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							<title><![CDATA[Is It One Big Beautiful Bill or One Big Mess? Both]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Hood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[RALEIGH, N.C. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' How should the American right view the passage of President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s signature tax and budget law? Is it really, as Republicans came to call it, One Big Beautiful Bill? Or is it one big mess?
Many conservatives are praising provisions that retain earlier tax...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Freedom Conservatives Will Keep America Great]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/07/13/freedom_conservatives_will_keep_america_great_149478.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Hood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On this date in 1787, leaders of a fledgling republic took a fateful step that helped create the United States of America we know today. No, I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m not referring to a new federal Constitution, which convention delegates were still hammering out that summer in Philadelphia'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Five Commanders to Honor This Memorial Day]]></title>
							<link>https://issuesinsights.com/2022/05/30/five-commanders-to-honor-this-memorial-day/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Hood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On May 31, 1982, President Ronald Reagan looked out at his Memorial Day audience assembled at Arlington National Cemetery. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I have no illusions about what little I can add now to the silent testimony of those who gave their lives willingly for their country,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' admitted,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Zora Neale Hurston vs. Critical Race Theory]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/zora-neale-hurston-offers-an-alternative-to-critical-race-theory/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Hood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[High John de Conquer was the title of Zora Neale Hurston's piece in the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' American Mercury. It was distinctive in both tone and content.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[North Carolina Got It Right on Unemployment Benefits]]></title>
							<link>http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:online.wsj.com/articles/john-hood-north-carolina-got-it-right-on-unemployment-benefits-1404509638</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Hood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A year ago, North Carolina became the first state in the nation to exit the federal government's extended-benefits program for the unemployed. Facing the prospect of job-killing hikes in payroll taxes to pay back Washington, Gov. Pat McCrory and the state legislature instead reduced the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Wide-Open Race for the GOP Nomination]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/260590/wide-open-race-gop-nomination-john-hood</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Hood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Washington Times reporter Ralph Hallow may be delivering  readers old news in a piece today exploring the wide-open race for the  Republican presidential nomination. But that doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t make the situation  any less remarkable, or Hallow'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s summation any less worthy of a read.A...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How U.S. Can Avoid Crisis in the States]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-states-in-crisis</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Hood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over the past three years, the news out of state capitals has been dire.  From Albany to Sacramento, economic shocks have reduced states' tax  revenues, even as the downturn has required states to spend more on  welfare for the struggling and newly jobless. The Great Recession has  thus...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Joke And What It Reveals]]></title>
							<link>http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MzY5NTAxM2RlOWExMjBmNjlmYjM5NWNiMzI1MDQwNTY=</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Always Take the Clintons Seriously]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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