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							<title><![CDATA[The Smithsonian's Revolutionary World View]]></title>
							<link>https://www.civitasoutlook.com/research/the-smithsonians-revolutionary-world-view</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The organization, sadly, needs to heal itself by starting over, and so too the academic history profession.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Roberts Gets the 14th Amendment Wrong]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/roberts-gets-the-14th-amendment-wrong-316686ce?st=Q5nBAs</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The chief justice wholly failed to explain how his flawed originalist methodology supported birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens or temporary visitors.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Assessing the Wreckage of Affirmative Action]]></title>
							<link>https://freebeacon.com/culture/assessing-the-wreckage-of-affirmative-action/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Without question, Jason Riley is one of the most prominent black journalists in the United States, rightly known for his weekly columns in the Wall Street Journal. On a consistent basis, he shrewdly dissects the nostrums of many authors, both black and white, who assert that the road to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Media Fed Panic, Draconian Measures Are Costly Overreactions]]></title>
							<link>https://www.hoover.org/research/coronavirus-isnt-pandemic</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The evidence does not support our panicked inferences.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Truth Behind the Latest Global Warming Scare]]></title>
							<link>https://www.hoover.org/research/our-latest-global-warming-scare</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The simple path of steady and predictable technological improvement promises far greater returns than the measures suggested by the IPCC report.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Trump Growth Machine]]></title>
							<link>https://www.hoover.org/research/trump-growth-machine</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I discovered my genuine confidence in the sustainability of the current economic'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' growth cycle'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' when I recommended to my 27-year-old Uber driver that he invest some portion of his wages in a diversified index fund. Although the stock market will surely ease off its current pace, it...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Diversity Fundamentalists]]></title>
							<link>http://www.hoover.org/research/diversity-fundamentalists</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The modern 'inclusion' diktat leads to mediocrity and conformity.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Attention, Liberals: Comey Deserved to Be Fired]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/5/11/15625990/comey-deserved-fired-no-constitutional-crisis-liberals-hyperventilate</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The decision of President Donald Trump to fire FBI Director James Comey is generating a fevered, near-maniacal response that is out of proportion to the asserted wrong. There is certainly much grist for the mill, much of it related to the animosity that Trump is said to bear toward...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Plea of the Little Sisters]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2016/03/30/the-plea-of-the-little-sisters/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This past week, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the highly contentious case of Zubik v. Burwell, which addresses the extent to which religious institutions, such as the Little Sisters of the Poor, are subject to the Affordable Care Act'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s contraceptive...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Race Baiting and Ferguson]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2015/03/18/race-baiting-and-ferguson/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The most recent news from Ferguson concerns what Eric Holder has rightly called the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'ambush shooting'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' of two police officers outside the city'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s police department. This incident occurred in the wake of two detailed reports released by the Department of Justice. The first...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Need a Real Flat Tax]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/10/15/we_need_a_real_flat_tax_124296.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I was heartened recently to see Edward Kleinbard'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s op-ed in the New York Times, with its alluring title, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t Soak the Rich.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' But as I read the piece by Kleinbard, a law school professor at the University of Southern California, it became clear that his proposed...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Piketty Fallacy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/05/06/the_piketty_fallacy_122547.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Right now, our economic prospects look grim. To classical liberals like myself, future growth is unsustainable in an age dominated by progressive politics. There are two reasons for this: an extensive system of regulation of all key sectors of economy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'including labor, real estate,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Voters Affirmed]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/04/29/voters_affirmed_122456.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Affirmative action is a tough and divisive issue. That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s the takeaway from the Supreme Court case of Schuette v. BAMN. At issue in Schuette was an amendment to the Michigan constitution, adopted as Proposition 2 by popular referendum in 2006. The vote was 58 to 42 percent in favor....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reckless Unions]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/02/18/reckless_unions_121621.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Public employee pension reform is a hot topic these days. This past week Rhode Island settled its dispute with the unions over its sweeping pension reform statute of 2011. Detroit and San Jose are wrangling over their own deals with their respective unions. Other cities and counties will...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rethinking the Contraceptive Mandate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/02/12/rethinking_the_contraceptive_mandate_121544.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nowhere in American life are the ideological cleavages between the left and the right so apparent as in the looming dispute over the constitutionality and propriety of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s contraceptive mandate. The mandate requires business employers,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fragile State of the Union]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/01/28/the_fragile_state_of_the_union_121383.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the run-up to Tuesday evening'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s State of the Union Address, President Obama faces a tricky situation. Jarring uncertainty in the financial markets threatens to bring about a serious retreat of all the major stock indices, which in turn presages more sluggish economic performance...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Problem With Net Neutrality]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/01/22/the_problem_with_net_neutrality_121307.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This past week in Verizon v. FCC, the Federal Circuit Court for the District of Columbia once again addressed the mysterious role that net neutrality plays in the Federal Communications Commission'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s regulatory arsenal. The simplest definition of net neutrality stresses that a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Democrats Kill Jobs]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/01/15/how_democrats_kill_jobs_121241.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The latest government labor report indicates that job growth has slowed once again. It is now at a three-year low, with only an estimated 74,000 new jobs added this past month. To be sure, the nominal unemployment rate dropped to 6.7 percent, but as experts on both the left and the right...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Incorrigible President Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/12/10/the_incorrigible_president_obama_120910.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, President Barack Obama gave a major address on economic policy before a friendly audience in Osawatomie, Kansas. In the course of his speech, he did not make a single reference to the failed launch of his healthcare legislation except to praise Kathleen Sebelius for her...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Obamacare Train Wreck]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/10/14/the_obamacare_train_wreck_120320.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is now common knowledge that the bugs in the Obamacare website have been embedded in the system from the start. For the past two weeks, not only have many individuals found it impossible to access the website, but they are often frozen in place once they pass through the initial...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Unions Take High Culture Hostage]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/10/08/unions_take_high_culture_hostage_120254.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This past week featured two stories about major orchestras dealing with their adamant unions. The first incident occurred on Wednesday, October 2 at Carnegie Hall in New York City. A fancy opening night gala, featuring the violinist Joshua Bell and the young jazz performer Esperanza...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Syria and American Leadership]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/09/18/syria_and_american_leadership_119982.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A major question of political theory and statecraft is: What justifies the use of force, and when shall it be exercised? This issue is particularly relevant today given recent events in the Middle East. As a nation, we are struggling with many tough issues. Should we attack Syria? Should...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Getting Environmental Regulation Right]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/09/10/getting_environmental_regulation_right_119899.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The recent death of Ronald Coase has given rise to an outpouring of praise about his contributions to the field of economics and his influence on the complex world of institutional politics. In my interactions with Coase, he was always cautious and diffident about social...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Down With The Living Wage]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/09/05/down_with_the_living_wage_119836.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A recent opinion piece in the New York Times by Alex Rosenberg and Tyler Curtain, both trained as philosophers of science, asks the intriguing question: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'What is Economics Good For?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Not much'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' is their largely skeptical answer. They argue that economics is a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Dream Derailed]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/08/27/the_dream_derailed_119729.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I have a dream'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' speech at the Lincoln Memorial to a crowd of over 200,000 people. The crowd had gathered to protest the dangerous state into which race relations had fallen in the summer of 1963. King'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s memorable...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[&quot;The Butler&quot; Distorts Race Relations]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/08/20/the_butler_distorts_race_relations_119654.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Next year, this nation will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. That occasion will rightly give rise to many reflections about how far this nation has come and where it will go in the future.
One early entrant into this dialogue is The Butler, a new film...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Dick Durbin Debit Card Fiasco]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/08/07/the_dick_durbin_debit_card_fiasco_119528.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the great financial innovations of the 1990s was the now ubiquitous debit card. But its salad days may well be coming to an end. Why? Because of two events. First, the Federal Reserve in 2011 set rates for debit card transactions at $0.21 per transaction. Second, this past week,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Middle Class Malaise]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/07/30/obamas_middle_class_malaise_119426.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This past week in Galesburg, Illinois, President Obama gave his first speech on his plans to reinvigorate a still stalled economy at Knox College. The speech itself received little press coverage'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'so little, in fact, that the Sunday New York Times ran a puff-piece on it to build...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Justice for Trayvon Martin?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/07/23/justice_for_trayvon_martin_119338.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Our country has had its fair share of racist travesties, but the George Zimmerman verdict is not one of them.
As the country well knows, in a Seminole County courthouse on July 13, 2013, a six-woman Florida jury acquitted George Zimmerman of charges of both second-degree murder and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Grand Theft Treasury]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/07/16/grand_theft_treasury_119241.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s headline financial story was full of good news for the body politic. The United States Treasury reported a handsome second-quarter profit of $118 billion, which could cut down the deficit and postpone any politically charged negotiations over raising the debt ceiling....]]></description>
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