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				<title>Will Wilkinson (Cato Institute)</title>
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				<title>See the World Like Elinor Ostrom (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10642</link>
				<description><![CDATA[When Elinor Ostrom's phone rang at 6:30 Monday morning, she thought it might be a telemarketer. Instead she discovered on the line a representative of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science bearing news that she and Oliver Williamson of the University of California, Berkeley, had been awarded the Nobe...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>How Cap-and-Trade Is Like Ritual Self-Flagellation (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10613</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Ultra-orthodox Jews in heavy beards and heavier black coats pray for hours each day at Jerusalem's Western Wall, even under a sweltering summer sun. Each year, Shiite Muslims whip their backs bloody with chains during the religious holiday of Ashura. Religious vegetarians in Phuket, Thailand, simila...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>The Real School Indoctrination Scandal (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10545</link>
				<description><![CDATA[While opposition to Barack Obama's recent "study hard and stay in school" speech perhaps was not grounded in sober assessments of the facts, it did have roots in a much more plausible suspicion: that public schools are rigging tomorrow's politics by indoctrinating kids today. Such fears formed the b...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Death Panels: Wrong Name, Right Idea (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10530</link>
				<description><![CDATA[If health-care reform was ever the subject of anything so civilized as a "debate," it has become the center of a gaudy spectacle of artifice and outrage. This is the televised picture of our democracy at work: a Potemkin "town hall" filled with party plants, Astroturf activists, and the quavering ra...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Go North, Young Man! (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10535</link>
				<description><![CDATA[As the clock struck midnight on April 17, 2009, the Canadian citizenship of my Saskatchewan-born but subsequently naturalized American father was restored. And thus, thanks to Bill C-37, an amendment to the Canadian Citizenship Act, so was mine. Under its terms, all Canadians who had lost their citi...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Does Inequality Still Matter? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10391</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Whatever happened to income inequality?
 
George W. Bush's last term was a golden age of the moralizing polemic decrying a widening income gap. Since then, this once paramount concern has completely evaporated. Yet if the question of income inequality was ever interesting or urgent, you'd think a ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Thinking Clearly about Economic Inequality (Policy Analysis)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10351</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Recent discussions of economic inequality,
marked by a lack of clarity and care, have confused
the public about the meaning and moral
significance of rising income inequality. Income
statistics paint a misleading picture of real standards
of living and real economic inequality.
Several strands...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Democratic Health Care vs. Democracy (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10334</link>
				<description><![CDATA[President Obama has confessed that he'd aim for a Canadian-style, single-payer health-care system if he were "starting from scratch." Of course, nobody gets to start from scratch. We've always got to start from here. In the case of health-care reform, we've got to start from a mess&#8212;a mess that...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>The Dauphin of Detroit (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10283</link>
				<description><![CDATA[As its power expands, the government bureaucracy increasingly resembles an aristocracy. How else to explain the enormous power invested in Brian Deese, the unknown, unelected, 31-year-old White House aide in command of General Motors?

"Brian Deese isn't picking out Chevy Malibu's colors for next ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>The Rise of Collectivist Conservatives (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10227</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Today's Republican Party is a comedy of incompetence and strife. Yet beneath the hijinks lurks a struggle to define the proper relationship of the individual to society and to the state. If we don't dig too deep, the fight for the soul of the conservative movement looks something like this: In the r...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Politics Plays Role in Bailout Mania (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10180</link>
				<description><![CDATA["I don't want to run the auto companies, and I don't want to run banks," President Obama said last week during a prime-time press conference on the fate of Detroit. He may not want to, but the Obama administration is effectively running auto companies and banks. And the president does get a bit cran...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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