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		<title>The Truth About Bain Capital and the Kansas City Steel Mill</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 17:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Captalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bain Capital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[steel mills]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama campaign has put out a two minute television add depicting Bain Capital as a predatory company bent on destroying jobs for profit.  Kimberly Strassel sets the record straight in today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal.]]></description>
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		<title>Gay Marriage: Empathy, Rights and Federalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 17:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor's Picks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill of Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federalism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s Oregonian, Charles Krauthammer says there are two arguments for gay marriage &#8212; empathy and rights.  President Obama started with the case from empathy and moved quickly to rights.  But he also says it should be up to the states.  Krauthammer argues that he can&#8217;t have it both ways.  If it&#8217;s a right, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawyers, Lawyers Everywhere</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 00:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Roberts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oregon Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ellen Rosenblum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Buchal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nena Cook]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in The Oregonian &#8212; May 17, 2012 &#8211; Primary 2012 aftermath: Lawyers and judges steal the show this election You know it&#8217;s an unusual election when the most interesting statewide races are those in which only lawyers and judges are running. Despite indications from a recent SurveyUSA poll, the magnitude of Ellen Rosenblum&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J.P. Morgan Redux</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 21:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Finance & Banking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[J.P. Morgan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeff Merkley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trading losses]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley writes in today&#8217;s Oregonian that the J.P. Morgan trading loss provides 2 billion reasons for more regulation of the banking and financial industries.  On the same page, Washington Post columnist Robert J. Samuelson explains why &#8212; in &#8220;four propositions that defy conventional wisdom&#8221; &#8211;,Merkley is wrong.]]></description>
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		<title>Changing Colors</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 21:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Equality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[affirmative action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Warren]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mini-flap over U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren&#8217;s one-time claim to American Indian heritage just won&#8217;t stop flapping.  As Alana Goodman writes in Commentary, both Warren and Harvard University have some explaining to do.]]></description>
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		<title>Where Are the Green Jobs?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 21:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Economy & Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fatal conceit]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[green jobs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[AEI scholar Kenneth P. Green says it is not surprising that, though governments have spent billions on green technologies, there are few jobs to show for it.  Green calls it a &#8220;green conceit&#8221; drawing on Fiederich Hayek&#8217;s description of the &#8220;fatal conceit&#8221; that government planners can know enough to pick tomorrow&#8217;s technologies today.  Read Green&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes, People Invest and Lose Money</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 21:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Captalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finance & Banking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regulation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Timothy Geithner]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[$2 billion is a lot of money.  Enough to get the regulator&#8217;s juices pumping.  Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the J.P. Morgan $2 billion trading loss is evidence of the need for more regulation of banks and the financial sector.  Jonathan Macey, writing in the Wall Street Journal, and Peter J. Wallison, writing in USA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Austerity in Name Only</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 16:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Budget and Government]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[national debt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most commentators and pundits explain the defeat of Nicolas Sarkozy in France and the rise of far left Syriza in Greece as popular rejections of austerity policies as the solution to escalating government debt.  Writing in today&#8217;s Washington Examiner, Veronique de Rugy points out that government spending on social services and welfare in most European [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is It Really Guns or Butter?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 15:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Budget and Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Defense]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this piece from the May 13, 2012, Weekly Standard (reproduced here at aei.org), Thomas Donnelly and Gary Schmitt explain why the choice facing Congress with looming automatic defense cuts  is not really between defense and services for the poor.]]></description>
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		<title>The Evolutionary Thinker</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 18:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Huffman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Presidential Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evolving thinking]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[flip-flopper]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in The Daily Caller &#8212; May 11, 2012 &#8211; Obama did&#8217;nt flip-flop on gay marriage &#8211; Flip-flopping has long been perceived to be a negative in American politics. Mitt Romney was for abortion rights before he was against them. He was for Romneycare, but is against Obamacare. For these changes of heart (or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding the Student Loan Problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 18:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GI Bill]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following editorial by editorial page editor Thomas G. Donlan appeared in Barrons here. The Power of Credit The much-lamented &#8220;student loan crisis&#8221; has deep bipartisan roots, tapping a lode of sentiment and misunderstanding. Though the problems of student debtors today are relatively trivial in fiscal terms, they are instructive in political terms. Inserting federal-government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tea and Discontent</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 22:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Ellis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oregon Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Clackamas County]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Ludlow]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clackamas County Electoral Challenges Mirror Dynamic of National Election &#8212; From the May Northwest Connection &#160; There was a time, back before the Great Recession, when adherents of a green, “sustainable,” and quasi-Socialist environmental agenda made significant inroads into Clackamas County. Small groups of conservative watchdogs, like the members of Americans for Prosperity Clackamas and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Congresswomen Fly to Portland</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 15:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Huffman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jaime Herrera Beutler]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I took a flight from Washington-Dulles Airport to PDX.  As I boarded, I noticed that Oregon’s 1st District Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici was seated in row 4.  After working my way back to my seat in row 30, I noticed that Washington’s 3rd District Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler was seated in row 29. I don’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming Lessons from the Greek Election</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 14:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Economy & Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this week&#8217;s elections Greek voters gave significant support to the far left parties opposing any real reform of the Greek entitlement state.  As a consequence, Greeks future in the European Union is in serious doubt, as is the country&#8217;s economic future.  While some of the Greek parties are far left of the American Democratic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making the Moral Case for Free Enterprise</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 12:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Captalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy & Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wealth Distribution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free enterprise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[morality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published at aei.org &#8212; May 7, 2012 &#8211; by Arthur C. Brooks &#8211; First, make the moral case for free enterprise &#8211; &#160; Ready for the battle in November? You probably think I’m talking about the election. No, I’m talking about the battle around your Thanksgiving table. The dinner conversation will turn to politics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loophole Costs Billions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 17:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[VIDEO: Eyewitness News in Indianapolis shows a massive tax loophole that provides billions of dollars in tax credits to undocumented workers and, in many cases, people who have never set foot in the United States:]]></description>
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		<title>Probably Unwelcome Advice for Class of 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 16:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bret Stephens offers some advice to the college class of 2012 in today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal.  Most of them won&#8217;t like it, but they should pay attention.]]></description>
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		<title>Structural Revolution Is Coming</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 16:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Brooks argues in The New York Times that the economic policy choice is not between taxing and spending more (with more debt) and taxing and spending less (with less debt).  What is needed, says Brooks, is structural reform.  If Brooks is correct, structural reform will come and the only question is how much damage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will People Work for 17 Cents on the Dollar?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 15:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Tax Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alan Reynolds, writing in today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal, explains why estimates that tax rates on the rich can be raised to 70-83% without reducing tax revenue are surely wrong.  He argues that the rate at which tax revenues start to decline is closer to 33%.]]></description>
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		<title>Is Paycheck Fairness Good for Women?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 13:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Employment Relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Equality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christina Hoff Sommers, writing in U.S. News and World Report, says the Paycheck Fairness Act will work to the disadvantage of women.  Read more here.]]></description>
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