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		<title>Remembering our landmark Constitution</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/09/17/remembering-our-landmark-constituion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Reeb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we celebrate the 222nd anniversary of the completion of the United States Constitution by a hardy assemblage of patriots in 1787, meeting for four months in Philadelphia’s Independence Hall. They produced the world’s first written constitution, which has turned out to be the longest continuing constitution as well. While we revere our Constitution we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taxes undo Mass. Guv &amp; other Dems</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Moloney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Wellfleet, MA &#8211; July 20) This is a small Cape Cod community –about 500 people when I was growing up- now part of Massachusetts’ National Seashore Park. It&#8217;s also home to a few hardy souls with whom I shared the experience of a one-room school house presided over by a septuagenarian female teacher whose reproving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Constitution is still the supreme law</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Reeb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We must never forget it is a Constitution we are expounding&#8221;- Chief Justice John Marshall Last week I discussed the controversy over the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, focusing on the standard for evaluating nominees. This week I will examine our Constitution, the basis for that standard. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California needs leadership, not evasions</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/05/04/california-needs-leadership-not-evasions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 22:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Reeb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Typically in the wake of disasters there is a mess to clean up. California’s interminable budget crisis qualifies as an ongoing disaster. On the maxim that those who make messes should clean them up, the politicians in Sacramento have no business following up their failure to exercise budgetary discipline by throwing the alleged solution into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Multiple taxes support grasping government</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/04/13/multiple-taxes-support-grasping-government/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Reeb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In political arithmetic, two and two do not always make four.&#8221; Alexander Hamilton quoted this old maxim in the Federalist Papers in his discussion of the need for taxes to support the government being proposed by the Federal Convention of 1787. Hamilton contended that a tax on consumption was adequate for all practical purposes which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Other states envy TABOR</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/02/13/other-states-envy-tabor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Denver Post, Feb. 15) How dumb do they think we are? The state is in a $600 million hole because Gov. Bill Ritter and Democratic legislators ignored advice from Republicans – and even some fellow Democrats – to restrain spending and save for a rainy day. Now those same spendthrifts want us to remove constitutional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Weyrich, Genius of the Right</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Weyrich, conservative organizer par excellence, died today at his home in Washington DC after a long and painful illness which he bore with heroic good cheer. He was just 66. A tribute is here. History will recognize him as a giant of the American right. The vaunted successes of the Democracy Alliance for liberal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colorado pension plan in trouble</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/12/01/colorado-pension-plan-in-trouble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Sharf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As some of you may have heard, PERA, Colorado&#8217;s Public Employee Retirement program, has got a little problem. At latest report, its obligations were down to being about 60% funded, a couple of decades out, down from 80%, which is considered fully-funded. This is before taking into account paper losses from real estate and other [...]]]></description>
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