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<title><![CDATA[Arthur Brooks - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15107.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Arthur Brooks]]></description><category domain="15107">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Your Parents Raised You. What Do You Owe Them?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thefp.com/p/arthur-brooks-parents-aging-elder-care?utm_campaign=realclearpolitics</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Caring for an aging parent can be exhausting, expensive, and unfairly distributed among siblings. It can also become one of life's deepest sources of meaning, writes Arthur Brooks.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Loneliness Is Tearing America Apart]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/23/opinion/loneliness-political-polarization.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When people have a hole in their life, they often fill it with angry politics.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Confessions of a Catholic Convert to Capitalism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2017/02/06/confessions-catholic-convert-capitalism</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The greatest conversion story of all time began at daybreak on Dec. 9, 1531, on a hill outside Mexico City. The ruthless Spanish conquest of the indigenous peoples was proving an uncompelling advertisement for the Catholic faith. It had produced a meager stream of voluntary converts up...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[To Make the World Better, Think Small]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/opinion/to-make-the-world-better-think-small.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is a legend about the comedian W. C. Fields as he lay dying in his hospital bed, surrounded by family. It was winter in New York City, and from outside came the sound of a newsboy shouting, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Wuxtry! Wuxtry! Stock market prices fall!'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Stirred out of his stupor, Fields...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Donald Trump Filled the Dignity Deficit]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over the past half century, the percentage of working-age men outside the workforce doubled.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Narcissism Is Increasing. So You're Not So Special.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/opinion/narcissism-is-increasing-so-youre-not-so-special.html?ref=opinion&amp;_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[MY teenage son recently informed me that there is an Internet quiz to test oneself for narcissism. His friend had just taken it. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'How did it turn out?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' I asked. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'He says he did great!'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' my son responded. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'He got the maximum score!'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' When I was a child, no...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Choose To Be Grateful. It Will Make You Happier]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/opinion/sunday/choose-to-be-grateful-it-will-make-you-happier.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For many people, gratitude is difficult, because life is difficult. Even beyond deprivation and depression, there are many ordinary circumstances in which gratitude doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t come easily. This point will elicit a knowing, mirthless chuckle from readers whose Thanksgiving dinners are...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Academia's Rejection of Diversity]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/31/opinion/academias-rejection-of-diversity.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[ONE of the great intellectual and moral epiphanies of our time is the realization that human diversity is a blessing. It has become conventional wisdom that being around those unlike ourselves makes us better people '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and more productive to boot.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Scholarly studies have piled up...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Worship Reagan, Learn From Him]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/changing_lanes/2015/08/08/dont_worship_reagan_learn_from_him.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Brooks</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Heroic Conservative]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/changing_lanes/2015/08/06/heroic_conservativsm.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Brooks</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[7 Habits of Highly Effective Conservatives]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/changing_lanes/2015/08/05/seven_habits_of_highly_effective_conservatives.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why is it that the only time Republicans ever do anything interesting, they get dragged into it kicking and screaming?Ross Perot and his fever charts were the bane of the country club set.Sarah Palin and her hockey mom lipstick gave them the vapors in their Brooks Brothers wingtips.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Aging Europe in Decline]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/07/opinion/an-aging-europes-decline.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'I'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'VE fallen and I can'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'t get up.'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'These words, shouted by an elderly woman, were made famous in a medical alert device ad in the 1990s. In 2015, they might be Europe'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s catchphrase.As the United States economy slowly recovers, analysts across the political spectrum see little to cheer...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Start Helping the Helpers]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/18/opinion/arthur-c-brooks-start-helping-the-helpers.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WHAT is a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'helping industry'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'?This question has brought me to a former battery factory in downtown San Francisco. I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m sitting in what must have been some tycoon'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s corner office. Four overstuffed chairs are surrounded by a full complement of hipster eclectica, from art...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Formula for Happiness]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/opinion/sunday/a-formula-for-happiness.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Brooks</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Is Ducking a Leader's Duty]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/commentary/la-oe-brooks-obama-leadership-20131004-16,0,6646621.story</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A vast scholarly literature spanning more than six decades exists on the subject of leadership. The characteristics of effective leaders have been pored over, cataloged and debated. Among them, one trait stands out as axiomatic: Effective leaders take responsibility for problems around...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans' Hispanic Opening]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323744604578473411753698332.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Before Washington was rocked in recent days by an assortment of brewing scandals, immigration reform was at center stage. And immigration reform will surely return shortly to the heart of Washington debates as Congress considers legislation proposed by Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans and Their Faulty Moral Arithmetic]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324338604578326350052940798.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the waning days of the 1992 presidential campaign, President George H.W. Bush trailed Bill Clinton in the polls. The conventional wisdom was that Mr. Bush seemed too aloof from voters struggling economically. At a rally in New Hampshire, the exhausted president started what was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[My Valuable, Cheap College Degree]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/01/opinion/my-valuable-cheap-college-degree.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[MUCH is being written about the preposterously high cost of college. The median inflation-adjusted household income fell by 7 percent between 2006 and 2011, while the average real tuition at public four-year colleges increased over that period by over 18 percent. Meanwhile, the average...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rich Makers, Corporate Takers and Obamanomics]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/01/08/brooks_under_obamanomics_rich_makers_are_redistributed_to_the_rich_takers.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, discusses the fiscal cliff deal on CNBC's "Squawk Box."---JOE KERNEN: The fiscal cliff fight's over, a battle that is still looming large. Our guest host today is Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Perilous Powerball Economy]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324024004578171444161023374.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What can the state lottery teach us about how to deal with the fiscal cliff? Quite a bit, actually. Last month, two families in Missouri and Arizona had their dreams come true when they shared the largest Powerball lottery jackpot in history: $587 million. "We are truly blessed," one of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[History Helps Explain Why the Stimulus Failed]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/328432/why-stimulus-failed-arthur-c-brooks</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ask most Americans about the big-spending government policies of the last few years, and they will tell you the programs have failed. In a February 2012 poll from the nonpartisan Pew Research Center, 66 percent of Americans said the federal government is having a negative impact on the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On Success, Obama Has Forked Tongue]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444860104577558701241637894.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Within the space of just two weeks, Americans have witnessed two radically different philosophies about the free enterprise system from President Obama. In his notorious Roanoke, Va., speech of July 13, he said "If you've got a business'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';'you didn't build that. Somebody else made that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Already Is Europe]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'm often asked if I think America is trending toward becoming a European-style social democracy. My answer is: "No, because we already are a European-style social democracy." From the progressivity of our tax code, to the percentage of GDP devoted to government, to the extent of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Conservatives Are Happier Than Liberals]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/opinion/sunday/conservatives-are-happier-and-extremists-are-happiest-of-all.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WHO is happier about life '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';' liberals or conservatives? The answer might seem straightforward. After all, there is an entire academic literature in the social sciences dedicated to showing conservatives as naturally authoritarian, dogmatic, intolerant of ambiguity, fearful of threat and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America &amp; the Value of &quot;Earned Success&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304749904577385650652966894.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I learned to appreciate the American free enterprise system by quitting a job in Spain.At age 19, I dropped out of school to pursue a career as a French horn player. After a few twists and turns, I wound up in the Barcelona Symphony, which was a Spanish government job.Even as a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ready for the Battle in November?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/07/making-the-moral-case-for-free-enterprise</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You probably think I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m talking about the election. No, I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m talking about the battle around your Thanksgiving table. The dinner conversation will turn to politics and the economy, and it will be your job to stick up for capitalism and free markets.You'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ll say something...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Winning the Fight on &quot;Fairness&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/2012/04/winning-fight-fairness/479136</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For some months now, President Obama has increasingly been couching his rhetoric in the language of fairness.He used the word "fair" 14 times in his December speech in Osawatomie, Kan., where he implored us to "restore fairness." He demanded tax reform that "makes sure everybody pays...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Americans Choose Opportunity Over &quot;Fairness&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obama-says-its-fair-to-raise-taxes-on-the-rich-hes-wrong/2011/04/19/AFZYRmPE_print.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s criticisms of the Republican budget proposal put  forward by Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin center on one main objection: It  is unfair.The Ryan plan is based on three premises. First, our  economy is headed for a predictable disaster because of the ruinous  levels of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tea Partiers and the Spirit of Giving]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704774604576036010174911064.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By now everyone knows that the dramatic November election was not an  endorsement of Republicanism, but rather a rebellion against  expansionist government and an attempt to re-establish America's culture  of free enterprise.The tea party activists behind the  wave'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and more...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Top 10 Ways Government Kills Jobs in America]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Arthur Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Our politicians all seem to agree on at least one thing:'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' There will be no recovery unless America gets back to work.But that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s often where the agreement ends.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  Once you move on to discuss'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' how'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' to get America back to work, opinions begin to diverge.In general, the worst thing...]]></description>
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