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<title><![CDATA[Combs: Try terror suspects where the crime occurred]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[The right of accused criminals to challenge their accusers in open court and to hear and challenge evidence against them and to offer evidence to support their own case is an ancient one. The conservative mind has always hated that right, preferring to pronounce guilt in a star chamber.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:42:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Britt Combs: A "right to health care?" ]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[I have health insurance for the first time in my life. It costs my employer a great deal of money to provide it. I work for it. He doesn't provide it because he feels sorry for me. He provides it because I show up every day and strive to make him some money. He finds it is a necessary form of compensation in order to attract workers to show up and actually work. In other words, it is a fair and free exchange. He offered, I accepted. We are "even Steven."
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:26:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Combs: Public Option? We need a Private Option]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Can you imagine how sputteringly indignant all the federals would be if people opted out? It'd be worth it just to see those petty tyrants' impotent blubbering. Come on, you know it'd be fun to laugh and spit in the faces of those irrelevant, obsolete old fools. 
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:50:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Combs: A Saturday with the Mises Circle time well spent]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[I have personally never had a conversation with a lawyer who was passionate, even fanatical about justice for all and equality before the law. I'm sure there are some, but I have never encountered any putting it out there for free, so great is their passion for human rights. Austrian economists, though, have a missionary zeal and passion that in breathtaking to behold.
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Britt Combs: Change looks like more of the same, only more so]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Real change would mean eliminating the moral hazard in financial markets by letting insolvent banks and businesses fail, letting prices fall and market corrections take place. If Obama had followed that policy, the recession would be over by now. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:48:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Combs: Let's quit using words like "liberal" and "conservative."]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[ I have often observed (and I am absolutely brilliant for observing this) that today's "liberals" only defend individual freedom when it's a question of vice – drugs or sexual promiscuity or profanity and blasphemy. And usually not drugs ... Whereas "conservatism," as far as our elected leaders were concerned, meant a bottomless bag of reasons to justify big government, big spending,  big debt, and an almost gleeful suspension of civil liberties in the name of "national security." 
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:49:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Combs: Savings vs. borrowing; which leads to real wealth?]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[More bad mortgages will not solve the housing crisis. By the same token, over-production of automobiles has been a major factor in the crash of the auto market. Americans, as Peter Schiff so wisely said, do not need more cars. We have lots and lots of new cars already. 
	
The market says there has been too much investment in housing and cars. That means those resources need to be reallocated to other sectors. That's called a market correction and it works every time it's allowed to happen.
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:49:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Combs: Optimists see hope as Washington self-destructs]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[I had a conversation with a reader about the possibility of McDowell becoming an alternative fuels Mecca. In some ways it is already happening.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:39:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Combs: Goodbye, DC, it's been a blast!]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/content/2009/aug/18/combs-goodbye-dc-its-been-blast/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Don't cry for Washington. It was never any good to begin with. We should be happy to see it go.  
	
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:23:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Combs: Economy no better with the Fed than without it]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[The very things the central bank was said to be able to cure, the inefficient use of credit and the instability of the dollar, have become permanent fixtures in the economy ever since the Fed took power. 
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:36:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Britt Combs: Bernanke Baffles 'em with Balderdash]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/content/2009/jul/28/britt-combs-bernanke-baffles-em-balderdash/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Bernanke is having to perform the unsavory task of talking to the plebeians in order to inspire "consumer confidence," that much needed and much measured willingness of the suckers to borrow money to make big purchases of gadgets and trinkets that will lose nearly all their value the moment we take possession of them. 
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:24:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Combs: Despite government efforts, the free market will assert itself]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/content/2009/jul/21/combs-despite-government-efforts-free-market-will-/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[It would be better for everyone if workers and professionals viewed their labor as a commodity they are marketing, rather than some sort of wage slavery.
	
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:17:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Britt Combs: Frat boys, drug dealers and co-eds]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/content/2009/jul/07/britt-combs-frat-boys-drug-dealers-and-co-eds/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[A politician's job – if he's a Democrat or a Republican – is to keep the party going for two more, four more or six more years.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:53:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Combs: The Republican leadership is ruining conservative prospects]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/content/2009/jun/30/combs-republican-leadership-ruining-conservative-p/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[ Americans chose a big government party that promises to feed and clothe and house them while it drives us all to utter financial ruin over the big government party that insists we all pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps while driving us to utter ruin.  ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:16:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Combs: How to teach a child to speak English]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/content/2009/jun/23/combs-how-teach-child-speak-english/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[I am already imparting my archaic, obsolete and utterly useless attitude about English to my toddler child.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:58:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Combs: Government health care faces insurmountable hurdles]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/content/2009/jun/16/government-health-care-faces-insurmountable-hurdle/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Some day the Republicans will return to power. Then Republicans will decide what health care you can have and what you can't have.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:17:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Britt Combs: Same sex marriage coming to your state soon]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Virtually all celebrities, actors, musicians and talk show hosts are in favor of gay marriage, so it's only a matter of time. Most Americans derive their sense of right and wrong almost exclusively from celebrity opinions.
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:07:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Britt Combs: Government takeover of GM heralds end of free market]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/content/2009/jun/02/britt-combs-government-takeover-gm-heralds-end-fre/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[However (allegedly) laudable the reasons behind the takeover may be (preserving confidence, saving jobs, ushering in a new era of hope, blah blah blah), the results cannot be good.
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:17:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Britt Combs: Could you have toxic drywall in your home?]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/content/2009/may/26/britt-combs-could-you-hafve-toxic-drywall-your-hom/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[It is possible to know you are safe or to confirm that your home is at risk from the contaminated material without spending a lot of money. 
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 26 May 2009 23:32:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Britt Combs: A Perfect Storm of Government Debauchery]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/content/2009/may/19/britt-combs-perfect-storm-government-debauchery/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[That kind of growth just delays the inflation payout until the end of the cycle. When the growth is interrupted, reality sets in.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 19 May 2009 19:59:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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