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				<title>Nat Hentoff (Cato Institute)</title>
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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>
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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>
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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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				<title>'Teachable Moment' Missed Lesson on Free Speech (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10425</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The "media frenzy" - as President Obama called it - over Sgt. James Crowley's arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. needs to become more than a "teachable moment," in the president's phrase. But not only about interactions among blacks and white police. Widely overlooked in this frenzy i...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10425</guid>
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				<title>Hate Crime Bill Goes against Constitution (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10405</link>
				<description><![CDATA[THROUGHOUT the Bush-Cheney creation of a society under surveillance and unprecedented government secrecy, I have often praised Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., for resisting that administration's penchant for degrading the Constitution. But on July 16, he proudly watched as the Senate passed his "hate cri...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10405</guid>
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				<title>Mr. President, We Are Still Torturing? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10361</link>
				<description><![CDATA[On Dec. 26, 2002, Dana Priest and Barton Gellman broke, in the Washington Post, the first undeniable story of American torturing of suspected terrorists. In a CIA secret prison at our Bagram air base detention center in Afghanistan, prisoners were being subjected to the by now all-too-familiar ways ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10361</guid>
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				<title>Are Americans Ready for a Post-racial Society? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10345</link>
				<description><![CDATA[In its widely anticipated decision in Ricci v. DeStefano - the New Haven firefighters' case - a majority of the Supreme Court evaded a significant opportunity to seriously question the constitutionality of the long familiar affirmative-action claims by groups and classes that they had been discrimin...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10345</guid>
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				<title>No One Feels Safe in Zimbabwe (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10335</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The BBC's Mike Thomson, in a series of reports from Zimbabwe in early June, spoke to "a Zimbabwean mother and (13-year-old) daughter who are still too afraid to return home after being abducted and repeatedly raped by militiamen from President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party a year ago." (Its symbol i...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10335</guid>
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				<title>Who Are We as Americans? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10316</link>
				<description><![CDATA[President Obama, in his May 21 speech at the National Archives Museum in Washington said that "we can defeat Al Qaeda ...if we stay true to who we are...anchored in our timeless ideals." A much more somber note, however, was in a warning by retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter the day before ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10316</guid>
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				<title>Is Obama's 'Prolonged Detention' American? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10297</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall once warned: "Throughout the world today there are men, women and children interned indefinitely, awaiting trials which may never come or which may be a mockery of the word, because their governments believe them to be 'dangerous.' Our Constitution ... can she...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10297</guid>
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				<title>O'Reilly Being Found 'Guilty by Snippet' (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10287</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Following the cold-blooded murder of late-term abortionist Dr. George Tiller, Mike Hendricks of the Kansas City Star, like many other outraged commentators, declared that anyone who had, in the past, criticized Tiller's practice thereby became "an accomplice" to the killing (Wall Street Journal, Jun...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10287</guid>
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				<title>Mr. President, Here Is Common Ground on Abortion! (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10274</link>
				<description><![CDATA[President Obama has reneged on an increasing number of his pledges on taking office - from guaranteeing a transparent, accountable administration to ending CIA "renditions" of suspects to foreign nations known for torture. Now, however, he has a golden chance to fulfill his often-repeated goal of ac...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10274</guid>
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				<title>An Obama I Can't Believe In, Yet (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10252</link>
				<description><![CDATA[President Obama's Notre Dame speech on abortion was applauded by the mainstream media, quoting his call for more "open hearts, open minds, fair-minded words." But except for the pro-life, and some conservative forums, there was no mention of Obama's omission of his own documented, chilling record on...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10252</guid>
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