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<title><![CDATA[John Steele Gordon - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15373.xml</link><description><![CDATA[John Steele Gordon]]></description><category domain="15373">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[A Brief History of Wealth Creation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/a-brief-history-of-wealth-creation-32bd917a?st=MCTTT4</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Steele Gordon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Our history is one of innovation, and we are all richer because of it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The New Censorship Is a Major Threat to America's Future]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/social-media-platforms-are-eroding-free-speech</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Steele Gordon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Using public health as a justification, Facebook, Twitter, and others are eroding free speech.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On Race in America, the Left Is Stuck in the Past]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/achievements-of-americas-civil-rights-movement</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Steele Gordon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The titanic achievements of America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s civil rights movement refute claims by the Left that the country remains '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'systemically racist.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Coronavirus Only a Bump in Road for World Economy]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2020/02/24/why-coronavirus-will-only-be-a-bump-in-the-road-for-the-world-economy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Steele Gordon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The stock market tanked Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 1,032 points at the close,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' over fears that the coronavirus'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' might have a serious, ongoing impact on the global economy.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Global Warming or Bad Data? Garbage in...]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/climate-global-warming-data-locations/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Steele Gordon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Climate data may be tainted by the fact that almost 90 percent of U.S. weather stations, which do not meet the National Weather Service's location standards.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Paul Krugman's Political Groundhog Day]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/paul-krugman-political-groundhog-day/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Steele Gordon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 2004, Paul Krugman, New York Times columnist and Nobel Laureate, was asked at an economics conference if he believed that a return to the 1980 top income tax rate of 70 percent was a good idea. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Oh, no!,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' he replied, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Those rates are insane!'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Liberalism Lashing Out in Its Death Throes]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/american-society/slow-motion-coup-donald-trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Steele Gordon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After a conversation in the Oval office'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' with President Trump, James Comey, then the Director of the FBI, remembered a memo to himself in which he recorded Trump saying regarding the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' investigation of his former National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I hope you can let this...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Prudent Tax Proposals]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/american-society/economy/trump-personal-tax-proposals/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Steele Gordon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[And, to be sure, there are some. Lowering the top rate to 35 percent from 39.6 obviously benefits the more well-off as that rate kicks in only on incomes (for single tax filers) over $418,000. So does eliminating the 3.8 percent tax on the investment incomes of high earners, which is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Anti-Science Certitude on Global Warming]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Unsettling%2C+Anti-Science+Certitude+on+Global+Warming&amp;oq=The+Unsettling%2C+Anti-Science+Certitude+on+Global+Warming&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.95j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;es_sm=122&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Steele Gordon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Are there any phrases in today'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s political lexicon more obnoxious than '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the science is settled'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' and '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'climate-change deniers'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'?The first is an oxymoron. By definition, science is never settled. It is always subject to change in the light of new evidence.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[10 Reasons to Abolish Corporate Income Tax]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/#q=Top+10+Reasons+to+Abolish+the+Corporate+Income+Tax</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Steele Gordon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s corporate income tax rate, at 35%, is the highest in the world. A rising chorus would like to bring it more in line with foreign rates, which average around 23%. I have a better idea'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'abolish the tax. The long-term benefits would greatly outweigh the short-term costs....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's Wrong With the U.S. Economy?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/10/06/whats-wrong-with-the-american-economy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Steele Gordon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Growth in the American economy since the year 2000 has averaged 1.7 percent per annum. That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s about half of what it averaged in the Reagan, Bush I, and Clinton years. Unemployment, especially in the broader measures, remains stubbornly high five years after the recession of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Alonzo Cushing Finally Gets His Due]]></title>
							<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/08/28/alonzo-cushing/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Steele Gordon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The beheading of American journalist James Foley by the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq was much more than an altogether gruesome and tragic affair: rather, it was a very sophisticated and professional film production deliberately punctuated with powerful symbols. Foley was dressed in an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Little Miracle Spurring Inequality]]></title>
							<link>http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:online.wsj.com/articles/john-steele-gordon-the-little-miracle-spurring-inequality-1401751381</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Steele Gordon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Judging by the Forbes 400 list, the richest people in America have been getting richer very quickly. In 1982, the first year of the list, there were only 13 billionaires on it. A net worth of $75 million was enough to earn a spot. The 2013 list has nothing but billionaires, with $1.3...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The UAW's Waterloo]]></title>
							<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/02/16/the-uaws-waterloo/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Steele Gordon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The United Auto Workers Union suffered a devastating defeat on Friday, when its attempt to organize the workers at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga failed on a vote of 712-626 (53-47 percent). The company had agreed not to resist the organizing effort and gave the union access to the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Has Total Power to Prevent Default]]></title>
							<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/10/08/whose-fault-would-default-be/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Steele Gordon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama is trying to establish the idea that any default on the national debt will be 100 percent the fault of the House Republicans. He has said, for instance, that Congress must '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'remove the threat of default and vote to raise the debt ceiling.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' The treasury secretary,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Political Incompetence]]></title>
							<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/08/11/obamas-political-incompetence/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Steele Gordon</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Did IRS Chief Visit WH So Often?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/05/27/a-frequent-visitor-to-the-white-house-irs-scandal/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Steele Gordon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Washington Examiner reported on Monday that Mark Everson, Commissioner of Internal Revenue from 2003 to 2007, during the Bush administration, visited the White House exactly once while in office. Indeed he felt like he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'moved to Siberia'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' so out of the ordinary...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[US Megabanks Are a Ticking Time Bomb]]></title>
							<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/04/30/too-many-too-big-to-fail-banks/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Steele Gordon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I was at a banking conference in Dallas over the weekend, and among the speakers was Harvey Rosenblum, the vice president and director of research at the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank. Dr. Rosenblum'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s topic was too-big-to-fail banks and the Dodd-Frank legislation that is supposed to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Jobs Still Aren't Coming Back]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/jobs-aren-coming-back-article-1.1283606</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Steele Gordon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a record high. For stocks, this marks a remarkable recovery from what has been termed the Great Recession.It took less than four years from the bear market low of 6,547, set on March 9, 2009, for the Dow to set a record high. In the Great...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Minimum Wage Folly]]></title>
							<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/02/19/the-minimum-wage-folly-paul-krugman/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Steele Gordon</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GDP Takes a Hit]]></title>
							<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/01/30/the-gdp-takes-a-hit/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Steele Gordon</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Dismal Obama Recovery Continues]]></title>
							<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/01/04/the-jobs-report-5/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Steele Gordon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s another dreary jobs report out this morning from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, detailing yet another month of the apparently endless '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Obama Recovery,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' the worst since the Great Depression lingered on and on in the 1930s.Employment rose by 155,000 and the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Puzzling Racism at the New York Times]]></title>
							<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/12/19/racism-at-the-times/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Steele Gordon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' New York Times'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' op-ed'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' this morning that is somewhere beyond appalling. It is by Adolph L. Reed Jr., a political science professor at the University of Pennsylvania.Professor Reed writes about the appointment of Rep. Tim Scott to replace the retiring Senator Jim DeMint of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Remarkable Event in Michigan]]></title>
							<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/12/07/right-to-work-law-advances-in-michigan/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Steele Gordon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bills that would make Michigan the 24th state to adopt a right-to-work law have passed the Michigan Senate and House, both in Republican hands. If the bills are reconciled, as seems likely, the legislation will be signed by the Republican governor.This is a remarkable event. Michigan is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Neil Armstrong, 1930-2012]]></title>
							<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/08/26/neil-armstrong-1930-2012/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Steele Gordon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Everyone old enough to have witnessed on television the moon landing on July 20, 1969, will never forget it. The next day the New York Times used, I believe for the first time, war type to announce the news. It has used that size type only a few times since (Nixon'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s resignation,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Supreme Court's Surprise]]></title>
							<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/06/28/supreme-court-surprise-obamacare/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Steele Gordon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Well, the Supreme Court, as it has so often before, surprised nearly everybody. Most people thought Justice Kennedy was the pivotal vote. He wasn'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'t. He thought the whole Affordable Care Act unconstitutional, as did Justices Alito, Scalia, and Thomas. The four liberal justices would have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Call to Abolish Property Taxes]]></title>
							<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/06/12/a-call-to-abolish-property-taxes/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Steele Gordon</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Economic Shoes Are Dropping]]></title>
							<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/05/31/markets-economic-shoes-are-dropping/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Steele Gordon</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Crucifying the Oil and Gas Industry]]></title>
							<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/04/27/crucifying-the-oil-and-gas-industry-armendariz-obama/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Steele Gordon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is often said that the definition of the word gaffe in Washington-speak is when someone accidentally tells the truth. Al Armendariz, the EPA administrator for Texas and surrounding states, certainly made a gaffe when he said in a speech in 2010, that the best way to enforce...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Problem: His Abysmal Record]]></title>
							<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/04/05/obama-abysmal-record/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Steele Gordon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is this the week'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the Obama administration'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s remarkable incompetence begins to be the narrative? If so, he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s toast.The president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s astonishing, not to mention indefensible, lecture to the Supreme Court this week, in which he turned 200 years of American constitutional...]]></description>
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