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<title><![CDATA[Vincent Carroll - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15204.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Vincent Carroll]]></description><category domain="15204">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Hickenlooper in Fight of His Political Life]]></title>
							<link>http://www.denverpost.com/carroll/ci_26566456/toe-toe-colorado-governors-race</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Vincent Carroll</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gov. John Hickenlooper's Very Bad Day]]></title>
							<link>http://www.denverpost.com/carroll/ci_26004653/carroll-gov-john-hickenloopers-very-bad-day</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Vincent Carroll</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Gov. John Hickenlooper was at his mystifying worst during a recent appearance before the Colorado sheriffs, bolstering Republican hopes that he may not be the cinch for re-election that he is often portrayed.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Remembering the Shock of 9/11]]></title>
							<link>http://www.denverpost.com/carroll/ci_24062897/carroll-remembering-shock-9-11</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Vincent Carroll</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Twelve years after the attacks of 9/11, it's important to remember the utter astonishment at what happened &mdash; as well as the failure of imagination on the part of both government and aviation officials that contributed to the shock.Terrorists had used cars, trucks and boats as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Shouldn't a Diploma Mean Something?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.denverpost.com/carroll/ci_23057439/shouldnt-diploma-mean-something</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Vincent Carroll</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What's a high school diploma worth?By itself, almost nothing. Colleges have long known this. So has the military. That's why both rely on independent tests.Possessing a diploma is no doubt better than the alternative, but mainly because if you don't have one then people assume you're...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sequester: Bad for DC, Good for America?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.denverpost.com/carroll/ci_22623213/carroll-staggering-toward-sequester</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Vincent Carroll</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The sequester is coming, the sequester is coming. And if you believe The New York Times, it's going to hit us in March with the force of the biblical plagues.In a recent editorial that should have been trimmed in black, the Times published a parade of horribles that it claims will be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Does Obama Dislike the Private Sector?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.denverpost.com/carroll/ci_21114290/who-did-build-that-business-then-mr-president</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Vincent Carroll</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let's be honest: If the nearest priest, minister or rabbi had uttered essentially the same words about personal merit that got President Obama in trouble recently, we'd have hardly thought twice about it.Reminding high-achievers that they didn't make it on their own &mdash; that they're...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Warren Buffett's Folksy Mask]]></title>
							<link>http://www.denverpost.com/carroll/ci_20065123</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Vincent Carroll</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Reading most thumbnail sketches of the Berkshire Hathaway investment guru, such as the one above, you'd think he was Middle America's rebuke to Wall Street's wheelers and dealers.You'd think Buffett prospered solely because of the way he meshes a "value-based" strategy with traditional...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joe Biden's Reckless Bid for Jobs Bill]]></title>
							<link>http://www.denverpost.com/carroll/ci_19159803</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Vincent Carroll</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dan Quayle may have set the modern record for embarrassing gaffes by a vice president, but most were simply goofy mistakes. Quayle would get lost in an off-the-cuff statement, misspell a word, or misplace a century.Joe Biden, on the other hand, is a different sort of court jester -- one...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Daniels: A Record to Match His Rhetoric]]></title>
							<link>http://www.denverpost.com/carroll/ci_18081839</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Vincent Carroll</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So will a viable anti-Romney figure ever emerge within the Republican field? I mean a candidate who might actually prevail in the 2012 general election, as opposed to handing President Obama an undeserved second term.So long as former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney remains the GOP...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[John Paul's Heroic Life]]></title>
							<link>http://www.denverpost.com/carroll/ci_17905295</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Vincent Carroll</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Six Easters ago, the most influential Christian of the past century faltered when trying to address a euphoric crowd in St. Peter's Square. Pope John Paul II died a few days later, ending the second longest papacy since the days of Peter.Now his successor is poised, one  week from today,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Holding a Match to Free Speech]]></title>
							<link>http://www.denverpost.com/carroll/ci_17778133</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Vincent Carroll</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So, does Sen. Lindsey Graham think that mocking the Bible should be punished, too?On second thought, strike that question. It's probably best not to  delve too deeply into the South Carolina Republican's views on the First  Amendment, given what we know so far.Graham is the fellow who...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Day of Reckoning for Uncle Sam]]></title>
							<link>http://www.denverpost.com/carroll/ci_17694508</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Vincent Carroll</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Are  Americans really so misinformed and naive that they think we can rein in  federal debt without cuts to any major program, from defense and  Homeland Security to Medicare to Social Security, as well as virtually  everything in between?In a USA Today/Gallup poll a few weeks ago,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Does Obama Want Higher Energy Prices?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.denverpost.com/carroll/ci_17567984</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Vincent Carroll</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here's what  you need to know about rising energy prices: They're a threat to  prosperity when they're the product of global market forces, but they're  a boon to job creation when they're the result of government mandates  and subsidies.And please don't ask our policymakers to explain...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tide Ebbing for Ethanol?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.denverpost.com/carroll/ci_16763841</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Vincent Carroll</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This is  stunning: "Producers of ethanol made from corn receive 73 cents to  provide an amount of biofuel with the energy equivalent to that in one  gallon of gasoline."That's 73 cents in federal tax subsidies, says the Congressional Budget Office &#194;&#151; or 45 cents for every gallon of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rockefeller vs. First Amendment]]></title>
							<link>http://www.denverpost.com/carroll/ci_16661510</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Vincent Carroll</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Which is the greater menace to democracy and political discourse: the right-left megaphones of Fox News and  MSNBC on the one hand, or Sen. Jay Rockefeller, who would destroy the First Amendment in order, he assures us, to save it?"We need new catalysts for quality news and entertainment...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Scarlet Letters for the Auto Industry]]></title>
							<link>http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_15978052</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Vincent Carroll</author>
							<description><![CDATA[var addthis_options = 'facebook, myspace, google, delicious, digg, favorites, live, buzz, twitter, fark, friendfeed';                    addthis_pub = 'mngi';                    Print  									      Email  							 Font ResizeopinionScarlet letters for the auto industryBy Vincent...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bennet Not Credible on Deficit]]></title>
							<link>http://www.denverpost.com/carroll/ci_15882191</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Vincent Carroll</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So who are you going to believe (with apologies to Groucho Marx): Michael Bennet or your own eyes?Bennet, you may have noticed, is campaigning as a fiscal hawk. According to a recent report in this newspaper, the Colorado senator touts deficit reduction at town hall meetings as vital to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cap and Trade: It's the Cost, Stupid]]></title>
							<link>http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_15670176</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA["Of course I'm angry," declared 4th  District Rep. Betsy Markey after hearing last week that the Senate had  abandoned efforts to pass a comprehensive energy bill. "This is a  national-security issue. It's critical that we break our dependence on  Middle East oil."Earth to congresswoman:...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Audacity of Tom Tancredo]]></title>
							<link>http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_15588601</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA["All right, you maniac, what the heck are you up to?" I ask Tom Tancredo as he sits down at my table Friday at a downtown eatery.Tancredo and I have known each other for more than 25 years, and even though my columns during the past decade have blasted him two or three times as often as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dumbing Down on Global Warming]]></title>
							<link>http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_15177942</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Vincent Carroll</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When my son was in eighth grade, his science teacher &mdash; a generally first-rate instructor &mdash; showed the class Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" to heighten their consciousness of global warming. It was a decision that irritated me to no end.Not because I objected to a sober...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hick, Van Jones and Lincoln]]></title>
							<link>http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_14900375</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Vincent Carroll</author>
							<description><![CDATA["I got to talk to Van Jones, and he is a rock star. He is. Everything you've ever heard about Van Jones, he's bigger and better in life than what you've heard."  &mdash; John Hickenlooper, May 2009Van Jones is actually a flake and an extremist, a guy who resigned from the Obama...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jobs Data Reveals Public-Private Gap]]></title>
							<link>http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_14811035</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Vincent Carroll</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The best U.S. job growth in three years. A worldwide manufacturing revival. Such are the early gifts of spring, following the crashing disappointment of the health-care mandates.Unfortunately, the jobs growth is reassuring only in comparison with the ravages of so many previous months. A...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Chance for Climate Realism in Colorado?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_14457009</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Green Jobs Fantasy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_14174339</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Media Hypes 'Backlash' Against Muslims]]></title>
							<link>http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_13758891</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Health Care: Making Matters Worse]]></title>
							<link>http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_13603658</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Vincent Carroll</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Repeat after me: Health care reform is going to save us money. Health care reform is going to save us money. Pay no attention, please, to the fact that the Senate Finance Committee's bill imposes fees on insurance providers, as well as producers of drugs and medical devices, that it caps...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Obama Should Say to Students]]></title>
							<link>http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_13272372</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Economic Reality For Robert Redford]]></title>
							<link>http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_13153123</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Health Care is Not Inferior]]></title>
							<link>http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_12667987</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stuck in an Afghan Quagmire]]></title>
							<link>http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_12557497</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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