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		<title>The Collective Suicide That is France</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 12:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crocker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, the French have drunk the Kool-Aide. They elected a hard-left, no-holds-barred Socialist who&#8217;s planned a war on the &#8220;rich&#8221;, an assault on financial markets in Paris and London and surrender of French sovereignty to the Eurocrats in Brussels. As Nick Woods writes in the Daily Mail, it &#8220;can only end in tears&#8221;: In Paris, [...]
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		<title>Debate Night: Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 18:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think Gingrich and Cain performed a public service by breaking free of the pack and engaging in a real, extended, substantive public debate on key economic and entitlement issues. I hesitate to declare a winner because each brings unique strengths and experience to the discussion. Whether you agree or disagree, this is the sort [...]
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		<title>The Economic Crisis Was Designed in Washington, Not New York</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crocker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cato&#8217;s Tom Palmer has the correct take on the Occupy Wall Streeters&#8217; grievances. What caused the crisis, the indebtedness, the unemployment, the stagnation? The culprits are state agencies and enterprises, including our Federal Reserve (our government’s bank), Federal Housing Administration (FHA), Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), [...]
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		<title>Roosevelt, Obama and the Economy: Equally Inept</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 21:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crocker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to demagoguery and economic incompetence, Franklin Roosevelt and Barack Obama are in a dead heat. Over the past several years we&#8217;ve been treated to the spectacle of government waste on a scale never before seen in human history. TARP and the various stimulus programs have put us trillions further into debt. At [...]
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		<title>Goolsbee: &#8220;Cash for Clunkers&#8221; a Mistake</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crocker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Austan Goolsbee is one of the president&#8217;s former economic advisers (count &#8216;em as they stream to the exits). Recently, he made an entirely predictable confession of sorts that both the &#8220;cash for clunkers&#8221; and home-buyer tax credit programs were a mistake. Do tell. I expressed my disgust for the &#8220;clunker&#8221; program more than two years [...]
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		<title>Paul Krugman and Occupy Wall Street: Like Peas and Carrots</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crocker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s pretty clear that the &#8220;Occupy Wall Street&#8221; crowd is young, sparse and clueless. For a first-person account on the ground, see Katherine Ernst&#8217;s must-read piece in City Journal. The same goes for their co-religionists around the country. But speaking of clueless: how about Paul Krugman? The former Enron adviser continues his winning streak by [...]
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		<title>Smoot-Hawley-Schumer: The Chinese Currency Bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a time when President Obama has finally decided to move forward free-trade agreements with Colombia, South Korea and Panama, the Senate has passed Chuck Schumer&#8217;s &#8220;Currency Exchange Rate Oversight Reform Act of 2011&#8243;, which would impose stiff tariffs on goods imported from countries that hold their currencies at artificially low levels. While the bill [...]
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		<title>EPA to Congress: We Want to Hire 230,000 More Employees</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Elizabeth Warren: Nobody Got Rich on Their Own</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 12:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crocker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where does this bile come from? Chalk it up to the &#8220;property is theft&#8221; school of lefto-anarchism, I suppose. Her comments are just about as contradictory as Proudhon&#8217;s. WARREN: I hear all this, “You know, well, this is class warfare. This is whatever.” No! There is nobody in this country who got rich on his [...]
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		<title>Not in the Stars But in Ourselves</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, we polished our crystal ball and tried to grasp the enormity of a world changing before our eyes. There were references to fate and fatalism but the reality is that what we and the Europeans are experiencing is ultimately the work of our own hands. We did it to ourselves. All of it is [...]
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		<title>The European Swan Song: Après Nous, le Déluge</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m told by my mother and others of her generation that a sense of forced-cheer infected the US in 1941. Europe had been at war for two years. The military draft began in September 1940 and even before Pearl Harbor, our industrial plants had begun to change over to producing war products with existing defense [...]
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		<title>You Work and Toil and Earn Bread, and I&#8217;ll Eat It</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 12:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crocker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So said Abraham Lincoln during his debate with Stephen Douglas at Alton, Illinois, on October 15, 1858. Lincoln distilled the politics of tyranny down to its very essence and applied it to tyrants of every age, whether they be kings, slaveholders or today&#8217;s leftists. You do the work and I&#8217;ll take what you produce. You [...]
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		<title>Economic Freedom Leads to Greater Economic Prosperity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 04:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. Scott Moody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Economic Freedom leads to greater economic prosperity . . . enjoy! Related posts: Iris Lav: Against Prosperity and Maine&#8217;s Taxpayers Forbes Magazine: Colorado is an Economic Powerhouse Economic Stimulus as Tragedy and Farce
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		<title>Newt Gingrich is So Over</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 10:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crocker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve expressed my reservations about Newt Gingrich before and I&#8217;m sorry to say that Newt proved me right over the weekend. He appeared on Meet the Press and endorsed &#8211; more or less &#8211; ObamaCare&#8217;s individual mandate. The transcript tells the sorry tale: GINGRICH: well, i agree that all of us have a responsibility to [...]
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		<title>All Eyes on Bernanke &#8211; The Press Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crocker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All eyes are on Ben Bernanke, who&#8217;s set to conduct his first formal press conference at the end of the Fed meeting at around 2.15 PM ET. As I noted a couple of days ago, Fed chairmen don&#8217;t generally do pressers during Fed meetings. Fed proceedings usually have all the transparency of the College of [...]
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		<title>The EPA: A Clear and Present Danger &#8211; to the American People</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crocker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve come to believe that the EPA &#8211; not to mention the entire Administration &#8211; is a clear and present danger to American people. We live a country blessed by Almighty God with extraordinary resources and the human-haters in the EPA spend their time making sure that we can can&#8217;t use any of it. Lisa [...]
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		<title>Washington, Taxes and Potomac Fever.  Or is it Reefer Madness?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crocker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Serious question: is there something in the Washington, DC water supply that muddles thought processes, dissipates principle and collectivizes behavior? Those of us who have reason to be in DC on a regular basis will know what I&#8217;m talking about. Particularly among the political class, a normal right-thinker has about a year before the infection [...]
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		<title>Sarah Palin for Fed Chair?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 10:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crocker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Generally, Fed Chairmen don&#8217;t do press conferences. Ben Bernanke appears to be breaking tradition, however, with the presser scheduled for Wednesday. The advanced billing is that the event is an attempt to get out ahead of the emerging story: that the Fed&#8217;s quantitative easing and purchases of US debt have done no particular good and [...]
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Liquidate the Kulaks!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crocker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As my British friends would say, there&#8217;s crazy and then there&#8217;s barking mad. This bunch is barking mad. Power Shift 2011 appears to be an astroturf &#8220;environmental&#8221; organization embraced by Hope &#8216;n Change and Nancy Pelosi. God only knows who funds them. The theme seems to be that we should get rid of economic growth [...]
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		<title>Jesse Jackson, Jr. and the 2011 Darwin Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crocker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the Darwin Awards? Those sometimes apocryphal tales about people who remove themselves from the collective gene pool through some act of sublime stupidity. Naturally, most awards are posthumous but there are a few in which the recipient managed &#8211; against all odds &#8211; to survive. Like &#8220;Lawn Chair Larry&#8221;, for instance. I think Congressman [...]
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