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				<title>Nat Hentoff (Cato Institute)</title>
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				<title>Obama's Targeted Killings in Yemen (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11194</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The president, in his State of the Union message, proudly emphasized that in his first year in office, "hundreds of al-Qaida's fighters and affiliates, including many senior leaders, have been captured or killed &#8211; far more than in 2008," George W. Bush's last year in office.

Obama, however,...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Do You Care Newly Elected Senator Is for Waterboarding? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11173</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Riding around Massachusetts in his pickup truck, Scott Brown hit a home run when he insisted: "This is not a Kennedy seat or a Democratic seat. It's the people's seat." For a while, I thought Thomas Jefferson's prophecy might be coming true:

"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be tru...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11173</guid>
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				<title>Is the U.S. Getting Rid of Laws of War? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11158</link>
				<description><![CDATA[When the Supreme Court in Boumediene v. Bush strongly rebuked the Bush Administration for claiming overwhelming executive-branch power over terrorism suspects at Guantanamo, Justice Anthony Kennedy said sharply: &quot;To hold that the political branches may switch the Constitution on and off at will...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>George W. Obama (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11139</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Before President Obama, it was grimly accurate to write, as I often did in the Voice, that George W. Bush came into the presidency with no discernible background in constitutional civil liberties or any acquaintance with the Constitution itself. Accordingly, he turned the "war on terror" over to Dic...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11139</guid>
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				<title>Raul Castro Turns into Big Brother Fidel (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11132</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Popular singer Carlos Varela (known as "Cuba's Bob Dylan") came here in December "Trying to Sway America's Cuba Policy With Song and Easy Talk" (New York Times, Dec. 29), and even had lunch with a senior White House official. However, it now is grimly clear that Raul and Fidel Castro are interchange...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11132</guid>
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				<title>Roar, Tyrants, You Cannot Hide Your Racist Deeds (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11116</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The Nov. 30 "Acting on Our Conscience: A Declaration of African-American Support for the Civil Rights Struggle in Cuba" by 60 prominent black Americans denouncing the deep discrimination against Afro-Cubans by the Cuban government was a surprise because none of the five dozen signers had previously ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11116</guid>
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				<title>The Castro Brothers' Big Dirty Secret (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11099</link>
				<description><![CDATA[For years I have been reporting on how Fidel Castro has been crushing internal dissent. I did this while simultaneously trying to demythicize his comrade, Che Guevara, a charismatic man when he was not a merciless executioner at Havana prisons. I once met Guevara, and, during our exchange at a Cuban...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11099</guid>
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				<title>Two Stand-up Guys for Liberty (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11086</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Shortly after the horrendous crime of 9/11, I underlined the abuses of our constitutional liberties in the Patriot Act as it hurtled through Congress. During that steamrollered legislative process, I was briefly encouraged by a bitingly sardonic dissent from House Democrat David Obey of Wisconsin: "...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11086</guid>
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				<title>Should We Entrust Our Health to Obamacare? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11062</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Lurching through Congress, the Democrats' health care bill is revealed in all its roiling confusion by this reaction from Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., after the proposed controversial "compromise" Senate expansion of Medicare: "Any big agreement is progress. Even if we do not know any of the details."

...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Will Obama Send Flowers to Obamacare Victims? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11037</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The callousness of the Harry Reid Democratic majority in bullying through a very cost-efficient health-care bill for President Obama's eager pen to sign was disgracefully clear when both the House and Senate, on party-line votes, decided to cut $43 billion of Medicare spending on what The New York T...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>The Cold Heart of Obamacare (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11024</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Much of the press coverage of the Democrats' health-care legislation, now fiercely embattled in Congress, focuses on the public option, the actual long-term costs and tax increases, and the amendment barring funding for abortions, but the cold heart of Obamacare is its overpowering of the doctor-pat...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11024</guid>
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				<title>Unanswered Questions for Us at War (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11009</link>
				<description><![CDATA[In his book, Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century, P.W. Singer &#8212; director of the Brookings Institute's 21st-Century Defense Initiative &#8212; describes our use of lethal pilotless drone planes in Iraq and Afghanistan by noting that the pilots directing the d...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11009</guid>
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				<title>Obama's Extra-Judicial Killers Subvert American Values (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11004</link>
				<description><![CDATA[In "Capture or Kill? Lawyers eye options forterrorists" (National Public Radio, Oct. 11), exceptionally alert investigative reporter Ari Shapiro said: "Many national security experts interviewed for this story agree that it has become so hard for the U.S. to detain people that in many instances, the...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11004</guid>
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				<title>Re-Educating Americans about Our Identity (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10939</link>
				<description><![CDATA[My favorite magazine by far was Constitution, published by the Foundation for the U.S. Constitution. No longer in existence, it was full of riveting stories &#8212; for students and adults &#8212; with beautifully reproduced historic documents, portraits and paintings of how we came to be distinguis...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10939</guid>
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				<title>Letter to the Editor: Equal rights? Not quite... (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10910</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The October 28 editorial "A civil rights advance," applauding President Obama's imminent signing of "hate crimes" legislation, ignored the legislation's plain violation of the 14th Amendment's "equal protection of the laws." As a result of this law, those convicted of serious bodily harm against pro...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10910</guid>
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				<title>Obama Moves to Protect, Rather Than Fix, Patriot Act (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10702</link>
				<description><![CDATA[While battling the FBI's expanded surveillance guidelines, Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., also revealed (Daily Kos, Oct. 8) that in the Senate Judiciary Committee review of the Patriot Act (also Oct. 8), Republicans protecting the Act were joined, in a closed-door classified session, by Obama officials...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10702</guid>
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				<title>Obama as Bad as Bush-Cheney (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10693</link>
				<description><![CDATA[While battling the FBI's expanded surveillance guidelines, Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., also revealed (Daily Kos, Oct. 8) that in the Senate Judiciary Committee review of the Patriot Act (also Oct. 8), Republicans protecting the Act were joined, in a closed-door classified session, by Obama officials...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10693</guid>
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				<title>CIA, GOP and Obama Versus 'the Real Facts' (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10624</link>
				<description><![CDATA[On the wall of CIA headquarters is this challenging message from the New Testament: "And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." Veering sharply from this acknowledgment was the demand sent to the Obama administration by seven former CIA directors (Washington Post, Sept. 18) that...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10624</guid>
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				<title>War Crimes by Doctors and Psychologists (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10601</link>
				<description><![CDATA[After I reported on documented evidence by Physicians for Human Rights that doctors and psychologists "were involved in every stage in the development, implementation and legitimization" of the CIA's torture operations, I saw a Sept. 6 Washington Post column, "From 'Do No Harm' to Torture," by this ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10601</guid>
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				<title>Baucus Bill Fine Print a Health Hazard (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10584</link>
				<description><![CDATA[In the influential Senate Finance Committee's health care bill there is a dangerous provision that could deny crucial health treatments for Medicare patients.

This is the much-publicized and debated Baucus bill, named for Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus. In its news section, the Wall...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10584</guid>
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				<title>Tough Questions For Doctors Who Aided CIA Torture (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10556</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The fearlessly independent Physicians for Human Rights - founded in 1986 and sharer of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 - has once again exposed the shameful role of doctors and psychologists throughout the CIA's torture interrogations, banned by the international Convention against Torture and Other C...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10556</guid>
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				<title>Rebel Interrogators Want Investigation (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10547</link>
				<description><![CDATA[After former CIA Inspector General John Helgerson's recently released explosive 2004 report on "enhanced" interrogations of terrorism suspects, he said he began his investigation "in part because of expressions of concern by Agency (CIA) employees that the actions in which they were involved, or of ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10547</guid>
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				<title>What Interrogation Info Is the CIA Still Hiding? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10518</link>
				<description><![CDATA[A fierce debate will long continue to swirl around former CIA Inspector General John Helgerson's long-delayed 2004 report (sprung by an ACLU lawsuit) about at least some of the "enhanced" CIA interrogations. He now says some were apparently designed "solely because they were degrading" (his statemen...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10518</guid>
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				<title>The Second American Revolution (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10487</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Startlingly  &#8212;  and wholly involuntarily  &#8212;  President Obama is teaching us that, as Thomas Jefferson often said, "the people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberty." The growing resistance to the president's goal of state-controlled health care is moving more of us to act on ou...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10487</guid>
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				<title>I Am Finally Scared of a White House Administration (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10469</link>
				<description><![CDATA[I was not intimidated during J. Edgar Hoover's FBI hunt for reporters like me who criticized him. I railed against the Bush-Cheney war on the Bill of Rights without blinking. But now I am finally scared of a White House administration. President Obama's desired health care reform intends that a fede...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10469</guid>
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				<title>What Black Parents Are Still Telling Their Children (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10453</link>
				<description><![CDATA[After the Obama-Gates-Crowley "beer summit" at the White House ended, Ronald Walter, a black longtime professor of politics at the University of Maryland, said: "Black parents are using this as a case in point of what they have been saying all along" to their children, "Racism hasn't gone away." Chi...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10453</guid>
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