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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>Does Barack Obama Really Know America?  Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 10:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crocker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of us have wondered aloud whether Barack Obama really &#8220;gets&#8221; America. Whether he is comfortable within a shared American experience and character. I&#8217;ve written about this before (&#8220;Does Barack Obama Really Know America?&#8221;). And now Byron York observes the same, excerpting from David Maraness&#8217; new book about the young Obama. According to Maraness, Obama [...]
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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>Are You Smarter Than &#8220;Occupy Wall Street&#8221;?  Most Certainly.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crocker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s clear that the media, sundry politicians and other savants are trying to transform the idiots of Occupy Wall Street in the new oracles of culture, politics, economics and whatever other matters are close at hand. We suspected that the occupiers weren&#8217;t too bright or well-informed &#8211; or both &#8211; and now we&#8217;re sure. That [...]
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		<title>&#8220;Spengler&#8221; on the Scandal of the Secular Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>U.S. Government to Men: No Prostate Screening for You</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 23:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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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>Attacking the &#8220;Wealthy&#8221;: An Old Political Play</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crocker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The President&#8217;s class-warfare rhetoric is getting old. In fact, it was never new and fresh. It&#8217;s the sort of demagogic play used by politicians from the Emperor Diocletian to the present. When times get tough and revenue runs short, create a villain. Let&#8217;s look at old Diocletian, Roman emperor from 284-305 AD. During the mid-third [...]
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		<title>Ford&#8217;s &#8220;Bailout&#8221; Commercial: Did the White House Really Object?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks back, Ford released another of its &#8220;press conference&#8221; commercials, which are supposedly unscripted and in which a Ford owner explains his or her satisfaction with the Ford product they&#8217;ve purchased. This particular ad took a somewhat different tack: the owner said that he bought his vehicle in part because Ford hadn&#8217;t accepted [...]
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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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		<description><![CDATA[Why you may ask? Well, remember the greenhouse gas regulations the EPA enacted all by its lonesome in defiance of Congress? Well, now my favorite bureaucracy has the cheek to label it&#8217;s own regulations &#8220;absurd&#8221; in application and is requesting permission to hire the new employees at a cost of $21 billion. From the Daily [...]
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		<title>Egyptian Islamists: Persecuting the Copts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 21:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the theology of Islamic triumphalism, all land in the Middle East and North Africa is &#8220;Muslim Land&#8221; even though the indigenous Christian and Jewish populations were exterminated or terribly persecuted to realize the fantasy. One such Christian group that has successfully resisted religious cleansing are the Copts of Egypt. The Coptic church is very [...]
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		<title>Federal Government: Your Medical Records Are Ours</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 12:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crocker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the ObamaCare debate, we were told not to worry. We could all keep our private insurance. At the same time we were told that Congress had to pass the ObamaCare bill to find out what was in it. And over the last year we&#8217;ve been finding out and it&#8217;s become more unsettling. And here&#8217;s [...]
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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>
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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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		<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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		<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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		<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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