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	<description>Rallying citizens to shoulder personal responsibility and restore consitutional government.</description>
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		<title>Sheriff Obama? Not so much</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2012/05/12/sheriff-obama-not-so-much/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 22:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The President has failed on national security and can&#8217;t credibly campaign as a tough guy, says John Andrews in the May round of Head On TV debates. Just the opposite, replies Susan Barnes-Gelt: in eliminating bin Laden and removing Qadhafi, Obama has proved the strongest commander-in-chief since FDR. John on the right, Susan on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Partisan Politics for Dummies</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2012/04/29/partisan-politics-for-dummies/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2012/04/29/partisan-politics-for-dummies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[partisanship]]></category>
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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>Unlimited government dismays Americans</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2012/04/14/unlimited-government-dismays-scotus/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2012/04/14/unlimited-government-dismays-scotus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 23:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lesson already from Supreme Court deliberations over the constitutionality of Obamacare is that unlimited government makes most Americans queasy, says John Andrews in the April round of Head On TV debates. No, replies Susan Barnes-Gelt, the big takeaway is conservatives&#8217; inconsistency, suddenly favoring the very judicial activism they long opposed. John on the right, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matt Arnold gains in regent race</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2012/04/14/matt-arnold-gains-in-regent-race/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 23:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Campaigns & Candidates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brian davidsons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cu regent at large]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[matt arnold]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the statewide race to tilt CU&#8217;s board of regents rightward, not only by replacing a D with an R but also by making sure the R is a fighting conservative, army officer Matt Arnold took the upper hand today over physician Brian Davidson as he won top line at the Republican state assembly, 54-46%. [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Andrews in Print]]></category>

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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>Nearing war with Iran?</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2012/03/17/nearing-war-with-iran/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2012/03/17/nearing-war-with-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 21:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HeadOn TV]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The president rightly rebuked the GOP presidential contenders for &#8220;casualness&#8221; in regard to a potential war with Iran, says Susan Barnes-Gelt in the March round of Head On TV debates. No, replies John Andrews, Obama merely hopes to distract from his own failed policy on Tehran&#8217;s nuclear aspirations. John on the right, Susan on the [...]]]></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[governor of colorado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hickenlooper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tbd project]]></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>Obama declares war on people of faith</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2012/02/17/obama-declares-war-on-people-of-faith/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2012/02/17/obama-declares-war-on-people-of-faith/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 02:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HeadOn TV]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Republicans will suffer politically from their &#8220;overreach on family planning&#8221; in response to a minor mistake by HHS, says Susan Barnes-Gelt in the January round of Head On TV debates. Nothing minor here, replies John Andrews; Obama&#8217;s mandate on religious institutions is a declaration of war. John on the right, Susan on the left, also [...]]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[fraser institute]]></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>Candidates in stark contrast</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2012/01/18/candidates-in-stark-contrast/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2012/01/18/candidates-in-stark-contrast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HeadOn TV]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Obama&#8217;s goals and record will make a stark contrast with those of Mitt Romney or whoever the GOP nominates, says John Andrews in the January round of Head On TV debates. Hardly, scoffs Susan Barnes-Gelt: Romney&#8217;s positions are vague and the overall Republican field is weak. John on the right, Susan on the left, also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grim reminder in Parker deaths</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/12/31/grim-reminder-in-parker-deaths/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/12/31/grim-reminder-in-parker-deaths/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Moyers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Morality & ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Have you observed two reoccurring events in the news?  First, there is murder followed by a suicide.  Is this the result of teaching and acceptance of evolution in our society?  If life is just a matter of chance and time, what difference does it make what I do?  If I am not responsible to a [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Andrews in Print]]></category>

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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>2011 valedictions &amp; 2012 predictions</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/12/18/head-on-dec2011/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/12/18/head-on-dec2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 02:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HeadOn TV]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fantasy presidential nominations for Ross Perot, Olympia Snowe, and John Hickenlooper, along with bouquets for Douglas County school vouchers and brickbats for the Denver police, enliven the air waves this month as Head On completes its 15th year on Colorado Public Television. John Andrews on the right and Susan Barnes-Gelt on the left offer their [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Andrews in Print]]></category>

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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>Disgusted with the Occupiers</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/11/11/disgusted-with-the-occupiers/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/11/11/disgusted-with-the-occupiers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 03:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HeadOn TV]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Occupy movement is a childish tantrum that is taking on Brownshirt overtones, says John Andrews in the November round of Head On TV debates. Wrong, replies Susan Barnes-Gelt: it&#8217;s an authentic protest widely echoing that famous movie line, &#8220;Mad as hell.&#8221; John on the right, Susan on the left, also go at it this [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Andrews in Print]]></category>

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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>Vote no on Proposition 103</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/10/17/vote-no-on-proposition-103/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/10/17/vote-no-on-proposition-103/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes & TABOR]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a no-vote on Prop 103, and so should you be. The ballot issue raising Colorado&#8217;s income tax rate and sales tax rate for the next five years (ostensibly to fund education, but with no guarantee of doing so), is but the latest effort by the spending lobby to avoid hard choices about reining in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vote Republican in local races on Nov. 1</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/10/17/vote-republican-in-local-races-on-nov-1/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/10/17/vote-republican-in-local-races-on-nov-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[centennial city council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[denver school board]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[douglas county school board]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jefferson county school board]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the wrong-headed Colorado statute barring party affiliations from the ballot in local elections, we all know it matters a lot whether any office in the land, high or low, is held by a Democrat or a Republican. Democrats generally favor government solutions, unions, collectivist approaches, taxes and spending. Republicans are more generally skeptical of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Class warfare won&#8217;t work</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/10/13/class-warfare-wont-work/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2011/10/13/class-warfare-wont-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 02:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HeadOn TV]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Obama&#8217;s class warfare theme, learned from Alinsky and abetted by the Occupy Wall Street movement, won&#8217;t save him in 2012, says John Andrews in the October round of Head On TV debates. Don&#8217;t underestimate its Main Street appeal, replies Susan Barnes-Gelt. John on the right, Susan on the left, also go at it this month [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Andrews in Print]]></category>

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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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