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	<title>Sheila Kennedy</title>
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	<description>Thinking about Liberty</description>
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		<title>Law and Marriage: a Case Study</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/02/law-and-marriage-a-case-study/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legislative strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[same-sex marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Indiana is sometimes called the “buckle on the bible belt;” we are a socially conservative state. Nevertheless, while so many states have amended their constitutions to include prohibitions on same-sex marriage, Indiana has managed to beat back similar efforts. The natural question is: how? What is it about the legislative process and/or the strategies employed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No More Susie Sunshine</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/02/no-more-susie-sunshine-2/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/02/no-more-susie-sunshine-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civic responsibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

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		<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>Power to the People</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/02/power-to-the-people/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/02/power-to-the-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gerrymandering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political gridlock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=992</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in the wild and woolly Sixties, “Power to the People” was a slogan often shouted at sit-ins and the other disruptive gatherings that characterized those tumultuous times. We hear similar chants today from those attending “tea party” events.
Reporters covering the various factions of so-called tea partiers tell us that there really is no central [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outsourcing The Taxing Power</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/02/outsourcing-the-taxing-power/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/02/outsourcing-the-taxing-power/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privatization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a lively debate currently raging over the apparent intent of the Ballard Administration to sell Indianapolis’ water and sewer utilities. Most of the criticism centers on allegations that the decision-making process has been less than transparent—that whatever the merits of an ultimate deal, the public has been largely shut out of the discussions.
In [...]]]></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>Pesky Evidence</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/01/pesky-evidence/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/01/pesky-evidence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Criminal Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[policymaking]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=972</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ll admit to being one of the multitude of fans who have made shows like NCIS and CSI such hits. It isn’t that I don’t recognize how unrealistic they are—no publicly financed lab could afford such cutting-edge equipment even if someone invented it—but I love watching the search for hard evidence, and the characters’ willingness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Even When They&#8217;re Right on Principle&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/01/even-when-theyre-right-on-principle/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/01/even-when-theyre-right-on-principle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gerrymandering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[redistricting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=970</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As readers of this blog know, I&#8217;m a firm proponent of nonpartisan redistricting. Gerrymandering &#8220;games&#8221;&#8211;played by both parties&#8211;simply allow incumbents to choose their voters, rather than the other way around. So I have been inclined to be supportive of Todd Rokita&#8217;s traveling road show, even while somewhat suspicious of his motives. Rokita, after all, was [...]]]></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 of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Marrying Kind</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/01/the-marrying-kind-2/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/01/the-marrying-kind-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Proposition 8]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[same-sex marriage]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=964</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here’s a quick quiz. Who said this?
“Legalizing same-sex marriage would also be a recognition of basic American principles, and would represent the culmination of our nation&#8217;s commitment to equal rights. It is, some have said, the last major civil-rights milestone yet to be surpassed in our two-century struggle to attain the goals we set for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happily Ever After</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/01/happily-ever-after/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/01/happily-ever-after/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[filibuster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jon Kyl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lieberman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=962</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The last time I babysat my younger grandchildren, we watched one of those age-appropriate Hollywood fairy tales where the good guy defeats the bad guy and then the story ends because—it is understood by all, even five-year olds—that everyone will now live happily ever after.
 Many Americans apply that simple fantasy to politics: once we elect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Was a SCIENCE Teacher??!</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/01/this-was-a-science-teacher/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/01/this-was-a-science-teacher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education / Youth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion in school]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=960</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the New York Daily News, a Brooklyn principal has reprimanded a sixth-grade teacher for selling students a book that tells how to &#8220;recognize those serving Satan and bring them to Jesus.&#8221;
Steven Arizmendi sold &#8220;He Came to Set the Captives Free&#8221; to four of his students at Junior High School 220 in Sunset Park [...]]]></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.
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		<title>A Perfect Storm</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/12/a-perfect-storm/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/12/a-perfect-storm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education / Youth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=954</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, a “perfect storm” of problems forces us to make much-needed changes that are politically impossible in normal times. Perhaps—just perhaps—this is one of those times when we can use a few of the fiscal lemons we are being handed to make policy lemonade.
Storm number one is revenue. Indiana is in a world of fiscal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another New Year</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/12/another-new-year/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/12/another-new-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resolutions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’m at that time of life when the new years come around a lot more frequently. (As my husband says, “Life is like a roll of toilet paper—the closer you get to the end, the faster it turns.”) But no matter how often we ring out the old and ring in the new, it’s a [...]]]></description>
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