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	<title>Backbone America &#187; Western Civilization</title>
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		<title>Revisionists diss Reagan in Berlin</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/11/10/revisionists-diss-reagan-in-berlin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Davenport</dc:creator>
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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>That was the week that was</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/11/09/that-was-the-week-that-was/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Reeb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week was truly remarkable. Republicans swept three state elections; then an Islamic extremist holding the position of an Army psychiatrist murdered 13 persons and wounded 31 others at Fort Hood, Texas; the House of Representatives defied the will of the American people by passing a comprehensive health insurance bill; and free people celebrated the [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Reeb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></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>Teacher&#8217;s Desk: Tough Kids</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/08/22/teachers-desk-tough-kids/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/08/22/teachers-desk-tough-kids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Kullback</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teachers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Civilization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[First week back in the classroom. Our new math teacher is fresh out of college and trained by Teach America. Our returning students aren&#8217;t what you&#8217;d find at most high schools. I saw two this year that I hadn’t seen for two years. One of the young men spent the last two years incarcerated. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The meaning of American independence</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/07/04/the-meaning-of-american-independence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Reeb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The national holiday we celebrate today is more often referred to as the Fourth of July than Independence Day, but at least that makes clear what date we are marking. We should, however, commemorate the historical event and all that it symbolizes, for the common world calendar ensures that the whole world has a July [...]]]></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>
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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>Nature is always the standard for us</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/04/04/nature-is-always-the-standard-for-us/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/04/04/nature-is-always-the-standard-for-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 05:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Reeb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the natural elements wreak their havoc on us, we are reminded that human power can extend only so far. Yet our submission to &#8220;the laws of nature and of nature’s God&#8221; is more cause for celebration than despair. Many people, educated and uneducated, seem to assume that nature is something outside us, forgetting that mankind [...]]]></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>
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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>Obama&#8217;s first 48: Do you feel safer yet?</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/01/22/obamas-first-48-do-you-feel-safer-yet/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/01/22/obamas-first-48-do-you-feel-safer-yet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Davenport</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama has been president for all of 48 hours, and I already feel less safe. In one of his first official acts as president, Obama ordered the detention facility at Guantanamo closed &#8220;within a year&#8221;, and officially outlawed any &#8220;enhanced interrogation&#8221; techniques that fall outside of the U.S. Army Field Manual. In a signing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jihadists&#8217; goal: &#8216;Destroy US from within&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/01/12/jihadists-goal-destroy-us-from-within/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/01/12/jihadists-goal-destroy-us-from-within/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Delta Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Documents uncovered in a raid on the Holy Land Foundation, subject of the recent terrorism trial in Texas, reveal the intention and strategy of Islamizing the United States, even if it takes a hundred years. Linked below is an electronic copy of the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s &#8220;Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clueless celebrities vs. leaders &amp; heroes</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/01/06/clueless-celebrities-vs-leaders-heroes/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/01/06/clueless-celebrities-vs-leaders-heroes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg Brady</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservatism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Americans need to think and talk more about the timeless principles of leadership, principles that also apply equally well to citizenship and simple person-hood. How desperately those principles are needed everyday, and how sadly lacking. Too many &#8220;leaders&#8221; today are merely celebrities, with no notion of integrity and no commitment to God&#8217;s goodness. Little wonder [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We are all Israelis now</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/01/05/we-are-all-israelis-now/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/01/05/we-are-all-israelis-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Davenport</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those now condemning Israel&#8217;s decision to confront and destroy Hamas, I suggest reading Ron Rosenbaum.  Rosenbaum, who wrote the book &#8220;Explaining Hitler&#8221;, has written a compelling piece entitled Some differences between Hamas and the Nazi Party.   Rosenbaum doesn&#8217;t mince words &#8212; arguing in effect that Hamas represents a bigger threat to Jews than even the Nazis did: The Hamas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Islam&#8217;s ancient inferiority complex</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/01/02/islams-ancient-inferiority-complex/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/01/02/islams-ancient-inferiority-complex/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Delta Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I read history, the supposed flowering of Islamic civilization a thousand years ago was not an indigenous Muslim phenomenon. Such advances as they achieved were owing to the Dhimmis (compliant infidels) who had been captured and enslaved during the Jihads from 637 AD onwards. It was the Jews, Christians and the Persians who were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Christmas matters</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/12/19/why-christmas-matters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Andrews in Print]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Denver Post, Dec. 21) Good news. Death is on defense this week. That’s a big reason for the excitement about Christmas and Hanukkah. It should make these holidays welcome even among people who don’t share the biblical beliefs they represent. And it should humble the believers themselves. Civil harmony would benefit. “Merry Christmas” and “Peace [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanksgiving honors founders&#8217; faith</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/11/25/thanksgiving-honors-founders-faith/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/11/25/thanksgiving-honors-founders-faith/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Hillman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For anyone born in the last 50 years, &#8220;separation of church and state&#8221; is inculcated secular orthodoxy. I well remember the family discussion during which my dad informed me that the phrase appears nowhere in the Constitution, and I recall spending the next two hours searching my history books in futility to prove him wrong. [...]]]></description>
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