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					<title>Games of Chicken</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Ezra Klein has a smart piece on the four policy makers whose decisions may well determine the outcome of the 2012 US presidential election. The basic premise of the piece is that the outcome of the Eurozone crisis will tip the balance between President Obama&amp;rsquo;s re-election or defeat.
Walter Mead has a smart piece about the two simultaneous games of chicken being played out in the Eurozone as we speak. Game #1 is the mutual assured destruction stare-down between Germany (pay or die) and Greece (we die, everyone pays). Game #2 is the German-French face-off on the under-writing of Club...]]></description>
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					<author>John Ellis</author>					
					<category>John Ellis</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/27/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>On Iran, More Time</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- It&apos;s a classic case of brinkmanship bargaining: Iran and the West, each seeking to squeeze concessions from the other side, have decided to continue their nuclear negotiations on June 17, a few weeks before a punishing new round of sanctions takes effect.
The deadlock was described at the conclusion of Thursday&apos;s negotiating session in Baghdad by Catherine Ashton, the EU&apos;s chief diplomat and the West&apos;s spokesperson: &quot;It is clear that we both want to make progress, and that there is some common ground. However, significant differences...]]></description>
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					<author>David Ignatius</author>					
					<category>David Ignatius</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/27/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Are We Headed for a Fight with China?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ SHANGHAI -- The Soviet Union is gone, al-Qaida is decimated, and Iran may never acquire nuclear weapons. But don&apos;t get too relaxed. If you&apos;re looking for reasons to be anxious about world peace, China offers an abundance.
It&apos;s a huge country with a growing economy, an expanding military and ongoing disputes with several neighbors. Nationalist sentiment has grown. China is a rising power, and history indicates that rising powers often assert themselves in ways that lead to bloodshed.
If you demand immediate evidence, look only to the South China Sea, where the Chinese are locked...]]></description>
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					<author>Steve Chapman</author>					
					<category>Steve Chapman</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/27/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>When Will Obama Reform Presidential Pardons?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ As a candidate for president in 2008, Barack Obama pledged to &quot;immediately&quot; review federal mandatory minimum sentences &quot;to see where we can be smarter on crime and reduce the ineffective warehousing of nonviolent drug offenders.&quot; Obama also had written memoirs, in which he admitted to using marijuana and cocaine -- &quot;maybe a little blow when you could afford it&quot; -- as a teen. And he&apos;s the first black president.
Linda Aaron, a black Alabama grandmother, voted for Obama. For years, Aaron had been hoping that President George W. Bush would commute the obscenely...]]></description>
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					<author>Debra Saunders</author>					
					<category>Debra Saunders</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/27/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Warning Signs for Obama on Path to Electoral Votes</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ President Barack Obama faces new warning signs in a once-promising Southern state and typically Democratic-voting Midwestern states roughly five months before the election even as he benefits nationally from encouraging economic news.
Obama&apos;s new worries about North Carolina and Wisconsin offer opportunities for Republican Mitt Romney, who must peel off states Obama won in 2008 if he&apos;s to cobble together the 270 electoral votes needed to oust the incumbent in November.
Iowa, which kicked off the campaign in January, is now expected to be tight to the finish, while New Mexico,...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/26/warning_signs_for_obama_on_path_to_electoral_votes_114291.html</link>
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					<author>Thomas Beaumont</author>					
					<category>Thomas Beaumont</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/26/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Memorial Day 2012</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- As a crowd of high-school students offloaded from the tour bus for a visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial aka &quot;The Wall,&quot; he yelled, &quot;There are no good wars!&quot; Hemmed in on the crowded sidewalk, I tried to ignore his rant and noted the bus had a Pennsylvania license. The shouter was far too young to have fought in Vietnam, and he was wearing a dirty T-shirt, ragged jeans -- and Gucci loafers. He held a sheet of cardboard, hand-inscribed with the words &quot;I&apos;m the 99 percent&quot; on one side and &quot;Help me, I&apos;m Homeless&quot; on the other....]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/26/memorial_day_2012_114286.html</link>
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					<author>Oliver North</author>					
					<category>Oliver North</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/26/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Wasserman Schultz Backs Obama's Attacks on Bain</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz on Friday defended President Obama&apos;s recent attacks on Mitt Romney&apos;s Bain Capital business background, and embraced Democratic House and Senate candidates who are criticizing Obama in parts of the country where he is unpopular.
During an interview taped for C-SPAN&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;Newsmakers&amp;rdquo; program (to be broadcast Sunday), the Florida congresswoman said she stood behind the use of negative advertising and direct assaults by the president to argue that Romney&amp;rsquo;s private equity instincts would...]]></description>
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					<author>Alexis Simendinger</author>					
					<category>Alexis Simendinger</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/25/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>The Unraveling Myth of Watergate</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ It was, they said, the crime of the century.
An attempted coup d&apos;etat by Richard Nixon, stopped by two intrepid young reporters from The Washington Post and their dashing and heroic editor.
The 1976 movie, &quot;All the President&apos;s Men,&quot; retold the story with Robert Redford as Bob Woodward, Dustin Hoffman as Carl Bernstein and Jason Robards in his Oscar-winning role as Ben Bradlee. What did Bradlee really think of Watergate?
In a taped interview in 1990, revealed now in &quot;Yours in Truth: A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee,&quot; Bradlee himself dynamites the...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/25/the_unraveling_myth_of_watergate_114278.html</link>
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					<author>Pat Buchanan</author>					
					<category>Pat Buchanan</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/25/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Hillary for Spare Tire</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Hillary Clinton has gone through more reincarnations than Shirley MacLaine, who insists that when she was a Moorish girl in the ninth century, she had an affair with Charlemagne. Hillary has no such exotic tales in her past -- Bubba is exotic enough -- but she has gone through a number of roles for women who no longer stay home and bake cookies.
She was not content to stay home to be a first lady, and was perceived as a &quot;co-president&quot; before her disastrous scheme for reforming health care put a humiliating end to that. She was elected senator from New York to enable a run for...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/25/hillary_for_spare_tire_114276.html</link>
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					<author>Suzanne Fields</author>					
					<category>Suzanne Fields</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/25/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Obama's 2008 Magic Past, Iowa All-Out Battleground</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- The Iowa magic that launched Barack Obama to the presidency four years ago has all but faded.
Soured by the direction of the nation and its economy, Iowa has drifted away from Obama since his 2008 caucus victory over Hillary Rodham Clinton made him the Democratic front-runner. And while he carried the state in the general election by a comfortable margin that year, polls this year have shown voters narrowly preferring Republican challenger Mitt Romney, who plans to wage his own major effort in Iowa.
Today, the Democrat who emerged Cinderella-like with a hope-filled...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/25/obamas_2008_magic_past_iowa_all-out_battleground_114280.html</link>
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					<author>Thomas Beaumont and Ken Thomas</author>					
					<category>Thomas Beaumont and Ken Thomas</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/25/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Kaine Eschews "Fairness," Talks Up Growth in Va. Race</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ In defending his campaign&apos;s attacks on Mitt Romney&apos;s private equity career, President Obama said earlier this week that the 2012 election is about creating an economy that gives Americans a &quot;fair shot&quot; at success. In so doing, Obama was pushing his &quot;fairness&quot; message to create a choice for voters: Do you want a president who handles the economy the Buffett Rule way or the Bain Capital way?
This message plays well in reliably &amp;quot;blue&amp;quot;&#157; states, and among the Democratic Party&apos;s liberal base. And even in swing states, several Democrats running...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/25/kaine_eschews_fairness_talks_up_growth_in_va_race_114272.html</link>
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					<author>Caitlin Huey-Burns</author>					
					<category>Caitlin Huey-Burns</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/25/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Why Bain Questions Matter</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- Who are the dastardly enemies of free enterprise who decided to make an issue of Mitt Romney&apos;s tenure at the private-equity firm Bain Capital? Er, those would be his fellow Republicans.
Listen to what Newt Gingrich said in January: &quot;The Bain model is to go in at a very low price, borrow an immense amount of money, pay Bain an immense amount of money and leave. I&apos;ll let you decide if that&apos;s really good capitalism. I think that&apos;s exploitation.&quot;
Or what Rick Perry said that same month: &quot;There is something inherently wrong when getting rich off...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/25/why_bain_questions_matter_114277.html</link>
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					<author>Eugene Robinson</author>					
					<category>Eugene Robinson</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/25/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Bob Kerrey's Entitlement Honesty</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- By endorsing Deb Fischer -- the surprise winner of Nebraska&apos;s Republican Senate primary -- Sarah Palin let a competent candidate slip through her normal screening process. Fischer is no Sharron Angle or Christine O&apos;Donnell -- tea party favorites in 2010 who seemed to view accomplishment and deliberation as pernicious establishment vices. Fischer is a tough, effective, respected state legislator -- and, in the few polls available so far, is leading her Democratic opponent, Bob Kerrey.
In electing Fischer, Nebraskans would send a staunch, predictable conservative to...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/25/bob_kerreys_entitlement_honesty_114279.html</link>
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					<author>Michael Gerson</author>					
					<category>Michael Gerson</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/25/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>How Patronage Ruined the Democratic Party</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ The following is adapted from the Conclusion of Spoiled Rotten: How the Politics of Patronage Corrupted the Once Noble Democratic Party and Now Threatens the American Republic, By Jay Cost.&amp;nbsp;
The story told here is not a tale of right and wrong. There are no good guys and bad guys, heroes and villains, in this account. American politics is regularly cast in such moralistic terms, but that has not been our approach here. Instead, our focus has been on the factions within American society, and how the Democratic party has transformed the interests of those factions into public...]]></description>
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					<author>Jay Cost</author>					
					<category>Jay Cost</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/25/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Obama's Education Hypocrisy -- Again</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ If you were a child in the District of Columbia school system (51st in state rankings for academic achievement, first for school violence), you and your parents probably greeted the election of Barack Obama with great joy. If someone had suggested to you then that the president would attempt to torpedo the scholarship program that permits some District kids to attend the private schools of their choice, you might have thought you were hearing racist smears.
But that is what happened. As he did in previous years, President Obama has once again attempted to zero out funding in 2013 for the D.C....]]></description>
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					<author>Mona Charen</author>					
					<category>Mona Charen</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/25/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Who Will Build Confidence?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- The Great Jobs Argument -- which will be with us until the election -- has an interesting and largely ignored subplot. It&apos;s about confidence: Which candidate will instill more of it and how much does it matter for accelerating the sluggish economic recovery?
On one level, the political combat over Bain Capital is simply about symbolism. Will President Obama succeed at branding Mitt Romney a capitalist predator, earning his wealth off the suffering of others? Or will Romney manage to portray Obama as a self-serving opportunist, castigating business simply for immediate...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/25/who_will_build_confidence_114274.html</link>
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					<author>Robert Samuelson</author>					
					<category>Robert Samuelson</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/25/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Obama's Land of the LOST</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ What&apos;s green and blue and grabby all over? President Obama&apos;s new pressure campaign for Congress to ratify the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST).
The fight over LOST goes back three decades, when it was first rejected by President Ronald Reagan. He warned that &quot;no national interest of the United States could justify handing sovereign control of two-thirds of the Earth&apos;s surface over to the Third World.&quot; According to top Reagan officials William Clark and Ed Meese, their boss believed the &quot;central, and abiding, defect&quot; was &quot;its effort to promote global...]]></description>
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					<author>Michelle Malkin</author>					
					<category>Michelle Malkin</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/25/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Obama Is Not That Bright</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Barack Obama is the smartest man with the highest IQ ever to be elected to the presidency, historian Michael Beschloss told radio talk show host Don Imus in November of 2008.
&quot;So what is his IQ?&quot; Mr. Imus asked. Mr. Beschloss didn&apos;t know. He was just assuming.
Many shared that assumption. Adjectives frequently applied to Mr. Obama are &quot;smart&quot; (278 million hits on Google), &quot;intelligent&quot; (62 million) and &quot;brilliant&quot; (24 million).
There is little evidence to support it. Mr. Obama went to Harvard, but so did George W. Bush, who some liberals consider...]]></description>
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					<author>Jack Kelly</author>					
					<category>Jack Kelly</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/25/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Gloves Stay on in Quiet N.M. Senate Primary</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Four years ago, Heather Wilson gave up her House seat from New Mexico to make a run for a rare opening in the Senate. She lost in a bare-knuckled Republican primary. This year she has the luxury of sitting back as the Democratic successor to her House seat takes a similar gamble.
The stakes are equally high.
In 2008, Democrat Tom Udall won the Senate seat of Wilson&apos;s mentor, Pete Domenici, a Republican power in Washington for three decades. Democrats found themselves holding both of the state&apos;s Senate seats for the first time in nearly 40 years.
With...]]></description>
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					<author>Barry Massey</author>					
					<category>Barry Massey</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/24/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>DGA Pours $1 Million More Into Wis. Recall Effort</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ With just under two weeks to go until Wisconsin&apos;s election to recall GOP Gov. Scott Walker, the Democratic Governors Association is spending an extra $1 million in support of Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, who is challenging the incumbent.
The money will go to Greater Wisconsin, a liberal group, to keep running ads in the state as part of a get-out-the-vote operation. In total, the DGA has spent $3 million on the recall effort, which is more than it invested in the 2006 and 2010 election cycles in the Badger State.
Barrett lost to Walker by just under six percentage points in 2010. He won...]]></description>
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					<author>Caitlin Huey-Burns</author>					
					<category>Caitlin Huey-Burns</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/24/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Poll: Brown-Warren Senate Race Is a Virtual Tie</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Massachusetts Republican Sen. Scott Brown is running neck-and-neck with Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren in the Bay State, according to a new poll of likely voters.
The results of the Boston-based Suffolk University survey suggest that the weeks-long controversy over Warren&amp;rsquo;s claim to Native American ancestry has had little impact on this Senate race -- one that could help determine the balance of power in the upper chamber.
Brown attracts 48 percent of the support from likely voters, while Warren garners 47 percent. Five percent remain undecided. In February, Brown led Warren...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/24/poll_brown-warren_senate_race_is_a_virtual_tie_114265.html</link>
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					<author>Caitlin Huey-Burns</author>					
					<category>Caitlin Huey-Burns</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/24/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
                              <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 06:41:10 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="http://images.rcp.realclearpolitics.com/139159_1_.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="170" width="250" />
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					<title>Drones Pose Threat to Americans' Privacy</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ &quot;Don&apos;t drone, me, bro!&quot; &amp;mdash; that&apos;s one way to sum up Charles Krauthammer&apos;s heated reaction to last week&apos;s news that the Federal Aviation Administration had loosened restrictions on local police departments&apos; use of surveillance Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
&quot;Stop it here, stop it now,&quot; Krauthammer exclaimed on Fox News&apos;s &quot;Special Report&quot; Monday, &quot;I don&apos;t want to see it hovering over anybody&apos;s home... I&apos;m not encouraging, but I am predicting that the first guy who uses a Second Amendment weapon to bring a drone...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/24/drones_pose_threat_to_americans_privacy_114263.html</link>
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					<author>Gene Healy</author>					
					<category>Gene Healy</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/24/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
                              <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 04:14:40 -0500</pubDate></item>
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					<title>Cocooned Liberals Are Unprepared for Political Debate</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ It&apos;s comfortable living in a cocoon -- associating only with those who share your views, reading journalism and watching news that only reinforces them, avoiding those on the other side of the cultural divide.
Liberals have been doing this for a long time. In 1972, the movie critic Pauline Kael said it was odd that Richard Nixon was winning the election, because everyone she knew was for George McGovern.
Kael wasn&apos;t clueless about the rest of America. She was just observing that her own social circle was politically parochial.
The rest of us have increasingly sought out comfortable...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/24/cocooned_liberals_are_unprepared_for_political_debate_114255.html</link>
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					<author>Michael Barone</author>					
					<category>Michael Barone</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/24/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>From Mao to 'Money Worship'</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ CHANGSHA, China -- On an island in the Xiang River stands a massive bust of the late Chinese ruler Mao Zedong as a young man, his long hair blowing gracefully in an imaginary wind. Good thing for him he&apos;s a safe distance from the Expo Central China. If he could see it, he would be tearing his hair out.
As leader of the communist revolution of 1949, Mao was dedicated to class struggle and the elimination of property. He created a totalitarian society in which everyone wore the same clothes, chanted the same slogans and -- as far as anyone knew -- thought the same revolutionary...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/24/from_mao_to_money_worship_114261.html</link>
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					<author>Steve Chapman</author>					
					<category>Steve Chapman</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/24/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>What's the Matter With Manhattan?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Back in 2004, Thomas Frank wrote a famous book, &quot;What&apos;s the Matter with Kansas?&quot;, in which he lamented working class white people&apos;s choices to vote their &quot;values&quot; rather than what -- in his not-so-humble opinion -- was in their &quot;genuine&quot; economic interests. Why didn&apos;t they identify as liberals and vote Democratic?
Frank&apos;s book was the midwife of President Obama&apos;s infamous &quot;clinging to guns and God&quot; remark on April 11, 2008:
&quot;You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest,...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/24/whats_the_matter_with_manhattan_114260.html</link>
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					<author>Maggie Gallagher</author>					
					<category>Maggie Gallagher</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/24/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Why Jeremiah Wright Matters -- Still</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ In the 1967 comedy &quot;A Guide for the Married Man,&quot; Joey Bishop&apos;s wife catches him in bed with another woman. As his wife stands at the bedroom door screaming at the sight, Bishop and the mistress calmly get up, make the bed and get dressed. The mistress leaves. Bishop nonchalantly sits down in the living room, lights up a pipe, picks up the newspaper and casually leafs through it. &quot;What bed? What girl?&quot; Bishop says. The wife begins to doubt her own eyes, even her sanity. Finally, she turns to Bishop and meekly asks what he wants for dinner. The culprit convinced the...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/24/why_jeremiah_wright_matters_--_still_114259.html</link>
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					<author>Larry Elder</author>					
					<category>Larry Elder</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/24/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Bain And Our Screwed-Up Culture</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ We recently saluted Leslie Sabo for giving his life to save fellow soldiers in Vietnam 40 years ago. Injured after shielding a comrade with his body, the Pennsylvanian grabbed his grenade and stormed the foe&apos;s bunker. He died in the explosion. For his selflessness, America awarded Sabo the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Weird how we pay tribute to heroes who make the ultimate sacrifice on the battlefield but absolutely worship those who make fortunes wresting every last penny from other members of their company. As many see it: If you&apos;re rich, you&apos;re automatically a great...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/24/bain_and_our_screwed-up_culture_114258.html</link>
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					<author>Froma Harrop</author>					
					<category>Froma Harrop</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/24/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>A Catholic Spring?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- There is a healthy struggle brewing among the nation&apos;s Roman Catholic bishops. A previously silent group, upset over conservative colleagues defining the church&apos;s public posture and eagerly picking fights with President Obama, has had enough.
The headlines this week were about lawsuits brought by 43 Catholic organizations, including 13 dioceses, to overturn regulations issued by the administration requiring insurance plans to cover contraception under the new health care law. But the other side of this news was also significant: That the vast majority of the...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/24/a_catholic_spring_114257.html</link>
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					<author>E.J. Dionne</author>					
					<category>E.J. Dionne</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/24/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Why Tuesday's Democratic Primaries Matter</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Tuesday night, President Obama continued his streak of poor primary performances in culturally Southern states. He received 58.4 percent of the vote in the Arkansas Democratic primary against token opposition, and 57.9 percent of the vote in the Kentucky primary against no opposition (42.1 percent of the vote went to &quot;uncommitted&quot;). In the latter state&apos;s Harlan County, in the heart of coal country, Obama received 26.2 percent of the vote.
This comes on the heels of losing 40.6 percent of the vote&#194;&#160;in West Virginia to a Texas prison inmate, 21 percent of the vote to...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/24/why_tuesdays_democratic_primaries_matter_114256.html</link>
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					<author>Sean Trende</author>					
					<category>Sean Trende</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/24/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
                              <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 10:48:01 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="http://images.rcp.realclearpolitics.com/137078_1_.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="161" width="250" />
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					<title>Syria's Restless Neighbors</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- The Middle East sometimes resembles a string of detonators wired to explode together -- and this seems especially true now of Syria and its neighbors.
There is political instability nearby in Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon, as the Arab uprising moves through its second year. In each of these countries, the leadership maintains power in a balancing act. Only Turkey, with its triad of a strong economy, army and political leadership, seems genuinely stable.
Fear of blowing up the region -- and spawning even more Sunni-Shiite sectarian war -- is one reason the Obama administration has...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/24/syrias_restless_neighbors_114254.html</link>
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					<author>David Ignatius</author>					
					<category>David Ignatius</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/24/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Where's the 'Beef'? Clinton's Answer to Romney Snark</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ For Mitt Romney, the president&apos;s greatest vulnerability seems to be that Barack Obama is no Bill Clinton -- and he is seeking to exploit that perception in his public speeches attacking the incumbent. On Tuesday, the presumptive GOP nominee drew the contrast for an audience in Iowa, harking back to a famous Clinton speech in 1996.
&quot;Almost a generation ago,&quot; said Romney, &quot;Bill Clinton announced that the era of big government was over. Even a former George McGovern campaign worker, like President Clinton, was signaling to his own party that Democrats should no longer try to...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/24/wheres_the_beef_clintons_answer_to_romney_snark_114253.html</link>
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					<author>Joe Conason</author>					
					<category>Joe Conason</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/24/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>In the House, Is 80 Over the Hill?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ When Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., lost the GOP primary to challenger Richard Mourdock this month, Beltway types saw the voters&apos; verdict as a victory for the tea party and a defeat for the kind of Republican who could work across the aisle. I think Lugar, 80, lost because he is out of touch with Indiana. He started the primary registered to vote at an Indiana home he had sold in 1977. The Lugars have resided in Virginia ever since. Lugar had been working in Washington for so long that he didn&apos;t realize he needed to keep up at least the appearance of being a Hoosier.
No doubt,...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/24/in_the_house_is_80_over_the_hill_114262.html</link>
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					<author>Debra Saunders</author>					
					<category>Debra Saunders</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/24/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Obama's Commencement Address at the Air Force Academy</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Air Force AcademyColorado Springs, Colorado
10:29 A.M. MDT
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you so much. (Applause.) Please be seated. Good morning, everybody! It is wonderful to be at the United States Air Force Academy on such a spectacular day. And it is a privilege to join you in honoring the Class of 2012. (Applause.)
I want to thank Secretary Donley for his introduction, but more importantly, for his leadership. Generals Gould, Clark and Born; academy faculty and staff; Governor Hickenlooper; members of Congress; distinguished guests; ladies and gentlemen.
I especially want to acknowledge a...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/23/obamas_commencement_address_at_the_air_force_academy_114269.html</link>
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					<author>Barack Obama</author>					
					<category>Barack Obama</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/23/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Interview with Colin Powell</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ BLITZER: The former secretary of state, Colin Powell, is warning the world must stay on its guard against al Qaeda. I spoke with him at length about the wars, terror, the presidential race here in the United States and much more, including his brand new book. It&apos;s called &quot;It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership.&quot; I began by asking General Powell about al Qaeda&apos;s presence in Syria and around the world.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
BLITZER: All these years after 9/11, are you surprised that al Qaeda, even after the death of Bin Laden, is still out there?
GEN. COLLIN POWELL (RET.),...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/23/interview_with_colin_powell_114268.html</link>
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					<author>The Situation Room</author>					
					<category>The Situation Room</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/23/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Interviews with Senators Lieberman &amp; McCain</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
SEN. JOSEPH LIEBERMAN (I), CONNECTICUT: A lot of people, including myself, find it hard to believe that all of the sudden, one night in Cartagena, 13 Secret Service agents went to four different nightclubs or strip clubs and drank to excess and brought women back to their rooms.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
KING: The director of the Secret Service spoke public today for the first time about the prostitution scandal that overshadowed President Obama&apos;s recent trip to Colombia.
Eight Secret Service personnel, including two supervisors, lost their jobs for being...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/23/interviews_with_senators_lieberman__mccain_114267.html</link>
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					<author>John King, USA</author>					
					<category>John King, USA</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/23/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Poll: Romney Leads Obama in Florida</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Mitt Romney leads Barack Obama by six points in the key battleground state of Florida, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday.
Romney attracts 47 percent of the support from registered voters, while Obama garners 41 percent. Having Florida U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio on the ticket would give the GOP nominee just a two-point boost, while it would have no impact on the president&amp;rsquo;s standing. In a Quinnipiac poll released earlier this month, Romney led Obama by just one point.
The president is getting marginal grades from Florida voters: 52 percent disapprove of the way...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/23/romney_leads_obama_in_florida_114250.html</link>
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					<author>Caitlin Huey-Burns</author>					
					<category>Caitlin Huey-Burns</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/23/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Romney Adds to Delegate Lead With Wins in Kentucky, Arkansas</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON (AP) &amp;mdash; Mitt Romney swept the Kentucky and Arkansas Republican presidential primaries Tuesday, inching closer to the GOP nomination he is certain to win.
With no serious opposition left, the former Massachusetts governor easily won both contests. He won all 42 delegates at stake in Kentucky and at least 31 of the 33 delegates at stake in Arkansas.
Two delegates were still undecided in Arkansas.
Romney has 1,065 delegates, leaving him just 79 shy of the 1,144 delegates needed to win the GOP nomination for president. He should reach the threshold next week, when voters go to...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/23/romney_adds_to_delegate_lead_with_wins_in_kentucky_arkansas_114249.html</link>
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					<author>Stephen Ohlemacher</author>					
					<category>Stephen Ohlemacher</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/23/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Does Portman Have the Edge in VP Sweepstakes?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Rob Portman has been preparing for this for years.
Although the Ohio senator offers the standard line that he doesn&apos;t expect to be picked as Mitt Romney&apos;s running mate, the trajectory of his career and his political conduct in Washington have made nearly everyone in politics almost certain that he&amp;rsquo;ll be plucked for this year&apos;s Republican presidential ticket.
Bob Paduchik, a veteran consultant who ran George W. Bush&amp;rsquo;s re-election effort in Ohio as well as Portman&amp;rsquo;s Senate campaign in 2010, bottom-lined it: &amp;ldquo;Rob Portman is uniquely...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/23/does_portman_have_the_edge_in_vp_sweepstakes.html</link>
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					<author>Erin McPike</author>					
					<category>Erin McPike</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/23/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
                              <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 07:02:42 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="http://images.rcp.realclearpolitics.com/134280_1_.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="166" width="250" />
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					<title>Is Obama's "Enthusiasm Edge" as Big as Polls Suggest?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ As a series of Republican challengers rose one by one to the top of the polls during the year-long GOP primary slog, skeptics of Mitt Romney&apos;s chances to win the nomination cited a lack of enthusiasm among his supporters as the reason for their doubt.
In knocking off each of his opponents on his path to victory, Romney proved that his backers were indeed enthusiastic enough to push him over the top. But now the former Massachusetts governor is once again fighting the same perception -- that not enough people are champing at the bit to pull the lever for him, thus hurting his chances in...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/23/is_obamas_enthusiasm_edge_as_big_as_polls_suggest_114248.html</link>
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					<author>Scott Conroy</author>					
					<category>Scott Conroy</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/23/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
                              <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 06:26:33 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="http://images.rcp.realclearpolitics.com/138989_1_.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="167" width="250" />
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					<title>Brownback to Speak at Chicago CPAC Conference</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is joining the lineup of speakers slated to address the American Conservative Union&apos;s regional CPAC meeting in early June in Chicago.
Brownback, a staunch conservative who ran for president in 2008, joins a long list of former presidential contenders and potential running mates of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.&amp;nbsp; Already scheduled to speak at the Chicago meeting are: Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Chris Christie, Bobby Jindal and Rick Santorum.
&quot;Conservatives are gearing up for midwestern CPAC in Chicago on June...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/23/brownback_to_speak_at_chicago_cpac_conference_114247.html</link>
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					<author>Erin McPike</author>					
					<category>Erin McPike</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/23/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Presidential Campaigns Always Concern Character</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ There were the &quot;Meet the Press&quot; panelists discussing character attacks. Gasp, the general election is getting personal! Any student of history would predict it. Newark Mayor Cory Booker was nonetheless disgusted. &quot;It&apos;s either going to be a small campaign about this crap,&quot; Booker said, &quot;or it&amp;rsquo;s going to be a big campaign, in my opinion, about the issues that the American public cares about.&quot;
Americans do care. The public wags its finger at dirty politics. But voters do not filter out the dirt. Most campaign events do not actually make a president....]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/23/presidential_campaigns_always_concern_character_12_vampire_capitalism_obama_romney_kuhn_114235.html</link>
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					<author>David Paul Kuhn</author>					
					<category>David Paul Kuhn</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/23/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Greece: Mulligan Election, Mulligan Economy</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Greece wants two mulligans -- like a golfer demanding second chance, a do-over tee shot, times two.
The immediate and obvious mulligan is a new national election. The teed-off Greek electorate teed up on May 6, but fractious voters produced a scattershot result. No single party achieved a parliamentary majority.
The leaders of Greece&apos;s three largest political parties subsequently failed to form a coalition government.
Their disagreements are fundamental. During the coalition discussions, the Syriza Party (Coalition of the Radical Left/Unitary Social Movement) announced it would not...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/23/greece_mulligan_election_mulligan_economy_114245.html</link>
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					<author>Austin Bay</author>					
					<category>Austin Bay</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/23/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Jaczko the Jerk: Harry Reid's Sexist Crony Gets the Boot</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ The embattled chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission resigned this week. It&apos;s a victory for Republican oversight on Capitol Hill, women and sound science. But it&apos;s also a lesson in the futility of Bush-era bipartisanship. When you cut deals with bullies, it&apos;s a timeless and bitter recipe for more bullying.
Gregory Jaczko served as appropriations director and science policy adviser to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., before joining the NRC in 2005. The anti-nuclear advocate was sworn in by his brass-knuckled boss and protector, Reid, who pressured the Bush...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/23/jaczko_the_jerk_harry_reids_sexist_crony_gets_the_boot_114244.html</link>
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					<author>Michelle Malkin</author>					
					<category>Michelle Malkin</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/23/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Keeping Business Honest</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Instinctively, we look for people&apos;s motives. We need to know whom we can trust and whom we can&apos;t. We&apos;re especially skeptical of business because we know business wants our money.
It took me too long to understand that business&apos;s desire for profit is a good thing. To get our money, businesses -- if they can&apos;t look to the government for favors -- need to give us what we want. Then they must make continuous improvements and do it better than the competition does.
That competition is enough to protect consumers. But that&apos;s not intuitive. It&apos;s intuitive to assume...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/23/keeping_business_honest_114243.html</link>
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					<author>John Stossel</author>					
					<category>John Stossel</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/23/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Church of the Holy Contraception</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.
Though it&apos;s commonly said that social conservatives would force us to live under theocratic rule if they could, these days the group most successful in imposing its worldview on others happens to be called the Democratic Party.
Just ask more than 40 Catholic organizations -- the Catholic University of America, the University of Notre Dame, the archdioceses of New York and Washington, etc. -- that filed suit against Obamacare&apos;s contraception mandate. Churches and other...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/23/church_of_the_holy_contraception_114242.html</link>
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					<author>David Harsanyi</author>					
					<category>David Harsanyi</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/23/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
                              <pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 18:09:52 -0500</pubDate></item>
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					<title>Interview with Representative Dana Rohrabacher</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ BLITZER: And joining us now is Congressman Dana Rohrabacher. Congressman thanks very much for coming in. I want to discuss what&apos;s going on, but first to give our viewers the full perspective, here&apos;s the entire exchange I had about you and President Karzai in my interview with President Karzai yesterday. Watch this.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
BLITZER: You said you&apos;re not going to let this Democratically- elected congressman into your country, why?
KARZAI: A Democratically-elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/22/interview_with_representative_dana_rohrabacher_114252.html</link>
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					<author>The Situation Room</author>					
					<category>The Situation Room</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/22/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Deval Patrick &amp; Reince Priebus On "John King, USA"</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
KING: First, thanks for your time, Governor.
PATRICK: I&apos;m glad to be here. Thank you. Welcome home.
(CROSSTALK)
KING: Thank you. It&apos;s good to be home.
You&apos;re in a very interesting position this year. I want to start with you&apos;re the governor of a state that Bain Capital calls its global home. It&apos;s right up the street, the global headquarters.
PATRICK: Indeed. Indeed.
KING: Are they a bad company?
PATRICK: No, no, they&apos;re not a bad company.
And nobody is saying they are, including the president. It&apos;s a remarkable thing, you know, if you take...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/22/deval_patrick__reince_priebus_on_john_king_usa_114251.html</link>
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					<author>John King, USA</author>					
					<category>John King, USA</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/22/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Crossroads Spending $9.7 Million on Swing State Ad</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ The conservative third-party group Crossroads GPS is going on the air in 10 battleground states with a $9.7 million ad purchase targeting voters who might have supported President Obama four years ago but may now feel disenfranchised by his economic policies.
The minute-long spot is part of a $25 million buy, and it will air for three weeks in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia starting Wednesday.
Crossroads, the group founded by former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove, is an active player in the presidential and...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/22/crossroads_spending_97_million_on_swing_state_ad.html</link>
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					<author>Caitlin Huey-Burns</author>					
					<category>Caitlin Huey-Burns</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/22/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Old Feud in Bush Administration Part of Ariz. Race</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON (AP) -- Richard Carmona arrived in Washington a political novice in 2002 and left four years later scarred and frustrated. He didn&apos;t go quietly.
A year after his term as the nation&apos;s 17th surgeon general, the one-time $500 campaign donor to President George W. Bush turned on the administration, telling Congress that mid-level GOP appointees orchestrated his appearances for political gain and muzzled him on hot-button issues like stem cell research and sex education.
As investigators for a Democratic-controlled House committee looked into his allegations back then, one of...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/22/old_feud_in_bush_administration_part_of_ariz_race_114237.html</link>
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					<author>Kevin Freking</author>					
					<category>Kevin Freking</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/22/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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					<title>Poll: Obama, Romney Tied on Economy</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ President Obama edges Mitt Romney nationally by just three points, according to a new Washington Post/ABC poll. But when it comes to the economy -- an issue the majority of voters cite as the most important in choosing a president -- the two rivals are locked in a dead heat.
Obama attracts 49 percent of the support from registered voters, while Romney garners 46 percent. The former Massachusetts governor has narrowed the gap in the past several weeks after essentially wrapping up the GOP nomination. In early April, Romney trailed the president, 51 percent to 44 percent.
Notably, 83 percent of...]]></description>
					<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/22/poll_obama_romney_tied_on_economy.html</link>
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					<author>Caitlin Huey-Burns</author>					
					<category>Caitlin Huey-Burns</category>
					<pubdate>2012/05</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>05/22/2012/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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