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		<title>DOD Sex Scandal Keeps Boiling Despite Fourth Place Billing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 21:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday morning at 06:00 sharp, Colonel Randy Boener, gender affairs commander, the Joint Chiefs of Staff Military Conduct Policy Task Force, strode smartly into my office and took the seat directly in front of my desk. “It’s a pleasure to meet you, Colonel&#8230; um&#8230;” I began, stymied as I looked at his name tag. “That’s pronounced BEN-hur,” <a href='http://www.tomcollinsblog.com/?p=941'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Most Likely Reason for IRS Tea Party 501(c)(4) Imbroglio Identified</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 23:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The media have been reporting a boat load of horrific stories lately, and with the apprehension of alleged multiple kidnapper, rapist and dungeon keeper Ariel Castro in Cleveland, it all got to be a bit too much for my girlfriend Cerise.  “I’m going to the zoo this weekend, Tom,” she announced to me on Thursday, <a href='http://www.tomcollinsblog.com/?p=933'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Niall Ferguson’s Paradigm Which Dare Not Speak Its Name</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 18:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As regular readers of this Web log know, I have no problem with clients who prefer to remain anonymous.  They don’t qualify for free initial consultations, of course, but I do ensure that the price of anonymity is, as we say here in Washington, de minimus &#8211; the cost of a mere thirty minutes of <a href='http://www.tomcollinsblog.com/?p=929'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Jeb Knows Barbara Bush Always Liked George W Best</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 22:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What with self-radicalizing Islamic terrorists wreaking havoc on our sacred soil, poison-soaked letters worming their way through the mail from the backwaters of Mississippi to the corridors of power in our Nation’s Capital, billows of nerve gas wafting across Syria, sequestration tightening its python grip on the economy, the garment industry in an uproar over massive <a href='http://www.tomcollinsblog.com/?p=924'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Sanford’s Weiner Problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 22:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday afternoon Gretchen put through a call from Mark Sanford, former Republican governor of South Carolina, nationally recognized defender of conservative values, renowned hiking enthusiast and noted aficionado of Argentine firecrackers. Sanford: Hello?  Is this Tom Collins? Tom: Yes, governor, it is. Sanford: I&#8230; um&#8230; Rand Paul tells me your first consultation is&#8230; uh&#8230; Tom: <a href='http://www.tomcollinsblog.com/?p=920'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mitch McConnell, Ashley Judd and the Three Stooges of Progress Kentucky</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 21:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, Cerise and I went dancing at the Spanish Ballroom, which is located in Glen Echo Park, Maryland.  Glen Echo Park is the only US National Park dedicated to the arts, and yes, they have a couple of genuine Department of Interior park rangers there, too &#8211; with those green park ranger uniforms and <a href='http://www.tomcollinsblog.com/?p=914'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>North Korea’s Fearless Leaders’ Chicken Nephew</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 17:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this afternoon, Cerise and I were lying in bed at my home in Great Falls, Virginia with all the windows open enjoying the marvelous brisk spring air and sunny weather, combined with the afterglow of a black truffle omelette, Dom Pérignon champagne blood orange mimosa and Beluga caviar brunch, with its natural consequents, when <a href='http://www.tomcollinsblog.com/?p=908'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Of Wetbacks, Moose Eaters, and Congressman Don Young</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 03:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bright and early this Friday morning, I received a call from United States Congressman Don Young &#8211; don’t fret if you have never heard of him, because before he distinguished himself during a candid interview on radio station KRBD this week, Don was the sole member of the House of Representatives for the state of <a href='http://www.tomcollinsblog.com/?p=898'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cyprus Peers into the Abyss of Default and Winks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 03:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday night at the Round Robin Bar, I spied Hambis Gaurospore Gamotinmanasu, First Attaché for Economic Policy at the Cypriot Embassy here in Washington DC.  There’s this Mediterranean brandy, Metaxa, which is considered a bit déclassé, for the most part.  The Round Robin stocks the top-of-the-line item, Metaxa Grande Fine &#8211; in the back, of course <a href='http://www.tomcollinsblog.com/?p=890'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tom Discovers what Hamid Karzai’s been Smoking</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 03:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late Friday afternoon, as I was crunching some numbers for the Federal Reserve, Gretchen politely interrupted me.  “Mr. Collins,” she announced, her blonde head poked discreetly into my office between the heavy oak doors separating me from the reception area, “Khus Dihugami Dadamizo, Special International Policy Emissary of His Excellency President Hamid Karzai for the <a href='http://www.tomcollinsblog.com/?p=883'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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