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	<title>Sheila Kennedy</title>
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	<description>Thinking about Liberty</description>
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		<title>Bipartisanship</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/05/bipartisanship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 12:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bipartisanship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the nation's business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[zealotry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a lot of talk these days about bipartisanship and the lack thereof. One the one hand, we have cartoon characters like Richard Mourdock and peevish pundits like George Will decrying the very idea. (In a recent column, Will attacks all the bad ideas that have become law as a result of the dreaded cooperation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indiana&#8217;s Choice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 11:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boneham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governor's race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gregg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hoosiers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the primaries are over, and the outlines of the gubernatorial campaign are getting clearer, it is beginning to look as if Hoosiers will have a choice between a candidate with bad ideas and one with no ideas. The Star reports that Democrat John Gregg is advocating both a tax cut for businesses and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Church, State, Gay, Straight</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/05/church-state-gay-straight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 12:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religious Liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religious liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[same-sex marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[separation of church and state]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, it&#8217;s time for one of my broken-record rants. In the wake of President Obama&#8217;s endorsement of same-sex marriage, we&#8217;ve had a predictable&#8211;and increasingly tiresome&#8211;outpouring of criticisms to the effect that government recognition of such unions violates the &#8220;religious liberty&#8221; of those who oppose them. No, it doesn&#8217;t. Government recognition of civil same-sex marriages is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking Backward</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/05/looking-backward/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/05/looking-backward/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 16:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[backward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Party of No]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 1980, I won the Republican primary for what was then Indiana’s Eleventh Congressional District, defeating three opponents. I was pro-choice and on record supporting equal rights for gays and lesbians (same-sex marriage was not yet an issue), positions that were consistent with the generally libertarian Republicanism of the day. Indeed, my loss to Andy [...]]]></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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=2794</guid>
		<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>Only in Indiana</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/05/only-in-indiana/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/05/only-in-indiana/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 12:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Gregg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Pence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[same-sex marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over at the Daily Beast, Andrew Sullivan has posted a memo he somehow obtained from a Republican pollster&#8211;the same guy who did polling for George W. Bush.   The advice he gives GOP candidates&#8211;based upon his reading of recent poll results&#8211;is pretty astonishing; he bluntly warns that continuing its anti-gay positions and rhetoric will &#8220;marginalize the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Couple of Gloomy Observations</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/05/a-couple-of-gloomy-observations/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/05/a-couple-of-gloomy-observations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 11:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lugar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mourdock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Super Pacs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I got a phone call from an old friend. Unlike most of my other Republican friends, who have been appalled by the Lugar-Mourdock results, he was euphoric. Why? Because Mourdock &#8220;is a bomb thrower! He&#8217;ll go to Washington and he won&#8217;t play the game!&#8221; Also yesterday, a commenter to one of my recent blogs [...]]]></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>Indiana&#8217;s Hangover</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/05/indianas-hangover/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/05/indianas-hangover/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 12:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gregg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lugar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mourdock]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=2784</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, we&#8217;ve had our &#8220;party&#8221;&#8211;yesterday was Primary Election day. Today, we have to live with the hangover. The most troubling result, of course, was the defeat of Dick Lugar by an embarrassing know-nothing unworthy to polish his shoes. I have posted several times about the pathetic campaign run by a once-towering statesman. Truth be told, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Guess I Pissed Him Off&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/05/i-guess-i-pissed-him-off/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/05/i-guess-i-pissed-him-off/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 10:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=2771</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, after receiving a particularly nasty (unsigned) letter presumably triggered by one of my columns in the Indianapolis Star, I posted a rebuttal of sorts. In it, I noted my frustration with people who respond to ideas with which they disagree by calling names rather than specifying the nature of the disagreement. Today, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voting on the Word of God</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/05/voting-on-the-word-of-god/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/05/voting-on-the-word-of-god/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 10:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PFLAG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Straight for Equality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My husband and I attended a &#8220;Straight for Equality&#8221; event sponsored by PFLAG yesterday. PFLAG&#8211;for those who don&#8217;t know the acronym&#8211;stands for Parents, Friends and Families of Lesbians and Gays; the organization has 350+ chapters in the US and abroad.  &#8221;Straight for Equality&#8221; is an advocacy campaign the national organization has just launched. The President [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Love Neil DeGrasse Tyson</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/05/why-i-love-neil-degrasse-tyson/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/05/why-i-love-neil-degrasse-tyson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 18:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agnostic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[atheist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neil DeGrasse Tyson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=2764</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I find Neil DeGrasse Tyson consistently reasonable, rational and persuasive. In this brief video, he does two things I think are important: he explains why labeling is the enemy of discourse, and he defends the distinction between agnostics and atheists. It&#8217;s well work watching.]]></description>
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		<title>Must&#8230;Hang On&#8230;Almost Tuesday&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/05/must-hang-on-almost-tuesday/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/05/must-hang-on-almost-tuesday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 11:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[content-free politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political ads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[primary election]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=2762</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t imagine what life is like for people who don&#8217;t have TIVO. Our live TV watching is limited to the evening news&#8211;we can skip commercials otherwise&#8211;and we are drowning in negative, content-free bilge. Not to mention the colorful fliers in the daily mail&#8211;you know the ones I&#8217;m referring to: Candidate A would let women [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Constitutes &#8220;Speech&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/05/what-constitutes-speech/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/05/what-constitutes-speech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 11:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom of expression]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=2760</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning&#8217;s news included a report on a Virginia lawsuit brought by sheriff&#8217;s deputies alleging retaliatory firing in violation of their free speech rights. They claimed they&#8217;d been dismissed for supporting the Sheriff&#8217;s (unsuccessful) opponent in a recent election. The law is pretty clear that public employees do not lose their First Amendment rights simply [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five More Days&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/05/five-more-days/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/05/five-more-days/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 11:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[primary elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voter ID laws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=2758</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;until the primary election is over. If you are like me, you are fed up/disgusted with the incessant negative television spots that tell you nothing about the candidate who has &#8220;approved&#8221; them and the constant stream of email messages &#8220;urgently&#8221; requesting money so that good can overcome evil. I&#8217;m just hiding under my desk until [...]]]></description>
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