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		<title>What&#8217;s Jay Say: Crises &amp; Cleavers</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/05/16/whats-jay-say-crises-cleavers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 02:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Moyers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The oil spill in the Gulf has created a mess. President Obama expressed outrage that no company is willing to take responsibility. In a litigious environment, that is not surprising. Rather than take leadership to discover what caused the problem and what can do to prevent another occurrence, Obama expressed anger at the oil companies. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Jay Say: Eruptions &amp; Abortions</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/05/09/whats-jay-say-eruptions-abortions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 17:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Moyers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Icelandic volcano may be old news for some, but the flights in and out of Ireland have been cancelled for several days due to the smoke. It is a reminder: &#8220;May the glory of the Lord endure forever; may the Lord rejoice in his works, who looks on the earth and it trembles, who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doing the right thing in office</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/10/28/doing-the-right-thing-in-office/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What happens when ethics and politics collide? I did a quick online interview about this with Kelley Harp, one of my key staffers from Senate President days (2003-2005), for a graduate course he&#8217;s taking. With more time, I would have put more detail and polish into my answers; but sometimes the spontaneous reply is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Young conservatives at Washington &amp; Lee</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/07/29/young-conservatives-at-washington-lee/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/07/29/young-conservatives-at-washington-lee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roommates Rally</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor: Fire up a group blog and you never know who may want in. A Denver businessman asked me if his daughter and her college pal could try out as contributors for us. Three minutes into the first meeting, after getting past the unnerving impression they were twins, I knew the conversation here would improve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;No Rest Elsewhere&#8217; relives Vietnam combat in 1968</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/06/21/no-rest-elsewhere-relives-1968/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Book Review by John Andrews I&#8217;m honored to help an old friend, Allen Orcutt, bring out a little book of poems, prose, and pictures that explores how a year at war can change a man for life. And much for the better in this Marine pilot&#8217;s case, searing as the ordeal was. No Rest Elsewhere: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Mr. Main Street&#8217; mourned in Evergreen</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/05/30/mr-main-street-mourned-in-evergreen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 02:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ted LaMontagne, a longtime pillar of the idyllic mountain community of Evergreen, Colorado, passed away this week. With his business and civic activities, neighborly warmth, and devout faith, Ted epitomized all the best qualities we associate with Main Street America. We thought of ourselves as brothers-in-law for the past decade, after his marriage to Kay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Aussie &amp; the atheist</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/04/26/the-aussie-the-atheist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pro-life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What some people won&#8217;t say about themselves with bumper stickers or tee shirts. I saw a charming one and an infuriating one this week. &#8220;Good grammar costs nothing,&#8221; said the Asian girl&#8217;s shirt in line behind me to board a flight. Such exhibitionists either want or deserve remarks from strangers, so I asked her what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prairie family memories for Christmas</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/12/18/prairie-family-memories-for-christmas/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/12/18/prairie-family-memories-for-christmas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Red at Heart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Americans typically are very thoughtful this time of year. We have retrospective thoughts about the past year and we ponder the future as to what the coming months will bring. We wish each other blessings at the celebration of the Christ Child, and glad tidings for the New Year. Our wishes include good health, happiness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With 12 days till Christmas</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/12/15/with-12-days-till-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night the Backbone Radio audience was subjected to some wretched holiday doggerel performed by Kathleen LeCrone and me. Mercifully the composition was recited, for the most part, rather than sung. Without waiting for popular demand, we hereby provide you the lyrics. Aren&#8217;t they an improvement on the timeworn leaping lords, French hens, partridges and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Radio host&#8217;s mission of mercy</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/11/16/radio-hosts-mission-of-mercy/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/11/16/radio-hosts-mission-of-mercy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Dunn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking out the airplane window, on about the twelfth hour of a fourteen hour flight to Ethiopia, the hazy streak of water I’d been watching suddenly divided in the Sahara dust. The map suggested we were flying over Khartoum, where the White Nile and the Blue Nile become simply the Nile, en route to Cairo. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marshall Fritz, RIP</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/11/14/marshall-fritz-rip/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/11/14/marshall-fritz-rip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 01:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Marshall was that rare combination, a devout Christian and a rigorous libertarian. Heroically he led the Alliance for Separation of School and State, and previously the Advocates for Self-Government. His death on Nov. 4 at 65 is a loss to all of us who remember Jefferson&#8217;s warning that the natural course of things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dressed for the War Room</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/08/27/dressed-for-the-war-room/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/08/27/dressed-for-the-war-room/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t visited the GOP War Room, McCain&#8217;s rapid response media facility at 2810 Speer Boulevard, it&#8217;s worth a look today or tomorrow as the DNC approaches its climax (orgasmic pun intended) with Obama&#8217;s big stadium speech. I stopped by there on Tuesday to gather news, not make it, but Myung Kim of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Counsel for a college freshman</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/08/26/counsel-for-a-college-freshman/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/08/26/counsel-for-a-college-freshman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A young friend of mine started at Hillsdale College this week, and his dad, with whom I attend church, gave the new freshman a unique gift. The father asked a couple dozen people whom he respects to email our thoughts on two questions, for inclusion in a virtual scrapbook that will accompany the Class of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vegans for McCain</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/08/23/vegans-for-mccain/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/08/23/vegans-for-mccain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The campaign grows ever more bizarre. Today the segmented electorate and micro-targeting reached a new extreme. The latest exotic demographic is McCain voters who use no animal products, have no sense of humor, and listen to NPR. It started Saturday morning when Scott Simon of &#8220;Weekend Edition&#8221; asked me for a Republican&#8217;s take on what [...]]]></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>Fritz: &#8220;To the banqueting house&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/06/23/fritz-to-the-banqueting-house/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/06/23/fritz-to-the-banqueting-house/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marshall Fritz of the Alliance for the Separation of School and State is one of the most effective freedom advocates and brilliantly buoyant human beings I&#8217;ve ever known. Now 65, he&#8217;s been been given only a matter of months to live with a cancer diagnosis, his second. Before founding the Alliance, Marshall was instrumental in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reviving the art of conversation</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/04/09/reviving-the-art-of-conversation/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/04/09/reviving-the-art-of-conversation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Dunn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve found that when a thread of conversation has developed, some patients have surprised themselves by realizing they’ve actually had a good time at the dental office. I never cease to be amazed at how well patients can talk through the impedimenta of four-handed dentistry. Editor: So asserts Dr. Matt Dunn DDS, a dentist by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easter 2008: That&#8217;s My King!</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/03/23/easter-2008-thats-my-king/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/03/23/easter-2008-thats-my-king/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday on Backbone Radio, again as in years past, we observed Easter by playing five minutes from a classic sermon by Rev. S. M. Lockridge, &#8220;That&#8217;s My King.&#8221; Unique, delightful, dynamic, unforgettable &#8212; words fail me. Here&#8217;s a video version. Christ is risen; risen indeed!]]></description>
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		<title>Russ Oberlin, 1929-2008</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/03/23/russ-oberlin-1929-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/03/23/russ-oberlin-1929-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Be who you are, use what you have, do what you can.&#8221; Russ Oberlin stopped me at a recent political meeting to pass along these dozen words that summarized &#8212; he said with an earnest smile &#8212; an ethic of responsibility and giving as well as any quote he could remember from nearly eight decades [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Backbone Bivouac: A true tall tale</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/01/21/backbone-bivouac-a-true-tall-tale/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/01/21/backbone-bivouac-a-true-tall-tale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Dunn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever spent the night outside in the Colorado mountains, in the heart of winter, at 12,000 feet, in a furious blizzard? No? Until two weeks ago, I hadn’t either. [Note: Matt Dunn froze Backbone Radio listeners to their seats with this chilling account on our Jan. 20 show. See left column for podcast [...]]]></description>
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