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Your neighbors include democratic and republican party leaders and others who call themselves &#8220;moderates&#8221; and &#8220;centrists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politopia.com\/quiz_index.php3\">Take the Politopia Quiz<\/a><\/small> <\/center><\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;d kind of like to think so.  Certainly there seem to be different issues where I appall one side or the other &#8212; as well as a lot of issues where I see danger in drifting too far one direction or the other.  So, for the moment, I&#8217;m happy to be in the middle (or, as heated rhetoric sometimes seems to make it, &#8220;No Man&#8217;s Land&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdharris.net\/archives\/2003_08.html#002602\">Ipse Dixit<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centerville-You would feel most at home in Centerville, which means that you are more or less pleased the status quo-you think the US government has just about the right amount&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personality-tests"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9066,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/24\/dubaious_object.html","url_meta":{"origin":4595,"position":0},"title":"Dubaious objections","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 24-Feb-06 10:46am","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm sure there's room for nuanced analysis of the security issues related to a Dubai (UAE) government-owned corporation taking over O&M (if not, directly, security) for a number of US...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Geopolitical Brouhaha&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Geopolitical Brouhaha","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/geopolitical-brouhaha"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":41077,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/11\/because-ready-rarely-happens-on-its-own.html","url_meta":{"origin":4595,"position":1},"title":"Because &quot;ready&quot; rarely happens on its own","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 11-Feb-14 11:21am","format":false,"excerpt":"'The question which we so often have been offered\u2014is the NFL ready for a gay player?\u2014is backwards. 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