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		<title>The Richest Nation — With Starving People?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been an annoying commercial on the radio often in the last year. A young woman says that she lives just down the street, you go the same PTA meetings, and your children play together, but you don&#8217;t know that their family is suffering from — hunger. It is annoying because she doesn&#8217;t live just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americanelephant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1476111&amp;post=23847&amp;subd=americanelephant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FDR and the New Deal Love Fest</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Burton J. Folsom Jr. is author of two books on Franklin Delano Roosevelt: New Deal or Raw Deal and with Anita Folsom: FDR Goes to War. Here is a speech he delivered at Hillsdale College on FDR&#8217;s energetic experimentation that did so much damage to the economy in the 1930s. The great myth has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americanelephant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1476111&amp;post=23811&amp;subd=americanelephant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chevy Dealers Aren&#8217;t Bursting With Enthusiasm for Volts.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All is not well in the electric car business. Apparently there are more charging stations than there are cars. Some Chevrolet dealers are turning down the Volts that General Motors wants to ship to them. In New York City, GM allocated 104 Volts to 14 dealerships in the area.  Dealers accepted just 31 of them. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americanelephant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1476111&amp;post=23838&amp;subd=americanelephant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Economics Can Be Fun: Lesson One</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>We Are Broke, and Obama Is Leading in the Wrong Direction.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(click to enlarge)                                                    (h/t: Doug Ross Journal) Does it sink in a little more if it is put in kitchen table terms? We are broke, and no one seems to mind. Our indebtedness, per person, according to CATO scholar Michael Tanner adds up to $189,000 each. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americanelephant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1476111&amp;post=23798&amp;subd=americanelephant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When &#8220;No Need to Panic&#8221;Causes Real Panic Among the True Believers</title>
		<link>http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/when-no-need-to-paniccauses-real-panic-among-the-true-believers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, well,well. The Wall Street Journal opinion page had a headline today &#8220;No Need to Panic About Global Warming.&#8220; Perhaps the most inconvenient fact is the lack of global warming for well over 10 years now. This is known to the warming establishment, as one can see from the 2009 &#8220;Climategate&#8221; email of climate scientist [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americanelephant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1476111&amp;post=23793&amp;subd=americanelephant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Outsourcing and Insourcing: Where Should Stuff Be Manufactured?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What about manufacturing, aren&#8217;t all the jobs going overseas where people work for extremely low wages?  How can we compete with that? It&#8217;s true that fewer people are employed in manufacturing plants, but we&#8217;re still manufacturing lots of stuff. We&#8217;re just doing it with fewer people. The production line has been changing ever since Henry [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americanelephant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1476111&amp;post=23787&amp;subd=americanelephant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Worry, Our Alliances Are Stronger Than Ever?</title>
		<link>http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/dont-worry-our-alliances-are-stronger-than-ever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[—Melanie Phillips is a longtime British author and columnist, and someone well worth paying close attention to. Iran, she says, will not &#8220;come it it&#8217;s senses.&#8221; War with Iran is a truly fearsome prospect. Its likely consequences would include attacks on US air bases from thousands of Iranian missiles, the unleashing of terrorist attacks within [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americanelephant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1476111&amp;post=23781&amp;subd=americanelephant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Look Out. Here Comes the &#8220;Financial Crimes Unit.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama announced a new unit to be devoted to major financial crimes during his State of the Union speech.  The Orwellian sounding &#8220;Financial Crimes Unit&#8221; is to be staffed with &#8220;highly trained investigators&#8221; and charged with tracking &#8220;large-scale fraud.&#8221;He also urged Congress to strengthen the penalties for financial wrongdoing. The president also announced [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americanelephant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1476111&amp;post=23776&amp;subd=americanelephant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Green State of the Union</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone named Jill Stein is running for president on the Green Party ticket. To join in the conversation, she has published &#8220;A Green New Deal for America.&#8221; It&#8217;s even more tiresome than the president&#8217;s version, but you might get a few chuckles. She writes: The Green New Deal is an emergency four part program of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americanelephant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1476111&amp;post=23770&amp;subd=americanelephant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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