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<title><![CDATA[Shikha Dalmia - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16659.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Shikha Dalmia]]></description><category domain="16659">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Lose-Lose Immigration Strategy]]></title>
							<link>https://theweek.com/articles/974090/bidens-loselose-immigration-strategy</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Shikha Dalmia</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The border hawks will never be appeased, so he might as well do the right thing]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Intellectual Poverty of the Southern Poverty Law Center]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2018/03/23/the-intellectual-poverty-of-the-southern</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Shikha Dalmia</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Branding dissenters as haters undercuts its effectiveness.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[#MeToo Run Amok]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/articles/744065/metoo-run-amok</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Shikha Dalmia</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Movements collapse when they become more interested in collecting heads than advancing their cause]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Left Can't Solve Global Warming]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2017/07/28/why-the-left-cant-solve-global-warming</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Shikha Dalmia</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Greens are more fixated on blaming than fixing.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Real Feminists Don't Airbrush Hillary Clinton's Flaws]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/articles/656616/real-feminists-dont-airbrush-hillary-clintons-flaws</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Shikha Dalmia</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here's why her inevitable win will be no victory for feminism]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Globalization Saved the American Middle Class]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2016/08/09/how-globalization-actually-saved-the-ame</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Shikha Dalmia</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The only point of consensus in this year's otherwise deeply polarized election seems to be that increased wage and job competition created by globalization has decimated the American'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' middle class. Bernie Sanders, a socialist, proclaimed repeatedly during his failed Democratic...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Any Paris Climate Agreement Will Be Worthless]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/articles/591803/why-paris-climate-agreement-worthless</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Shikha Dalmia</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Paris climate change talks underway right now are being billed as humanity's last chance to save the world from catastrophic warming. If that's the case, then the world is surely doomed. That's because not a single major polluter has offered anything resembling an adequate plan to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Quiet Unraveling of ObamaCare]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/articles/589920/quiet-unraveling-obamacare</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Shikha Dalmia</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama was hammered last week for his failure on ISIS. But there's at least one bright spot for him in that criticism: At least it deflected the spotlight from the unfolding catastrophe that is ObamaCare.Indeed, last week brought arguably the worst news for the program since the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Truth Is Obamacare's Sputtering]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/articles/559236/dont-believe-liberal-spin-obamacare-sputtering</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Shikha Dalmia</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This month, the Supreme Court may well deliver a fatal blow to ObamaCare in King vs. Burwell, by ruling that the health insurance subsidies handed out through federal exchanges in 36 states are illegal. Many liberals seem to think that the only thing preventing the president's crowning...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Big Changes Needed If City Wants Second Act]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/without-big-changes-detroit-wont-have-a-second-act/article/2533247</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Shikha Dalmia</author>
							<description><![CDATA["I once thought that there were no second acts in American lives, but there was certainly to be a second act to New York's boom days," F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote. It's a good thing he wasn't talking about Detroit.Until the city's politicos treat its humble entrepreneurs with the same...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Myth of the Scientific Liberal]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/scientific-liberals-should-accept-results-of-science/article/2529368</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Shikha Dalmia</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The core trait of a scientific mind is that when its commitments clash with evidence, evidence rules. On that count, what grade do liberals deserve? Fail, given their reaction to the latest evidence on universal health care, global warming and universal preschool. The policy world was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Needs an ObamaCare Exit Strategy]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/shikha-dalmia-obamacare-is-obamas-iraq-war/article/2525722</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Shikha Dalmia</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Not even the most ardent defenders of Obamacare -- aka the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act -- claim anymore that the law will lower health coverage costs for Americans. How, then, will it achieve universal coverage, its central goal?The short answer is, it won't.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fiscal Hawks Need to Fight for the Debt Ceiling]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2012/12/21/fiscal-hawks-need-to-fight-for-the-debt</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Shikha Dalmia</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Whenever the establishment left and right agrees on something, expect a big assault on our democracy. That is the case with the emerging consensus that the debt ceiling should be dumped"'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'for two years at least"'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'in any deal that replaces House Speaker John Boehner's ill-fated...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[D-Day for Right-to-Work in Michigan]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/blog/2012/12/06/d-day-for-right-to-work-in-mi-ver2</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Shikha Dalmia</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Today might be D-day for the Right-to-Work battle in Michigan. Emboldened by the defeat of the union-backed Protect Our Jobs constitutional initiative that would have forever banned Michigan from going RTW, Michigan Republicans "'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';' who control all the branches of government:...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Canada Can Teach U.S. About Immigration]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2012/12/04/immigration-lessons-from-up-north</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Shikha Dalmia</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans seem ready to play ball on immigration, if only to patch up their image with Hispanics. It would be a pity if this political moment"'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'which comes only once every few decades"'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'was squandered on minor and temporary fixes. U.S. immigration policy needs a fundamental...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[MI Unions Lose, Right-to-Work Revival Looms]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-07/michigan-unions-lose-and-right-to-work-revival-looms.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Shikha Dalmia</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Unions went for broke in Michigan and they lost big time.Michigan voters soundly defeated a measure that would have given public-sector unions a potent tool to challenge any law -- past, present or future -- limiting their benefits and powers. It would also have permanently barred...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[ObamaCare's Rationing by Another Name]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2012/10/16/obamacares-rationing-by-another-name</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Shikha Dalmia</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The stunning post-debate reversal in Mitt Romney'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s fortunes may not last through the elections. But win or lose, he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ll do the country a big favor if he continues to expose the Independent Payment Advisory Board'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the beloved center-piece of Obamacare'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'for what it is: An...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Michigan Is Next Battleground In State Labor Wars]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443524904577651302336491614.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Shikha Dalmia</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We've seen Gov. Scott Walker's battle in Wisconsin and the Chicago Teachers Union strike next door. Now in Michigan comes another Midwestern political showdown that will carry enormous implications for the role of unions in American life.The Michigan Supreme Court recently approved the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Failed Governor Talks Up a Failed President]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/blog/2012/09/07/a-failed-governor-talks-up-a-failed-pres</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Shikha Dalmia</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If I were Jennifer Granholm, I'd crawl under the desk and not come out for a good, long while. Her performance last night at the Democratic convention was so bizarre that an amused and bemused Nolan Finley of The Detroit News speculated that she was either possessed by the ghost of Joe...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Trouble With Fact-Challenged Fact Checkers]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/blog/2012/08/30/ryans-fact-challenged-fact-checkers</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Shikha Dalmia</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Paul Ryan must have hit a home run last night - otherwise liberals wouldn't be going bonkers right now. No sooner did he move his tingle-inducing chassis off the stage than the liberal blogosphere erupted in outrage, accusing him of being a maligner and a liar. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' But what did Ryan say...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Obama Push GM Into Bankruptcy Again?]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/blog/2012/08/22/will-the-obama-administration-push-gover</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Shikha Dalmia</author>
							<description><![CDATA[That taxpayers are never going to recover their "investment" in Government Motors has been a foregone conclusion for a while. But their losses are mounting beyond what many, including me, had predicted. Last year, top auto analysts had expected GM's stock prices right now to be around...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Detroit Has Run Out of Other People's Money]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2012/07/03/detroit-has-run-out-of-other-peoples-mon</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Shikha Dalmia</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A sigh of relief swept through Detroit recently after a judge threw out a legal challenge to the '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'consent agreement'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' the city just signed with the state to clean its books and avoid bankruptcy. The lawsuit, filed by the city'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s megalomaniacal legal counsel, represented a level of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Obama Won't Revive the U.S. Economy]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2012/06/19/three-fallacies-in-obamas-public-sector</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Shikha Dalmia</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Poor President Obama. Life under the White Houseklieg lights must seem soooo unfair. Senate MajorityLeader Harry Reid has been saying since last year that although"private-sector jobs have been doing just fine," public-sector jobsneed help with another $35 billion in stimulus spending,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Wisconsin Says About Today's Progressives]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2012/05/08/scott-walker-is-no-more-anti-union-and-r</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Shikha Dalmia</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Those trying to oust Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in a June 5 recall election are portraying him as a wild-eyed, Koch-brothers-controlled, right-wing ideologue hell-bent on destroying unions. In reality, Walker is more like a panicked accountant trying to fix the Badger State'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Obama Misread the Public on Health Care]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2012/04/03/amercians-want-more-control-over-their-o</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Shikha Dalmia</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the three-day ObamaCare circus at theSupreme Court behind us, let's fast-forward to June. Suppose thatfive justices find their constitutional bearings and do what amajority of Americans want them to do: Scrap the individualmandate, the key provision without which the law will...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Indiana May Be Tipping Point Against Big Labor]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2012/02/07/indiana-leads-the-right-to-work-charge</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Shikha Dalmia</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, Indiana became the first state in a decade (and the first state in the Rust Belt) to adopt a right-to-work law. This means that Indiana'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s working men and women, like their comrades in 22 other states, will no longer have to pay mandatory dues to union bosses as a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Taxpayer Losses on GM Are Going to Be Massive]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/blog/2011/11/17/treasury-admits-what-everybody-already-k</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Shikha Dalmia</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Treasury Department yesterday revised its loss estimate for the Government Motors bailout from $14.33 billion to $23.6 billion, thanks to the company'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s sinking stock price. GM'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s Sept. 30 closing price, on which the new estimate is based, was $20.18, about $13 less than its December...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Repeal Only Way to Avoid ObamaCare Dystopia]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/blog/2011/10/06/promises-that-obamacare-has-al</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Shikha Dalmia</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The front page of the Investor'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Business Daily this morning very helpfully provides a list of ObamaCare'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s broken promises to date:President Obama insisted that ObamaCare would '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'bring down the cost of health care for families, for businesses, and for the federal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Wisconsin, Public Unions &amp; the Land of Denial]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/blog/2011/08/11/hope-dies-fo-unions-as-wiscons</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Shikha Dalmia</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Someone has to be pretty deep in the Land of Denial to spin the Wisconsin recall elections as good news for Democrats. But the Daily Kos'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' Markos Moulitsas rose to the occasion yesterday.Republicans managed to keep four of the six seats that Democrats and their public union allies...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Deep Denial About the Failed Auto Bailout]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2011/07/05/driving-to-delusionville</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Shikha Dalmia</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The former Obama auto czar, Ron Bloom, was on Capitol Hill last week telling Congress what a grand bargain the auto bailout has turned out to be for taxpayers. (His testimony should be on the Syfy channel.) But much was missing from his story that he might have heard if he had hung...]]></description>
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