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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>Nat Hentoff (Cato Institute)</title>
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				<title>FBI Free to Ambush our Bill of Rights (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14383</link>
				<description><![CDATA[When I was a kid, beginning to learn what it is to be an American, I found a hero in George Mason, a leading Virginia delegate to the 1787 Constitutional Convention. Mason refused to sign on to the Constitution that was passed by the convention. Why?

&#8220;There is no Declaration of Rights,&#x26;rdqu...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Questions Not Yet Asked about Mitt Romney (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14365</link>
				<description><![CDATA[As Mitt Romney exults in his rise to the very top of the Republican Party, I was struck by a tiny story deep in The New York Times last week. At a campaign stop in Euclid, Ohio, a woman in the audience stood up, arguing that President Barack Obama &#8220;is operating outside the (structure) of our C...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>At Last, Parents Rebel against Standardized Tests (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14344</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Around the country, more parents are protesting &#8212; and some even boycotting &#8212; the standardized collective tests that grade the progress of entire classes and whole schools. In New York City and state, where I live &#8212; and elsewhere &#8212; the results can cause teachers to lose their ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>This Is Happening in America? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14325</link>
				<description><![CDATA[From my diary of students' awakening to the president's grave menace to their constitutional liberties: Recently, on Skype, I was discussing my memoir, Boston Boy (Paul Dry Books, 1986), with a class at Suffolk University in Boston. It's about growing up in a Boston ghetto during the Great Depressio...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Citizens Resist King Obama (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14306</link>
				<description><![CDATA[With instant news coming at us continuously on cable and online, there may well be Americans who are unaware of the strong reaction to Barack Obama&#8217;s signing of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2012. The law impelled Kenneth Roth, the executive director of the resp...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>The Main Issue in the 2012 Election (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14288</link>
				<description><![CDATA[I have no record as a prophet except when, at the end of Barack Obama&#8217;s first year in office, I reported: &#8220;Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had&#8221; (&#8220;America Under Barack Obama: An Interview With Nat Hentoff,&#8221; John W. Whitehead, r...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>We Can't Hide from the National Security Agency (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14273</link>
				<description><![CDATA[How many Americans know that as of September 2013, all of us engaged in any form of communication will be subject &#8212; with the approval of President Barack Obama and the silence of Congress &#8212; to continuous tracking and databasing by the National Security Agency?

As I reported here last ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Students Learning to Be Citizens (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14246</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Two years ago, then-American Bar Association President Stephen N. Zack gravely warned: "Civic education courses have become electives in some schools; at others, they are not offered at all. We are producing a generation of citizens who are ill-equipped to govern themselves... We must do better."
...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14246</guid>
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				<title>School Discipline Biased toward Minorities (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14192</link>
				<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama is being criticized by some black citizens for paying hardly any attention to the continued presence of Jim Crow in this land. But his Department of Education's Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for 2009-10, which covered 72,000 schools in 7,000 districts, accounting for...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14192</guid>
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				<title>Dictators Murdering Their Own People (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14155</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Urgent global attention is being paid to Syria's monstrous president Bashar al-Assad as he commits genocide on his people. But another mass murderer remains mostly out of the American press. Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir continues his decades-long reign of terror on his people despite two warrant...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Sweet Land of Liberty -- Public School Principals Must Be Evaluated, Too (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14138</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Fierce battles continue around the country among school officials, teachers unions and parents about how to best evaluate teachers so that the incompetents can be terminated. Largely overlooked, however, is the vital need to evaluate principals. In many schools I've reported on over the years, it's ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Sweet Land of Liberty -- Janet Napolitano: The New J. Edgar Hoover? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14119</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Sweet Land of Liberty &#8212; Janet Napolitano: The new J. Edgar Hoover?

The Obama administration appears so confident of its expansion of the George W. Bush-Dick Cheney surveillance of our personal lives &#8212; starting with the Patriot Act &#8212; that at times it is beginning to resemble the ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14119</guid>
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				<title>Too Much Government Surveillance (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14070</link>
				<description><![CDATA[I was thrilled to see this headline on the American Civil Liberties Union's website after the Supreme Court's unanimous Jan. 23 ruling on United States v. Jones: "Supreme Court GPS Ruling: Bringing the 4th Amendment Into the 21st Century" (aclu.org, Jan. 26). Wow!

And this dramatic praise from Ma...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>The 'Hitler of Africa' Still Rules (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14044</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Our planet abounds in horrific dictators, most of whom eventually are erased from power by their suffering, mutinous subjects. But one of them &#8212; Robert Mugabe &#8212; continues his despotic reign as president of Zimbabwe. 

This land, once "the breadbasket of Africa," is now a place where ha...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14044</guid>
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				<title>Does Constitution Allow Supremes to Hide from Us? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13965</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The first reporter I turn to for accurate news and analysis on a Supreme Court decision is Adam Liptak of the New York Times. In a recent article ("Supreme Court TV? Nice idea, but still not likely," Nov. 28), he told us: "The Supreme Courts of Canada and the United Kingdom allow cameras" during the...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13965</guid>
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				<title>What Does Being American Mean Now? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13968</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Soon after George Washington died, Thomas Jefferson recalled that our first president often told him "he considered the new Constitution as an experiment on ... what dose of liberty man could be trusted for his own good" ("The Meaning of Independence," Edmund S. Morgan, University of Virginia Press)...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13968</guid>
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				<title>Supreme Court Shuns Us Common Folk (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13969</link>
				<description><![CDATA[I have often criticized the Supreme Court for continually refusing to allow TV cameras in its courtroom. That way, We The People can see and hear &#8212; during oral arguments before the lofty nine with lifetime seats &#8212; how they reach judgments that often affect our lives for years to come. No...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Bill of Rights Day: What's Left of Them? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13937</link>
				<description><![CDATA[John Jay, the co-writer of the Federalist Papers and the first chief justice of the United States (1789-95), wrote in a 1786 letter to Thomas Jefferson that he was worried that under our evolving founding document that became the Constitution, Congress would have exorbitant power.

&#8220;These th...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>When Will America End Racial Bias? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13922</link>
				<description><![CDATA[I remember when the civil-rights movement was cresting in the late 1950s &#8212; not only in the South &#8212; sitting at jazz concerts and other public events, linking hands with blacks and whites in the same row, some of whom I didn't know, as we were singing "We Shall Overcome."

We haven't ove...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Down Syndrome Genocide (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13890</link>
				<description><![CDATA[For years I have been opposed to the genocide of pre-born children with Down syndrome, together with the killing of those who survive abortion (my book, Nat Hentoff: Insisting On Life, Human Life Review, 2005) and in other publications.

Presently, Mayrav Saar (New York Post, Nov. 15, "Postscript,...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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