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		<title>MUST READS: On Liberty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Costs of college deliver important message - Thomas Sowell, Townhall.com Prices force people to economize. Subsidizing prices enables people to take more resources away from other uses without having to weigh the real cost.  Without market prices that convey the real costs of resources denied to alternative users, people waste.     [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://markhillman.com/2008/05/01/must-reads-on-liberty/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Supreme Court gets it right on voter fraud - Investors Business DailyEveryone in the country should be pleased with the news. But, of course, not everyone is. It&#8217;s almost as if some are disturbed that the ruling will make it harder to commit voter fraud.           [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://markhillman.com/2008/04/28/must-reads-for-march-2008/</link>
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		<title>You must be a Colorado Democrat!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Updated April 27
If you think private and religious colleges that take no state tax dollars should be regulated by state bureaucrats, you must be a Colorado Democrat.
If you think taxing marriage will reduce child abuse, you must be a Colorado Democrat.
If you plan to pay for new programs with revenues from the oil and gas [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://markhillman.com/2008/04/27/you-must-be-a-colorado-democrat/</link>
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		<title>MUST READS: Energy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bill Ritter&#8217;s energy insecurity - John Harpole, ALineOfSight.comI was not trying to embarrass the Governor.&#160; It was not meant to be a trick question.&#160; Rather, it was a simple question that most politicians would shrug off with a predetermined in-the-can answer.

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		<link>http://markhillman.com/2008/04/16/must-reads-energy/</link>
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		<title>MUST READS: The Obama File</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Obama&#8217;s flaws multiply - John Fund, Wall Street JournalBarack Obama&#8217;s San Francisco-Democrat comment about how working class voters &#34;cling to guns or religion&#34; is already famous.&#160; But his aides tell reporters that he is bewildered that anybody took offense. 
Hey, Barack, it&#8217;s about freedom - Investors Business DailyYou wouldn&#8217;t know it from listening to Barach [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://markhillman.com/2008/04/15/must-reads-the-obama-file-2/</link>
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		<title>MUST READS: Global warming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The real costs of &#8216;cap and trade&#8217; - Don Nickles and Charles Stenholm, Investors Business DailyIf you think energy prices are high now, wait until Congress slaps a &#8216;cap and trade&#8217; carbon tax on top of existing costs &#8212; and without any assurance that other all of this &#8217;sacrifice&#8217; will make a difference.   [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://markhillman.com/2008/04/14/must-reads-global-warming/</link>
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		<title>Health care psychosis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Samuel Johnson called second marriages &#34;the triumph of hope over experience.&#34;  The same might be said for the latest health care reform bill at the State Capitol.
For more than 20 years, crusading politicians have promised to deliver better health care to more people for less money simply by saying &#34;make it so.&#34;  With [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://markhillman.com/2008/04/11/health-care-psychosis/</link>
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		<title>MUST READS: Health care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mandating health insurance is big mistake - Paul Hsieh, MD, Denver PostSen. Bob Hagedorn would force all Coloradans to purchase mandatory health insurance because it would be &#34;immoral&#34; to &#34;sit on our hands and do nothing.&#34;&#160;  Massachusetts also requires all residents to purchase health insurance, but rather than creating high-quality affordable health care, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://markhillman.com/2008/04/11/must-reads-health-care/</link>
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		<title>MUST READS: The McCain File</title>
		<description><![CDATA[McCain and Mo Udall - Michael Lewis, Slate.comAn old anecdote about Mo Udall in the hospital reveals something noteworthy about John McCain&#8217;s character.            			                     [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://markhillman.com/2008/04/09/must-reads-the-mccain-file/</link>
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		<title>Moralizing with other people&#8217;s money</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s an article of faith among Democrats that the state budget is a &#34;moral document.&#34; However, if the state budget reflects the morality of Democrats then it&#8217;s all too obvious that they still worship at the altar of big government.
The fiscal shenanigans at the root of the Colorado state budget should cause anyone who&#8217;s paying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://markhillman.com/2008/04/02/moralizing-with-other-peoples-money/</link>
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		<title>MUST READS: Iraq</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pentagon study links Saddam, al Qaeda - Stephen Hays, The Weekly StandardThis ought to be big news. Throughout the early and mid-1990s, Saddam Hussein actively supported an influential terrorist group headed by the man who is now al Qaeda&#8217;s second-in-command, according to an exhaustive study issued last week by the Pentagon.     [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://markhillman.com/2008/03/27/must-reads-iraq/</link>
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		<title>Obama not so different rationalizing Wright</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#34;If you really believe black people are &#8216;fellow Americans,&#8217; then treat them as such.&#34; &#8212; John McWhorter, Losing The Race.
If Barack Obama truly wants to transcend race, he would do well to apply the words of John McWhorter to his &#34;explanation&#34; of his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
Obama is supposed to be different: a messenger of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://markhillman.com/2008/03/24/obama-not-so-different-rationalizing-wright/</link>
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		<title>The cult of instant gratification</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are Americans, and we want the best.  Now!
Instant gratification has become the American ethos.
In roughly three generations, American society has been transformed from a nation of penny-pinchers, scrimpers and savers to a nation of consumption-addicted spendthrifts oblivious to tomorrow.            			   [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://markhillman.com/2008/03/19/the-cult-of-instant-gratification/</link>
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		<title>MUST READS: Israel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hamas&#8217; terrorist tactics not debatable - Investors Business DailyAfter your house has been burglarized, your family brutalized and crowds who hate you and religion cheer in the streets at your misfortune, would you take the advice of someone who said talking will solve all your problems? No, you would see that your choice is either [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://markhillman.com/2008/03/07/must-reads-israel/</link>
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		<title>MUST READS for February</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Freedom means responsibility - George McGovern, Wall Street JournalYes, that George McGovern:&#160; &#34;Since leaving office, I&#8217;ve written about public policy from a new perspective: outside looking in.&#160; I&#8217;ve come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.&#34;
Dems are dumping &#8216;paygo,&#8217; hiking deficits - Wall [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://markhillman.com/2008/03/06/must-reads-for-february/</link>
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		<title>If principles matter, so does McCain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First, I am a conservative; then, I&#8217;m a Republican.
Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham and James Dobson hold views much closer to my own and to those of most conservatives than does Sen. John McCain.
I have serious, principled disagreements with the Arizona senator on several issues: freedom of speech, global warming and energy explanation, among others.
In the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://markhillman.com/2008/03/03/if-principles-matter-so-does-mccain/</link>
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		<title>Trial lawyer protection is Dems&#8217; priority</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you lie awake at night anguishing over unemployed trial lawyers, you must be a Democrat politician.
In Congress, 66 trial lawyers who donated $1.5 million to Democrat candidates are &#34;credited&#34; with derailing an anti-terrorism bill that passed the Senate with 67 votes.
Here in Colorado, the immediate stakes aren&#8217;t as severe, but businesses will be paying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://markhillman.com/2008/02/27/trial-lawyer-protection-is-dems-priority/</link>
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		<title>MUST READS: Terrorism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Worshippers of Death - Alan Dershowitz, Wall Street JournalA basic premise of warfare &#8212; that combatants can easily be distinguished from noncombatants &#8212; has changed.&#160; As more women and children are recruited by their mothers and religious leaders to become suicide bombers, more women and children will be shot at.&#160; That too is part of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://markhillman.com/2008/02/25/must-reads-terrorism/</link>
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		<title>Pick your poison with big government health care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just as local experts were revealing their plans to &#34;fix&#34; what ails Colorado, a heavy-handed health care overhaul crashed on the rocks in California and Democrat presidential candidates clashed over the appropriate size of government&#8217;s health care hammer.
Labor Democrats joined with Republicans in California to kill Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger&#8217;s proposed mandate when they realized that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://markhillman.com/2008/02/16/pick-your-poison-with-big-government-health-care/</link>
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		<title>Another Ritter end-run around taxpayers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Republicans wouldn&#8217;t have dreamed of this storyline, but for the second time in less than a year, Democrat Gov. Bill Ritter is proposing a major tax increase.
And just like last time, he doesn&#8217;t want to let you vote on it.
Taxpayers who have just received their property tax bill could be forgiven for mistaking last year&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://markhillman.com/2008/02/04/another-ritter-end-run-around-taxpayers/</link>
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