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		<title>No RINO, no BULL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s mostly amusing, but also a little bit irritating, when some callers refer to me as a RINO, a Republican in Name Only.  I’m at a loss to know how I qualify for the appellation.  Let’s see I’ve voted for every GOP candidate for president starting with Barry Goldwater, I’ve given money to the party [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kmbzkcblogs.com/shanin/?p=61</link>
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		<title>May I Quote You?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought it might be a good idea&#8211;and a welcome relief for many of you&#8211;if I used someone else’s words today and not my own. Recently, I enjoyed looking through a book of quotes about politics that has been on my bookshelf too long.
I picked a few that seem to have relevance in today’s environment. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kmbzkcblogs.com/shanin/?p=60</link>
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		<title>Majority Rule!  Not!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When people say the federal court has no business ruling against some portions of the Arizona immigration law, they frequently argue that most people are in favor of it and, after all, the majority rules.  But, no it doesn’t.
There are numerous examples in our governing system where the majority doesn’t have the final word.  In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kmbzkcblogs.com/shanin/?p=59</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Here&#8217;s Johnny&#8221; Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I discovered that one of the cable channels is running half-hour segments from the old “Tonight Show,” presided over for 30-years from 1962-92 by Johnny Carson.  The segments include edited sketches and routines from the Carson repertoire, well-known to those of us who were fans, including “Tea Time Movie,”  “Aunt Blabby” and “Carnac the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kmbzkcblogs.com/shanin/?p=58</link>
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		<title>Remembering (and longing for) Reagan!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What would Reagan really do?  That’s the provocative title of a story in a recent Newsweek magazine.  The article claims some Republicans want to impose a Reaganite purity test on candidates this year that Reagan himself would fail.  Andrew Romano claims conservatives and Republicans can still learn a great deal from the 40th president, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kmbzkcblogs.com/shanin/?p=56</link>
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		<title>Build it and they will&#8230;..subsidize it!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You’ve likely heard the recent news that the Power and Light District downtown is not paying for itself.  That is, the tax revenues from the district&#8211;sales, earnings, property&#8211;all go toward  paying off the city’s bonds that financed the district.  When the plan was being presented to the public, it was “sold” as a self-sustaining project.
Now, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kmbzkcblogs.com/shanin/?p=55</link>
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		<title>Experiencing Confusion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There seems to be an interesting disconnect in what many  people&#8211;based on calls to our program&#8211;want in those who represent them in  Washington.  On the one hand, we have fierce opposition to anyone who is now in  office.  You hear talk from voters who won&#8217;t support any incumbent.  &#8216;They&#8217;ve  just been there do long.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kmbzkcblogs.com/shanin/?p=53</link>
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		<title>&#8220;DeMinted?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scott and I had the opportunity to visit with US Senator Jim DeMint last Friday, a man said to be among the most, if not THE most, conservative member of the US Senate.  Shockingly enough, after being told by some callers in recent weeks that I’m not a conservative, something I thought I’d been since [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kmbzkcblogs.com/shanin/?p=51</link>
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		<title>The Founders:  Mere Mortals?</title>
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In anticipation of tomorrow’s holiday, Scott and I visited  yesterday afternoon with noted American historian and novelist Thomas Fleming.   He knows a lot about America’s history, and one of his main focuses has been the  revolutionary period and the men who made those fateful decisions to declare  independence from the mother country, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kmbzkcblogs.com/shanin/?p=48</link>
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		<title>I Like (M) IKE?</title>
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All the recent news has again caused people to speculate that General David  Petraeus is planning a presidential bid in 2012 or later.  It’s possible, of  course, but unlikely, at least in the near term.  Petraeus has just taken on the  massive assignment of heading US forces in Afghanistan, a mission that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kmbzkcblogs.com/shanin/?p=44</link>
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