{"id":1323,"date":"2014-08-11T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publicreligion.org\/?p=20318"},"modified":"2014-08-11T08:00:03","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T14:00:03","slug":"the-morning-buzz-could-libertarianism-transform-the-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2014\/08\/the-morning-buzz-could-libertarianism-transform-the-gop\/","title":{"rendered":"The Morning Buzz | Could Libertarianism Transform the GOP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>In today\u2019s Buzz, Richard Dawkins might be a liability to the atheist movement, Pope Francis could reframe the \u201cvalues\u201d debate, libertarianism might be going 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