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<title><![CDATA[Merrill Matthews - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/19104.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Merrill Matthews]]></description><category domain="19104">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Past and Possibly Future Blue Wave]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5818548-trump-approval-rating-decline/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Merrill Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 2006 midterm election was a huge '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'blue wave.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' As the night passed, those of us watching the results saw race after closely contested race go to the Democratic candidate. It was a brutal night for Republican candidates in both federal and state elections. And it poses'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Working for Welfare Benefits Is Not Punishment]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/5308723-welfare-work-requirement-medicare/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Merrill Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the longtime dividing lines between conservatives and liberals or progressives is whether those receiving welfare benefits should be required to work.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Abandoning Progressive Policies Across the Globe]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/5070646-progressive-agenda-progress/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Merrill Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since November, Democrats have been'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' trying to understand'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' how they could possibly have lost an election to the likes of Donald Trump. But it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not just Trump and the United States. Several key elements of the progressive-liberal policy agenda are in retreat in developed economies...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dr. Bhattacharya at the NIH Is the Right Kind of Revenge]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/5031472-trump-nominates-nih-revenge/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Merrill Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Progressives and media pundits are raising concerns that once in office President-elect Donald Trump will seek revenge against his critics and political opponents. But there are different kinds of revenge, and'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' nominating Dr. Jay Bhattacharya'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' to head the National Institutes of Health...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Third Party Run the Only Way Trump Can Win in 2024]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4103356-theres-only-one-way-trump-can-win-in-2024/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Merrill Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The emergence of a viable third-party candidate is likely his only path to victory.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Durham Report: FBI Is as Bad as You Feared, Maybe Worse]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/4017284-durham-report-the-fbi-is-as-bad-as-you-feared-maybe-worse/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Merrill Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[More black marks against FBI agents' adherence to the law.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[1/3 Of Hispanic Vote Would Ensure GOP Dominance]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/3491198-what-share-of-the-hispanic-vote-would-give-the-gop-political-dominance/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Merrill Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[That Trump received 38 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2020 has the political analysts talking '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and Democrats worried.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Explained: Mandaters Gonna Mandate]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/576495-democrats-explained-mandaters-gonna-mandate</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Merrill Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the distinguishing characteristics of today's Democratic Party is its growing affection for mandates.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[So Much for Joe Biden, Moderate]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/536199-so-much-for-joe-biden-moderate</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Merrill Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Biden owes his presidential victory in part to environmentalists, and he needs to throw them a bone, even if it's only symbolic '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and very costly.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Should Retain These Successful Trump Policies]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/532471-biden-should-retain-these-trump-policies-to-keep-america-great-in-2021</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Merrill Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are at least four Trump initiatives that Biden should retain, which would help the country, both domestically and internationally.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Black and Hispanic Outreach Could Hand Trump a Victory]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/523554-could-blacks-and-hispanics-hand-trump-a-november-victory</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Merrill Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Think 2020 can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t get any stranger? What if Black and Hispanic voters provided just enough of a bump to give a Republican the presidential victory?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Liberals: Which 'Science' Are We Supposed to Believe?]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/501464-liberals-which-science-are-we-supposed-to-believe</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Merrill Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When liberals admonish people to believe the science, what they are usually saying is shut up and do as you're told.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Blue-State Exodus Gains Momentum]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/477754-the-blue-state-exodus-gains-momentum</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Merrill Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The blue-state exodus is only a snapshot of what dissatisfaction will emerge if blue-state policies take over the White House.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Average Americans Benefit From GOP Tax Reform]]></title>
							<link>http://thehill.com/opinion/finance/365194-how-average-americans-benefit-from-the-gop-tax-reform</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Merrill Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While not everyone will receive a tax cut, millions of retirement plans benefit from a booming stock market.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The News Only Gets Worse for ObamaCare -- and Democrats]]></title>
							<link>http://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/the-news-only-gets-worse-for-obamacare-and-democrats/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Merrill Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is becoming extremely difficult to disguise or defend the Affordable Care Act's collapsing individual health insurance marketplace, but that isn't keeping the left from trying.For example, MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, an ObamaCare architect who used to revel in that fact (and the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Should Be Worried About Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/merrillmatthews/2013/09/30/why-democrats-should-worry-obamacare-rollout-will-hurt-them-in-2014/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Merrill Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Democrats aren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t worried about President Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Problems? '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' What problems?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' response to the multiple glitches and snafus of his ObamaCare rollout, they should be. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The public is deeply suspicious of the law and it wouldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t take much to create an electoral...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Keystone Pipeline Is a No-Brainer]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/09/04/keystone-pipeline-obama-us-economy-column/2768185/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Merrill Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The biggest mystery about the Keystone XL pipeline is why its final stage hasn't already been approved by the Obama administration.There are six things most people don't know that make the mystery deeper:]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Office Would Michelle Obama Run For?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/merrillmatthews/2013/06/13/is-there-another-elected-obama-in-our-future/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Merrill Matthews</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[ObamaCare Increases Income Inequality]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/merrillmatthews/2012/06/22/how-obamacare-increases-income-inequality/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Merrill Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Income inequality appears to be growing in the United States.  And while President Obama didn'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'t initiate the trend, his health care legislation will dramatically exacerbate it.While Obama, along with most Democrats, the Occupy Wall Street hooligans, and many in the mainstream media,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Oil Prices &amp; Supply]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/04/25/oil_prices__supply_113949.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Merrill Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When the Associated Press recently released a "Fact Check" analysis reviewing 36 years of data showing no statistical correlation between what U.S. consumers pay for gasoline and the amount of oil being pumped out of the ground here, some thought they had a "gotcha" moment.
Pundits and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Fed Up Voters Are Moving to Red States]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/merrillmatthews/2011/10/21/the-red-state-in-your-future/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Merrill Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Voters around the country are concluding it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s better to be red than dead'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'applying a whole meaning to an old phrase.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  If you do not currently live in a red state, there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a good chance you will be in the near future.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  Either you will flee to a red state or a red state...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Failure of Health Care Reform]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/merrillmatthews/2011/09/29/the-failure-of-health-care-reform-an-insiders-view/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Merrill Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Employer health insurance premiums went up on average about 9 percent in 2011, and you can expect a lot more where that came from.  Only a fool didn'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'t see this coming, which is to say the White House, every member of Congress who voted for the health care legislation, and all of their...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Would Fear Rick Perry the Most]]></title>
							<link>http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=44655</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Merrill Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[That's because Perry is the only one  who can devastate virtually any Obama claim. Take the whine we  hear most often from the President: That President George W. Bush  handed him a terrible economic situation. As USA Today reported  June 2:'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  "[White House spokesman Jay] Carney noted...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hispanics Won't Save Obama in 2012]]></title>
							<link>http://blogs.forbes.com/merrillmatthews/2011/06/15/hispanics-wont-save-obama-in-2012/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Merrill Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama is hoping his visit to Puerto Rico will shore  up the Hispanic vote for Democrats, but more importantly for his 2012  re-election bid.The media choir has been singing a similar tune, especially since the U.S. Census Bureau recently released a new report, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Unchecked Spending: Why Obama Will Lose]]></title>
							<link>http://blogs.forbes.com/merrillmatthews/2011/04/28/why-obama-cannot-win-in-2012/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Merrill Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The smart money in a presidential election is on the incumbent.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  But  in a down economy, or when the public perceives the incumbent as  feckless, dithering or simply not up to the task'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'can you say Jimmy  Carter or George H.W. Bush?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the conventional wisdom can go out the ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Agencies Rule Our Lives]]></title>
							<link>http://blogs.forbes.com/merrillmatthews/2011/01/25/when-agencies-rule-our-lives/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Merrill Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Am I the only one becoming increasingly concerned about the amount of  power federal agencies have over every aspect of our lives?Everywhere we turn it seems some agency is telling Americans what  they can and can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t do, whether it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s the health care we need, the  technology we...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Americans Oppose Rule by Bureaucrats]]></title>
							<link>http://blogs.forbes.com/merrillmatthews/2010/12/28/obamas-new-unreasonable-standard/?boxes=opinionschannellatest</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Merrill Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week we saw a troubling new pattern: The Obama administration is  embracing an "unreasonable" standard - pun not necessarily intended,  but it fits - for deciding if it likes what private sector companies are  doing.The unreasonable standard is being applied to both private sector ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Heavy Hand of Kathleen Sebelius]]></title>
							<link>http://blogs.forbes.com/merrillmatthews/2010/09/30/the-heavy-hand-of-kathleen-sebelius/?boxes=opinionschannellatest</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Merrill Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is upset that  critics are accusing her of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'thuggery'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' (the Wall Street Journal) and  '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'soviet tyranny'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' (Newt Gingrich). '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' My favorite came from the  well-respected political analyst Michael Barone: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'gangster...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Misinformation Clouds Health Debate]]></title>
							<link>http://blogs.forbes.com/merrillmatthews/2010/09/22/tough-questions-for-obama-about-obamacare/?boxes=opinionschannellatest</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Merrill Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At least ABC News White House Correspondent Jake Tapper is doing his job.At one of those extremely rare presidential press conferences, Tapper asked President Obama how he reconciled his claim before ObamaCare passed that reform would lower health care costs with the  fact that a new...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Constitution is Discovering a Rebirth]]></title>
							<link>http://blogs.forbes.com/merrillmatthews/2010/09/17/barack-obama-is-no-james-madison/?boxes=opinionschannellatest</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Merrill Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Today, September 17, is U.S. Constitution Day.I know what you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re thinking: who knew?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  Almost no one, but thanks to President Obama, that may be changing.It was on September 17, 1787, that 39 delegates to the Constitutional  Convention met for the last time to sign the Constitution...]]></description>
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