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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>Obamacare Is Unconstitutional (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11003</link>
				<description><![CDATA[As Harry Reid's health care bill moves to the Senate floor, the debate over Obamacare finally begins in earnest. Shouldn't the Constitution be part of that debate? By what authority, after all, could Congress force all Americans to buy health insurance?

In a recent press release, House Speaker Na...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11003</guid>
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				<title>Obama's Phony Federalism (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10971</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Friends of federalism cheered last month when the Obama administration reversed the Bush policy of prosecuting medical marijuana cases in states that have legalized the practice. Welcome though that change was, let's hold the applause.

Not yet a year into his administration, Obama's record on 10t...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10971</guid>
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				<title>Obama's Arrogance of Power (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10956</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Last year's financial meltdown rightfully destroyed former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan's reputation as an infallible "wise man," but he said something wise in his 2007 memoirs, describing a constitutional amendment he'd been "pushing for years."

Wrote Greenspan: "Anyone willing ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10956</guid>
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				<title>Three Cheers for Divided Government (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10931</link>
				<description><![CDATA[This election day, the punditocracy is closely watching the off-year contests, thinking they predict how the president's party will do in next year's congressional midterms. If so, things don't look so hot for President Obama.

In New Jersey, Democratic governor Jon Corzine has done surprisingly w...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10931</guid>
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				<title>Read the Bills? How about Reading the Constitution? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10700</link>
				<description><![CDATA[You can live in this town for years and still occasionally find yourself gobsmacked by what counts as "normal" by Washington standards. Take the ongoing debate over whether it's fair for us to expect our elected representatives to read the laws they pass and expect us to follow.

Recently, Sen. Th...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10700</guid>
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				<title>Talking with the Tea Partiers (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10643</link>
				<description><![CDATA[When tens of thousands of Americans marched on Washington last month to protest President Obama's ongoing power grab, many liberals dismissed them as a horde of partisan, crypto-racist cranks. 

But a new study from a prominent Democratic polling firm shows that the Tea Partiers are neither racist...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10643</guid>
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				<title>Obama Is Becoming the Omnipresident (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10608</link>
				<description><![CDATA["No-drama Obama"? The president's flight to Copenhagen last week to make a personal pitch for holding the 2016 Olympics in Chicago was an audacious move &#8212; and a dramatic failure. "Second City Absorbs Its Latest Defeat," read the (rather snotty) headline in the New York Times.

But shed no te...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10608</guid>
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				<title>The Imperial Presidency Comes in Green, Too (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10588</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Asked recently when the Senate might vote on cap-and-trade, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV, demurred, muttering about "a busy, busy time the rest of this year." And yet last week, the Obama administration quietly moved forward with a plan to regulate power plants and other large stationary ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10588</guid>
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				<title>Right's Czar Mania Is a Distraction (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10567</link>
				<description><![CDATA["No more czars!" is the new tea party rallying cry, as conservatives across the country fear that President Obama has unleashed a legion of unaccountable bureaucratic overlords on the body politic.

Having helped oust Van Jones, Obama's "green jobs" czar, Fox News' Sean Hannity swears that he won'...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10567</guid>
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				<title>March on 9/12 Shows the Right on the Rise (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10540</link>
				<description><![CDATA[In a new book, Sam Tanenhaus, the New York Times Book Review editor, proclaims the death of conservatism. Movement leaders' devotion to "radical" antigovernment ideology, Tanenhaus argues, has left them "trapped in the irrelevant causes of another day, deaf to the actual conversation unfolding acros...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10540</guid>
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				<title>Hey, Mr. President, Leave Those Kids Alone (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10511</link>
				<description><![CDATA[At noon Eastern time today, President Obama will deliver a speech to America's schoolchildren on what, for most, is their first day of classes.  Many of them won't be watching, however.  Parents across the country are pressuring schools not to show the speech &#8212; or even keeping their kids home....]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10511</guid>
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				<title>Afghanistan May Be Obama's Vietnam (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10497</link>
				<description><![CDATA[A recent ABC News/Washington Post poll found that a majority of voters think the Afghan War is no longer worth fighting. Who can blame them? Last week's combat deaths made 2009 the worst year yet for US casualties, and it's become increasingly difficult to figure out what fixing the failed Afghan st...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10497</guid>
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				<title>Abolish the DHS (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10480</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Does "time with my family" ever actually mean "time with my family" in Washington? Tom Ridge gave the standard resignation line when he stepped down as Secretary of Homeland Security shortly after the 2004 elections, but last week he revealed that there was much more to the story. 

In a forthcomi...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10480</guid>
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				<title>The Era of Big Government Initiatives Is Over (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10463</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Who could have predicted that the summer of 2009 would be such a tough time to be a liberal? Seven months ago, President Barack Obama took office with a 79 percent approval rating &#8212; the highest in three decades.

The Kennedy-esque cult of personality that surrounded the new president led man...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10463</guid>
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				<title>The Right Can Do Better Than Romney (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10434</link>
				<description><![CDATA[In recent months, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has hit the speaking circuit like a man who is determined to be president and knows he needs to get an early start.

Last week brought news that Romney had secured a major publisher for his forthcoming book, No Apology: The Case for America's...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10434</guid>
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				<title>If Troops Are Deployed at Home, We Need to Have Solid Oversight (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10417</link>
				<description><![CDATA[It's not hard to understand why President Barack Obama appalls supporters of traditional American liberties.

In the first six months of his presidency, he's fought for radically expanded federal power while asserting a quasi-royal prerogative to control the auto industry and push for a government...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10417</guid>
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				<title>Millenials as the New Statists (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10360</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Next month, as the class of 2013 moves into the dorms, Wisconsin's Beloit College will release its annual "Mindset List." The list is that much-forwarded email that always makes you feel old &#8212; the one that includes horrifying factoids like, "for today's college freshmen, GPS navigation systems...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10360</guid>
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				<title>Drunk with Power and Esteem, Presidents' Sanity Disappears (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10352</link>
				<description><![CDATA[It's hard not to worry about the president's grip on reality.

I don't mean President Barack Obama specifically &#8212; he seems fairly even-keeled as chief executives go. I mean all modern presidents. Each lives in an atmosphere that can make even the most well-adjusted personalities intoxicated ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10352</guid>
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				<title>Sarah's Swan Song (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10333</link>
				<description><![CDATA[It's a long way from 2012, but the field of GOP presidential contenders is already narrowing. First came South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's wrong turn on the Appalachian Trail, then Friday's announcement by Sarah Palin that she was resigning the Alaska governorship.

Palin's future remains uncerta...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10333</guid>
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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>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10321</guid>
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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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