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							<title><![CDATA[Santa Calls It Quits]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>A. Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Red tape and the holidays.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Bogus Budget]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/02/26/obamas_bogus_budget_121730.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>A. Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;With the 2015 budget request,&rdquo; The Washington Post reported last week, &ldquo;Obama will call for an end to the era of austerity that has dogged much of his presidency."
Well, it&rsquo;s about time! The end of austerity cannot come soon enough, as far as your humble...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Eat Your Frankenfood!]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/01/27/eat_your_frankenfood_121367.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>A. Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A slavish devotion to narrow ideology has led many people to reject overwhelming scientific consensus as nothing but a plot by malevolent forces to control ordinary people&rsquo;s lives.
If you think that sentence describes conservative skeptics of global warming, congratulations &mdash;...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Universal Pre-K: Mozart for Babies All Over Again?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/12/10/universal_pre-k_mozart_for_babies_all_over_again_120899.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>A. Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two decades ago, psychologist Frances Rauscher conducted an experiment in which she asked 36 college students to listen to different kinds of music before visualizing how a folded-up piece of paper would look when cut and then unfolded.
The results seemed to suggest Mozart might improve...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dumb as a Ham Sandwich]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/10/22/dumb_as_a_ham_sandwich_120399.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>A. Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[My momma always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you&rsquo;re gonna get.- Forrest Gump
Gump never ran for public office &mdash; a smart move on his part. If he had, the opposing party would have put up a campaign ad insulting both his intelligence and yours. It...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sorry, Your Business Isn't Desirable Enough]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/09/10/sorry_your_business_isnt_desirable_enough_119873.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>A. Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A Bloomington, Ill., van service would not seem to have much to do with a Washington-area abortion clinic. But their similar problems share a common source.
Julie Crowe wanted to drive a van for hire. It didn&rsquo;t seem like too much to ask. She figured the small business could serve a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[McAuliffe's Sales Pitch Starts to Sour]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/08/08/mcauliffes_sales_pitch_starts_to_sour_119546.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>A. Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;I seen my opportunities and I took &rsquo;em,&rdquo; said George Washington Plunkitt of Tammany Hall. Terry McAuliffe, a man after Plunkitt&rsquo;s own heart, has seen his opportunities and taken them, too. Like Plunkitt, he too has grown rich in &ndash; and from &ndash;...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Time to Train Officers Not to Kill Dogs]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/07/08/its_time_for_police_to_stop_killing_dogs.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>A. Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A cop shot a dog the other day. Again.
Maybe you&rsquo;ve seen the video &mdash; it was all over the Internet, complete with the dog&rsquo;s grisly death spasms.
Hawthorne, Calif., resident Leon Rosby was using his cellphone to record a standoff between police officers and armed robbers....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jackson, the Klan and Abortion]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/19/jackson_the_klan_and_abortion_118871.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>A. Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[E.W. Jackson, the Virginia Republican Party&rsquo;s nominee for lieutenant governor, says &ldquo;Planned Parenthood has been far more lethal to black lives than the KKK ever was.&rdquo; Jackson may be &mdash; as an exquisite Bloomberg headline called him &mdash; the &ldquo;candidate of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Professor of Constitution Goes to War Against It]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/28/professor_of_constitution_goes_to_war_against_it_118577.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>A. Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A physician&rsquo;s expertise makes him capable of inflicting great harm, noted Plato a couple thousand years ago, and no one is better positioned to steal than a guard. So perhaps we should not be surprised that the most conspicuous foe of liberty and the Bill of Rights turns out to be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Does Boston Say About Diversity?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/29/what_does_boston_say_about_diversity_118162.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>A. Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Boston Marathon Bombing Suspects Elude Labels,&rdquo; reported The Washington Post headline last week. The headline was wishful thinking because, as the first paragraph recognized, several labels could apply to the Tsarnaev brothers.
For instance, they were Caucasian in the most...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Another U.S. Dupe Falls for a Dictator]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/06/another_us_dupe_falls_for_a_dictator_117315.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>A. Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After more than half a century you would not think much more could be learned about the Holocaust. But recently completed archival research indicates there were far more ghettos and death camps than commonly believed. Scholars at the Holocaust Museum now estimate that Europe held as many...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[You Can't Say That Here -- This Is Virginia]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/02/27/you_cant_say_that_here_this_is_virginia_117188.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>A. Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Americans give a lot of lip service to the principle of free speech. They have a harder time putting the principle into practice. Even the nation&rsquo;s Founders, who granted the First Amendment primacy of place in the Bill of Rights, were, within just a few years, passing the Sedition...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Frito-Lay Won't Make You Eat Chips at Gunpoint]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/02/25/frito-lay_wont_make_you_eat_chips_at_gunpoint_117151.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>A. Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sunday&rsquo;s cover story in the New York Times Magazine offers a shocking expos&#195;&#169; of Big Food. In granular detail it relates the food conglomerates&rsquo; &ldquo;hyper-engineered, savagely marketed, addiction-creating battle for &lsquo;stomach share.&rsquo; &rdquo; If you don&rsquo;t...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Health Care, One Law Is Working Like a Charm]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/02/11/in_health_care_one_law_is_working_like_a_charm.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>A. Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;We have to pass the bill so you can find out what&rsquo;s in it,&rdquo; said Nancy Pelosi during the debate over Obamacare. The Affordable Care Act passed, and Americans are now finding out. It&rsquo;s not a pretty picture.
Take employment. &ldquo;Medical device makers in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The EPA Pushes the Envelope, Again]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2013/01/09/the-epa-pushes-the-envelope-again</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>A. Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In accusing the Environmental Protection Agency of trying to regulate "water itself as a pollutant," Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is not showing an excess of exactitude. But his looseness is rhetorical and harmless. The EPA's is neither. Last week federal judge Liam O'Grady...]]></description>
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