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							<title><![CDATA[The Left's &quot;Wars&quot;]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Pete Du Pont</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The midterm elections are just over seven months away and the left has unleashed its usual rhetoric about the Republican "war on women." It's baseless political pandering of the worst kind, but not something the Republicans can ignore, as it will no doubt be furthered by a mainstream...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare: The Great Destroyer]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Pete Du Pont</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Polls show an increasing majority of Americans dislike President Obama's health-care law and disapprove of the job the president is doing. Perhaps more disconcerting for Mr. Obama is a recent Quinnipiac University poll that finds, for the first time in his presidency, a majority (54%) of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Second-Term Nightmare]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Pete Du Pont</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Affordable Care Act will give companies &#194;&#151; and, surprisingly, their workers &#194;&#151; a big incentive to embrace more part-time employment. That isn't necessarily a problem, except when it comes to paying the health-insurance bills for all those part-timers. Looks like that job will fall to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Anti-Energy Agenda]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Pete Du Pont</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Not surprisingly, President Obama and Speaker John Boehner have different views on energy policy, differences brought into stark contrast by their recent statements. The president sees our nation's energy policy primarily in terms of the environment, with the economy a secondary concern....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama's Scandalous Legacy]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Pete Du Pont</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's too early to tell if May will be remembered as marking the beginning of a failed second term for President Obama, but it is clear the atmosphere in Washington has changed. We don't yet know the full impact of new revelations about last September's attack in Benghazi, the political...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Make Government Less Taxing]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Pete Du Pont</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Americans don't like things that are inefficient, costly or unfair. Our federal tax code seems designed to be all three, a failing exacerbated by a patchwork of economically distorting subsidies and preferences found throughout the code and elsewhere. In a 2009 survey by the Tax...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democratic Majority Is Doomed]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Pete Du Pont</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Many argue the coalition that elected and re-elected Barack Obama represents a long-term shift in the electorate that will determine elections and public policies for generations. Some of commentators think conservatives have lost their relevance, and the Republicans are about to go the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Four More Years of Europeanization]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Pete Du Pont</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The election is behind us, with President Obama's strong victory over Mitt Romney. Mr. Obama did not do as well this time, winning by 3.3 million votes compared with 9.5 million in 2008. But he overcame a weak economy and some unpopular policies to win a second term, and that is no small...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Only Fools and Partisans Think Obama Has It Won]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Pete Du Pont</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Things are changing in America, from economics to politics, to elections. The public sees a supposed economic recovery that seems quite short on job creation, as employment and underemployment remain high. They see higher taxes coming: ObamaCare's new 3.8% tax on investment income, plus...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Four More Years? No Thanks]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Pete Du Pont</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Before being elected in 2008, Barack Obama said: "We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America." That belief has turned out to be wholly accurate. America has been greatly transformed by all areas of this administration's policy goals and actions.The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Anti-Energy President]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Pete Du Pont</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Our America today is very different from the America of some years ago. Government spending is greatly increased, as is the regulation of our economy. The growing size and reach of our government is sapping our nation's strength and independence. And our current president's policies have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama's Slip]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Pete Du Pont</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Iowa Republican presidential candidate debate was very well done. Fox News people had good questions, Republican presidential candidates had good answers, and there was very little of the candidate nastiness that we had seen in earlier debates. The most successful candidates seemed...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No More Years: Obama Increasingly Likely to Lose]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204485304576641842577438666.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_BelowLEFTSecond</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Pete Du Pont</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just two years ago it  seemed highly unlikely that Barack Obama would turn out to be a one-term president. But looking at voters' frustrations with our continuing economic problems and the growth of federal government intrusiveness during Mr. Obama's first term, more and more...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Biggest Spender: Obama's Change for the Worse]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Pete Du Pont</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the last few years, as promised, the Obama administration has fundamentally transformed America. Our country is now in serious decline. Income is lower, unemployment is higher, jobs are fewer, government is much larger. Federal spending is way up, and America's economic status is way...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Needs a New President]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Pete Du Pont</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last year I wrote that the enactment of ObamaCare meant "the Europeanization of America is coming to pass, for individual choice and opportunity are being replaced by statism." That law is transferring 17% of our national economy from the marketplace to full control and regulation by the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Gas Prices: Four More Dollars?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Pete Du Pont</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Treasury reports that the federal government ran up $870 billion in red ink in the first seven months of this fiscal year. That is $70 billion, or 9%, higher than at the same point in fiscal 2010, which ended up with a record $1.3 trillion deficit.America's energy policy is as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Big Has the Government Grown?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Pete Du Pont</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How big has the government grown under the Obama administration? "The average level of U.S. government spending as a percentage of GDP from the end of World War II to the present is 19.6 percent," observes the Heritage Foundation. "In the past two years that level has exploded, reaching...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton for President?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Pete Du Pont</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America's economy is failing to produce jobs, increase growth or raise confidence, and it will likely get even worse next year. Our federal government's spending has increased to $3.7 trillion this year from $2.98 trillion in 2008. Publicly held national debt is up by $2.4 trillion in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Big Government Comes with a Price]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Pete Du Pont</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is it, as President Reagan's re-election commercial said, "morning in America"? Back then it was, but not anymore; it is economic evening in America as our nation's spending, government programs and deficits balloon. The federal deficit this fiscal year will be $1.6 trillion, or about...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Copenhagen's Dodged Bullet]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Pete Du Pont</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Al Gore said the other week that climate change is "a principle in physics. It's like gravity. It exists." Sarah Palin agreed that "climate change is like gravity," but added a better conclusion: Each is "a naturally occurring phenomenon that existed long before, and will exist long...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Waxman-Markey Deserves to Die]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Big Chill]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Pete Du Pont</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two months ago this column offered an analysis of the Waxman-Markey global warming bill, its enormous cost and its practical impossibilities.
Sometime in the next few weeks Congress will begin consideration of the bill, one of the priorities of the Obama administration and the Al Gore...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Should U.S. Become More Like Europe?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Pete Du Pont</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Economist David M. Smick's recent book, "The World Is Curved," shows that during the past quarter-century we have had a global "golden age of wealth creation and poverty reduction never before seen in the history of mankind." The global free market "experienced an unprecedented doubling...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Europeanization of America]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Global Warmism Threatens Economy]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton and Obama's Alarming Hostility to Trade]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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