<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" version="2.0"><channel><title>Left Turn: part of the Progressive and Liberal Resurgence</title><description>A blog from Mark Harmon, University of Tennesse associate professor of journalism and electronic media, former congressional candidate, radio host, journalist.</description><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Mark Harmon)</managingEditor><pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2023 02:13:42 -0400</pubDate><generator>Blogger http://www.blogger.com</generator><openSearch:totalResults xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/">31</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/">1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/">25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><link>http://markharmon.blogspot.com/</link><language>en-us</language><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><copyright>Non-commercial use only, no derivations</copyright><itunes:keywords>politics liberal progressive Harmon Tennessee Mark Knoxville radio WNOX</itunes:keywords><itunes:summary>Left Turn is a progressive and liberal radio program in East Tennessee, hosted by Dr. Mark D. 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The guests takes on callers who have fallen for the idea of a regressive national sales tax.  &lt;a href="http://excellent.comm.utk.edu/~mdharmon/podcasts/TennFairTax.m4a"&gt;  Click to Listen&lt;/a&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>markdharmon@yahoo.com (Mark D. Harmon)</author></item><item><title>Buy Blue</title><link>http://markharmon.blogspot.com/2006/02/buy-blue.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 2 Feb 2006 17:52:00 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15523942.post-113892104836788893</guid><description>An interview with Raven Brooks of Buy Blue.  You don't want to miss the clip of the Austin Lounge Lizards "It's always Christmas time for Visa."  &lt;a href="http://excellent.comm.utk.edu/~mdharmon/podcasts/BuyBlue.m4a"&gt;  Click to Listen&lt;/a&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>markdharmon@yahoo.com (Mark D. 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