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The Cato Institute seeks to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to allow consideration of the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets and peace. Toward that goal, the Institute strives to achieve greater involvement of the intelligent, concerned lay public in questions of policy and the proper role of government.
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				<title>Burma Comes in from the Cold (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14085</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Once isolated by the West, Burma, also called Myanmar, has chosen to join the rest of the world. Although Burma&#8217;s future course is not guaranteed, the country&#8217;s prospects are growing brighter. The United States should reward the government in Naypyidaw for further expanding democratic re...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Why Does President Obama Dislike Freedom of Conscience? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14092</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Authoritarian liberalism has taken over Obama administration policy. People must be forced to accept anything and everything in the name of tolerance. The only valid belief is no belief. Acting on one&#8217;s faith must be punished.

Such is the impact of the new Department of Health and Human Ser...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14092</guid>
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				<title>Addicted to Collecting: From Malcolm Forbes to Me (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14065</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Last week Sotheby's auctioned off 13 French military paintings from the once legendary Forbes collection. It represents the end of an era.

Malcolm Forbes lived large with his eponymous Forbes magazine, adventurous motorcycle trips, and celebrity-drenched parties. Of even more interest to me, he a...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14065</guid>
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				<title>Give Okinawa back to the Okinawans (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14043</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The U.S. is overextended and overburdened, but Washington policymakers are determined to preserve America&#8217;s dominant military presence around the globe. Financial pressure is forcing the administration to finally slow a massive, decade-long increase in military spending, but American garrisons...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14043</guid>
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				<title>Now's the Time to Start Cutting Wasteful Government Programs (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14017</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Government spending must be cut. The national debt exceeds the annual GDP. Total unfunded liabilities are 14 times as much, more than $200 trillion. Government spending once again must be cut.

Unfortunately, the biggest pots of money have the largest number of dedicated guardians. Interest on the...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14017</guid>
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				<title>The Problem of Pakistan: Teaching Intolerance And Violence (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14005</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The U.S. may have no more difficult relationship than the one it has with Pakistan. This supposed ally plays a double game in Afghanistan, mixes an unstable political system and weak civilian government with nuclear weapons, and acts as an incubator for religious intolerance. Obviously, Islamabad ha...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14005</guid>
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				<title>Should Christians Ask: Who Would Jesus Vote For? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13988</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Evangelical churches long have been called the Republican Party at prayer. The observation might be close to true in Iowa. And that should make American Christians nervous about their future in politics.

The relationship of religion and politics has been fraught with controversy since America's f...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13988</guid>
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				<title>Attack Iran? Ask Congress to Declare War (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13980</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Listen to the presidential candidates and it sounds like war with Iran is around the corner. And not just the Republicans. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta declared: "If we get intelligence they are proceeding with developing a nuclear weapon, then we will take whatever steps necessary to deal with it...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13980</guid>
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				<title>NATO and Libya: It's Time to Retire a Fading Alliance (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13982</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Russia's United Nations ambassador recently proposed investigating the killing of civilians by NATO in Libya. His American counterpart, Susan Rice, complained that Moscow was attempting "to obscure the success of NATO."

The trans-Atlantic does a great job fighting little wars. Conflicts essential...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13982</guid>
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				<title>Ten Illusions Shattered in 2011 (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13986</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Another year has come to an end. It was tough taskmaster for the illusions and pretensions that permeate international affairs. At least ten were knocked asunder in 2011.

Afghanistan. Washington and its European allies are dedicated to keeping combat troops in Afghanistan through 2014, after whic...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13986</guid>
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				<title>Irresponsible Foreign Policy: The Republican Establishment, Not Ron Paul (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13972</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Even loyal Republicans are disheartened by their choices this year: the man who flips and flops whenever convenient, the official turned lobbyist who imagines he is Churchill (or maybe Caesar) reincarnated, and the governor with memory problems. But the man the GOP elite most fear is a genial 76-yea...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13972</guid>
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				<title>Replace Schizophrenia with Peace as Washington's China Policy (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13960</link>
				<description><![CDATA[As the European Union grapples with economic crisis, Brussels cast its eyes eastward for help. Would the People's Republic of China be so kind as to bail out the spendthrift European nations? At the same time, the U.S., tied to Europe through the NATO alliance, shifted towards a policy of soft conta...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13960</guid>
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				<title>The Top Ten Things Santa Claus Forgot to Give Me (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13950</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Santa Claus came and went. Truth be told, I'm a bit disappointed. He didn't leave me even one of my ten favorite gifts. I guess I have to wait another year. Maybe after next year's election Santa will be more forthcoming.

Top of my list is for Americans to stop confusing Uncle Sam with Santa Clau...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13950</guid>
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				<title>Cut Payroll Taxes and End the Social Security Myth (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13951</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The debate over extending this year's Social Security payroll tax cut has flipped Washington upside down. Democrats want to reduce taxes to get the economy moving. Republicans emphasize paying for essential government services. "Keep your word to the American people and don't raise taxes on them," o...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13951</guid>
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				<title>Malicious Meddling in Washington: Just What Is the Government's Business? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13952</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The battle over spending continues in Washington. Despite decades of grotesque federal malfeasance, President Obama believes that government can easily fix the world &#8212; including us, the people in it. Republicans don't believe much of anything, other than they don't want to raise taxes. It's a ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13952</guid>
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				<title>Confronting Religious Persecution in North Korea (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13959</link>
				<description><![CDATA[North Korea's "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-il is dead. No one knows what is likely to follow. But one important measure of reform by the new leadership will be ending the regime's brutal religious persecution.

The so-called Democratic People's Republic of Korea pioneered the fusion of Communism and mon...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13959</guid>
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				<title>North Korea: The King Is Dead, Long Live the King (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13962</link>
				<description><![CDATA[North Korea&#8217;s &#8220;Dear Leader&#8221; Kim Jong-il is dead. The so-called Democratic People&#8217;s Republic of Korea faces a potential power struggle which could turn violent. Any near-term prospect of negotiating and implementing a new nuclear agreement with the North died with Kim. Washing...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13962</guid>
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				<title>U.S. Should Leave Iraq &#8212; for Good (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13928</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Despite the Obama administration's best efforts, U.S. troops are on their way home from Iraq. Only Iraqi opposition prevented American forces from garrisoning yet another nation forever.

It is time to leave. Finally. Completely. Permanently.

Many of Washington's wars have been unnecessary. Few...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13928</guid>
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				<title>Hungary Threatens Religious Liberty (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13923</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Religious repression typically occurs in Islamic or authoritarian regimes. Saudi Arabia, China, Iran, Cuba, Pakistan and Burma come to mind. But it appears that European democracies are not immune from the virus. Unfortunately, Hungary has adopted legislation which undermines this most basic liberty...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13923</guid>
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				<title>Clinton to Burma: Rewarding Democrats, Punishing Tyrants (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13914</link>
				<description><![CDATA["After years of darkness, we've seen flickers of progress," said President Barack Obama of Burma, officially known as Myanmar. The government has been under sanction by the U.S., but last week Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited the pariah state in an attempt to spur the reform process.

Bu...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13914</guid>
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				<title>Hurtling over a Fiscal Cliff (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13918</link>
				<description><![CDATA[For months the European Union has tottered from bailout to bailout. After agreement was reached on the latest aid package for Greece, Italy fell into investors' crosshairs, Portugal's credit rating fell, France risked losing its triple A rating, and even Germany had trouble selling bonds.

Worldwi...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13918</guid>
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				<title>Why Doesn't South Korea Defend the United States? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13916</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Seoul is the political and industrial heart of the Republic of Korea. The metropolitan area holds half of the country's population. Amid the city's bustle the threat from the so-called Democratic People's Republic of Korea seems far away, but Seoul's suburbs lie just 25 miles south of the demilitari...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13916</guid>
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				<title>It's Time to Occupy Capitol Hill and Fight Political Greed (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13902</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The Occupy Wall Street movement remains busy. On Friday OWS supporters staged "Occupy Black Friday" demonstrations targeting corporate greed. But why only corporate greed? It is time to fight political greed.

Many Americans are frustrated and angry with American politics. These sentiments helped ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13902</guid>
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				<title>It's Time to Gut, Not Cut, the Federal Government (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13880</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Washington's vaunted debt reduction supercommittee has failed. The dozen members were unable to agree on a package of deficit reduction measures which would only have slowed the fast rising tide of federal red ink. It will probably take the Second Coming before legislators voluntarily halt the wild ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13880</guid>
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				<title>The Hubris of Attacking Syria (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13877</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The U.S. government once believed in peace. Today, hardly a day goes by without someone proposing that Washington bomb, invade or occupy another nation. Matthew Brodsky targets Syria.

Not that Brodsky is alone. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who has yet to find a war he doesn't want to start, a...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13877</guid>
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				<title>Veterans Day Lessons: The Sheer Tragedy That Is War (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13863</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Another Veterans Day has passed. Tragically, Washington creates more veterans every day. American politicians are constantly going to war for no good reason.

Special Forces to Uganda. What vital U.S. interest is threatened there? Bombing Libya. Why should Washington bail out the Europeans yet aga...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13863</guid>
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				<title>God: The Shakedown Artist for the Welfare State? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13828</link>
				<description><![CDATA[God is the ultimate trump.  Everyone proclaims that God is on their side.  Whatever the issue, someone somewhere will argue that they are doing what Jesus would do.  Even in politics.

The Right long has claimed Scriptural warrant for using government to enforce Christian moral norms and wage war ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13828</guid>
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				<title>Failed Social Engineering in the Balkans (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13825</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The end of the Cold War removed the most important constraint on Washington's tendency towards empire. Since then no country has gone to war more often than America. Yet the only conflict with any degree of necessity was Afghanistan &#8212; initially going after al Qaeda. And none of these adventure...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13825</guid>
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				<title>Obama's New War in Uganda (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13810</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Money burns a hole in the pocket of some people. Power does the same for some presidents. How else to explain President Barack Obama's creation of his own variant of Germany's fabled Afrika Korps, to serve in a small guerrilla war in Uganda?

It has been more than ten years since America was at pe...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13810</guid>
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				<title>When Does a Baby Become a Person? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13811</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The economy dominates the 2012 electoral landscape, but social issues like abortion lurk in the shadows. By short-circuiting the political process with its 1973 opinion in Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court turned abortion into the nation's most divisive election issue.

Next week Mississippi voters w...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13811</guid>
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				<title>Turn the Problem of North Korea Over to Its Neighbors (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13794</link>
				<description><![CDATA[After nearly two years of a deep freeze between Washington and Pyongyang, the Obama administration has embarked on a new round of nuclear negotiations. "To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war," Winston Churchill rightly observed. But Washington should step back from the Korean peninsula, shifti...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13794</guid>
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				<title>Libya: Costs Outweigh Benefits (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13787</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Months after the ouster of Muammar Qaddafi and a day after his death, fighting continues in Libya. Even Tripoli recently saw a brief but unexpected gun battle. A majority of Americans now are critical of President Obama's decision to go to war &#8212; which, of course, he claimed was not a war. Liby...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13787</guid>
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				<title>It's Time to Declare Peace in the War against Drugs (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13772</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Americans like to style their nation as the land of the free. Yet the government is engaged in a war on its own people. The misnamed Drug War.

As Prof. Douglas Husak of Rutgers pointed out:

The war, after all, cannot really be a war on drugs, since drugs cannot be arrested, prosecuted, or puni...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13772</guid>
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				<title>Economic Policy in the E.U.: More Bailouts, More Debt, More Crises (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13760</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Belgium's capital dates back to the sixth century, but today the modern dominates. As the headquarters of the European Union, Brussels is filled with contemporary office buildings overflowing with meddlesome bureaucrats. What began as a system of economic cooperation has turned into quasi-continenta...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13760</guid>
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				<title>Religious Persecution in Pakistan (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13753</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Stability in Central Asia is threatened by Pakistan's slow surrender to extremism. Many of Pakistan's problems are rooted in the spread of hateful and intolerant beliefs.

The U.S. State Department should cite Pakistan as a "Country of Particular Concern" under the International Religious Freedom ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13753</guid>
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				<title>A Republican Agenda for Real Change (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13739</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The desperate search for an acceptable Republican Party presidential candidate continues. Republican leaders apparently are pushing New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who previously said no, to jump into the race.

The GOP's frustration is palpable. Mitt Romney has been running for four years but gen...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13739</guid>
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				<title>Religious Persecution on the Rise (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13722</link>
				<description><![CDATA[History was supposed to have ended. Alas, rather than celebrating the triumph of democratic capitalism, the world appears to be dividing between generally liberal Western-oriented states and a gaggle of authoritarian systems united only in their disdain for individual freedom and dignity.

It is n...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13722</guid>
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				<title>A Bankrupt Uncle Sam Hypocritically Lectures Europe on Debt (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13709</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Uncle Sam should declare bankruptcy. The government faces debts and unfunded liabilities on the order of $211 trillion, according to economist Laurence Kotlikoff. That's about 15 times America's official national debt &#8212; and GDP. Yet the Obama administration continues to lecture the rest of the...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13709</guid>
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				<title>US Should Leave Iraq to Iraqis (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13696</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The U.S. is supposed to be leaving Iraq. But the Obama administration is desperately lobbying Baghdad to keep American troops in place, which would turn Iraq into yet another costly U.S. military dependent. Washington should bring home America's troops.

The Iraq operation has been a tragic fiasco...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13696</guid>
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				<title>Enlightenment a More Distant Goal (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13693</link>
				<description><![CDATA[History was supposed to have ended. Alas, rather than celebrating the triumph of democratic capitalism, the world appears to be dividing between generally liberal Western-oriented states and a gaggle of authoritarian systems united only in their disdain for individual freedom and dignity. It is not ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13693</guid>
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				<title>Book Review: America's Civil War: Unnecessary but Transformational (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13684</link>
				<description><![CDATA[America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a NationBy David GoldfieldBloomsbury Press, $35.00, 640 pages

One hundred and fifty years ago the young American nation suffered its greatest failure. "The political system could not contain the passions stoked by the infusion of evangelical Christianity ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13684</guid>
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				<title>Let's Look at Romneycare (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13655</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Health care remains one of President Obama's greatest political weaknesses. But the issue is an equally serious problem for Republican Mitt Romney.

As governor of Massachusetts, Romney instituted an early variant of President Obama's program, mandating the purchase of insurance. Romney continues ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13655</guid>
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				<title>Washington's Night of the Living Dead: The Law of the Sea Treaty Stirs (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13659</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Like a zombie rising from the grave to stalk the living, the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST)&#160;has haunted Washington for the last 30 years. President Ronald Reagan refused to sign and seemingly killed the omnibus agreement. But his successors revived the misnamed "constitution of the oceans." There...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13659</guid>
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				<title>A Decade after 9/11: America Is Less Confident, Less Secure, and Less Free (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13639</link>
				<description><![CDATA[It has been a decade since that beautiful September day when terrorists brought down the World Trade Center, damaged the Pentagon, and killed thousands of Americans. Unfortunately, in important ways the terrorists have won. The U.S. is different: less confident, less secure, and less free. We have s...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13639</guid>
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				<title>Washington Should Leave Iraq to the Iraqis (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13644</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The U.S. is supposed to be leaving Iraq. But the Obama administration is desperately lobbying Baghdad to keep American troops in place, which would turn Iraq into yet another costly U.S. military dependent.

Advocates of promiscuous military intervention angrily reject the claim that America is an...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13644</guid>
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				<title>Revolution No Boon to the Copts (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13637</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Ugly reality has dashed the high hopes of the "Arab Spring." In Egypt the fall of Hosni Mubarak has encouraged religious intolerance and persecution, especially against the Coptic Christian community.

Mubarak ruled for three decades. Among his victims were Coptic Christians, who make up around 10...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13637</guid>
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				<title>Obama Must Pay for His Illegal War (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13634</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The rebels' looming triumph over Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi has caused supporters of the Obama administration to do a victory lap, but the conflict is not yet over &#8212; and the impact on America has just begun.

However, the imminent end of U.S. military action provides Congress with an op...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13634</guid>
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				<title>"Victory" in Libya: No Model for U.S. Foreign Policy (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13628</link>
				<description><![CDATA[It took the greatest military alliance in history five months to push the Libyan rebels across the finish line. Nevertheless, Western politicians are claiming victory.

Yet the ultimate consequences of allied intervention remain uncertain. While few mourn the demise of "the Colonel," liberal democ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13628</guid>
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				<title>A World Spinning Backward (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13624</link>
				<description><![CDATA[America's First Amendment helps safeguard something that is not only precious but rare.

Rather than celebrating the triumph of democratic capitalism, the world appears to be dividing between generally liberal Western-oriented states and a gaggle of authoritarian systems united only in their disda...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13624</guid>
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				<title>Can Mitt Romney Escape His Romneycare Albatross? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13617</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Health care remains one of President Barack Obama's greatest political weaknesses. The issue remains an equally serious problem for Republican Mitt Romney.

President Obama's program to centralize medical decision-making in Washington remains as unpopular as ever. Insurers are raising premiums and...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13617</guid>
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				<title>Rick Perry: Know-Nothing Neoconservatism Reincarnated? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13610</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Texas Gov. Rick Perry has leapt to the top in the Republican presidential race. His domestic policy looks standard-issue conservative. But his foreign policy veers neoconservative &#8212; even after George W. Bush and Barack Obama together launched two full-scale wars, one "kinetic military action,"...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13610</guid>
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				<title>Will US Officials Ever Shut Up? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13603</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration wants Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad to go &#8212; finally. Washington thinks Yemen should replace its dictator. But the U.S. supports the dictator who rules next door Saudi Arabia.

Do U.S. officials really believe anyone pays the slightest attention to their ever-changi...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13603</guid>
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				<title>Squaring the U.S., China, Taiwan Triangle (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13604</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Nothing causes greater discord in relations between the United States and China than the status of Taiwan, officially known as the Republic of China.

However, the best way to maintain peace between Washington and Beijing may be for the U.S. to continue selling weapons to Taiwan.

Once ruled by ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13604</guid>
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				<title>Can Taiwan Escape China's Ever-Tightening Embrace? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13600</link>
				<description><![CDATA[A half century ago the world seemed poised for war over the island of Kinmen, known then as Quemoy. Today Kinmen has become a transit point between Taiwan and China, as tourists tread where bombs once fell. But this peaceful traffic also may threaten Taiwan, albeit in a very different way.

In 194...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13600</guid>
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				<title>Obamacare Heads to the Supreme Court (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13592</link>
				<description><![CDATA[When Congress was pushing through President Barack Obama's plan to nationalize health care decision-making, legislators gave little thought to the Constitution. After all, the denizens of Capitol Hill had grown accustomed to passing whatever laws they desired, with the expectation that, if necessary...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13592</guid>
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				<title>Accommodating China on the Rise (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13565</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The international order is ever-changing. Sometimes the shifts are evolutionary. China's dramatic reentry on the world stage looks more revolutionary. The U.S. should treat Beijing's "rise" with special care.

Once a great empire, China fell into near terminal decline in the 19th century. The West...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13565</guid>
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				<title>Happy New Tax Freedom Day (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13566</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Tax Freedom Day is long past. Americans supposedly finished paying for government on April 12.

But not really.

Taxes once reflected the cost of government. No longer. This year Uncle Sam is borrowing 40 percent of the money necessary to fund federal operations. Regulation imposes a separate qu...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13566</guid>
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				<title>Protecting Economic Liberty: The Essential Freedom (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13576</link>
				<description><![CDATA["I'm from the government and I'm here to help you" has become a standard punch line. There is no greater joke when public officials limit competition in the name of protecting consumers. Such as Louisiana's now-defunct casket monopoly.

Professional licensing is routine across America. You want to...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13576</guid>
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