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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>Gene Healy (Cato Institute)</title>
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				<title>Never Let Law Profs Near the Oval Office (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14080</link>
				<description><![CDATA["Surely as a former constitutional law professor, President Obama must know..." &#8212; that's a fairly common refrain whenever Obama commits another constitutional atrocity.

I've said as much myself &#8212; but as a recovering law student, I should know better. Constitutional law professors shou...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Hassling the Innocent Is TSA's Specialty (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14062</link>
				<description><![CDATA["Rand Paul has got to be on the 'Top 10 People TSA Would Be Smart to Leave Alone' list," National Review's Jonah Goldberg tweeted when news broke of the senator's run-in with the Transportation Security Administration at Nashville International Airport last week.
Kentucky's junior senator missed hi...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Gingrich Rise Is Triumph of Style over Substance (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14039</link>
				<description><![CDATA[On the eve of Newt Gingrich's landslide victory in the South Carolina primary, CNN's Erin Burnett let the former speaker expound on the success of his "kick the moderator" debate strategy.

"I think there's something going on here that's very deep," Gingrich said. "People want a leader who's force...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>After 2008's Hope And Change, It's Sober And Sane for 2012 (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14014</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Mitt Romney's relentless rise continues as an InsiderAdvantage poll released Sunday has him 11 points ahead of his nearest rival in South Carolina.

The former Massachusetts governor looks likely to seal the deal in Saturday's primary &#8212; dashing Tea Party hopes for a nominee who's sincerely c...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14014</guid>
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				<title>Will Congress Stop King Barack the First? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14001</link>
				<description><![CDATA["I refuse to take 'no' for an answer!" President Obama blared last week at a campaign rally at a high-school gym in Ohio.

Every day that the Senate refused to confirm Richard Cordray, his nominee for the new "consumer watchdog" agency created by the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill, was anoth...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14001</guid>
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				<title>Five Worst Op-Eds of 2011 (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13953</link>
				<description><![CDATA[An emergency root canal on Christmas Eve eve left me half a tank low on holiday cheer. Luckily, "bah humbug" is the right attitude to bring to my final column for 2011, which, like 2010's, will be a suitably surly look at the Five Worst Op-eds of the Year:

5. Thomas Friedman, "Are We Going to Rol...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13953</guid>
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				<title>If America Is the Battleground, Nobody Has Any Rights (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13944</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday &#8212; which happened to be the 220th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights &#8212; the Senate passed a defense bill that demonstrates just how cavalier Congress can be with our fundamental liberties.

Given the opportunity to clarify existing law and confirm that Am...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13944</guid>
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				<title>Obama's TR Imitation Falls Flat (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13931</link>
				<description><![CDATA[For an increasingly uphill re-election battle in which he'll have to "go negative," I'd figured President Obama would imitate Harry Truman in '48, railing against a "do-nothing Congress." But it turns out he'll be running as Teddy Roosevelt instead.

Obama wrapped himself in T.R.'s mantle in a muc...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13931</guid>
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				<title>Now It's 'Obama the Irrelevant' (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13913</link>
				<description><![CDATA[If our fashion-conscious president still finds the time to read the lad-mags, December's GQ had to hurt.

Obama made the magazine's list of "The 25 Least Influential People Alive," along with Tiger Woods's ex-caddie, the prosecutor who couldn't convict Casey Anthony, and MTV tart Tila Tequila.

...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13913</guid>
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				<title>GOP Debaters Still Rattling Obsolete Sabers (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13891</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Like scores of other think-tankers, I lined up outside DAR Constitution Hall last week for the GOP foreign-policy debate cosponsored by CNN, the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation.

The hoops you had to jump through to get in were a perfect metaphor for 10 years of maddening...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13891</guid>
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				<title>J. Edgar Shows the Hunger for More Power Corrupts (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13879</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Sick of Hollywood's standard superhero fare? You could do worse than to take in J. Edgar, the new Clint Eastwood-directed biopic about the legendary FBI director who served eight presidents over nearly five decades.

"Served" isn't quite right &#8212; Hoover mainly served himself, and the dossiers...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13879</guid>
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				<title>Newt Gingrich Is No Conservative (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13861</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Has it really come to this? Newt Gingrich as the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney? That's what many in the punditocracy have proclaimed as the former speaker of the House has surged recently in the polls.

Yet a look at his record reveals that Newt is hardly the "anti-Mitt" &#8212; he's Mit...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13861</guid>
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				<title>Executive Privilege Claim Ahead on Solyndra (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13830</link>
				<description><![CDATA[On Friday, citing "longstanding and important Executive Branch confidentiality interests," White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler refused a House panel's demand for "all communications among White House staff and officials" relating to Solyndra.

Solyndra is one of the administration's pet "green en...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13830</guid>
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				<title>Farewell, to the Most Honest Man in Washington (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13814</link>
				<description><![CDATA[William A. Niskanen, former acting head of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers and the longtime chairman of the Cato Institute, passed away last Wednesday at the age of 78.

In its obituary on Saturday, the New York Times summed Niskanen up as a "blunt libertarian economist," and he wa...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13814</guid>
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				<title>Life Is Good in the Capital of Crony Capitalism (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13797</link>
				<description><![CDATA[In the wake of Apple CEO Steve Jobs's death &#8212; and in the midst of the ongoing "Occupy Wall Street" protests&#8212;came an ominous report from Bloomberg News last week:

"Beltway Earnings Make U.S. Capital Richer Than Silicon Valley." According to the latest Census figures, Washington, D.C. i...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13797</guid>
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				<title>And Now for Obama's Ugandan Military Adventure (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13775</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Friday afternoon, in a letter to Speaker John Boehner, President Obama announced that he'll be deploying 100 combat-ready U.S. soldiers, mostly special forces operators, to Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Congo.

So much for Dinesh D'Souza's pet theory that "Kenyan anti-...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13775</guid>
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				<title>Romney for Panderer-in-Chief? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13757</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Memo to the Rick Perry campaign: If your guy can't win an exchange with Mitt Flippin' Romney over who's stuck to principle more consistently, his debating skills need serious work.

That's what happened at Sept. 22's Republican debate in Orlando. After deflating Perry with a "nice try," Romney bra...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13757</guid>
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				<title>Corpulent Christie May Be the Guy to Slim Down America (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13737</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Moments after tramping out of my building's swaying stairwell and into the street during August's D.C. earthquake, I checked my phone's Twitter app and got my first good postquake laugh. Salon's Alex Pareene cracked: "I think Chris Christie just jumped into the race."

It's not clear yet whether h...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13737</guid>
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				<title>Time to Abolish DHS (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13710</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Two years ago this month, the federal government broke ground on what was supposed to be a massive new headquarters for the Department of Homeland Security. Situated on the St. Elizabeths Hospital campus in Southeast Washington, the $3.4 billion project was designed to bring together some 15,000 emp...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13710</guid>
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				<title>That 'Incredible Shrinking Presidency' Just Keeps Growing (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13688</link>
				<description><![CDATA[It never fails. Every time a president's popularity tanks, you get a new cycle of media hand-wringing about an enfeebled, "shrunken" presidency.

Politico provided the latest installment in this timeworn genre with its recent cover story on "The Incredible Shrinking President." Noting President Ob...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13688</guid>
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				<title>Al Qaeda Was Never an "Existential Threat" (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13663</link>
				<description><![CDATA[In a country starved for good news, we should be celebrating the fact that, after Sept. 11, 2001, we've gone 10 years without a major follow-up attack on American soil.

But some folks just refuse to be cheered up. At last week's GOP debate, Newt Gingrich helpfully reminded everyone that "there ar...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13663</guid>
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				<title>"Mission Accomplished" in Libya? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13623</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Mission accomplished! As Libyan rebels took Tripoli last week, liberals practically draped that banner across the nation's op-ed pages. Now was the time for all good men to come together and praise a famous victory.

In Newsweek, liberal columnist Michael Tomasky pronounced Libya "completely the r...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13623</guid>
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				<title>Rick Perry and the Contradictions of a Conservative (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13601</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Last week, Ezra Klein, star liberal blogger for the Washington Post, enthused that "Rick Perry's book is good. Really."

Unlike most campaign books, Klein reported, Fed Up! Our Fight to Save America from Washington is "a book about Rick Perry's ideas. And his big idea is that most everything the f...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13601</guid>
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				<title>Remembering Nixon's Wage and Price Controls (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13578</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Remember "TARP," "Too Big to Fail," "Government Motors," "pay czar," the buzzwords of the Bush-Obama era? They reflected a disturbing trend toward presidential interference in economic life.

Forty years ago this week, President Richard Nixon showed us just how dangerous unchecked executive power ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13578</guid>
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