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	<title>Backbone America</title>
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	<description>Rallying citizens to shoulder personal responsibility and restore consitutional government.</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The meaning of American independence</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/07/04/the-meaning-of-american-independence/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/07/04/the-meaning-of-american-independence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Reeb</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Liberty]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[National Security]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Western Civilization]]></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>Do they even want a recovery?</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/07/03/do-they-even-want-a-recovery/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/07/03/do-they-even-want-a-recovery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Delta Mike</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Bailout & stimulus]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Economics & Business]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Recession]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The four reasons we&#8217;re facing a jobless recovery, outlined the other day by Martin Hutchinson of Money Morning, are on target in my opinion. Here&#8217;s the link.    Developing his analysis further, I think what&#8217;s really going on is this&#8230;
** When they “put America to work” with government jobs, they are paying them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More govt. won&#8217;t fix health care</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/07/03/more-govt-wont-fix-health-care/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/07/03/more-govt-wont-fix-health-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimmy Sengenberger</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama wants sweeping “reforms” to the American health care system that will lead down the dark path to socialized medicine.  But it&#8217;s not more government we need to reform health care—it&#8217;s more freedom.
The thought of nationalizing healthcare is tantalizing for many Americans.  Yet socialized medicine would cost hundreds of billions of dollars, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberty&#8217;s the answer, year-round</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/07/03/libertys-the-answer-year-round/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/07/03/libertys-the-answer-year-round/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Weissmann</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Liberty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backboneamerica.net/?p=2598</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s not hard to love Independence Day.  There are fireworks, picnics, baseball games, and a long weekend.  What’s more, the air is filled with patriotism.  On the Fourth, it seems everyone is thankful for freedom and proud to be an American. 
My Fourth of July wish is for this attitude to last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ritter learning too slowly on budget</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/07/02/ritter-learning-too-slowly-on-budget/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/07/02/ritter-learning-too-slowly-on-budget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Hillman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Budget]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Legislature]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ritter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backboneamerica.net/?p=2595</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Grappling with declining state revenues makes for some very unpleasant budget choices, as Gov. Bill Ritter and the Democrat majorities in the state legislature learned over the past 12 months.
It&#8217;s fair to criticize those choices, including the governor last year denying for several months that a problem existed.  Yet anyone who has shouldered the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Into a twisted future with Gary Wolf</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/07/02/into-a-twisted-future-with-gary-wolf/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/07/02/into-a-twisted-future-with-gary-wolf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Huntwork</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backboneamerica.net/?p=2592</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a world in the near future where the Left has saddled pro sports with quadriplegic refs, transgendered concessionaires and stuttering sportscasters. Now the festering forces of radical feminism have decided to launch a direct assault upon the blatantly oppressive, misogynist and patriarchal world of “maleness” that is professional football. 
Such are the premise and [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/07/02/fame-is-fools-gold/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Kataline</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ideas]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Media critic]]></category>

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		<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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On July 4, a sense of place</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/07/02/on-july-4-a-sense-of-place/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/07/02/on-july-4-a-sense-of-place/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Andrews in Print]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backboneamerica.net/?p=2587</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(Denver Post, July 5) In lieu of fireworks, a cannon boomed at sunrise and sunset over Lewis and Clark’s campsite on a Missouri River tributary in present-day Kansas on July 4, 1804.  They drank a toast and named the place Independence Creek.  It was the first-ever Fourth of July celebration west of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Judge of the World</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/07/02/supreme-judge-of-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/07/02/supreme-judge-of-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Backbone Radio]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Slated on Backbone Radio, July 5
Listen every Sunday, 5-8pm on 710 KNUS, Denver&#8230; 1460 KZNT, Colorado Springs&#8230; and streaming live at 710knus.com.
Imagine a Congress with no party labels, no limos, no spin, the courage to risk the gallows, and the humility to submit their work to judgment by Almighty God.  Such were the men [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Born Yesterday” years out of date</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/06/30/%e2%80%9cborn-yesterday%e2%80%9d-years-out-of-date/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/06/30/%e2%80%9cborn-yesterday%e2%80%9d-years-out-of-date/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Reeb</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Higher education]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Leftists]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backboneamerica.net/?p=2576</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[TCM, the Turner Classic Movie channel, offers a steady stream of yesterday’s movies. Sometimes it offers a classic that provides more than nostalgia, with a window into the past that contrasts sharply with the present. &#8220;Born Yesterday (1950),&#8221; a popular comedy about both the virtues and the dangers of a little learning, ran this week, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor chided in web video</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/06/30/sotomayor-chided-in-web-video/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/06/30/sotomayor-chided-in-web-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Sotomayor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Ricci decision shows she&#8217;s undeserving of a promotion, says a web TV spot produced by the Colorado Judicial Network.
Here&#8217;s the link.  Please forward this to your list.  Let&#8217;s get the word out across Colorado and fire up the phone calls to Sen. Bennet &#038; Sen. Udall.
]]></description>
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		<title>Supremes overturn Judge Sonia</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/06/30/supremes-overturn-judge-sonia/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/06/30/supremes-overturn-judge-sonia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Column</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Sotomayor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(By Colorado Judicial Network) On Monday, the US Supreme Court ruled that Frank Ricci and his fellow New Haven firefighters shouldn&#8217;t be subject to reverse discrimination. In a 5-4 decision, the court overturned the summary judgment ruling in the 2nd Circuit of New York by Judge Sonia Sotomayor and her fellow panelists. And all nine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No &#8220;national dialogue&#8221; on abortion</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/06/29/why-is-there-no-national-dialogue-on-abortion/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/06/29/why-is-there-no-national-dialogue-on-abortion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Reeb</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pro-life]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Race]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Values]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backboneamerica.net/?p=2552</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Both William Clinton and Barack Obama have called for a national dialogue on race. Because this issue divided the country before and after independence, entailing slavery and then segregation; and because it continues to divide the country with the current reverse discrimination, the call struck few people as unreasonable.
Unfortunately, those making the call are less interested [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Junk politics, backed by junk science</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/06/26/junk-politics-backed-by-junk-science/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/06/26/junk-politics-backed-by-junk-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Davenport</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Climate]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backboneamerica.net/?p=2548</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So the House of Representatives, that august body led by union-backed leftists and intellectual dwarfs, has managed to narrowly pass a Climate change bill that will put a major burden on our fragile economy by taxing every source of energy at our disposal. Its unfathomable to me how we can spend billions of taxpayer dollars [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoroughfare of Freedom</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/06/26/thoroughfare-of-freedom/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/06/26/thoroughfare-of-freedom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Backbone Radio]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backboneamerica.net/?p=2544</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Slated on Backbone Radio, June 28
Listen every Sunday, 5-8pm on 710 KNUS, Denver&#8230; 1460 KZNT, Colorado Springs&#8230; and streaming live at 710knus.com.
&#8220;O beautiful for pilgrim feet, whose stern impassioned stress a thoroughfare of freedom beat across the wilderness!&#8221;  So wrote Katherine Lee Bates in the inspiration of climbing Pike&#8217;s Peak on a summer day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Axis of Evil&#8217; outfoxes Uncle Sam</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/06/24/axis-of-evil-outfoxes-uncle-sam/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/06/24/axis-of-evil-outfoxes-uncle-sam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Moloney</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backboneamerica.net/?p=2539</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(Boston) While the world watched the fraudulent Iranian elections, by chance I found myself here in the historic capital of American election fraud.
Just a few steps from Boston’s City Hall the Union Oyster House has been a favored haunt of local politicians since Colonial times.  As we sampled the culinary  delights of this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First fix Medicare, Mr. President</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/06/24/first-fix-medicare-mr-president/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/06/24/first-fix-medicare-mr-president/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Hillman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backboneamerica.net/?p=2536</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[America&#8217;s health care system certainly has its share of problems, of which most emanate from politicians&#8217; tinkering.  They keep tempting the frustrated consumer with promises of better benefits at someone else&#8217;s expense.
So the prospect of President Obama and Congress remaking American health care in their own image should scare the pants off anyone who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family ties through music</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/06/22/family-ties-through-music-2/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/06/22/family-ties-through-music-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Reeb</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Values]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backboneamerica.net/?p=2527</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I attended a wedding of a friend at church, followed by the customary reception. After a delightful meal, some charming innovations to commemorate the occasion and the cutting of the cake, there followed hours of dancing, slow and fast, as also is customary. What struck me in this quite ordinary and conventional setting was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>06/21/2009: Amy Menefee</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/06/22/06212009-amy-menefee/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/06/22/06212009-amy-menefee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen LeCrone</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Radio Podcast]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[7:30PM Guest: Amy Menefee
]]></description>
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		<title>06/21/2009: Ward Connerly</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/06/22/06212009-ward-connerly/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/06/22/06212009-ward-connerly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen LeCrone</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Radio Podcast]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[7PM Guest: Ward Connerly
]]></description>
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