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							<title><![CDATA[Scott Walker Walks the Walk]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/mar/17/matt-walker-scott-walkers-template-for-union-busti/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Patterson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is clearly running for president.He may or may not win the nomination; he may or may not win the presidency. Even if he never wins another election, Mr. Walker is already the most consequential Republican politician of the last quarter-century, excepting only...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Kills Coal -- as Promised]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/29/obama-kills-coal-as-promised/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Patterson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;If someone wants to build a new coal-fired power plant they can, but it will bankrupt them because they will be charged a huge sum for all the greenhouse gas that&rsquo;s being emitted.&rdquo;-Candidate Barack Obama, 2008.Well, we can&rsquo;t say we weren&rsquo;t warned. This...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Global Warming--the Great Delusion]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/02/17/global-warming-great-delusion/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Patterson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 1841 a Scottish journalist named Charles Mackay published a study of mass hysteria titled &ldquo;Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.&rdquo;Mackay analyzed a wide variety of popular pathologies in his entertaining tome, including financial panics, medical...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Big Labor's Ohio Win Doesn't End Fiscal Crises]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/2011/11/big-labors-ohio-win-doesnt-end-states-fiscal-crises</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Patterson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Everyone knows state governments are swimming in red ink, but how deep exactly is the fiscal hole?The nonprofit watchdog group State Budget Solutions has conducted an extensive analysis of state government finances, and the results are not unlike what one might find after an audit of a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Affirmative Action President]]></title>
							<link>http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/obama_the_affirmative_action_president.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Patterson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages.  How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Troubling War Against Boeing]]></title>
							<link>http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/how-free-is-america/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Patterson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Americans are accustomed to thinking of themselves as the freest  people on Earth. Except that according to the Heritage Foundation&rsquo;s 2011 Index of Economic Freedom,  the United States stands at a dismal 9th in international rankings for  economic liberty, embarrassingly behind...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Failed Politicians Are Spending U.S. Into Insolvency]]></title>
							<link>http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/america-the-broke/?singlepage=true</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Patterson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If  you&rsquo;re one of the lucky ones in these economically depressed  times, you  have a job that comes with a steady paycheck. (Nine percent  of  Americans or more have not been so lucky for twenty straight  months.)But even for the fortunate gainfully employed among us, the  economic...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Arlen Specter: He Will Not Be Missed]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/opinion-zone/2010/12/arlen-specter-good-riddance</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Patterson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the most ignominious political careers of the modern era will at last sputter to a pitiful end when the 111th Congress finally relinquishes its strangle-hold on the American  Republic. Arlen Specter, outgoing senator from Pennsylvania, personified  the sort of elite, politically...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Al Gore's Crusade Falters]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/24/al-gores-global-warming-crusade-shrinks/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Patterson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Poor Al Gore. As if an im- pending divorce and allegations of sexual misconduct from an Oregon masseuse weren't bad enough (he has since been cleared of wrongdoing), the apparent collapse of "cap-and-trade" legislation in the U.S. Senate has driven the former vice president to despair.As...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Reckless Disregard for Public Opinion]]></title>
							<link>http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.healthreform19mar19,0,7066729.story</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Patterson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[68&#194;&#176; FMarch 19, 2010Matt Patterson, a Montgomery County resident, is a policy analyst for the National Center For Public Policy Research and a National Review Institute Washington Fellow. His e-mail is mpatterson@nationalcenter.org.
                    
                
                
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