profess allegiance to the Bible but disallow its relevance to the way we govern ourselves. For those who [...]]]></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>
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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>Political principles, slavery and abortion</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/02/12/political-principles-slavery-and-abortion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Reeb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pro-life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Abraham Lincoln, born 201 years ago today, delivered his immortal Gettysburg Address, he called for a &#8220;new birth of freedom.&#8221; He had issued the Emancipation Proclamation more than a year before, which gave a wartime justification that he knew would ultimately be a peacetime bounty: the end of slavery in America. This &#8220;new birth&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-sufficiency can stop the bribery</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/01/19/self-sufficiency-can-stop-the-bribery/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/01/19/self-sufficiency-can-stop-the-bribery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Kataline</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Values]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backboneamerica.net/?p=3791</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bismarck, Prussia&#8217;s Iron Chancellor, once said, “Laws are like sausages. It&#8217;s better not to see them being made.” In the case of the current government, bound and determined to take over our health care system regardless of public opposition, never have so many Americans been privy to the making of sausage—and it hasn’t been pretty. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Socialist Obama: Could it be?</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/01/16/socialist-obama-could-it-be/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/01/16/socialist-obama-could-it-be/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Graham</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Leftists]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Socialism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tom Graham &#8211; Part 1 During a recent “Meet the Press” the host, with feigned indignation, asked a Senator, “You’re not calling the President a socialist, are you?” Without waiting for a response, he repeated the question for emphasis. This performance highlights the hijacking of political semantics. “Socialist” was replaced by “Liberal” which, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Christmas still relevant?</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/12/16/is-christmas-still-relevant/</link>
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		<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>Is health reform a matter of justice?</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/11/24/is-healthcare-reform-a-matter-of-justice/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/11/24/is-healthcare-reform-a-matter-of-justice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Column</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Author: Robert F. Sasseen) Is affordable healthcare for all a question of individual rights, or a requirement of the common good? The public debate in the US seems to assume that it is both. It is not my purpose here to examine what reforms are necessary or wise, but to identify some of the issues of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Best Keepers of the People&#8217;s Liberties?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/11/16/who-are-the-best-keepers-of-the-peoples-liberties/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/11/16/who-are-the-best-keepers-of-the-peoples-liberties/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Reeb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ideas]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backboneamerica.net/?p=3494</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[James Madison, the father of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, asked, &#8221;Who are the Best Keepers of the People&#8217;s Liberties?&#8221; in a 1792 article in the National Gazette, a Republican newspaper critical of the ruling Federalist party. The question is always relevant. For nearly a century, so-called &#8220;progressives&#8221; have insisted that they are entitled to public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s stop warping words</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/11/15/lets-stop-warping-words/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/11/15/lets-stop-warping-words/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg Brady</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservatism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backboneamerica.net/?p=3483</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rhetoric often manipulates our understanding through bias-laden misuse of language. We all have encountered such examples. &#8220;Progressive&#8221; suggests innovative, visionary and benevolent. But most &#8220;progressive&#8221; policies merely regurgitate antiquated notions that were disproved decades ago. A principal contemporary example of outdated &#8220;progressive&#8221; policy would be the flurry of big-spending, big-government legislation being touted by this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Booklists on faith &amp; freedom</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/11/13/booklists-on-faith-freedom/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/11/13/booklists-on-faith-freedom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backboneamerica.net/?p=3470</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hearing from Greg Schaller, my CCU professor pal, about an online book club starting up at Redstate.com, I compared their list with mine as compiled a few years back at the suggestion of Kevin Teasley, my school-voucher activist pal. The overlap is interesting, and either list is a needed reminder that we&#8217;re well repaid by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our big tent&#8217;s friendly, but not flabby</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/11/06/our-big-tents-friendly-but-not-flabby/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/11/06/our-big-tents-friendly-but-not-flabby/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Kataline</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backboneamerica.net/?p=3424</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Who knew? Within the Republican Party there are number of organizations representing identity groups that the Left assumes it owns: Black, Hispanic, Jewish, Gay, Female, Asian et al. In recent years, those Republican groups in Colorado have worked for greater association with one another by holding an annual social event called, &#8220;The Big Tent.&#8221; We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democrats socialistic? Of course they are</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/08/24/democrats-socialistic-of-course-they-are/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/08/24/democrats-socialistic-of-course-they-are/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Reeb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backboneamerica.net/?p=2946</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The greatest single weapon in the Democratic Party’s arsenal has been its ability to confuse the voters. Even though it has practically defined itself since the 1930s as the party of Big Government, with high taxes and spending, massive regulation and intervention, and continual encroachment on private property, its leaders and spokesmen have vehemently denied that [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/07/13/our-language-controls-our-political-thought/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Reeb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backboneamerica.net/?p=2672</guid>
		<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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Kataline</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backboneamerica.net/?p=2590</guid>
		<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>&#8216;Suicide of West&#8217; imminent?</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/04/28/suicide-of-west-imminent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Rudd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[National Review listed James Burnham&#8217;s &#8220;Suicide of the West&#8221; as one of the top 10 books that nudged America toward political conservatism in recent decades. (See rankings in their 50th anniversary edition.) Burnham was a young Trotskyite who turned against Communism and in his later years wrote for National Review. He wrote this book in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedgehog beats the fox every time</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/04/27/hedge-hog-beats-the-fox-every-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Reeb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[British political philosopher Isaiah Berlin famously contrasted the hedgehog, who does one big thing, and the fox, who does many things. This was a particularly apt metaphor for Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter, as the former sought to win the Cold War and revitalize American commerce and the latter despaired of Americans’ &#8220;malaise&#8221; just as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America is better than Utopia, Mr. President</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/04/21/america-is-better-than-utopia-mr-president/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Reeb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Utopian visions have stirred men’s souls at least since the time of the ancient Greeks. The philosopher Plato unmasked the folly and the evil of all such schemes in his famous &#8220;Republic.&#8221; He did not merely criticize a current tendency but a perennial human temptation. President Barack Obama is a utopian who believes that there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solzhenitsyn the Prophet</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/01/27/solzhenitsyn-the-prophet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greatness never goes out of date. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who died last year, presented at Harvard in 1978 one of the most perceptive and sobering assessments of civilization&#8217;s ills in our lifetime. The full text is below. An oft-quoted passage, sadly truer than ever, begins: &#8220;A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>His moral relativism discredits Obama</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/10/28/his-moral-relativism-discredits-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Zuker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Democrats like Obama the Intellectual like to denigrate &#8220;folksy&#8221; and &#8220;unintellectual&#8221; Republicans as &#8220;clinging to guns or religion,&#8221; but what they really abhor about their &#8220;lowbrow&#8221; Republican counterparts is the willingness to stand in moral judgment. I am not in any way arguing that every time a Republican uses a moral argument it is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enough with the Euro-smugness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Krefft</dc:creator>
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		<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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