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<title><![CDATA[Roger Pilon - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/20041.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Roger Pilon]]></description><category domain="20041">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Graduates, Your Ambition Is the Problem]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323372504578468772717864406.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Roger Pilon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Civic education in America took a hit on Sunday when President Obama, giving the commencement address at The Ohio State University, chose citizenship as his theme. The country's Founders trusted citizens with "awesome authority," he told the assembled graduates. Really?Actually, the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Journal Led Astray by Same-Sex Marriage]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/27/the_journal_led_astray_by_same-sex_marriage_117680.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Roger Pilon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal ran a long and thoughtful but fundamentally mistaken editorial today urging the Supreme Court not to pre-empt the evolving cultural debate over same-sex marriage once it hears oral argument on the issue over the next two days. Stepping back from most of the more...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cuomo's Rush on Gun Control]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Roger Pilon</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Stagnant Economy Is No Accident]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/the-contrast-is-fairly-clear/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Roger Pilon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Today POLITICO Arena asks:Was Romney able to deliver his best possible introduction to the American people?My response:In stark contrast to Obama, Romney&#194;&#146;s plainly not comfortable tooting his own horn. He&#194;&#146;ll stand out in Washington. Thus it fell to others last night to bring out his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It Now Falls to Congress]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/06/28/it_now_falls_to_congress_114643.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Roger Pilon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[ObamaCare was a mistake from the start, a massive effort by the federal government to take over and control one-sixth of the economy &ndash; indeed, the part that concerns the most complex and intimate details of life, our health. It&rsquo;s the most ambitious example to date of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Government As Faith]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Roger Pilon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Next: Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This WallPrevious: The Obama Justice Department Didn&#8217;t Have to Defend Bush-Era Government Actions
			Posted by Roger Pilon        Ensconced at Brookings and Georgetown, opining twice weekly at the Washington Post, and a frequent PBS/NPR voice, E.J....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Losing Battle vs. Religious Freedom]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/obamacares-coercive-essence/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Roger Pilon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The GOP will win the current contraceptive-abortifacient battle going away, because the average American understands the essence of religious freedom: government cannot force people to do things that violate their religious beliefs. The administration may try to frame this as a defense...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Playing Politics With Constitution &amp; the Law]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/playing-politics-with-the-constitution-and-the-law/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Roger Pilon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Did Obama have the authority to make the Cordray and the NLRB appointments, since the Senate is technically not in recess? And will the president&rsquo;s shift from bipartisan conciliator to partisan agitator pay off?My response: All of Obama&rsquo;s appointments yesterday are illegal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Newt's Constitutional Confusions]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/12/19/newts_constitutional_confusions_112457.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Roger Pilon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the tea party stood for anything when it upset conventional politics a year ago, it was to revive debate about restoring limited constitutional government. Newt Gingrich seems to be tapping into that effort, but the tea party folks better look more closely before they buy what Newt is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Federal Gov't Must Rediscover Constitution's Limits]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703384504576055632235572362.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Roger Pilon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the new Congress to be sworn in on Wednesday is the tea party's cardinal achievement so far, its most symbolic achievement will come on Thursday, when the first order of business in the House will be a reading, aloud, of the Constitution. That event alone will not bring us any closer...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[WikiLeaks, the Law, and Common Sense]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/wikileaks-the-law-and-common-sense/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Roger Pilon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the third WikiLeaks dump now before us, and more promised down the road, two questions that arise are whether prosecutions of those responsible are possible and what can be done to better protect classified material. Neither question admits of easy answers. One can start, however,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On the Separation of Press and State]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2010/07/14/on-the-separation-of-press-and-state/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Roger Pilon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As it often does, The  Wall Street Journal this morning offers us an op-ed with which  it surely must disagree, entitled &ldquo;Journalism Needs Government Help&rdquo; &ndash;  bringing to mind the fabled knock on the door: &ldquo;Hi. I&rsquo;m from the IRS and  I&rsquo;m here to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Does Kagan Support Limited Government?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2010/05/10/does-elena-kagan-support-limited-government/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Roger Pilon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After Justice Stevens announced his retirement from the Supreme Court, President Obama spoke of wanting to nominate someone with a &ldquo;keen understanding of how the law affects the daily lives of the American people."? If Solicitor General Elena Kagan has that understanding, she...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Constitution and Justice Stevens]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/04/13/justice_stevens_and_the_constitution.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Roger Pilon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With stormy midterm elections just ahead, and much of President Obama's agenda still undone, the last thing congressional Democrats needed is the distraction of a difficult and protracted Supreme Court confirmation battle.
Yet that's likely what's in store after Friday's announcement...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Taking Terrorism Seriously]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Roger Pilon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Today Politico Arena asks:What&#194;&#146;s in a name? Does it matter whether or not it&#194;&#146;s called &#194;&#147;war on terror? Is Obama&#194;&#146;s approach any better or worse than Bush&#194;&#146;s?My response:It matters whether or not it&#194;&#146;s called &#194;&#147;war on terror,&#194;&#148; because war, whether declared or not, changes the legal...]]></description>
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