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            <title>The Pope’s tweet and the quiet suicide of order</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ <p>By Kyle McClay</p>Bad leadership is not always dramatic. Sometimes it arrives as a short post about dignity that quietly tells the public the state will no longer do the hard, public work of justice.&nbsp;
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            <title>Europe cooks with gas; Africa breathes smoke</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ <p>By Vijay Jayaraj</p>A bloc that pays a geopolitical adversary for gas has no moral standing to deny an African widow a cooking cylinder.
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            <category>Vijay Jayaraj</category>
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            <title>Putting the Social into Socialism</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ <p>By Mark C. Ross</p>Socialism is not about economics or any version of common sense. It&rsquo;s about belonging.&nbsp;
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            <title>Meloni baloney in the face of Italian riots</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ <p>By Noel S. Williams</p>With all the barbarian hordes trampling down the gates, it is testosterone-laden men who we need to subdue the rioters.
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            <category>Noel S. Williams</category>
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            <title>The greatest risk of artificial intelligence? The drive to eliminate risk.</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ <p>By Peter C. Earle</p>History is cluttered with dangers that if they were treated as singularly disqualifying rather than manageable, might have condemned generations to needless poverty, disease, or hardship.
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            <link>https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/10/the-greatest-risk-of-artificial-intelligence-the-drive-to-eliminate-risk/</link>
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            <category>Peter C. Earle</category>
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            <title>Suicidal Christian empathy in Minnesota</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ <p>By Mike McDaniel</p>A prime example of suicidal empathy is the purposeful settlement of around 100,000 Somalis in Minnesota
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            <title>Mostly not deadly Minnesota light rail</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ <p>By Mike McDaniel</p>Thank Tim Walz, DEI lunacy, self-inflicted Somali illegal immigration, defunding and prosecuting the police, and every other destructive lunacy Democrats celebrate.
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            <category>Mike McDaniel</category>
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            <title>Gavin Newsom goes AWOL as California burns</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ <p>By Monica Showalter</p>Nero is fiddling in New Hampshire&nbsp;while California burns ...
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            <category>Monica Showalter</category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Urban Midwestern virtue signaling has a Soviet or North Korean flavor</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ <p>By Andrea Widburg</p>When you think about it, the barrage of signs and flags seems less like enthusiasm and more like paranoia.
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            <category>Andrea Widburg</category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Obama and Slotkin: It’s never hypocrisy when Democrats do it</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ <p>By Andrea Widburg</p>Two perfectly timed messages about political prosecutions from top Democrats remind us that Democrats have no shame.
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            <category>Andrea Widburg</category>
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            <title>Obama goes to bat for Omar</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ <p>By Monica Showalter</p>Obama seems to think that all third worlders useful to&nbsp;Democrats are U.S. citizens whether they follow the rules or not, and any effort to stop them can only be&nbsp;politically motivated/
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            <category>Monica Showalter</category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Is this the real explanation behind October 7?</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ <p>By W.A. Eliot</p>Rumors are rife in Israel that October 7 was indeed made possible thanks to a leftist plot to destroy Netanyahu.
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            <category>W.A. Eliot</category>
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            <title>The lies leftists tell about capitalism and socialism.</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ <p>By Jack Hellner</p>Whether they&rsquo;re telling you that the rich get richer at the expense of others or that socialism benefits all, they&rsquo;re lying.
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            <category>Jack Hellner</category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Paris is burning. Is America next?</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ <p>By Jerry McGlothlin</p>France ignored the warning signs. We&rsquo;re ignoring them too.
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            <category>Jerry McGlothlin</category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>The most terrifying image out of France (and it’s not what you think it is)</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ <p>By Andrea Widburg</p>Whether the protests are as huge as X makes them seem or as contained as the MSM implies, this one picture warns of the coming conquest.
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            <link>https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/10/the-one-picture-out-of-france-that-should-terrify-us-all/</link>
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            <category>Andrea Widburg</category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>How about this lady for White House press secretary?</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ <p>By Noel S. Williams</p>Lots of good qualities here.
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            <category>Noel S. Williams</category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Which is better: Gold or AI?</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ <p>By David DeMay</p>Civilization depends upon two complementary but frequently competing responses to capital and uncertainty
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            <category>David DeMay</category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Minnesota nice to Tafoya</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ <p>By Silvio Canto, Jr.</p>Could this be the Republican to finally seize a Senate seat in the Land of 10,000 Lakes?
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            <link>https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/10/minnesota-nice-to-tafoya/</link>
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            <category>Silvio Canto, Jr.</category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>The redemption of Sudden Sam</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ <p>By Will O&#039;Toole</p>Sam McDowell just passed at 84. He has a remarkable story, both on and off the field.
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            <link>https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/10/the-redemption-of-sudden-sam/</link>
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            <category>Will O&#039;Toole</category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Oh yes; Abdul El-Sayed lied about the Muslim Brotherhood</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ <p>By Mike McDaniel</p>If Democrats seize control of Congress, that&rsquo;s an Islamist train, with El-Sayed as conductor, we may not be able to stop.
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            <link>https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/10/oh-yes-abdul-el-sayed-lied-about-the-muslim-brotherhood/</link>
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            <category>Mike McDaniel</category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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