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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>Obama's Statist Ambitions (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10321</link>
				<description><![CDATA["I am a firm believer in the power of the free market," President Obama told the Wall Street Journal recently. The "irony" surrounding his public image as a collectivist, the president insisted, was that "I actually would like to see a relatively light touch when it comes to the government."

Eith...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Staying in Afghanistan Is the Wrong Strategy (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10307</link>
				<description><![CDATA[There were echoes of Bush-style "deciderism" in President Obama's peremptory announcement of an Afghanistan troop "surge" in February.
 
Likewise, it was hard to miss the Iraq parallels in last week's House vote for "emergency" funding to continue the nearly eight-year long Afghan war. Several ske...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10307</guid>
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				<title>The "Militia Panic" of 2009 (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10294</link>
				<description><![CDATA[It didn't take long for liberals to politicize the recent murders ofan abortion doctor and a Holocaust Museum guard.

The day after the museum shooting, Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos fame praised April's controversial Department of Homeland Security report on "Rightwing Extremism" (the one that ur...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10294</guid>
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				<title>Sotomayor: A Presidential Power Skeptic? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10280</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Most sane Americans are sick of identity politics. More's the pity, then, that race and gender will likely take center stage in the coming Supreme Court fight. If so, Sonia Sotomayor can hardly cry victim: She's fed the fire by repeatedly suggesting that women and minorities read the Constitution di...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10280</guid>
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				<title>Voters Are the Cause of America's Fiscal Mess (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10266</link>
				<description><![CDATA[There's plenty of blame to go around for the fiscal mess we're in. By ramming through a prescription drug benefit to Medicare, President George W. Bush launched the biggest expansion of entitlements in four decades.
 
President Obama has added insult to injury by pushing through a $789 billion "st...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10266</guid>
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				<title>Time to Downsize the Imperial Vice-Presidency (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10246</link>
				<description><![CDATA[A new book by Newsweek's Richard Wolffe reports that President Obama is dismayed by "his vice president's indiscipline."  Who can blame him?  At the height of the Swine Flu panic, our excitable veep fanned the fear on NBC's Today Show, squeaking that, "If one person sneezes, it goes all the way thro...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10246</guid>
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				<title>Dick Cheney Is Becoming Obama's Enabler (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10217</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Dick Cheney's "Shut Up and Listen" tour continued last week on CBS's Face the Nation. There, the former veep reiterated his favorite theme: Obama is putting America at risk by "taking down a lot of those policies we put in place that kept the nation safe."
 
What in the world is Cheney talking abo...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10217</guid>
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				<title>How Barack Obama Killed an American Pastime (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10198</link>
				<description><![CDATA[A lot of folks are upset over comedienne Wanda Sykes's attack on Rush Limbaugh at Saturday's White House Correspondents' Dinner. She called Rush a "traitor," and said "I hope his kidneys fail." Limbaugh aside, though, there were deeper problems with Sykes's routine: it was the work of a courtier com...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10198</guid>
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				<title>Who Is Watching the Watchmen? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10173</link>
				<description><![CDATA[April was a cruel month indeed for new Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.  The weeks before the Swine Flu outbreak found her stumbling through reporters' questions about a DHS threat assessment memo on "Rightwing Extremism."
 
That memo urged law enforcers nationwide to monitor the alle...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10173</guid>
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				<title>Obama's 100-Day Power Grab (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10153</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Unless you've been smart enough to avoid the news entirely for the last few weeks, you know that tomorrow marks President Obama's first 100 days in office. But you may not know that the "100 days" phrase didn't start with FDR, but with Napoleon.
 
William Safire's Political Dictionary tells us tha...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10153</guid>
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				<title>Of Course It Was Torture (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10133</link>
				<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, the Obama administration released previously classified memos detailing interrogation techniques used against enemy prisoners. In the memos, Bush administration lawyers assured the CIA that waterboarding detainees and keeping them awake for a week or more was perfectly legal. Bush parti...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10133</guid>
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				<title>Let's Really Cut the Pentagon's Budget (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10119</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Last week, Defense Secretary Robert Gates called for slashing military spending. That's the impression you'd get from conservative wailing about Gates's speech, anyway. But what the administration has proposed is only a "cut" in Washington-speak: budget growth that's slower than those feeding at the...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10119</guid>
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				<title>Serve America Lets Congress Take Another Bow (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10107</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Last week, the House passed the Serve America Act (SAA), which will triple the number of federally funded "volunteer" positions, create a "Clean Energy Corps" to weatherize homes, and make September 11th a "National Day of Service." 
 
 
Like many federal assaults on the taxpayer, the SAA is a bi...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10107</guid>
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				<title>Beware the Cult of Obama (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10082</link>
				<description><![CDATA[You've met them. They may be friends of yours, or family members. You may even be one of them (in which case you'll hate this column). I'm referring to those who've heard the Call of Obama.

Tucker Carlson compares it to a dog whistle: Inaudible to most, but irresistible to those who can hear it....]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10082</guid>
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				<title>Change and Hope on Drug Policy? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10068</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Last week, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Obama Justice Department would end federal raids on medical marijuana dispensaries. That's a welcome change from the Bush administration's policy, which violated constitutional principle and common decency.

Bush claimed to respect federal...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10068</guid>
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				<title>In Defense of Distrust in Government (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10051</link>
				<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama declared in his inaugural address that "our patchwork heritage is a strength" because people of all backgrounds and creeds had come together to make America great. But there was one group, Obama suggested, that wasn't quite welcome in the American family: the "cynics," those m...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10051</guid>
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				<title>Filibuster Needed Now More than Ever (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10032</link>
				<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama has now made it clear that he's no pragmatist, and "change" wasn't just a vacuous campaign theme. He has staggering ambitions and grand designs to transform the federal government's role in American life.    

A newly energized Republican minority seems bent on stopping him....]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10032</guid>
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				<title>Conservatives Need a Humbler Foreign Policy (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10020</link>
				<description><![CDATA[At last weekend's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), movement activists descended on Washington to lick their wounds and debate the way forward in the Age of Obama.

The sentiment at CPAC was heavily behind what Politico has dubbed the "Retro Strategy," or unified opposition to big-s...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10020</guid>
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				<title>The President Talks Too Much (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10000</link>
				<description><![CDATA[A week ago today, Barack Obama signed the largest spending bill in U.S. history. Yesterday he hosted a "fiscal responsibility" summit at the White House (a guilty conscience, perhaps?). Tonight, President Obama will deliver his first State of the Union address and issue a new round of lavish demands...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10000</guid>
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				<title>Right Helped Prepare the Way for Obama's Imperial Presidency (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9983</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Over the last eight years, then-President George W. Bush repeatedly insisted that he was the sole constitutional "decider," free from congressional or judicial checks on his power.

He claimed the power to imprison American citizens as terrorist suspects for as long as he deemed necessary, tap Ame...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9983</guid>
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				<title>Turns out That No, He Can't (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9959</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Last week was a tough one for Barack Obama.

The president's choice for HHS secretary withdrew on Tuesday. It turned out that Tom Daschle, who considered himself up to the task of redesigning the most complex and fastest-growing sector of our economy, had trouble figuring out his own taxes.

By ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9959</guid>
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				<title>Activist and Warrior Presidents Dominate Historians' Polls (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9902</link>
				<description><![CDATA[As he prepared to head back to the ranch, President George W. Bush embarked on a sort of "Legacy Tour," granting numerous interviews.

Asked how his presidency will be remembered, Bush typically insisted that "history" will be the judge. He's right — and right as well that historians may be kinder...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9902</guid>
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				<title>The Pop Culture Presidency (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9895</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The presidential movies and television programs of the last decade and a half make plain the bipolar attitude toward executive power in the United States. The Clinton era saw a burst of big screen portrayals of the President, at least half of which reflected a post-Watergate sensibility, depicting t...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9895</guid>
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