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	<title>Scott E. Harrington, Ph.D.</title>
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	<description>Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.  Ronald Reagan</description>
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		<title>Bill O&#8217;Reilly loses it on health insurance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 03:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Millions of viewers got to hear Bill O&#8217;Reilly demonizing the health insurance industry in his &#8220;Talking Points&#8221; tonight.  His diatribe was incoherent and full of errors and distortions.  Apparently he became upset when his health insurance rates went up between 10 and 15 percent.  Since his family probably didn&#8217;t have any major issues, he assumed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Richard Foster for President&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal&#8217;s lead op-ed &#8220;Richard Foster for President”  (op-ed Aug. 9) states that “Medicare’s unfunded 75-year liability has fallen to about $30.8 trillion from nearly $37 trillion in the previous audit.” As indicated in Table V.D2 of the 2010 Medicare Trustees Report, the new estimate of the unfunded liability is about $22.8 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Medicare deficit after healthcare reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The White House released a preemptive report last Monday touting the beneficial effects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, a.k.a. “Obamacare”) on Medicare spending and deficits.  The report highlighted earlier projections by the CMS Office of the Actuary that the law will extend the projected insolvency date of the Medicare Hospital Insurance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dodd-Frank(enstein) monster</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 06:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Administration and Congressional Democrats demonized health insurers to help pass their healthcare reform agenda.  They then demonized Wall Street to help pass their financial reform agenda.  These &#8220;whipping boy&#8221; strategies had a common goal:  substantial expansion of federal government control over the private sector.
The Dodd-Frank financial reform bill vastly expands federal power over financial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banana Republic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BP should bear full responsibility for the Gulf oil spill according to the rule of law.  It is entitled to due process.  The politics surrounding the $20 billion dollar fund and the latest Congressional show trial are an embarrassment.
If the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats had not blown hundreds of billions of dollars [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sean Hannity loses it</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 04:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without any research on the circumstances or possible mitigating circumstances, conservative commentator Sean Hannity advocated on his TV show that the teacher who was videotaped pummeling the student in Houston should serve a minimum of 10 years in prison.  This self-righteous and angry rush to judgment shows an incredible lack of perspective and concern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A President for some of the people</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama&#8217;s direct appeal to &#8220;young people, African-Americans, Latinos, and women&#8221; as members of distinct groups rather than individuals is insensitive, offensive, divisive, and disturbing.  What next? 
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		<title>Waxman calls off the dogs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 02:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the release of a staff report that the companies complied with accounting rules, Congressman Henry Waxman (D-Cal.) has called off the hearing that would have required a number of CEOs to explain why they had reported large losses due to a provision in the health reform law that would reduce tax deductions for retiree [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nuclear Naivete</title>
		<link>http://www.scottharringtonphd.com/?p=876</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The just-released Nuclear Posture Review Report contains the following: 
Pursuing the recommendations of the 2010 Nuclear Posture Review will strengthen the security of the United States and its allies and partners and bring us significant steps closer to the President’s vision of a world without nuclear weapons.
The conditions that would ultimately permit the United States [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Waxman Inquisition</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SEH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Demanding that corporate CEOs attend a Congressional hearing to explain why their companies have to take charges because of lost tax deductions associated with healthcare reform is asinine.  The apparent motive is to send a message to corporate leaders that they should be very careful not offend the Democrat regime. 
This is yet another [...]]]></description>
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