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	<title>Backbone America &#187; Andrews in Print</title>
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		<title>Partisan Politics for Dummies</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2012/04/29/partisan-politics-for-dummies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Denver Post, Apr. 29) If I undertook to write about partisan politics for dummies, I’d immediately have your attention. Many people think that’s all partisan politics is for. It’s everyone’s favorite punching bag.But I’ll argue that partisan politics is forever with us and a good thing, so we may disagree. At least if we avoid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imagining a Romney-Santorum ticket</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2012/03/25/imagining-a-romney-santorum-ticket/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2012/03/25/imagining-a-romney-santorum-ticket/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 20:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days before Rick Santorum upset Mitt Romney in the Colorado caucuses, he made a campaign stop at Colorado Christian University, where I work.  As it was ending, several students asked the former senator if he would Tebow with them.  The picture with all of them on a knee, heads bowed, is my favorite 2012 political [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who needs a governor anyway?</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2012/02/26/who-needs-a-governor-anyway/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2012/02/26/who-needs-a-governor-anyway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hickenlooper]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Denver Post, Feb. 26) “An empty taxi drove up to 10 Downing Street,” joked Winston Churchill about the man who defeated him for prime minister in 1946, “and out of it stepped Clement Attlee.” Droll, but Attlee laughed last. Nothing succeeds like success. Detractors who grumble that there is “no there, there” in John Hickenlooper’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How free are we really?</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2012/01/29/how-free-are-we-really/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2012/01/29/how-free-are-we-really/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[economic freedom]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Denver Post, Jan.29) So now we’ve heard the State of the Union according to Obama and the State of the State according to Hickenlooper. We’ve seen Gingrich’s debating prowess and Romney’s tax returns, Santorum’s sweaters and Ron Paul’s scowl. But how much does that really tell us about the shape America is in? If we’re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My 2012 survival kit</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/12/31/my-2012-survival-kit/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/12/31/my-2012-survival-kit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Denver Post, Jan. 1) “Let us eat and drink,” said the beautiful people at last night’s glittering parties, “for tomorrow we shall die.” Maybe they thought their insouciance fitting as 2011 ticked away, but they could not have thought it original. It was Obama’s favorite economist, John Maynard Keynes, the original Mr. Stimulus, who remarked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Show some backbone</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/11/28/show-some-backbone/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/11/28/show-some-backbone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Denver Post, Nov. 27) “Thanksgiving and Christmas 2011, now those were tough times. The House and Senate couldn’t agree on raising taxes. Denver and Aurora couldn’t agree on the Stock Show. Democrats couldn’t get excited about Obama. Republicans couldn’t get excited about anyone. It was grim, I tell you. Worse than 1933, with unemployment over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Road to 2020</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/10/30/the-road-to-2020/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/10/30/the-road-to-2020/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 14:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Denver Post, Oct. 30) In a year and a week, we’ll know who Americans want for president. Anybody who claims much certainty about it until then is howling at the moon. I have no prescience about the race, other than to implore my fellow Republicans against over-confidence in the face of Obama’s potent incumbency and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democrats vs. democracy</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/09/25/democrats-vs-democracy/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/09/25/democrats-vs-democracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 02:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Denver Post, Sept. 25) Why are the Democrats so afraid of democracy? Do they worry that the will of the people won’t go their way? So it would seem. Several Colorado court cases illustrate the pattern. The Fenster suit to annul the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, the Lobato suit to increase education spending, and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Color us red in 2012?</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/08/28/color-us-red-in-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/08/28/color-us-red-in-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 21:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Denver Post, Aug. 28) I wish Tom Tancredo was Governor of Colorado. I wish Scott McInnis was. Heck, I wish the ill-starred Dan Maes was governor. Any Republican, any conservative, rather than the limousine liberal Democrat we’re stuck with, John Hickenlooper. Whence these idle fantasies? Not heat stroke from recent egg-frying temperatures. Not oxygen deprivation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Responsibility movement grows</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/07/23/responsibility-movement-grows/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/07/23/responsibility-movement-grows/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 21:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Denver Post, July 24) Will Barack Obama go the way of Jimmy Carter, and lose reelection after demonstrating weak leadership in a troubled economy? One Coloradan with a keen nose for the political wind signaled last week that he thinks it might happen. Gov. John Hickenlooper told a reporter the president would “have a hard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A lioness in the White House?</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/06/26/a-lioness-in-the-white-house/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/06/26/a-lioness-in-the-white-house/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[michele bachmann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sarah palin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Denver Post, June 26) “The best man in the cabinet.” That’s how Golda Meir was described by her colleague, David Ben-Gurion. She went on to lead Israel to victory in one of its darkest hours, the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Meir once attended Denver’s North High School, and you can visit her girlhood home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Save us from the voters</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/05/28/save-us-from-the-voters/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/05/28/save-us-from-the-voters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 21:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Memo to: Justice Anthony Kennedy From: Coloradans for Benevolent Despotism Re: Enough with the Uppity Teabaggers (Denver Post, May 29) Tony, can we use first names? You have your dignity to think of, U.S. Supreme Court and all that – but we have a spending racket to sustain, so here goes. Let’s drop the formalities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There is no political panacea</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/04/22/there-is-no-political-panacea/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/04/22/there-is-no-political-panacea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 03:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[atlas shrugged movie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Denver Post, April 24) “To the Colorado renaissance.” That’s the oilman’s toast to the steelmaker and the railroad mogul in the new film version of “Atlas Shrugged.” As Ayn Rand’s epic novel of capitalism finally comes to the screen, more timely now than when she wrote it in 1957, our state has a starring role. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wisconsinize Colorado? Yes!</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/03/26/wisconsinize-colorado-please-do/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/03/26/wisconsinize-colorado-please-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 21:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[wisconsinize colorado]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Denver Post, March 27) A useful new verb was coined the other day when Republicans joined Democrats to propose higher pension contributions by public employees and a union boss called it a “blatant attempt to Wisconsinize the Colorado budget process.” What a great idea, thought many a tired and worried taxpayer. Wisconsinize away, legislators – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-government needs newspapers</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/02/27/self-government-needs-newspapers/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/02/27/self-government-needs-newspapers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Andrews in Print]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Denver Post, Feb. 27) So Facebook brought down the Egyptian regime. Until now, the only thing I knew it had brought down was my productivity – and that of many other Republicans old enough to know better, after we all stampeded there upon hearing how Democrats rode it to victory in 2008. Obama in, Mubarak [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why unions fear school reform</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/01/22/why-unions-fear-school-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/01/22/why-unions-fear-school-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 15:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[school reform]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[william moloney]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Denver Post, Jan. 23) The indignation was feverish. Teacher-union partisans trembled. Elaine Berman, a State Board of Education member from Denver, boycotted. Mary Johnson, an education consultant from Colorado Springs, raged. “A person known for nearly total lack of support for public education” was “bamboozling” Coloradans. The miscreant was William Moloney, our state’s past Education [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hey government, we&#8217;re out of patience</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/01/08/hey-government-were-out-of-patience/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/01/08/hey-government-were-out-of-patience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 18:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Andrews in Print]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Denver Post, Jan. 9) “Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there. He wasn’t there again today. I wish, I wish he’d go away.” The little poem from a century ago should haunt Colorado’s new governor and legislature as they climb the Capitol steps and set to work this week. John Hickenlooper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andrews&#8217; Christmas Carol</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/12/23/andrews-christmas-carol-2/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/12/23/andrews-christmas-carol-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Denver Post, Dec. 25) Senator John was a political man, a driven man, some would say a hard man. At dusk on Christmas Eve, he squinted from his office window through falling snow toward the Capitol, and grumbled to his assistant about the latest Bill Ritter gimmick: low-energy holiday lights. His clock struck five. “I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Election transparency overdue</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/12/05/election-transparency-overdue/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/12/05/election-transparency-overdue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 01:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adam Schrager]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CODA]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[rob witwer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the blueprint]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Denver Post, Dec. 5) What is CoDA? If you said a rock group, a wonder drug, or a state agency, you’re wrong. It’s the Colorado Democracy Alliance, today’s smartphone successor to the old dialup state Democratic Party. CoDA’s coup in turning Colorado blue is related in this year’s most important political book, “The Blueprint,” by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lucky, deserving, or blessed?</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/11/20/lucky-deserving-or-blessed/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/11/20/lucky-deserving-or-blessed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2010 03:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Denver Post, Nov. 21) America has a memory problem. Most of us couldn’t tell you who our great-grandparents were. Most people who live in Denver, Parker, Thornton, or Greeley couldn’t tell you who their hometown was named after. Most of us couldn’t possibly remember who the days of the week were named for either. And [...]]]></description>
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