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	<title>Sheila Kennedy &#187; Random Blogging</title>
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	<description>Thinking about Liberty</description>
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		<title>When Will We Ever Learn?</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/08/when-will-we-ever-learn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Idea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bigotry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mosque]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1039</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There was an anti-war song from the sixties that I always loved, titled “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” The refrain was “oh, when will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?” I’ve thought about that refrain a lot lately, as America has increasingly retreated into one of the ugliest nativist episodes in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mirror Images</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/07/mirror-images/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/07/mirror-images/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hypocrisy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[partisanship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Party of No]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1034</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There must be a special blind spot that allows people to engage in precisely the same behavior that they (correctly) criticize in others.  In one particularly distasteful example, the Anti-Defamation League, an organization founded to counter religious prejudice, recently opposed locating a mosque a few blocks from Ground Zero. Evidently, the ADL’s commitment to civil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Game-Playing</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/07/game-playing/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/07/game-playing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dirty tricks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1027</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was growing up, parents and teachers used to tell us “it isn’t whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game.” Honor was a higher goal than winning. Playing fair, displaying sportsmanship, generosity in winning and gallantry in losing were the goals. Adults worthy of our admiration and respect were those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Us versus Them, Redux</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/07/us-versus-them-redux/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/07/us-versus-them-redux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bigotry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslims]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1025</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was growing up in Anderson, Indiana, Jews were often viewed as an alien species. I can remember being asked—in all seriousness—whether Jews had tails, and whether we lived in houses, like “real people.” In addition to these innocent if disconcerting questions, I also remember being called a “dirty Jew” for the first (but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paradigm Shift</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/06/paradigm-shift/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/06/paradigm-shift/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civic leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fear of change]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1023</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent column about urban relocation, Neil Pierce noted that “for humans, displacement from their known settings may be exceedingly painful…the psychological impact of forced removal from a familiar neighborhood is like a plant being jerked from its native soil.” He went on to acknowledge that holding neighborhoods static isn’t practical. Of course, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patriotism and Taxes</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/04/patriotism-and-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/04/patriotism-and-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 16:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Paine]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1002</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Much of today’s angry rhetoric is constructed around two dubious claims: (1) taxes are unjust, because my money is the result of my own hard work; and (2) people helped by government are indolent leeches.  One problem with the latter claim is that people who look down on welfare recipients who are poor have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debate and Hate</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/03/debate-and-hate/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/03/debate-and-hate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planned Parenthood]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=998</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Coincidences over the past few weeks have made me think a lot about civility.  A colleague and I were asked to lead an after-play discussion on that topic at the Phoenix Theater; we disagree politically, but have often commiserated about the increasingly toxic tone of public argumentation.  I later participated on a panel at Butler [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No More Susie Sunshine</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/01/no-more-susie-sunshine/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/01/no-more-susie-sunshine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[backlash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[critics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=974</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has read my columns over the years knows I am a resolute optimist. My general theme is something along the lines of  “Yes, this bad thing or that has happened, but overall, look at the progress America is making.” And it’s true—over the long haul, we have seen progress in the general culture, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sad Demise of the GOP?</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/01/the-sad-demise-of-the-gop/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/01/the-sad-demise-of-the-gop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=966</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was an active, committed Republican for 35 years. I worked in a Republican city administration; I ran for Congress as a Republican, and I was &#8220;mainstream&#8221; enough to win a four-person primary. That was in 1980. Over the years, the GOP drifed ever further from the principles that had attracted me. A principled concern with limiting the authority [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fact-Check the Talking Heads</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/01/fact-check-the-talking-heads/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/01/fact-check-the-talking-heads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sunday talk shows]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=958</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most persistent complaints about broadcast journalism&#8211;a complaint that comes from both left and right&#8211;is the practice on shows like Meet the Press, Face the Nation, This Week, etc. of asking questions of their guests, allowing those guests to answer, and then moving on to the next question. The hosts rarely  challenge even the most obvious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defining &#8220;Wasteful&#8221; Spending</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/12/defining-wasteful-spending/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/12/defining-wasteful-spending/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government spending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[waste]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=956</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The charge that government wastes money (or &#8220;throws money at problems) is a favorite accusation of politicians of all persuasions. Certainly, lawmakers should refuse to fund activities that have been shown not to work. But as Steve Benen points out, the definition of waste generally owes more to ideology than evidence.]]></description>
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		<title>Intellectual Honesty and Facebook</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/12/intellectual-honesty-and-facebook/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/12/intellectual-honesty-and-facebook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cvivility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fact-checking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intellectual honesty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=950</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The pitfalls of our new social media environments are widely discussed, if not quite as widely understood. A recent personal experience brought that point home to me rather vividly. A couple of days ago, I posted an angry comment to Facebook about Joe Lieberman and Ben Nelson, and their apparent willingness to kill health insurance reform. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to Santa</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/12/letter-to-santa/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/12/letter-to-santa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paranoia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Santa]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=946</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Santa, You are probably surprised to hear from me since, being Jewish, I haven’t written before. But things are really getting dicey here in the good old U.S. of A., and I was wondering if I might ask for one teeny-weeny gift this year. I’d like some sanity, if you have any on hand. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Journalism</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/12/good-journalism/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/12/good-journalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lehrer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rules]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=944</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jim Lehrer recently announced a change of name and some changes of format to what was previously the McNeill Lehrer report. As one blogger who reported on the changes noted, Lehrer has consistently approached the news with a certain seriousness and depth that is virtually non-existent on television anymore. Last week in a piece about the show&#8217;s latest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Journalism&#8217;s Responsibility?</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/12/journalisms-responsibility/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/12/journalisms-responsibility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fact-checking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[objectivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=940</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent blog post at Political Animal, Steve Benen addressed the decision of the Washington Post to run an op-ed on climate change written (okay, probably ghost-written, since she&#8217;s given no hint that she&#8217;s familiar with the English language) by Sarah Palin. The problem isn&#8217;t just that the paper published another right-wing piece from [...]]]></description>
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