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		<title>When Should You Trust The Experts?</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2012/02/8311/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nassim Taleb]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the themes I seem to revisit most often is how the intelligent among us screw up so often.  When a candidate is heavily promoted because of his or her intelligence above other characteristics, it makes me want to scrutinize the other qualifications more carefully.
A campaign is not an IQ test, nor is it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is It Fair?</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2012/02/is-it-fair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Moore]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Moore hits one out of the park in the Wall Street Journal in A Fairness Quiz for the President,  2/7/12.
Excerpts:
Is it fair that the richest 1% of Americans pay nearly 40% of all federal income taxes, and the richest 10% pay two-thirds of the tax?
Is it fair that the richest 10% of Americans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Would Jesus Really Say?</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2012/02/what-would-jesus-really-say/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[altruism]]></category>

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It is interesting to note the response to  the president invoking the name of Jesus to justify higher taxes on the wealthier Americans.  It seems that those who act horrified at the use of Christian references in the political discourse when invoked from the right are suddenly quiet when such references are used to justify [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mitt Was Right</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2012/02/mitt-was-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food stamps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal]]></category>

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“I’m in this race because I care about Americans. I’m not concerned about the very poor, we have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I’ll fix it. I’m not concerned about the very rich, they’re doing just fine. I’m concerned about the very heart of America, the 90-95% of Americans that are struggling.”
Mitt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Political Football</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2012/01/political-football/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hail Mary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newt Gingrich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roger Stauback]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The GOP is split into four overlapping factions: the libertarians, fundamentalist theocrats, pragmatic Republicans and the Tea Party. It would be ideal that a leader would emerge that would unite the factions, but that will be unlikely. What is more likely is that Obama will unite these factions like only a common enemy could.
Newt, who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ants at a Picnic</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2012/01/ants-at-a-picnic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Boaz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lobbyists]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cato&#8217;s David Boaz writes Occupy Pennsylvania Avenue in The Cato Policy Report for Jan/ Feb 2012
Excerpt:
The libertarian argument for keeping more of society in the private sector is not that there&#8217;s no self-interest or corruption in business; it is that the market system has more competition, more checks and balances, and more incentives to satisfy customers. You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Structural Unemployment</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2012/01/structural-unemployment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carpe Diem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Perry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[minimum wage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unemployment]]></category>

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Mark Perry analyzes the current Bureau of Labor Statistics unemployment data is his blog, Carpe Diem, a required daily read for me.
Excerpt from Interesting Facts from Today&#8217;s Employment Report, 1/6/12:
The unemployment rate for workers with a college degree fell to 4.1% in December, which  is the lowest jobless rate for that group since January 2009, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Devolving Unions</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2012/01/devolving-unions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rebelyid.com/2012/01/devolving-unions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Christie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitch Daniels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nucor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Walker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Moore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The history of unions in the American workforce is wrapped up in their quest for political power.
Originally unions sought equality in the workforce with the holders of the capital that employed them.  Unifying was a natural choice.  But their power devolved because the critical industries that employed them devolved.  Foreign competition put their employers at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fear and Blame</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2012/01/fear-and-blame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PJ Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rick Moran]]></category>

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Rick Moran writes in Pajamas Media, The Death of Pragmatism, 1/27/12
In his article about the evisceration of centrism he quotes from the movie, The American President:
We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, Bob Rumson is not the least bit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Feudalism</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2012/01/the-new-feudalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henry Nau]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal]]></category>

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The president seeks a fairer distribution of wealth; he claims not to admonish prosperity, but seeks to be sure it is shared.  There is a proven method to this noble objective and it lies under his nose. Instead of promoting it he is effectively destroying it.
In The Wall Street Journal, 1/26/12 Henry Nau writes Lessons [...]]]></description>
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