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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>SCOTUS to Rehear Hillary: The Movie Case (Daily Podcast)</title>
			<link>http://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=936</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Fairness Doctrines New and Old (Daily Podcast)</title>
			<link>http://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=907</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Broadcast Localism and the Lessons of the Fairness Doctrine (Policy Analysis)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10207</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
recognizes a laissez-faire policy toward speech and
the press. The Framers of the Bill of Rights worried
that the self-interest of politicians fostered
suppression of speech. In contrast, some constitutional
theorists have argued that the Constitutio...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Free Speech v. The Federal Election Commission (Weekly Video)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The so-called Citizens United case offers the Supreme Court a chance to severely curtail the free speech abuses of the Federal Election Commission. John Samples, Director of the Cato Institute's Center for Representative Government, Institute for Justice Senior Attorney Steve Simpson and George Mason University law professor Allison Hayward weigh in.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Reading the GOP's Tea Leaves (Daily Podcast)</title>
			<link>http://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=878</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Cato Scholars Comment on President Obama's Speech to Congress (Scholar Comments)</title>
			<link>http://www.cato.org/pressroom.php?display=ncomments&amp;id=188#blurb208</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Obama strikes many as a moderate. Here the metaphor of a blueprint is revealing. A blueprint is a plan for the society as a whole just as a real blueprint is a plan for a building. Constrast the metaphor of a game with a system of rules - a society ruled by laws in which people do as they wish within the rules. Won't take it too far: Obama is not Lenin. But he did promise in his inaugural address that his administration would remake the world. Now we have a blueprint, a plan for the remaking of America. The metaphor reveals a habit of mind at odds with a free society.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>John Samples defends the Electoral College (Weekly Video)</title>
			<link>http://www.cato.org/weekly/index.php?vid_id=92</link>
			<description><![CDATA[What about the democratic principle of one person, one vote? Isn't that principle essential to our form of government? The Founders handiwork says otherwise. Neither the Senate, nor the Supreme Court, nor the president is elected on the basis of one person, one vote. That's why a state like Montana, with fewer than one million residents, gets the same number of Senators as California, with 33 million people. Consistency would require that if we abolish the Electoral College, we rid ourselves of the Senate as well. John Samples defends the Electoral College on C-SPAN's <em>Washington Journal</em>.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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