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							<title><![CDATA[&quot;We Darn Well Better Cut Spending&quot;]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Pete DuPont</author>
							<description><![CDATA["If we're going to raise revenue and if we're going to raise it in any form, then we darn well better cut spending, because spending is the biggest part of this problem," said Erskine Bowles, Bill Clinton's onetime chief of staff, earlier this month. The most important words in American...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will America Abandon &quot;Hope&quot;?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Pete DuPont</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The presidential campaign remains very close, but some of the polling information must continue to cause alarm in the Obama campaign. Sixty-five percent of respondents in a recent Rasmussen Reports poll felt our nation was on the "wrong track," and surveys by National Public Radio and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Obama Eyeing Clinton for VP?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Pete DuPont</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The coming political year, with presidential, House and Senate elections, will be one of the most interesting (and important) ones we have seen in a long while. The main challenge President Obama faces is persuading voters to re-elect him in spite of the disastrous results of his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[As Promised, Obama Changed America - For the Worse]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Pete DuPont</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just before his election as president, Barack Obama declared that "we are five days from fundamentally transforming America." He has made good on that promise. Huge increases in federal spending&mdash;up 28% in just three years&mdash;were the beginning. Putting health care&mdash;17% of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can This Economy Be Saved?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Pete DuPont</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America's economy is in the doldrums again. Economic growth is weak - just 1.8% a year in the last quarter. Government spending is increasing - to a projected 25.3% of gross domestic product this year from 20.7% in 2008&mdash;while revenues are down to 14.4% of GDP from 17.5% in 2008.Our...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[1 Year In, ObamaCare Must Be Repealed]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Pete DuPont</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A year ago today President Obama signed into law the broadest, most expensive, most intrusive health-care bill in our history.So we the people are subject to a 2,700-page law  that will cost us  nearly $1 trillion over 10 years and will put the federal government, in  charge of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Turning America Around]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Pete DuPont</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama promised to change America, and he did. Federal spending has increased in two years to $3.72 trillion from $2.98 trillion, a 25% increase. The national debt has swelled to almost $14 trillion from $10 trillion in the same period, and the Office of Management and Budget...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Congress Should Consider Costs of 'Cap and Trade']]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Pete DuPont</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Global" and "warming" are perhaps the two most important words used to justify the approaching governmental control of our economy. In reality, global warming is barely occurring: In the 30 years starting in 1977, warming amounted to 0.32 degree Fahrenheit per decade, and in the next...]]></description>
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