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	<title>Sheila Kennedy &#187; Public Policy and Governance</title>
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	<description>Thinking about Liberty</description>
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		<title>The Scariest Thing About Mitt Romney</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/05/the-scariest-thing-about-mitt-romney/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/05/the-scariest-thing-about-mitt-romney/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 14:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Romney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Romney doctrine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This morning&#8217;s New York Times asked an important question: is there a &#8220;Romney Doctrine&#8221;? The article detailed the multiple ways in which Romney has ignored the advice of seasoned members of his foreign policy team, and rejected the more nuanced positions that Bush junior came to embrace in his second term (after learning lessons the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Marketplace of Ideas</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/05/the-marketplace-of-ideas/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/05/the-marketplace-of-ideas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 14:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom of speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[same-sex marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The theory behind freedom of speech was pretty simple: a robust consideration and debate of all ideas will lead to adoption of the better ones. When all points of view can be examined, people will opt for those that are best for that society. The history of civil rights in the U.S. would seem to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sorry, Ericka&#8211;It Isn&#8217;t Change Indy Is Spurning</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/05/sorry-ericka-it-isnt-change-indy-is-spurning/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/05/sorry-ericka-it-isnt-change-indy-is-spurning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 11:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ericka Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Straub]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[management]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=2756</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I generally like Ericka Smith&#8217;s columns&#8211;indeed, she and Matt Tully generally write the only things worth reading in what used to be a real newspaper. But she got this one really, really wrong. I know a fair number of police officers, and a significantly larger number of politicians. I also have several colleagues who work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Priorities, People!</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/04/priorities-people/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/04/priorities-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college loans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil subsidies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes on the 1%]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=2743</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I see that Congressional Republicans bowed to the inevitable&#8211;aka looming voter outrage&#8211;and passed an extension of the measure to keep student loan interest rates at their current levels. The rates would have doubled without congressional action, and while the Tea Party faction supported letting the rates increase (who cares about those snotty little elitists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Buffet Rule and the Self-Made Myth</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/04/the-buffet-rule-and-the-self-made-myth/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/04/the-buffet-rule-and-the-self-made-myth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["self-made" men]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buffet rule]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public goods]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=2716</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Predictably, the Buffet Rule&#8211;which would have raised tax rates on those making a million dollars or more a year&#8211;failed for lack of the 60 votes needed to break a Republican filibuster. The GOP defended its position as necessary to encourage entrepreneurship and job creation, despite literally mountains of data disproving the link between lower taxes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NOW I Understand!</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/04/now-i-understand/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/04/now-i-understand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Christie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Krugman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-interest vs. public interest]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=2690</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, in a post about N.J. Governor Christie&#8217;s decision to abort a badly needed tunnel linking New Jersey and New York, and his multiple lies about his reasons for doing so, I admitted that I was baffled: there was no scenario I could come up with that made the decision explicable. Now, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Legacy of &#8220;Our Man Mitch&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/04/the-legacy-of-our-man-mitch/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/04/the-legacy-of-our-man-mitch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitch Daniels]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The NorthWest Times of Indiana has an article detailing the devastation that tax caps are visiting on Indiana&#8217;s municipalities. We can thank Mitch Daniels for leading the charge to place these caps in the state&#8217;s constitution, where they will continue to strangle local governments until we manage the difficult job of passing a constitutional amendment. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Only Money</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/04/its-only-money/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/04/its-only-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["found" money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daniels Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fiscal irresponsibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[incompetent management]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=2645</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As P.J. O&#8217;Rourke famously observed, &#8220;The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn&#8217;t work and then they get elected and prove it.&#8221; P.J., you were prescient! The headline in the Star tells the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Other News, the Sun Rose this Morning&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/04/in-other-news-the-sun-rose-this-morning/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/04/in-other-news-the-sun-rose-this-morning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IBM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[outsourcing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State of Indiana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[welfare intake contract]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[According to reports in the IBJ and elsewhere, the trial pitting IBM against the State of the Indiana is winding down. At issue are cross-claims about the reasons for and propriety of the termination of IBM&#8217;s contract to provide welfare intake services. According to the IBJ, IBM&#8217;s lawyer argued that the real reason for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;With A Little Help from My Friends</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/04/with-a-little-help-from-my-friends/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/04/with-a-little-help-from-my-friends/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cronyism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indiana Supreme Court]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Massa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitch Daniels]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=2629</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On my way to work this morning, WFYI informed me that today is the day Mark Massa will be sworn in as the newest Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court. When Governor Daniels announced that he had chosen Massa, there was a good deal of criticism. Some observers expressed surprise that&#8211;once again&#8211;the Governor had ignored [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fifty-One Percent</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/03/fifty-one-percent/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/03/fifty-one-percent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 15:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[51% Club]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gender gap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war on women]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=2623</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent New York Times column, Gail Collins observed “the thing that makes our current politics particularly awful isn’t procedural. It’s that the Republican Party has become over-the-top extreme.” She left out “mean-spirited and patriarchal.” I was an active Republican for 35 years, but the party I belonged to no longer exists. There is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking of Gushers&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/03/speaking-of-gushers/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/03/speaking-of-gushers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[big oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil subsidies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=2615</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[American taxpayers subsidize the giant oil companies to the tune of 4 billion dollars a year. The American tax code contains a variety of provisions that make oil production one of the most heavily subsidized businesses in the country, with tax breaks available at virtually every stage of the exploration and extraction process. According to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Audacious in Chicago</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/03/audacious-in-chicago/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/03/audacious-in-chicago/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privatization]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=2611</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning&#8217;s New York Times reports that Rahm Emmanuel will announce a 7.1 billion-with-a-b infrastructure improvement plan for Chicago. Improvements will be made to everything from the water system to the airport, from public transportation to parks. The improvements will be financed primarily through a public-private investment trust, details of which Mayor Emmanuel is supposed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Legislatures are For</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/03/what-legislatures-are-for/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/03/what-legislatures-are-for/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[branches of government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitch Daniels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rockport coal gasification]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=2558</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Given the antics of the Indiana General Assembly in the just (mercifully) ended session, you might think the role of the legislature is to ensure proper singing of the national anthem,  determine whether children need to learn cursive and require the BMV to honor the prejudices of people who hate gays. So it might come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Was Wrong</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/03/i-was-wrong/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/03/i-was-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 12:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birth control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reproductive rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war on women]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=2540</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I blogged about something I&#8217;d gotten right. Today, I&#8217;m going to admit being wrong. When people first began talking about a &#8220;war on women,&#8221; I thought the rhetoric was over the top. Sure, there were some retrograde legislators in statehouses around the country&#8211;not to mention Washington&#8211;but that&#8217;s always been the case. Attacks on Roe [...]]]></description>
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