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						<title><![CDATA[ Banking, Blockading and the Final Iranian Financial Squeeze]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Last week Treasury Man Scott Bessent unveiled Operation Economic Fury to put maximum financial pressure on the hoodlums running the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
I'd like to give that economic fury some more visibility, because I think blockading Iran ports, which will keep the regime out of the money, along with a banking freeze, are two major weapons that will eventually bring the regime to an end.
We know the Iranian ports are being successfully blocked, and it won't be long until their revenue dries up, and the IRGC, which is basically a government cartel mafioso business operation,...]]></description>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/21/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Far Left and Far Right are United by What They Hate]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[  Far-left Reps. Ro Khanna and Ilhan Omar, and right-wing firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene are suddenly best friends. 
Khanna and Greene appeared together on CNN last week, while Omar went on Pod Save America and praised Greene, along with far-right commentator Candace Owens, for breaking with President Trump. She said Democrats should "put our arms around" them. 
Something important is happening here that will shape the future of the No Labels movement and our country. 
On the surface, these figures on the far right and far left would appear to have nothing in common. In fact, in 2024,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/21/the_far_left_and_far_right_are_united_by_what_they_hate_154054.html</link>
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						<author>Ryan Clancy</author><category>Ryan Clancy</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/21/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Immigration Amnesty by Any Other Name]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ "Dignity" is just another word for "amnesty" in an ill-conceived law now being pushed by a Miami-area Republican congresswoman.
Heading into the midterms, the last thing the GOP should be doing is alienating its core voters on immigration, but Rep. Maria Salazar's legislation does just that.
In the Orwellian way proposed laws are labeled these days, this one is called the "Dignity for Immigrants while Guarding our Nation to Ignite and Deliver the American Dream Act," or "DIGNIDAD Act" for short -- Spanish for "dignity."
President Donald Trump signed an executive order last year designating...]]></description>
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						<author>Daniel McCarthy</author><category>Daniel McCarthy</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/21/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 03:44:26 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/715200_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Don&rsquo;t Kid Yourself &ndash; No Easy Iran Fix]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Trump's war with Iran is not popular - and that's no surprise. Critics of the war are correct about one very important thing: It is messy.
The Strait of Hormuz remains dangerous. Oil markets are volatile. The risk of escalation has not disappeared. Even after weeks of air strikes - and now a U.S.-led blockade aimed at restoring control of the Strait - Iran retains the ability to disrupt shipping and rattle the global economy.
All of that is true. But what critics have yet to show is that there was a better alternative.
For years, American policy toward Iran rested on a simple hope - that...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/20/dont_kid_yourself__no_easy_iran_fix__154047.html</link>
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						<author>Frank Miele</author><category>Frank Miele</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/20/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:44:22 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/714975_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Mamdani&rsquo;s Tax-the-Rich Plan Risks Driving Wealth Away]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ You've heard the news and may have seen the video: New York Mayor Mamdani mugging for the camera, his face in a gleeful smirk, saying "When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich. Well today, we're taxing the rich!"
He was announcing - on April 15, the day federal and state income tax returns are due - a new special tax on "second homes" located in New York City valued over $5 million. The Marxist mayor is standing in front of a building where he says hedge fund entrepreneur Ken Griffin has a residence that he uses only occasionally. Under Mamdani's proposal, approved by...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/19/mamdanis_tax-the-rich_plan_risks_driving_wealth_away_154050.html</link>
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						<author>Richard Porter</author><category>Richard Porter</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/19/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ An Imaginary Walk Through the Yale Campus: 1963&ndash;1971]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ The following is an excerpt from my forthcoming book, "Finding the Third Way." 
I am imagining taking a series of strolls across the Yale campus sometime between 1963 and 1971. I am imagining whom I would have seen and what we might have said during my seven years at Yale for college and law school had such a tour not been imaginary.
We're traveling through time, so the walk isn't strictly sequential. In my mind the first stop is a stone and redbrick edifice at 202 York Street in New Haven. This is the Hadden Building, home of the Yale Daily News and named after the dashing and brilliant...]]></description>
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						<author>Lanny J. Davis</author><category>Lanny J. Davis</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/19/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 07:22:45 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/62/625829_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump, Iran and the Bottom Line for American Interests]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ After watching the latest rounds of right-wing podcasters intoning that somehow Trump is demon-possessed or out of his mind or fill-in-the-blank crazy conspiracy theory, or "It's all about the Jews!", it'd probably be good to broach what is apparently a unique thought to the daily bloviators. When it comes to the "Don-roe Doctrine," perhaps President Trump actually sees the broader geopolitical realities America has lived under for generations and is trying to do something to ensure that America remains safe and our economy remains robust. 
Here's the frame everyone seems to be missing:...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/17/trump_iran_and_the_bottom_line_for_american_interests.html</link>
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						<author>Ned Ryun</author><category>Ned Ryun</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/17/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:29:05 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/714922_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Pope Plays Politics]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Chicago politics have taken root in Vatican City.
Pope Leo XIV may be a man of the cloth, but he is also a Southsider, so it is not surprising that he can't rise completely above the fray. How else to explain his ramped-up criticism of the Iran war right after granting an audience to fellow Chicagoan David Axelrod, the influential Democratic operative and Barack Obama advisor - and the appearance of three anti-war cardinals on "60 Minutes" two days later?
With the 2026 U.S. midterm elections on the horizon and President Trump's historic taming of Iran increasingly looking like it just might...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/17/the_pope_plays_politics_154044.html</link>
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						<author>J. Peder Zane</author><category>J. Peder Zane</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/17/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 05:59:42 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/714733_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Media Exploit the Pope as Trump&#039;s Public Enemy No. 1]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ When "60 Minutes" lined up three American Catholic Cardinals who had been dropping angry "open letters" on President Donald Trump, CBS reporter Norah O'Donnell mustered the audacity to claim, "their candor surprised us." No, they knew precisely what they were orchestrating -- another carefully edited hit job on Trump.
Modern liberals, by their nature, are alienated from traditional Christianity, as exemplified by the classic front-page Washington Post phrase about Jerry Falwell's followers: "poor, uneducated, and easy to command."
Liberal TV networks find organized religion useful -- when it...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/17/the_media_exploit_the_pope_as_trumps_public_enemy_no_1_154045.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/17/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:00:22 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/714937_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ California&rsquo;s Economy: Strong Claims, Weak Foundations]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ To listen to Gov. Gavin Newsom, California is still the nation's economic leader. In his April 9 news release, he crows, "California continues to outperform every other state." Rosy reports from politicians are not an accurate barometer of real conditions.
According to the latest Bureau of Economic Analysis data, California's economy expanded 5% in 2025. This was the 15th fastest rate in the country - not the fastest, as Newsom crows. It was faster than Texas (4.9%) but slower than Florida (6.3%).
Still, 15th is a top-third growth performance, not bad. But California's longer-term growth...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/16/californias_economy_strong_claims_weak_foundations_154036.html</link>
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						<author>Kerry Jackson &amp; Wayne Winegarden</author><category>Kerry Jackson &amp; Wayne Winegarden</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/16/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:26:53 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/709639_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Higher Ed Is Hiding Racial Discrimination]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Racial discrimination is alive and well in higher education.
That's what the Trump administration strongly - and rightly - suspects. In late March, the Department of Justice opened investigations into admissions policies at three major medical schools, including those at Stanford University, the University of California at San Diego, and Ohio State University. The administration wants their admissions data to see if the medical schools are still practicing the discriminatory DEI policies that the Supreme Court banned in 2023.
The president's team is asking the right questions. And based on...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/16/higher_ed_is_hiding_racial_discrimination_154041.html</link>
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						<author>Ian Kingsbury &amp; David Puelz</author><category>Ian Kingsbury &amp; David Puelz</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/16/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Debunking Five Tax Day Myths]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Every April, Americans spend more than 7 billion hours filing taxes and roughly the same amount of time arguing over them, almost entirely on the basis of several common myths. Here are the five most consequential.
Myth No. 1: The Rich Don't Pay Their Fair Share
This is the most repeated claim in American tax politics and one of the least supported by actual data. The top 1% of earners take in 22% of total income and pay 40% of all federal income taxes. The top 10% earn about half the nation's income and pay 72% of its taxes. The bottom half of earners, collectively, pay roughly 3% of the tax...]]></description>
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						<author>Veronique de Rugy</author><category>Veronique de Rugy</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/16/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:27:33 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/714843_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ What AI Doesn&rsquo;t Know &ndash; and Why It Matters]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Artificial intelligence has taken the wired world by storm, but the backlash came almost as fast. Progressives complain of job losses, environmentalists question the ecological impacts of huge data centers, and local activists are clamoring for assurances that household utility bills won't skyrocket because of the centers' voracious electricity requirements. Others simply worry that the technology will overwhelm humans' ability to control it.
At least in part, these reactions stem from the overselling of AI.
AI is super cool, but it's not superhuman nor is it super intelligent. AI is simply...]]></description>
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						<author>Richard Porter</author><category>Richard Porter</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/15/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ SAVE Act: Election Control for Me, Not for Thee]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Amid the conflict with Iran and the partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, leaders in Washington haven't set aside their fight over the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (SAVE America Act).
Democratic Party leaders have resorted to demagogy and falsehoods to try to stop the bill, most of whose provisions are widely popular with the American public. While doing so, they have largely failed to advance the most legitimate constitutional argument against it, which centers on the primacy of state administration of elections.
The act would, among other things, require...]]></description>
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						<author>Andy Jackson</author><category>Andy Jackson</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/15/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Gay Talese on a Writer&rsquo;s Life]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ An unrelenting winter and circumstance dictated a most uncustomary form of interview with Gay Talese: a phone call. Another ice storm in New York kept Talese in his Upper East Side townhouse, where he first occupied a bachelor pad as a New York Times reporter at 26 and then bought the whole property with his wife, Nan, by 1973, when he was a writer - and subject - at Esquire. On a January late afternoon, when the call arrived, Talese was pushing 95, and I was in Pennsylvania, laid up on crutches and recovering from a knee injury. There was no time for a serendipiter's journey.
"When I was...]]></description>
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						<author>Charles F. McElwee</author><category>Charles F. McElwee</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/15/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:11:27 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/714708_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ How Americans Feel About Tax Day]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ This piece is reprinted from RealClearPolling's twice-weekly newsletter "The Takeaway." Get it in your mailbox each Tuesday and Friday by signing up here.
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Today is April 15, the day of reckoning between the Internal Revenue Service and millions of (procrastinating) taxpayers. Two recent surveys give us a sense of how Americans view their annual obligation to pay Uncle Sam.
According to a Gallup poll conducted last week, 59% of those surveyed consider the amount of federal income tax they have to pay is "too high." That number has been stable over the last three years, but represents a...]]></description>
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						<author>Tom Bevan</author><category>Tom Bevan</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/15/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Eric Swalwell Finds Out About Sudden &#039;Investigative Reporting&#039;]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ If you doubt that our elitist media are a powerful component in the Democrat Party messaging machine, see what happened to Rep. Eric Swalwell of California. His career collapsed. Within about 48 hours, he went from the leading Democrat in a very fragmented field for governor of the Golden State to an exit ramp out of Congress.
It was a conservative pouncing party when CNN media reporter Brian Stelter touted Swalwell's sudden misfortune as a "real testament to the power of investigative reporting." Assembling a set of damning allegations of sexual assault certainly looks like investigative...]]></description>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/15/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ This Wasn&rsquo;t About Conversion Therapy &ndash; It Was About Free Speech]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Headlines for the past few weeks have capitalized on the cruel connotations surrounding conversion therapy, proclaiming that the United States Supreme Court struck down "a conversion therapy ban." The problem is that the Supreme Court, in an 8-1 decision that included Justices Kagan and Sotomayor, told Colorado something that needed to be said: Your law was never actually about that.
Chiles v. Salazar is being reported as a "conversion therapy" ruling. That framing is a political bait-and-switch. What the court struck down was a government mandate on what therapists may say to a consenting...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/14/this_wasnt_about_conversion_therapy__it_was_about_free_speech_154030.html</link>
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						<author>Mark Mayfield &amp; Megan Cannedy</author><category>Mark Mayfield &amp; Megan Cannedy</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/14/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:40:38 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/714598_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Pope vs. President Is a Fight Everyone Loses]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ President Trump and Pope Leo are in a war of words right now -- when they should be allies, not enemies.
Both want peace, but the president intends to get it by winning a war against Iran, while the pope thinks the war isn't worth fighting.
"I don't want a Pope who thinks it's OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon," Trump said Sunday on his Truth social-media network, in a post blasting the pontiff as "weak on crime and terrible for foreign policy."
With midterm elections just seven months away, Catholic voters suddenly find themselves in the crossfire between the Vatican and the White...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/14/pope_vs_president_is_a_fight_everyone_loses_154032.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel McCarthy</author><category>Daniel McCarthy</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/14/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:40:21 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/714625_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump Jiu-Jitsu Puts America in Control of Persian Gulf Oil Flow]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ So the Iranians wouldn't give up their uranium enrichment or dismantle their enrichment facilities. Or hand over their already enriched uranium.
So President Trump turned the tables, applied some Trumpian Jiu-Jitsu, and put a United States naval blockade on the Strait of Hormuz that will be enforced in the Gulf of Oman.
I'm not sure anybody yet knows how this is all going to go down, but at least beginning today, here's what America's Central Command said: "Any vessel entering or departing the blockaded area without authorization is subject to interception, diversion, and capture. The...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/13/trump_jiu-jitsu_puts_america_in_control_of_persian_gulf_oil_flow_154031.html</link>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/13/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:07:05 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/714611_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump Will Win the War With Iran]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Unless he suddenly loses practically all of the instincts and tactical astuteness that got him where he is, President Trump will win the Iran war. It may be that it will have proved a mistake to go to negotiations, but as the president has made clear before and during the Iran negotiations in Islamabad, he expects to win either way.
This is as he possesses, with his Israeli allies, the ability to clear the Hormuz Strait to assure that Iran does not become a nuclear military power, and to strangle Iran so that it has no ability to underwrite international terrorism as it has for nearly half a...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/13/trump_will_win_the_war_with_iran_154029.html</link>
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						<author>Conrad Black</author><category>Conrad Black</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/13/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:44:34 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/714539_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ After Swalwell Craters, CA GOP Jubilant but Divided]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ SAN DIEGO-Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell's gubernatorial campaign implosion on Friday couldn't have been better timing for California Republicans.
The state's GOP was already set to convene in San Diego for their spring convention over the weekend, and the series of Democratic leader defections from Swalwell, as additional sexual allegations surfaced on social media, left candidates and activists gleeful and gloating.  
Steve Hilton, a former Fox News host and the frontrunner in the crowded contest to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom in November, on Saturday addressed hundreds of attendees, beginning...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/12/after_swalwell_craters_ca_gop_jubilant_but_divided_154028.html</link>
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						<author>Susan Crabtree</author><category>Susan Crabtree</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/12/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:51:44 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/714515_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Beauty of the Flaw: Why Gen Z Is Reclaiming Family and Faith]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ My mother's home is a living gallery of the past, filled with antiques, heavy, dark woods, intricate carvings, and unique pieces that carry the weight of decades. For years, I wondered what our family would eventually do with these remnants of the past. In a world obsessed with "modern" design, everything crisp, white, and interchangeable, these antiques feel out of place. Modernity prizes the seamless, the instant, the replaceable. Antiques, by contrast, are deep, rich, and strong, flawed in ways that make them priceless: a nick here, a missing piece there. But each imperfection adds...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/12/beauty_flaw_why_gen_z_reclaiming_family_faith_154026.html</link>
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						<author>Lisa Rue</author><category>Lisa Rue</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/12/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:16:44 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/714419_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Why the GOP&rsquo;s Hispanic Reset Can Happen and Why It Matters Now]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Ignore the noise from the legacy media and the attacks from the radical left. The reality on the ground tells a very different story, one Republicans would be wise to fully embrace.
As the November 2026 midterm elections approach, Hispanics face a clear and consequential choice: Continue the economic and cultural turnaround led by President Donald J. Trump or return power to those on the radical left who drove up costs, weakened communities, and left working families behind. But this moment is about more than a single election. It is about a historic opportunity, a genuine Hispanic...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/10/why_the_gops_hispanic_reset_can_happen_and_why_it_matters_now_154021.html</link>
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						<author>Jorge Martinez</author><category>Jorge Martinez</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/10/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:02:10 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/66/669996_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ 39 Days: Too Much or Not Enough?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Will the U.S.-Iran war turn out to have been the 39-day war, following the locution of the 12-day Israel-Iran war of June 2025?
The markets, as this is written, seem to think so. Asian stock markets were up Wednesday morning after President Donald Trump's ceasefire announcement and, hours later, so were European markets. U.S. markets had rebounded from initial losses on Tuesday.
The political marketplace was less steady. "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again," Trump posted on Truth Social at 8:06 a.m. EDT Tuesday. "I don't want that to happen," he reassured...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/10/39_days_too_much_or_not_enough_154023.html</link>
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						<author>Michael Barone</author><category>Michael Barone</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/10/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:03:13 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/714305_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Artemis II Mission Offers Inspiring Unity for a Deeply Divided Nation]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ National confidence, unfortunately, is in short supply these days. In this season of springtime renewal, Americans would do well to look up -- literally. Artemis II, NASA's first meaningful manned space mission in over a half-century, has taken the nation by storm this month. In so doing, it has provided a timely reminder of what a great nation, acting with confidence and clarity of purpose, can still achieve.
Public polling confirms that Americans are a largely pessimistic lot. Our politics are fractured, our institutions mistrusted, and our birth and marriage rates have plummeted. Hope once...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/10/artemis_ii_mission_offers_inspiring_unity_for_a_deeply_divided_nation_154024.html</link>
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						<author>Josh Hammer</author><category>Josh Hammer</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/10/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:02:31 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/714330_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump&#039;s Critics, Threats Abroad and Decades of Precedent]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The Left and some on the Right went crazy over President Donald Trump's recent tweet.
He warned that if the Iranian regime did not cease blocking the international Strait of Hormuz, he would hit its dual military-civilian infrastructure. He promised that "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again."
Trump may have used sloppy nouns.
But he obviously meant that the murderous civilization/culture of radical Iranian theocratic Islam would cease to exist and won't come back, once its power plants and transportation systems central to the regime were cut off.
Why do we...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/10/trumps_critics_ignoring_decades_of_precedent.html</link>
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						<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author><category>Victor Davis Hanson</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/10/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:07:14 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/713979_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Dana Bash Redefines CNN&#039;s Democrat Spin as &#039;Objective Reporting&#039;]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ News consumer, beware: journalists are trying to redefine what "objective" means. They think objectivity is for losers who don't have the guts to stand up for "the right side of history."
Take CNN, which brands itself as an anti-Trump outfit. In an interview with CNN host Dana Bash for Modern Luxury magazine, writer Michael McCarthy summarized: "Where once the journalistic mandate was often framed as presenting opposing viewpoints and allowing the audience to decide, Bash argues that such symmetry no longer suffices." Forget "symmetry." Imbalance is in.
Bash argued that objective reporting...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/10/dana_bash_redefines_cnns_democrat_spin_as_objective_reporting_154022.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/10/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:03:40 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/714327_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Welfare Loophole That Lets Millionaires Get Food Stamps]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Rob Undersander is a millionaire. He also received taxpayer-funded food stamps. His story illustrates an absurd - and intentional - loophole in America's welfare system that taxpayers need closed immediately.
Rob applied for food stamps in 2016. A Minnesota resident, he clearly exceeded the program's asset limits. While he was not told in the application process, he was likely deemed eligible to receive a brochure on other welfare services, which under state policy allowed him to receive food stamps. Three weeks later, his first food-stamp benefits arrived in the mail. The taxpayer cash...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/09/welfare_loophole_that_lets_millionaires_get_food_stamps_154018.html</link>
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						<author>Alli Fick &amp; Liesel Crocker</author><category>Alli Fick &amp; Liesel Crocker</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/09/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:01:21 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/714189_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ This Is What a World Superpower Looks Like]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ America is living through a moment difficult to describe without sounding a little unhinged.
But here goes: We are watching the United States do things that only the United States can do.
In the span of a few days, Americans have watched astronauts push farther into space than any human beings in history, while U.S. forces execute military operations so precise and technologically overwhelming that they look like something written for a Hollywood script. Pilots are being rescued in missions that resemble "Mission: Impossible." Terrorists are being eliminated with the kind of targeted strikes...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/09/this_is_what_a_world_superpower_looks_like.html</link>
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						<author>Ben Shapiro</author><category>Ben Shapiro</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/09/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:45:13 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/714156_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Two-Week Window for Iran]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ One of the many faults with today's Democratic party is they don't know how to win. They are defeatists. They find themselves on the wrong side of all kinds of 80-20 issues, like open borders, defending illegal criminals, waste, fraud, and abuse corruption, tax hikes, and men in women's locker rooms. Now, here they go once again badmouthing President Trump's tremendous victory in Operation Epic Fury, that absolutely crushed Iran in only 38 days.
These defeatist Democrats now want to limit the commander in chief's foreign policy powers, at almost exactly the moment where Mr. Trump, and our...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/09/two-week_window_for_iran.html</link>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/09/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:05:05 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/714034_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump Needs a Legal General, Not Just an Attorney General]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Pam Bondi was not the attorney general President Trump needed, although she was a welcome and significant improvement over Matt Gaetz, Trump's first (and truly awful) pick. The president needs more than what he's sought so far to head the Justice Department.
Yes, Trump needs someone who's committed to the success of his presidency and who has already earned the president's trust.
Yes, he needs someone who won't wilt under the scorching blasts from the president's legions of haters.
Yes, the president needs someone who will work to roll back the leftward tilt in the law generally and in the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/08/trump_needs_a_legal_general_not_just_an_attorney_general_154017.html</link>
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						<author>Richard Porter</author><category>Richard Porter</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/08/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:03:00 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/714118_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Virginia: A New Extreme in Gerrymandering]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ This year's midterm elections aren't just about who wins in November; they're about who wins fights over gerrymandering taking place right now.
Nowhere is the battle fiercer than in Virginia, a state where voters just six years ago approved a constitutional amendment to take partisanship out of congressional redistricting.
Now Democrats want to make an exception to the rule Virginia voters approved by a nearly two-thirds majority in 2020:
They want this year's congressional map to be drawn up by their own state legislators, erasing the districts set up by the bipartisan board established by...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/07/virginia_a_new_extreme_in_gerrymandering_154016.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel McCarthy</author><category>Daniel McCarthy</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/07/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 04:03:19 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/712048_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ How &lsquo;Giant&rsquo; Reopens the Question of Roald Dahl]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Of course you walk into Broadway's Music Box Theater to see "Giant" knowing that you are going to see that nice John Lithgow in a show about children's author Roald Dahl's howling antisemitism; at these prices, everyone who is there very much wants to be. Yet there are so many little gasps of surprise from the audience that you'd have sworn we did not know anything.
And that's how antisemitism itself works, isn't it? 
We don't know anyone who feels like that, and yet antisemitic hate crimes in the U.S. broke records again last year. (They're also up in New York City so far this year. I tried...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/07/how_giant_reopens_the_question_of_roald_dahl_154015.html</link>
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						<author>Melinda Henneberger</author><category>Melinda Henneberger</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/07/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 04:03:39 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/714002_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Is Missouri v. Biden Really a Victory for Free Speech?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Free speech advocates are elated by the consent decree settling Missouri v. Biden. Proclaiming victory, the plaintiffs and First Amendment defenders lauded the outcome as an "historic" milestone (see here, here, and here).
Are they right to see it this way? At the risk of raining on the parade, I respectfully dissent from the conventional wisdom.
Missouri v. Biden (also known as Murthy v. Missouri) combined lawsuits filed by the attorneys general of Louisiana and Missouri with claims of several leading health care professionals. The compelling and mostly unrefuted evidence showed that the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/06/is_missouri_v_biden_really_a_victory_for_free_speech_154014.html</link>
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						<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author><category>Kenin M. Spivak</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/06/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:36:49 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/64/645003_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Virginia Democrats&rsquo; Proposed Gerrymander is a &lsquo;Span-amander&rsquo;]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Only an April 21 state referendum now stands between Virginia and America's most egregious gerrymander. Following Abigail Spanberger's 2025 gubernatorial victory, Virginia Democrats completely control the legislative process and want to use it to replace the state's current bipartisan congressional district map with their own. The result is intended to enlarge Democrats' current 6-5 majority to 10-1.
Call their intended creation a "Span-amander."
The term "gerrymander" comes from Founding Father Elbridge Gerry. America's fifth vice president, Gerry was also governor of Massachusetts in 1812...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/06/virginia_democrats_proposed_gerrymander_is_a_span-amander__154012.html</link>
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						<author>J.T. Young</author><category>J.T. Young</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/06/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:37:11 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/713859_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ How Iran Put the World in a Straitjacket]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Americans like to think that their lives are shaped by elections, legislation, and the decisions of their elected leaders in Washington.
Lately, they are being shaped by a 21-mile-wide strip of water half a world away.
The Strait of Hormuz - the narrow passage connecting the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman and the broader Indian Ocean - has become the most powerful "legislative body" affecting the American economy. Roughly a fifth of the world's oil supply flows through it. When that flow is threatened, prices spike. When prices spike, Americans pay - at the pump, at the grocery store, and...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/06/how_iran_put_the_world_in_a_straitjacket_154011.html</link>
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						<author>Frank Miele</author><category>Frank Miele</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/06/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:37:33 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/712055_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Why Military Bases Should Never Have Been Gun-Free Zones]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ It may sound hard to believe, but except for a very limited group of personnel, the military has treated its bases as gun-free zones. Until Thursday, only designated security forces - such as military police - could carry firearms while on duty. Commanders punished any other soldier caught carrying a weapon severely, with penalties ranging from rank reduction and forfeiture of pay to court-martial, dishonorable discharge, criminal conviction, and even imprisonment.
That changed with a statement from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
"Before today, it was virtually impossible. Most people...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/04/why_military_bases_should_never_have_been_gun-free_zones_154013.html</link>
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						<author>John R. Lott Jr.</author><category>John R. Lott Jr.</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/04/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:41:15 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/713860_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ California High School Reverses Suspension Over Pro-ICE Flyer]]></title>
											<subtitle></subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ A California school district has expunged a high school junior's record nearly two months after she was suspended for posting pro-ICE flyers, according to a nonprofit representing the student.
The district decided to clear the student's record of any wrongdoing after outrage over the suspension went viral on social media, a free-speech rights organization contacted the district on the school's behalf, and RealClearPolitics reached out to the district for comment.
On Feb. 6, hundreds of students at San Diego's Torrey Pines High School held a mid-school-day walkout to protest ICE and U.S....]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/03/california_high_school_reverses_suspension_over_pro-ice_flyer_154010.html</link>
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						<author>Susan Crabtree</author><category>Susan Crabtree</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/03/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:00:30 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/713853_1_.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Good Information Is Hard To Find]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Barack Obama pinpointed a central conflict in American politics back in 2004 while talking with a group of Google executives, "Many people - they're just misinformed," he said. "They just don't have enough information, or they're not professionals at sorting out all the information that's out there, and so our political process gets skewed."
Information overload is a bad problem, but the future U.S. president's seemingly anodyne solution was even worse. "If you give them good information, their instincts are good and they will make good decisions. And the president has the bully pulpit to...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/03/good_information_is_hard_to_find_154005.html</link>
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						<author>J. Peder Zane</author><category>J. Peder Zane</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/03/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 05:45:12 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/713738_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ A Foolish NATO Was a Big Loser in the Iran War]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ NATO members are not legally required to join any member's military operations that are not formally sanctioned by the alliance or not aimed at protecting the homelands of the membership.
But they often do just that.
Some NATO members joined the Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq on the theory that, in the post-9/11 environment, the Taliban and Saddam Hussein were dangers to all Western security.
They followed the precedent set by America's 1999 intervention in the distant Balkans, leading a three-month NATO campaign to dismantle Slobodan Milosevi 's often bloody ambitions of a Greater Serbia....]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/03/a_foolish_nato_was_a_big_loser_in_the_iran_war_154008.html</link>
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						<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author><category>Victor Davis Hanson</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/03/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 05:45:53 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/713786_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Sudden Political Star of Trump II: Marco Rubio]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ "White House deploys Marco Rubio to clarify messaging about Iran conflict." So reads the headline on the front page of the Washington Examiner's website in the early hours of April 1, the third month of U.S. military operations against Iran, which have been taking place since Feb. 28.
That prominence was overtaken as it was announced that President Donald Trump would address the nation on the war on Wednesday night. But it's still worth noting and could turn out to be more significant as the end of the second Trump term comes into view.
Rubio's video making the case for the Iran offensive is...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/03/the_sudden_political_star_of_trump_ii_marco_rubio_154007.html</link>
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						<author>Michael Barone</author><category>Michael Barone</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/03/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 05:45:32 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/713785_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Jim Acosta Whines Trump Is &#039;Winning&#039; His War on the Press]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Don't look now, but FCC Chairman Brendan Carr and Jim Acosta agree on something: President Donald Trump is "winning" his effort to reshape the media landscape in his second term.
Appearing on the "Power Lines" podcast with his fellow ardent leftists Oliver Darcy and Jon Passantino, Acosta glumly proclaimed, "I don't think it takes a rocket scientist to figure out that Donald Trump is winning in his, you know, quest to reshape the media in this country that he's cracked the code on how to hurt the press in the U.S."
Acosta recently testified at a Democrat pseudo-hearing before Sen. Adam Schiff...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/03/jim_acosta_whines_trump_is_winning_his_war_on_the_press_154006.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/03/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 05:46:11 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/713784_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Abundant Happiness]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ It's known as the Easterlin Paradox.
Though rising wealth at early stages in the lives of individuals and countries fosters greater happiness, perpetually rising wealth does not make individuals or countries perpetually happier. At some point, economics Professor Richard Easterlin of the University of Pennsylvania and USC discovered, more wealth engenders less happiness.
This paradox may be best illustrated with U.S. data. Total U.S. household wealth exceeded $182 trillion at the end of 2025, up 466% from an inflation-adjusted $39 trillion in 1980. Yet in 1980, 82% of Americans described...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/02/abundant_happiness_154000.html</link>
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						<author>Terrence Keeley</author><category>Terrence Keeley</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/02/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:18:37 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/713590_1_.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump Is Right: Congress Should Pass Credit Card Competition Act]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ While voters are focused on a vast array of issues these days, nothing seems to shake Americans' concerns with inflation and affordability. That's why President Trump's recent endorsement of the Credit Card Competition Act deserves the utmost attention from everyday consumers and, more importantly, their representatives in Congress. The president's support shows he is critically aware of the damage done by exorbitant credit card swipe fees as they drive up the price of nearly all goods and services.
That's because swipe fees are charged as a percentage of a total transaction amount, averaging...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/02/trump_is_right_congress_should_pass_credit_card_competition_act_154001.html</link>
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						<author>Randi Thompson</author><category>Randi Thompson</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/02/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:18:55 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/713614_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ In Today&#039;s NBA, Beliefs Can Be a Firing Offense]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ There are plenty of things an NBA player can do and still keep his job.
League history is littered with examples: players involved in off-court scandals, arrests, even allegations of serious violence. Time and again, teams and the league have found ways to look past behavior that, in most professions, would be career-ending.
But there appears to be one line that cannot be crossed -- especially during Holy Week.
That line, it seems, is expressing a traditional religious belief.
Enter Jaden Ivey.
The former Purdue standout was the fifth overall pick in the 2022 NBA draft, a rising young guard...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/02/in_todays_nba_beliefs_can_be_a_firing_offense_154003.html</link>
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						<author>Ben Shapiro</author><category>Ben Shapiro</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/02/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:18:19 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/713582_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Et Tu, World Bank? Industrial Policy on the International Scene]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The World Bank recently published a 276-page report supporting the idea that industrial policy belongs "in the national policy toolkit of all countries." This is a significant reversal for an institution that spent decades pushing developing nations toward fiscal discipline, open trade and market liberalization. When the World Bank seems more interested in engaging with right- and left-wing populism than in promoting good economics, it tells you a lot about the era in which we live.
Industrial policy refers to government officials channeling resources to particular industries that the market...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/02/et_tu_world_bank_industrial_policy_on_the_international_scene_154002.html</link>
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						<author>Veronique de Rugy</author><category>Veronique de Rugy</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/02/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:19:15 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/66/662503_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ President Should Follow His Instincts, Not the Energy Markets]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Several days ago, President Donald Trump threatened to strike Iranian power plants if free transit wasn't allowed through the Strait of Hormuz. That potent threat was subsequently delayed with a new deadline of April 6, although new threats may make strikes against energy targets more imminent. Meanwhile, American ground forces continue to converge on the Middle East, and a threat of boots-on-the-ground is becoming more real and more concerning. It is a strategy fraught with risk.
Thus far, the United States has gone out of its way to avoid striking energy-related targets in Iran. Concerns...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/01/president_should_follow_his_instincts_not_the_energy_markets_153998.html</link>
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						<author>John Teichert</author><category>John Teichert</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/01/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 05:13:24 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/713512_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Elitist &#039;Public&#039; Broadcasting Defines &#039;Viewpoint Discrimination&#039;]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The newspapers routinely play Hide the Ideology when liberal judges are resisting President Donald Trump. They'll write "a federal judge" ruled against Trump and not tell consumers that the judge is a liberal. Liberals are always painted as nonpartisans when they act like partisans.
That's the case with Obama-appointed judge (and former Clinton Justice Department attorney) Randolph Moss, who mysteriously found it was a violation of the First Amendment and "viewpoint discrimination" for Trump to push defunding of PBS and NPR in an executive order.
"The message is clear: NPR and PBS need not...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/01/elitist_public_broadcasting_defines_viewpoint_discrimination_153999.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2026/04</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>04/01/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 05:13:04 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/64/647790_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Hell No, We Won&rsquo;t Go!: A Florida Man&rsquo;s Response to NY&rsquo;s Gov. Hochul]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has a Florida problem. Facing a ballooning budget deficit and an ever-narrowing lead in her reelection bid against Republican candidate Bruce Blakeman, Nassau County's Trump-endorsed executive, the Sunshine State is draining cash from her coffers and has been for years. "I need people who are high-net worth to support the generous social programs that we want to have in our state," she told a Politico interviewer last week, musing that "maybe the first step should be to go down to Palm Beach and see who we can bring back home because our tax base has been...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/31/hell_no_we_wont_go_a_florida_mans_response_to_nys_gov_hochul_153995.html</link>
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						<author>Paul du Quenoy</author><category>Paul du Quenoy</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/31/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 04:57:14 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/713463_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ When Birthright Citizenship Goes Wrong]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Get ready for the next Roe v. Wade -- only this time the Supreme Court decision that threatens to split the country isn't about abortion; it's about "birthright citizenship."
Trump v. Barbara is before the Court this week, and with it comes the very question of who is an American.
On his first day back in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order clarifying that the children of illegal immigrants or temporary residents aren't American citizens just by virtue of being born on American soil.
People born here to at least one citizen parent are automatically citizens, and Trump's...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/31/when_birthright_citizenship_goes_wrong_153996.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel McCarthy</author><category>Daniel McCarthy</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/31/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 04:57:38 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/68/686738_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Let&#039;s Kill Cancer]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ There are few things in life more terrifying than a cancer diagnosis, as any victim of this horrible disease will tell you.
So let's kill cancer before it kills us.
This crusade could be similar in size and scope to our national commitments to developing a polio vaccine in the 1950s and the COVID-19 vaccine in 2020-21, both of which saved millions of lives.
We know this is not an impossible dream. Over the past four decades, we've made stunning progress in cutting death rates of many forms of cancer in half. But there is still a long way to go, especially in eliminating death from pancreatic...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/31/lets_kill_cancer_153997.html</link>
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						<author>Stephen Moore</author><category>Stephen Moore</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/31/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 04:50:18 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/713469_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Why Small Business Matters More as Iran Drives Costs Higher]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The Iran conflict is already pushing costs higher across the U.S. economy. Rising oil prices are increasing fuel, transportation, and logistics expenses, and those increases are moving quickly through supply chains. For businesses, this is not a distant geopolitical development; it is a direct increase in operating costs that compresses margins and forces more cautious decision-making.
This is how inflationary pressure re-emerges - not from excess demand, but from rising input costs. As energy and transportation expenses increase, manufacturers pay more to move goods, distributors absorb...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/31/why_small_business_matters_more_as_iran_drives_costs_higher_153994.html</link>
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						<author>Dan Varroney</author><category>Dan Varroney</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/31/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 04:54:09 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/713462_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Why the SAFE Bet Act Could Increase the Illegal Gambling Market]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ With March Madness underway and billions of dollars being legally wagered across the country, Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Rep. Paul Tonko chose this moment to reintroduce the SAFE Bet Act, a proposal that remains in a very early stage of the legislative process, having only been referred to committee so far.
The stated goal is to protect consumers from addiction and financial harm, but the bill could end up pushing those bets underground instead.
The SAFE Bet Act seeks to establish federal standards for legal sports betting, including strict limits on advertising during live sporting events,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/28/why_the_safe_bet_act_could_increase_the_illegal_gambling_market_153992.html</link>
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						<author>Claudia Nunes</author><category>Claudia Nunes</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/28/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 05:34:25 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/64/643937_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ As War Rages vs. Iran, Time for Peace in Ukraine]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ As the world understandably focuses on the Middle East, the Russia-Ukraine war shifts to a fulcrum moment. This new juncture provides President Trump with an opportunity to prove that he is still, indeed, a president for peace. He can reaffirm to his base, and to the world, that he is the negotiator-in-chief who brokers diplomatic solutions across the globe, including the historic Abraham Accords.
Regarding the Trump base, polling shows that only 38% of Republican voters now believe that the war vs. Iran will conclude in the days or weeks to come. Moreover, 37% of GOP voters oppose any ground...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/28/as_war_rages_vs_iran_time_for_peace_in_ukraine_153993.html</link>
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						<author>Steve Cortes</author><category>Steve Cortes</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/28/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 05:34:03 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/713261_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Time for a Filibuster Carve-Out for Terrorism]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ With America's public safety threatened, a limited Senate filibuster "carve-out" must be considered. Changes have been made to the filibuster in the past; none of their justifications rose to today's level of protecting Americans from terrorist attack. Such an alteration would be a sadly necessary change to Senate rules, while still preserving the filibuster.  
Hardly hypothetical, such attacks have undoubtedly already occurred recently. 
One occurred in Austin, Texas, on March 1, when a man wearing a "Property of Allah" hoodie and a T-shirt with the Iranian flag shot and killed three people...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/27/time_for_a_filibuster_carve-out_for_terrorism_153987.html</link>
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						<author>J.T. Young</author><category>J.T. Young</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/27/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 04:40:25 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/713171_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ PBS Smears All Republicans as &#039;White With Fear&#039;]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ One of the most preposterous claims from liberals is that somehow, conservatives uniquely try to win elections by using "fear," "hate" and "division," especially on race and religion. Democrats never use any divisive, negative tactics when trying to motivate voters. It's like they've never heard Chuck Schumer saying a Republican voter-ID bill is "Jim Crow 2.0."
On March 24, PBS stations debuted a long negative campaign commercial disguised as a documentary titled "White With Fear," on how "America's conservative political machine uses racial fault lines to gain power." The 85-minute film...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/27/pbs_smears_all_republicans_as_white_with_fear_153988.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/27/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 04:39:13 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/654091_1_.png" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump&#039;s Iran Deal Must Be Nothing Like Obama&#039;s]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ President Donald Trump recently announced that he's postponing strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure for five days to negotiate a ceasefire. "I think it could very well end up being a very good deal for everybody," he told journalists.
It's unclear who exactly the White House is bargaining with or whether those officials will have the power to implement an agreement. We do, however, know what a "good deal" looks like, which is, more or less, everything former President Barack Obama's Iran deal wasn't.
A popular talking point among left-wing punditry maintains that Trump is seeking an...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/27/trumps_iran_deal_must_be_nothing_like_obamas_153989.html</link>
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						<author>David Harsanyi</author><category>David Harsanyi</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/27/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 04:38:52 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/713121_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Talks With Iran Continue, Deadline Extended to April 6]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ So, after today's Cabinet meeting and intense discussions with envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, as well as Vice President Vance, President Trump decided that the talks are going well enough so he's going to extend Friday's deadline to a week from Monday, which will be April 6 at 8 P.M. 
"As per Iranian Government request," Mr. Trump said, "please let this statement serve to represent that I am pausing the period of Energy Plant destruction by 10 Days to Monday, April 6, 2026, at 8 P.M., Eastern Time." 
He added that "talks are ongoing and, despite erroneous statements to the contrary...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/27/talks_with_iran_continue_deadline_extended_to_april_6.html</link>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/27/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:58:02 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/713153_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ A Consent Decree for Freedom of Speech]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The plaintiffs in Missouri v. Biden have won and received a court order vindicating their free speech rights. The dire predictions after the Supreme Court found insufficient standing to support a preliminary injunction in Murthy v. Missouri have failed to materialize. On March 25, the district court in Louisiana signed a consent decree in Missouri v. Biden admitting that the government wrongfully squelched Americans' speech for years by strong-arming social media companies to eliminate disfavored speech. The decree allows New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) plaintiffs Jill Hines and Aaron...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/27/a_consent_decree_for_freedom_speech_153985.html</link>
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						<author>John Vecchione</author><category>John Vecchione</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/27/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:59:21 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/713143_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Patients Need Trump To Go Further With Higher Ed Reform]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ A year ago, President Trump signed one of his most important executive orders. He called out the decline of higher education, where merit and excellence have given way to indoctrination in "diversity, equity, and inclusion." He then targeted the accreditors who have actively forced this decline in learning on colleges and universities. The president's ultimate goal was to refocus higher education on actual education that strengthens our country.
Some accreditors that oversee health-focused colleges quickly responded by dropping their requirements on DEI. But a year later, others continue to...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/27/patients_need_trump_to_go_further_with_higher_ed_reform_153982.html</link>
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						<author>Kurt Miceli</author><category>Kurt Miceli</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/27/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 04:40:07 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/713130_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Conversation About Women That We Don&rsquo;t Need To Have]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Conservatives want to support healthy family formation. But that can't require sacrificing meritocracy or the very concept of a limited government. 
At the Heritage Foundation last week, a panel of conservative women met to discuss women's roles and how to encourage and support young mothers. The room was filled with young women, including mothers caring for fussing babies while also intently listening to the conversation. Decades of radical feminists demonized motherhood as a waste of women's intellect, the panel explained. Women should reject this and recognize the profound value mothers...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/27/the_conversation_about_women_that_we_dont_need_to_have_153983.html</link>
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						<author>Carrie Lukas</author><category>Carrie Lukas</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/27/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 04:39:45 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/61/613420_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Assisted Suicide of Lofty State and Local Taxes]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ We get the government we choose to elect, hence the government we deserve. Voting for ever-higher punitive taxes on the rich is arguably a form of civic suicide. Consider that a wealthy New Yorker can get a raise of almost 40% just by moving. That's right. If moving eliminates a 14.8% top state and local tax rate, our top-tier taxpayer gets a 36% raise, not a 14.8% raise, by leaving. It's doubtful if any of our city and state leaders have done this math, but it's shocking. Mamdani wants to take the top rate up another 2%, if not by the state then by the city, which would mean that our rich...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/26/the_assisted_suicide_of_lofty_state_and_local_taxes_153980.html</link>
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						<author>Rob Arnott</author><category>Rob Arnott</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/26/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 05:07:37 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/713053_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Passover Reminds Us Not To Rely on Miracles for Safety]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ In just a few days, the Jewish community will sit around the Seder table and retell the story of our people's journey from slavery to freedom, a story often defined by miracles. But there is a detail in that story that is often overlooked. The Israelites did not simply wait for a miracle to be saved. Before the final plague, they were commanded to act, marking their doorposts as a sign of protection. Even in that moment, they were active participants in their own safety.
Passover does not just tell a story of miracles. It reminds us that protection requires action, not only in how we secure...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/25/passover_reminds_us_not_to_rely_on_miracles_for_safety_153975.html</link>
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						<author>Sydney Altfield</author><category>Sydney Altfield</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/25/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:06:45 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/60/608144_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ America&rsquo;s 0 Trillion Blind Spot]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ On March 17, 2026, the U.S. Department of the Treasury quietly released the federal government's fiscal year 2025 financial report. Buried in its tables is a number that should dominate our national conversation - but doesn't: Total federal obligations now stand at $130.12 trillion.
That figure is not a rounding error or a political talking point. It is derived from the government's own accounting - combining the reported negative net position (driven largely by bonded debt) with the present value of projected shortfalls in major social insurance programs. Yet public debate continues to...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/25/americas_130_trillion_blind_spot_153976.html</link>
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						<author>Vince Kolber</author><category>Vince Kolber</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/25/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:07:02 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/712962_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Don&#039;t Count Ballots After Election Day]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ This week the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that hinges on the meaning of Election Day -- and it's got Democrats sweating.
The case, Watson v. Republican National Committee, challenges a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots received long after Election Day to be counted.
It's one of 14 states, including populous ones like California and New York, that allows a post-Election Day "grace period" (five business days in Mississippi but longer elsewhere) for ballots to be returned.
That law is being challenged by the RNC.
Taking a states' rights stance, Mississippi's...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/25/dont_count_ballots_after_election_day_153977.html</link>
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						<author>Betsy McCaughey</author><category>Betsy McCaughey</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/25/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:06:26 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/712967_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Sheridan Gorman&rsquo;s Murder&mdash;and Chicago&rsquo;s Silence]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The cold-blooded execution of Loyola University freshman Sheridan Gorman last week has sparked heartbreak and outrage across the country - including condemnation by President Donald Trump outside Air Force One on Monday morning - as yet another American family is shattered by an illegal immigrant allowed into the country during the Biden administration.
At approximately 1:15 a.m. on March 19, Gorman, who is from New York state, and a group of friends were walking on a pier about a mile from Loyola's Chicago campus when a masked man confronted the group, who were reportedly at the beach to see...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/24/sheridan_gormans_murderand_chicagos_silence_153971.html</link>
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						<author>Julie Kelly</author><category>Julie Kelly</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/24/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 06:43:25 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/712835_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Controlling the Money Is Crucial in an Iran Deal]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ In dramatic fashion, President Trump announced American negotiations with at least one senior Iranian official, only a day after he warned that United States forces would knock out Iranian power plants throughout the country.
The stock market immediately surged and oil prices fell.
There are a number of possible players involved in these talks, but sources tell me that there are certainly talks going on between the American team and Iran, and perhaps other intermediators as well.
So we'll wait and see how this goes.
The president today said that Iran will not have a nuclear weapon and will...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/24/controlling_the_money_is_crucial_in_an_iran_deal_153974.html</link>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/24/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:45:12 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/712913_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Pittsburgh Public Schools Earns Poor Marks for NFL Draft Closure]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ PITTSBURGH -- Pittsburgh Public Schools announced this week that students will be learning from home the day before and during the NFL draft, scheduled in the city for April 23-25. The announcement has parents, caregivers and students questioning the decision that affects all of their lives.
In an email to district staff, Superintendent Wayne Walters said students will shift to remote learning for three days to minimize disruption and keep the focus on instruction. The NFL draft, taking place in downtown Pittsburgh, is expected to draw as many as 700,000 visitors, according to the Pittsburgh...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/24/pittsburgh_public_schools_earns_poor_marks_for_nfl_draft_closure_153972.html</link>
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						<author>Salena Zito</author><category>Salena Zito</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/24/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 04:16:00 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/708375_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ ICE Saves Lives -- and Air Travel]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Democrats who want to defund Immigration and Customs Enforcement aren't getting away with the political hostage-taking they're using to do it.
They're trying to hold the Transportation Security Administration's funding hostage until their demands for weakening ICE are met.
That means they're also subjecting millions of air travelers to added anxiety, and worse, as security-line wait times stretch into hours.
According to CNN, "Half the nation's busiest airports had more than a third of (TSA) agents call out Saturday."
At LaGuardia on Sunday, passengers were in line for up to three hours --...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/24/ice_saves_lives_--_and_air_travel_153973.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel McCarthy</author><category>Daniel McCarthy</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/24/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 04:15:34 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/712856_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Wisconsin AG Josh Kaul Steamrolls Democracy]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ More than 100 Trump family members, supporters, and advisors were targets of Democrats' lawfare after the 2020 presidential election, including more than a dozen Trump lawyers who were disbarred, or suffered other financially devastating discipline for giving legal advice to Trump and his campaign.
Jim Troupis is one of those lawyers. Troupis spent more than 30 years at the pinnacle of Wisconsin's legal profession before his life was turned upside down for advising Donald Trump about potential fraud in the 2020 election. The abuse began with frivolous complaints to the Wisconsin Election...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/23/wisconsin_ag_josh_kaul_steamrolls_democracy_153961.html</link>
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						<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author><category>Kenin M. Spivak</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/23/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:31:36 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/712554_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump Wants an Iran Deal. Nukes Alone Won&rsquo;t Cut It.]]></title>
											<subtitle>ANALYSIS</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Twenty-five days into Operation Epic Fury, it looks like a deal may be around the corner - though that remains up in the air at time of writing. Overnight, President Trump took to Truth Social to announce that the United States and Iran have been holding what he described as "very good and productive conversations" toward a "complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East." He ordered the Department of War to postpone any strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure for five days, and presented this as Tehran's final opportunity to "end its threats."
The framework that it has...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/23/trump_wants_an_iran_deal_nukes_alone_wont_cut_it_153970.html</link>
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						<author>Kyle Moran</author><category>Kyle Moran</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/23/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Imminent Threat? Iran Was Existential Threat]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Politics, they say, makes strange bedfellows. War apparently makes even stranger enemies.
Donald Trump's decision to fulfill the promise of eight American presidents since 1979 to bring justice to the Iranian terror-sponsoring regime has not just elicited predictable outrage on the left, it has ripped apart the uneasy conservative alliance which brought Trump back to power last year.
The resignation last week of Joe Kent as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center brought into sharp focus the deep divide between Trump and many of those who supported him on the false assumption...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/23/imminent_threat_iran_was_existential_threat_153967.html</link>
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						<author>Frank Miele</author><category>Frank Miele</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/23/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:31:57 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/712641_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ It&#039;s Time To Force a Talking Filibuster on National Voter ID]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ In 2024, the public delivered a resounding mandate to President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans to fix our country. Chief among those problems: Ensure we never have a repeat of the disastrous 2020 election.
The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or SAVE America Act, addresses the most important issue plaguing American elections-the absence of a nationwide requirement that voters show ID before casting a ballot. Just as important is the bill's requirement that states disclose their voter rolls with the Department of Homeland Security to identify and remove noncitizens from...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/21/its_time_to_force_a_talking_filibuster_on_national_voter_id_153968.html</link>
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						<author>Doug Truax</author><category>Doug Truax</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/21/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:55:20 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/712376_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The GOP&rsquo;s Latino Reset Can Happen Now]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ It may seem like a distant memory, but the new year rang in with an image that echoed across both English and Spanish-speaking worlds: that of American armed forces executing the stunning capture of Venezuelan despot Nicolas Maduro. From New York to Orlando, people took to the streets in support of President Trump's actions. Celebrations of Venezuelans were met at times by counter-protestors, many of them white, denouncing the U.S. military operation and voicing tacit support for the Maduro regime.
Within the key Hispanic voter electorate, surveys showed overwhelming approval of the actions....]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/20/the_gops_latino_reset_can_happen_now_153959.html</link>
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						<author>Albert Eisenberg</author><category>Albert Eisenberg</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/20/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 06:17:16 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/712548_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The War Over the War]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ I understand why FCC Chair Brendan Carr is threatening the legacy media.
Coverage of the Iran conflict, as with most every other political issue, has become another case study in Trump Derangement Syndrome. War is always messy and mostly unpredictable; the story of success and setback painted in tragedy. As in life, it is often more useful to identify tomorrow's potential pitfalls than to celebrate today's victory.
Despite Jake Tapper's claim, CNN and all the other usual suspects are doing far more than simply asking the hard questions, demanding accountability. They are an oppositional force...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/20/the_war_over_the_war_153962.html</link>
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						<author>J. Peder Zane</author><category>J. Peder Zane</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/20/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 06:18:24 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/712562_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Reconciliation Is the Strategy To Pass the SAVE America Act]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Americans have been clear. They want secure elections, consistent standards, and confidence that only citizens are voting in federal elections. That mandate was not subtle in 2024. It was decisive.
President Donald Trump has made election integrity a cornerstone of his agenda, and the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, the SAVE America Act, is central to delivering on that promise. The bill requires proof of citizenship for federal voter registration and ensures that states verify eligibility using existing federal databases. It is a practical reform grounded in a simple principle:...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/20/reconciliation_is_the_strategy_to_pass_the_save_act_153963.html</link>
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						<author>Gerrick Wilkins</author><category>Gerrick Wilkins</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/20/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 07:23:50 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/712584_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Brian Stelter&#039;s Stilted Take on Trump Somehow Ending Democracy]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ CNN's Brian Stelter exemplifies the media pattern of constantly claiming Donald Trump is an existential threat to democracy that must be curbed. The comedy never ends. Trump was supposedly going to end democracy throughout his first term, and the fact that democracy never ended never slows Stelter & Co. down.
On March 18, Stelter played up a new report out of Sweden that America is "rapidly autocratizing" in Trump's second term. It looks like the Democrats are going to try to make "End of Democracy" a campaign issue again in the midterms, even though it accomplished nothing in 2024. But...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/20/brian_stelters_stilted_take_on_trump_somehow_ending_democracy_153964.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/20/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 06:19:57 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/64/648732_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Uncertainty Remains, After 20 Days of War With Iran]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Four years and 25 days. Twenty days. There's a huge difference between those two numbers. The first number -- 1,486 days altogether -- is the length of time since Russian troops crossed the Ukraine border on Feb. 22, 2022, and headed for Kyiv. The second number -- just 20 days -- is the number of days since U.S. and Israeli forces on Feb. 28 began bombing strategic targets in Iran.
The two attacks have this in common: Their initial responses were far different from what many experts, in the United States and beyond, expected and predicted.
Back in 2022, the conventional wisdom in many...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/20/uncertainty_remains_after_20_days_of_war_with_iran_153965.html</link>
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						<author>Michael Barone</author><category>Michael Barone</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/20/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 06:19:03 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/712588_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Our New Ungracious Immigrants]]></title>
											<subtitle></subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Silicon Valley was energized by legal immigrants from all over the world who founded eBay, Google, Nvidia, SpaceX, Stripe, Sun Microsystems, Tesla, Yahoo, and a host of others.
The Greek American Elia Kazan's 1963 film America, America is a fictional account based on the Herculean struggle of the director's uncle to immigrate to the United States from an impoverished and hostile Turkish Anatolia.
The film summed up Americans' traditional view of immigrants: They had risked everything for the chance to reach America, and once there, became hyperpatriotic in their gratitude for the magnanimity...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/19/our_new_ungracious_immigrants_153956.html</link>
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						<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author><category>Victor Davis Hanson</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/19/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:18:21 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/712478_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ #FreeKevin]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Iran certainly is not a forever war as President Trump has said many times.
Indeed, Mr. Trump is "ending" Iran's forever war against the United States.
Yet now it looks like the Fed chairman, Jay Powell, wants to be the Fed's first forever board member.
Telling a press conference that he will remain on the Federal Reserve's board of governors until the investigation is "well and truly over." Whatever that means.
This is unwelcome news to stock markets, as the Dow fell by more than 700 points, to a new 2026 low. It fell about 300 points after Mr. Powell made his forever board member comment....]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/19/freekevin_153957.html</link>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/19/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:18:44 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/712482_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Fact vs. Fiction on Medicaid and the Wealth Tax]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ I try to be fair to people I disagree with. Emmanuel Saez -- the famous UC Berkeley economist who's considered an architect of California's proposed billionaire wealth tax -- is someone I read carefully, even when I find his income-inequality work unconvincing. So, when I say that his arguments for the wealth tax are not just biased or misleading but egregiously wrong, I'm not being careless. I mean it.
In a recent debate at Stanford University, Saez offered his central justification (apart from, you know, "billionaires are unfairly rich"): California's hospitals need it because the federal...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/19/fact_vs_fiction_on_medicaid_and_the_wealth_tax_153954.html</link>
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						<author>Veronique de Rugy</author><category>Veronique de Rugy</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/19/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:18:32 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/712476_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Iran Is Losing. What Happens Next Is Uncertain]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Don't fall for the propaganda. Iran is not holding its own in this conflict. It is being systematically dismantled.
One by one, the senior figures of the Islamic Republic have been eliminated: generals, security chiefs and regime power brokers. The country's leadership has been decapitated at the highest levels, leaving behind a hollowed-out command structure struggling to function.
Even the regime's attempts at continuity appear shaky. A successor was hastily elevated, but reports suggest instability, absence and internal disarray at the very top. Whatever facade of order Tehran hoped to...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/19/iran_is_losing_what_happens_next_is_uncertain.html</link>
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						<author>Ben Shapiro</author><category>Ben Shapiro</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/19/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:11:56 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/711098_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Election Reform Republicans Can Actually Pass]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Ever since his loss to Joe Biden in 2020, President Trump has railed against voter fraud and the need for countermeasures to prevent it. The SAVE America Act is the embodiment of these efforts. The Senate is already considering the bill; however, due to the math of the situation, Republicans face an uphill climb in making the SAVE Act law.
The SAVE America Act contains several anti-fraud measures including requiring voter ID for federal elections, requiring proof of citizenship in order to register to vote, banning mail in ballots, and requiring states to purge their voter rolls of ineligible...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/18/election_reform_republicans_can_actually_pass_153952.html</link>
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						<author>Matt Cookson</author><category>Matt Cookson</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/18/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 04:09:30 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/712336_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Stripping the Dying of Their Assets: Mamdani&#039;s Latest Proposal]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ If New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani gets his way, half of everything New Yorkers work a lifetime for -- including their homes, their businesses or farms and their savings -- could be stripped away on their deathbeds.
No more Empire State; he'd make it the Expropriation State.
Only one thing in life is certain: We all die.
Mamdani is exploiting that certainty to close what he claims is a $5.4 billion city budget gap.
More than that, he aims to undermine the foundations of American life by attacking wealth accumulation, homeownership and private property, per the radical agenda of the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/18/stripping_the_dying_of_their_assets_mamdanis_latest_proposal_153953.html</link>
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						<author>Betsy McCaughey</author><category>Betsy McCaughey</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/18/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 04:09:10 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/712149_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Will Republicans Fight for the SAVE Act&mdash;or Fold Again?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Republicans didn't win the Senate so their leaders could manage expectations. They won it to deliver results. Will Republicans leaders actually deliver? We are about to find out with the SAVE America Act.
The legislation requires proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections. That's not some fringe idea. It's the law of the land in nearly every nation in the world - and is one of the most widely supported election reforms in the United States.
A February Harvard CAPS/Harris poll found 85% of voters say only U.S. citizens should vote in American elections. The same survey found 71% support...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/17/will_republicans_fight_for_save_actor_fold_again_153947.html</link>
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						<author>Heather Higgins</author><category>Heather Higgins</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/17/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:12:36 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/708767_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Why Are Democrats Making Air Travel Worse?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Next time your flight's delayed or canceled, or you're stuck in an endless TSA line, thank a congressional Democrat.
Senate Dems have decided to make a show of their support for lawless immigration by inflicting pain on American travelers.
They've blocked funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which includes the Transportation Security Administration, even though this stunt doesn't affect the budget of the agency Democrats really want to hurt, Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
ICE already has the funding it needs -- but TSA doesn't, which means airport security workers aren't...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/17/why_are_senate_democrats_making_air_travel_worse_153951.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel McCarthy</author><category>Daniel McCarthy</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/17/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:13:06 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/712259_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump Voters Aren&#039;t Wrong&ndash;They&#039;re Just Getting Bad Answers]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ As we prepare for the midterm elections, Democratic strategists will be hard at work analyzing how best to capture voters lost to the GOP. This year, like most midterm years, they'll identify the same problem: Working-class Americans feel like the system doesn't work for them. And this year, like many years, the party will treat that feeling as something to message around rather than something to actually fix.
That's a problem. The refusal to take seriously the grievances that fuel Trumpism is one of the primary reasons Trump keeps winning. QAnon and the stolen election narrative gave the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/17/trump_voters_arent_wrongtheyre_getting_bad_answers_153948.html</link>
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						<author>Lauren K. Hall</author><category>Lauren K. Hall</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/17/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:13:39 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/712213_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Terror Threat Americans Aren&rsquo;t Supposed To Discuss]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Many commentators claim that Islam does not pose a threat of violence in the United States. Influencers such as Tucker Carlson often repeat this argument. Others, including then-President Joe Biden and FBI Director Christopher Wray, have argued that white supremacists represent the primary domestic threat.
Yet March alone saw multiple terrorist attacks carried out by Muslims. In Austin, a terrorist wore a sweatshirt reading "Property of Allah" during an attack. In New York City, bomb throwers shouted "Allahu Akbar" while throwing a homemade shrapnel bomb. At Old Dominion University, a shooter...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/17/the_terror_threat_americans_arent_supposed_to_discuss_153949.html</link>
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						<author>John R. Lott Jr.</author><category>John R. Lott Jr.</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/17/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:14:07 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/712229_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Time to Confront Islamic Terrorism]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Importing people who hate America didn't end well.
See if you can spot any similarities in these four events.
During the weekend, President Donald Trump attacked Iran, Ndiaga Diagne opened fire at a bar in Austin. He wore a "Property of Allah" sweatshirt on top of an Iranian flag shirt. He killed three people and injured more than a dozen before police shot him dead.
Diagne was a citizen of Senegal. He entered the United States in 2000 on a tourist visa and became a naturalized citizen in 2013.
On Saturday, March 7, around 20 people protested Islam outside of Gracie Mansion, the home of NYC...]]></description>
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						<author>Victor Joecks</author><category>Victor Joecks</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/17/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Vance Embraces &lsquo;Fraud Czar&rsquo; Role, Dems Plan To Make It a 2028 Liability]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Democrats began laying a trap the moment that President Trump announced during his State of the Union that Vice President JD Vance would lead a new "war on fraud," salivating at the possibility of political liability and dubbing the MAGA heir apparent the "fraud czar."
"It will be blocks of cement around his ankles," a senior Democratic official told RealClearPolitics last month after the speech to Congress. Another operative predicted that, come 2028, the new role "will be an albatross around his neck." A third liberal strategist said, "It will be incredible to watch - it's like he just...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/16/vance_embraces_fraud_czar_role_dems_plan_to_make_it_a_2028_liability_153950.html</link>
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						<author>Philip Wegmann</author><category>Philip Wegmann</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/16/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:02:53 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/712231_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Stable Rules and Standards Build Trust]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ As mayor of Farmville, Virginia, my focus is primarily on local issues. It involves paving streets, supporting our police and fire departments, helping small businesses grow, and working with colleagues to move our town forward. When people stop me at the grocery store or at a high school game, they are not talking about national political strategy. They are talking about how to make life better here in Prince Edward County.
In local government, trust is everything. At this level, trust is built on rules of procedure, a code of ethics, town code, and our town charter. Those rules provide the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/16/stable_rules_and_standards_build_trust_153945.html</link>
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						<author>Brian Vincent</author><category>Brian Vincent</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/16/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:22:57 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/712087_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Marxist Wing of the Democratic Party]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Democrats' refusal to fund the Department of Homeland Security has exceeded any hypothesis of good faith. It is an unpatriotic attack on America's frontline of defense during a time of war and potential Iranian sleeper cells, and an inexcusable burden on the department's employees.
Last week, all Senate Democrats, except John Fetterman, again voted to block funding for DHS.
Financed in part by malign foreign powers who seek to defeat the United States, radical left activists have co-opted the Democratic Party. Rep. Brad Schneider of Illinois, head of the supposedly centrist New Democrat...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/16/the_marxist_wing_of_the_democratic_party.html</link>
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						<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author><category>Kenin M. Spivak</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/16/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:22:31 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/68/688061_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ DOJ Made Right Call on Live Nation. Blue State AGs Should Follow]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Almost two years ago, I was down in New Orleans for my family's annual Jazz Fest pilgrimage, surrounded by tens of thousands of other live music fans. Although we had been a number of times in the past, 2024 was a special year because The Rolling Stones were headlining the festival. Halfway through their set, the familiar opening bars to "You Can't Always Get What You Want" belted out from the stage as we all joined Mick Jagger in singing along.
I was reminded of the Stones' memorable anthem earlier this week when the news broke that antitrust lawyers at the Department of Justice and state...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/15/doj_made_right_call_on_live_nation_blue_state_ags_should_follow_153944.html</link>
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						<author>Kevin Walling</author><category>Kevin Walling</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/15/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 04:59:32 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/711997_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Is John F. Kennedy Having a Comeback?]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ So let me get this right. After every Democrat in the House and Senate who voted against One, Big, Beautiful Bill - and therefore promoted a roughly $5 trillion tax hike - now a couple of presidential wannabees, like Senators Cory Booker and Chris Van Hollen, are surfacing plans that would end most income taxes for middle-class Americans, this according to a Wall Street Journal news story.
The two men have somewhat differing plans, but basically, as I understand it, they would be raising the standard deduction and some other credits, so the first $75,000 of income would not be taxable.
So,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/13/is_john_f_kennedy_having_a_comeback_153938.html</link>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/13/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 06:28:47 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/59/592246_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Our Long Road to War With Iran]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Until last year, for some 46 years, Iran enjoyed a North Korea-like reputation in the heart of the Middle East: always unpredictable, reckless, dangerous, inevitably to be nuclear, self-destructive, and nihilistic.
All that said, was it really ever all that formidable?
The mullahs came into power after the removal of the Shah and, subsequently, the interim secular socialists. They did so by taking American hostages, murdering opponents, executing former supporters, and transforming the most secular and modern of the Middle East Muslim nations into the most medieval that routinely hung...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/13/our_long_road_to_war_with_iran_153937.html</link>
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						<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author><category>Victor Davis Hanson</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/13/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 06:23:21 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/711732_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ What Is Victory in Operation Epic Fury?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[  Six days after the commencement of Operation Epic Fury, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to announce, in the context of the ongoing joint American-Israeli military campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran: "There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!" In the same post, the president seemed to equate such "unconditional surrender" with "the selection of a GREAT & ACCEPTABLE Leader" to lead Iran, which would enable the country to come back from the "brink of destruction" and emerge "stronger than ever."
Just three days after announcing "unconditional...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/13/what_is_victory_in_operation_epic_fury_153936.html</link>
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						<author>Josh Hammer</author><category>Josh Hammer</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/13/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 06:23:54 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/711922_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ SAVE Act Dominates Headlines, But Real Problem Is Closed Primaries]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Open your inbox or social media feed and it's clear: Anyone who cares about elections and politics is talking about the hotly contested SAVE Act, a MAGA-backed bill in the U.S. Senate intended to "secure American elections."
The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which passed the House in 2025 and awaits a vote in the Senate, would require proof of citizenship to register to vote.
Organizations like the ACLU said that the SAVE Act could prevent eligible voters from casting ballots: "Laws like this have historically resulted in many eligible citizens being delayed or denied...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/13/save_act_dominates_headlines_but_real_problem_is_closed_primaries_153939.html</link>
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						<author>Anthony Thomas &amp; Kyle Ciminelli</author><category>Anthony Thomas &amp; Kyle Ciminelli</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/13/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:42:59 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/711946_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Finish the Job, Mr. President]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Fourteen days into Operation Epic Fury, the most consequential American military campaign in the Middle East since the invasion of Iraq, the Trump administration has yet to say what victory will actually look like. The president has variously toggled between declaring Iran has "practically nothing left," indicating that the conflict would be right around the corner, and telling Kentucky rally-goers that we need to "finish the job" so that we don't have to go back and do this all over again later down the road.
The campaign is succeeding, but that will ultimately make little difference if we...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/13/finish_the_job_mr_president_153940.html</link>
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						<author>Kyle Moran</author><category>Kyle Moran</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/13/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:43:25 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/711951_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Pacific Northwest&rsquo;s Anti-Democracy Progressives]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Seattle, which is home to Amazon and Microsoft, currently employs some 193,000 well-compensated Washingtonians working in the tech sector. One major reason that Seattle emerged as the first big tech hub outside of California is obvious: It is the only West Coast state with no state income tax. Its state constitution forbids an income tax. High wage workers and entrepreneurs seeking a piece of the relatively laid back, outdoors-focused Pacific Northwest lifestyle can move to Washington without taking a state-mandated pay cut.
For the progressive Democrats who dominate state politics in the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/12/the_pacific_northwests_anti-democracy_progressives_153933.html</link>
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						<author>Jeff Eager</author><category>Jeff Eager</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/12/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:48:11 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/711752_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Gun Control&rsquo;s Endgame: No Guns for Anyone]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Gun control advocates do not just oppose civilian gun ownership; they also argue that guns in the hands of police make people less safe.
In January, a Border Patrol agent in Portland shot and wounded two Venezuelan nationals who belonged to the violent Tren de Aragua gang after they allegedly tried to run agents over with their vehicle. In response, Kris Brown, president of Brady United, tweeted the following:
"We don't know the details behind the shootings of 2 people by a Border Patrol agent in Portland. But I know one thing for certain: whether in the hands of federal officers or everyday...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/12/gun_controls_endgame_no_guns_for_anyone_153934.html</link>
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						<author>John R. Lott Jr.</author><category>John R. Lott Jr.</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/12/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:48:33 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/711795_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Chiefs Get &lsquo;Massive Giveaway&rsquo; While Woman Gets Tone-Policed]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ You may or may not have heard that the Kansas City Chiefs want to move to Kansas. (Actually, you may have thought they were already in Kansas. Donald Trump thought so when he congratulated the wrong state on one of its Super Bowl wins, but Arrowhead Stadium is in Missouri.) 
Anyway, the Hunts want to build their new $3 billion domed stadium in Wyandotte County, just across the river from larger and wealthier KCMO. We can debate how much economic development stadiums really bring, but both Republicans and Democrats in Topeka are determined to impose such a one-sided deal on heavily minority...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/12/chiefs_get_massive_giveaway_while_woman_gets_tone-policed.html</link>
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						<author>Melinda Henneberger</author><category>Melinda Henneberger</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/12/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:48:52 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/711803_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Five Things You Must Know About Energy Policy]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Given the energy disruptions in the Middle East and the topsy-turvy fluctuation in the price of crude oil in recent weeks, here are a few facts about the energy scene.
First, "drill, baby, drill" is working. America today is producing more oil and gas than ever. Over the past six years, we've produced more than any other nation, including Saudi Arabia. The best way to inoculate ourselves from foreign supply disruptions is to generate every barrel of oil we can here at home. And we have many decades of abundant supply given ever-improving shale drilling techniques.
Second, the Green New Deal...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/11/the_five_things_you_must_know_about_energy_policy_153931.html</link>
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						<author>Stephen Moore</author><category>Stephen Moore</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/11/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 04:31:36 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/63/634457_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Blue-State Suicide]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ It's not just California and New York. All across the nation, blue states are committing political and economic suicide by targeting millionaires with high taxes. Who will suffer most from this misguided, ideologically driven push to punish the wealthy? Wage workers and the poor.
Leftist Democratic pols calling for states to tax the rich are ignoring the fact that the rich can exit their state, taking jobs, tax revenue and the right to congressional representation with them. The states that fall for the tax-the-rich mania will be left in the dust, with failing economies and shrinking...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/11/blue-state_suicide_153930.html</link>
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						<author>Betsy McCaughey</author><category>Betsy McCaughey</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/11/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 04:31:16 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/711706_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Cuba Should Accept Trump&#039;s &#039;Friendly Takeover&#039;]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ President Donald Trump has shown Cuba's communist rulers two ways their reign over the island can end: the Maduro way or the Khamenei way.
The Cuban regime is a mix of gerontocracy, nepotism and socialism. Its official face is President Miguel Diaz-Canel, but supreme authority still emanates from the 94-year-old Raul Castro, brother of the state's founding dictator, Fidel Castro.
Though the long-lived Castro clan seems to prove only the good die young, no one beats the actuarial tables in the end, and Raul's days are drawing short.
Cuba is overdue for a profound change, and Trump is...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/10/cuba_should_accept_trumps_friendly_takeover_153928.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel McCarthy</author><category>Daniel McCarthy</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/10/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:32:29 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/711614_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ For the Love of the Game, for the Love of Country]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Paul Skenes is smiling from ear to ear, draped in red, white and blue, along with the rest of his teammates, as they begin the first exhibition game representing Team USA at the World Baseball Classic at Papago Sports Complex in Phoenix. Skenes told the MLB Network why it means so much to represent his country in the games.
"First and foremost, I care because I'm from America. I love America. I've seen the WBCs in the past, and there's no bigger stage or no greater honor than wearing USA across your chest," he said ahead of the game.
There was another reason Skenes said he cared, and that had...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/10/for_the_love_of_the_game_for_the_love_of_country_153929.html</link>
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						<author>Salena Zito</author><category>Salena Zito</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/10/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:32:47 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/711615_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Iran&rsquo;s Lionesses Stood Up to Tehran. The Free World Answered]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Today, five players of the Iranian national women's soccer team, the Lionesses, managed to break away from the larger group in Australia where they had been competing in the Women's Asian Cup. Reza Pahlavi, Iran's exiled Crown Prince, says they have joined the anti-regime resistance. Shortly after, following U.S. President Donald Trump's demand that Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese grant asylum - and his offer of safe haven in the U.S. if Australia refused - to the remaining team members, the president announced that "the rest are on their way" to joining the other five. Some still...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/09/irans_lionesses_stood_up_to_tehran_the_free_world_answered_153926.html</link>
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						<author>Ed Tarnowski</author><category>Ed Tarnowski</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/09/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:25:36 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/711562_1_.png" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Filibuster Actually Lessens Senate&rsquo;s Power]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The best argument against eliminating the filibuster is also proof positive that the filibuster is an extra-constitutional invention that weakens the experiment in self-government that our nation's Founders intended.
I'll admit I was pushed off-kilter for a minute when one reader warned about D.C. statehood and the prospect of  "two Marxist senators" as a counter to my last column on ending the filibuster.
Sure enough, the admission of new states by a simple majority in Congress could result in a partisan advantage for Democrats should they opt to offer statehood to the District of Columbia,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/09/filibuster_actually_lessens_senates_power_153923.html</link>
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						<author>Frank Miele</author><category>Frank Miele</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/09/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:42:17 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/711438_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ California Dreamin&rsquo; Isn&rsquo;t What It Used To Be]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ California's elected Democrats can't move beyond pandering. Gov. Gavin Newsom is fixated on reparations for African Americans, and the legislature's Democratic Party majority is once again trying to divide Californians by race, sex, and gender orientation.
In 1996, California stunned the nation when 55% of voters approved Proposition 209, which amended the state's constitution to prohibit public institutions from considering race, sex or ethnicity in employment, contracting, and education. Ten years later, the United States Supreme Court confirmed its right to do so.
As the state moved...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/09/california_dreamin_isnt_what_it_used_to_be_153922.html</link>
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						<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author><category>Kenin M. Spivak</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/09/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:06:19 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/711430_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Cancel Culture Comes to Trumpland]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ For years, Donald Trump has been among the most vociferous critics of cancel culture, saying it has "absolutely no place in the United States of America." Perhaps not. But it seems to have found a place in his home town of Palm Beach and the self-described "free state of Florida" where, as Governor Ron De Santis memorably proclaimed, "woke goes to die."
Late last week, the respected Palm Beach Symphony quietly canceled a performance by Vadim Repin, a celebrated Russian violinist, who for nearly a year had been scheduled to be the soloist in the symphony's "Masterworks" program on March 2. ...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/09/cancel_culture_comes_to_trumpland_153925.html</link>
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						<author>Judith Miller &amp; Paul du Quenoy</author><category>Judith Miller &amp; Paul du Quenoy</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/09/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:25:15 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/711547_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Death of &lsquo;America First&rsquo; Must Not Be In Vain]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ President Trump won the 2024 election on the promise that he'd end foreign entanglements and put America first. His winning coalition brought in anti-war leftists such as Tulsi Gabbard, who would become Director of National Intelligence, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Presumptive MAGA heir JD Vance carried with him a track record of vociferously opposing war, too, particularly on Ukraine. And just before Election Day 2024, the vice president said it "very much" would not be in the Trump administration's interest to go to war with Iran.
For me and other disenchanted leftists, concerned mostly about...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/09/the_death_of_america_first_must_not_be_in_vain.html</link>
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						<author>Nikos Mohammadi</author><category>Nikos Mohammadi</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/09/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:36:02 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/711428_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Learning To Win]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The following is an excerpt from "The Political Vise" by John Tillman.
JUNE 27, 2018. UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT. WASHINGTON, D.C.
It had to be today. It was Wednesday, the last day for opinions. We'd come on Monday and Tuesday, just in case, but we had a feeling that our case would be among the very last to be decided. As I took my seat in the middle of the august and stately chamber, I reminded myself to keep breathing. The next time you stand up, I told myself, you'll know. The next time you stand up, we may have won. I willed myself not to contemplate the other possibility.
Our case was...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/08/learning_to_win_153924.html</link>
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						<author>John Tillman</author><category>John Tillman</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/08/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 05:30:04 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/711477_1_.png" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump&rsquo;s Way of War]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ War is the use of arms to settle differences--tribal, political, religious, cultural, and material--between organized groups. It is unchanging. The general laws of armed conflict stays immutable, given the constancy of human nature.
However, the manner in which war is conducted remains fluid. New weapons, tactics, and strategies elicit counterresponses in an endless cycle of tensions between defensive and offensive superiority.
That said, has President Donald Trump introduced a novel way of waging Western war against America's foreign enemies?
We saw glimpses of it during his first term, when...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/06/trumps_way_of_war_153918.html</link>
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						<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author><category>Victor Davis Hanson</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/06/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 06:37:00 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/711368_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ When Compassion Replaces Competence]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ It felt good to be a Democrat in California.
Well, it used to, and the State of the Union address by President Trump illuminated exactly why I left the party.
In Silicon Valley, it often feels like the default setting.
In many professional circles, especially in technology and venture communities, political alignment is assumed. Fundraisers double as social gatherings. Giving is expected. Belonging has signals.
It feels compassionate. Enlightened. On the right side of history. 
But that night, the president challenged any member of Congress to stand who believes that the first duty of the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/06/when_compassion_replaces_competence_153912.html</link>
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						<author>Noosheen Hashemi</author><category>Noosheen Hashemi</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/06/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 06:38:26 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/711299_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Donald Trump Is a Great Man of History]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Most students of history have likely pondered the question: Is it the times that make the man, or is it the man that makes the times? The question, though superficially intriguing, seems to have an easy enough answer: Sometimes it is the times that makes the man, and sometimes it is the man that makes the times. Rarest of all is the man who is both summoned and elevated by the times, on the one hand, and who has the courage and conviction to shape the times in return, on the other hand. It is this lattermost group of men who we might refer to as the truly great men of history.
Donald Trump...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/06/donald_trump_is_a_great_man_of_history_153916.html</link>
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						<author>Josh Hammer</author><category>Josh Hammer</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/06/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 06:37:17 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/711366_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Congress Tells the Retreat Caucus To Sit Down]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Over the last 48 hours, both chambers of Congress have held formal votes on War Powers resolutions to terminate US military operations in Iran - and both said no. The Senate voted down its measure 47-53, largely along partisan lines, with the House following suit 212-219 on Thursday.
Had these resolutions passed, they would have carried the force of law - a formal congressional directive under the War Powers Resolution's termination mechanism requiring the president to withdraw American forces from hostilities.
Congress clearly made the correct decision here. Some of the votes may have been...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/06/congress_tells_the_retreat_caucus_to_sit_down_153919.html</link>
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						<author>Kyle Moran</author><category>Kyle Moran</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/06/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:12:36 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/711402_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump Avoiding Repeating History in Iran]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ History doesn't always repeat itself, or even rhyme. People sometimes learn from experience, their own or others'.
Example: Woodrow Wilson, a stubborn Southerner, refused to involve any Republicans, all Northerners in those days, in treaty negotiations after World War I. His treaty version, which would require the United States to go to war on a vote of the League of Nations, was rejected by the Senate.
Franklin Roosevelt, who had been Wilson's assistant secretary of the Navy, included Republicans in post-war and treaty planning while World War II was still going on. That ensured bipartisan...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/06/trump_avoiding_repeating_history_in_iran_153917.html</link>
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						<author>Michael Barone</author><category>Michael Barone</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/06/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 06:38:08 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/711303_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ JFK&#039;s Grandson Proves the Networks Still Bend the Knee to Kennedys]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ When you hear liberals complaining about how the media today are in urgent danger of "bending the knee" to President Donald Trump, point and laugh and think about the Kennedy family. Journalists bending the knee to the Kennedys has been mandatory since the 1950s. That's their most obvious form of white privilege.
It's still happening. In the last few days, CBS and CNN have offered puffy profiles of John Bouvier Kennedy (Jack) Schlossberg, the only grandson of JFK. At 33, he's running for Congress in New York City to replace Rep. Jerry Nadler.
The CBS show "Sunday Morning" operates like an...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/06/jfks_grandson_proves_the_networks_still_bend_the_knee_to_kennedys_153915.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/06/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 06:37:52 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/702214_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Iran: A Humbling Reminder of the Public Square We Take for Granted]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ In the days since Operation Epic Fury was launched, tens of thousands of Iranians have gathered to celebrate the destruction of their government. It's a sharp contrast to a week ago, when protesters were slaughtered.
It's also a contrast to free speech in America. We aren't perfect, but not only can a critical word against the government get off the ground, but a whole communications infrastructure exists to amplify it for you.
We the authors are part of that infrastructure. An average day for us is helping clients participate in the American public square. They may advocate for policies,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/05/iran_a_humbling_reminder_public_square_we_take_for_granted__153907.html</link>
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						<author>Kerri Toloczko &amp; Dustin Siggins</author><category>Kerri Toloczko &amp; Dustin Siggins</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/05/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 11:19:30 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/708860_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Ruby Ridge Reckoning Reveals Lessons for ICE]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ In August 1992, six U.S. marshals set out to arrest Idaho survivalist Randy Weaver over a missed court date on a firearms charge, partly caused by a clerical error. What followed was an 11-day standoff and three deaths - including a federal officer. The siege became known as "Ruby Ridge." The imbroglio triggered calls for reform, particularly among conservative figures like Rush Limbaugh.
Today, it is ICE raids that are generating similar calls for change - loudest on the left. Amid operations that too often end in violence, congressional efforts to find bipartisan agreement on safeguards can...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/05/ruby_ridge_reckoning_reveals_lessons_for_ice_153908.html</link>
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						<author>Marc Levin &amp; Khalil Cumberbatch</author><category>Marc Levin &amp; Khalil Cumberbatch</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/05/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 04:35:55 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/711165_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Why Health Care Is So Expensive in America, and What to Do About It]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ America's health care system consistently ranks as the most expensive in the developed world. It's not, as some politicians claim, expensive because markets have failed. It's expensive because the market has been repeatedly blocked from succeeding. Until we're honest about that, any potential reforms will only address symptoms while ignoring the disease.
The health care market is hindered in many ways, but the core structural problem is simple: The person receiving care is almost never the person actually paying for it. Roughly 90 cents of every dollar is covered by a third party -- an...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/05/why_health_care_is_so_expensive_in_america_and_what_to_do_about_it_153909.html</link>
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						<author>Veronique de Rugy</author><category>Veronique de Rugy</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/05/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 04:35:24 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/706983_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Iran&#039;s Last Hope Is American Division]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The United States is winning.
Anyone telling you otherwise is either mistaken -- or rooting for a different outcome.
That may sound blunt. But it happens to be true.
The Iranian regime's best remaining strategy is not military. It is political. Tehran is not counting on its air defenses, which are being shredded. It is not counting on its ballistic missile program, which has been systematically dismantled. It is not counting on its nuclear infrastructure, which is being methodically degraded.
It is counting on Americans.
More specifically, it is counting on a strange and uncomfortable...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/05/irans_last_hope_is_american_division_153910.html</link>
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						<author>Ben Shapiro</author><category>Ben Shapiro</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/05/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 04:35:39 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/711240_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Democrats Lie and Slander U.S. to Stop Commander in Chief]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The U.S. Senate's resolution aiming to handcuff President Donald Trump, barring him from taking additional military action against Iran, should be soundly rejected: It's an unconstitutional violation of Article II, which makes the president commander in chief of the nation's armed forces.
Every president since 1950 has launched military operations against foreign governments, without seeking Congress' permission or a declaration of war.
Yet Trump's strategic air attack on Iran Saturday is evoking a torrent of vitriol from Democrats in Congress.
They're calling him "an authoritarian ruler" and...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/05/democrats_lie_and_slander_us_to_stop_commander_in_chief_153911.html</link>
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						<author>Betsy McCaughey</author><category>Betsy McCaughey</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/05/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 04:35:04 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/711242_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ What Does America Owe the People of Iran?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Will President Trump fall prey to the "Pottery Barn Doctrine"?
Articulated by Secretary of State Colin Powell in the run-up to the Iraq War, it holds that when you break something - in this case, a nation, rather than a vase - you own it.
As Trump plans for next steps in Iran, cold-eyed pragmatists - whether they favored or opposed this latest U.S. military action - should hope he ignores Powell's high-minded yet wrong-headed formulation that inspired decades of failed and costly attempts at nation-building in the Middle East.
It might sound callous, but the United States has no obligation to...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/04/what_does_america_owe_the_people_of_iran_153906.html</link>
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						<author>J. Peder Zane</author><category>J. Peder Zane</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/04/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:18:10 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/711149_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump Is Never Accessible Enough to the Press?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The anti-Trump media elites are relentlessly omnidirectional in attacking their target. One day, they'll complain the president's too intolerably present in the limelight. But the next day, he's scandalously inaccessible. When the Trump administration launched its offensive on Iran, they made noise about it being too quiet.
CNN correspondent Alayna Treene tweeted: "No senior Trump officials appeared on the Sunday shows today -- not only rare but especially notable given many administration officials recognize the steep task they have in explaining the reasoning behind, and the overall...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/04/trump_is_never_accessible_enough_to_the_press_153905.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/04/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:19:43 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/711090_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump&rsquo;s SOTU Speech a Win, But It&rsquo;s Not Enough]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ This article was adapted from remarks that aired on the latest episode of "Get Real" on Real America's Voice this past weekend.












Last week the American people were served up two good "let the midterm rumble begin" spectacles: President Trump's State of the Union address and the Democrat rejoinder from Gov. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia.
I thought Trump's speech was an improvement over his past performances. There is a reason the opposition looks for reasons to boycott this shared civic ritual: Trump is the P.T. Barnum of "owning" the squad.
President Trump needed a win. The...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/03/trumps_sotu_speech_a_win_but_its_not_enough_153896.html</link>
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						<author>David DesRosiers</author><category>David DesRosiers</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/03/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Republican Candidates Can&rsquo;t Ignore the Cost of Living]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Last week, President Trump delivered his State of the Union address, talking directly to millions of Americans about his first year in office and his plans for the next three. He was right - our economy is booming. His bold policies have lowered prices and prioritized working Americans. His "no tax on tips" and "no tax on overtime" policies have helped families like Megan Hemhouser, whose family is now taking home thousands of dollars more a year as a result.
Republicans are right to highlight these wins. But they can't ignore the millions of Americans still grappling to make ends meet. Two...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/03/republican_candidates_cant_ignore_the_cost_of_living__153897.html</link>
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						<author>Tiffany Smiley</author><category>Tiffany Smiley</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/03/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:22:06 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/711007_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Immigration Enforcement Saves Lives]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ When a 41-year-old mother is murdered at a bus stop, who bothers to protest?
Stephanie Minter's death is as closely tied to the nation's immigration debate as Alex Pretti's or Renee Good's.
But while Pretti and Good died while trying to prevent the enforcement of our country's immigration laws, Minter died precisely because those laws were not enforced.
Abdul Jalloh, the man alleged to have stabbed Minter to death in Fairfax County, Virginia, should never have set foot in America.
He came here illegally from Sierra Leone in 2012, and since then he's illegally done just about everything else...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/03/immigration_enforcement_saves_lives_153898.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel McCarthy</author><category>Daniel McCarthy</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/03/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:22:42 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/710552_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Decapitating Amalek: Iran, Purim, and the Obligation to Act in Time]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The joint United States and Israeli strikes on Feb. 28, 2026, did more than destroy military infrastructure. They decapitated the ideological command center of a regime that has spent four decades promising Israel's annihilation and financing America's enemies. The death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei marks the most consequential blow to state-sponsored terror in modern history.
It revives a question Jewish thinkers have wrestled with for centuries: When does confronting evil move from a strategic option to a moral obligation?
The Torah's final commandment provides the frame....]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/03/decapitating_amalek_iran_purim_and_the_obligation_to_act_in_time_153904.html</link>
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						<author>Eric Spitz</author><category>Eric Spitz</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/03/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:31:07 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/711042_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump Exposed the Crazy Things Democrats Believe]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ It shouldn't have been a difficult decision.
During his Tuesday State of the Union address, President Donald Trump issued a challenge to the members of Congress before him.
"If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support," he said. "The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens."
Republicans stood and applauded. Democrats didn't budge from their seats. It was a striking contrast. Trump knew it, too.
"You should be ashamed of yourself, not standing up," he told Democrats.
Imagine telling someone a week ago that...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/03/trump_exposed_the_crazy_things_democrats_believe_153900.html</link>
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						<author>Victor Joecks</author><category>Victor Joecks</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/03/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:21:50 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/711018_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ &#039;The Football Town&#039; Captures the Exceptionalism of a Region and a Nation]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ PITTSBURGH -- It is rare to find a film today that captures the essence of a region, its people and the ties that bind them with a purity that excludes any outside influences. Yet that is exactly what NFL Films has done with "The Football Town," a unique production that brings to life the storied history of western Pennsylvania's tradition of football, faith, grit and community.
It hits the mark beyond the story of football and manufacturing greatness and captures a region that celebrates its rootedness in community. And it shows how that community has humbly shaped the nation, thanks to its...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/03/the_football_town_captures_the_exceptionalism_of_a_region_and_a_nation_153899.html</link>
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						<author>Salena Zito</author><category>Salena Zito</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/03/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:22:24 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/651625_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Has Trump Made &#039;Forever War&#039; Impossible?]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ The long buildup to the U.S.-Israeli attack upon Iran produced an almost unprecedented amount of fatuous comment. Many warned of a potential "forever war" and a morass reminiscent of Iraq and Afghanistan. President Trump, though, has devised a new method for dealing with sponsors of terrorism and guerrilla activity, and promised that if military action were required there would be no American occupation of Iran.
In such circumstances a "forever war" is impossible and U.S. casualties are minimal. The fact that between 75 percent and 90 percent of Iranians detest the Islamic Republic will mean...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/02/has_trump_made_forever_war_impossible_153894.html</link>
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						<author>Conrad Black</author><category>Conrad Black</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/02/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 07:08:43 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/710912_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Why We Have a Sixth Amendment]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ My name is included on a list of "prominent" names recently released by the Justice Department in the so-called "Epstein Files." I stand accused of receiving a massage by a woman on Jeffrey Epstein's airplane. No illegal conduct is alleged - the FBI document that circulated this claim notes that the accuser was not a minor - the problem is that everything and everyone associated with Epstein is now tainted.
But here's the thing: The claim itself is untrue. It never happened.
Most others who have been accused have tried to bury the story. Not me! I'm publicizing it and fighting back against...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/02/why_we_have_a_sixth_amendment_153893.html</link>
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						<author>Alan Dershowitz</author><category>Alan Dershowitz</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/02/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:37:40 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/710878_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ European Commission Wants Your Free Speech. X Is In the Way]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Last week, Elon Musk's X launched a landmark legal challenge against a $140 million fine issued by the European Commission last December under the Digital Services Act, an EU censorship law. The case was filed at the General Court of the EU, which hears high-stakes challenges to EU regulatory and enforcement actions.
The commission claims the fine, the first to be issued under the DSA, was for alleged transparency and procedural breaches, all of which X denies. But the real reason the company was targeted is clear: X is a free speech platform, and Elon Musk refuses to implement online...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/02/european_commission_wants_your_free_speech_x_is_in_the_way_153890.html</link>
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						<author>Adina Portaru</author><category>Adina Portaru</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/02/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:38:00 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/699782_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ WH Should Adopt Congressional Plan To End Persecution in Nigeria]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ On Feb. 23, the House of Representatives' powerful Appropriations and Foreign Affairs committees released their new report, "Ending the Persecution of Christians in Nigeria." Appropriator Rep. Riley Moore, who, along with Appropriations Chairman Rep. Tom Cole, was tapped by President Trump to assess the issue, presented the report to the White House, which is now considering it.
The report opens with a statement of findings, which is a breakthrough in clarity:
After decades of persecution, Nigeria is the deadliest place in the world to be a Christian. Christians are subject to ongoing violent...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/02/wh_should_adopt_congressional_plan_to_end_persecution_in_nigeria_153884.html</link>
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						<author>Nina Shea</author><category>Nina Shea</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/02/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:32:54 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/710662_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Democrats, MAGA Republicans Share Common Ground on War Powers]]></title>
											<subtitle>PURPLE NATION</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ There are more areas of common ground between many Democrats like me and MAGA Republicans - in disagreement with Donald Trump - than most people might think. One current example is the growing opposition to the president's military interventions, without congressional authorization or meaningful consultation with Congress.
I have heard core Trump voters voice the same concerns about such unilateral use of power leading to "endless wars" that I and many other progressive Democrats share.
Let's start with the need to read the Constitution strictly when it comes to the president's authority to...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/02/democrats_maga_republicans_share_common_ground_on_war_powers_153895.html</link>
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						<author>Lanny J. Davis</author><category>Lanny J. Davis</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/02/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 09:30:15 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/710926_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ From Whiskey to Weed: A Second Amendment Fight]]></title>
											<subtitle>ANALYSIS</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Are regular marijuana users the modern equivalent of "habitual drunkards" at the Founding? What about someone who regularly takes a sleep gummy? In oral arguments before the Supreme Court today in United States v. Hemani, the federal government argues that they are the same.
In August 2022, FBI agents searched Ali Danial Hemani's home and found a Glock 9mm pistol, 2.1 ounces of marijuana, and 1.7 ounces of cocaine. Hemani told agents that he used marijuana roughly every other day.
The case could have far-ranging implications as 40 states now allow medical marijuana and 24 states, the District...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/02/from_whiskey_to_weed_a_second_amendment_fight_153892.html</link>
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						<author>John R. Lott Jr. &amp; Laura Lott</author><category>John R. Lott Jr. &amp; Laura Lott</category><pubdate>2026/03</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>03/02/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:38:20 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/710815_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The U.S. Olympic Men&#039;s Hockey Team Did It the Right Way]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ If men's basketball is the most popular and professional athlete-filled team sport at the quadrennial Summer Olympic Games, then men's ice hockey is its Winter Olympic Games analogue. Every four years, the two-week Summer and Winter Olympics provide a respite, for NBA and NHL fans, from the annual domestic calendar. Stars who might normally be teammates instead pick up the jerseys of rival nations, competing against one another for love of home and hearth on the world's grandest sporting stage. Each Olympic sport has had its iconic American triumphs too: Who can forget the 1992 basketball...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/27/the_us_olympic_mens_hockey_team_did_it_the_right_way_153887.html</link>
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						<author>Josh Hammer</author><category>Josh Hammer</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/27/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:48:18 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/710303_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Supreme Court Throws Out Trump Tariffs and Upholds Constitution]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ So much for the notion that the Supreme Court, with its 6-3 majority of justices appointed by Republican presidents, was going to be a rubber stamp for Donald Trump. That is a frequently voiced charge by partisan Democrats, and a fear of many ambivalent voters who find many of Trump's policies agreeable but worry about his overreach on policy and personnel.
That's one political meme refuted by the court's Learning Resources v. Trump decision last Friday, announced after more than the expected delay for the drafting of concurring opinions. The court struck down Trump's beloved tariffs, with...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/27/supreme_court_throws_out_trump_tariffs_and_upholds_constitution_153888.html</link>
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						<author>Michael Barone</author><category>Michael Barone</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/27/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:48:35 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/710692_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Press vs. America]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Alysa Liu is an American figure skater whose family fled China and faced harassment and persecution by Chinese authorities. She won gold. You might have missed it. The American press corps chose, instead, to praise Eileen Gu, an American skier with family ties to the Chinese communist party. Gu skied for and was paid by China. The press elevated her over American athletes until shifting to hating our hockey team.
"Eileen Gu won three medals - one gold and two silver -- in Milan and now has six total medals over the span of two quadrennials. She also made herself one of the most profitable and...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/27/the_press_vs_america_153889.html</link>
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						<author>Erick Erickson</author><category>Erick Erickson</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/27/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:49:10 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/710693_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The State of Our Journalism Is Viciously Anti-Trump]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The State of the Union speech is an effective annual exercise to measure how journalists feel about a long speech on national TV by Donald Trump. They hate it intensely, like most children hate broccoli. They would like to scrape that steaming plate into the garbage.
The New York Times published a front-page editorial by White House reporter Katie Rogers -- lamely labeled as "News Analysis." It came under the headline "Casting Democrats as Villains, Trump Produces a Spectacle." You can sense their outrage. Nobody should darkly cast Democrats as villains, especially the people Democrats...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/27/the_state_of_our_journalism_is_viciously_anti-trump_153886.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/27/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:48:53 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/710505_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Spanberger and Dems Lie About Gerrymandering Scheme]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Once you burn your credibility, it's hard to get back.
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger deceived voters and concealed her true leftist agenda to win the Governor's Mansion last year. Now she and her fellow Democrats are lying to Virginians about a new gerrymandered congressional district map they placed on the ballot as a constitutional amendment on April 21.
It's a naked attempt to make it impossible for Republicans to win election to Congress in most places in Virginia, and it's why she was rewarded with the plum assignment of responding to President Trump's State of the Union address this...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/26/spanberger_and_dems_lie_about_gerrymandering_scheme_153882.html</link>
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						<author>Ben Cline</author><category>Ben Cline</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/26/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 06:32:04 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/710600_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ New Poll Shows PA Voters&rsquo; Balance on ICE, Immigration]]></title>
											<subtitle>ANALYSIS</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The latest joint polling effort between RealClear Opinion Research and Emerson Polling explores attitudes toward immigration and immigration reform in Pennsylvania. Immigration is figuring as a critical issue in the midterm elections and is likely to loom as a top concern in 2028. Understanding attitudes in a critical battleground like the Keystone State is crucial for discerning how those elections are shaping up.
For this piece, we'll confine ourselves to the toplines. A subsequent piece will explore the crosstabs. However, to put this up front: The crosstabs do reveal what appears to be a...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/25/new_poll_shows_pa_voters_balance_on_ice_immigration___153875.html</link>
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						<author>Sean Trende</author><category>Sean Trende</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/25/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Fix Immigration Enforcement Before Trust Collapses]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The worst outcomes of tough enforcement don't discredit enforcement itself - they expose incoherence.
 
Federal immigration operations in Minneapolis this January left two U.S. citizens dead. On Jan. 7, Renee Good, 37, was shot in her car by an ICE officer. Officials say she tried to run him over; video appears to show her steering away. On Jan. 24, Alex Pretti, 37 - an ICU nurse and Army veteran - was killed during a chaotic street arrest by federal agents. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz condemned the raids as federal overreach; the White House defended them as a restoration of order.
A week later,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/25/fix_immigration_enforcement_before_trust_collapses_153876.html</link>
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						<author>Santiago Vidal Calvo</author><category>Santiago Vidal Calvo</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/25/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 04:38:13 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/709171_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Progressive Protection Racket]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Progressives are the last bastion of unbounded exceptionalism. The unblinking moral duty to redeem our country and the world by recasting both in their image reflects a city on a hill, God is on our side sense of manifest destiny that would have made Ronald Reagan and Theodore Roosevelt blush.
Certain that they alone can see how the arc of history is bending, they feel duty-bound to align humanity with the universe.
This spirit, however, often puts them at odds with American democracy. So assured of the rightness of their cause, they cannot fathom good faith reasons why some might oppose...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/25/the_progressive_protection_racket_153878.html</link>
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						<author>J. Peder Zane</author><category>J. Peder Zane</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/25/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 04:38:51 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/63/632208_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Bari Weiss, The Latest Target of Antisemitic Campus Intolerance]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ In October, the new owners of CBS appointed Bari Weiss to the new position of editor-in-chief, which has made her far more controversial than the actual content of CBS News would suggest. Weiss quickly became a scandalous figure out of all proportion to the actual content of CBS News under her watch. She was tumbling "the dominoes of capitulation," wrote Margaret Sullivan.
It's a little shocking that Weiss felt it necessary to cancel an upcoming lecture at UCLA, the Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture, because of the virulence of the expected student protests. The Daily Bruin school newspaper...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/25/bari_weiss_the_latest_target_of_antisemitic_campus_intolerance_153879.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/25/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 04:38:33 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/67/674878_1_.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ At America&#039;s 250th Birthday, Democrats Want a Different Country]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Jack Hughes delivered the gold medal to the U.S. ice hockey team in the winter Olympics, scoring the winning goal in overtime play.
In a postgame interview, Hughes exclaimed: "This is all about our country now. I love the USA. I love my teammates. It's unbelievable. The USA hockey brotherhood is so strong ... I am so proud to be an American today."
Moving indeed. But the question is, how much did Hughes' effusive patriotic sentiments, his exhortation of love of country, resonate across our nation?
We don't hear much these days unbridled expressions of national pride, of patriotism.
And, in...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/25/at_americas_250th_birthday_democrats_want_a_different_country_153880.html</link>
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						<author>Star Parker</author><category>Star Parker</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/25/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 04:37:56 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/64/643252_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Henry Waxman and the Art of Political Adaptation]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The following is an excerpt from the forthcoming book, "Stuck: How Money, Media, and Violence Prevent Change in Congress."
Standing five feet, five inches tall, with a thick mustache and a warm smile, Henry Waxman says that he came to Congress to help people. He credits his parents with instilling in him a sense of political involvement, recounting how they went through the Great Depression and taught him that government intervention can help people. Henry Waxman was first elected as part of the historic "Class of 1974," a group of 92 new members of Congress elected immediately after the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/24/henry_waxman_congressional_chameleon_153871.html</link>
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						<author>Maya L. Kornberg</author><category>Maya L. Kornberg</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/24/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:48:39 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/710349_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ How a Party Offends Its Voters]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Gavin Newsom won't be the Democrats' 2028 presidential nominee unless he wins a significant share of the African American vote.
So how's he courting it?
Promoting his new memoir in Atlanta, the California governor decided to forge a connection by boasting about his poor SAT scores and difficulty reading.
"I'm like you," he said.
"You know, I'm a 960 SAT guy" and "you've never seen me read a speech. Because I cannot read a speech."
Newsom suffers from dyslexia, but he obviously wasn't assuming he was addressing a room full of voters with the same debility.
He just looked around and concluded...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/24/how_a_party_offends_its_voters_153873.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel McCarthy</author><category>Daniel McCarthy</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/24/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:54:42 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/710028_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Dispatch From October 2029: The Debt Crisis That Destroyed America]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The kindling for catastrophe was piled high. It only needed a match.
The 2020s began with a pandemic that shut us in and shattered our shared reality. America became a country of strangers, speaking the same language but inhabiting different worlds. It was often noted at the time that Americans had come to embrace strange and conspiratorial beliefs. In retrospect, our elected officials had embraced the most fantastical belief of all: that the United States government could indefinitely run astronomical deficits and pile up debt without consequence.
By the middle of this decade, anyone paying...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/24/dispatch_from_october_2029_debt_crisis_that_destroyed_america_153870.html</link>
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						<author>Ryan Clancy</author><category>Ryan Clancy</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/24/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 04:33:59 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/710336_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ End the Filibuster &ndash; Or Stop Pretending To Govern]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ So what has Congress done for you lately?
Big Beautiful Bill? Sure. I'll give you that one. And it covered a huge amount of ground, from tax cuts to border spending, but that was eight months ago.
Since then, nothing. Zero. Zilch. Squat.
Oh sure, the Republicans have held only a five-vote majority in the House for most of the past year, but if you blame that skinny GOP margin for the lack of legislation, you are doing a disservice to Speaker Mike Johnson, who has managed to win votes with one of the narrowest majorities in modern times.
So no, it isn't the House that's the problem. Look at...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/23/end_the_filibuster__or_stop_pretending_to_govern_153867.html</link>
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						<author>Frank Miele</author><category>Frank Miele</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/23/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:06:16 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/710177_1_.png" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump Reveals True Cost of Federal Collective Bargaining]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Taxpayers expect a government that's efficient, effective, and affordable. On Feb. 4, in a new report, the Trump administration made clear that the current process of federal collective bargaining isn't meeting those basic standards.  
Full credit goes to the Office of Personnel Management report for peeling back the curtain. All told, OPM found that bargaining with government unions cost more than $180 million in fiscal year 2024 alone. The money covered everything from negotiating new contracts to mediating disputes. It also covered salaries and benefits for federal workers who engaged in...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/21/trump_reveals_true_cost_of_federal_collective_bargaining_153864.html</link>
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						<author>F. Vincent Vernuccio</author><category>F. Vincent Vernuccio</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/21/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 07:42:59 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/710138_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Supreme Court&#039;s Interference Won&#039;t Stop Reciprocity Tariffs]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ If you think tariffs came to an end with today's Supreme Court decision, think again.
If you think President Trump's whole reciprocal trade policy came to an end, think again.
If you think Justice Brett Kavanaugh's dissent was the right idea, you hit the nail on the head. 
I'm not a lawyer, but it just seems to me the high court's 6-3 ruling against Mr. Trump's authority to levy tariffs is really a technical matter. 
After all, if the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977, nicknamed Ieepa, can be used by presidents to regulate trade, including the use of an embargo, why would it...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/21/supreme_courts_interference_wont_stop_reciprocity_tariffs_153869.html</link>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/21/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 07:42:48 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/710198_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump Lashes Out at Supreme Court as Under &lsquo;Foreign Influence&rsquo;]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ President Trump lashed out at the Supreme Court for ruling against his global tariffs by accusing the justices of falling prey to undue foreign interest, a cabal of unnamed "sleazeballs" and "slimeballs."
"Foreign interests are represented by people who I think have undue influence, a lot of influence, over the Supreme Court," the president told RealClearPolitics during a Friday news conference. "Whether it is through fear or respect or friendship, I don't know."
The high court handed Trump a landmark rebuke earlier in the day, ruling 6-3 that his tariff schedule was unconstitutional. The...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/20/trump_lashes_out_at_supreme_court_as_under_foreign_influence__153866.html</link>
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						<author>Philip Wegmann</author><category>Philip Wegmann</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/20/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:08:12 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/693511_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Solving Biden&#039;s Affordability Problem]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Tuesday night, White House bigwigs Susie Wiles and James Blair, plus chief pollster and strategist Tony Fabrizio, met with top cabinet members and their aides on how best to sell the president's agenda in order to defy history and capture the midterm elections.
And according to reports, the number one conclusion was that the economy is the number one issue. Well, gee whiz, I could have told them that. Free of charge. I do it here every night. 
I've been saying it for over four decades. Yet there's a lot of doom and gloom about a bunch of phony polls. And fake news from the left-wing press,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/20/solving_bidens_affordability_problem.html</link>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/20/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 06:38:32 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/58/583776_1_.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Will We See a Supreme Court Vacancy (or Two) This Summer?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Few things in Washington, D.C., generate as much as excitement and intrigue as a Supreme Court confirmation showdown. For decades, since the eponymous "borking" of then-Supreme Court nominee Bob Bork in 1987, political battles surrounding the membership of the nation's high court have been among the most contentious and raucous of Beltway affairs. Which is why it's rather curious that very few outside the most fervid of court-watchers seem to be discussing the distinct possibility that there could be one or two Supreme Court vacancies after the current term ends this summer.
Justice Samuel...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/20/will_we_see_a_supreme_court_vacancy_or_two_this_summer_153858.html</link>
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						<author>Josh Hammer</author><category>Josh Hammer</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/20/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 06:38:49 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/710102_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump Administration Led With the Wrong Agency in Minnesota]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The Trump administration fumbled its Minnesota advantage when it emphasized ICE over DOJ. The Minnesota fraud scandal was exploding; it was huge and blatant; Democrats were thoroughly enmeshed in it; and it looked to reach beyond Minnesota - all the way to Somalia and terror organizations. The administration should have put all its emphasis on the DOJ's investigation there. Instead, it sent ICE into a hotbed of extremism at a time when Democrats desperately needed their fraud scandal to disappear.
The Minnesota federal payment scandal appears gargantuan - even in context of the fraud-plagued...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/20/trump_administration_led_with_the_wrong_agency_in_minnesota_153853.html</link>
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						<author>J.T. Young</author><category>J.T. Young</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/20/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 06:39:08 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/705343_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Where Is the GOP&rsquo;s Digital Response?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[  
Fresh off another special election victory, this time in Louisiana, Democrats are ready for their "blue wave." As today's Democrats continue to outperform Kamala Harris, a House majority is within reach.
But this isn't just about President Trump's job approval or the usual midterm cycle. Too many Republicans have rested on their laurels after a Trump rout in 2024, and Democrats are gaining ground in other ways, especially in the digital ecosystem.
Since 2024, Republicans have been slow to harness the power of new media. The likes of Turning Point USA have made inroads, but liberal voices...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/20/where_is_the_gops_digital_response_153862.html</link>
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						<author>Corey Vale</author><category>Corey Vale</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/20/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 06:39:42 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/710107_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Obama Is in No Position to Lecture Us About Decency]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ In a recent interview with "No Lie" podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen, former President Barack Obama claimed that conservatives do "the mean, angry, exclusive, us/them, divisive politics. That's their home court. Our court is coming together."
This is a jaw-dropping contention coming from a man who began his presidential aspirations accusing Americans who refused to embrace his brand of progressive politics of being "bitter" and clinging "to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them."
Is there any group of people in the country who exude more "antipathy to people who aren't like...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/20/obama_is_in_no_position_to_lecture_us_about_decency_153863.html</link>
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						<author>David Harsanyi</author><category>David Harsanyi</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/20/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 06:39:28 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/71/710106_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Jim Crow Smears Allowed by Democrat-Aligned &#039;Fact-Checkers&#039;]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The people who call themselves the "mainstream media" have a remarkable tendency to take the minority position on an 80-20 issue, most recently on requiring voters to show a photo ID at the polls. House Republicans have passed the SAVE Act, while Democrats have almost unanimously opposed it.
But the American people do not. Gallup pollsters report 84% of Americans support requiring photo ID to vote -- 98% of Republicans, 84% of independents, and 67% of Democrats. Large majorities of blacks and Latinos back it. Separately, 83% support the SAVE Act requiring proof of citizenship when registering...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/20/jim_crow_smears_allowed_by_democrat-aligned_fact-checkers_153859.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/20/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 06:40:32 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/708767_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Equal, Fair and Farce]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ When NBC affiliates in Tennessee showed the movie "Necessary Roughness" in 1994, those affiliates were required to give a Democrat Senate candidate 4 minutes and 13 seconds of free airtime. The Democrat was running against Fred Thompson, the actor turned Republican Senate candidate. When Thompson ran for President in 2008, NBC stopped aired re-runs of "Law & Order" that featured Thompson, who had been the District Attorney on the show.
The Equal Time Doctrine is not new. But the national press corps, always ready to pounce on President Donald Trump and Republicans, has suddenly declared it a...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/20/equal_fair_and_farce_153860.html</link>
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						<author>Erick Erickson</author><category>Erick Erickson</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/20/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Marco Rubio: More Than Just the Good Cop]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ My first reaction to Secretary of State Marco Rubio's speech, delivered on Valentine's Day, at the Munich Security Conference, was, "Last year, President Donald Trump sent the bad cop, Vice President JD Vance. This year, he sent the good cop, Rubio. Progress." In February 2025, the audience at Munich took Vance's comments as insults. In February 2026, the audience, as evidenced by its standing ovation, took Rubio's as compliments.
Yet, as even journalists writing on deadline quickly discerned, Rubio's words were no less critical than Vance's of what have been European elites' cherished...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/20/marco_rubio_more_than_just_the_good_cop_153861.html</link>
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						<author>Michael Barone</author><category>Michael Barone</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/20/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 06:39:59 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/709719_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ AI Surveillance Should Scare Both Democrats and Republicans]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ In a country desperate for unifying issues, there is growing consensus on one: surveillance of American citizens. From progressives who want to hold ICE accountable to conservatives who fear Big Government, an ever-expanding federal government has put many Americans on high alert, and artificial intelligence is only making matters worse.
To quote New York Times columnist Tressie McMillan Cottom, "ICE is watching you." It is true: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement saw its 2025 budget triple to nearly $30 billion, which would rank the agency as the 14th highest-funded military in the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/19/ai_surveillance_should_scare_both_democrats_republicans_153852.html</link>
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						<author>Brendan Steinhauser</author><category>Brendan Steinhauser</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/19/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 04:44:33 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/709912_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ What Should President Trump Say at his State of the Union on Tuesday?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ America is tired.
Not tired of debate. Not tired of conviction. Americans can handle disagreement. What they are weary of is perpetual combat. They are weary of the temperature always being set at boiling. They are weary of economic anxiety, cultural distrust and political trench warfare that seems to reward outrage more than results.
If President Donald Trump truly wants to secure not only victory but legacy, this is the moment for a different kind of speech.
Not a rally speech. Not a grievance speech. Not a score-settling speech. A governing speech.
He should begin with humility -- not...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/19/what_should_president_trump_say_at_his_state_of_the_union_on_tuesday_153855.html</link>
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						<author>Armstrong Williams</author><category>Armstrong Williams</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/19/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 04:44:56 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/60/601976_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Rubio&#039;s Case for a Stronger West]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a speech at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday that stood out not for its bombast but for its clarity. In a room filled with political figures from across the Atlantic -- and from both parties at home -- Rubio was unmistakably the adult in the room.
Within the Trump administration, Rubio is easily the most articulate spokesman on foreign policy, and at Munich he demonstrated why. His address offered a robust defense of the transatlantic alliance while avoiding the sharper edges that have unsettled European audiences in recent years.
That...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/19/rubios_case_for_a_stronger_west_153856.html</link>
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						<author>Ben Shapiro</author><category>Ben Shapiro</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/19/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 04:44:14 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/709753_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Was Climate Change the Greatest Financial Scam in History?]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Environmental scholar Bjorn Lomborg recently calculated that across the globe, governments have spent at least $16 trillion feeding the climate change industrial complex.
And for what?
Arguably, not a single life has been or will be saved by this shameful and colossal misallocation of human resources. The war on safe and abundant fossil fuels has cost countless lives in poor countries and made those countries poorer by blocking affordable energy.
Since the global warming crusade started some 30 years ago, the temperature of the planet has not been altered by one-tenth of a degree -- as even...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/18/was_climate_change_the_greatest_financial_scam_in_history_153854.html</link>
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						<author>Stephen Moore</author><category>Stephen Moore</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/18/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 13:49:32 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/60/603496_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Year of the Independent]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Nearly half of Americans now refuse to identify as either Democrat or Republican. According to a recent Gallup poll, independents make up a record 45% of the electorate, compared to just 27% who identify as Democrats and 27% as Republicans. Yet our political system continues to operate as though this plurality doesn't exist - until now.
Both major political parties are facing widespread public dissatisfaction, with 58% of Americans viewing the Republican Party unfavorably and 61% expressing unfavorable views of the Democratic Party. As confidence in the parties erodes, 2026 is shaping up to...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/18/the_year_of_the_independent_153850.html</link>
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						<author>Adam Brandon</author><category>Adam Brandon</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/18/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 04:25:08 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/709266_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Remembering Ed Crane]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Within the last six months, two friends, both pioneers and giants in the world of ideas in Washington, D.C., passed from this world.
One, Ed Feulner, was the co-founder of the Heritage Foundation, which became the nation's defining policy institute for conservative ideas.
Now, last week, Ed Crane, the co-founder of the Cato Institute, passed away.
Ed Crane built Cato to become the major presence in the nation's capital for libertarian ideas and policy.
My personal involvement with Cato began in 1996 when I was invited to join the national advisory board for Cato's project to transform Social...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/18/remembering_ed_crane_153851.html</link>
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						<author>Star Parker</author><category>Star Parker</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/18/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 04:24:50 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/63/636346_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ How Relaxed COVID-Era Rules Fueled Minnesota&rsquo;s Biggest Scam]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ In my testimony before the Senate last week as chair of the Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and Oversight Committee, I outlined the genesis of Minnesota's massive fraud scandal, how it expanded under relaxed COVID-era rules, and what steps the federal government can take to help stop the theft of federal tax dollars throughout the country.  
Minnesota's fraud crisis didn't happen overnight; it took years. But it exploded when COVID hit, right when oversight was thrown out the window.
How did Minnesota get so bad? In March 2020, Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar authored a bill called the MEALS Act,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/17/how_relaxed_covid-era_rules_fueled_minnesotas_biggest_scam_153845.html</link>
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						<author>Kristin Robbins</author><category>Kristin Robbins</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/17/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 04:47:57 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/706144_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Virtually All Countries Support Voter Photo ID &ndash; So Why the Filibuster?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ "The bottom line is this: voter ID is not controversial in this country," Harry Enten, the chief data analyst for CNN, recently reported. Nor is it controversial in virtually any other country in the world. Yet despite massive support among both Democrats (71%) and Republicans (95%), only one Democratic member of the House and one in the Senate are supporting the SAVE Act. Unless seven more of the 47 Senate Democrats step forward, their filibuster will kill the bill.
Democrats argue that requiring free voter photo IDs - even when the ID itself costs nothing - harms eligible voters by creating...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/17/virtually_all_countries_support_voter_photo_id__so_why_the_filibuster.html</link>
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						<author>John R. Lott Jr.</author><category>John R. Lott Jr.</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/17/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:52:47 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/60/609998_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The End of Purple States and Competitive Districts]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The news of the Virginia General Assembly's creation of a 10-1 congressional district map should come as no surprise. The U.S. Supreme Court deferred to California and Texas as they chose to redraw their congressional districts to strengthen the presence of Democrats and Republicans, respectively, in Congress. The new Virginia map changes the Commonwealth from a purple state that has been a good bellwether of national political trends into a dark blue misrepresentation of our partisanship.
Sadly, this is nothing new.
The history of redistricting in the U.S. is sordid. Back in 1812, Gov....]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/17/the_end_of_purple_states_and_competitive_districts.html</link>
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						<author>Mark Rush</author><category>Mark Rush</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/17/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 04:48:24 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/63/638017_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Why Are Anti-ICE Activists Building Borders?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Anti-ICE activists in Minneapolis are setting up blockades.
They're demanding ID from drivers.
In short, they're setting up their own borders -- against America's laws and law enforcement.
It's not the first time "protesters" have done this.
Activists inspired by Black Lives Matter seized control over a portion of Seattle six years ago and christened their conquest the "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone" (CHAZ) or "Capitol Hill Occupation Protest" (CHOP).
A black teenager, Antonio Mays Jr., was shot and killed by what the Seattle-area ABC affiliate KOMO News calls "civilian guards who were acting...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/17/why_are_anti-ice_activists_building_borders_153849.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel McCarthy</author><category>Daniel McCarthy</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/17/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 04:48:42 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/709791_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Governors and Good Governance]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Americans who are understandably jaded by the state of American politics can take some heart in this year's 36 gubernatorial races, where voters still put a premium on thoughtful leadership and problem-solving. While most political observers focus on the congressional midterms or the 2028 presidential contest, the gubernatorial races are the ones worth watching. Those 36 races will produce at least 18 new governors, the most since 2010. A combination of congressional dysfunction, federal cuts, and the local nature of challenges like housing, public safety, and education funding and reform...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/16/governors_and_good_governance_153844.html</link>
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						<author>Colm O&#039;Comartun &amp; Gordon Larsen</author><category>Colm O&#039;Comartun &amp; Gordon Larsen</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/16/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 04:22:41 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/709297_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Privacy Laws Are Outmoded. Here&rsquo;s How To Update Them]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ When I joined Palantir in 2010 to cofound its Privacy and Civil Liberties Engineering team, the proliferation of Internet services and post-9/11 acknowledgement of intelligence failures signaled imminent updates to America's data privacy laws. If you had asked me then whether the Privacy Act of 1974, our nation's anchor legislation for overseeing the government's use of personal information, was ripe for an update, I'd have speculated that "it's surely coming any day now." Over a decade and a half later, I'm still waiting in dismay.
In 2026, we are living through transformative technological...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/15/privacy_laws_are_outmoded_heres_how_to_update_them_153843.html</link>
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						<author>Courtney Bowman</author><category>Courtney Bowman</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/15/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:01:18 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/709651_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump, Canada, and the Constitutional Problem Beneath the Bridge]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ President Trump has declared that he'll block the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge - a major infrastructure project connecting Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario - unless "the United States is fully compensated for everything we have given [Canada]."
President Trump is right: In the long run, the bridge is a raw deal for the United States (and I say that as a Canadian). As part of a deal struck between the Michigan Department of Transportation and the Canadian Government, Canada has an exclusive and perpetual right to charge tolls on the bridge. That's a serious compromise...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/14/trump_canada_and_the_constitutional_problem_beneath_the_bridge_153840.html</link>
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						<author>Tate Kaufman</author><category>Tate Kaufman</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/14/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 07:34:16 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/709611_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Small Businesses Compete&ndash;Why Can&rsquo;t Credit Card Companies?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Families aren't the only ones who've been struggling with affordability for years. So have the small businesses that power the American economy and create the majority of new jobs. There's no shortage of commonsense ideas to give job creators relief, but President Trump just highlighted one of the most important: Stop credit-card companies from ripping off Main Street.
This month, the president announced his support for the Credit Card Competition Act. At its core, this bipartisan bill would give small businesses the right to choose between multiple credit card processing networks. That's a...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/14/small_businesses_competewhy_cant_credit_card_companies_153841.html</link>
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						<author>Adam Temple</author><category>Adam Temple</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/14/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 07:33:57 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/709612_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ RealClear Is Here and We&rsquo;re Not Going Away: Samizdat Prize Is a Defense of Free-Speech Courage]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ There is a shared idea behind all prize programs, and here it is: We get the world we praise.
The arc of the future is bent by what we praise in the present.
Praise is an incentive. The human animal responds to incentives.
Why is it that with every passing year our movies get worse? The Oscars incentivize bad movies. 
Why with every passing year does journalism get worse? You can thank the stable geniuses running the Pulitzer Prize for that.
The Samizdat Prize's purpose - or the Samis, as we're calling them on their third birthday - is to grow the mind's share of free speech courage by...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/13/realclear_is_here_and_were_not_going_away_samizdat_prize_is_a_defense_of_free-speech_courage_153839.html</link>
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						<author>David DesRosiers</author><category>David DesRosiers</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/13/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:38:43 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/709601_1_.png" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump Has Blown His Immigration Advantage]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Exit polling from the 2024 election showed that voters were most drawn to Donald Trump for his promises to lower prices and control immigration. For his first two months in office, Americans mostly liked what they saw as border crossings dropped to a trickle. During that time, polling consistently showed a favorable rating in the double digits for his handling of immigration.
But by late spring, Americans' mood began to change as Trump's immigration policies evolved from controlling the border to making good on his promise of mass deportations. Trump had clearly promised to deport all...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/13/trump_has_blown_his_immigration_advantage_153833.html</link>
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						<author>Bill King</author><category>Bill King</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/13/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:20:49 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/654323_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ VA Dems Promised Good Governance. Weeks After Storm, Roads Tell Different Story]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ It has been nearly three weeks since a major storm dropped over a foot of snow across Northern Virginia, and residents still cannot safely walk to Metro stations, navigate neighborhood roads, or walk their dogs without stepping over frozen mounds of snow-crete. Drivers fare no better, creeping around blind corners where frozen snow stacks block sightlines, and navigating two-lane roads that narrow without warning to one, the second lane still buried under walls of packed snow. The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) has acknowledged that secondary roads and sidewalks remain...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/13/va_dems_promised_good_governance_weeks_after_storm_roads_tell_different_story_153838.html</link>
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						<author>Benjamin Jaros</author><category>Benjamin Jaros</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/13/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:20:28 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/709592_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ In the Midwest, Anti-ICE Democrats Are Failing America]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ As the Minnesota protests drag on, Democrats claim they have the moral high ground and public opinion on their side. Citing liberal pollsters, the left is intent on ignoring federal law altogether.
Ground Zero is the Midwest, including my home state of Illinois. The state has convened multiple public commissions to undermine the Trump administration's push to deport criminal illegal aliens - named "Operation Midway Blitz" - and vilify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as a "paramilitary force" terrorizing the region. Meanwhile, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker - James Carville's 2028...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/13/in_the_midwest_anti-ice_democrats_are_failing_america_153835.html</link>
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						<author>Rick Heidner</author><category>Rick Heidner</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/13/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Immigration Is Shaking Up Political Parties in Britain, Europe and the US]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ As British Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces calls to resign for his appointment of Epstein-tied Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United States, one is struck by the sudden instability of British governments. In the 28 years between 1979 and 2007, Britain had only three prime ministers, while in the 19 years since 2007, it has had seven, and may soon have eight. Only one of those, David Cameron, carried his party to a reelection victory, and he resigned a year after being beaten in the Brexit referendum.
It's not just leaders who have stumbled. Even historically long-lasting parties have....]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/13/immigration_is_shaking_up_political_parties_in_britain_europe_and_the_us_153836.html</link>
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						<author>Michael Barone</author><category>Michael Barone</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/13/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 06:37:43 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/709508_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Shut Up and Ski]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Does anyone really believe the international media cares what Olympic snowboarders and curlers think about President Donald Trump's ICE raids, or whatever panic de jour is on the menu this week? Of course not. They want U.S. athletes to bash the American government on the world stage.
Nothing stops athletes from speaking their mind about political issues whenever or wherever they like. Doing it at the Olympics is, at best, in poor form and, at worst, unpatriotic.
Skier Hunter Hess took the bait in Milan, or more likely, couldn't wait to preen for the foreign press, noting that he had "mixed...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/13/shut_up_and_ski_153837.html</link>
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						<author>David Harsanyi</author><category>David Harsanyi</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/13/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 06:38:00 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/709512_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Is Free Speech Really the Highest Value?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ On Wednesday evening, I attended the third annual RealClearMedia Samizdat Prize Gala in Palm Beach, Florida. RealClear, whose brands include its flagship RealClearPolitics website, is best known as a content and polling aggregator, and as an advocate of political and ideological diversity. Pursuant to that mission, the Samizdat Prize recognizes and honors leading champions of free speech from across the ideological spectrum. This year, the prize was given to longtime Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz, Irish-born comedy writer Graham Linehan and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk....]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/13/is_free_speech_really_the_highest_value_153834.html</link>
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						<author>Josh Hammer</author><category>Josh Hammer</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/13/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:36:00 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/707142_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Republicans and Democrats Are in Revolt &ndash; For Very Different Reasons]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ America's 250th anniversary is defined by one undeniable fact: Both sides of the aisle are in open revolt against elites. Nothing would make the founders more proud. They created this country through their own act of rebellion against an out-of-touch ruling class. But it's far from clear whether today's elites will be fully defeated - or if the country is doomed to suffer under another self-serving ruling class.
On the right, at least, the revolt has been underway for a decade. Before 2016, Republican voters had repeatedly backed go-along-to-get-along politicians - the Romneys, McCains, and...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/12/republicans_and_democrats_are_in_revolt__for_very_different_reasons_153825.html</link>
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						<author>John Tillman</author><category>John Tillman</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/12/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 06:39:45 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/709306_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ What&rsquo;s Next for Jimmy Lai?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ In deteriorating health and 78 years old, Jimmy Lai is not likely to survive the 20-year prison sentence that Hong Kong's kangaroo court handed him on Jan. 9. The Chinese Communist Party has ensured that the voice of this prominent media mogul and ardent defender of democracy will never be publicly heard from again, on anything. It accomplished this by distorting the territory's formerly celebrated judicial system and rule of law. Over a thousand democracy defenders have been imprisoned since Hong Kong's draconian national security law was imposed in 2020 and, as a mark of Lai's heroic...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/12/whats_next_for_jimmy_lai_153829.html</link>
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						<author>Nina Shea</author><category>Nina Shea</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/12/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 06:40:05 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/709378_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ If ICE Is Hamstrung, Hold on to Your Wallets]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ A new Harvard/Harris public opinion poll shows two-thirds of Americans now disapprove of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That spells trouble for taxpayers and everyone who wants safe neighborhoods.
A majority of Americans voted for President Donald Trump to enforce immigration laws. The poll, done just after the shooting of anti-ICE activist Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, indicates how Democratic political rhetoric and misleading media reports are causing most Americans to change their minds. Democrats in Congress are trying to hold back ICE funds.
If this growing movement to hamstring ICE...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/12/if_ice_is_hamstrung_hold_on_to_your_wallets_153831.html</link>
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						<author>Betsy McCaughey</author><category>Betsy McCaughey</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/12/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 06:40:24 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/708422_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Con Consuming American Politics]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ There is a growing sense of frustration coursing through American politics, and it is no longer confined to one party or ideology.
That frustration has real roots. Major institutions badly damaged their credibility during the COVID-19 pandemic, the excesses of the Black Lives Matter movement, and years of breathless coverage of Russiagate. At the same time, artificial intelligence looms over the labor market with few clear answers about what comes next. Add to that a political class that often appears shamelessly corrupt, and the result is a public that feels misled, ignored and exposed.
But...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/12/the_con_consuming_american_politics_153830.html</link>
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						<author>Ben Shapiro</author><category>Ben Shapiro</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/12/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 06:40:39 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/709422_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Israeli Lesson Democrats Ignore at Their Peril]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ What happens to democracy when a major political party loses its way and loses its connection with the electorate?
As an Israeli American and an independent U.S. voter, I've seen firsthand the damage that can be done in Israel, and now - if Democrats aren't careful - in America. We can't let the same mistakes happen here because a competitive party system is critical for a functioning democracy.
The Democratic Party is facing a serious challenge from the far left that mirrors the dynamics which drove the Israeli Labor Party from absolutely dominant to afterthought by the beginning of this...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/11/the_israeli_lesson_democrats_ignore_at_their_peril_153824.html</link>
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						<author>Gil Mandelzis</author><category>Gil Mandelzis</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/11/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:57:52 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/709305_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Peggy Noonan Loses Her Noodle Over Washington Post Layoffs]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Editorial writers can have a solipsistic tendency to think journalism jobs are the most essential jobs imaginable. We can revere the philosophical argument about the importance of a free press in keeping democracy viable without thinking every lost job at a media outlet is the decline and fall of America.
The Washington Post just cut 300 jobs -- not from national politics but from foreign bureaus, and book reviews and sports. That means the Post no longer boasts the full menu of newspaper offerings. Journalists don't beat their breasts like this when coal miners or auto workers are laid...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/11/peggy_noonan_loses_her_noodle_over_washington_post_layoffs_153826.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/11/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:58:30 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/709308_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Dow 50,000: A Supply-Side Miracle]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ When I first arrived in Washington in 1982, the Dow Jones hit a low of 800. You may not believe that, so feel free to look it up.
If anyone had predicted that in a little more four decades the Dow would surpass 50,000, they might have been admitted into a mental institution. But U.S. stocks have grown 60-fold (not counting inflation). Even accounting for inflation, the Dow is up about 12-fold.
We have lived through the greatest period of wealth creation in perhaps the history of the world.
No other nation has come even close in modern times. Consider that American publicly traded companies...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/11/dow_50000_a_supply-side_miracle_153827.html</link>
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						<author>Stephen Moore</author><category>Stephen Moore</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/11/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:58:14 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/709310_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Pass the SAVE America Act]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ At this writing, the House is expected to pass the SAVE (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility) America Act, after which it will move to the Senate.
The challenge will be in the Senate, where at least seven Democrats are needed to join 53 Republicans to reach the 60 needed to pass the filibuster plateau.
Should this bill be passed and signed into law? Absolutely.
The core premise of this bill is beyond any question or dispute -- that anyone voting in a federal election must be a U.S. citizen and provide documentation to prove it.
In a 2025 Pew Research survey, 83% said they favored requiring...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/11/pass_the_save_america_act_153828.html</link>
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						<author>Star Parker</author><category>Star Parker</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/11/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:57:32 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/708767_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Violence Is Politics by Other Means]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ American progressives often take to the streets when government actions displease them. Of late, many of their demonstrations are coordinated by well-funded Marxist and anarchist groups. Whether an antisemitic encampment at Columbia University, a protest opposing the arrest of former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, or a physical attack on ICE agents, the organizers include many of the same organizations, foreign money, and consistent goals.
The FBI is investigating Signal group chats used to coordinate anti-ICE protests. These groups, uncovered by journalist Cam Higby, use a network of...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/10/violence_is_politics_by_other_means_153818.html</link>
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						<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author><category>Kenin M. Spivak</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/10/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 06:26:02 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/709173_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ A Japanese Lesson for Troubled Britain]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The contrast between America's great island allies on opposite ends of the world couldn't be more drastic.
Japan has just given its commonsense conservative prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, a two-thirds supermajority in the national legislature's Lower House; her Liberal Democratic Party took the highest proportion of seats of any party since World War II.
It's an enormous vote of confidence not only in Takaichi's economic agenda but also for her willingness to get tough with China.
Beijing's mouthpieces have called Takaichi an "evil witch," with China's consul general in Osaka threatening,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/10/a_japanese_lesson_for_troubled_britain_153820.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel McCarthy</author><category>Daniel McCarthy</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/10/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 06:26:18 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/709218_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Solving the Next Labor Shortage]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ In the staffing business, you see it every day: There's a job opening here, a need for a specialized role to be filled over there, and another four openings that folks can inquire about inside a business should they be looking for work down the street. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), there were 7.2 million open jobs in August 2025.
It remains a relatively low job open rate at just 4.3% - for now. The reality is that our nation is heading toward a potential labor shortage of our own making. Whether it's on social media or in the newspaper, or even in our own Wisconsin...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/10/solving_the_next_labor_shortage_153819.html</link>
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						<author>Scott Mayer</author><category>Scott Mayer</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/10/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 06:26:32 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/709193_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Democrats Face a Demographic Doom Spiral]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ President Donald Trump isn't just deporting illegal immigrants. He's deporting the people Democrats need to offset their demographic challenges.
The Census Bureau recently released updated population figures through June 2025. The country grew slightly but that growth wasn't equally distributed. Many red states, like South Carolina, Idaho and Texas, grew significantly. In just one year, each of those states saw their population increase by more than 1%.
Blue states aren't keeping up. California, Illinois and New York now have fewer people than in 2020. In contrast, Florida's population is up...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/10/democrats_face_a_demographic_doom_spiral_153821.html</link>
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						<author>Victor Joecks</author><category>Victor Joecks</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/10/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 06:27:04 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/655455_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Faith, Not Foul-Mouthed Scolds, Shined at the Grammys]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ After the Grammy Awards aired live from Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles before 12,000 attendees and millions of viewers worldwide, the one speech that has resonated most centered on faith and redemption, delivered by a man named Jason DeFord, better known as Jelly Roll.
As DeFord stepped up to accept his Best Contemporary Country Album award, he spoke through emotion about the long road that carried him from the criminal justice system to the very stage where he now stood.
And in a moment when the spotlight could have been used to lecture half the country for thinking differently, he chose...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/10/faith_not_foul-mouthed_scolds_shined_at_the_grammys_153822.html</link>
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						<author>Salena Zito</author><category>Salena Zito</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/10/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 06:26:50 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/709222_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Why Is There So Much Lying in Politics Today?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Lying in politics has changed. Politicians used to lie in hopes of getting away with it. Now they don't care. If you throw enough mud on the windshield, some of it will stick.
Case in point: Sen. Dick Durbin's use on the Senate floor of an obviously doctored image of immigration agents pointing a gun at the back of Alex Pretti's head. One of the agents in the image is even missing a head. The picture is still circulating. Nothing dies on the internet.
If you want to provide an instance of a lie on the other side of the aisle, feel free. My point isn't partisan.
Decades ago, one of my grad...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/09/why_is_there_so_much_lying_in_politics_today_153817.html</link>
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						<author>J. Budziszewski</author><category>J. Budziszewski</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/09/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:10:30 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/709098_1_.png" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Affordability and Epstein Are Dems&rsquo; Bread and Circuses]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ It's already been decided that the 2026 midterm elections will be won or lost on the issue of "affordability."
Just turn on any political podcast or cable news show - or read the twice-daily ActBlue texts begging for money for the latest cookie-cutter Democrat - and you'll hear the word on an endless loop.
Apparently we are living through an affordability crisis. In one sense, that means things are more expensive than they used to be. No surprise there. I remember when gasoline cost 29 cents a gallon - but the median family income was barely five grand. Prices rise, wages follow, and they...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/09/affordability_and_epstein_are_dems_bread_circuses_153814.html</link>
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						<author>Frank Miele</author><category>Frank Miele</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/09/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ How &lsquo;Structural Racism&rsquo; Came To Dominate Medical Research]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The president's recent push to send federal health care dollars directly to individuals, rather than insurers, reflects a broader demand for transparency and effectiveness in how public funds are used. Government-funded medical research, which forms the foundation of much clinical care, also requires such scrutiny. In recent years, academic medicine has advanced a nebulous theory of "structural racism" that echoes the 19th century miasma idea which blamed disease on "bad air." Despite scant evidence, studies attempting to validate this vague framework have multiplied, often funded by largely...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/08/how_structural_racism_came_to_dominate_medical_research_153813.html</link>
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						<author>Howard Fenn &amp; Kurt Miceli</author><category>Howard Fenn &amp; Kurt Miceli</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/08/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 08:18:55 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/693944_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Political Reality of Rising Electricity Prices]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Politics is often theatre and the art of the blame. With electricity prices increasing, the Democrats are ramping up to blame Donald Trump and Big Data for that affordability "crisis."
A recent story in the Financial Times is typical of what's being claimed by illustrating the rise in residential electricity rates from January to November 2025, a ridiculously short period for a market where polices over the past decade, not the past year, determine today's prices. But, if one does look at the last year, that data shows the 15 states with the largest increases, 11 voted Republican. The blame...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/08/the_political_reality_of_rising_electricity_prices_153816.html</link>
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						<author>Jonathan Lesser &amp; Isaac Orr</author><category>Jonathan Lesser &amp; Isaac Orr</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/08/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 16:01:12 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/709023_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Democrats Are Truly the Party of Nonsense]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Senator Chuck Schumer and Congressman Hakeem Jeffries may call it common-sense solutions, but I would call their list of 40 demands for amnesty-like attacks on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, nothing less than abolishing ICE altogether, and returning to President Biden's catastrophic open-borders policy is their not-so-hidden agenda.
If you go through their list, you can see that they are siding once again with the far-left wing of the Democratic party that wants to abolish, defund, and damage ICE.
They can't defund it cause it's already funded from the One, Big, Beautiful, Bill, with...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/06/democrats_are_truly_the_party_of_nonsense_153812.html</link>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/06/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 06:39:02 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/708978_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Is This the End of Transgender Hysteria?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ A few years ago, things looked pretty bleak for skeptics of transgenderism -- those of us who have great compassion for those afflicted by what the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders long referred to as the "disorder" of gender dysphoria, but who refuse to accept the lie that a man can become a woman or a woman can become a man.
During the 2020 presidential race, then-candidate Joe Biden tweeted, "Transgender equality is the civil rights issue of our time." As president in 2023, Biden followed up by stating, "Transgender people are some of the bravest Americans I know."...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/06/is_this_the_end_of_transgender_hysteria_153810.html</link>
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						<author>Josh Hammer</author><category>Josh Hammer</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/06/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 06:39:13 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/64/646490_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Don&#039;t Cry for The Washington Post, It Helped Destroy Media]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ In December of 2016, The Washington Post reported that Russian hackers had penetrated the U.S. electricity grid through a Vermont utility company, leaving millions without heat.
This was serious stuff. President Barack Obama, the paper ominously noted, was concerned that Moscow might also "disrupt the counting of votes on Election Day, potentially leading to a wider conflict."
As it turned out, the piece had some journalistic lapses, namely that it had failed to report that the laptop in question wasn't connected to the grid, so there was no way Russian malware could have crashed the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/06/dont_cry_for_the_washington_post_it_helped_destroy_media_153809.html</link>
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						<author>David Harsanyi</author><category>David Harsanyi</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/06/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 06:40:57 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/708868_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Midterm Palpitations]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Recent regional special elections have seen Democratic candidates win a number of special election races.
Now energized left-wing politicos remind the nation daily that every incumbent president, except three over the last century, has suffered substantial midterm losses in Congress.
Polls show President Donald Trump suffering an average 11-point negative unfavorability rating.
So Democrats promise to soon stop all new legislation and end Trump and his counterrevolution itself.
But the left will never offer any alternative agenda on the economy, the border, crime, or foreign policy.
Instead,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/06/midterm_palpitations_153811.html</link>
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						<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author><category>Victor Davis Hanson</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/06/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 06:39:30 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/708899_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Young America&rsquo;s Affordability Crisis Has Political Consequences]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ One and a half million more young adults live with their parents today than a decade ago. They're losers ... economically. 
Since the pandemic, fair market rents have increased as much as 40% in Chicago, the cost of owning a car is up more than 40%, and car insurance and health care prices have spiked. Student loan debt has quadrupled since 2000, and entry-level wages haven't kept pace with inflation.
For young people without financial or family support, it's an affordability crisis that feels insurmountable. Cost of living was Gen Z's top political issue in 2024; they feel the "American...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/06/young_americas_affordability_crisis_has_political_consequences_153805.html</link>
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						<author>Micky Horstman</author><category>Micky Horstman</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/06/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 06:40:22 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/67/677007_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Gordian Knot of Modern Politics]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Politics is the great leveler: It makes even the most inspired and insightful voices sound banal.
In his hurriedly cobbled-together new song railing against "King Trump's" immigration policies, the supremely talented Bruce Springsteen sounds like a million other angry Blue Sky posters as he lambasted the "occupier's boots," brought down against "Citizens [who] stood for justice."
Accepting her Song of the Year Grammy on Sunday, Billy Eilish offered support to anti-ICE protestors by mouthing the mindless slogan, "Nobody is illegal on stolen land."
Artists have every right to express their...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/06/the_gordian_knot_of_modern_politics_153806.html</link>
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						<author>J. Peder Zane</author><category>J. Peder Zane</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/06/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:16:27 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/708944_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Pollsters Don&#039;t Ask if Anti-ICE Activists Have &#039;Gone Too Far&#039;]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The unrest in Minneapolis has died down, and the Trump administration is pulling 700 immigration-enforcement offers out of the area. But all of the national media scrutiny has obsessed over Team Trump. They have rarely acted to "hold government accountable" when the governing comes from Democrats, Gov. Tim Walz or Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.
NPR was eagerly touting their new NPR/PBS Marist Poll to underline the effectiveness of their advocacy: 65% of Americans, up from 54% in June of 2025, think the actions of ICE have "gone too far" in enforcing immigration laws, and 62% say the actions of...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/06/pollsters_dont_ask_if_anti-ice_activists_have_gone_too_far_153808.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/06/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 06:39:47 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/708973_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Too Many Sperm, Too Few Families]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Russian billionaire Pavel Durov has made his frozen sperm available worldwide through his Altra Vita clinic. He claims that he is doing this to alleviate a shortage of "high-quality donor material." And he adds that his sperm has fathered at least 100 children in at least 12 countries. Then we read of Chinese billionaires going outside of China, where domestic surrogacy is illegal, to quietly have large numbers of U.S.-born babies. Specifically, Xu Bo, a Chinese billionaire, claims to have more than 100 children born through surrogacy in the U.S. More than that, this online gaming billionaire...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/05/too_many_sperm_too_few_families_153803.html</link>
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						<author>Joe McIlhaney</author><category>Joe McIlhaney</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/05/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:01:56 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/708835_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Midterms Are Democrats&#039; to Lose]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Democrats are buzzing over the surprise victory of Taylor Rehmet in a Texas state senate race. Rehmet won by 14 points in a Fort Worth-area district Donald Trump carried by 17 points in 2024.
That outcome inspired a piece by Republican strategist Karl Rove titled "Midterms Are Dems' to Lose -- and They May." Rove doesn't gloss over Republicans' weak spots -- the president's dismal approval ratings, falling consumer confidence and the daily churn of Trump-fueled chaos. But he also notes the Democrats' penchant for nominating far-left activists in moderate districts, candidates who inevitably...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/05/the_midterms_are_democrats_to_lose_153804.html</link>
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						<author>Froma Harrop</author><category>Froma Harrop</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/05/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:02:18 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/708827_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Warning Signs for Republicans in 2026]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Republicans are beginning to sound the alarm about the 2026 midterm elections, and not without reason. The concern was crystallized by a Texas state Senate race in a district President Donald Trump carried by 17 points in 2024 but which recently shifted 14 points toward Democrats -- a staggering 31-point swing.
That race is not an anomaly. Republicans closely tracking special elections from Texas to Mississippi to Georgia are seeing the same troubling pattern: deep-red districts drifting, sometimes sharply, toward Democrats. These are not battlegrounds. They are places Republicans typically...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/05/warning_signs_for_republicans_in_2026_153802.html</link>
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						<author>Ben Shapiro</author><category>Ben Shapiro</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/05/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:02:34 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/62/629438_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Is Trump Losing the Plot? There&rsquo;s Still Time To Fix It]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Donald Trump did not win the 2024 election because America suddenly became meaningfully more Republican.
He won because voters, many of them independents and crossover Democrats, many of them young, had lost trust in the system and believed he was willing to confront it. In our (Rasmussen) final 2024 polling, 42% of Trump's electorate came from independents and Democrats. That is not a MAGA monoculture. It is a fragile coalition built on one thing: accountability.
Voters did not elect Trump to manage decline. They elected him to fix things that were not working. That is why DOGE mattered. For...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/04/is_trump_losing_plot_theres_still_time_to_fix_it_153796.html</link>
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						<author>Mark Mitchell</author><category>Mark Mitchell</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/04/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Why 2028 May Be Democrats&rsquo; Last Best Chance]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ If Democrats don't win the presidency in 2028, they may have a long wait. Four years later in 2032, their path to 270 electoral votes gets even steeper and their anti-Trump rhetoric will sound even staler. The next presidential election may not be "now or never" for Democrats, but their future looks much worse without it. 
According to the American Redistricting Project's estimates from the census's latest 2030 projections, 11 electoral votes and congressional seats will shift as follows: four from California and one each from Oregon, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/04/why_2028_may_be_democrats_last_best_chance_153791.html</link>
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						<author>J.T. Young</author><category>J.T. Young</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/04/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 04:50:49 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/708613_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Immigration Reform Can&rsquo;t Wait Another 40 Years]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Forty years ago, Congress passed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.
It was the last time our legislature passed a comprehensive immigration reform, and it helps explain how immigration has become a festering wound that will not heal.
The events in Minneapolis these past few weeks have pushed America to the breaking point. Hopefully, it wakes up our leaders to the reality that the time for posturing and politicking on immigration has long passed. More people will die if this continues. It is time for Congress to do its job and fix our broken immigration system.
Last week,...]]></description>
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						<author>Dan Webb</author><category>Dan Webb</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/04/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 04:50:31 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/708685_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Grab Your Grammy, Then Get Hammy About Illegal Immigrants]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The entertainment awards shows used to be wildly popular on TV before the audience shattered into a thousand pieces. When a celebrity decided to make a pompous political statement, it was memorable -- like in 1973, when Marlon Brando sent an Indian activist named Sacheen Littlefeather to refuse his Oscar for "The Godfather" in protest.
Brando wanted to highlight how Indians were badly portrayed by Hollywood -- as he made an Italian mobster movie, which surely didn't lead to any ethnic stereotyping whatsoever.
For the last 10 years, awards shows have predictably erupted in melodramatic...]]></description>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/04/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Americans Vote With Their Feet]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ It may seem that it's impossible to get anything done in Washington these days.
Nevertheless, the free spirit of Americans cannot be suppressed.
Americans are voting with their feet.
Per the Census Bureau's just released annual report on population growth and migration in the U.S., Americans are packing up and moving from anti-growth blue states to pro-growth red states.
Top five in population growth from July 1, 2024, to July 1, 2025: South Carolina, Idaho, North Carolina, Delaware, Tennessee.
Top five in population loss: New York, Hawaii, Alaska, District of Columbia, California.
Seven of...]]></description>
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						<author>Star Parker</author><category>Star Parker</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/04/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump Was Right About Tariffs]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ In case you didn't see it, late Friday afternoon President Trump posted an op-ed piece on the Wall Street Journal website entitled: "My Tariffs Have Brought America Back," and it appeared in the Saturday morning print edition.
I don't think people focused on it because everybody was talking about Mr. Trump's superb nomination of Kevin Warsh to be Fed chairman. Yet it's worth revisiting his piece, which is kind of a rebuttal to all the criticisms by the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board, regarding Mr. Trump's tariff policies.
Anyway, the president makes a lot of important points. For one...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/03/trump_was_right_about_tariffs_153794.html</link>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/03/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Trump Coalition Wins But the GOP Brand Doesn&#039;t]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Just how badly did Republicans do in two Texas special elections last weekend?
Not as badly as apocalyptic headlines in liberal-leaning outlets would suggest -- but badly enough that Republicans nationwide have to learn some searing lessons.
Although the GOP lost both races, one was for a U.S. House seat that's been in Democrats' hands for decades: Christian Menefee's victory narrows the GOP's congressional majority, but only because that safely blue seat had been vacant since Rep. Sylvester Turner died last March.
The other contest, which yielded an upset, was for a Texas state senate seat...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/03/the_trump_coalition_wins_but_the_gop_brand_doesnt_153793.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel McCarthy</author><category>Daniel McCarthy</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/03/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:38:36 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/708362_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ South Korea&rsquo;s Coupang Crackdown Risks a Bilateral Crisis]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ President Trump's announcement that tariffs on South Korean goods will be increased from 15% to 25% comes as no surprise.
Last November, the President mandated that South Korea not discriminate against American businesses. Unfortunately, the mandate has been blatantly violated with South Korea's treatment of American e-commerce giant Coupang.
Coupang is a Fortune 150 U.S. technology company and a major channel for billions of dollars in U.S. exports to South Korea.
So why has the company been targeted? Here's your answer.
Last year, Coupang made headlines due to a low-security data leak. The...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/03/south_koreas_coupang_crackdown_risks_a_bilateral_crisis_153790.html</link>
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						<author>Jason Chung</author><category>Jason Chung</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/03/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:38:52 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/708611_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ A Texas Political Shock Republicans Can&rsquo;t Ignore]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Until Saturday night, Texas Senate District 9 had been represented by a Republican for over 30 years. In 2022, Kelly Hancock won the seat by 20 points. Last November, Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris in the district by 17 points. So when Hancock stepped down to accept the appointment as controller, Republicans had little reason think the seat would be in jeopardy.
But on Saturday, Democrat Taylor Rehmet trounced his Republican opponent by over 14 points - a 31-point swing since the 2024 election. The results have sent shock waves through the Texas Republican establishment.
Some Republican...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/03/a_texas_political_shock_republicans_cant_ignore_153789.html</link>
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						<author>Bill King</author><category>Bill King</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/03/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:39:26 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/68/686129_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Choices That We Make]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ WHEELING, West Virginia -- West Virginia is the only state in the United States that is located entirely within the 13-state, 423-county Appalachian region. Much of the beauty, sorrow and challenges we think of when it comes to the region originated here, where isolation, a strong work ethic and an ability to spin a good story are well-regarded characteristics.
Indeed, they are the beating heart of a state born during the American Civil War, when 55 counties split and formed West Virginia, giving rise to an independent, patriotic and hardworking people who have been here for...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/03/the_choices_that_we_make_153792.html</link>
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						<author>Salena Zito</author><category>Salena Zito</category><pubdate>2026/02</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>02/03/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:39:10 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/60/606498_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Why the Midterm Math Is Starting To Favor Democrats]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ If history is any guide, Democrats will have a much better year than Republicans in the upcoming midterms. This is because historically the party out of power (currently the Democrats) almost always picks up seats in the immediate election after a presidential candidate of the opposing party (Donald Trump) is elected. This trend is so ingrained that Democrats to this day congratulate themselves for holding net Republican gains in the House of Representatives to "only 10" seats in the 2022 midterms when Joe Biden was president - even though control of Congress switched to the GOP.
Today, the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/30/why_the_midterm_math_is_starting_to_favor_democrats_153786.html</link>
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						<author>James Lee</author><category>James Lee</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/30/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Poll Finds a Fractured Country With Little Faith in Fixes]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ The latest poll from RealClear Opinion Research, sponsored by Unite America, finds that the American people are in a surly mood. Skepticism about the future of the Republic abounds, and Americans are in the mood for wide-reaching political reforms. At the same time, though, Americans' cynicism runs so deep that they're skeptical the changes they support will often make an impact.
The survey, taken of 1,500 registered voters, has a credible interval of +/- 2.4%. It finds that Americans are deeply concerned about the future of the country. Some 87% of respondents are concerned about the level...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/30/poll_finds_a_fractured_country_with_little_faith_in_fixes_153784.html</link>
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						<author>Sean Trende</author><category>Sean Trende</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/30/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Minneapolis Chaos Hurts Trump Approval, Even With Republicans]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ On Jan. 7, the day Renee Good was killed by a Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis, President Trump's approval appeared to be trending in a positive direction. At the time, it had risen to -8.2, up from the lows of the government shutdown where it bottomed out at -13.1. However, since chaos erupted in Minneapolis, Trump's approval has fallen again, and a new poll finds the decline is directly tied to the unrest.
A Daily Mail/J.L. Partners poll conducted Jan. 26 among 1,027 registered voters after the controversial shooting of Alex Pretti by CBP agents during a Jan. 24...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/30/minneapolis_chaos_hurts_trump_approval_even_with_republicans_153783.html</link>
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						<author>Jonathan Draeger</author><category>Jonathan Draeger</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Do Not Listen to the Schumer Open Border Crowd]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Far be it from me to encourage a government shutdown. Especially one that would shut down the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the midst of bad winter storms, or close down the Secret Service, remembering the assassination attempts on President Trump's life.
That's all you get if you defund the Department of Homeland Security in a continuing resolution, because the immigration deportation effort has already been financed to the tune of about $75 billion in the One, Big, Beautiful Bill that was signed last summer.
It just doesn't make any sense. It's about as dumb as dirt.
I have a...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/30/do_not_listen_to_the_schumer_open_border_crowd_153781.html</link>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/30/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 06:42:01 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/706774_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Moderation Is the Most Disruptive Movement in American Politics]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Every election cycle, Washington convinces itself that this will be the moment voters finally come home. Republicans think frustrated Americans will sprint back to the GOP once Democrats take a stance that is too radical or progressive. Democrats are convinced suburban moderates will return the favor the moment Republicans nominate someone who tweets before thinking. They're both wrong.
A growing share of voters is doing something far more interesting: walking away from both parties altogether. A growing body of evidence suggests that this isn't a fluke or a phase. It may be the early signal...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/30/moderation_is_the_most_disruptive_movement_in_american_politics_153775.html</link>
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						<author>Christian Josi</author><category>Christian Josi</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/30/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 06:42:20 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/63/638652_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Big Surprises in the 2030 Census Estimates]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ About a month late, presumably due to last fall's government shutdown, the Census Bureau has released its estimates of the populations of the 50 states and the District of Columbia for July 1, 2025.
It provides an interesting picture of what the country is, and is becoming, halfway through the decade of the 2020s and one-quarter of the way through (have we really gotten this far?) the 21st century. It also provides some political dynamite, all the more explosive because of Census Bureau statisticians' deserved reputation for apolitical rigor and willingness to admit mistakes, as it did on the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/30/big_surprises_in_the_2030_census_estimates_153780.html</link>
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						<author>Michael Barone</author><category>Michael Barone</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/30/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 06:43:15 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/708364_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Elitist Media Still Impose a Dominant Partisan Narrative]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Conservatives could look at today's incredibly fractured media environment and wonder why anyone would need to worry about the elite media, considering their trust numbers are in the basement (except among liberals) and their audiences keep eroding.
But just breathe the media air any day, and what we used to call the "dominant media" still dominates in setting the political agenda -- in determining what everyone talks about. There was an old maxim that the media can't tell you what to think, but they'll tell you what to think about.
This again came to mind when MS NOW host Nicolle Wallace...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/30/the_elitist_media_still_impose_a_dominant_partisan_narrative_153776.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/30/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 06:42:42 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/708361_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Price Controls Won&#039;t Work Any Better for Republicans Than It Does Democrats]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Demonizing greedy bankers and landlords is the last refuge of the poorly polling politician.
And, as affordability remains a leading issue among voters, the Trump administration has regularly used rhetoric and ideas that mirror those of progressive Democrats like Zohran Mamdani.
Take the president's recent idea for capping credit card interest rates at 10%. Or rather, the idea that's already proposed in a bill sponsored by Sens. Bernie Sanders and Josh Hawley. "They've really abused the public," the president said of credit card companies. "I'm not going to let it happen."
This probably feels...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/30/price_controls_wont_work_any_better_for_republicans_than_it_does_democrats_153777.html</link>
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						<author>David Harsanyi</author><category>David Harsanyi</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/30/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 06:43:31 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/708362_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Immigration Fairy Tales]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Last Saturday, federal border patrol agents shot and killed progressive protestor Alex Pretti in Minnesota. After his death, a video surfaced from a week earlier where Pretti had spat on border patrol agents and violently kicked an agent's car.
Some on the right are, through implication, suggesting Pretti got what he deserved. Some on the left suggest agents killed Pretti on Saturday as an act of revenge for the prior encounter. Both views are wrong and unfortunate.
We know that Pretti died after being disarmed by border patrol agents. It was a tragedy. It did not have to happen. We also now...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/30/immigration_fairy_tales_153778.html</link>
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						<author>Erick Erickson</author><category>Erick Erickson</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/30/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 06:42:57 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/708363_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Rise of the New Confederacy]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ "What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun," King Solomon famously observed in the Koheleth (Book of Ecclesiastes). Truer words have never been written. Look no further than the present anarchic tumult in Minnesota.
On Jan. 12, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison initiated a lawsuit on behalf of the North Star State, along with municipal co-plaintiffs Minneapolis and St. Paul, against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Todd Lyons and the rest of the Trump...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/30/the_rise_of_the_new_confederacy_153779.html</link>
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						<author>Josh Hammer</author><category>Josh Hammer</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/30/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 06:44:06 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/707959_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Elon&rsquo;s Perfect Problem]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[  It was the most telling line of Davos 2026.
In the World Economic Forum's closing interview, host Larry Fink asked Elon Musk whether his planned deployment of thousands of humanoid robots and autonomous driving vehicles might deprive millions of people of meaningful enterprise, value, and purpose.
Musk's flat response: "Well, nothing's perfect."
There may be nothing else you need to know about Musk - or, perhaps, Davos. Indifference to human dignity demeans us all. It was badly off-key for reasons both mundane and profound. Obviously, many things are perfect, and anything that deprives...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/29/elons_perfect_problem_153773.html</link>
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						<author>Terrence Keeley</author><category>Terrence Keeley</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/29/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 06:33:01 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/704900_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Tranquility Is a Drama Trump Can Win]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The Preamble to the U.S. Constitution sets forth six purposes of the revolutionary experiment in self-government - the first being the lyrical goal of forming "a more perfect union." The other five are "to establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for common defense, promote the general welfare," and finally, "to secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity."
These six lofty goals are the purpose of our government and the basis upon which the American people - and those around the world - judge our nation. Fail at one or more of these goals, and the people...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/29/tranquility_is_a_drama_trump_can_win_153770.html</link>
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						<author>Richard Porter</author><category>Richard Porter</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/29/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 06:33:14 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/708215_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Manchin and Kennedy: Two Profiles in Courage]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ This is a tale of two memoirs by two senators. To borrow further from Charles Dickens, they illustrate why we live in "the best of times" and "the worst of times."
One senator is John Kennedy of Louisiana. He still serves. The other is Joe Manchin of West Virginia. He stepped down before the last election. 
The books have parallels. Both authors recount their inspirational parents, their wonderful wives and kids, their unpremeditated entry into politics, and their defiant political courage.
The first three points are canned story lines of the stump speech variety. I suspect they will make...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/29/manchin_and_kennedy_two_profiles_in_courage_153772.html</link>
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						<author>John Maxwell Hamilton</author><category>John Maxwell Hamilton</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/29/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 06:33:56 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/67/672552_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Democrats Using Shutdown Threat To Rewrite Immigration Enforcement]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Another government shutdown looks increasingly likely by the end of the week. Democrats are demanding that major changes to Department of Homeland Security enforcement policy be written directly into the budget agreement. Those changes would largely shut down President Trump's deportation efforts.
Trump has already made some changes. For example, DHS removed Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino - who had become a political lightning rod - from his assignment in Minneapolis. Democrats, however, are pressing for far more sweeping changes. They want to require judicial warrants for immigration...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/29/democrats_using_shutdown_threat_to_rewrite_immigration_enforcement_153769.html</link>
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						<author>John R. Lott Jr.</author><category>John R. Lott Jr.</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/29/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 06:34:13 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/708207_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Racial Gerrymandering Case Does Not Gut Voting Rights Act]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ There has been quite a bit of pearl-clutching over Louisiana v. Callais, a Supreme Court case about a second majority-black congressional district in Louisiana. Drawn last year, Louisiana's Sixth District stretches from Baton Rouge, in the southeastern portion of Louisiana, all the way to the northwestern corner of the state.
A group of Louisiana voters challenged the drawing of the Sixth District, claiming that race was the sole reason for its creation. 
The Legal Defense Fund said the lawsuit was an attempt to "once again undermine Black Louisianians' political power." The Southern Poverty...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/28/racial_gerrymandering_case_does_not_gut_voting_rights_act_153761.html</link>
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						<author>Andy Jackson</author><category>Andy Jackson</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/28/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:53:44 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/708111_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Defending Charity in an Age of Political Mistrust]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ By many measures, we are living in one of the most divisive moments in our nation's nearly 250-year history. Disagreement has hardened into mistrust. Americans are trading blame.  As we saw in Karl Zinsmeister's recent op-ed, even the deeply American commitment to charitable giving is increasingly under scrutiny.
With mistrust distorting perceptions of philanthropy, a concerning narrative is taking hold. This narrative, visible in Zinsmeister's piece and elsewhere, holds that the generosity we disagree with is inherently suspect, even illegal. A clear-eyed view of how charitable foundations...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/28/defending_charity_in_an_age_of_political_mistrust_153762.html</link>
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						<author>Kathleen Enright</author><category>Kathleen Enright</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/28/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:54:22 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/708125_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Why Not Obey the Laws?]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Just a few moments ago in Iowa, President Trump was riffing about closing the border, safety and law and order in the country, including by the way Minnesota.
"But remember this," he said. "Even in Minnesota, the crime is down. And you know why? Because of what we did. We took out thousands of criminals, career criminals, bad criminals, people that came in from Venezuela."
And he's also speaking about the Trump boom. Even today the S&P hit a record high, as the Trump boom continues with its business boom, productivity boom, profits boom, AI boom, and declining energy and gasoline prices.
The...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/28/why_not_obey_the_laws_153763.html</link>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/28/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:57:52 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/707947_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Mamdani&#039;s Cruel Homeless Policy: Frozen Corpses and Blighted Neighborhoods]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The Big Apple is about to take on a new name -- Tent City, or Filth City. Or perhaps Lepto City, after leptospirosis, a bacterial infection increasingly found in homeless encampments.
New York's new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, is barring the New York Police Department from closing down encampments.
Since Mamdani previewed his policy in December, new encampments are emerging in many neighborhoods. The consequences are dire both for vagrants and for the city's viability.
Between Friday, when the city was hit with a bone-chilling winter storm, and Sunday night, eight people were found dead outdoors,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/28/mamdanis_cruel_homeless_policy_frozen_corpses_and_blighted_neighborhoods_153767.html</link>
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						<author>Betsy McCaughey</author><category>Betsy McCaughey</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/28/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:54:57 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/708154_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Mr. President, Please Free Caleb Bailey]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ "How can the life of such a man / Be in the palm of some fool's hand?" -- Bob Dylan, "Hurricane"
You've probably never heard of Caleb Bailey, but he is a political prisoner who has been locked behind bars for nearly eight years; nine more years remain on his sentence.
Anyone who has publicly supported Donald Trump should cringe when hearing the facts of his case.
In his state of residence, Maryland, violent rapists, armed robbers and kidnappers have received shorter prison sentences. Yet Caleb has never in his life committed a violent act.
Not once.
So why is he in prison serving a term of 16...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/28/mr_president_please_free_caleb_bailey_153768.html</link>
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						<author>Stephen Moore</author><category>Stephen Moore</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/28/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:55:16 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/708155_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Never Let Leftists Say They Are the First Amendment Stalwarts]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The leftist media cabal constantly imagine themselves as the grand embodiment of Democracy and Freedom of Speech, even as they seek to put Republicans in jail and hope to censor them out of speaking on social media. They don't live up to their First Amendment boasting.
For example, there's "CNN International" host Christiane Amanpour, whose leftist ravings are also broadcast on PBS stations. On Jan. 23, Amanpour led off her show with this attack on President Donald Trump: "He says he's bringing free speech back to America, but one year into Trump 2.0, few presidents have done as much to...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/28/never_let_leftists_say_they_are_the_first_amendment_stalwarts_153766.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/28/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:54:06 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/61/618543_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trumponomics and the Fed: Appoint One of the Two Kevins]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Now I'm going to  leave the Minneapolis situation to President Trump and Tom Homan and others who know far more about it than I do.
All I wish to do is reaffirm my support for the police and law and order. And I want to reaffirm my opposition to left-wing groups who are constantly opposed to the police and law and order.
Instead, as Mr. Trump returned from Davos, I want to emphasize first that he is standing on top of the world, in terms of American achievements and influence.
And second, new numbers coming out today showing the American business investment boom continues to intensify.
In...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/27/trumponomics_and_the_fed_appoint_one_of_the_two_kevins_153757.html</link>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/27/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:42:32 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/708015_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ How Republicans Can Make DFL Pay for Fraud Scandal]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Minnesota Republicans must avoid the shiny celebrity to have a shot at winning the governor's race.
Over the past few weeks, ICE shootings in Minnesota have dominated the political headlines. The deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti have resulted in unrest and a war of words between Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on one side and the Trump administration on the other. While Republicans at a national level are right to focus on immigration issues, the situation creates unique political cover for Walz and the Democrats. If Republicans want to win the governor's mansion...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/27/how_republicans_can_make_dfl_pay_for_fraud_scandal_153759.html</link>
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						<author>Matt Cookson</author><category>Matt Cookson</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/27/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 04:46:01 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/708030_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Canada Should Warm to Trump&#039;s Arctic Plans]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Donald Trump's Arctic strategy has been 500 years in the making.
When Christopher Columbus set sail across the Atlantic in 1492, he intended to find a direct path from Europe to Asia.
He didn't, of course -- but the first transatlantic explorer to sail under an English flag, John Cabot, tried again a few years later and became the first modern explorer to reach what is now Canada.
The commercial potential of the Northwest Passage was obvious from the start, but even once explorers at last figured out how to thread their way through the Arctic's ice and islands, there was no possibility of...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/27/canada_should_warm_to_trumps_arctic_plans_153760.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel McCarthy</author><category>Daniel McCarthy</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/27/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 04:45:22 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/708041_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump Should Use Federal Funds &ndash; Not Just Cut Them]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The Trump administration swept into office with a noble goal: Burn federal grantmaking to the ground. Taxpayers throw hundreds of billions of dollars at nonprofits each year, propping up a massive number of special interest groups while encouraging enormous waste, fraud, and abuse. Yet while the White House made progress, cutting at least $10 billion in grants through the Department of Government Efficiency alone, the spending spigot is still mostly open and difficult to close without congressional action.
A year in, President Trump should expand his strategy. While continuing its efforts to...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/27/trump_should_use_federal_funds__not_just_cut_them_153758.html</link>
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						<author>Kristina Rasmussen &amp; Chad Mizelle</author><category>Kristina Rasmussen &amp; Chad Mizelle</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/27/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 04:45:41 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/708025_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ WH Contradicts FBI Director: Law-Abiding Protestors &lsquo;Have Right To Bear Arms&rsquo;]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ In the wake of the death of Alex Pretti, the White House categorically rejected the suggestion from some Republicans - including Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and FBI Director Kash Patel - that U.S. citizens do not have a right to carry firearms while protesting.
President Trump "absolutely" supports the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens, Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, told RealClearPolitics at Monday's press briefing.
"While Americans have a constitutional right to bear arms," she clarified, "Americans do not have a constitutional...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/26/wh_contradicts_fbi_director_law-abiding_protestors_have_right_to_bear_arms_153756.html</link>
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						<author>Philip Wegmann</author><category>Philip Wegmann</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/26/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:14:11 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/707993_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Pain-Gain Formula Working Against Trump]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ We all know about the principle of short-term pain for long-term gain. In private life, it means we sometimes choose to endure personal sacrifice or hardship in order to eventually achieve a goal such as home ownership.
In public life, there are also many instances of this principle being applied. In recent months, tariffs are a perfect example of how it is sometimes necessary to suffer short-term pain to achieve long-term gain. But as rolled out by President Trump, they are also exemplary of the political price to be paid for failing to explain the downside up front.
No doubt the president...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/26/pain-gain_formula_working_against_trump_153752.html</link>
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						<author>Frank Miele</author><category>Frank Miele</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/26/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 04:50:52 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/707808_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Free Speech Isn&rsquo;t Free and It Cost Charlie Kirk Everything]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The First Amendment protections for free speech have inspired people worldwide and laid the foundation not just for American society but also for entire industries - from social media to this very publication. But as someone who travels the country both speaking and setting up events on college and university campuses, I can tell you that "free speech" isn't free. 
Nobody knows that better than those of us mourning Charlie Kirk's passing. At this time last year, Students for Life of America honored Charlie as our  "Defender of Life" at our sold-out National Pro-life Summit, and this year at...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/26/free_speech_isnt_free_and_it_cost_charlie_kirk_everything_153755.html</link>
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						<author>Kristan Hawkins</author><category>Kristan Hawkins</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/26/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 04:50:32 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/707920_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ What the Grateful Dead Can Show a Fractured America]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ After the last key member of the Grateful Dead, guitarist Bob Weir, died last week at the age of 78, the cascade of loving tributes published far and wide underscored how he and his fellow band of misfits had created a new form of music that personified America.
In our melting pot nation, the Dead uniquely wove together the many strands of music brought to and developed on our shores. You could hear English and Scottish ballads and hymns, African rhythms, classical music, the avant-garde in their songs and jams, as well as blues, gospel, country, jazz, and rock. While clearly drawing on all...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/23/what_the_grateful_dead_can_show_a_fractured_america__153746.html</link>
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						<author>J. Peder Zane</author><category>J. Peder Zane</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/23/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:38:33 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/707747_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ It&rsquo;s Not Just Minnesota. Dems Overlook Fraud in Tribal Programs Too]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ As the Somali fraud scandal in Minnesota continues to grow, Americans are asking: Why was such blatant abuse of taxpayers allowed to fester unchecked?
A big part of the answer is that Somali immigrants are now a core constituency in Minnesota Democrats' political coalition, so politicians turned a blind eye to the obvious fraud transpiring in the state. The same woke political considerations at the federal level have allowed grifters to use a massive DEI contracting program for Indian tribes to steal millions from American taxpayers.
The parallels between the Minnesota scandal and tribal...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/23/its_not_just_minnesota_dems_overlook_fraud_in_tribal_programs_too_153744.html</link>
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						<author>Chase Martin</author><category>Chase Martin</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/23/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:11:10 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/707617_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ In Real Life, There&#039;s No New &#039;CBS Newsmax&#039; Under Bari Weiss]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The leftists on social media have hilariously caricatured CBS News under new Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss as "CBS Newsmax," like it's lurched dramatically to the right. But if you're monitoring CBS in real life, there's plenty of evidence that "classic CBS" is still operating. In recent days, CBS has proven to be worse than ABC and NBC in its tilt to the left.
A new NewsBusters study of 10 days of evening news coverage of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents after the death of Renee Good found that CBS statements on ICE were 96% negative, compared to 91% on ABC and NBC.
On CBS, 26 of the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/23/in_real_life_theres_no_new_cbs_newsmax_under_bari_weiss_153749.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/23/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:11:31 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/56/567265_1_.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ A Republican Who Wants To Raise Taxes]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Congress is debating major funding bills that would avoid another of those phony government "shutdowns" now scheduled for January 30. One sticking point is that Democrats want to either defund ICE, or greatly reduce its budget even though it is following the law in arresting and deporting people from other countries, some of whom have committed crimes while here.
Adding nothing positive to this debate is Mitt Romney, the former Republican nominee for president in 2012.
In a lengthy letter to the editor of The Wall Street Journal, Romney seems to be channeling Democrats when he writes that he...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/23/a_republican_who_wants_to_raise_taxes_153750.html</link>
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						<author>Cal Thomas</author><category>Cal Thomas</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/23/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:12:06 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/707749_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump&#039;s Outrageous Threats Get Practical Results]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Think about it. Heads of government do not normally reveal the texts of private communications from other heads of state. Yet that is what Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store of Norway did Sunday, on the first weekend of the World Economic Forum in Davos, where the international press would have no difficulty finding appalled foreign leaders to comment.
You could think of this as a hostile act of a statesman appalled that the American head of government does not know that the government of Norway does not decide who gets the Nobel Peace Prize. It is probably better to think of it as an...]]></description>
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						<author>Michael Barone</author><category>Michael Barone</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/23/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:12:19 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/707654_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Status Quo vs. The Alternative]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The last two weeks have been, like the preceding weeks, nuts. The president insisted the United States must own Greenland and he would not rule out military force, if necessary, to take the island. He imposed tariffs on the NATO allies who oppose his territorial lust. Then he walked it all back for the framework of a deal.
The reality is, President Donald Trump has a knack for getting things he could have gotten without all the drama, but the drama is salesmanship for his base. They insist it is the art of the deal, he is the best negotiator and the deal is amazing. Most often, the president...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/23/the_status_quo_vs_the_alternative_153748.html</link>
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						<author>Erick Erickson</author><category>Erick Erickson</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/23/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:11:48 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/707682_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ AI Wakeup Call: Technology Threatens Election Integrity]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ If Americans thought the 2016 and 2020 elections were messy, just wait until Mr. Artificial Intelligence shows up for the 2026 midterms with his own election disruptions in hand.
If you are an election official, an election integrity advocate, or even a candidate, you should start creating an anti-AI election disinformation plan - yesterday.
Protecting elections has historically meant securing ballot boxes, counting rooms, and voting machines. In 2026, that will still matter, but will no longer be enough. The greatest threat now to confidence in elections may not be whether votes are counted...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/22/election_integrity_ai_wakeup_call_technology_threatens_election_protection_153745.html</link>
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						<author>Kerri Toloczko</author><category>Kerri Toloczko</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/22/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 13:10:39 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/707698_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Judiciary Isn&rsquo;t Above Reproach &ndash; And Never Was]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The recent Senate hearing on judicial impeachment prompted the predictable response: that Congress has no business second-guessing judges for anything short of criminal conduct. This conventional wisdom deserves more scrutiny than it typically receives.
When Sen. Ted Cruz convened his subcommittee to examine the conduct of Judges James Boasberg and Deborah Boardman, Professor Stephen Vladeck testified that impeachment "is not and should not be a remedy for judges who issue rulings with which we disagree." Chief Justice Roberts has declared that "the normal appellate review process exists for...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/22/the_judiciary_isnt_above_reproach__and_never_was_153736.html</link>
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						<author>Justin Evan Smith</author><category>Justin Evan Smith</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/22/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 04:48:32 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/707494_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ As Trump Weighs Veto, Obamacare&rsquo;s Flaws Come Due]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ As the cost of living continues to climb, a new financial burden is quickly threatening millions of Americans: increased health care premiums.
This past weekend, President Trump announced that he is considering vetoing legislation to extend federal health insurance subsidies established by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). While many will portray Trump as the villain in this scenario, it is actually the political leaders who prefer receiving praise for well-intentioned policies without ever accepting responsibility for the burdens they create. 
Renowned economist and academic Thomas Sowell, in...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/22/as_trump_weighs_veto_obamacares_flaws_come_due_153743.html</link>
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						<author>Greg Schaller</author><category>Greg Schaller</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/22/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 04:48:12 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/707615_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ One Year Later: Promises Made, Promises Kept]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ President Trump, one year after his inauguration, has compiled an extraordinary list of accomplishments.
You can get too caught up in the correction du jour, but the reality is promises made, promises kept.
The centerpiece was One, Big, Beautiful Bill - supply-side tax cuts, deregulation, "drill, baby, drill," free and fair reciprocal trade, and the economy is booming. America has the hottest economy in the world.
We're hitting on all cylinders.
Here's what the President said earlier today in the press room: "We created super high economic growth and America is booming," and that "fourth...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/21/one_year_later_promises_made_promises_kept_153742.html</link>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/21/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 06:26:17 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/707552_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ President Trump&rsquo;s Golden Defense Opportunity]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Lost in the news coming out of Greenland and Iran was President Trump's announcement earlier this month that his next defense budget request will total .5 trillion. If enacted, this would be the largest peacetime defense budget increase in history, surpassing even the budgets of the Reagan buildup. President Trump ran on a peace-through-strength platform and over the past year has exercised American military strength to restore deterrence. Now, for the first time, the president is pairing his use of the military with a peace-through-strength budget. If leveraged correctly, he will succeed...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/21/president_trumps_golden_defense_opportunity_153735.html</link>
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						<author>Roger Zakheim &amp; Michael Stanton</author><category>Roger Zakheim &amp; Michael Stanton</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/21/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 03:56:58 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/68/689738_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Reconciling US Needs vs. Danish Claims]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ In the fall of 1998, I traveled to Denmark to take up my duties as the American Ambassador in Copenhagen. Often referred to as the "Fairytale Kingdom," courtesy of its native son, Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark is a remarkable country that has been an exceptional ally of the United States for well over 200 years. The Danes have built a nation that combines Viking valor with a deep sense of duty to be one's brother's keeper. The admirable character of the Danish people was perhaps best exemplified when it became the only country in Europe to rescue virtually its entire Jewish population...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/21/reconciling_us_needs_vs_danish_claims_153739.html</link>
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						<author>Richard Swett</author><category>Richard Swett</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/21/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 03:57:55 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/707526_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Phasing Out State Income Tax Key to Success in Dying Blue States]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Across the nation, states are fiercely competing for companies and population by slashing taxes.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is dooming her state to be the loser.
In 2026, eight states are cutting their income taxes, and four others are reducing corporate tax rates.
South Carolina is pushing ahead on legislation to phase out its income tax entirely over the next few years, joining nine other income-tax-free states.
That's bad news for New York.
Saddled with a spendaholic governor and state legislature, New York is becoming increasingly unattractive to newcomers and businesses alike.
On...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/21/phasing_out_state_income_tax_key_to_success_in_dying_blue_states_153740.html</link>
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						<author>Betsy McCaughey</author><category>Betsy McCaughey</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/21/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 03:57:19 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/707024_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Thank You, Michael Reagan]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Recently, Michael Reagan, the eldest son of President Ronald Reagan, passed away at age 80.
His passing was duly eulogized by the Reagan Foundation and the Young America's Foundation at the Reagan Ranch.
Both noted that Michael, whom I had the privilege to know, devoted his life to writing and speaking about the American principles that so defined his father.
No death is ever timely.
But there seems something fitting that President Reagan's legacy would be closed out with the passing of his oldest son in the year of the 250th birthday of our nation.
At this time of such confusion and...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/21/thank_you_michael_reagan_153741.html</link>
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						<author>Star Parker</author><category>Star Parker</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/21/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 03:57:37 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/707542_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Exclusive: Trump OMB Launches Full Review of Federal Funds Sent to Blue States]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ In the wake of the Somali fraud scandal that rattled Minnesota, the Trump administration will soon order a sweeping whole-of-government review of all federal funding awarded to 13 Democrat-leaning states and the District of Columbia, RealClearPolitics is first to report.
It is perhaps the most aggressive budgetary colonoscopy since the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency and the deputization of Elon Musk last year to slash and burn his way through the federal government. Sources familiar with the effort tell RCP it signals the administration's seriousness about getting to the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/20/exclusive_trump_launches_full_review_of_federal_funds_sent_to_blue_states_153738.html</link>
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						<author>Philip Wegmann</author><category>Philip Wegmann</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/20/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 19:05:40 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/707524_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ America Can&rsquo;t Secure Its Future on Imported Minerals]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ If the past few years taught us anything, it's that national security no longer stops at the water's edge or the factory gate. It runs through the mines, mills, refineries, and logistics networks that supply the metals inside our jets, ships, satellites, power grid, and the next generation of energy technologies. 
Copper, nickel, cobalt, and other critical minerals aren't just components of consumer gadgets; they are the sinews of American strength. And yet, for far too long, we have treated domestic mineral production like an afterthought, outsourcing supply to geopolitical rivals and...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/20/america_cant_secure_its_future_on_imported_minerals_153734.html</link>
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						<author>Rep. Jack Bergman</author><category>Rep. Jack Bergman</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/20/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 13:22:22 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/707485_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The GOP Plan To Make America Affordable Again]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The American people are speaking loud and clear: They want affordability, and they want it now. Thankfully, on Jan. 13, Republicans in Congress announced that they're ready to give families relief. They rolled out a comprehensive plan to make America affordable again.
The credit goes to the Republican Study Committee, under the leadership of Chairman August Pfluger, which represents the overwhelming majority of GOP House members. Since President Trump signed the One, Big, Beautiful Bill into law last summer, they've been hard at work developing a second reconciliation bill that's just as...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/20/the_gop_plan_to_make_america_affordable_again_153731.html</link>
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						<author>Tarren Bragdon</author><category>Tarren Bragdon</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/20/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 06:28:26 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/707424_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ From Rock to Tech, Talent Flees Taxes]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ California Democrats should listen to The Rolling Stones.
The band famously fled England in the 1970s, heading into tax exile in the south of France.
Mick Jagger and his mates weren't alone -- a generation of rock royalty abandoned the U.K. because of its steep taxes: David Bowie opted for Switzerland; Rod Stewart went to California.
"We left England because we'd be paying 98 cents on the dollar. We left, and they lost out. No taxes at all," Stones guitarist Keith Richards recalled to Fortune.
Progressives are now transforming California into what Britain was before Margaret Thatcher -- and...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/20/from_rock_to_tech_talent_flees_taxes_153732.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel McCarthy</author><category>Daniel McCarthy</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/20/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 06:28:47 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/707439_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ This Is No Way to Gimme Shelter]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Americans today are justifiably angry about the price of rents and mortgages. Home prices have roughly tripled over the last 25 years, and the median home price is now $415,000.
The 30- and 40-somethings are having a tough time buying a first home. Young families may need to pay a whopping $75,000 on a down payment.
Democrats and some populist Republicans have convinced the Trump administration to pin the blame on institutional investors, including large banks, private equity firms and hedge funds. The Trump administration is endorsing a proposal to prohibit these firms from buying homes and...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/20/this_is_no_way_to_gimme_shelter_153733.html</link>
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						<author>Stephen Moore</author><category>Stephen Moore</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/20/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 06:29:05 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/66/662638_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Despite Trump&rsquo;s Success, Immigration Isn&rsquo;t &lsquo;Solved&rsquo;]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The current news cycle would have one believe that President Trump's immigration success is mostly due to ICE activity in major metropolitan areas. In truth, ICE deportations have accounted for only a relatively small part of the reduction in illegal immigration on Trump's watch. The real key to his success has been securing the border - and the key to that has been enforcing existing immigration laws. But Trump's considerable success to date does not mean that the immigration problem is "solved," as the damage done by President Biden and others will take years to undo.
Before Trump's second...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/19/despite_trumps_success_immigration_isnt_solved_153730.html</link>
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						<author>Jeffrey H. Anderson</author><category>Jeffrey H. Anderson</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/19/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 07:30:45 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/707344_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Somalia and the High Cost of Low Trust]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ When news broke of the massive child nutrition fraud in Minnesota, many Americans reacted with disbelief. During the pandemic, roughly $250 million intended to feed hungry children was siphoned off, prosecutors say, and spent on luxury cars, real estate, and other indulgences. To most people, it appeared to be a shocking betrayal of public trust.
To me, it felt unsettlingly familiar.
Decades ago, long before Minnesota became synonymous with one of the largest fraud cases in U.S. history, I had an experience in Somalia that permanently altered my perspective on aid, trust, and good intentions....]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/19/somalia_and_the_high_cost_of_low_trust_153726.html</link>
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						<author>Mitzi Perdue</author><category>Mitzi Perdue</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/19/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 07:30:26 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/707244_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump, Venezuela, and the New Era of American Strategy]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ On Jan. 3, 2026, the United States of America successfully completed Operation Absolute Resolve, captured Venezuela's longtime dictator, Nicolas Maduro, and emphatically crippled the brutal socialist regime that has oppressed the Venezuelan people for over a decade.
In response, countless political actors and pundits have immediately leapt to condemn the Trump administration and criticize its bold campaign against Maduro's despotic regime. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani criticized President Trump for "unilaterally attacking a sovereign nation." Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/19/trump_venezuela_and_the_new_era_of_american_strategy.html</link>
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						<author>William Barclay</author><category>William Barclay</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/19/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 07:30:13 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/707305_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ How Politicized Philanthropy Is Corrupting Charity]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Traditionally, charitable giving has been defended by conservatives, who admired its ability to effectively solve problems without government coercion or taxpayer funds. The political left was where one encountered hostility toward private social action - which sometimes lessens state power. Donor-funded charter schools embarrass and replace failed government schools. Charitable services for the homeless, drug users, and the jobless have more success than bureaucratic agencies. Private funding for science and medical progress is spectacularly more efficient than federal grants.
A spike in...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/17/how_politicized_philanthropy_is_corrupting_charity_153727.html</link>
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						<author>Karl Zinsmeister</author><category>Karl Zinsmeister</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/17/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 07:11:39 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/707249_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Exclusive: House Oversight Panel Probes NY Medicaid Matching Practices]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ The House Oversight Committee is intensifying its probe into allegations that the state of New York has been improperly matching federal funds under a Medicaid program used to sustain safety-net hospitals - shortchanging such providers by having them put up their own funds to cover the state's match - as part of an unlawful scheme to shore up Albany's shaky finances.
In a letter obtained by RealClearPolitics, Chairman James Comer has requested a briefing from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz within the next two weeks pertaining to such allegations and...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/16/house_oversight_panel_probes_ny_medicaid_matching_practices_153723.html</link>
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						<author>Benjamin Weingarten</author><category>Benjamin Weingarten</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/16/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 08:15:58 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/707193_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Charlie Kirk Embodies the Samizdat Prize]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ February 11, 2026, is shaping up to be a historic night. That's when RealClear will host its third annual Samizdat Prize Gala at The Breakers in Palm Beach, Florida. The Samizdat Prize is an annual award given to journalists, authors, and public figures who resist censorship and stand for truth. One of those exemplars is the late Charlie Kirk, who was killed in the very act of public discourse.
RSVP for the 2026 Samizdat Prize Gala
Charlie dedicated his life to the arduous work of civil debate. In an age of unabated political division, clickbait, and partisan grifting, Charlie remained...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/16/charlie_kirk_embodies_the_samizdat_prize_153716.html</link>
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						<author>David DesRosiers</author><category>David DesRosiers</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/16/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 07:22:21 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/707142_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Fed&rsquo;s Job Isn&rsquo;t Finished Until Hiring Comes Back]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The hard work of stabilizing the economy is beginning to pay off. Inflation has eased, productivity has strengthened, and cost pressures are receding across key sectors. The next and more consequential test is whether that progress translates into jobs. Small businesses, the engine of private-sector employment, are prepared to invest and hire, but only if capital becomes more accessible and affordable. The Federal Reserve's next policy decision will determine whether this expansion reaches Main Street or stalls just short of it.
The labor market is sending a clear warning. Payroll growth...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/16/the_feds_job_isnt_finished_until_hiring_comes_back_153717.html</link>
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						<author>Dan Varroney</author><category>Dan Varroney</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/16/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 06:25:52 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/707157_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ What&#039;s the Matter With Minnesota?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Minnesota? Somalis? Nine billion dollars in alleged welfare fraud?
To understand what's going on from a distance, it helps to understand basic culture. Minnesota was settled largely by people of Scandinavian and German ancestry.
In survey after survey, Minnesota has ranked No. 1 or No. 2 among states, often just behind neighboring and much smaller North Dakota, in social connectedness, civic participation, workforce participation and voter turnout. It has traditionally led the nation in levels of trust and conscientiousness.
This has been coupled with political behavior that resembles...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/16/whats_the_matter_with_minnesota_153721.html</link>
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						<author>Michael Barone</author><category>Michael Barone</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/16/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 06:26:12 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/704022_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Perpetual Climate Panic Machine &#039;Collapses&#039;]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Global warming has gone cold as an issue. Despite decades of panicked predictions of doom, it's never been a high priority for voters, and Trump's bold expressions of "climate denial" went unpunished by voters.
The media still sound allied with the Green New Deal pushers, but the thrill is gone. Last November, leftists blasted ABC, CBS and NBC for barely touching the COP30 global climate summit in Brazil. (PBS gave it nearly 16 minutes, and 10 of it was a John Kerry softball interview.)
Now Axios.com posted an analysis by Amy Harder on this trend, titled "The world's great climate collapse."...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/16/the_perpetual_climate_panic_machine_collapses_153718.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/16/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 06:26:46 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/59/596064_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Goal Posts Keep Shifting]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Renee Good should be alive. The activist, killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, met her end in tragedy. What has happened since, predictably, saw people rush to their tribal corners. ICE "murdered" Good. Good was the villain. Your politics positioned your stance. What got left behind were the facts and a press corps that proved again it cannot be trusted.
On the day of Good's death, those who took ICE's side claimed Good hit the ICE agent with her car. Others denied it. Some insisted ICE agents were sending mixed signals, some telling her to drive off and others telling...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/16/the_goal_posts_keep_shifting_153722.html</link>
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						<author>Erick Erickson</author><category>Erick Erickson</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/16/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 06:26:29 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/707164_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Left&#039;s Silence on Iran Isn&#039;t Hypocrisy; It&#039;s Consistency]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ There are no flotillas on the way to save Iran. No Soros-funded "democracy" groups pressuring Western governments to intervene on behalf of civilians who are being arrested and murdered. No astroturfing movement demanding economic boycotts.
When college students returned from winter break last week, they didn't find a single encampment supporting the Iranian uprising against one of the world's most brutal regimes.
Nor are there any emergency meetings or condemnations from the United Nations. Member states were busy denouncing the United States for removing Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/16/the_lefts_silence_on_iran_isnt_hypocrisy_its_consistency_153719.html</link>
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						<author>David Harsanyi</author><category>David Harsanyi</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/16/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 06:27:22 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/706966_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Is a Red Line Still a Red Line?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ One of the most embarrassing moments of the extremely embarrassing Barack Obama presidency came in the context of the Syrian civil war. In August 2012, Obama vowed that "a red line for us," which would thereby necessitate some sort of American intervention, "is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized." The 44th president continued: "That would change my calculus."
Except it didn't.
A year later, former Iran- and Russia-backed Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad crossed Obama's "red line," launching a lethal sarin gas on his own people. Hundreds, perhaps...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/16/is_a_red_line_still_a_red_line_153720.html</link>
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						<author>Josh Hammer</author><category>Josh Hammer</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/16/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 06:27:04 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/707115_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Booming at Detroit: Trump Was Right, Powell Was Wrong]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ President Trump gave an optimistic stemwinder of a speech, in front of the Detroit Economic Club, proclaiming a Trump boom that has started sooner and come on faster than any of the lefty critics are ever willing to admit. That's why I call it Booming at Detroit.
Here's how he began the speech:
"Under our administration, growth is exploding. Productivity is soaring. Investment is booming. Incomes are rising. Inflation is defeated. America is respected again. Like never before"
And in usual Trumpian style, after taking about an hour or so, having touched on all the bases, here's how he...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/15/booming_at_detroit_trump_was_right_powell_was_wrong_153714.html</link>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/15/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 06:29:55 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/707099_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ If Britain Bans X, How Far Will It Go To Block Free Speech?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ In what appears to be a rolling back on free speech and citizen journalism, Britain is fast-tracking a law that will ban non-consensual intimate deepfake images. This is likely aimed at the social media site X.com after its AI assistant Grok allegedly generated inappropriate images. In the scope of the global news cycle and a further ban potentially on the table, the move couldn't be more poorly timed. It coincides with social media bans in socialist Tanzania and a sweeping Internet blackout by the Ayatollah of Iran. While Britain is not Iran, the direction of travel - using information...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/15/if_britain_bans_x_how_far_will_it_go_to_block_free_speech__153709.html</link>
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						<author>Ted Newson</author><category>Ted Newson</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/15/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 06:30:14 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/64/647743_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Fraud Prevention Is a Hidden Key to Housing Affordability]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ When policymakers talk about housing affordability, the focus is usually on interest rates, inventory shortages, zoning reform, or construction costs. All are important. But one factor rarely making the conversation is fraud prevention - and the quiet role the title insurance industry plays in keeping housing attainable.
Fraud may sound like a peripheral issue in a market defined by supply and demand, but it has real, measurable consequences for homebuyers, lenders, and communities. When fraud increases, costs rise and affordability suffers.
According to the FBI, consumers lost at least $13...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/15/fraud_prevention_is_a_hidden_key_to_housing_affordability_153711.html</link>
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						<author>Chris Morton</author><category>Chris Morton</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/15/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 06:30:34 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/707064_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Time to Crack Down on Fraud]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Why pay taxes when so much of your hard-earned money goes to fraudsters instead of doing good?
Government bureaucrats and elected politicians, mostly Democrats, scream in outrage when any effort is made to crack down on fraud by requiring proof of where the money is actually going. They wring their hands that safeguards will delay the funds and warn of children going hungry or families in need.
Meanwhile, all of us taxpayers, saddled with paying for the scammers, are routinely ignored.
Until now. The enormity of the Minneapolis welfare rip-off is sparking a nationwide rebellion against...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/15/time_to_crack_down_on_fraud_153712.html</link>
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						<author>Betsy McCaughey</author><category>Betsy McCaughey</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/15/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 06:31:11 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/704022_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Tricia McLaughlin Defends ICE&#039;s Visible Presence]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ There is still chaos surrounding Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, and nowhere is the anger more palpable than in cities like Minneapolis. Protesters insist they are exercising their rights, even as some cross legal lines. The distinction matters. Observing ICE is lawful. Obstructing ICE is not. And when citizens interfere with a federal operation, they risk serious consequences under federal law.
According to The Washington Post, "The fatal shooting of Renee Good last week, as ICE officers and residents faced off on a residential street here, has brought new attention to these...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/15/tricia_mclaughlin_defends_ices_visible_presence_153713.html</link>
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						<author>Ben Shapiro</author><category>Ben Shapiro</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/15/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 06:30:52 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/707082_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Profile in First Amendment Courage: Alan Dershowitz &mdash; 2026 Samizdat Winner]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[  Mark your calendar for February 11, 2026, and purchase your tickets for our third annual Samizdat Prize Gala at The Breakers in Palm Beach, Florida. One night a year, we celebrate those who demonstrate exemplary courage in the defense of free speech. Alan Dershowitz is such a needed human.
RSVP for the 2026 Samizdat Prize Gala
If Alan Dershowitz is being true to himself and his commitments, there is never a good time to honor him. He goes where his standout talent is not wanted.
Dershowitz defends those who have been pre-tried and found guilty in the court of public opinion and canceled from...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/14/profile_in_first_amendment_courage_alan_dershowitz__2026_samizdat_winner_153706.html</link>
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						<author>David DesRosiers</author><category>David DesRosiers</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/14/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:31:27 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/706931_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Human Rights Attorneys to Trump: Don&rsquo;t Let Iran Target Dissidents on U.S. Soil]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ The Iran regime recently demonstrated the brutality it is willing to display against dissidents in its own country - and even those who have been living in the United States for years - when it returned the body of an Iranian citizen who had been living in California to his American family with the man's tongue and heart removed.
Reports of the number of protestors Iranian authorities have gunned down in recent weeks have ranged from 1,000 to more than 12,000. But human rights groups and attorneys are also concerned about attacks against Iranian dissidents traveling abroad or even on U.S....]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/14/human_rights_attorneys_to_trump_dont_let_iran_target_dissidents_on_us_soil__153710.html</link>
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						<author>Susan Crabtree</author><category>Susan Crabtree</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/14/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 07:16:47 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/707060_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ From &lsquo;Hands Up, Don&rsquo;t Shoot&rsquo; to &lsquo;Drive, Baby, Drive&rsquo;]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The shooting death of Renee Macklin Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has quickly become a rallying point in the broader political battle over immigration enforcement under the Trump administration.
It should also be a lesson for the rest of us to wait for all the facts before making judgments and especially to beware of media narratives that try to simplify complicated events.
Videos of the shooting, which took place on Jan. 7, have been widely circulated, including one taken by Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who fired the fatal shot. You would think that since the shooting, or the circumstances...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/14/from_hands_up_dont_shoot_to_drive_baby_drive_153707.html</link>
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						<author>Frank Miele</author><category>Frank Miele</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/14/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 06:33:26 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/706947_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Shameless Ilhan Omar Accuses Trump of Wasting Taxpayer Dollars]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is in a very special category: black, Muslim and a refugee from Somalia. It's a triple-banger, like Karine Jean-Pierre, always touted as black, lesbian and Haitian. Never question their prominence on the merits. It's a born-on-third-base situation in national politics and media.
So when Omar submits herself to television interviews from liberal networks, she knows she can say inflammatory things and not be seriously challenged. On CBS's "Face the Nation," the topic was Renee Good being shot after she drove into an ICE agent with her SUV. Omar claimed Good was...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/14/shameless_ilhan_omar_accuses_trump_of_wasting_taxpayer_dollars_153708.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/14/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 06:33:08 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/706956_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Powell Is a Terrible Fed Chair, But He&#039;s Not a Criminal]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Don't martyr Jerome Powell. He was a terrible Fed chairman, but he's not a criminal. Over his tenure, he consistently missed the Fed's inflation targets with the worst price hikes in 40 years. He was the most political Fed chairman in memory. 
Raising rates to stop President Trump's tax cut boom back in the first term, lowering rates to reelect Vice President Harris and the Democrats in the last election - totally political. 
A whole bunch of his Fed cronies face accusations of insider trading, or breaches of ethics, or mortgage fraud, but he never did anything about it. He jumped on the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/13/powell_is_a_terrible_fed_chair_but_hes_not_a_criminal_153705.html</link>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/13/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 12:19:36 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/706857_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Trouble With Activism That Abets Law-Breaking]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Americans who remember how an incident in Minneapolis six years ago plunged the whole country into a summer of rioting -- then years of elevated criminal violence -- should think carefully about where the protests over the death of Renee Good are leading.
Like the killing of George Floyd, Good's tragedy is being exploited for a political purpose, with the radical activists who then called for defunding the police now demanding an end to Immigration and Customs Enforcement -- not only the agency, ICE, but the enforcement of the nation's democratically enacted immigration laws.
It's the...]]></description>
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						<author>Daniel McCarthy</author><category>Daniel McCarthy</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/13/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 08:20:23 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/706686_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Aligning Incentives for Congress: A Strategy of Mutually Assured Destruction]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ With the afterglow of the holiday season still boosting our spirits, it is time to snap back to an important reality. The next congressional self-induced crisis is upon us with the latest continuing resolution (CR) expiring at the end of the month. Another shutdown looms on the horizon. Even with another CR extension, Congress is simply avoiding the tough decisions that perpetuate an endless cycle of governmental dysfunction that harms us all.
For 15 of the last 16 years, Congress has failed to pass a budget on time. Just a few months ago, our nation endured the longest government shutdown in...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/13/aligning_incentives_for_congress_strategy_mutually_assured_destruction_153703.html</link>
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						<author>John Teichert</author><category>John Teichert</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/13/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Why RealClear Is Honoring Graham Linehan]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ On February 11th, RealClear will host its third annual Samizdat Prize Gala at The Breakers in beautiful Palm Beach, Florida. The Samizdat Prize is an annual award given to journalists, authors, and public figures who resist censorship and stand for truth. One such example is Graham Linehan, the award-winning Irish comedy writer, whose life was upended for publicly expressing reservations about transgender individuals in women's-only spaces.
RSVP for the 2026 Samizdat Prize Gala
Linehan is not a household name in the United States. But across the Atlantic, he has been among the most acclaimed...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/12/why_realclear_is_honoring_graham_linehan_153698.html</link>
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						<author>David DesRosiers</author><category>David DesRosiers</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/12/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:08:13 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/706641_1_.png" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Cleanup on Aisle V (for Venezuela)]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The precision strike against Venezuela that led to the arrest of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife on criminal charges was without a doubt one of the high points of U.S. military history.
And there should be no doubt that the success of the operation redounds to the credit of President Donald J. Trump. No other president in recent memory would have had the guts or imagination to authorize the operation, but Trump has a history of using the military in a surgical manner to take out our enemies (in the case of Qasem Soleimani, the leader of the Iranian Quds Force) or to neutralize global...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/12/cleanup_on_aisle_v_for_venezuela_153699.html</link>
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						<author>Frank Miele</author><category>Frank Miele</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/12/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:17:05 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/706643_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ California Restricts Free Speech]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ California's far-left Supreme Court has ordered restrictions on the speech and expressive conduct of California's lawyers "at all times," including during their unrelated business activities, political endeavors and personal lives.
Just before Christmas, the even more radical California State Bar imperiously advised the state's 200,000 lawyers "Read it, declare it, mean it." That ominous warning introduced the California Supreme Court's Orwellian Rule 9.7 which requires every lawyer to attest that: "As an officer of the court, I will strive to conduct myself at all times with dignity,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/12/california_restricts_free_speech_153696.html</link>
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						<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author><category>Kenin M. Spivak</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/12/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:16:56 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/706639_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Christians Can Keep Faith in Vaccines]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The Trump administration just had the opportunity to dramatically curtail childhood vaccinations - and it didn't. Last week's CDC announcement reorganizing the immunization schedule moves some vaccines to optional categories but removes nothing entirely - all remain available and covered by insurance - while keeping vaccines for measles, chickenpox, polio, and other serious diseases recommended for all children.
That's good news, and Christians should see it that way. Vaccines save lives.
I still remember the pink calamine lotion covering my skin, the unbearable itching, and my mother's...]]></description>
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						<author>Johnnie Moore</author><category>Johnnie Moore</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/12/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:45:34 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/706430_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ RealClear Samizdat Prize Gala Celebrates First Amendment Courage &ndash; and RCP&rsquo;s 25th Anniversary]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ On February 11, 2026, at The Breakers in Palm Beach, Florida, RealClear will be celebrating its 25th anniversary year - just as America's experiment in self-government prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday. Please join us that evening for our third annual Samizdat Prize Gala honoring profiles in free-speech courage.
It's going to be a great night. We will not disappoint.
Please consider dressing up, overpaying for a ticket, and joining us. And if you cannot come, still consider supporting RealClear and helping us give the recognition due to our outstanding Samizdat Prize winners.
The...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/10/realclear_samizdat_prize_gala_celebrates_first_amendment_courage_rcps_25th_anniversary_153697.html</link>
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						<author>David DesRosiers</author><category>David DesRosiers</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/10/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 16:32:04 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/706640_1_.png" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ 5% Growth? Or Even Better?]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Just to reprise my New Year's message that a Trump economic boom could deliver 5 percent, 6 percent, or even 7 percent growth, there are numbers out today that are uniformly stronger than even I thought. Economists take note: President Trump knows the economy better than you do. And what's wrong with 5 percent or better growth?
The Atlanta Fed GDPNow for the fourth quarter, which you recall was the shutdown quarter, was revised up to 5.4 percent.
Meanwhile, the productivity of the economy, which is one of the most significant variables, has averaged 4.5 percent the last two quarters. That's...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/09/5_growth_or_even_better_153689.html</link>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/09/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:48:14 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/66/666001_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump&#039;s Bold Maduro Raid Achieves Justice]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Donald Trump is the brass-tacks president the world needs now - a rare leader who prizes tangible results over empty slogans.
Trump's opponents cast him as a dangerous outlier who violates high ideals they claim to embrace - international law! global partnerships!! the Constitution!!! But his actions fulfill the soaring purpose of concepts his critics honor in word (and betray in deed) while making the world a safer and more just place.
The president's critics may be right that his capture of Venezuela dictator Nicolas Maduro violated international law. Yet Trump's move raises a different...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/09/trumps_bold_maduro_raid_achieves_justice.html</link>
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						<author>J. Peder Zane</author><category>J. Peder Zane</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/09/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 06:40:02 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/706091_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Law Cannot Be Held Hostage to Democrat Temper Tantrums]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ In Springfield, Illinois, in 1838, a young Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful speech decrying the "ravages of mob law" throughout the land. Lincoln warned, in eerily prescient fashion, that the spread of a then-ascendant "mobocratic spirit" threatened to sever the "attachment of the People" to their fellow countrymen and their nation. Lincoln's opposition to anarchy of any kind was absolute and clarion: "There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law."
Unfortunately, it seems that every few years, Americans must be reminded anew of Lincoln's wisdom. This week's lethal...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/09/law_cannot_be_held_hostage_to_democrat_temper_tantrums.html</link>
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						<author>Josh Hammer</author><category>Josh Hammer</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/09/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 12:25:49 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/706475_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Mamdani Declares War on Civil Discourse]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Zohran Mamdani's inauguration speech on Jan. 1 became instantly famous for his promise to prove the "warmth of collectivism." Yet Americans should pay just as much attention to another deeply concerning comment from the socialist mayor of New York City's first act in office. He declared that those who are "fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty," implying that his administration won't tolerate public debate about his agenda.
These words mark the moment when higher education's radical monoculture jumped into the real world of political power and...]]></description>
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						<author>Charles Mitchell</author><category>Charles Mitchell</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/09/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 06:40:27 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/706496_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Minnesota Democrats Are Testing How Woke Is Too Woke]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ What is going on in the People's Republic of Minnesota? The Democrat establishment in the Gopher State is nothing like it was back in the Reagan years, with ex-Vice President Walter Mondale or Gov. Rudy Perpich. The insurrectionist echoes of their language about immigration-enforcement cops are eyebrow-raising in the same week the elitist media somberly mourned the attack on police at the Jan. 6 riot.
On Jan. 7, activist Renee Nicole Good used her car to try and block traffic to resist ICE agents. When she refused requests to step out of the car and instead drove her car into an ICE agent,...]]></description>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/09/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 06:40:46 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/706161_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ How Do You Solve a Problem Like Wikipedia?]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Wikipedia has recently come under the microscope. I take some credit for this, as the co-founder of Wikipedia and a vocal critic of the knowledge platform for a long time.
In September, I  nailed (virtually) "Nine Theses About Wikipedia" to the digital door of Wikipedia and started a round of interviews about it, beginning with Tucker Carlson. This prompted Elon Musk, the very next day, to announce Grokipedia's impending launch. And a national conversation evolved from there, with left- and right-leaning voices complaining about the platform's direction (or my critique of it).
As its 25th...]]></description>
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						<author>Larry Sanger</author><category>Larry Sanger</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/08/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 10:13:18 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/706381_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ U.S. Has Many Options on Greenland--Now Is the Time To Act]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ President Trump's decisive action against the illegitimate Maduro regime in Venezuela has focused world attention on the Western Hemisphere. This is all to the good, as the Trump administration has made clear the priority Washington attaches to its own neighborhood. The recent National Security Strategy emphasized that after three decades of counterproductive wars in the Middle East and South Asia, this administration would prioritize defense of the American homeland and our own hemisphere. It further established the "Trump Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, holding that "extra-hemispheric...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/07/us_has_many_options_on_greenland--now_is_the_time_to_act.html</link>
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						<author>Alexander B. Gray</author><category>Alexander B. Gray</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/07/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 09:48:39 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/706341_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Falling Energy Prices Are the Greatest Story Never Told]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ It's a new year and the stock markets are already making new record highs. Pretty soon you're going to get 50,000 on the Dow, over 7,000 on the S&P 500.
The lefty press never talks about this. Yet more or less, 135 million American investors are surely talking about it. That includes all the lefty leaning union pension funds.
Stocks up, taxes down. Stocks up, federal regulations down. Stocks up, energy prices down.
Total it all up, a roughly 25 percent drop in oil prices, which permeates virtually the whole economy, and you're bringing higher take-home pay to middle class kitchen tables and...]]></description>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/07/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 09:49:20 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/706332_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Geniuses in Congress -- That&#039;s a Joke]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ With the geniuses we have in Congress, no problem should be too tough to solve, whether it's inflation, health care costs, war or disease.
Ten members ended 2025 with stock market returns far exceeding the S&P, the Dow, the Nasdaq or what legendary stock pickers like Warren Buffet achieve. Rep. Tim Moore (R-N.C.) earned 52% on his stock portfolio; New York's Tom Suozzi (D), representing parts of Queens and the Long Island "gold coast," scored a 35% gain. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is closing out her Congressional career with a staggering 33% stock profit for 2025.
Unfortunately it's not...]]></description>
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						<author>Betsy McCaughey</author><category>Betsy McCaughey</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/07/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 09:48:59 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/698542_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Dividends of Operation Absolute Resolve]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ One great irony is that deposed Venezuelan socialist despot Nicolas Maduro sits in jail in New York City, where a new socialist mayor, inaugurated a few days ago, extols the "warmth of collectivism" rather than the "frigidity of rugged individualism."
No warm, cuddly collectivist has ever nor will ever perform a mission like rugged American individualists just pulled off in Venezuela, surgically extracting their oppressive leader from the midst of his capital, without a single American casualty.
In democratic elections held in Venezuela in 2024, Venezuelans said "no, thank you" to the "warmth...]]></description>
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						<author>Star Parker</author><category>Star Parker</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/07/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Will CBS News Go &#039;Unwoke&#039; on &#039;Gender-Expansive&#039; Lingo?]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ The British socialist newspaper The Guardian is upset that CBS News might become less radical, publishing an article provocatively titled "'Blood in the water': Bari Weiss's chaotic first three months in charge of CBS News."
This spin announces an agenda: Weiss Must Be Stopped! The Left cannot stand any outlet on their side moving two degrees toward the center. Any tiptoe to the middle is "anti-journalism." Any hint at an opposing conservative view is a slippery slope to "misinformation."
Guardian "media & power reporter" Jeremy Barr quoted a pile of anonymous CBS staffers in service to his...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/07/will_cbs_news_go_unwoke_on_gender-expansive_lingo.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Dave McCormick Pens Inaugural Letter to Pennsylvania Voters]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ PITTSBURGH -- In his inaugural letter to residents of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.) said that after his first year in office, he believed it was important to hold himself accountable to the people he represents in the U.S. Senate for both his accomplishments and his shortcomings.
In an interview with the Washington Examiner, McCormick said that accountability has been a constant throughout his life -- from his days as a high school wrestler, to his service in the military, to his career in business -- requiring him to assess where he succeeded and where he...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/06/dave_mccormick_pens_inaugural_letter_to_pennsylvania_voters_153679.html</link>
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						<author>Salena Zito</author><category>Salena Zito</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/06/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 10:11:23 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/703740_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Advice to Democrats Regarding Maduro Arrest: Resist Reflexive Opposition]]></title>
											<subtitle>PURPLE NATION</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ During high-profile crises or controversies in business, politics, and life, the rule I have preached over the years of experience is to get the full truth out into the public immediately: "Tell it early, tell it all, and tell it yourself." 
For starters, that means President Trump should have started his Sunday speech explaining the Venezuelan intervention and Nicolas Maduro's arrest by acknowledging the confusion he caused by pardoning former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez.
Hernandez was convicted of virtually the same crimes as charged in Maduro's indictment - including drug...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/06/advice_to_democrats_maduro_arrest_resist_reflexive_opposition_153678.html</link>
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						<author>Lanny J. Davis</author><category>Lanny J. Davis</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/06/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 09:56:23 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/706212_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ An Update to the Monroe Doctrine: &#039;It&#039;s About Peace on Earth&#039;]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Just in case you missed it, President Trump just updated the Monroe Doctrine, with a clear-headed legal case, and an incredibly well-executed military action to take out Venezuela's communist strongman and his wife.
I believe that Mr. trump is exactly right to bend the arc of history back toward freedom. It's a great and noble mission. And here is Mr. Trump's definition of it.
Asked by a reporter "If you had to sum up Operation Absolute Resolve, would you say that it was about oil or it was about regime change?" 
The president replied: "It's about peace on Earth." 
The reporter inquired: "How...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/06/an_update_to_the_monroe_doctrine_its_about_peace_on_earth_153681.html</link>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/06/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 06:39:52 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/706222_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Tim Walz Personifies Democrats&#039; Decline]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Tim Walz is going away, but the Democratic Party's Tim Walz crisis isn't.
The Minnesota governor gave up his quest for a third term Monday: Staying out of jail will be challenging enough for him over the next few months, never mind prolonging his stay in office.
Federal prosecutors estimate the Somali daycare scam and other frauds perpetrated under his watch cost taxpayers up to $9 billion.
Money like that goes a long way in politics.
Over the years, Walz and his party have received plenty of campaign cash from the Somali community, a loyal -- and influential -- bloc in Minnesota Democratic...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/06/tim_walz_personifies_democrats_decline_153680.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel McCarthy</author><category>Daniel McCarthy</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/06/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 06:39:32 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/706161_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Ten Reasons To Cheer the Arrest of Maduro]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The weekend arrest of Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro marks a rare moment when American power was used decisively, strategically, and unapologetically in defense of U.S. interests and human freedom - and there are at least 10 reasons to cheer it.
1) President Trump has done what previous administrations - including Trump 45 - only talked about doing: The raid opens the door to a restoration of constitutional order, democracy, freedom, and prosperity to Venezuelans repressed by the vicious, kleptocratic, technically incompetent, socialist (but I am redundant) regime launched by Hugo Chavez in a...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/05/ten_reasons_to_cheer_the_arrest_of_maduro_153677.html</link>
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						<author>Richard Porter</author><category>Richard Porter</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/05/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 09:28:47 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/706101_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Put Trump on the Ballot in 2026]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Republicans are still licking their wounds after the off-cycle shellacking in November, where Democrats flipped 21% percent of GOP state legislative seats and won the governorships in Virginia and New Jersey. If they have any hope of keeping the slim majority in the House during the 2026 midterm elections, they will need to use every tool in the toolbox.
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has a plan to do just that, using the biggest tool of all: Campaigner-in-Chief Donald J. Trump. Now Trump has to make a choice: Does he want to accept help and share his power, or does he want to...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/05/put_trump_on_the_ballot_in_2026_153674.html</link>
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						<author>Jeff Mayhugh</author><category>Jeff Mayhugh</category><pubdate>2026/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/05/2026/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 06:34:41 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/706015_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Push for Censorship on Campus Hit Record Levels in 2025]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ This year, the fight over free expression in American higher education reached a troubling milestone. According to data from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, efforts to censor speech on college campuses hit record highs and across multiple fronts - and most succeeded.
Let's start with the raw numbers. In 2025, FIRE's Scholars Under Fire, Students Under Fire, and Campus Deplatforming databases collectively tracked:

525 attempts to sanction scholars for their speech, more than one a day, with 460 of them resulting in punishment.
273 attempts to punish students for...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/31/push_for_censorship_on_campus_hit_record_levels_in_2025_153670.html</link>
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						<author>Sean Stevens</author><category>Sean Stevens</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/31/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 05:01:42 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/67/672565_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Economists Got 2025 All Wrong]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Well, Donald Trump has done it again!
He stumped the chumps. The "chumps" in this case were the "blue-chip" academic and financial economists whose consensus forecast this time last year was of high inflation and low economic growth. Wrong on both counts.
As you've probably heard, the GDP growth for Q3 came in at a red-hot 4.3%, following 3.5% for the second quarter. Some 90% of professional economists got it wrong -- all underestimating the strength of the Trump economy. QED: These weren't random errors. These were "hate Trump" errors.
They also predicted inflation of above 3% for 2025. It's...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/31/the_economists_got_2025_all_wrong_153671.html</link>
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						<author>Stephen Moore</author><category>Stephen Moore</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/31/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 05:01:24 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/705811_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Setting Up the 2026 Midterms]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Ten months ahead of November's midterms, political and economic crosscurrents are colliding. Which of these conflicting trends prevail will greatly shape the next two years. And possibly even longer.
Midterm elections are always important. Besides gauging the country's political mood, they have proven integral to maintaining America's political equilibrium. 
They are the "ebb" to the "flow" of America's political tide. Historically, every four years a large tide of voters go to the polls and elect a president. Then every two years, the large voter flow ebbs back and the president's party...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/31/setting_up_the_2026_midterms__153669.html</link>
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						<author>J.T. Young</author><category>J.T. Young</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/31/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 05:01:01 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/705421_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Harvard Says Yes to Discrimination, No to Western Civ]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ At Harvard University today, professors who teach Western history are history.
James Hankins, a specialist in Renaissance thought, was one of the last holdouts.
Now Hankins, who has just published a hefty book that teaches what Harvard doesn't -- "The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition. Vol. 1" -- has decamped for the University of Florida's Hamilton School of Classical and Civic Education.
It's not the warmer weather that's drawn him away from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
It's the contrast in intellectual climates: frozen and dead, where Western history is concerned, at Harvard;...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/30/harvard_says_yes_to_discrimination_no_to_western_civ_153668.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel McCarthy</author><category>Daniel McCarthy</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/30/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 06:30:28 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/702307_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ For Better or Worse, It Was the Year of Trump]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ President Trump claimed recently that "they're saying this is the best 10 months in the history of the presidency."
Hmmm. Maybe the merry elves are saying that in the Oval Office when they tell Trump he is the best Santa ever. You never know about those elves. But one thing is for certain: 2025 will go down in the history books as one of the most consequential years in American history.
And that's because, despite Time magazine getting it wrong, 2025 was the Year of Trump. Triumphant Trump. Trump unleashed. Towering Trump. Glowering Trump. Trump unhinged. Truth Social Trump. Trump. Trump....]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/29/for_better_or_worse_it_was_the_year_of_trump.html</link>
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						<author>Frank Miele</author><category>Frank Miele</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/29/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 05:03:57 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/705656_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Good Book Is Great]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ For too many Decembers, I told myself while decorating our tree that I really ought to re-read the gospels - or at least the dramatic nativity scene from Luke depicted in "A Charlie Brown Christmas."
Like a lot of my resolutions, that one died on the shelf. It wasn't because I disdained faith; I was a religion minor in college. But, as a secular person reared among like-minded people, I always felt there were better ways to learn and grow.
Then, about two years ago, I decided to read the entire Bible. I wasn't driven by a spiritual awakening or hunger but, instead, by feelings of profound...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/24/the_good_book_is_great_153665.html</link>
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						<author>J. Peder Zane</author><category>J. Peder Zane</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/24/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 07:23:27 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/59/596570_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ COP30 and the Art of Climate-Policy Neglect]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ This November, delegates from nearly 200 countries convened in Brazil for COP30 - where COP stands for "Conference of Parties," and the number 30 reflects the number of such events since the very first one in Berlin in 1995. Stemming from a UN statute adopted in 1992 and bearing the acronym UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), reaching the 30th edition of COP would be a triumph if its success was measured on diplomatic endurance. But it's not, and the conference's takeaways could have seemingly been predicted before the final gavel - prioritization of the optics of...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/24/cop30_and_the_art_of_climate-policy_neglect_153664.html</link>
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						<author>Joel Darmstadter</author><category>Joel Darmstadter</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/24/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 04:38:32 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/703216_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Labor Unions Have a Jew-Hatred Problem]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Labor unions have a long history in the United States of advocating for workers' rights. But in recent years, some unions, particularly those representing graduate students, have drifted away from that mission and, under the guise of "Palestinian activism," have turned into hubs of hostility toward Jewish members. Moreover, when Jewish union members raise concerns about feeling targeted, the union response is - double down.
The most recent example is from the Cornell University Graduate Student Union. As Jewish Insider reported, a BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanction) resolution advancing...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/23/labor_unions_have_a_jew-hatred_problem_153662.html</link>
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						<author>Tina Snider</author><category>Tina Snider</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/23/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:42:32 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/705436_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ FBI Raided Secret Service Agent&rsquo;s Home in Tax Fraud Probe]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ The FBI recently raided the home of a Secret Service agent on Vice President JD Vance's detail in an alleged tax and wire fraud case involving millions of dollars in donations and grants.
In the alleged scheme, the agent accepted donations to a charity that purports to help inner-city youth and victims of domestic violence but didn't provide the services it reported to the IRS, according to several knowledgeable sources in the Secret Service community.
The raid, which took place on or around Dec. 8, was the culmination of more than a year of work by a joint FBI-IRS investigation that the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/22/fbi_raided_secret_service_agents_home_in_tax_fraud_probe_153663.html</link>
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						<author>Susan Crabtree</author><category>Susan Crabtree</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/22/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 14:24:06 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/705442_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The NLRB Can Now Serve the American People, Not the Democratic Party]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The Biden-era board turned labor law into a political weapon. It's time to rebuild a system that serves the American people, not partisan interests.
For much of the 20th and early 21st centuries, many American workers have benefited from strong, honest unions that focus on safety, skills, and fair pay. These kinds of unions deliver real value to workers: improving conditions, building careers, and strengthening the industries that keep America moving. Their ability to do so was the result of a structure that allowed for relatively fair bargaining and negotiations between American workers and...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/22/the_nlrb_can_now_serve_the_american_people_not_the_democratic_party_153661.html</link>
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						<author>Gene Hamilton</author><category>Gene Hamilton</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/22/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 13:18:44 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/705408_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Lifting Sanctions on Syria Without Enforcement Is a Dangerous Gamble]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ A watching world struggles to find compassion for the new Syrian government as violence and targeted attacks continue to top headlines. Yet, the White House remains hopeful that Syrian transitional President Ahmed al-Sharaa is capable of adhering to the conditions outlined in the lifting of sanctions signed by President Trump. Mr. al-Sharaa, once on the terrorist list with a  million bounty, has so far failed to protect innocent religious minorities; now two of our own American troops and an American translator have been killed due to the convergence of lack of proper rule of law and the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/22/lifting_sanctions_on_syria_without_enforcement_is_a_dangerous_gamble_153657.html</link>
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						<author>Morhaf Ibrahim</author><category>Morhaf Ibrahim</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/22/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 06:34:33 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/705295_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Get Ready for 5% GDP Growth]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ GDP is still the best overall measure of our economy. It stands for gross domestic product.
It covers consumption, investment, government, and trade.
For the past 25 years, it's been stuck around 2 percent, on average. For the prior 100 years, GDP growth averaged 3.5 percent.
That was real prosperity for all Americans. Top, middle, lower incomes. Not only prosperity, but opportunity to climb the ladder of success.
Now, I think the Trump economic program of supply-side tax cuts, deregulation, drill, baby, drill, and free and fair reciprocal trade, is capable of producing 5 percent GDP growth....]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/21/were_due_for_5_gdp_growth_153659.html</link>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/21/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ How Trump Can Turn the Midterms Around]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Midterm elections go one of two ways. They're either a validation of the sitting president, or they're a repudiation. Historically, they've almost always been a repudiation.
The 2026 midterms are shaping up to be no different - a firm rebuke to Donald Trump. That's obviously bad for him. Congress will spend two straight years investigating and likely impeaching him.
But the bigger danger is to America. Democratic control of Congress will jeopardize Republicans' efforts to restore an economy of opportunity for all. Worse, the left will lay the groundwork for recapturing the White House in...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/21/how_trump_can_turn_the_midterms_around_153654.html</link>
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						<author>John Tillman</author><category>John Tillman</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/21/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 07:40:36 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/704875_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Work, Welfare, and the Illusion of a New Eden]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The scandal among the Somali community in Minnesota highlights a question to consider as we plunge deeper into the AI Age, an age in which some futurists, such as Elon Musk, suggest work will be optional: What's the point of working?
In the beginning, there was no work: God's punishment for Adam's disobedience was tossing him from the Garden of Eden and condemning mankind to suffer through labor. 
And for millennia, man suffered and labored merely to exist and reproduce, as all other living things did on earth. But whether from eating from the Tree of Knowledge, intelligent design, or the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/21/work_welfare_and_the_illusion_of_a_new_eden_153658.html</link>
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						<author>Richard Porter</author><category>Richard Porter</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/21/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 07:41:18 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/705297_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ How To Make Things More Affordable]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The concerns of many Americans about their economic well-being may be at the highest level since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Politico recently reported that 46% of Americans say their cost of living is the worst that they can remember, including over one-third of Trump voters. Nothing better exemplifies this than the many "30-somethings" who are unable to purchase a home.
Financial anxieties center around affordability, which is the proxy for evaluating whether the economy is meeting the public's needs. Affordability is the degree to which households can responsibly pay for essential...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/20/how_to_make_things_more_affordable.html</link>
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						<author>Gary Sasse</author><category>Gary Sasse</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/20/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 07:13:25 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/705280_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Blood on the Sand: Australian Massacre Exposes Hollow Core of Anti-Zionism]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Bondi Beach is meant to be neutral ground. A place without history. A democratic stretch of sand where politics dissolves into sunlight, surf, and families pushing strollers toward the water. That illusion died when Jews gathered there to light Hanukkah candles - and were slaughtered for it.
The massacre belongs to a broader pattern that has accelerated since Oct. 7, 2023: Jews targeted far from any battlefield, in the ordinary spaces of civic life. Synagogues, campuses, cafes, city streets - and now a beach - have become killing fields aimed not at a state, but at a people. The mass murder...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/19/blood_on_the_sand_australian_massacre_exposes_hollow_core_of_anti-zionism_153653.html</link>
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						<author>Eric Spitz</author><category>Eric Spitz</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/19/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 06:40:02 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/705198_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Chicago&rsquo;s Guaranteed Income Guarantees Less Opportunity]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ There have been more than 150 guaranteed income pilot programs implemented across the country, but only one has made its program permanent - Cook County, Illinois.
The county, which includes Chicago, became the first place in America to commit to a taxpayer-funded program indefinitely, serving as the nucleus for expanding the scope of these programs nationally. Taxpayers and recipients beware.
A guaranteed income program is simple: Give low-income people a monthly amount of money to use as they see fit. These payments are in addition to other welfare benefits they receive, and don't come with...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/19/chicagos_guaranteed_income_guarantees_less_opportunity_153647.html</link>
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						<author>Josh Bandoch</author><category>Josh Bandoch</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/19/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 06:41:19 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/705143_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Pennsylvania&rsquo;s Uneasy Truce With Artificial Intelligence]]></title>
											<subtitle>ANALYSIS</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Our latest RealClear Opinion Research poll of Pennsylvania comes with a vast array of data about public opinion in the Keystone State relating to artificial intelligence, data centers, and their relationship between technology and the environment. We explore the reasons for skepticism surrounding these emerging technologies as well as reasons for optimism.
But first, what might be my favorite survey result of all time: Across a range of questions, there were similarities in the answers given. Respondents who were skeptical of AI weren't, for example, noticeably more likely to disapprove of...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/19/pennsylvanias_uneasy_truce_with_artificial_intelligence_153652.html</link>
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						<author>Sean Trende</author><category>Sean Trende</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/19/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 06:40:12 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/703855_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Ilhan Omar Can Accuse ICE With No Proof]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ As a leftist Muslim immigrant from Somalia, radical Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is wonderfully blessed with a DEI press. She is perennially assumed to be a victim of racism, sexism and xenophobia whenever she is criticized, and especially when she's verbally targeted by President Donald Trump.
At the end of a typically syrupy interview with Esme Murphy from the local CBS station WCCO in Minneapolis on Sunday, Omar claimed her 19-year-old son Adnan Hirsi was pulled over by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement personnel.
"Yesterday, after he made a stop at Target, he did get pulled over by ICE...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/19/ilhan_omar_can_accuse_ice_with_no_proof_153649.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/19/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 06:40:31 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/704019_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Can the Dark Ages Return?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Western civilization arose in the 8th century B.C. Greece. Some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400-year-old Dark Age. That chaos followed the utter collapse of the palatial culture of Mycenaean Greece.
But what reemerged were constitutional government, rationalism, liberty, freedom of expression, self-critique, and free markets -- what we know now as the foundation of a unique Western civilization.
The Roman Republic inherited and enhanced the Greek model.
For a millennium, the Republic and subsequent Empire spread Western culture, eventually to be inseparable from...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/19/can_the_dark_ages_return_153650.html</link>
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						<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author><category>Victor Davis Hanson</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/19/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 06:40:54 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/58/586808_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ We Have Reached the Emily Litella Moment on Climate Change]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ It's been a cold winter so far in the Midwest and much of the Northeast, early-in-the-season snow even in Washington, D.C., and temperatures falling to freezing and below in much of the South. Come to think of it, North America's 2024-25 winter was pretty cold too. It's gotten to the point that "polar vortex" is a phrase on just about everyone's lips.
Of course, you are surely aware -- as those of us with doubts about inevitably disastrous global warming were often told -- that there's a difference between weather and climate. Weather is anecdote, climate is longstanding trend. And the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/19/we_have_reached_the_emily_litella_moment_on_climate_change_153651.html</link>
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						<author>Michael Barone</author><category>Michael Barone</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/19/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 06:41:12 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/59/596064_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Chanukah Is Relevant for Everyone -- but Not in the Way You Might Think]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Of all the holidays on the Jewish calendar, Chanukah, which began last Sunday evening, has always been one of my favorites. Even when I was younger and far less observant, I appreciated the holiday's well-known rituals and customs: lighting the menorah, spinning the dreidel, eating potato latkes, and so forth. My given Hebrew name -- "Maccabee," because Judah Maccabee was nicknamed "the hammer" -- is also synonymous with the hero of the holiday's story.
Because of the holiday's timing and the general desire by corporate America and elected officials to include Jewish Americans in annual...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/19/chanukah_is_relevant_for_everyone_--_but_not_in_the_way_you_might_think_153648.html</link>
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						<author>Josh Hammer</author><category>Josh Hammer</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/19/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 06:40:47 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/705189_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Wake Up, Parents: American Library Association Is (Still) Grooming Our Kids]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Imagine if your 15-year-old came to my house, and I gave them a book about edgy sex positions? What if I gave your 16-year-old a book with graphic illustrations of oral or anal sex?
Would you be happy with that? Or would you be mighty suspicious of me?
Many parents may not know it, but there is an ongoing fight over certain books and whether they should be given to minors without their parents' knowledge or consent. That's what the American Library Association wants. The ALA recently launched a nationwide campaign against so-called "book bans," with ALA President Sam Helmick (they/them)...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/18/wake_up_parents_american_library_association_is_still_grooming_our_kids_153640.html</link>
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						<author>Dan Kleinman</author><category>Dan Kleinman</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/18/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 08:59:32 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/63/634632_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ RFK Had His Shot at HHS, but MAGA Should Move On]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Not more than a year ago, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was a handsomely paid partner for the injury law firm Morgan & Morgan, the largest and most profitable firm in the country, with a reputation as a reliable Democratic megadonor and interest group. As the controversial HHS Secretary enters his second year, RFK's record thus far looks less like MAGA and more like California-liberal lawfare on federal government steroids.
So far, some of the major initiatives undertaken by RFK include an AI-chatbot-infested MAHA commission report riddled with technical errors, a muddled vaccine discouragement...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/18/rfk_had_his_shot_at_hhs_but_maga_should_move_on__153643.html</link>
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						<author>Yael Ossowski</author><category>Yael Ossowski</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/18/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 06:29:17 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/705036_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Dumbest Assumption in All of Politics]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ One of the most persistent mistakes in modern politics is the insistence on flattening all ideologies -- pretending that all human beings think the same way, want the same things, and are motivated by the same forces. Every time policymakers fall into this trap, the result is not compassion or clarity but some of the worst public policy imaginable.
The assumption usually begins with a comforting but false premise: that all people harbor the same yearning for freedom in precisely the same way. That belief animated much of the George W. Bush administration's foreign policy, when the president...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/18/the_dumbest_assumption_in_all_of_politics_153645.html</link>
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						<author>Ben Shapiro</author><category>Ben Shapiro</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/18/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 06:29:37 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/704822_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Property Tax Revolt Exploding Across U.S.]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ "Affordability" is the Democrats' battle cry to win elections these days. But Republicans are ready to flip the script to woo homeowners, who make up the majority (65%) of American households.
Across the nation, these homeowners are angry and ready to fight against soaring property taxes. Their homes have appreciated, but they don't have more cash in their pockets to pay the rising taxes that come with rising home values.
A property tax revolt, with silver-haired payers leading the charge, is likely to shape the political map for November 2026.
Steve Moore, cofounder of the Committee to...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/18/property_tax_revolt_exploding_across_us_153644.html</link>
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						<author>Betsy McCaughey</author><category>Betsy McCaughey</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/18/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 06:29:53 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/705089_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ This Christmas Season, Middle East Christians Are Under Threat]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Last December, my country finally threw off the chains of a hated, despotic regime. For many Syrians, it was a moment filled with hope - the belief that decades of repression had given way to a chance for renewal. Yet by March 2025, that hope had begun to fade. Parts of the country slipped into chaos. Videos circulated on social media and WhatsApp showing armed Islamist militias attacking civilian Christians, Druze, and anyone they branded as "infidels."
Homes were burned. Entire families were killed. The first wave of violence was expanding and closing in on Christian communities of Suwayda...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/17/this_christmas_season_middle_east_christians_are_under_threat_153636.html</link>
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						<author>Ahed Al Hendi</author><category>Ahed Al Hendi</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/17/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 06:04:46 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/68/680336_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ &#039;Drill, Baby, Drill&#039; Is Paying Off]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ A lot of numbers came out today, as the government gears up after the shutdown.
One of the biggest themes in the jobs report for October and November was the continued restructuring of the economy, where President Biden's big-government socialism is coming to an end. And President Trump's re-privatization continues ahead.
So far this year, federal jobs have fallen by roughly 270,000, while private jobs have increased nearly 700,000.
Also related to Trump policies, native-born jobs are up some 2.7 million. While foreign-born jobs are down by almost a million.
It was a decent report, not a...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/17/drill_baby_drill_is_paying_off_153639.html</link>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/17/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 06:05:40 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/57/574318_1_.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ When Republicans Do Long Interviews With Liberal Journalists]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Whenever Republican officials sit for an extensive interview or series of interviews with a liberal media source, their supporters ask: Why did you have to do that? Why does Donald Trump need to speak to Michael Wolff or Bob Woodward? Now, it's Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles talking to author Chris Whipple for the lefties of Vanity Fair.
But if Republicans made an energetic policy of not accepting any interview requests from liberal journalists, the press would paint it as authoritarian "North Korea," because liberals dominate the media. It's much easier for Democrats to accept zero...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/17/when_republicans_do_long_interviews_with_liberal_journalists_153637.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/17/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 06:05:05 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/704970_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump Supporters: Is He Really &lsquo;Fit for Office&rsquo;?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Remember when MAGA Republicans said that anyone so hateful as to blame Charlie Kirk for his own murder should be out of a job? Firefighters, teachers, and active-duty military personnel were fired as a result. 
If the principle behind that outrage still holds, does it also apply to Donald Trump, who immediately responded to the news that Rob and Michelle Reiner had been brutally murdered by blaming them? Many on the right did criticize him for posting that the Reiners were dead because of Trump Derangement Syndrome. But this is not a one-time departure from otherwise rational behavior.
When...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/17/trump_supporters_is_he_really_fit_for_office__153641.html</link>
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						<author>Melinda Henneberger</author><category>Melinda Henneberger</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/17/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 13:38:04 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/705017_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Why Johnny Can&#039;t Read]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Reading and math scores are abysmal across the country, as national testing results keep documenting. Illiteracy rates are rising: The number of 16- to 24-year-olds reading at the lowest literacy levels increased from 16% in 2017 to 25% in 2023, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics.
In some inner-city schools, less than half of kids are reading or doing math at grade-level proficiency. Many high school grads can't read their diplomas.
As an economist, I would submit that this is our greatest crisis. It puts the future of American prosperity in grave danger....]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/17/why_johnny_cant_read_153638.html</link>
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						<author>Stephen Moore</author><category>Stephen Moore</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/17/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 06:05:23 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/67/671206_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Jimmy Lai&rsquo;s Family Looks to Trump, World Leaders]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Family members and friends of Jimmy Lai, a businessman and a pro-democracy newspaper owner in Hong Kong, are holding out hope that he can still be released after his guilty verdict on national security and sedition charges, if President Trump and other world leaders put pressure on Xi Jinping to free him.
On Monday, both Trump and British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper called for Lai's release.
"I feel so badly. I spoke to President Xi about it, and I asked to consider his release," Trump said. "He's not well. He's an older man, and he's not well. So, I did put that request out - we'll see...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/16/jimmy_lais_family_looks_to_trump_world_leaders__153635.html</link>
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						<author>Susan Crabtree</author><category>Susan Crabtree</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/16/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 06:16:38 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/704887_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump&#039;s Inflation Trap]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ What can Donald Trump do to stop morphing into Joe Biden?
The two presidents could hardly be more different in most ways -- but in the one that counts most with voters, Trump is in danger of resembling his predecessor.
Americans rejected Biden and the Democrats last year because they were incensed at the lousy state of the economy.
Right now, they're not much happier with Trump's economy.
Inflation was the No. 1 concern on voters' minds last year, and it's still a top concern today.
Trump's team say they plan to tout "affordability" as a theme Republicans can win on in next November's...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/16/trumps_inflation_trap_153634.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel McCarthy</author><category>Daniel McCarthy</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/16/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 06:16:57 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/704875_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Immigration and Deportation Conundrums]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Americans overwhelmingly favor strong borders, legal immigration, and the deportation of illegal aliens. Yet, fewer than half support President Trump's immigration policies or ICE. Trump's challenge is to reclaim our borders and security, while also fostering economic growth and preserving American values.
In addition to halting illegal immigration at the border, the president has curtailed legal entries by imposing restrictions on work, student, and immigration visas, particularly impacting China and 19 high risk countries. In September, he generally limited H-1B skilled-worker visas to...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/15/the_immigration_and_deportation_conundrums_153629.html</link>
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						<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author><category>Kenin M. Spivak</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/15/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 20:54:14 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/699273_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ We Can Fix Health Care. Here&rsquo;s the Plan]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ I've argued for years that health care is not a right because providing free health care automatically encumbers someone else to pay for it or to provide it. Our legitimate rights are a gift from God, not a forced contribution from our neighbors.
I still believe that as a matter of principle, but unfortunately from a political perspective that argument is already lost.
Most Americans now think they are entitled to the best possible medical care and the longest life available, and Democrats have gained enormous power by promising exactly that - with taxpayer money, of course, most of it...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/15/we_can_fix_health_care_heres_the_plan_153627.html</link>
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						<author>Frank Miele</author><category>Frank Miele</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/15/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 20:53:53 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/704608_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Catholics, Trump, and Affordability]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[  
Catholics have been some of Trump's most important voters. But right now, 55% of Catholics give Trump a D or F grade on handling inflation. Affordability is the central issue for most Americans, especially swing voters. Patriotic middle-class Catholic families feel the squeeze, so this new populist coalition is being tested.
Back in 2016 Trump won the Catholic vote by 8 points, but in 2020 he split the Catholic vote nationally with Biden. Last November, Trump surged to a 12-point win among the faithful in 2024. That massive shift within the largest denomination in America drove the popular...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/13/catholics_trump_and_affordability_153630.html</link>
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						<author>Steve Cortes</author><category>Steve Cortes</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/13/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2025 07:00:39 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/704652_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ WSJ&rsquo;s Fearmongering Doesn&rsquo;t Survive Contact With Evidence]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Legally armed civilians, we're told, pose a major danger. They shoot innocent bystanders, justifiably kill others whenever they personally believe "force is reasonably necessary," and rely on racist self-defense laws.
At least these concerns are the case in several recent news articles in the Wall Street Journal. On Monday, with the story on the front page of the Journal, reporter Mark Maremont continued his attacks on people legally carrying concealed handguns. His article presents four stories from 2021 to the present where citizens who used a gun in self-defense accidentally shot a...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/13/wsjs_fearmongering_doesnt_survive_contact_with_evidence_153631.html</link>
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						<author>John R. Lott Jr.</author><category>John R. Lott Jr.</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/13/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2025 07:01:02 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/704664_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ When You&rsquo;re in a Hole, Stop Digging]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ President Trump was onto something when he replaced Joe Biden's White House portrait with a mocking picture of an autopen. Given our recent history of failed leadership, why stop there?
To truly capture the impact of this century's presidents, let's replace George W. Bush's photo with a picture of a small hole and a shovel. Instead of Barack Obama's dazzling smile, how about a deeper hole with a longer shovel? And maybe an earth mover before a crater in Donald Trump's first term. Maybe stick with Biden's autopen as a tip of the cap to a great idea, although a shot of the Grand Canyon would...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/12/when_youre_in_a_hole_stop_digging_153619.html</link>
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						<author>J. Peder Zane</author><category>J. Peder Zane</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/12/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 06:15:30 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/704566_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Cry the Beloved Europe?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Nothing bothers the European elite as much as American conservatives praising the European foundations of their shared, but threatened, Western civilization.
Europeans especially resent having their social-welfare state system critiqued by upstart, crass Americans.
Their pique only increases as they push back against the condescending American idea that the U.S. could possibly offer any constructive advice, much less help a more civilized Europe follow the "American model."
Americans, in turn, are worried that Europe is not just stagnating but is on a trajectory of permanent decline -- with...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/12/cry_the_beloved_europe_153625.html</link>
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						<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author><category>Victor Davis Hanson</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/12/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 06:16:44 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/68/687772_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Can We Let the Sober Middle Drive the Car for a Change?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Historically, the sitting president's political party loses congressional seats in a midterm election. That trend has held in 17 of 19 midterm elections since World War II. On average, the president's party has lost 25-30 seats. The worst loss was in 2010 when the Democrats lost 63 seats. In Donald Trump's first term, the Republicans lost 40 seats.
The current polling strongly indicates that pattern will likely repeat itself in 2026. Trump's approval rating has been steadily trending down since his reelection and turned sharply lower during the government shutdown. Still, he is about 5 points...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/12/can_we_let_the_sober_middle_drive_the_car_for_a_change.html</link>
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						<author>Bill King</author><category>Bill King</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/12/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 06:15:50 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/704581_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Kansas &lsquo;Women Who Wait for Justice&rsquo; Are a Lot Like Epstein Victims]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ KANSAS CITY, KANSAS-A vigil at dawn, on the empty square in front of City Hall earlier this week, was led by the "women who wait for justice," a year after 71-year-old former detective Roger Golubski shot himself in the head rather than face them in court, on what would have been the first day of his first federal trial.
Had he shown up, nine black women were going to testify that "while acting under color of law," he raped, sexually assaulted, kidnapped, or otherwise preyed on them, in one case starting when she was only 13 years old. 


Former Kansas City, Kan., Police detective Roger...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/12/kansas_women_who_wait_for_justice_like_epstein_victims_153626.html</link>
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						<author>Melinda Henneberger</author><category>Melinda Henneberger</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/12/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:40:12 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/704628_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump Can&#039;t Insult Reporters When They Go After Him?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ People magazine and former Washington Post reporter Paul Farhi have made separate lists of insults President Donald Trump has recently lobbed at female reporters. It doesn't matter how the journalists behaved because apparently, women can't possibly be ill-mannered in press conferences. Or they think you can't possibly be as rude as Trump.
The list of outrages started with "Quiet, piggy" to Bloomberg's Catherine Lucey. She was hogging the spotlight and asking more than one question. Trump could have said something without an animal insult, like, "You're done" or "Enough," but when reporters...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/12/trump_cant_insult_reporters_when_they_go_after_him_153621.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/12/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 06:17:17 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/704594_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Sotomayor&#039;s Bad-Faith Warning on Presidential Power]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ During oral arguments in Trump v. Slaughter, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor threatened America with a good time, warning that the administration is "asking us to destroy the structure of government."
Great. It's about time an unaccountable fourth branch of the state was decimated. Trump v. Slaughter revolves around the president's ability to fire executive branch officials without cause at "independent" agencies. For one thing, nowhere does the Constitution empower Congress to create "independent" anything. The notion is a concoction of our worst former president, Woodrow Wilson, and...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/12/sotomayors_bad-faith_warning_on_presidential_power.html</link>
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						<author>David Harsanyi</author><category>David Harsanyi</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/12/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 06:20:19 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/698647_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Two Californians Are Eyeing a White House Run in 2028. Republicans Rejoice]]></title>
											<subtitle></subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- Two California Democrats could run for president in 2028: Gov. Gavin Newsom and former Vice President Kamala Harris.
Republican operatives must be thinking: Bring it on.
Under Newsom, California's image has become less golden than it used to be.
The high cost of living has taken a toll. The IRS announced last month that California is the state experiencing the highest net loss of taxpayers, with one taxpayer leaving every 1 minute and 44 seconds.
Nearly 39,000 Californians moved to Nevada last year.
Hope that the Silver State newbies don't bring their progressive politics with...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/12/two_californians_are_eyeing_a_white_house_run_in_2028_republicans_rejoice_153623.html</link>
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						<author>Debra Saunders</author><category>Debra Saunders</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/12/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 06:16:08 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/703800_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Don&#039;t Go Wobbly on China]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ As the sun rises on a new Trump-era geopolitical chapter, Washington confronts a defining choice: Will America view the People's Republic of China and its regnant Communist Party through the rose-colored lens of transaction and diplomacy, or will it soberly recognize Beijing as America's foremost geopolitical adversary in a multigenerational cold war?
The stakes could not be higher, and the answer ought to be simple. We should stop treating China with kid gloves -- as a spirited economic or diplomatic competitor -- and start treating it as the existential challenge to the American republic...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/12/dont_go_wobbly_on_china_153624.html</link>
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						<author>Josh Hammer</author><category>Josh Hammer</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/12/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 06:16:28 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/699478_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Congressional Leaders See Far Higher Stock Returns Than Peers]]></title>
											<subtitle>ANALYSIS</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Over 100 members of Congress have cosigned the Restore Trust in Congress Act, which would prohibit members of Congress and their immediate families from buying and selling individual stocks. Despite broad bipartisan support, congressional leadership has not yet allowed the bill to be brought to the floor.
A new working paper in the National Bureau of Economic Research indicates that stock-related gains are most concentrated among congressional leaders rather than rank-and-file lawmakers. The authors find that lawmakers who eventually rise to leadership roles perform roughly in line with...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/11/congressional_leaders_see_far_higher_stock_returns_than_peers_153614.html</link>
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						<author>Jonathan Draeger</author><category>Jonathan Draeger</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/11/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 06:30:58 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/704486_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump Is a Better Forecaster Than the Fed]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ So the Fed did what everybody expected them to do, by cutting their target rate by a quarter of a point.
Over the past year, they have reduced that rate by 175 basis points. And it now stands at three and a half and three quarter percent.
Noteworthy, in today's meeting, there were three dissents. President Trump's man Stephen Miran wanted a half a point cut. President Obama's man Austan Goolsbee didn't want any rate cut. And the the Kansas City Fed's Jeffrey Schmid also voted against the rate cut.
Stock markets roared with the Dow up almost 500 points, the S&P 500 almost hitting a new high,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/11/trump_is_a_better_forecaster_than_the_fed_153618.html</link>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/11/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 06:30:39 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/704495_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ MTG Runs to Anti-Trump Embrace on &#039;60 Minutes,&#039; CNN]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- If you tuned into "60 Minutes" Sunday night, you saw Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., talk about her falling out with President Donald Trump and her decision to resign from the House in the middle of what was supposed to be her third two-year term.
That Greene would get her own star segment on "60 Minutes" is no surprise. As Mark Bednar, a Republican communications professional, noted on the 2WAY platform's "The Morning Meeting," legacy media hold their arms open wide "for Republicans who want to, like, trash the party."
Bednar called it "a very strong perverse incentive...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/11/mtg_runs_to_anti-trump_embrace_on_60_minutes_cnn_153616.html</link>
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						<author>Debra Saunders</author><category>Debra Saunders</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/11/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Walz, Omar and the Billion-Dollar Minnesota Fraud Scandal]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Minnesota is now facing one of the largest documented government service fraud scandals in United States history. Under Gov. Tim Walz's evidently unwatchful eye, federal prosecutors have estimated that approximately $1 billion in taxpayer funds have been siphoned from multiple state- and federally funded social service programs over the last five years.
As of this writing, 87 individuals have been charged in connection with the scheme, with 61 convictions already secured and more charges continuing to be filed against these fraudsters. The bulk of the fraud scheme centers around two...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/11/walz_omar_and_the_billion-dollar_minnesota_fraud_scandal_153617.html</link>
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						<author>Armstrong Williams</author><category>Armstrong Williams</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/11/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 06:31:49 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/704022_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ What Do We Do About China?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The United States is confronting an existential threat -- but not the kind defined by ships on the horizon or missiles in the air. The danger instead stems from a waning sense of national purpose and a growing doubt about America's global role. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the emerging geopolitical alignment linking China, Russia and Iran.
This threat does not imply that China is preparing a direct attack on the United States. Rather, it reflects what will happen as America retreats from the world stage. Russia will expand its influence throughout Eastern Europe. China will widen its...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/11/what_do_we_do_about_china_153615.html</link>
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						<author>Ben Shapiro</author><category>Ben Shapiro</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/11/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 06:31:33 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/64/644595_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ China Commission Urges Action on Transnational Repression]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ A key congressional panel focused on China's impacts on human rights and religious freedom is urging Congress and the Trump administration to do far more to combat Beijing's transnational intimidation and repression campaigns in the United States and across the globe.
In a sweeping 2025 annual report, the Congressional Executive Commission on China, co-chaired by Republicans Sen. Dan Sullivan and Rep. Chris Smith, warned of a continued multifaceted campaign of transnational repression against members of Chinese communities in the U.S. and abroad and critics aimed at intimidating individuals...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/10/china_commission_urges_action_on_transnational_repression_153613.html</link>
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						<author>Susan Crabtree</author><category>Susan Crabtree</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/10/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:38:49 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/704402_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Last Thing on Democrats&#039; Agenda -- Telling the Truth to Americans]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Recently in The Wall Street Journal, Neera Tanden, CEO of the Center for American Progress, a major foghorn in our nation's capital for America's left, explained "Why Democrats Won the Shutdown."
The most accurate declaration in the article is "fights tell the country a lot about what -- and who -- the fighters care about."
And, indeed, there should be no question what the Democratic Party is about.
That is -- to miss no opportunity to accumulate political power by fostering, as widely and as deeply as possible, a culture of government dependence in America. And to pay the bill for this by...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/10/last_thing_on_democrats_agenda_--_telling_the_truth_to_americans_153612.html</link>
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						<author>Star Parker</author><category>Star Parker</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/10/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 06:37:25 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/704342_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Washington Post&#039;s Sunday Slobber Over Rosie O&#039;Donnell]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The Washington Post would like you to pretend along with them that they're the essence of fact-based neutrality, that they don't play favorites. Then you notice that their Sunday Arts & Style section carried a sprawling four-page spread with 10 color photographs on the glorious Rosie O'Donnell and her passionate loathing of President Donald Trump.
The Post summarized the puff piece on X: "Donald Trump's first administration took an emotional toll on Rosie O'Donnell. She didn't think she could endure a second term. This time, O'Donnell had a plan: she moved to Ireland."
So let's give Rosie...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/10/the_washington_posts_sunday_slobber_over_rosie_odonnell_153611.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/10/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 06:37:08 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/704341_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ &lsquo;Liberty and Prosperity&rsquo;: NJ Faces Court-Mandated Refresher on Motto]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ New Jersey is known for many things: unbeatable bagels, iconic shoreline, and an authenticity that some interpret as rudeness. Do you need examples? Fuhgeddaboudit. In American history, the Garden State also played a significant role as the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights. During this era, it also adopted the motto "Liberty and Prosperity" - a watchword that's become tragically ironic over the 248 years since its adoption.
New Jersey's recent actions have proven inhospitable to the prosperity of unborn children and hostile to the First Amendment liberties of the New Jerseyans...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/09/liberty_and_prosperity_nj_faces_court-mandated_refresher_on_motto__153605.html</link>
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						<author>Jessica Prol Smith</author><category>Jessica Prol Smith</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/09/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 06:38:26 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/704189_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Democrats&#039; Border Debacle Is the Media&#039;s, Too]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The New York Times has invented a new genre of reporting -- covering big stories showing Democrats in a bad light years after the events that matter.
At the tail end of 2025, the Times has freshly broken the news that the Biden administration flooded the country with illegal immigrants, partly for ideological and partisan reasons, partly out of sheer incompetence.
Who knew?
The nearly 4,000-word A1 story by Christopher Flavelle, with 14 colleagues contributing additional reporting and research, is certainly well sourced, but none of its sources have just come to light.
It dissects Biden's...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/09/democrats_border_debacle_is_the_medias_too.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel McCarthy</author><category>Daniel McCarthy</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/09/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 06:39:03 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/704239_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ How Trump Can Help Accelerate Argentina&#039;s Economic Comeback]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ President Donald Trump and Argentine President Javier Milei have a special relationship. Each is engaged in a crusade to make his respective country's economy great again. Trump was all in on helping Milei win his elections earlier this year, and he has also offered the Argentines a $20 billion "lifeline" as they adjust to the bumpy path to needed free-market reforms.
The stakes are gigantic because the whole world is watching Milei's embrace of free-market "shock capitalism," which so far is working. He has restored sound money (by linking to the dollar) and taken a chainsaw to the bloated...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/09/how_trump_can_help_accelerate_argentinas_economic_comeback_153608.html</link>
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						<author>Stephen Moore</author><category>Stephen Moore</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/09/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 06:38:47 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/699944_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump Is Cleaning Up Biden&#039;s Affordability Disaster]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ It may well be that there's an affordability crisis and consumers have no confidence in America or President Trump. Yet sometimes facts speak louder than political conjectures or biased polls.
Black Friday spending surged this year to new highs, fueled by record breaking online spending that reached $11.8 billion on Black Friday alone, according to Market Data.
Online sales on Black Friday made up about 10 percent of total sales for the entire month of November. The number was just above $111 billion, according to an Adobe Analytics report.
Adobe tracks over $1 trillion U.S. retail site...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/08/trump_is_cleaning_up_bidens_affordability_disaster_153606.html</link>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/08/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 21:09:48 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/701908_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Grappling With the Groyper Problem: Insight From Columbia University]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Last month, Tucker Carlson interviewed the openly racist, misogynistic, and antisemitic streamer Nick Fuentes - the leader of a cult-like and growing online community devoted to him and his ultra-right-wing beliefs, known as the Groypers. 
The weeks succeeding Carlson's interview with Fuentes have caused an absolute maelstrom on the right. The president of the Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts, initially defended the exchange. But following intense pressure from within the conservative establishment and various resignation letters from within Heritage, he ultimately revised his original...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/07/grappling_with_the_groyper_problem_insight_from_columbia_university.html</link>
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						<author>Nikos Mohammadi</author><category>Nikos Mohammadi</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/07/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2025 21:09:19 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/59/595541_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ America Needs Free Speech. RealClear Needs You.]]></title>
											<subtitle></subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ We get the world we praise and support. If you honor and reward a behavior, you get more of it. If you don't support what you need more of, you get less of it. 
If after reading RealClear's holiday update and appeals for tax-deductible support, you think what we do here is important and needed, join us. Get behind our success. Make our work yours by supporting what we are doing to improve conditions on the ground with an eye to a better American future. We need to grow our numbers. There is room and need for you on our team. 
Big Picture: RealClear thinks the First Amendment is first for a...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/06/america_needs_free_speech_realclear_needs_you_153603.html</link>
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						<author>David DesRosiers</author><category>David DesRosiers</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/06/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2025 17:27:32 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/704028_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Pipe-Bomb Suspect&rsquo;s Arrest Solidifies Patel&rsquo;s Standing]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ FBI Director Kash Patel is back in the safe zone again. The on-again, off-again MAGA media lynch mobs gunning for Patel to be ousted from the key Cabinet post over his perceived mishandling of several high-profile investigations and unmet demands for transparency have crested and fallen too many times to count during his tumultuous nine months in office.
But on Thursday, Patel instantly regained any lost footing after announcing the arrest of the alleged Jan. 6, 2021, pipe-bombing suspect.
In a major breakthrough in one of the FBI's most high-profile unsolved cases, the FBI Thursday morning...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/05/pipe-bomb_suspects_arrest_solidifies_patels_standing__153602.html</link>
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						<author>Susan Crabtree &amp; Philip Wegmann</author><category>Susan Crabtree &amp; Philip Wegmann</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/05/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 08:39:34 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/703961_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Newsom Has Little To Brag About]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ As California Governor Gavin Newsom gears up to run for president, what in the world will he run on?
Californians know that Newsom will not boast, "I will do for America what I have done to California!"
Why not?
Count the reasons.
California's astronomical gas prices and taxes remain the highest in the continental U.S.
Ditto the state's trifecta of the highest electricity rates, the costliest home prices, and the fourth-highest home insurance costs.
California has the largest unfunded liability debt in the nation, approaching $270 billion.
The budget deficit each year usually ranges from $15...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/05/newsom_has_little_to_brag_about.html</link>
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						<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author><category>Victor Davis Hanson</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/05/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 06:10:24 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/703800_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ End of Climate Catastrophism Is Good for Prosperity]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Is the American Left finally waking up from its decadeslong climate catastrophism stupor? For years, climate alarmism has reigned as political catechism: The planet is burning, and only drastic action -- deindustrialization, draconian regulation, even ceasing childbearing -- could forestall certain apocalypse. Now, at least some signs are emerging that both the broader public and leading liberal voices may be recoiling from the doom and gloom.
First, recent polling shows that the intensity of climate dread is weakening. According to a July 2025 report from the Yale Program on Climate Change...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/05/the_welcome_demise_of_climate_change_catastrophism_153600.html</link>
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						<author>Josh Hammer</author><category>Josh Hammer</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/05/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 06:23:09 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/63/638850_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Sleepy Donald Trump? Umm, No, He&#039;s Not Joe Biden]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump, the very man who branded former President Joe Biden "Sleepy Joe" during the 2020 and 2024 campaigns, has been caught on camera seeming to nod off -- during Tuesday's Cabinet meeting and a recent Oval Office event.
Critics on the left are gleeful.
Let them have their jollies. Because one of these old men is not like the other.
Trump, 79, has presided over nine Cabinet meetings this year.
Biden, 83, held nine Cabinet meetings during his four years in office.
During a Tuesday interview, DealBook founder Andrew Ross Sorkin brought up Trump's health. Treasury...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/05/sleepy_donald_trump_umm_no_hes_not_joe_biden_153599.html</link>
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						<author>Debra Saunders</author><category>Debra Saunders</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/05/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 06:10:59 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/703953_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Monarchy Draws a Line: King Charles III Preserves Crown&rsquo;s Credibility]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ On Thursday, Buckingham Palace issued what appears to be its final word on the fate of the disgraced former Prince Andrew, Duke of York - now formally known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. The Palace's statement was brief, but its implications were sweeping. Gone was any reference to discussions with Andrew himself, as had been characteristic of previous statements, sending a clear signal that the decision was the King's alone, likely shaped in consultation with William, the Prince of Wales and future King.
Uncharacteristically, the Palace's tone was sharp - an unmistakable departure from the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/05/monarchy_draws_line_king_charles_preserves_crowns_credibility_153598.html</link>
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						<author>Pamela Aydin</author><category>Pamela Aydin</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/05/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 06:11:17 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/703947_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Two Cities, Two Crime Strategies: What I Learned Living in Both]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ I've watched two American cities make opposite choices about the same problem.
As a young man, I worked in Memphis: first as a traveling salesman, then as a law student, and finally as an attorney at a Memphis law firm. As an associate lawyer, I dreamed of escaping the daily grind by writing a great American novel. A fellow named John Grisham beat me to it, writing a book called "The Firm," which was loosely based on my then-Memphis law firm, Baker Donelson. I guess that is why, many years later, I'm still a practicing attorney and John Grisham has written 55 published books.
Although I...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/04/two_cities_two_crime_strategies_what_i_learned_living_in_both_153595.html</link>
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						<author>Don Tracy</author><category>Don Tracy</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/04/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 07:38:25 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/703839_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ As AI Booms, U.S. Ignores One Threat That Could Turn Off Everything]]></title>
											<subtitle>ANALYSIS</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ We are now well past dawn in the age of artificial intelligence: According to a recent survey by Pew Research Center 62% of respondents say they interact with AI a least several times a week. Nearly every company in the U.S. is now urgently evaluating the ways in which AI can be deployed to lower costs, improve products and services, and ultimately to increase profits. Some, such as Elon Musk, are predicting AI and robots will generate such abundance that in 10 to 20 years, work will become optional and money irrelevant.
Hundreds of billions of dollars are being poured into building new data...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/04/as_ai_booms_us_ignores_threat_that_could_turn_off_everything_153592.html</link>
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						<author>Richard Porter</author><category>Richard Porter</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/04/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Great Rewiring: Why &lsquo;America First&rsquo; Trade Could Benefit Us All]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ A generational shift is taking place in the global trade and financial system. New U.S.-driven trade policies and deals are early milestones in this process, which will likely continue for decades, because the previous system enabled unsustainable debts and untenable supply chain vulnerabilities. The new system could alleviate these problems, significantly improving economic and national security for the United States and its trading partners. As is often true when quitting a bad habit, the current transition phase is turbulent - and comes with recession and inflation risks - but the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/04/great_rewiring_why_america_first_trade_could_benefit_us_all_153587.html</link>
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						<author>Ryan Rappa</author><category>Ryan Rappa</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/04/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 06:25:07 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/702337_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ A Two-Pronged Democratic Strategy for 2028]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Democrats appear to have settled on a dual strategy heading into the 2028 election: Sow doubt within the military ranks, and present a slate of candidates who project moderation.
The first prong centers on an emerging talking point -- one that suggests members of the armed forces should question whether orders coming from the Trump administration are legal. Figures such as Sens. Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin have warned servicemembers that following an "illegal order" could lead to punishment, yet they have offered no clear definition of what constitutes such an order.
The result is a...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/04/a_two-pronged_democratic_strategy_for_2028_153594.html</link>
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						<author>Ben Shapiro</author><category>Ben Shapiro</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/04/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 06:25:27 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/703163_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Yes, The New York Times Really Ran a Story About Social Services Fraud by Immigrants]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- Somali immigrants living in Minnesota effectively stole more than $1 billion in taxpayer money over the last five years, The New York Times reported Sunday.
In what White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called "a new bombshell report from The New York Times," the Gray Lady reported on what law enforcement cited as fraud taking "root in pockets of Minnesota's Somali diaspora as scores of individuals made small fortunes by setting up companies that billed state agencies for millions of dollars' worth of social services that were never provided."
Leavitt's remarks tracked a...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/04/yes_the_new_york_times_really_ran_a_story_about_social_services_fraud_by_immigrants_153593.html</link>
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						<author>Debra Saunders</author><category>Debra Saunders</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/04/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 06:24:50 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/703833_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump and McMahon Are Fixing Education, and DC Is Panicking]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Education Secretary Linda McMahon is doing exactly what President Donald J. Trump hired her to do: Clean out a failed education bureaucracy, return power to states and parents, and put students - not Washington politics - first. That's why Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is attacking her.
From the moment Secretary McMahon took the helm at the U.S. Department of Education, she made it clear she would not be another caretaker of a broken system. She has focused on three things Washington has avoided for decades: streamlining a bloated bureaucracy, redirecting resources from federal offices to...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/03/trump_and_mcmahon_are_fixing_education_and_dc_is_panicking_153588.html</link>
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						<author>Jorge Martinez</author><category>Jorge Martinez</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/03/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 06:28:35 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/703700_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ How to End Obamacare and Improve Coverage]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Few people lie awake at night worried about the federal debt. So the Republicans' plan to allow "temporary" COVID-19-era enhanced subsidies for Obamacare to expire because of their exorbitant cost won't win many votes.
It will save Uncle Sam money. A staggering 93% of premiums are currently paid directly by the federal government to the insurance companies, reports the Paragon Health Institute. But will it win votes in the coming midterm elections? No.
Democrats are gloating that reducing the subsidies will mean higher costs for enrollees and an increase in the number of people who go without...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/03/how_to_end_obamacare_and_improve_coverage_153590.html</link>
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						<author>Betsy McCaughey</author><category>Betsy McCaughey</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/03/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 06:29:10 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/64/641166_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Let&#039;s Fix Our Broken Health Care System]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ We just went through the longest government shutdown in history over contention regarding renewal of temporarily enacted government subsidies to Obamacare premiums.
This battle is not over. Eight Democrats threw in the towel and agreed to postpone the issue and cooperate with Republicans to get a continuing resolution passed to fund our government and get back to business.
But the subsidies still need to be dealt with, so rest assured that more rancor and division lie ahead.
What troubles me is our refusal, or inability, as a nation to deal with issues of policy in the most fundamental way...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/03/lets_fix_our_broken_health_care_system_153591.html</link>
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						<author>Star Parker</author><category>Star Parker</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/03/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 06:28:55 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/55/550472_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Free Speech Requires a Pious Commitment]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Too many Americans who say they believe in free speech mean only their speech. Adopting progressive dogma, the Biden administration claimed that free speech had limits, and broadly suppressed dissenting views. On his first day in office, President Trump issued an executive order to restore traditional (and constitutionally mandated) protections, but his administration's adherence to that order has been situational.
The First Amendment prohibits Congress from making laws "abridging the freedom of speech ... or the right of the people peaceably to assemble." The Supreme Court has interpreted...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/02/free_speech_requires_pious_commitment_153585.html</link>
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						<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author><category>Kenin M. Spivak</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/02/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 11:06:19 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/703591_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ &#039;Iryna&#039;s Law&#039; and the Bad Judges Who Make It Necessary]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ What will it take to get crime under control in our subways and public transit systems?
On Monday, news broke of another passenger set on fire in New York City's subway -- though this story wasn't all it seemed.
The homeless man who at first said he was the victim of an attack turned tight-lipped when police pressed him about what happened.
Had he set his own clothes ablaze to attract attention?
In the wild environment our subways have become, a malicious attack or a madman's self-inflicted injury are both all too believable.
Most trips on the New York subway or Washington, D.C.'s metro...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/02/irynas_law_and_the_bad_judges_who_make_it_necessary_153586.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel McCarthy</author><category>Daniel McCarthy</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/02/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 06:37:56 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/696560_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The World According to JB Pritzker]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ No matter how familiar we become with the defamatory hyperbole of the Trump-haters, some of their utterances are disquieting. Few people are still startled by some of the attempted incitements to violence against the president and his followers of some of the racist African-American and Islamist Democratic members of the Congress, although their conduct and their utterances are disgraceful and shame the institution to which electors have mistakenly elevated them.
No one, though, could seriously be prepared for the governor of Illinois, the personification of inherited wealth, J.B. Pritzker,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/01/the_world_according_to_jb_pritzker_153584.html</link>
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						<author>Conrad Black</author><category>Conrad Black</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/01/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 07:46:20 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/703538_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ No Kings, No Queens, No Blind Loyalty]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ It was just six weeks ago that Democrats celebrated No Kings Day. At the time it seemed like a puerile demonstration of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Of course, there should be no kings in America, but no one in the MAGA movement was seriously arguing in favor of a despotic monarchy in the first place. Nor was blind loyalty to President Trump considered a requirement for those who want to Make America Great Again.
But since then, a number of things have happened which have put at risk the coalition which Trump built in 2015 and then pieced back together in 2024. And some of those things suggest...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/01/no_kings_no_queens_no_blind_loyalty_153581.html</link>
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						<author>Frank Miele</author><category>Frank Miele</category><pubdate>2025/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/01/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:25:11 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/703429_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Democrats&rsquo; Viral Video Lights Match to the Republic]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Despite stiff competition, the Democrats' recent attack on President Trump may be their most dangerous to date.
The six members of Congress whose viral video told our armed forces that "you must refuse illegal orders" crossed a perilous line. By making every soldier a general, empowering them to decide whether they agree with their orders, their message opens a Pandora's Box that undermines the chain of command, a foundation of military effectiveness. Stopping just short of inciting insubordination, it openly encourages dissent within the ranks and, in the process, empowers our...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/28/democrats_viral_video_lights_match_to_the_republic_153580.html</link>
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						<author>J. Peder Zane</author><category>J. Peder Zane</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/28/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 06:30:45 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/703163_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ She Saved Her Life. 7-Eleven Fired Her]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Stephanie Dilyard is lucky to be alive.
Yet last week, 7-Eleven fired the 25-year-old after she used her gun to save her own life. Private companies have every right to set rules for employee behavior, but many corporate policies that require workers to remain passive and comply with criminals' demands rest on a deeply mistaken view of crime data.
"He threatened me," Dilyard told Fox 25 in Oklahoma City. "[A]nd said he was gonna slice my head off, and that's when I tried to call the police. He started throwing things at me, came behind the counter. I tried to run off, but he grabbed his hands...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/28/she_saved_her_life_7-eleven_fired_her_153574.html</link>
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						<author>John R. Lott Jr.</author><category>John R. Lott Jr.</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/28/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 06:31:06 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/703237_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ America Needs a Reset. Lunch Is a Good First Step]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The proverb "Every dog has its day" has ancient roots, perhaps dating back to ancient Greece; some even see an early reference in the Bible. The proverb means that at some point, everyone will have some kind of success or recognition. And in the U.S., we take seriously the idea of giving every person, group, or cause a day, week, or month of recognition: In addition to 11 national holidays, there are (at least!) another 54 days, 20 weeks and 58 months recognizing or commemorating a person, group, or event every year. 
We all have favorites among these celebrations - mine happens to be today....]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/27/america_needs_a_reset_lunch_is_a_good_first_step_153579.html</link>
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						<author>Richard Porter</author><category>Richard Porter</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/27/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 06:25:42 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/703346_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Ukraine Negotiations Highlight GOP Pivot Away From Bush Era Foreign Policy]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ As an American delegation negotiates an end to the land war in Europe, a debate over the particulars of that proposed deal is reopening old wounds stateside, once again pitting Bush era foreign policy adherents against Trump's America First approach.
Both sides agree on one thing: A peace deal will not just determine the fate of that country, it will determine, in large part, the future of the Republican Party.
"Reagan would be rolling in his tomb," Rep. Don Bacon told RealClearPolitics of the plan before turning his ire toward the vice president, now the standard-bearer of America First...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/26/ukraine_negotiations_highlight_gop_pivot_away_from_bush_era_foreign_policy.html</link>
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						<author>Philip Wegmann</author><category>Philip Wegmann</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/26/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 06:47:26 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/700119_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Can the &lsquo;Lost Generation&rsquo; Be Found?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The current generation "Z" -- those now roughly between 13 and 28 years old -- is becoming our 21st-century version of the "Lost Generation." Members of Gen Z are often nicknamed "Zoomers," a term used to describe young adults who came of age in the era of smartphones, social media, and rapid cultural upheaval."
Males in their teens and 20s are prolonging their adolescence -- rarely marrying, not buying a home, not having children, and often not working full-time.
The negative stereotype of a Zoomer is a shiftless man, who plays too many video games. He is too coddled by parents and too...]]></description>
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						<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author><category>Victor Davis Hanson</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/26/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 06:28:53 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/59/594748_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ A Day That Will Live in Infamy for Child Gender Ideology]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Perhaps no issue in modern society is more divisive or emotional than whether children should receive sex-change treatments. Yet Nov. 18 could very well be remembered as the day when that debate was largely settled.
That's the day when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued its final report on the medical evidence regarding child sex-change treatments. HHS released an early version of the report in May, but in the intervening months, it directly asked skeptical physicians and medical associations to scrutinize its conclusions.
Amazingly, none of them could disprove HHS'...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/26/a_day_that_will_live_in_infamy_child_gender_ideology_153571.html</link>
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						<author>Kurt Miceli</author><category>Kurt Miceli</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/26/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 06:29:11 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/703173_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Put That Smile to Work, Mr. Mayor]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's smile carried him a long way toward being elected. And he used his affability again on Friday, turning the meeting he had requested with President Donald Trump into an Oval Office lovefest.
Now it's time for the mayor-elect to employ the power of smiling to make day-to-day life better for New Yorkers when they are compelled to interact with city employees. Mamdani needs to call on the 300,000 city employees to show warmth, respect and courtesy to the public. The spirit of a smile.
Walk into a city agency or court building seeking help, and you're...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/26/put_that_smile_to_work_mr_mayor_153577.html</link>
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						<author>Betsy McCaughey</author><category>Betsy McCaughey</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/26/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 06:30:02 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/703246_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ PBS Seems Neutral on Burning America to the Ground]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Since Oct. 1, PBS isn't taxpayer-funded, but the radical leftist spirit of PBS remains unchanged. When it comes to transgenderism, for example, the discussion cannot have two sides. In a 2023 study of seven months of the "PBS News Hour," the libertine left drew 90% of the airtime.
It was even worse for in-studio guests. It was 19 to one -- and the one unsolicited utterance that opposed the left-wing position came from gay tennis star Billie Jean King, who dared to suggest that men shouldn't compete in women's sports once it came to advanced competitions like the Olympics.
On Nov. 24, the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/26/pbs_seems_neutral_on_burning_america_to_the_ground_153578.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/26/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Marjorie Taylor Greene&#039;s Exit Is a Warning to Republicans]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Marjorie Taylor Greene is a singular politician -- a maverick, though not in the John McCain sense.
The Arizona senator was beloved by the media; MTG never was, at least until she started feuding with President Donald Trump.
On the contrary, her reputation in the press was as the poster girl for the GOP's conspiracy wing, the queen of Q Anon.
But it's not what sets her apart from other Republicans that makes Greene's resignation from the House -- effective Jan. 5 -- significant.
What the president and GOP leaders in Congress have to worry about is how typical she might be -- of legislators...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/25/marjorie_taylor_greenes_exit_is_a_warning_to_republicans_153569.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel McCarthy</author><category>Daniel McCarthy</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/25/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 12:11:47 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/702904_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Give Thanks for the Fossil Fuel Industry]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Just by living in 21st-century America, you have a lot to be thankful for.
You live in the richest country in the history of the world -- and one of the freest. Despite what the left claims, the benefits of wealth aren't limited to the 1%. The amenities most people take for granted -- a vehicle, washing machine, hot water on demand -- would have been unimaginable luxuries for most of human history. Among poor families in America, significant majorities have air conditioning systems, televisions, microwaves and smartphones.
We've come a long way from what the Pilgrims had to celebrate at the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/25/give_thanks_for_the_fossil_fuel_industry_153570.html</link>
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						<author>Victor Joecks</author><category>Victor Joecks</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/25/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 12:12:22 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/45/458152_1_.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Flying Public Is Getting Surly. Don&#039;t Let It Ruin Thanksgiving]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is my new hero. Duffy is promoting a "civility" campaign that urges passengers to be polite and dress up rather than wear sweatpants and slippers when they fly. If everyone dresses better, everyone will behave better, Duffy offered.
It's an idea that could bring smiles to the friendly skies around the Thanksgiving holiday.
During a press conference at Newark Liberty International Airport Monday, Duffy was wearing a suit and red tie. This was an outfit that answered the question: What would President Donald Trump wear?
The good news: Duffy did...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/25/the_flying_public_is_getting_surly_dont_let_it_ruin_thanksgiving_153568.html</link>
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						<author>Debra Saunders</author><category>Debra Saunders</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/25/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 12:12:05 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/703143_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Why Washington, Not the States, Should Set AI Rules]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The president has spoken. As news broke that federal preemption of state-level artificial intelligence (AI) regulation is back in legislative consideration with the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), Trump fired off another one of his tweets.
"Overregulation by the States is threatening to undermine this Growth Engine," Trump shared via Truth Social. He stated clearly: "We MUST have one Federal Standard instead of a patchwork of 50 State Regulatory Regimes." 
Trump is 100% correct. 
State lawmakers are trying to bring AI under the regulatory control of bureaucrats with thousands of...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/22/why_washington_not_the_states_should_set_ai_rules_153564.html</link>
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						<author>Sam Raus</author><category>Sam Raus</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/22/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2025 09:40:46 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/67/672814_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Behind the Curtain, Russia Is Crumbling]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Russia's economic prosperity over the last three decades has been a smokescreen for moral bankruptcy and global incompetence. Sen. John McCain recognized this truth back in 2014 when he declared that Russia is "a gas station masquerading as a country." That insight rings even truer today.
We saw another glimpse of Russia's hollow performance recently when it unveiled an AI-powered humanoid robot meant to showcase technological advancement. Moments after the grand reveal, the robot tripped and fell face-first. In a scene that perfectly captures the Russian system, someone rushed to cover the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/22/behind_the_curtain_russia_is_crumbling_153555.html</link>
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						<author>Andrew Moroz</author><category>Andrew Moroz</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/22/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2025 04:59:41 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/60/601289_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Federal Uniformity Sounds Good &ndash; Until Big Tech Writes the Rules]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Big Tech is jamming preemption of state AI laws into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) at the last minute, but it is unclear if they are fully aware of what it would actually mean. If Congress prohibits states from implementing AI policies that would protect their citizens, it would have far-reaching consequences. True conservatives in Congress must uphold their pro-American values and refuse to support any preemption effort that would ultimately be a coronation of Big Tech as our country's new rulers.
The United States is the dominant leader in AI on the global stage, and we are...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/22/federal_uniformity_sounds_good__until_big_tech_writes_the_rules_153557.html</link>
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						<author>Brendan Steinhauser</author><category>Brendan Steinhauser</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/22/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2025 04:59:03 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/66/665188_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump Splits With Republicans and Embraces &lsquo;Communist&rsquo; Mamdani]]></title>
											<subtitle></subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The &lsquo;communist' decisively charmed the &lsquo;fascist.'
When New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and President Donald Trump met for the first time at the White House, all previous invectives were forgotten. They laughed. They bonded over a shared affection for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. When cameras were rolling, they practically bear-hugged in the Oval Office. And in a tremendous display of ideological flexibility, Trump, at one point, motioned to Mamdani and said of the democratic socialist, "Some of his ideas really are the same ideas that I have."
It was not immediately clear...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/21/trump_splits_with_republicans_and_embraces_communist_mamdani_153565.html</link>
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						<author>Philip Wegmann</author><category>Philip Wegmann</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/21/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 17:30:41 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/702963_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Embarrassments of Ideology]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is a euphemism for a rigid racialist theology.
It deductively postulates that a large percentage of the population is oppressed by racism and sexism, mostly by white males.
DEI makes no allowance for the class or wealth of the alleged victims or their supposed victimizers.
So once that rigid party line is set, it cannot account for tens of millions of affluent and privileged non-white Americans or like numbers of poor and non-privileged whites.
Absurdities and ridicule must then follow.
One example is the spectacle of former First Lady Michelle Obama on...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/21/the_embarrassments_of_ideology_153560.html</link>
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						<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author><category>Victor Davis Hanson</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/21/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 05:38:24 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/702882_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Release of Epstein Files Sets a Horrible Precedent]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Former Harvard president Larry Summers has now lost virtually every professional association after a House committee released emails of his exchanges with child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. There are around 20,000 pages of them. Many of the correspondences are embarrassing. There's going to be little, if any, sympathy for a well-known elite who's angered conservatives and progressives and befriends creeps. And perhaps Summers doesn't deserve any.
Even so, there isn't even a hint of illegality in those emails. There's nothing suggesting that Summers participated in any kind of impropriety or...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/21/release_of_epstein_files_sets_a_horrible_precedent_153562.html</link>
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						<author>David Harsanyi</author><category>David Harsanyi</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/21/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 05:38:41 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/702434_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Time To Fight for New York]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Zohran Mamdani may have eked out his victory in New York City's mayoral contest - prompting a literal champagne socialist celebration in some fancy restaurants - but a lot of New Yorkers are far from happy about it.
While Mamdani fell short of the two-thirds majority typical in other mayoral races, he earned his 50% in a much larger electorate than usual. Andrew Cuomo, who lost by 9 points after running a campaign that made the Titanic seem like masterful seamanship, lost with more votes in raw numbers than those with which the previous mayor, Eric Adams, won his seat.
It's now time to think...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/21/time_to_fight_for_new_york_153556.html</link>
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						<author>Heather Higgins &amp; Inez Stepman</author><category>Heather Higgins &amp; Inez Stepman</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/21/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 05:39:15 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/68/687328_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ If Conservatives Won&rsquo;t Defend Capitalism, Who Will?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ In the aftermath of Zohran Mamdani's election victory earlier this month, it became clear that socialism is more of a rising threat on the left than ever before. It's also clear the GOP could no longer coast along by proclaiming "Vote for us because he's a socialist," assuming that people would forever have a knee-jerk reaction to that word.
One issue that defined New York's mayoral race - and, increasingly, politics throughout the country - is affordability. For millions of Americans, being able to afford rent, grocery bills, health care, and buying a home seems further out of reach than...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/21/if_conservatives_wont_defend_capitalism_who_will_153554.html</link>
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						<author>Kyle Moran</author><category>Kyle Moran</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/21/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 05:39:32 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/61/612490_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ What Is an American?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The chaotic confrontation in Dearborn, Michigan, on Tuesday -- when a demonstrator attempted to burn a Qur'an and Muslim counter-protesters surged -- was more than a brief flash of drama. Along with other recent controversies in Arab-majority Dearborn, such as when the Muslim mayor told a Christian minister he "was not welcome here" and was an "Islamophobe" for objecting to renaming a local street after a Hezbollah-supporting journalist, this latest cultural skirmish yet again underscores longstanding concerns about America's immigration regime -- and, above all, the nature of American...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/21/what_is_an_american_153559.html</link>
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						<author>Josh Hammer</author><category>Josh Hammer</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/21/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 05:39:49 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/63/637279_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ ABC&#039;s Mary Bruce Wasn&#039;t a Courageous Reporter on Declining Biden]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The Trump-trashing elitist media erupted in outrage when President Donald Trump told ABC White House reporter Mary Bruce she was a "terrible person" and "terrible reporter" and ABC was "fake news." Bruce was throwing hardballs at Trump and Saudi Arabia's crown prince.
It's easy for reporters to tout Bruce as a courageous journalist just doing her job. But they all ignored the other half of the equation: Is this what she did with President Joe Biden? The easy answer is, "A thousand times no" -- as in you could probably list a thousand times she repeated everything Team Biden told her to...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/21/abcs_mary_bruce_wasnt_a_courageous_reporter_on_declining_biden_153561.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/21/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 05:38:58 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/702884_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Burisma, Meet Your Brother Binance]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- I'll admit it: I've held President Donald Trump to a different standard than former President Joe Biden when it comes to financial entanglements.
Why? For all their "Middle Class Joe" values, Biden and his family -- notably, grabby son Hunter -- apparently set out to cash in on Biden's time in public office and after he served as vice president. Hence Hunter Biden's $2 million pay during 2013 and 2014 as he worked for Ukraine energy concern Burisma.
Trump's money situation was different during his first term. Trump entered the White House a billionaire. The newly elected...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/20/burisma_meet_your_brother_binance_153553.html</link>
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						<author>Debra Saunders</author><category>Debra Saunders</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/20/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2025 04:51:09 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/62/626637_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ JFK Echoes in a Week of Legal and Political Turmoil]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Bad Facts? Bad Law?
One supposes it makes sense that when congressional Republicans and Democrats finally agree on something, it's a constitutionally questionable directive to the executive branch ordering the release (within 30 days) of raw investigative files in possession of the executive branch relating to the long-closed criminal cases against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
On Capitol Hill, several victims of the two convicted sex traffickers spoke in favor of this measure, explaining Tuesday that they believed their long-delayed "justice" was finally on the horizon. Presumably,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/19/jfk_echoes_in_a_week_of_legal_and_political_turmoil_153551.html</link>
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						<author>Carl M. Cannon</author><category>Carl M. Cannon</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/19/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ A Republic if You Can Keep It]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ If the political parties continue to break down the norms in their quest for power, they will find that they win a lot of battles but lose the war for the American republic. This was exemplified in the wholly pointless Democrat-inspired shutdown for nearly 50 days that created massive doubt in the voters' minds of both parties.
While Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and the Democratic Party's left flank were clearly the instigators, the reaction of the voters was simple - if these two parties can't even keep the government open, a pox on both of them. And the ratings of everyone...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/19/a_republic_if_you_can_keep_it_153547.html</link>
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						<author>Mark Penn &amp; Andrew Stein</author><category>Mark Penn &amp; Andrew Stein</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/19/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 20:31:53 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/702645_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ NYC&rsquo;s Mamdani Moment: A Warning to Moderates]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ More than a week after Election Day, the reality has set in that Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani will be mayor of New York City. Independents, moderates, and Republicans in the city are rightfully disheartened. However, there is still hope if moderates learn from why Curtis Sliwa and Andrew Cuomo lost.
First, let's examine Mayor-elect Mamdani. He very much captured the vibes of this campaign. The people who voted for him are disillusioned and feel that the city isn't set up to work for them; Mamdani hammered on this throughout the campaign, giving people the sense that he was truly...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/19/nycs_mamdani_moment_a_warning_to_moderates_153544.html</link>
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						<author>Matt Cookson</author><category>Matt Cookson</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/19/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 03:59:29 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/702608_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Stop the Presses &ndash; And Start Telling the Truth About Bias]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Is a culture change coming to the news media?
So it might seem, now that Bari Weiss has been appointed editor-in-chief of CBS News. Another sign is Jeff Bezos's decision to reorient the Washington Post's opinion page. The hope is that both outlets will move away from their blatant far-left coverage, not only bringing in some right-leaning voices, but restoring some measure of objective journalism. Other outlets are wondering if they should follow suit.
Spoiler alert: It won't work.
That's not the kind of culture change the media needs. Instead of fighting bias, media outlets should admit...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/19/stop_the_presses__and_start_telling_the_truth_about_bias_153543.html</link>
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						<author>John Tillman</author><category>John Tillman</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/19/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ In Shutdown Blame Game, Independents Are the Real Winners]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ President Trump signed a bill to fund the government, marking the close of the longest government shutdown in history. The end of the shutdown sparks the familiar questions: Who won? Who lost? Which party will pay the political price? It shows how both parties have turned governing into a competition for blame instead of a commitment to solutions. The well-known ritual says more about Washington's dysfunction than it does about the Americans caught in the middle.
For millions of Americans, the shutdown wasn't a political debate, it was disruption. More than 600,000 federal employees were sent...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/19/in_shutdown_blame_game_independents_are_the_real_winners_153545.html</link>
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						<author>Adam Brandon</author><category>Adam Brandon</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/19/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 03:59:49 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/702616_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Beware Housing Bills With Socialist Goals]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The Democrats' lurch to the extreme left is accelerating at warp speed -- and Connecticut is the latest victim.
The state legislature's Democratic supermajority last week rammed through a bill, HB 8002, that's a thinly disguised socialist wishlist.
Cynically couched as a remedy for the affordable housing crisis, its real purpose is ideological: forcing Connecticut's 169 towns to achieve what the bill calls "economic diversity."
Translation: If you've worked hard to own a home in a leafy suburb with quiet streets, you can't live there unless everybody can -- including the homeless and those...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/19/beware_housing_bills_with_socialist_goals_153548.html</link>
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						<author>Betsy McCaughey</author><category>Betsy McCaughey</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/19/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 04:00:44 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/702098_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump Hasn&#039;t Lost Hispanics (Yet)]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Is President Donald Trump losing the winning coalition he built just a year ago?
He's been the subject of premature political obituaries before -- but Republicans are worried about signs that his gains with Hispanics are evaporating.
Trump stunned pundits last year by very nearly winning the Hispanic vote outright.
A constituency Democrats had come to take for granted suddenly seemed ready to realign with Republicans.
But the numbers from the off-year elections earlier this month tell a different story.
New Jersey townships with high proportions of Hispanic voters shifted heavily to the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/19/trump_hasnt_lost_hispanics_yet_153549.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel McCarthy</author><category>Daniel McCarthy</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/19/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 03:59:11 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/62/625611_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ As Religion Weakens, Socialism Strengthens]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Per new polling reported by Gallup, religion is no longer important to most Americans.
In response to the question "Is religion an important part of your daily life," 49% said yes.
Ten years ago, in 2015, 66% responded affirmatively.
Gallup notes that this 17-point drop "ranks among the largest Gallup has recorded in any country over any 10-year period since 2007."
This departure from religion has partisan characteristics.
In 2001, per Gallup, 11% of Democrats and 7% of Republicans said they have no religion. In 2023, this difference widened to 33% of Democrats and 12% of Republicans saying...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/19/as_religion_weakens_socialism_strengthens_153550.html</link>
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						<author>Star Parker</author><category>Star Parker</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/19/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 03:58:55 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/702674_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Imperial Judiciary Strikes Back]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ So far, more than 100 federal court judges have ruled against the Trump administration in hundreds of lawsuits filed by states, unions, nonprofit organizations and individuals.
While some of these rulings are fairly grounded in the Constitution, federal law, and precedent, many are expressions of primal rage from judges offended by the administration, and moving at breakneck speed to stop it. According to a Politico analysis, 87 of 114 federal judges who ruled against the administration were appointed by Democrat presidents, and 27 by Republicans. Most of the lawsuits were filed in just a few...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/18/the_imperial_judiciary_strikes_back_153534.html</link>
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						<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author><category>Kenin M. Spivak</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/18/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 06:01:59 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/702333_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Build More Homes]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Young adults need lower housing prices, not longer mortgages.
The median age of first-time home buyers is now 40, according to a recent report from the National Association of Realtors. Among all buyers, the median age was 59. Home buyers are more likely to be near or at retirement age than young, married parents.
It wasn't always like this. In 1991, the median age of first-time home buyers was 28. It has generally been around 30 for decades.
In 2017, the median age of first-time home buyers was 32. In 2025, those same buyers are now 40 -- the current median age for first-time home buyers....]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/18/build_more_homes_153540.html</link>
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						<author>Victor Joecks</author><category>Victor Joecks</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/18/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 06:02:46 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/61/610643_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The &lsquo;Clubby World&rsquo; That Killed the Epstein Story]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ If Jeffrey Epstein's victims ever get any measure of the justice they deserve, it will be, as so many others have said, thanks to their own guts and to the reporter-with-a-bone efforts of Julie K. Brown of the Miami Herald. In 2018, she began exposing his "cult-like network of underage girls" and sweetheart deal from prosecutors, and she still hasn't given up.
Until this September, I worked for The Kansas City Star, which, like the Miami Herald, is owned by McClatchy, so I take a certain sisterly pride in Brown's work, though we have never met.
As local news outlets continue to wither, it's...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/18/the_clubby_world_that_killed_the_epstein_story_153541.html</link>
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						<author>Melinda Henneberger</author><category>Melinda Henneberger</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/18/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 06:02:10 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/702543_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Want Lower Prices? More &#039;Affordability&#039;? Move to a Red State.]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The buzzword of the month is "affordability," and based on the election results from New York, New Jersey and Virginia, voters think that's declining. Democrats think they've found a winning issue here to win back the hearts and minds of voters after the Trump sweep last year.
It's true that people are angry about prices. Steaks and hamburgers are more expensive than ever. So are coffee and rents and medical care. Many Americans are about to see a 10%-20% increases in their health care premiums starting in January.
But who's to blame? President Donald Trump said he would bring prices down;...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/18/want_lower_prices_more_affordability_move_to_a_red_state_153539.html</link>
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						<author>Stephen Moore</author><category>Stephen Moore</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/18/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 06:02:29 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/58/589644_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump&#039;s Use of National Guard Has Been Successful--and Welcome]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Key Democrats turn out to be grateful.
It is now indisputable that  President Trump's use of the National Guard to reinforce local law enforcement and crime-ridden cities is successful and welcome when applied.
The rabidly partisan Democratic mayor of Washington, Muriel Bowser, had opposed the introduction of the National Guard but after the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department disclosed that violent crime had fallen by half during this period and even relatively minor offenses such as evasion fares on the subway system were practically eliminated.
The National Guard...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/17/trumps_use_of_national_guard_has_been_successful--and_welcome_153538.html</link>
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						<author>Conrad Black</author><category>Conrad Black</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/17/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 21:18:42 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/702502_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ When Did I Become a Fetterman Republican?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The question is rhetorical, but not entirely unrealistic. It also has nothing to do with Fetterman's recent hospitalization for a minor heart issue, but rather with his appeal across the aisle.
You remember Reagan Democrats, don't you? They were the working-class Democrats who saw something decent and hopeful in Ronald Reagan's message and crossed party lines to vote for him - maybe the first Republican they had ever voted for.
Something similar could be going on now, except in the opposite direction, as Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania puts distance between himself and the progressive...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/17/when_did_i_become_a_fetterman_republican_153530.html</link>
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						<author>Frank Miele</author><category>Frank Miele</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/17/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:09:05 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/702246_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Two Competing Visions for America. Which One Will You Choose?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ In his victory speech on Nov. 4, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani declared, "We will prove there is no problem too large for government to solve." His crowd went wild.
But history has already proven that Mr. Mamdani's claim doesn't hold up. When government power grows too large and unchecked, good intentions give way to inefficiency, corruption, and even oppression.
Just look at our own hemisphere: Nations like Cuba and Venezuela made the exact same promise to their people - that government could fix every social and economic problem. Instead, they ended up with shortages, lost...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/17/two_competing_visions_for_america_which_one_will_you_choose_153532.html</link>
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						<author>Emily Seidel</author><category>Emily Seidel</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/17/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:54:12 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/702331_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Rise of City Leftists: Mamdani, Wilson and the Democrats]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Even before the swearing in, Seattle has given Zohran Mamdani his own "Mini-Me"; expect many more. New York City and Seattle now have democratic socialist mayors-elect. Democrats' overwhelming support from cities and these supporters' increasing embrace of far-left positions promise to elevate more democratic socialists in the party.
Zohran Mamdani understandably monopolized national media attention. He was a political neophyte and self-declared democratic socialist running for mayor of America's largest city. His policies were radical: free buses, government-built housing, government-run...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/17/the_rise_of_city_leftists_mamdani_wilson_and_the_democrats.html</link>
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						<author>J.T. Young</author><category>J.T. Young</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/17/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:53:53 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/702332_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Open Primaries Would Keep Government Open]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ 
The root cause of the nation's longest government shutdown - and the next one, and the one after that - isn't ideological extremism or hyper-partisanship on their own. It's the incentives created by the outsized influence of party primary elections.
The good news is that there is an easy and effective solution to America's primary problem: open, all-candidate primaries.
Shutdowns are no longer rare or risky. Both dominant parties take the U.S. government hostage on an increasingly regular basis because lawmakers fear losing a low-turnout primary more than they fear harming millions of...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/15/open_primaries_would_keep_government_open_153531.html</link>
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						<author>Nick Troiano</author><category>Nick Troiano</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/15/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2025 07:40:22 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/702330_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Shutdown Just Latest Battle in Democrats&rsquo; Long War]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The Democrats never miss a beat.
The moment their effort to blame Trump for the government shutdown went poof, they resurrected Jeffrey Epstein to suggest the president is a pedophile.
Of course, the shockingly ugly Epstein smear has no more to do with morality than the Democrat-engineered shutdown did with saving Obamacare subsidies. The point is not the policy, but the fight. Both are just the party's latest salvos in their long war against Trump and our political norms - one whose major battlefields have included the Russigate hoax, the two impeachments of Trump, the string of dubious...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/14/shutdown_just_latest_battle_in_democrats_long_war_153517.html</link>
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						<author>J. Peder Zane</author><category>J. Peder Zane</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/14/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 04:17:36 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/702163_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Confronting Anti-Ellis Island Immigration]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Between 1892 and 1954, approximately 12 million immigrants arrived at the now-iconic Ellis Island to enter the U.S. -- or nearly 200,000 legal entries per year.
All were registered, documented, and given rudimentary health exams.
They arrived as rich and poor, white and non-white, and, without exception, legally.
With the gradual decline of such great influxes, Ellis Island finally ceased operating roughly 71 years ago.
Yet Ellis Island's successful tenure offers a sharp contrast to the failures of our recent open-border catastrophes.
Americans will never know how many immigrants swarmed the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/14/confronting_anti-ellis_island_immigration_153523.html</link>
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						<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author><category>Victor Davis Hanson</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/14/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 04:17:56 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/702266_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Truth About Argentina&rsquo;s &lsquo;Bailout&rsquo;]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Democrats keep claiming that Trump "gave away" $40 billion to Argentina, and many people are understandably upset. How, they ask, could the United States hand over money to a foreign country?
The problem is simple: the claim isn't true. The U.S. didn't give Argentina money. It entered into a currency swap - and the U.S. has actually earned a profit on the transaction.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) insists that "the administration is giving this money away to help Argentina's hard-right president." He argues, "If this administration has $20 billion to spare for a MAGA-friendly...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/14/the_truth_about_argentinas_bailout_153525.html</link>
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						<author>John R. Lott Jr.</author><category>John R. Lott Jr.</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/14/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 04:19:05 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/702290_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Shutdown Over, Trump Saves Thanksgiving]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- The government shutdown that never should have happened is over. Voters should be furious with most Democrats, and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky, for engaging in a 43-day stunt that hurt the American public for no reason other than "beating" President Donald Trump.
The worst part: It was never going to work. Republicans control the White House, Senate and House of Representatives; the math was against Democrats from the get-go. They never had a chance, and still they shortchanged their own constituents with the longest shutdown in history.
So while Democrats wanted to extend the enhanced...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/14/shutdown_over_trump_saves_thanksgiving_153521.html</link>
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						<author>Debra Saunders</author><category>Debra Saunders</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/14/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 04:18:32 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/702265_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Gaslighting Americans on Inflation Is a Bad Idea]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Fox News host Laura Ingraham asked President Donald Trump this week if the affordability issue was a factor in the elections in Virginia, New Jersey and New York City. "More than anything else, it's a con job by the Democrats," Trump said, before going on to harangue the media and instruct the GOP to tell voters prices are down.
Now, I stand behind few in my contempt for legacy media, but it's far more likely that the average voter thinks prices are high because they've actually been in a supermarket during the past year. Yet, Trump officials have apparently landed on a strategy of...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/14/gaslighting_americans_on_inflation_is_a_bad_idea_153522.html</link>
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						<author>David Harsanyi</author><category>David Harsanyi</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/14/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ This Week -- The Follies and the Files]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ It's been a busy week. The latest Democrat accused by Trump aides of "mortgage fraud" is Rep. Eric Swalwell, a California Democrat. On a hyper-partisanship scale of 1-10, Swalwell is a 12, so it's possible that while filling out his loan papers he got distracted tweeting nasty things and erred on a loan document. But so far all these cases all seem quite thin - and the fact that they are lodged only against people who've attacked Trump make these prosecutions seem sketchy, or worse.
*          *            *          *
Sen. John Fetterman was hospitalized Thursday after a nasty fall....]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/14/this_week_--_the_follies_and_the_files.html</link>
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						<author>Carl M. Cannon</author><category>Carl M. Cannon</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/14/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Threat of an Overproduced Elite]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Success breeds failure. Policies and practices well suited to society at one juncture in history are often poorly suited to the world they have beneficially transformed. If you carry a good thing too far, it can turn out not to be a good thing anymore.
Case in point, one of the most successful public policies in U.S. history, the World War II G.I. Bill, which financed college educations for military veterans. Signed by former President Franklin Roosevelt, it embodied New Deal generosity even as its chief backers included the racist Democratic Mississippi Rep. John Rankin and the supposedly...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/14/the_threat_of_an_overproduced_elite_153527.html</link>
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						<author>Michael Barone</author><category>Michael Barone</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/14/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Next Social Epidemic Is Already Here: Legalized Sports Gambling]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association. A fractured court, led by a conservative majority, held that the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992, signed into law in the final months of the George H.W. Bush presidency, was unconstitutional.
The practical effect of the Murphy decision was that sports gambling, the legal practice of which had been mostly confined to Nevada casinos, became ubiquitous in short order. A few weeks after the court's decision, Delaware became the first state other than Nevada to legalize sports...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/14/the_next_social_epidemic_is_already_here_legalized_sports_gambling_153526.html</link>
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						<author>Josh Hammer</author><category>Josh Hammer</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/14/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 04:18:50 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/702294_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ What Makes Things Affordable?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Affordability. It's the word on everybody's lips.
Ever since self-described socialist Zohran Mamdani became the frontrunner in the New York City mayoral election by saying the word "affordability" with talismanic regularity, we have been told that the key to modern politics is that word's repetition. Say "affordability," and watch your polls rise.
And yet the world becomes ever more unaffordable.
Why?
Because there is, in the end, only one way to make things more affordable: to reduce prices. And there are only two ways to reduce prices: to reduce demand, or to increase supply.
But...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/13/what_makes_things_affordable_153520.html</link>
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						<author>Ben Shapiro</author><category>Ben Shapiro</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/13/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 08:33:06 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/701922_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ When Political Rhetoric Becomes a Weapon]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ In a recent interview, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared in unequivocal terms that President Donald Trump was "the worst thing on the face of the Earth." You heard that right. Not a threat to democracy, not a danger to civility, the worst thing on the face of the Earth. It was a statement so hyperbolic that it felt less like political commentary and more like a sermon from a zealot who has mistaken politics for theology.
Such rhetoric isn't harmless. It corrodes the political imagination of a people already steeped in outrage. It plants in the public mind a simple but dangerous idea:...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/13/when_political_rhetoric_becomes_a_weapon_153519.html</link>
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						<author>Armstrong Williams</author><category>Armstrong Williams</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/13/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 06:07:27 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/701995_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ At the Pennsylvania Medical Society, Activism Crushed Medicine]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ You'd think that a medical society would focus fully on medicine. But as I just saw at the Pennsylvania Medical Society's annual meeting, you'd be wrong.
On Oct. 18, I attended that meeting as a delegate, with the goal of getting the society to adopt my resolution opposing transgender drugs and procedures for children. While 27 states have protected children to varying degrees, Pennsylvania continues to allow teenagers and pre-teens to undergo invasive and irreversible treatments, even as a growing body of research shows how dangerous they are to children's physical and mental health....]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/12/at_the_pennsylvania_medical_society_activism_crushed_medicine_153512.html</link>
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						<author>Kurt Miceli</author><category>Kurt Miceli</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/12/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 06:24:53 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/701917_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ How Should Republicans Move Forward?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Reading commentary about the recent elections, I thought of an observation of Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.
Feynman said, "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool."
That is, we must always be disciplined in looking at things as they are and not bend to the temptation to see them as we wish them to be.
After the recent Democratic election sweep, we are hearing that there is unhappiness out there.
But is this really news?
Currently Gallup reports that 27% of the Americans are satisfied with the direction of the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/12/how_should_republicans_move_forward_153516.html</link>
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						<author>Star Parker</author><category>Star Parker</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/12/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 06:24:39 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/701490_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ On Veterans Day, Honor Sacrifice by Restoring the Military&rsquo;s Warrior Ethos]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ America needs true warriors to do what others cannot-fight our wars and win. Pete Hegseth is working to make the military great again.
 
On Veterans Day, we pause from our busy lives to salute the courage of those who fought in the mud of Belleau Wood, the beaches of Normandy, the jungles of Vietnam, and the sands of Fallujah. These patriots didn't ask what was in it for them. They asked what they could give. And many gave everything.
Our veterans served out of love for God and country, not political ideology - and certainly not the anti-merit, anti-American kind we've grown so used to over...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/11/on_veterans_day_honor_sacrifice_by_restoring_the_militarys_warrior_ethos_153505.html</link>
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						<author>Doug Truax</author><category>Doug Truax</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/11/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 08:12:44 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/701740_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Price of Public Service in an Age of Hate]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ How bad could it be to earn $174,000 a year in what's increasingly a no-show job? One that's exceedingly tough to do well but that any fool can do poorly, often with no consequences, since once you've been there for a couple of years, you can probably hold on forever? 
Very bad, as it happens. So much so that another true public servant, moderate Democrat Jared Golden of Maine, just announced that he will not be seeking another term in Congress. Golden, who left college to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps after 9/11 and served combat tours in both Afghanistan and Iraq, said the threats to his...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/11/the_price_of_public_service_in_an_age_of_hate_153515.html</link>
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						<author>Melinda Henneberger</author><category>Melinda Henneberger</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/11/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 13:43:52 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/701985_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump Can Do Better Than Tariff &#039;Dividends&#039; and 50-Year Mortgages]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Time is short for the Trump administration.
Last week's elections were a setback, but not a devastating one:
New Jersey is still a blue state, and while Virginia went red four years ago, it's been trending Democratic for more than a decade.
Republicans also fared poorly in Pennsylvania, however, an all-important presidential battleground.
Democrats even made inroads deep into the South, taking two state senate seats in Mississippi -- ending a GOP supermajority -- and picking up city council spots in South Carolina and Florida.
With results like these, the Republicans' razor-thin majority in...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/11/trump_can_do_better_than_tariff_dividends_and_50-year_mortgages_153514.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel McCarthy</author><category>Daniel McCarthy</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/11/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 05:18:20 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/701979_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Theodore Roosevelt Jumps Out of the Pages in Bret Baier&#039;s Newest Book]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ MEDORA, North Dakota -- Standing here this summer in the Badlands overlooking where the new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library is under construction, any person curious about the 26th president can be assured that this place will indeed capture the spirit and essence of the man.
I was left with the same sense after reading the new Bret Baier book, "To Rescue the American Spirit: Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a Superpower." It's a nonstop page-turner written with great research and vivid detail. Roosevelt comes bursting out of the book on every page.
Baier brings forth nuggets of...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/11/theodore_roosevelt_jumps_out_of_the_pages_in_bret_baiers_newest_book_153513.html</link>
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						<author>Salena Zito</author><category>Salena Zito</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/11/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 05:18:36 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/43/434941_1_.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Warren Zevon: First Political Scientist in Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Warren Zevon was (finally) given his due this weekend. Although revered as one of the most original singer/songwriters to come out of the Laurel Canyon music scene, he was famously locked out of consideration for decades, reportedly due to a long-ago battle with Rock & Roll Hall of Fame co-founder and Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner.
It is a testament to Zevon's capacity for bad behavior that, among the hundreds of miscreants, drug abusers, and wifebeaters who have been inducted or appeared on the cover of that magazine, he somehow rose above all others in his personal excess to become a...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/10/warren_zevon_first_political_scientist_in_rock__roll_hall_of_fame_153510.html</link>
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						<author>Andrew Walworth</author><category>Andrew Walworth</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/10/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 13:39:25 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/701895_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ This Veterans Day, Keep the Promise: Connect With a Veteran and Fix the System]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Every November, Americans pause to honor those who wore the uniform. Parades roll, flags wave, and the words "thank you for your service" echo across the country. But gratitude without follow-through rings hollow. The best way to honor our veterans is not with hashtags or speeches - it's by making sure they are seen, heard, and cared for long after the parade ends.
That starts with connection. Each year, far too many veterans die not from enemy fire but from isolation, despair, and the lingering effects of brain injuries that went undiagnosed or untreated. As chairman of Warrior Call, I've...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/10/this_veterans_day_keep_the_promise_connect_with_a_veteran_and_fix_the_system_153511.html</link>
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						<author>Frank Larkin</author><category>Frank Larkin</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/10/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ New Alliance, Old Scandal: The COVID Failure Haunting Hochul]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Recently Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that New York was joining 14 other states in a "nonpartisan initiative" (though all 15 states have Democratic governors) called the Governors Public Health Alliance, a "coordinating hub for governors and their public health leaders and a unified, cross-state liaison with the global health community. The Alliance also provides a platform for governors to exchange best practices, align policies, and coordinate on issues like vaccine access, emergency response and health security." 
Despite claiming the GPHA is "nonpartisan," Hochul's press release is...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/10/new_alliance_old_scandal_the_covid_failure_haunting_hochul_153509.html</link>
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						<author>J.T. Young</author><category>J.T. Young</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/10/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 04:45:37 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/692806_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Can Elise Stefanik and Jessica Tisch Save New York?]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ We know that New York City's socialist mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani, wants to give everything away for free, essentially doubling the city's budget and raising taxes on successful earners and businesses to allegedly pay for his big-government socialism.
We know he will destroy New York housing by freezing rents. We know he hates cops. And on top of all that, he's a heavy-duty antisemite who also hates the state of Israel.
So, it's a pretty grim picture if you happen to live in the city, like I do. However, there's a big difference between his crazy campaign promises and what he can actually...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/07/can_elise_stefanik_and_jessica_tisch_save_new_york_153503.html</link>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/07/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 06:37:58 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/701709_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Socialist Hypothesis Has Been Falsified &mdash; Did New York Get the Memo?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ In January 1996, Democratic President Bill Clinton declared during his State of the Union address that "the era of big government is over." And following America's decisive victory in the Cold War, it seemed it might be so. Socialism began as a hypothesis - that central planning would improve the human condition. The ensuing decades-long experiment, stretching across all corners of the world, resulted in the opposite: Where communism spread, liberty's flame was extinguished, ushering in unprecedented human suffering for billions.
By every empirical measure, the socialist hypothesis has been...]]></description>
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						<author>Ed Tarnowski</author><category>Ed Tarnowski</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/07/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 06:38:17 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/701485_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Democrats Wield Chaos as a Strategy]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ We can draw a few conclusions from an off-year election, when iconic races in blue states went, as expected, overwhelmingly Democratic.
Nevertheless, there is only a year left before the midterms. So Republicans must react to even these paltry results.
1) Democrats' chaotic nihilism still works. The chaos strategy causes so much turmoil, noise, and negative media coverage that the confused voting public simply cannot sort it all out. The public wishes the upheaval would just go away and often blames those with the most current authority -- logically, the incumbent Trump and his...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/07/democrats_wield_chaos_as_a_strategy.html</link>
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						<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author><category>Victor Davis Hanson</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/07/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 06:38:36 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/700834_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The George Bailey Test &ndash; and Why Fuentes Fails It]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ "The Jews" became a topic of conversation over the last week after Tucker Carlson interviewed someone named Nick Fuentes, a young man I had heard of but never actually heard. So I did what a critical thinker should do: I went to the source - to read, listen, watch, think, describe, and evaluate. From this exercise, I wish to add a few thoughts to the conversation about "the Jews," about Christian loyalty, and what it means to be an American.
Nick Fuentes is an ambitious, voluble social media influencer who readily admits he craves relevance and love. He builds his audience, and his income, in...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/07/the_george_bailey_test__and_why_fuentes_fails_it_153504.html</link>
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						<author>Richard Porter</author><category>Richard Porter</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/07/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Bad News for Republicans, Warnings for Both Parties]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Virginia and New Jersey, the two states that voted for governor in 2025, both voted for then-Vice President Kamala Harris over then-candidate Donald Trump by 52%-46% margins in 2024. Democrats ran significantly better in both states on Tuesday. One reason is that Trump Republicans, as an increasingly downscale party, see their turnout sag in off years than when the presidency is up. But that wasn't their only problem this time.
In Virginia, Democrat Abigail Spanberger, a former CIA officer and congresswoman, won 58%-42%, well ahead of her standing in most polls. Republicans who dismiss this...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/07/bad_news_for_republicans_warnings_for_both_parties_153502.html</link>
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						<author>Michael Barone</author><category>Michael Barone</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/07/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 06:39:42 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/701490_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Don&#039;t Call Mamdani a Commie or Jihadi]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Zohran Mamdani surged to an easy victory as the "democratic socialist" mayor of New York City, complete with media enthusiasm that carried echoes of silly Obama love songs. The badly named "mainstream media" earnestly promoted the most extreme candidate.
Andrew Cuomo must have felt so betrayed. In 2020, he was the media's pandemic prince. His press conferences on COVID were carried live nationwide. That November, the Emmy awards people decided to give him a special prize for his "masterful use of television" during the pandemic. Now he's been cast aside like month-old milk.
After Mamdani won,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/07/dont_call_mamdani_a_commie_or_jihadi_153498.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/07/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 06:38:53 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/701685_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Bill Gates Gets Mugged by Reality]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ You've probably heard by now the blockbuster news that Microsoft founder Bill Gates, one of the richest people to ever walk the planet, has had a change of heart on climate change. For several decades, Gates poured billions of dollars into the climate-industrial complex and was howling that the end is nigh unless we stop using fossil fuels, cars, air conditioning and general anesthesia.
Now he says he rejects the "doomsday" predictions of the more extreme global warming prophets.
Some conservatives have snuffed that Gates has shifted his position on climate change because he and Microsoft...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/07/bill_gates_gets_mugged_by_reality_153500.html</link>
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						<author>Stephen Moore</author><category>Stephen Moore</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/07/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 06:39:09 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/700724_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ It&#039;s Still the Economy, Stupid]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Republicans are licking their wounds after this Tuesday's ballot box defeats. But there is a lesson to be learned here. The various elections in New York City, New Jersey and Virginia, viewed collectively, reminded us yet again of a perennial political truth: Americans still care first and foremost about their wallets.
Culture war-type issues often generate the most salacious headlines -- and many of the Trump administration's fights on these fronts, such as immigration enforcement and higher education reform, are just and necessary. Still, the economy remains the top political issue. Unless...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/07/its_still_the_economy_stupid_153499.html</link>
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						<author>Josh Hammer</author><category>Josh Hammer</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/07/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 06:39:28 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/701048_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Election Results Are a Five-Alarm Fire for Republicans]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The warning signs have been growing for months. While President Trump's overall approval rating has turned negative, it is not atypical of what other newly elected presidents have experienced. But when asked about Trump's approval rating on specific issues, the numbers have been far more alarming.
Most analysts agree that Americans' frustration with inflation and immigration returned the president to the White House. Biden's record on both was abysmal, and Harris offered no new vision on either.  Trump began his second term with a positive approval rating on both of these critical issues....]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/06/election_results_are_five-alarm_fire_for_republicans_153496.html</link>
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						<author>Bill King</author><category>Bill King</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/06/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 17:59:37 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/701666_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ A Bad Night for Republicans, With No Bright Spots]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ When assessing election results, the analyses that hold up over time are the ones that avoid the hair-on-fire takes that dominate the news cycle in the immediate aftermath. That's because elections are pretty complex and rarely lend themselves to black-and-white interpretations. Tuesday, however, was not one of those days. Here are a few key takeaways:

It was a debacle for Republicans. The GOP went into the night with reasonably upbeat expectations. Polls showed a close race in New Jersey, and it looked as though Republicans might keep the attorney general's office in Virginia. Neither...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/06/a_bad_night_for_republicans_with_no_bright_spots_153494.html</link>
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						<author>Sean Trende</author><category>Sean Trende</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/06/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 11:18:21 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/701627_1_.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Johnson&#039;s Election Postmortem: 2026 &ndash; Not 2025 &ndash; Will Buoy GOP Hopes]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Speaker Mike Johnson shrugged.
With a brave face, the House Republican leader downplayed the results of the first major election since President Donald Trump returned to the White House. He called Tuesday's outcomes the kind of off-year "anomalies" that excite politicos but "do not portend what happens in the future." Johnson insisted there were "no big surprises last night," just predictable results. "In the end," he told RealClearPolitics, "blue states voted blue."
The bright spot for Republicans: A rising star - and prime 2026 target - on the left.
Johnson pointed to Zohran Mamdani, the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/05/johnsons_election_postmortem_2026__not_2025__will_buoy_gop_hopes_153492.html</link>
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						<author>Philip Wegmann</author><category>Philip Wegmann</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/05/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 12:09:26 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/701526_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Explaining Mamdani&rsquo;s Appeal to the Young, With Polling]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ How do we understand the victory of a Marxist radical?
It's a sad day for the de facto capital of the world, New York City. The epicenter of American finance, media, and dynamism now enters a self-imposed trajectory of decline.
But those of us on the populist right should not merely shake our heads and bemoan the extremism of Mamdani, frightening though it is. Instead, we must understand his appeal, so that we may most effectively counter his un-American ideas and continue to build on our 2024 triumph - to earn further big gains nationally among young voters for patriotic populism.
Polling...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/05/explaining_mamdanis_appeal_to_the_young_with_polling_153489.html</link>
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						<author>Steve Cortes</author><category>Steve Cortes</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/05/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 20:43:31 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/700810_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump&#039;s Trade Strategy on Trial]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ In times of national emergency, should the Supreme Court dictate America's grand strategy and international economic policies?
This question confronts the justices this week in Learning Resources v. Trump, a case that puts the president's tariff powers to the test.
If President Donald Trump loses, the Treasury faces having to refund more than $100 billion in tariff revenue, and the president's trade strategy will be thrown into chaos.
Businesses that have already changed their operations because of the tariffs, drawing jobs and supply chains back to America, will be subject to grave new...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/04/trumps_trade_strategy_on_trial.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel McCarthy</author><category>Daniel McCarthy</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/04/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 06:32:39 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/690720_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Gavin Newsom&rsquo;s Divisive Racial Pandering]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Leaders should seek to unify people. Instead, California governor and likely 2028 presidential candidate Gavin Newsom is mired in identity politics, dividing his constituents into those entitled to privileges and subventions by reason of their melanin, sex, or sexual orientation - and those who are required to fund the largesse.
He opposed race neutral admissions to the California state university system (overruled by the people of California - twice), imposed gender and racial requirements on corporate boards (held unconstitutional - twice), required ethnic studies and ethnically dumbed-down...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/04/gavin_newsoms_divisive_racial_pandering_153485.html</link>
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						<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author><category>Kenin M. Spivak</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/04/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 06:32:58 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/701241_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Let&#039;s Talk About the Real Genocide of Christians in Africa]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ With so much of the legacy media's focus spent on smearing Israel these days, you probably haven't heard a ton about the ongoing massacres in Nigeria.
Islamists have murdered tens of thousands of defenseless Christians, displacing around 15 million people from their homes.
Medieval sexual violence and torture are regularly practiced by Islamist militants, who also recruit children into their terrorist army. Thousands of churches and schools have been burned down. Catholic priests are regularly targeted for kidnapping.
The victims of Boko Haram and other Islamist groups in Nigeria aren't...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/04/lets_talk_about_the_real_genocide_of_christians_in_africa_153487.html</link>
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						<author>David Harsanyi</author><category>David Harsanyi</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/04/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 06:33:18 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/60/605247_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump Was Right Again: Too Much Winning]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ There is a saying among MAGA conservatives that "Trump was right about everything." You can even buy a hat to that effect, so you know it's true.
But sometimes the truth is a double-edged sword. Case in point: When Trump predicted in 2016 that his supporters would be so worn out by "too much winning" that they would beg him to stop.
We're gonna turn it around, and we're gonna start winning again. ... We're gonna win so much, you may even get tired of winning and you'll say, "Please, please, it's too much winning, we can't take it anymore. Mr. President, it's too much," and I'll say, no it...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/03/trump_was_right_again_too_much_winning_153480.html</link>
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						<author>Frank Miele</author><category>Frank Miele</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/03/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 21:50:02 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/701100_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Why Trump Has Lost Support Among Independents]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Ten months into Donald Trump's second term in office, his approval ratings are significantly lower than when his term began. Such declines are not uncommon - even though presidential "honeymoon" periods aren't what they once were. Democrats have never cottoned to Trump and Republicans remain intensely loyal. That leaves independents - like me - and a spate of public opinion surveys reveal that the president's declining popularity is almost entirely due to losing favor with independent voters.
According to the most recent Gallup poll, 91% of Republicans and 6% of Democrats currently approve of...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/02/why_trump_has_lost_support_among_independents.html</link>
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						<author>Greg Orman</author><category>Greg Orman</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/02/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ &lsquo;It&rsquo;s Obvious&rsquo;: Heritage President Says Right Has Antisemitism Problem]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Regrets, Kevin Roberts has a few.
The president of the Heritage Foundation stepped into a maelstrom when he came to the defense of Tucker Carlson this week after Carlson's friendly interview with Nick Fuentes, the 26-year-old white nationalist popular on the far right for his avowedly antisemitic views. It started with a video Roberts posted to X.
"Not as many people as I thought," he told RealClearPolitics in a Saturday interview, "were ready for a little bit of nuance."
Roberts told RCP that the backlash has further clarified something that he already believed, namely that antisemitism has...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/01/its_obvious_heritage_president_says_right_has_antisemitism_problem__153482.html</link>
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						<author>Philip Wegmann</author><category>Philip Wegmann</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/01/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ From CRT to Campus Protest: The Making of a Mamdani Voter]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ As a young person deeply engaged in politics, I am often asked why my generation is elevating figures like Zohran Mamdani, a self-described socialist, in New York. People across the political spectrum want to understand how a candidate who openly advances antisemitic rhetoric has gained traction among young voters.
To me, Mamdani's popularity is unsurprising - it reflects how my generation has been raised, educated, and conditioned to think.
The reality is that when teachers support Mamdani and when teachers unions endorse him - as they have - students are not far behind. The New York State...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/01/from_crt_to_campus_protest_the_making_of_mamdani_voter_153481.html</link>
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						<author>Gregory Lyakhov</author><category>Gregory Lyakhov</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/01/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 06:56:12 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/699611_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Food or Rent? SNAP Fight Presents Sophie&rsquo;s Choice]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[  In 1848, my 3rd great-grandfather, John, died in Ireland during the Great Hunger - a catastrophic situation where 1 million people starved to death when they were denied food assistance during the potato blight. After John's death, his mother, Sara, sailed to America in 1849 to escape starvation, but died on the ship.
Thankfully, his dad, his wife, and children would make it to the safety of America, and for generations, my family lived fairly good lives - free from hunger.
But when they say that people are only one illness away from catastrophe, believe it. As a child, when my mom (a single...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/01/food_or_rent_snap_fight_presents_sophies_choice_153479.html</link>
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						<author>Susie Shannon</author><category>Susie Shannon</category><pubdate>2025/11</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>11/01/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 06:56:32 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/700722_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump&#039;s First Nine Months Compared to Biden&#039;s Four Years]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The left wing and media rage hysterically from one Trump psychodrama to the next, while President Donald Trump trolls both on social media.
But all that is verbiage. What matters is the data and facts of Trump's first nine months since January 20, 2025, in comparison to either former President Joe Biden's prior year or the averages of his four years in office.
Take the border. No one knows how many illegal aliens entered -- or stayed in -- the U.S. during Biden's four years of open borders. What is clear is that he set a presidential record of well over seven million illegal entrants.
The...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/31/trumps_first_nine_months_compared_to_bidens_four_years.html</link>
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						<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author><category>Victor Davis Hanson</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/31/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 05:40:47 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/701035_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Rising Electricity Rates Front and Center in NJ Gov Race]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ With skyrocketing electricity rates now front and center for most Garden State voters, New Jersey's 2025 gubernatorial race is rapidly setting up as the first clear-cut referendum in this country on the true cost and false promises of the clean energy revolution.
New Jersey, like many other Democrat-run states, is now dealing with the consequences of years of bad energy policy driven by artificial emissions constraints and unattainable net-zero goals. Over the past decade, the state has replaced reliable coal and natural gas generation with intermittent solar and wind power and moved from...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/31/rising_electricity_rates_front_and_center_in_nj_gov_race.html</link>
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						<author>Paul Tice</author><category>Paul Tice</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/31/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ American Politics Needs a Hollywood Ending]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Washington, D.C., is Hollywood for ugly people.
That old joke is the best description of our failing politics, as the seat of global power has now become the center of American entertainment.
Burning brighter than any Tinseltown star, Trump and Schumer, Johnson and Jeffries, JD, Barack, and all the rest now command the nation's attention with a force that would have made a Hollywood publicist blush.
Cable networks and online publications that once focused on the news have been transformed into political versions of Photoplay and Confidential, focusing on the contretemps, scandals, and feuds...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/31/american_politics_needs_a_hollywood_ending_153472.html</link>
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						<author>Peder Zane</author><category>Peder Zane</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/31/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 05:39:17 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/63/635917_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Reject Radical Mamdani: NYC Mayor Race Has National Ramifications]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ In just a few days, a Karl Marx-quoting communist who has struggled to disavow Hamas is likely to be elected the next mayor of the nation's financial and cultural epicenter. Thirty-three-year-old New York state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani has surged to the front of the race. He leads by double digits in virtually every public poll, he is an overwhelming favorite in the online betting markets.
Absent a miracle, in short, Mamdani is going to win and will be the next mayor of New York City. But one might be forgiven for believing in the possibility of miracles. Mamdani must, somehow, be rejected...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/31/reject_radical_mamdani_nyc_mayor_race_has_national_ramifications_153474.html</link>
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						<author>Josh Hammer</author><category>Josh Hammer</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/31/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 05:40:31 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/700685_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Democrats Want Open Borders; Most Americans Don&#039;t]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Who said this? "If you don't have any borders, you don't have a nation." The speaker went on, "Trump did a better job. I don't like Trump, but we should have a secure border. It ain't that hard to do. Biden didn't do it."
It was Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in characteristic candor. If, as Milton Friedman argued, you can't have open borders and a generous welfare state, Sanders, as a self-described socialist, prefers the welfare state.
The facts at this point are not in much doubt. The Pew Research Institute, not an anti-immigration outfit, estimated that there were 10.2 million "unauthorized"...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/31/democrats_want_open_borders_most_americans_dont_153477.html</link>
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						<author>Michael Barone</author><category>Michael Barone</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/31/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 05:40:12 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/66/664357_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Foreign Journalists Asked Kamala the Questions Americans Wouldn&#039;t]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Last month, Kamala Harris made the rounds of supportive liberal networks to promote her campaign book "107 Days." The title implied it was impossible for her to beat that allegedly despised dictator Donald Trump with so little time.
No one expected much of the interviewers, starting with ABC's "The View," which could have titled the interview "You Had Me at Hello." They put a six-pack of suck-ups on the set. The "conservative" Alyssa Farah Griffin could only ask if Harris missed any warning signs.
The biggest event in that interview was co-host Sunny Hostin confessing to the Mom-ala that she...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/31/foreign_journalists_asked_kamala_the_questions_americans_wouldnt_153475.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/31/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 05:39:35 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/697967_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ From Doom to Boom: How Trump&rsquo;s Tariffs Are Powering the U.S. Economy]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[  Six months ago, critics warned that President Donald Trump's tariffs would crush the economy. They said Americans would face soaring prices and crashing markets. The reality? As we near the end of 2025, the story looks very different. Growth is up, markets are strong, and strategic onshore opportunities are emerging. Let's break it down.
Tariffs are boosting revenue.
Rather than dragging the economy down, tariffs have become a colossal source of revenue. Tariff collections hit $100 billion in the first half of fiscal 2025, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection expects that figure to eclipse...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/30/from_doom_to_boom_trumps_tariffs_powering_us_economy_153467.html</link>
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						<author>Mike Garcia</author><category>Mike Garcia</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/30/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 06:28:27 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/699576_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ A Trump-Xi Detente After Meeting in South Korea]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) - President Donald Trump described his face-to-face with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday as a roaring success, saying he would cut tariffs on China, while Beijing had agreed to allow the export of rare earth elements and start buying American soybeans.
The president told reporters aboard Air Force One that the U.S. would lower tariffs implemented earlier this year as punishment on China for its selling of chemicals used to make fentanyl from 20% to 10%. That brings the total combined tariff rate on China down from 57% to 47%
"I guess on the scale from 0 to 10,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/30/a_trump-xi_detente_after_meeting_in_south_korea_153471.html</link>
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						<author>Josh Boak &amp; Chris Megerian &amp; Mark Schiffelbein</author><category>Josh Boak &amp; Chris Megerian &amp; Mark Schiffelbein</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/30/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 13:42:31 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/700981_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Time To Curb the Violence]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Even back to the days of Charles Manson, a violent cult leader, there were pockets of people who cheered and reveled in violence. But all too common today are the groupies who adulate the CEO killer, the social media maven who praises the assassination of Charlie Kirk, or the miscreant who says they wish presidential assassins had been successful.
In today's social-media fueled world, every heinous act of violence spawns a great majority of people who condemn it and a smaller counter-reaction of people who cheer it and call for more. Maybe this was always the case, but those who supported...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/30/time_to_curb_the_violence_153469.html</link>
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						<author>Mark Penn &amp; Andrew Stein</author><category>Mark Penn &amp; Andrew Stein</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/30/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 09:42:12 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/700930_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Rate Cuts No Longer Create Jobs &ndash; They Eliminate Them]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Wednesday afternoon, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by another 25 basis points in a move The Wall Street Journal described as aimed at preventing "a recent slowdown in hiring from turning into something more serious."
To their credit, they can at least see what's going on in terms of hiring slowdowns and, more recently, layoffs. The day before this decision was announced, Amazon announced 14,000 white collar layoffs - the opening salvo that would ultimately scrap as many as 30,000 corporate positions.
What the Fed is getting badly wrong is that the historic link between corporate...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/30/rate_cuts_no_longer_create_jobs__they_eliminate_them_153468.html</link>
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						<author>Kyle Moran</author><category>Kyle Moran</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/30/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 06:29:06 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/700878_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Restore Local Politics: Tie Campaign Donations to Voter Registration]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ American politics is broken, but not in the way most people think. The problem isn't just the money - it's where the money comes from.
Since Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America" in 1994, we've watched congressional races transform from local contests into nationalized referendums. Every House and Senate race has become a proxy war for party control, with millions of dollars flooding across state lines to tip the balance in competitive districts. A senator from Montana doesn't answer primarily to Montanans anymore - they answer to donors in New York, California, and Texas who will fund...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/29/restore_local_politics_tie_campaign_donations_to_voter_registration_153462.html</link>
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						<author>Lindsay Mark Lewis</author><category>Lindsay Mark Lewis</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/29/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 06:35:08 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/55/556247_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Democratic Socialist Party Debuts in New York City]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Big news from Argentina is the electoral victory of the Advancing Liberty party of President Javier Milei.
Milei initially won the presidency in 2023 brandishing a chainsaw as a message of how he was going to cut the runaway government that has been destroying the lives of Argentinians.
Big government power has been a tradition in Argentina. Now Milei is turning things around.
Economic growth is picking up from stagnation, and inflation is down from over 200% to a little over 30%.
A victory for his party in midterm elections was seen as crucial for his ability to carry on with a mandate. He...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/29/democratic_socialist_party_debuts_in_new_york_city_153466.html</link>
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						<author>Star Parker</author><category>Star Parker</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/29/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 06:46:28 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/700810_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Generation Z(ohran)]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ How does a 33-year-old lifelong do-nothing -- a person who has never held a real job, never suffered a true challenge, been handed everything on a silver platter -- turn into a mayoral frontrunner in New York City? How does a self-described socialist who despises capitalism become the leading candidate for the mayoralty of the world's financial capital? How does a man who nods at "globalize the intifada" and refuses to say Hamas should disarm -- all while complaining that the real victim of 9/11 was a distant relative who was allegedly given an ugly stare by a fellow subway rider -- become...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/29/generation_zohran_153465.html</link>
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						<author>Ben Shapiro</author><category>Ben Shapiro</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/29/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 06:34:50 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/700809_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Party of &lsquo;Whatever It Takes&rsquo;: Illinois Democrats&rsquo; Descent Into Defiance]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[  
In the Illinois Democratic Party electorate, circa 2025, the fringe has gone mainstream.
A substantial minority of Democrats support political violence (including felonies to stop federal immigration officers from carrying out their duties), and about 80% say that President Trump and his supporters are "Nazis" and agreed that ICE officers are "jack-booted thugs." 
When asked whether they support Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker doing "whatever it takes" to keep ICE and other federal law enforcement out of Illinois and prevent them from apprehending illegal migrants, 84% of Democratic Party primary...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/28/the_party_of_whatever_it_takes_illinois_democrats_descent_into_defiance_153455.html</link>
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						<author>Richard Porter</author><category>Richard Porter</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/28/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 03:49:43 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/700678_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Republicans&rsquo; Surprising Performances in Key Governor Races]]></title>
											<subtitle>ANALYSIS</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Virginia's and New Jersey's gubernatorial races show the Republican candidates currently matching or beating Donald Trump's past presidential margins. This is big for these state races and for gauging the overall country's mood. It could be bigger still if it presages a Republican threat to Democrats' "second blue wall" in 2026 and 2028.
In Virginia, the Republican, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, has been trailing the Democrat, former Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger, by double digits as recently as the beginning of October. Before Republican Glenn Youngkin upset Democrat Terry McAuliffe's bid...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/28/republicans_surprising_performances_in_key_governor_races_153453.html</link>
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						<author>J.T. Young</author><category>J.T. Young</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/28/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 03:50:05 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/700655_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Republicans Are Walking Into a Trap on Section 230 Repeal]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Among political conservatives, there is no hotter potato at the moment than the civil liability protections afforded by Section 230 to online operators. Unless Republicans learn to love it again and reject the censorship lawfare complex favored by Democrats, they risk dooming our tech leaders and everyone who uses their products to the sharks circling our legal system.
The twenty-six words tucked into the Communications Decency Act of 1996 shielded publishers from liability so they could host and moderate content and still allow a wide range of speech without fear of lawsuits. Since then,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/28/republicans_are_walking_into_a_trap_on_section_230_repeal_153457.html</link>
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						<author>Yael Ossowski</author><category>Yael Ossowski</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/28/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 03:51:35 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/700686_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ American Folklore Is More Than Just Scary Stories; It Carries a Value System]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ DONEGAL, Pennsylvania -- It is 6:14 p.m. on a Thursday. You're hiking along the Forbes Trail, nestled deep in the Appalachian Mountains somewhere along the Westmoreland-Somerset County lines. It is 19 minutes until sunset, and you have just over a mile to go, mostly uphill, before you are out of the deep forest and in the clearing.
The mountain range, which stretches from Maine to Georgia and is documented to be one of the oldest in the country, shares characteristics across the approximately 420 counties. It is rugged, often mist-covered with deep hollers and rugged peaks that cling to a...]]></description>
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						<author>Salena Zito</author><category>Salena Zito</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/28/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 03:51:20 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/700696_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Deposit Insurance for Billionaires?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Politicians in Washington have the shortest memories.
Maybe that's why they so seldom learn from their sometimes catastrophic mistakes.
It was less than 20 years ago that the U.S. economy was flattened by the mortgage and banking crisis. Anyone remember?
The experts said that the odds were tiny that the housing market could crash; that the federal housing agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would never need a bailout; that mortgage-backed securities were as good as gold.
Then they crashed overnight spectacularly and devastatingly. Banks made riskier and riskier housing loans to subprime...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/28/deposit_insurance_for_billionaires_153459.html</link>
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						<author>Stephen Moore</author><category>Stephen Moore</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/28/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 03:50:27 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/700703_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ MAGA Makes Allies Great Again]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ From Argentina to Japan, MAGA is going global.
President Donald Trump's slogan has long been "America First," and his movement is all about making America great again -- language the president's foes misunderstand as meaning "isolationism."
In fact, strengthening America requires strengthening our friends as well -- and Trump sets an example for those leaders in Latin America, Asia and Europe who want to make their nations great again, too.
There's no paradox here:
A robust international order is impossible if America has to sacrifice its own industrial capacity, and our people's economic...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/28/maga_makes_allies_great_again_153460.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel McCarthy</author><category>Daniel McCarthy</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/28/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Between USA and Canada, Trade Can Get Personal]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump and Canada are at war again -- or should I say, Trump is in a tariff war with Canada?
Indeed, on Friday he announced he was cutting off trade negotiations with America's neighbor to the north.
The cause? It feels more like a soap opera than high-stakes international trade.
This tiff began with an ad released by Ontario Premier Doug Ford -- it features former President Ronald Reagan's homespun anti-tariff remarks from a 1987 radio address, delivered after he reluctantly imposed tariffs on certain Japanese exports to offset U.S. losses in the semiconductor...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/28/between_usa_and_canada_trade_can_get_personal_153461.html</link>
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						<author>Debra Saunders</author><category>Debra Saunders</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/28/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:10:46 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/700705_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ End of the Console Wars: Behind the Scenes of GameStop&rsquo;s Back-and-Forth with Trump]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ The strength of the nation will be measured, President Trump bellowed inside the Capitol Rotunda during his second inaugural, not just by battles won, "but also by the wars that we end." True to his word, Trump has pursued peace the world over. Ever eager for credit, he keeps a list of every conflict concluded.
Trump mediated Serbia-Kosovo tensions. The president de-escalated border clashes between nuclear-powered India and Pakistan. He negotiated a ceasefire to the war in Gaza. The official list is up to eight.
Even ardent critics have praised those efforts, but now Trump earns the adulation...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/27/end_console_wars_behind_scenes_of_gamestops_back-and-forth_with_trump_153454.html</link>
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						<author>Philip Wegmann</author><category>Philip Wegmann</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/27/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:33:40 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/700665_1_.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Young Workers Will Pay the Price for Chicago Mayor&rsquo;s Employee Tax]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ This economy is one of the toughest job markets for entry-level positions, and now, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is advancing new tax hikes in his budget that will make it even more difficult for Gen Z workers to build lives and careers in the city. 
As he unveiled his third budget last week, Mayor Johnson took to a familiar tactic to fill a $1.15 billion budget shortfall: new taxes, higher fees.  
The target of his worst tax hikes this time is the business community - and if history is any indicator, results are poised to be disastrous. Johnson announced he'd revive the city's long-defunct...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/27/young_workers_will_pay_price_for_chicago_mayors_employee_tax__153449.html</link>
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						<author>Micky Horstman</author><category>Micky Horstman</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/27/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 06:04:24 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/700456_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Fed Must Act Now &ndash; Before the Job Market Cracks]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ America's labor market is flashing red, and the Federal Reserve is watching the light change instead of hitting the brakes. Job openings have fallen to 7.26 million, the lowest level in 4&frac12; years. Private-sector hiring has turned negative, with September's ADP data showing -32,000 jobs after August was revised down to -3,000. Employers' plans to add workers have plunged 71% from last year, and year-to-date hiring announcements are the weakest since 2009. The Fed must move decisively by cutting rates 50 basis points in both the October and December meetings to prevent further...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/25/the_fed_must_act_now__before_the_job_market_cracks_153440.html</link>
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						<author>Dan Varroney</author><category>Dan Varroney</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/25/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2025 06:25:48 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/700330_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ What Business Leaders Should Know About President Trump&rsquo;s Trip to Asia]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[  President Trump's upcoming trip to Asia is a reminder that his trade philosophy has not changed: America's economic strength is the foundation of its global influence. His mission is to turn high-stakes negotiations into opportunities for American workers and investors. But as trade tensions with China ignite again, business leaders should prepare for volatility and opportunity to rise in tandem.
The White House hopes to announce a series of trade agreements during his trip to Malaysia, Korea, and Japan. U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer has indicated that the administration expects...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/25/what_business_leaders_should_know_about_trump_trip_to_asia_153451.html</link>
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						<author>Joseph Lai</author><category>Joseph Lai</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/25/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2025 06:25:29 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/699478_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Who Are the Real Kings?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ So-called King, Donald Trump, ran in two contested Republican primaries.
He ran three times in a general election.
He was elected twice, and his party recently won a Republican Congress.
In contrast, in 2020, former President Joe Biden did not run a typical campaign.
He avoided the public, staying ensconced in his basement. He outsourced his campaign to Democratic politicos, donors, and a sycophantic media.
No red state ever sought to remove Biden or former Vice President Kamala Harris from their 2024 ballots. In contrast, 25 blue states attempted to take Trump off their ballots.
In 2021,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/24/who_are_the_real_kings_153445.html</link>
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						<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author><category>Victor Davis Hanson</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/24/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 03:37:56 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/700418_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Louvre Heist Encapsulates a Western Culture That Will Not Defend Itself]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ I write from a quiet, mountainous part of Central Europe. The scenery is idyllic, and the fall air is crisp. But much as the case has been in my other recent trips to the European continent, the sights I see and the conversations I hear are all underscored by a similar haunting concern: Will there even be a Europe, in any cognizable sense of the term, a century from now?
All across the continent, fertility rates have plummeted, and the Christianity that defined the civilization for two millennia is viewed as a quaint relic of a bygone era. The combination of modern European Union political...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/24/louvre_heist_encapsulates_a_western_culture_that_will_not_defend_itself_153446.html</link>
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						<author>Josh Hammer</author><category>Josh Hammer</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/24/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 03:38:30 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/700419_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Trends in New Jersey and Virginia]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ No two states voted more alike and closer to the national average in last year's presidential election than the two states that have gubernatorial elections in this odd-numbered year: New Jersey and Virginia. New Jersey voted 51.8% for Kamala Harris and 45.9% for Donald Trump. Virginia voted 51.8% for Harris and 46.1% for Trump. Aside from the seven target states and Democratic underperformance in New Hampshire and Minnesota, these were the two closest states in the country.
They have other similarities. Large percentages of their voters live in metropolitan areas centered on cities outside...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/24/the_trends_in_new_jersey_and_virginia_153447.html</link>
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						<author>Michael Barone</author><category>Michael Barone</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/24/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 03:37:38 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/698246_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ When &#039;Fact-Checkers&#039; Are Weaponized Partisan Public Relations]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Every once in a while, the "fact-checkers" at PolitiFact publish reader comments, and this one stuck out: "Your site seems to be mostly about Trump all the time," read one comment. "How about a little less Trump, and write more about any other falsehood subjects?"
PolitiFact's audience chief Ellen Hine acknowledged they've published over 1,000 "fact checks" on President Donald Trump -- 1,124, to be precise. But then she trotted out the false claim that their targeting is nonpartisan: "Without keeping count, we try to select facts to check from all sides of the political spectrum. At the same...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/24/when_fact-checkers_are_weaponized_partisan_public_relations_153443.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/24/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 03:38:13 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/700414_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ It&#039;s Not &#039;Islamophobic&#039; To Wonder How Mamdani Would React to 9/11]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Is it "Islamophobic" to wonder if NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has a soft spot for Islamic terrorists? Hardly.
"God forbid, another 9/11 -- can you imagine Mamdani in the seat?" New York mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo told WABC's "Sid and Friends in the Morning" this week.
"He'd be cheering," host Sid Rosenberg replied.
"That's another problem," Cuomo added.
To this, Mamdani and his allies exploded in feigned outrage.
Why? We already know Mamdani has allied with those who want to bring the "Intifada" against Jewish Americans in New York and elsewhere.
We know that Mamdani is...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/24/its_not_islamophobic_to_wonder_how_mamdani_would_react_to_911_153444.html</link>
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						<author>David Harsanyi</author><category>David Harsanyi</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/24/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 03:37:22 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/700416_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Left&rsquo;s Shutdown Power Play: Force GOP To Do Their Dirty Work]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ From the outset, the current government shutdown orchestrated by the Democratic Party has felt different out here in the hinterlands. Their "ask" does not seem remotely plausible, which has most Americans ignoring the shutdown, while a few wonder: What are the Democrats up to?
One explanation is that Democrats are playing what in chess is called a fork: If the Republicans cave in on Democrat demands, they achieve a policy win, but if neither side caves, then eventually Senate Republicans will eliminate the filibuster rule in order to fund the government - which would be an even bigger win for...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/23/lefts_shutdown_power_play_force_gop_to_do_their_dirty_work_153439.html</link>
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						<author>Richard Porter</author><category>Richard Porter</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/23/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 07:36:00 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/700293_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ What&rsquo;s Conservative About Knocking Down the East Wing?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ I'm trying to think what could be less conservative than knocking down much of the East Wing of the White House - formerly the People's House - to make it more like Versailles. 
This, after Donald Trump promised he would do no such thing. But were we supposed to take his promises neither seriously nor literally? I forget. 
The sight of this destruction is painful for those of us who saw 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as more than a "Love It or List It" fixer-upper, and that's part of the fun for the current occupant and the defenders of this galling, gaping metaphor.
"The president is doing this on...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/23/whats_conservative_about_knocking_down_the_east_wing_153438.html</link>
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						<author>Melinda Henneberger</author><category>Melinda Henneberger</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/23/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 12:14:38 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/700273_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Normie Revolution]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Three weeks ago, The New York Times released a poll of Americans on the question of whether America's political system could still solve the nation's problems. The overwhelming response: no. In September 2020, 51% of Americans believed that America's system could still address America's problems; by September 2025, that number had declined to 33%. Meanwhile, almost two-thirds of Americans believe that America's political system is too politically divided to solve the nation's problems.
It's easy to attribute this growing dissatisfaction with some sort of unique period of gridlock. But that's...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/23/the_normie_revolution_153437.html</link>
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						<author>Ben Shapiro</author><category>Ben Shapiro</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/23/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 04:16:52 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/67/672488_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Could Amazon Doom the United States?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Amazon Web Services is the backbone of much of the economy and the government. AWS is a cloud computing platform that enables companies to do a number of things, such as store data and increase their computing power.
Today, AWS underpins a significant portion of global internet infrastructure. Over 90% of Fortune 100 companies use AWS services, and hundreds of Fortune 500 firms rely on AWS for at least part of their operations.
These companies are ones that much of America uses or relies on, like Bank of America, Capital One, Apple, Coinbase, Robinhood, Venmo, Snapchat, Reddit, Netflix,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/23/could_amazon_doom_the_united_states_153436.html</link>
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						<author>Armstrong Williams</author><category>Armstrong Williams</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/23/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 04:17:08 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/700268_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Unconscionable Loss of Conscience for Virginia Democrats]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ "The stakes couldn't be higher," Jay Jones, the Virginia Democrat running for state attorney general, said Monday in an X post. It was an ironic post, coming 10 days after National Review reported numerous violent text messages Jones sent to a colleague in the legislature about a Republican lawmaker. Jones fantasized about urinating on the graves of political opponents as well as shooting then-Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert with "two bullets to the head."
He also texted that he hoped Gilbert's wife, Jennifer, would one day hold one of her children as they died.
He followed that post with...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/22/the_unconscionable_loss_of_conscience_for_virginia_democrats_153435.html</link>
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						<author>Salena Zito</author><category>Salena Zito</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/22/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 04:14:02 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/700183_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ How Albany Can Stop Mamdani]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ If Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor and implements the changes he is promising, expect the city's financial condition and public safety to deteriorate rapidly. Think criminal bedlam, antisemitic rioters allowed full rein, and cutbacks to basic city services.
In such a crisis, desperate New Yorkers will look to Albany, where the governor has virtually unlimited power to curb the mayor's authority or remove him, even if no crime has been committed.
There is a safety valve, if a governor is willing to use it.
Before removing a mayor, state law requires the governor to present grievances against...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/22/how_albany_can_stop_mamdani_153432.html</link>
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						<author>Betsy McCaughey</author><category>Betsy McCaughey</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/22/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 04:15:36 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/699644_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Networks Pour Out Positive Publicity on &#039;No Kings&#039; Protests]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ One of the more tiresome mantras of leftist media coverage is Trump allegedly paging through his "authoritarian playbook." The media have their own protest playbook, as you could tell when leftists organized another mass protest titled "No Kings," as if we've ever had a king.
The network newscasts slobbered all over this Saturday event, using very similar language. "Millions" took to the streets! A "massive" turnout to oppose "what they call creeping authoritarianism." They sound like they're reading a press release. "More than 2,700 rallies in all 50 states," as "organizers estimate seven...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/22/networks_pour_out_positive_publicity_on_no_kings_protests_153430.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/22/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 04:14:38 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/699982_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ To Lower Health Costs, Legalize Catastrophic Health Insurance Plans for All]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The following column is coauthored by Stephen Moore and David M. Simon.
The government shutdown has focused debate on the vast sum ($136 billion in 2025, as projected by the Congressional Budget Office) that the federal government spends to annually subsize continually skyrocketing Obamacare health insurance premiums. The Wall Street Journal reports that regardless of how that fiscal tug-of- war turns out, health insurance premiums paid by Americans are expected to rise another 8% or 9% next year.
The mega-health insurers are leading the charge for more subsidies because this money lands...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/22/to_lower_health_costs_legalize_catastrophic_health_insurance_plans_for_all_153433.html</link>
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						<author>Stephen Moore</author><category>Stephen Moore</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/22/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 04:14:56 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/698280_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Democrats Prioritize Welfare Over National Security]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Few speak the truth as clearly and succinctly as House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Appearing on ABC's "This Week" last Sunday, co-host Jonathan Karl challenged the speaker's calling the recent No King rallies "Hate America Rallies," calling them "the modern Democratic Party."
Johnson responded that "there is a rise of Marxism in the Democratic Party ... just look what is happening in New York."
"They are about to elect an open socialist Marxist as mayor of America's largest city."
Johnson did not also note that this "socialist Marxist" has been endorsed by New York Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul.
The...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/22/democrats_prioritize_welfare_over_national_security_153431.html</link>
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						<author>Star Parker</author><category>Star Parker</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/22/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 04:14:20 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/63/636191_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Countering Cartels and Communists in the Americas]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ President Donald Trump is in a fight for the destiny of the Americas.
Will Central and South America be free and aligned with the United States -- or will half the Western Hemisphere be forever plagued by cartels, communists and Chinese influence?
The Cold War in Europe ended more than 30 years ago, but it never really ended in our own backyard.
Cuba remains communist, and a little more than a decade after the Soviet Union collapsed, Venezuela joined the ranks of socialist dictatorships under Hugo Chavez and then Nicolas Maduro.
Whenever left-wing leaders come to power in the region, the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/21/countering_cartels_and_communists_in_the_americas.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel McCarthy</author><category>Daniel McCarthy</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/21/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 06:11:54 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/700080_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Congress Should Miss Their Paychecks Too]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ This week marks the third week of the government shutdown - and there continues to be no end in sight. This week, millions of federal workers officially missed their first paycheck. These workers are staring down the barrel of piling bills; many are unable to put gas in the car or food on the table for their families.
The consequences of a prolonged shutdown are stacking up fast. Federal services are grinding to a halt. Veterans' career counseling and regional offices have gone dark. Flight delays and travel disruptions are wreaking havoc across the country. And for every week this drags on,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/21/congress_should_miss_their_paychecks_too___153426.html</link>
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						<author>Tiffany Smiley</author><category>Tiffany Smiley</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/21/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 06:12:13 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/700048_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Parties Know They&rsquo;re Losing. That&rsquo;s Why They&rsquo;re Redrawing Districts.]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Partisan affiliation in the U.S. has sharply declined over the past two decades. Today, only 28% of Americans identify with either the Republican or Democratic party, down from 34% in 2004. This drop in party loyalty helps explain the rise of the independent voter, who now make up 43% of the electorate. But just as the electorate becomes less partisan, the political system is becoming more so - thanks to recent gerrymandering in Texas, California, and potentially many more states. It's no wonder so many Americans are walking away from the parties that have spent more energy protecting their...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/21/the_parties_know_theyre_losing_thats_why_theyre_redrawing_districts_153427.html</link>
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						<author>Brett Loyd &amp; Lura Forcum</author><category>Brett Loyd &amp; Lura Forcum</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/21/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 06:12:54 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/70/700044_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Democrats Exhibit Amnesia About Biden-Era Lawfare]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Democrats who denounce federal indictments of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James as unprecedented weaponization of the Justice Department exhibit amnesia about the norm-eviscerating, undemocratic lawfare they launched during the Biden administration.
A federal grand jury in Virginia indicted Comey last month for lying to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding by "willfully and knowingly" lying to the Senate Judiciary Committee when he testified that he had not "authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports"...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/21/democrats_exhibit_amnesia_about_biden-era_lawfare.html</link>
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						<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author><category>Kenin M. Spivak</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/21/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 10:24:07 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/64/643075_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump&#039;s Middle East Triumph Embarrassed the Self-Proclaimed Experts]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ A New York real estate developer and TV star just outsmarted America's highly credentialed foreign policy establishment.
Hamas recently returned its last 20 living hostages to Israel. That was part of a stunning Gaza peace plan announced earlier by President Donald Trump. Israel and Hamas both agreed to it. Hamas signed on even though it hadn't had a change of heart about its desire to destroy Israel.
"A coordinated squeeze forced Hamas to accept a deal it didn't want," the Wall Street Journal explained.
Qatar and Turkey said they wouldn't continue to host Hamas leaders. Egypt said it...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/21/trumps_middle_east_triumph_embarrassed_the_self-proclaimed_experts_153429.html</link>
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						<author>Victor Joecks</author><category>Victor Joecks</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/21/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 06:13:13 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/699829_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ If It&rsquo;s Worse Than Watergate, Why the Silence?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ In a sense, it's old news. In December 2021, CNN reported that the House's select January 6 Committee had subpoenaed phone records of more than 100 people.
But that was mostly Trump officials, including White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. No surprise there. After all, the January 6 Committee was empaneled for the specific purpose of turning President Trump into a criminal for supposedly aiding and abetting the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the Capitol.
But when this story resurfaced earlier this month, there was something new, too. For one thing, the scope of the investigation was almost...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/20/if_its_worse_than_watergate_why_silence_153421.html</link>
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						<author>Frank Miele</author><category>Frank Miele</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/20/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 05:57:00 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/699899_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Schumer and Jeffries Shouldn&rsquo;t Take the Bait on Zohran Mamdani]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ There's no denying it - NYC mayoral contender Zohran Mamdani is electric. He's charismatic, multilingual, and has figured out how to turn politics into something people actually feel inspired by again. He's built online support that most Democrats could only dream of and has the grassroots organizing army to match. At a time of often too quiet self-reflection and soul searching for a party fresh off defeat in 2024, Mamdani's siren song is calling. The Democratic Socialist is all but guaranteed to win the general election next month. That's exactly why Democratic leaders like Chuck Schumer and...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/20/schumer_jeffries_shouldnt_take_bait_on_zohran_mamdani_153424.html</link>
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						<author>Kaivan Shroff</author><category>Kaivan Shroff</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/20/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 21:40:37 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/695699_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ How Biden and Obama Failed in the Middle East]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The short answer to why both the Biden and Obama administrations failed to achieve peace in the Middle East is that they took actions opposite to President Donald Trump's current efforts, which have led to a ceasefire.
First, consider Iran.
Iran was flush with cash, on a trajectory toward a nuclear weapon, and arming Israel's "ring of fire" enemies: Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis.
The radical Islamic world of the Middle East was convinced that Israel would be doomed eventually.
Yet both Democratic administrations let Iran profit from oil sales.
They talked of delaying, but not ending,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/17/how_biden_and_obama_failed_in_the_middle_east_153418.html</link>
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						<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author><category>Victor Davis Hanson</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/17/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 21:26:06 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/67/675353_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Democrats Fear the Loss of Their Municipal Monopolies]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ President Trump's deployment of federal forces threatens Democrats' municipal monopolies on political power. This is why they so strenuously object to federal assistance in cities' law enforcement. Without overwhelming city vote totals, Democrats' political control in states across America would collapse. 
President Trump has repeatedly injected federal resources into city law enforcement - Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Memphis, and now Portland and Chicago - where he has deemed crime to be out of local authorities' ability or will to control it. At each intervention, national Democrat...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/17/democrats_fear_the_loss_of_their_municipal_monopolies_153410.html</link>
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						<author>J.T. Young</author><category>J.T. Young</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/17/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 07:52:16 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/62/629122_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ What the Stats Really Say About Crime Surge]]></title>
											<subtitle>ANALYSIS</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ During last year's presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, Trump said violent crime was rising. ABC moderator David Muir immediately fact-checked him, claiming, "President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is coming down in this country..."
Nearly every major media outlet echoed that narrative. National Public Radio ran the headline, "Violent crime is dropping fast in the U.S. - even if Americans don't believe it." The Wall Street Journal declared, "Violent Crime Rate Falls Sharply After Pandemic Surge." Vox insisted, "Violent crime is plummeting."...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/17/what_the_stats_really_say_about_crime_surge.html</link>
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						<author>John R. Lott Jr.</author><category>John R. Lott Jr.</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/17/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 05:55:47 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/66/663539_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Have Democrats Learned Anything?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ On Thursday, Senate Democrats voted for the 10th time to prolong the federal government shutdown. They also voted against funding the military, thereby necessitating that the Pentagon initiate some innovative accounting in order to ensure service members are paid on time.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) defended his caucus's latest vote, opining, "It's always been unacceptable to Democrats to do the defense bill without other bills that have so many things that are important to the American people in terms of health care, in terms of housing, in terms of safety." But to most...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/17/democrats_are_in_a_very_weak_negotiating_position.html</link>
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						<author>Josh Hammer</author><category>Josh Hammer</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/17/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 13:38:58 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/691805_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Can Trump Restore Order to a Broken America?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Donald Trump is our first Old Testament president.
Where critics view him as a self-absorbed tyrant bent on settling personal scores, he is more akin to the stern Yahweh of the Hebrew Bible who punishes wrongdoers to restore order to a broken world.
His quest for retribution is less a small-minded push to vanquish his enemies than a (small-"c") catholic program to hold bad actors accountable for misdeeds that sends a larger message about acceptable conduct.
His simple message: Behave!
Trump is not a god - he's never even played one on TV. Because he's a fallible human being in a complex...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/17/can_trump_restore_order_to_a_broken_america.html</link>
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						<author>J. Peder Zane</author><category>J. Peder Zane</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/17/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 06:47:34 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/699814_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ To My Fellow Democrats: A &lsquo;Third Way&rsquo; To Reopen the Government]]></title>
											<subtitle>PURPLE NATION</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ I understand that congressional Democrats think they have the upper hand, albeit by a narrow margin, showing that voters blame the GOP more than them for the current government shutdown. Their talking point - that the Republicans control the White House and majorities of both chambers - apparently has resonance, at least so far.
The margin is not great, however. And the public may start to catch up on the disingenuousness of our party's constant use of the word "majority" to describe Congress. Every elected Democrat in Washington knows that it takes 60 votes to break their own filibuster in...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/16/to_my_fellow_democrats_a_third_way_to_reopen_the_government_153413.html</link>
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						<author>Lanny J. Davis</author><category>Lanny J. Davis</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/16/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:35:58 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/699769_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Donald Trump, Peace President]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ This week, I had the opportunity to visit the Israeli Parliament, the Knesset, to hear President Donald Trump speak. Trump, who had just brokered a ceasefire deal involving the release of all 20 living Israeli hostages from Hamas -- without a full Israeli withdrawal, and with a stated commitment by Hamas, backed by erstwhile allies like Qatar and Turkey, to disarm -- was met with ecstatic applause. Calling out his Israeli counterpart, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump stated, "We're not gonna go into a war, but if we do, we're going to win that war like nobody has ever won a war...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/16/donald_trump_peace_president_153411.html</link>
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						<author>Ben Shapiro</author><category>Ben Shapiro</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/16/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:37:34 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/699627_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Free Market May Sack Kimmel Again]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Last month, late-night host Jimmy Kimmel and "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" reemerged from cancellation with a ratings jump and social momentum. His midnight honeymoon, however, is already over.
Kimmel made incendiary comments over free speech champion Charlie Kirk's assassination in September, slamming President Trump's leadership and comparing his grief to "a four-year-old mourning a goldfish." With his ratings nosediving for months, what little audience remained turned off their TV sets, prompting Nexstar Media Group and Sinclair Broadcasting to pull him from ABC station affiliates. Jimmy raged and...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/15/the_free_market_may_sack_kimmel_again_153405.html</link>
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						<author>Alex Rosado</author><category>Alex Rosado</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/15/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 08:05:06 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/697735_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Will the Palestinians Pass the Israel Test?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ At this writing 20 remaining living Israeli hostages have been released by Hamas. Thank God.
Twenty-four dead remain still to be released.
These of the 251 taken hostages on that infamous Oct. 7, 2023, day.
President Donald Trump is taking legitimate credit, thanks to his insurmountable will and prodigious negotiating skills, for this breakthrough.
But with all the joy, there remains the hurt and disappointment.
Disappointment that this could have happened two years ago.
For two years, a deeply confused and lost world has given credibility to the depraved Hamas terrorists and murderers as...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/15/will_the_palestinians_pass_the_israel_test_153408.html</link>
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						<author>Star Parker</author><category>Star Parker</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/15/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 04:35:46 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/699365_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ President Looks in the Mirror and Sees a Nobel Peace Prize]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- For the last 20 living Israeli hostages who spent 738 awful days in captivity -- starved, isolated and afraid -- the worst nightmare is behind them. "The war is over," President Donald Trump told Politico's Dasha Burns on Air Force One as they flew to the Middle East ahead of the signing of the ceasefire deal he brokered. "It's over. You understand that?"
Four deceased hostages also were transferred Monday; 24 bodies that were supposed to go home Monday remain with their Hamas captors.
The day must have been sweet for President Donald Trump. He and his band of disruptors were...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/15/president_looks_in_the_mirror_and_sees_a_nobel_peace_prize_153409.html</link>
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						<author>Debra Saunders</author><category>Debra Saunders</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/15/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Nobody Should Demonize Anti-Fascists in Cutesy Animal Costumes]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The "fact-checkers" who pick apart Donald Trump on a daily basis took exception to this recent presidential overstatement: "Portland is burning to the ground, it's insurrectionists all over the place." PolitiFact instructed that there's a few arson convictions, but all the protests are "largely confined to a two-block area" outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.
Those two blocks can be brutal. The Washington Post wrote a front-page story on Oct. 13 lamenting the "right-wing influencers" around the protests, and reality bubbled up: "But at night, the scene often turns...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/15/nobody_should_demonize_anti-fascists_in_cutesy_animal_costumes_153407.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/15/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 04:35:14 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/699613_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Beware Mamdani&#039;s Judges]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ What does it take to get locked up?
Two men allegedly stole a Dodge Charger muscle car and led cops on a wild chase through Harlem streets, driving up on sidewalks, endangering pedestrians and slamming into other vehicles. When the cops finally grabbed them, one of the men had a loaded, unlicensed pistol in his waistband. All of this was captured on video.
Here's the punchline. Hauled before a Bronx Criminal Court judge, the two men were back on the street within hours.
Former New York City Police Department Commissioner Ray Kelly says "the cops clearly risked their lives" and that the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/15/beware_mamdanis_judges_153406.html</link>
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						<author>Betsy McCaughey</author><category>Betsy McCaughey</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/15/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 04:34:57 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/699611_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Why Trump Adores Argentina&#039;s Milei, Loathes &#039;Communist&#039; Mamdani]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ President Trump adores Argentina President Javier Milei but loathes New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.
The reason: the rise of socialism.
After signing a peace deal to end the war in Gaza, Trump returned his attention to the Western Hemisphere and constructing bulwarks against the rise of that ideology in both North and South America. His $20 billion bailout of Argentina threw a lifeline to the Milei regime and its pro-capitalist policies.
"It's really meant to help a good financial philosophy," Trump told RealClearPolitics ahead of a lunch meeting with the Milei administration....]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/14/trump_adores_milei_loathes_mamdani_for_the_same_reason_aversion_to_socialism__153403.html</link>
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						<author>Philip Wegmann</author><category>Philip Wegmann</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/14/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 09:01:24 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/699581_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Common Sense, Common Ground&mdash;Even in a Shutdown]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The federal government is shut down again, and the headlines are all gridlock and partisan bickering. Yet this week also quietly marks a milestone that reminds us that bipartisanship can still solve big problems. On Oct. 14, 1980, Democrats and Republicans worked together to enact the Staggers Rail Act, partially deregulating railroad economic regulation.
The reform package rescued a failing rail sector by replacing outdated government micromanagement and heavy-handed bureaucracy with market discipline and targeted oversight. Signing the bill into law, President Jimmy Carter forecast that "by...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/14/common_sense_common_groundeven_in_shutdown__153398.html</link>
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						<author>Ian Jefferies</author><category>Ian Jefferies</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/14/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 06:28:39 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/699465_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Extending the ACA Subsidies]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Over the last week, the decision on whether to extend the enhanced ACA subsidies has increasingly become the defining issue of the shutdown.  It is an issue that is fracturing the Republican Party and threatening to derail their midterm election prospects.
Unpacking the numbers
From the outset, the Affordable Care Act subsidized the purchase of health insurance by some lower-income Americans on the health insurance exchanges. The subsidy was based on a sliding scale that set a maximum a person would pay as a percentage of their income. The ceiling for the subsidy was originally 400% of the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/14/extending_the_aca_subsidies_153399.html</link>
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						<author>Bill King</author><category>Bill King</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/14/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 06:29:00 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/695080_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ What Democrats Are Missing in Trying to Recapture Young People]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ BALDWIN, Pennsylvania -- Collin Arthrell sat at a table filled with young people at a luncheon in a middle-class suburban Pittsburgh borough, dressed neatly in a suit with his curly hair neatly cropped.
Four years ago, you would not have seen this many young people psyched about voting in an off-year cycle. But a lot of things have changed since President Donald Trump's reelection, including some profound cultural changes, from Trump approving U.S. Steel facilities to the gruesome murder of Charlie Kirk.
All around the luncheon were posters, photos and a display that let attendees touch hard...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/14/what_democrats_are_missing_in_trying_to_recapture_young_people_153401.html</link>
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						<author>Salena Zito</author><category>Salena Zito</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/14/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 06:29:20 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/68/680273_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The New Editor-in-Chief of CBS News Is Not Like the Others]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- The knives are out for CBS News' new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss. Because she succeeded.
Paramount, which owns CBS, is buying The Free Press, the news organization she co-founded, reportedly for about $150 million in cash and stock.
What's more, Weiss owes this windfall in part to liberal bias.
The one-time New York Times opinion writer quit the Times in 2020 after Chairman A.G. Sulzberger forced Editorial Page Editor James Bennet to resign for running a piece that advocated using U.S. troops to squelch violent George Floyd riots. The piece was written by a U.S. senator, Tom...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/14/the_new_editor-in-chief_of_cbs_news_is_not_like_the_others_153402.html</link>
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						<author>Debra Saunders</author><category>Debra Saunders</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/14/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 06:29:38 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/51/515735_1_.png" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ In Search of Our Constitutional Future]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The following is an excerpt from Edwin C. Hagenstein's new book, "Vanishing Point: In Search of Our Constitutional Future." 
Trust in our institutions is plummeting across the board, including government, business, and education. In a major Gallup poll, only 27 percent of Americans report feeling either a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in government's fundamental offices and agencies, with the presidency registering just 23 percent and Congress a remarkable 7 percent.  In a democratic nation, dependent on broad-based support for our constitutional order, this deterioration seems at...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/11/in_search_of_our_constitutional_future_153395.html</link>
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						<author>Edwin Hagenstein</author><category>Edwin Hagenstein</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/11/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 07:33:41 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/699264_1_.png" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Columbus Day Celebrates Our Civilization]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Battles over Columbus Day aren't really about Christopher Columbus at all -- they're about whether America should exist.
"Columbus's journey carried thousands of years of wisdom, philosophy, reason, and culture across the Atlantic into the Americas -- paving the way for the ultimate triumph of Western civilization less than three centuries later on July 4, 1776," President Donald Trump says in his Columbus Day proclamation.
Yet that's why the holiday has so many enemies.
Unlike progressive movements of decades past, today's ideological left doesn't particularly want to lay claim to America's...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/11/columbus_day_celebrates_our_civilization_153396.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel McCarthy</author><category>Daniel McCarthy</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/11/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 07:33:36 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/62/629232_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Selective Outrage and Ideological Blind Spots]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Van Jones, the CNN host and commentator, recently complained that neither the global left nor the legacy media are covering the horrific violence against Nigerian civilians by Islamic terrorists.
True, they are not reporting the slaughter.
Truer still, they should be.
However, Van Jones went completely off the rails when he blamed "the Jews."
Or as he put it, "No Jews, no news"--a stereotyped statement as antisemitic as it is untrue.
In truth, lots of mass violence worldwide is ignored.
Unlike President Donald Trump, neither the left nor the legacy media cared much for the recent mass ethnic...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/10/selective_outrage_and_ideological_blind_spots.html</link>
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						<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author><category>Victor Davis Hanson</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/10/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 05:53:51 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/696686_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Virginia Attorney General Race May Show Proof of the Charlie Kirk Effect]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- In a better world, Democrats would be running at full speed away from Jay Jones, the Democratic nominee in the Virginia attorney general race. As the National Review reported Oct. 3, in 2022, Jones, a former lawmaker, actually fantasized about killing Todd Gilbert, the then-Republican Speaker of Virginia's House of Delegates, because Gilbert had praised a recently deceased moderate Democrat lawmaker.
In Jay Jones' world, civility is a capital offense.
In the 2022 texts Jones exchanged with a former colleague, Republican House Delegate Carrie Coyner, he volunteered that if he had...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/10/virginia_attorney_general_race_may_show_proof_of_the_charlie_kirk_effect_153391.html</link>
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						<author>Debra Saunders</author><category>Debra Saunders</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/10/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 05:54:08 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/698883_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Networks Promote Democrats vs. &#039;Combative&#039; Pam Bondi]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ One way you can demonstrate how the liberal networks run on dunking Republicans is how they cover congressional hearings. For weeks, House Oversight Committee chair James Comer has been probing how the Biden White House staff covered up former President Joe Biden's mental decline, and all the liberal TV networks can't locate it.
But on Tuesday, Senate Democrats were throwing hardballs at Attorney General Pam Bondi, and CNN and MSNBC were covering it live, and then the evening newscasts all ran stories. Republicans are in control of Congress, and Democrats are still considered the more...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/10/the_networks_promote_democrats_vs_combative_pam_bondi_153386.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/10/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 05:54:25 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/699032_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Why Aren&#039;t &#039;Ceasefire Now!&#039; Activists Celebrating Trump&#039;s Gaza Peace Deal?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Everyone understands that slogans such as "Free Palestine!" and "Ceasefire Now!" are just euphemisms for a Hamas victory. Never has that been more evident than today.
Take New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, the new darling of the American left. He has publicly demanded a "ceasefire" in Gaza scores of times since the Oct. 7 massacre -- a slaughter he recently referred to as a "war crime" rather than what it was, a terrorist attack. He even traveled to Washington in November of 2023 to start a hunger strike meant to pressure the White House into forcing a "permanent...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/10/why_arent_ceasefire_now_activists_celebrating_trumps_gaza_peace_deal_153387.html</link>
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						<author>David Harsanyi</author><category>David Harsanyi</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/10/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 05:54:41 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/699198_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ How to Win a War]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ It has been a long time since a Western country has won a war.
It can now be said that Israel has won its war on Iran and its proxies in the Middle East, with the assistance of the United States -- and, in particular, President Donald Trump.
On Oct. 7, 2023, the genocidal terror group Hamas invaded Israel's borders and killed 1,200 Israelis, mostly Jewish; they abducted 250 Israelis and took them back to their terror tunnel hellholes. Those tunnels, as well as Hamas' vast arsenal of rockets, grenades and small arms, had been built up over the course of 20 years, with the support and funding...]]></description>
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						<author>Ben Shapiro</author><category>Ben Shapiro</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/10/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Contrast the White House Loves: Trump Gets Gaza Deal as Dems Continue Shutdown]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ As members of the cabinet met at the White House to celebrate the beginning of the end of the war in Gaza, a product of the peace deal that Secretary of State Marco Rubio praised as "a historic moment in the history of our country," the Senate prepared to vote.
It was the seventh vote to reopen the federal government, and it failed, 54-45, along the same predictable lines as all the other attempts before it. All but three Democrats voted against the measure. Every Republican, except Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, supported it.
Gridlock endures, and now, a split-screen that the White House favors...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/09/contrast_white_house_loves_trump_gets_gaza_deal_dems_continue_shutdown_153385.html</link>
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						<author>Philip Wegmann</author><category>Philip Wegmann</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/09/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 18:20:10 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/699187_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Myth of Falling Crime: Why Americans Don&#039;t Trust the Numbers]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Every election season, mayors and governors step before cameras to boast that crime is down. Charts are waved, statistics cited, and carefully crafted talking points deployed to assure anxious citizens that their streets are safer than ever. Yet when you leave the press conference and walk the sidewalks of Baltimore, Chicago or Los Angeles, the reality feels far different. The gap between official numbers and lived experience is wide enough to swallow public trust whole.
The reason for this disconnect is simple: Most crime never gets reported in the first place. The Baltimore Sun recently...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/09/the_myth_of_falling_crime_why_americans_dont_trust_the_numbers_153383.html</link>
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						<author>Armstrong Williams</author><category>Armstrong Williams</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/09/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 05:54:58 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/68/688211_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Real Lesson of Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The roiling kerfuffle in late night network television demonstrates how confused, hypocritical, and angry Americans have become.
Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel should have been canceled long ago. They have little interest in creating a comforting diversion for all Americans, which used to be the reason for late night television. Instead, their goals are to advance progressive causes and bash anyone who disagrees. In doing so, they long ago lost most conservatives, many centrists, and even sympathetic viewers who wanted relaxation, not divisive politics.
But the real rub is that their...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/08/the_real_lesson_of_stephen_colbert_jimmy_kimmel_153376.html</link>
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						<author>Kenin Spivak</author><category>Kenin Spivak</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/08/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 04:17:18 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/698953_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ I&#039;m No Fan of Trump, But I Don&rsquo;t Shun His Supporters]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ A Dominican priest in Chicago who said he'd spent the day helping a young U.S. citizen who'd been beaten by ICE agents after he was "detained for walking on his own sidewalk on his way to his home" posted some video of tear gas. "America," he wrote, "we are better than this."
The irony is that a lot of us have spent our lives convinced that we really were better than this, and now Donald Trump seems hell-bent on proving us wrong. He has declared war on some U.S. cities, where our military is, according to him, supposed to train on those "enemy within" populations that didn't vote for him....]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/08/to_me_trump_is_worst_so_why_dont_i_shun_his_supporters___153377.html</link>
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						<author>Melinda Henneberger</author><category>Melinda Henneberger</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/08/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 08:59:17 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/698961_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ We Are the Cure for TDS]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ America has a sickness, and it's not just a horrendously unhealthy food supply. It's deeper, darker, and more sinister. It goes by three letters: TDS - Trump Derangement Syndrome.
What is TDS? It is a condition that turns ordinary people into hateful monsters whenever President Trump is mentioned. It drives politicians, journalists, professors, and late-night comedians to hate rather than admit that President Trump is good for America. It divides families, ruins friendships, and convinces people that their fellow Americans are enemies rather than good-natured citizens.
I've known about TDS...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/08/we_are_the_cure_for_tds_153375.html</link>
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						<author>Anthony Constantino</author><category>Anthony Constantino</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/08/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 04:16:26 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/698942_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Furious Freakout Over a New Centrist Strategy at CBS News]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The aerobic freakout has begun inside the liberal media over the new owners of CBS News appointing "anti-woke" Bari Weiss to the new post of editor-in-chief. None of the CBS veterans want a new boss with a new ideology. They like pretending they don't have an ideology. They call themselves courageously "independent."
Paramount Chief Executive David Ellison wants to put CBS News firmly in the middle: "We want CBS to speak to that 70% of the audience that would really define themselves as center-left to center-right."
In her initial memo to employees, Weiss stated several principles that are...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/08/the_furious_freakout_over_a_new_centrist_strategy_at_cbs_news_153378.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/08/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 04:16:44 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/66/669241_1_.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Get Tough on Criminals to Avoid Needing the Guard]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson went to court Monday to stop President Donald Trump from sending National Guard troops to the Windy City, calling mob violence against immigration officials a "flimsy pretext."
Follow this closely, New Yorkers and residents of crime-ridden blue cities everywhere. This isn't just about Chicago. It's about your city too.
For months Trump has vowed to "make our cities very, very safe." The Illinois lawsuit claims that Trump is sending the Guard to Chicago to "fight crime," not just protect federal buildings and personnel.
Horrors!...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/08/get_tough_on_criminals_to_avoid_needing_the_guard_153380.html</link>
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						<author>Betsy McCaughey</author><category>Betsy McCaughey</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/08/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 04:15:51 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/698904_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Government Shutdown: Smokescreen for Democratic Party Bankrupt of Ideas]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ A basic truth is that nothing stays the same. This is true for any individual or any nation.
Each day you are not the same person you were yesterday. Either you are moving forward or backward. Either you are improving or deteriorating.
I often quote historian Arnold Toynbee that "an autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide." I bring this up because it is an important reminder. Think of the Greeks, the Romans or the British Empire on which the sun never set.
Regardless of what you may think about MAGA, President Donald Trump is a political figure of historic...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/08/government_shutdown_smokescreen_for_democratic_party_bankrupt_of_ideas_153379.html</link>
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						<author>Star Parker</author><category>Star Parker</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/08/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 04:16:09 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/63/635920_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Two Years and a Day]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Now it's two years and a day. That's how long it's been since Arab terrorists stormed across the border into Israel, shooting every Jew they could find, raping women, incinerating children, and carrying human beings as if they were trophies back to Gaza to be greeted by cheering crowds.
Appalling aftershocks followed within hours: Harvard student groups blaming Israel for Hamas' savagery; leftist elites on two continents calling for a "ceasefire" while Israel was still recovering citizens' bodies from their homes; dubious claims that the IDF was bombing Gaza's hospitals - stories planted by...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/08/two_years_and_a_day_153381.html</link>
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						<author>Carl M. Cannon</author><category>Carl M. Cannon</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/08/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Why Sharpies Are Made in America Again]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ President Donald Trump loves a Sharpie pen, and now he has all the more reason to love the company that makes them.
The president signed the flurry of executive orders he issued the day he returned to office with a Sharpie.
He's used them for years, finding them more reliable than fancier pens.
Now we know they have another merit, too: They're almost entirely made in America.
Only the felt tip of a Sharpie comes from abroad -- it's made in Japan, according to the Wall Street Journal's Natasha Khan, who published an eye-opening article on the penmaker last week.
What makes Newell Brands, the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/07/why_sharpies_are_made_in_america_again_153371.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel McCarthy</author><category>Daniel McCarthy</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/07/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 04:49:57 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/698881_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Jason Miyares&#039; Race for Virginia Attorney General Just Got More Compelling]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ WINCHESTER, Virginia -- The one thing that has been consistent in covering Virginia's off-year statewide elections since as far back as the year Republicans George Allen and Jim Gilmore ran for governor and attorney general, respectively, in 1993 is that the races really don't start moving until September.
And when they do, they move fast.
Allen began that summer trailing badly in his race against Democrat Mary Sue Terry. Early polling showed her earning 56% support of Virginia's voters to Allen's 27%.
By September of that year, Allen had cut Terry's lead from 18 percentage points to 6,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/07/jason_miyares_race_for_virginia_attorney_general_just_got_more_compelling_153373.html</link>
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						<author>Salena Zito</author><category>Salena Zito</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/07/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 04:50:17 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/698883_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Spectrum Sale Enhances Economy and National Security]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ A great but unheralded feature of the One Big Beautiful Bill passed in July was an authorization for the Federal Communications Commission to raise $88 billion to $100 billion through electronic spectrum auctions.
Selling this additional 600 to 800 megahertz of bandwidth to the private sector will enable the U.S. to expand 5G and even 6G technology, ensuring American dominance in internet, artificial intelligence and satellite technologies.
President Donald Trump gets this, and earlier this year he posted on his Truth Social account that he supports freeing up "plenty of SPECTRUM for auction"...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/07/spectrum_sale_enhances_economy_and_national_security_153372.html</link>
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						<author>Stephen Moore</author><category>Stephen Moore</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/07/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 04:50:34 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/698882_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Pritzker&rsquo;s Gambit]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Maybe money can't buy happiness or wisdom, but it can help buy power.  JB Pritzker knows this better than most. Over the years, he has spent some $347 million of his own, largely inherited, wealth to acquire and hold on to the governorship of Illinois, the perch from which he aspires to national glory.
The Pritzker Project  proves the wisdom of the cynical parody of the Golden Rule: ("Whoever has the gold, makes the rules!") Pritzker's only rule when it comes to wielding his powerful purse is whether doing so serves his personal ambition. He's shameless about it, too, which is why he's not...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/06/pritzkers_gambit_153370.html</link>
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						<author>Richard Porter</author><category>Richard Porter</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/06/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 08:20:14 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/698796_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ If We Need a Shutdown, Here&rsquo;s Where To Start]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Shut it down. Shut it all down!
Not the government. I'm talking about the fake news that spent the past two weeks trying to scare average Americans into thinking that the Trump administration was coming after them - in particular by stripping them of their Obamacare subsidies.
At random, here's a quote to demonstrate, this one from John Berman on CNN:
"This morning with the government shutdown, there's a lot of finger-pointing going on. Democrats want to include an extension of Obamacare subsidies that expire at the end of the year. Republicans have refused to negotiate on subsidies unless...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/06/if_we_need_shutdown_heres_where_to_start_153368.html</link>
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						<author>Frank Miele</author><category>Frank Miele</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/06/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 08:17:55 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/698713_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Why Hakeem Jeffries Can&#039;t Fill a Little League Field]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ As Senate Democrats keep voting down the House Republicans' clean CR to keep the government open - the House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, couldn't even fill a little league baseball field for his YouTube livestream session.
It never drew more than a couple hundred viewers, watching party members ranting and raving over President Trump and the GOP.
Greg Gutfeld gets a bigger audience than Mr. Jeffries.
The round-the-clock telethon had to be ended before it was even halfway over.
Meanwhile, a rival White House feed was peaking at around 100,000 viewers.
Which reminds me, it's so...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/04/why_hakeem_jeffries_cant_fill_a_little_league_field_153367.html</link>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/04/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2025 08:24:54 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/698651_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Rethinking Economic Growth]]></title>
											<subtitle>REALCLEAR PUBLISHING</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The following is an excerpt from the forthcoming book, "Rethinking Economic Growth," by Dan Varroney.
The United States is the largest and most productive economy in the world, by a wide margin. But it could be so much better. I am reminded of Winston Churchill's comment that "it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." Ours is the worst economy except for all the rest. It is a generally accepted maxim that in order to remain healthy and vibrant, the US economy depends on an annual growth rate of 3...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/04/rethinking_economic_growth_153365.html</link>
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						<author>Dan Varroney</author><category>Dan Varroney</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/04/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2025 07:35:28 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/698673_1_.png" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Shutdown Budget: What&#039;s Nonessential, Stays Nonessential]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ What is it about this particular government shutdown that has generated so much press attention - both from the left and the right?
Normally, these shutdowns are kind of boring, short lived, and surely not as important or interesting as the baseball playoffs.
This time it's different.
What makes this shutdown so different - and so front and center - is the likelihood that President Trump and his budget director Russell Vought will use the shutdown to significantly downsize and reshape the entire federal government.
It could be the biggest remodeling of the federal budget in a hundred...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/03/shutdown_budget_whats_nonessential_stays_nonessential_153364.html</link>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/03/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 06:31:20 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/698637_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Progressive Flight From Reality]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Progressivism isn't just an ideology; it's also becoming a mental health condition.
Spiraling past the tendentious spin and lies that have long shaped American discourse on both sides of the aisle, the loudest voices on the left are losing the capacity to grasp reality. As a character in a recent Wall Street Journal cartoon put it: "You've got it all wrong. What I'm saying isn't misinformation. It's denial."
Take Illinois Governor JB Pritzker's recent denunciation of "White House senior aides" for "sowing fear, intimidation and division" by, among other things, calling Democrats "fascists."...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/03/the_progressive_flight_from_reality_153363.html</link>
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						<author>J. Peder Zane</author><category>J. Peder Zane</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/03/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 15:51:27 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/698626_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ If Mamdani Wins, the Gig (Work) Is Up]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ One of Zohran Mamdani's most harmful proposals is getting the least attention: his plan to restrict "gig" work - the freelancing that's so popular across the Big Apple. Mamdani wants to wrap freelancing in so much red tape, it'll be significantly harder for New Yorkers to work for themselves or get side income.
New Jersey, too, is flirting with severely limiting independent work. But whether it comes from Gracie Mansion or Trenton, a crackdown on gig work would hurt not just workers and those who hire them, but every New Yorker or New Jerseyan who relies on freelance workers in their daily...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/03/if_mamdani_wins_the_gig_work_is_up_153357.html</link>
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						<author>Jonathan Wolfson</author><category>Jonathan Wolfson</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/03/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 06:32:31 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/698600_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ From the League of Nations to the United Nations to Trump Global?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Historians traditionally blame the failure of the League of Nations--the post-World War I, Versailles-era dream of President Woodrow Wilson--on many things.
Its membership was small (58 nations). The League's utopian rhetoric lacked commensurate force.
The postwar ascendant United States refused to join.
The winners of World War I, like France and Britain, were terrified of rearming, while the losers, such as Germany and Austria, were eager to.
Consequently, the League in the mid-1930s allowed fascist powers to make a mockery of the Versailles Treaty. It could never even enforce its own...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/03/from_the_league_of_nations_to_the_united_nations_to_trump_global_153361.html</link>
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						<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author><category>Victor Davis Hanson</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/03/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 06:31:57 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/698621_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Donald Trump: Energy in the Executive]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Whatever else you want to say about him, President Donald Trump has what Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 70 called "energy in the executive." Announcing a peace plan for Israel and Hamas, ordering the dispatch of federal troops to protect immigration enforcement personnel in "sanctuary" states, authorizing his budget director to use reorganization powers available after Senate Democrats shut down the government, and announcing a pediatric cancer initiative.
No one can seriously argue that this is a passive presidency, though some may say that Trump is not promoting "the steady...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/03/donald_trump_energy_in_the_executive_153362.html</link>
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						<author>Michael Barone</author><category>Michael Barone</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/03/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 06:33:06 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/698624_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ In Every Government Shutdown, the Media Are Eager Democrat Helpers]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ If the national media can be counted on to spin anything dramatically toward the Democrats, it's a government shutdown. They feel passionately that the Democrats are the Party of Government, and the Republicans are the Haters of Government, so who naturally favors shutting it all down?
Even before the shutdown occurred, NPR and PBS issued their poll warning Republicans would get more of the blame than Democrats. That's why those partisan hacks deserved defunding. A substantial minority would blame both parties, because the independents told NPR, "They're just fighting like two little...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/03/in_every_government_shutdown_the_media_are_eager_democrat_helpers_153358.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/03/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 06:32:49 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/698620_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Obamacare Is a Massive Failure. The GOP Shouldn&#039;t Bail It Out]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Since Democrats have shut down the federal government because they want another $1.5 trillion bailout of Obamacare, it's a good time to remind everyone that the law has been a wide-ranging and expensive fiasco.
Virtually every promise made by Democrats regarding the Affordable Care Act has failed to come true.
Sure, Barack Obama infamously promised that Americans could keep their preferred insurance if they desired. By the end of his second term, around 7 million people had been booted from their insurance because of the Affordable Care Act. Who knows how many have been dropped since.
But...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/03/obamacare_is_a_massive_failure_the_gop_shouldnt_bail_it_out_153360.html</link>
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						<author>David Harsanyi</author><category>David Harsanyi</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/03/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 06:32:13 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/48/483294_1_.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Why Democrats&#039; Ridiculous Demands Won&#039;t Work]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Nobody is thrilled about government shutdowns.
They're disruptive, acrimonious, disorderly, and they get far more public attention than they merit.
There's no economic or stock market impact. In fact, we saw markets hit record highs yet again today.
Shutdowns don't affect essential programs - like Social Security, or Medicare, or veterans' benefits, or military operations.
But we have a shutdown. And I'm going to say: This shutdown provides an opportunity to reduce the size and scope of government.
And when that door opens, it's important to walk through it.
What's more, the quarterback of...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/02/why_democrats_ridiculous_demands_wont_work_153354.html</link>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/02/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2025 06:38:22 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/698528_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump&rsquo;s Movie Tariff Is Self-Sabotage]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ In yet another late-night proclamation on Truth Social, Donald Trump announced his intent to follow through on a 100% tariff on films produced outside the United States. Wall Street's entertainment stocks took a dip as soon as the market opened, a bad start to the week for Netflix, Disney, Warner Bros., and Paramount. Trump likened film shoots abroad to "stealing candy from a baby," in this case, referring to California Gov. Newsom. Maybe this "candy" should be stolen. 
President Trump's special talent is picking fights with Democrats that are utterly toxic for his opponents, and whether it...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/02/trumps_movie_tariff_is_self-sabotage_153350.html</link>
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						<author>Stephen Kent</author><category>Stephen Kent</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/02/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2025 06:38:40 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/698467_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ 2 Years Later, &#039;Much of the World No Longer Remembers Oct. 7&#039;]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- The brutal Hamas-led attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, left some 1,200 dead. I never would have predicted that, two years later, Hamas would continue to imprison hostages, refuse to release the bodies of dead detainees and still be rewarded with increasing recognition of a Palestinian state.
Terrorists proudly documented their brutality for the world to see.
"The astonishing fact was that at more than thirty locations, more than 3,000 Hamas fighters, along with numerous Palestinian civilians, had broken through the fence between Israel and Gaza," Fox News Chief Foreign...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/02/2_years_later_much_of_the_world_no_longer_remembers_oct_7_153353.html</link>
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						<author>Debra Saunders</author><category>Debra Saunders</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/02/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2025 06:39:01 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/66/665380_1_.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Is All Politics Really Local in California&rsquo;s Redistricting Test?]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ California is about to test whether two timeworn political maxims still ring true in 2025.
The first is the tried-and-true "All politics is local," a phrase dating as far back as 1932 and most closely associated to former House Speaker Tip O'Neill. The second, known as "Fenno's paradox," goes something like this: People generally disapprove of Congress as a whole but often support - even have great affinity for - their own member of Congress.
If all politics really is local even in the big state of California, and most voters want to keep the congressmen or women they already have, then the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/01/is_all_politics_really_local_in_californias_redistricting_test__153349.html</link>
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						<author>Susan Crabtree</author><category>Susan Crabtree</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/01/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 08:47:38 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/698446_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump Is Most Successful President in the Courts in Generations]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ As the United States Supreme Court gears up to begin its next term, it's important to remember that President Trump is on a winning streak the likes of which we haven't seen in generations.
In fact, while the legacy media idolize rogue judges who throw up roadblocks to President Trump's agenda at every turn and amplify perceived losses, what they don't want you to realize is that when the dust settles, Trump wins most of the time on the ultimate decision.
And remember, we're only nine months in.
As the 2025-26 term begins, it is important to remember that the 2024-25 Supreme Court term was...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/01/trump_is_most_successful_president_in_the_courts_in_generations_153344.html</link>
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						<author>Michael Thielen</author><category>Michael Thielen</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/01/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 06:47:04 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/68/688446_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Banality of Blaming the Jews]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Charlie Kirk's tragic assassination should have made one man the obvious object of outrage: Tyler Robinson, the Utah student accused of pulling the trigger. Yet in the days since, some prominent activists have trained their rage to an ancient scapegoat long accused of orchestrating the world's woes - the Jews.
Conspiracies alleging that Jews were somehow culpable for Mr. Kirk's killing have been all the rage online. Posts on social media condemning the Jews or Israel routinely eclipse tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of likes. Figures such as Ian Carroll, Candace Owens, Tucker...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/01/the_banality_of_blaming_the_jews_153343.html</link>
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						<author>Garion Frankel</author><category>Garion Frankel</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/01/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 04:42:35 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/698376_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ How To Broker a Gerrymandering Ceasefire]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The United States is in the middle of another round of the redistricting wars. 
This latest battle began in late August. The Texas legislature approved maps that will likely result in five additional Republicans being elected to Congress. In response, the California legislature passed a plan that would likely result in five Republicans being replaced with Democrats. The California plan is subject to voter approval in November.
Those appear to be just the opening salvos in the mid-decade redistricting fight, as other states look to jump into the fray. 
It is time for a ceasefire.
But how?
Many...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/01/how_to_broker_a_gerrymandering_ceasefire_153348.html</link>
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						<author>Andy Jackson</author><category>Andy Jackson</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/01/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 04:42:00 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/695290_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Genocide Against Christians? That&#039;s Not News]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ As we approach the second anniversary of Hamas mercilessly slaughtering 1,200 human beings on Oct. 7, 2023, our media remind us daily of the death toll of Palestinians, according to the "Gaza Health Ministry," which is run by Hamas.
It's outrageous that these media outlets are such receptive publicists for mass-murdering terrorists. But they have effectively reversed the polarity, and the people of Israel are painted as the most horrible ghouls on Earth.
On the latest "Real Time with Bill Maher," the stridently atheist host said something surprising. "I'm not a Christian, but they are...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/01/genocide_against_christians_thats_not_news_153346.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/01/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 04:42:53 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/691046_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Charlie Kirk and the State of Our Nation]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ The nation is rightly traumatized by the horrible assassination of Charlie Kirk.
The media is filled, also rightly, with give and take trying to understand what can and should be done so that we don't see more of the same.
But unfortunately, much of the expression that I hear is informed by the same misguided sense of right and wrong that brought to fruition the horrible act.
That is -- who do we blame?
Homicide is unfortunately not so exceptional in our country. Among industrialized nations, the U.S. homicide rate, hovering around 6 per 100,000, is among the highest.
Somehow it seems to...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/01/charlie_kirk_and_the_state_of_our_nation_153347.html</link>
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						<author>Star Parker</author><category>Star Parker</category><pubdate>2025/10</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>10/01/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 04:42:19 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/697030_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ &lsquo;Their Sins Are Forgiven&rsquo;: Trump Claims He Has Deal With Harvard]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ The defining battle in his crusade against higher education will soon be over, President Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, announcing, seemingly offhand, that a deal with Harvard University had been reached.
"All you have to do is paper it, right, Linda?" the president said as he turned to his education secretary, Linda McMahon. "Yes, sir," she replied. Once the agreement is finalized, the president said, "then their sins are forgiven."
The announcement came during an unrelated event at the White House on Tuesday concerning advancements in the treatment of pediatric cancer. Details are...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/30/their_sins_are_forgiven_trump_claims_he_has_deal_with_harvard___153345.html</link>
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						<author>Philip Wegmann</author><category>Philip Wegmann</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/30/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 17:18:42 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/698405_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump Is Right: Tech Visas Are Raw Deal for U.S. Workers]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The time has come to praise Donald Trump. Let's savor the moment.
The president is right to challenge the tech worker visa known as H-1B. This is a temporary visa that lets American companies hire skilled foreign workers in "specialty occupations."
The visa's fans offer a mirror image, with a twist, of the popular argument that low-skilled immigrants do jobs Americans won't do. They say that the H-1B program provides workers for jobs that Americans can't do.
Consider, however, the employers' extra incentive of paying holders of the H-1B visas less than the "prevailing wage" for Americans with...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/30/trump_is_right_tech_visas_are_raw_deal_for_us_workers_153342.html</link>
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						<author>Froma Harrop</author><category>Froma Harrop</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/30/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 06:05:20 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/697177_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ We Are Not OK, but There Is Hope]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The sign outside the little Baptist congregation in Sewickley read simply: "In Memory of Charlie Kirk 1993-2025." It was one of dozens of images on Facebook feeds showing houses of worship honoring Kirk since he was murdered while speaking at Utah Valley University.
On the steps of the Pittsburgh City-County building on Grant Street in the center of the city, hundreds graced the portico, joining in prayer and remembrance. Over in Harrison City in Westmoreland County, the next evening, hundreds parked their cars at Nicassio Fields and filled the building. All joined in prayer for unity.
Not...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/30/we_are_not_ok_but_there_is_hope_153339.html</link>
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						<author>Salena Zito</author><category>Salena Zito</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/30/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 06:05:28 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/55/558432_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Assata Shakur and Other Parents of Political Violence]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ As the Trump administration takes on the latest wave of left-wing violence, an obituary reminds us what happens when political killers get away with their crimes.
The law never caught up with Joanne Chesimard, aka Assata Shakur.
She died last Thursday, age 78, an honored guest of Cuba's Communist regime -- and honored, disgracefully, by tenured radicals in America's universities, too.
Professors have placed the convicted murderer on lists of "African-American heroes" and present her as a model for activism.
Stanford University's dean of students, Mona Hicks, quoted a "loving refrain from...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/30/assata_shakur_and_other_parents_of_political_violence_153340.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel McCarthy</author><category>Daniel McCarthy</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/30/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 06:05:46 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/698332_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Why Victorious Ideas Don&#039;t Always Win]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Winning the war of ideas isn't enough.
Consider government-sanctioned racial discrimination. There's a reason the left hides behind acronyms like DEI. Judging people on their skin color, not their character, remains unpopular. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits racial discrimination in employment and education. In 2023, the Supreme Court even struck down affirmative action in higher education admissions. Both in 1996 and 2020, California -- yes, California -- rejected affirmative action in public university admissions.
Here's an idea that has been thoroughly defeated among the public, at...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/30/why_victorious_ideas_dont_always_win_153341.html</link>
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						<author>Victor Joecks</author><category>Victor Joecks</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/30/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 06:05:58 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/698182_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Case for a Citizen-Only Census]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Who is the census for? Or more importantly, who does Congress represent? If you answered "U.S. citizens," you're correct - or at least you should be.
At the start of each decade, the federal government tallies who's living in the country and where, citizens and non-citizens alike. That census data determines how many seats in the House of Representatives each state receives, as well as its share of Electoral College votes for president. This whole process is mandated by Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution, the part most focused on proper representation.
But representation for whom? Since...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/29/the_case_for_a_citizen-only_census_153338.html</link>
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						<author>Hayden Ludwig</author><category>Hayden Ludwig</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/29/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2025 13:40:44 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/66/663456_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Democrats&#039; Hopeless Budget Situation]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Elon Musk is going to rejoice next week when President Trump's budget director, Russ Vought, unleashes his secret shutdown weapon.
A former House speaker, Newt Gingrich, talked about it last night: "Look, I think that the Democrats are in a hopeless situation. And I've been looking at people like Congresswoman Spanberger, who's running for governor in Virginia. How can she vote against keeping the government open when it is her constituents in Northern Virginia who are going to bear the brunt of any government shutdown?"
What's Mr. Vought's secret weapon? He is ordering all government...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/27/democrats_hopeless_budget_situation_153336.html</link>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/27/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2025 07:02:10 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/698122_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Crudity of the Obsessive-Compulsive Left]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ President Donald Trump just visited the United Nations to offer a customary annual presidential address.
Before he arrived, there were reports that UN staffers had joked about shutting down the escalator to chastise Trump for cutting out aid to some UN programs.
Upon arrival, as if on cue, Trump was met by a series of mysterious coincidences.
As soon as he and First Lady Melania mounted the escalator, it suddenly froze-- forcing them to walk up.
Other escalators worked fine. Shortly afterward, the supposedly broken escalator was just as mysteriously running again.
When Trump went to the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/26/the_crudity_of_the_obsessive-compulsive_left_153330.html</link>
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						<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author><category>Victor Davis Hanson</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/26/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 06:18:26 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/695268_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Folly of &#039;Palestinian&#039; Statehood]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Four of America's nominally closest allies -- Britain, Australia, France and Canada -- disgraced themselves this week by recognizing a so-called Palestinian state. In so doing, these nations didn't merely betray the broader Western civilizational inheritance to which they lay claim. They also rewarded terrorism, strengthened the genocidal ambitions of the global jihad, and sent a bona fide chilling message: The path to international legitimacy runs not through the difficult work of building up a nation-state and engaging in subsequent diplomacy, but through mass murder, the weaponization of...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/26/the_folly_of_palestinian_statehood_153333.html</link>
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						<author>Josh Hammer</author><category>Josh Hammer</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/26/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 06:18:44 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/698059_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Democratic Party Isolation Is Getting Worse]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ We Americans, it seems, continue to live in two separate countries. Consider two items in the news this week and the inconsistent responses they evoked.
One was the conviction in Florida of Ryan Routh, the second man who attempted to assassinate then-candidate Donald Trump in mid-September 2024. The news appeared on page A24 of the print edition of The New York Times.
Very different treatment was accorded to the return of Jimmy Kimmel, the third-highest-rated of the three broadcast network late-night show hosts, from the suspension imposed on him last week.
That action was prompted by...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/26/democratic_party_isolation_is_getting_worse_153331.html</link>
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						<author>Michael Barone</author><category>Michael Barone</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/26/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 06:19:01 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/697638_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ We Arrive at My Fear]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ A philosophical festering has taken root in the minds of the left that their opponents are evil, and words are violence. A permission structure formed on MSNBC and other progressive media outlets that the right must be stopped to save democracy. An exculpatory structure formed on CNN and other media outlets downplaying or excusing progressive violence. A triggering event happened with the election of President Donald Trump. Then progressive politicians amped up the rhetoric to push the disturbed and violent across the line.
Writing in The New York Times in 2017, the psychologist Lisa Feldman...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/26/we_arrive_at_my_fear_153332.html</link>
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						<author>Erick Erickson</author><category>Erick Erickson</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/26/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 06:19:19 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/698046_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ How Can We Expect Immigrants To Embrace American Values if We Don&#039;t?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ In addition to demonstrating a basic handling of speaking, reading and writing in English, federal immigration law requires prospective citizens to understand "the fundamentals of the history, and of the principles and form of government, of the United States."
Do they? According to studies, over 40% of new immigrants aren't proficient in even the most basic English, and many can't speak it at all.
For years, the citizenship exam consisted of 100 questions, given to the applicants in advance, most of which were extraordinarily basic. An immigrant is only required to answer six of 10 questions...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/26/how_can_we_expect_immigrants_to_embrace_american_values_if_we_dont_153329.html</link>
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						<author>David Harsanyi</author><category>David Harsanyi</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/26/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 06:19:37 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/698044_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Ending Biden&#039;s ObamaCare Subsidies Won&#039;t Hurt Republicans]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ It's a powerful argument: Republican-led cuts to government handouts will endanger the party's congressional majorities.
The claim nearly derailed President Trump's Medicaid reforms in the spring. Now a slew of organizations are promoting polls and running ads making the same argument about the expiration of Joe Biden's expanded ObamaCare subsidies at the end of the year. Some Republicans are wondering if they should vote to keep the subsidies before the Sept. 30 budget deadline. As for Medicaid, some Republicans are trying to repeal the reforms they just passed.
But the argument is hogwash,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/25/ending_bidens_obamacare_subsidies_wont_hurt_republicans.html</link>
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						<author>Tarren Bragdon</author><category>Tarren Bragdon</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/25/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 06:11:15 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/697899_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump Targets UN -- Like Shooting Fish in a Barrel]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- The escalator stopped working as President Donald Trump and the first lady entered the United Nations on Tuesday. Then, as Trump began to deliver his speech to the General Assembly, the teleprompter didn't work.
Whether the glitches were engineered or not, Trump saw the stumbles as proof that the U.N. is not up to his standards. They also served as permission structures for Trump to ask what he no doubt planned to ask: "What is the purpose of the United Nations?"
"All they seem to do is write a really strongly worded letter -- and then never follow that letter up," Trump told...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/25/trump_targets_un_--_like_shooting_fish_in_a_barrel_153328.html</link>
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						<author>Debra Saunders</author><category>Debra Saunders</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/25/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 06:11:36 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/697945_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ New Semester for Higher Education &ndash; And Reason for Hope]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ We are on the cusp of a new academic year amidst a tempestuous time on university campuses and an uncertain moment in world affairs. Yet as I assess the state of our campus, curriculum, and faculty, and meet some of the 1,000 new students who just arrived on our Malibu campus overlooking the Pacific, I can't help but be optimistic. Something special is happening at schools like Pepperdine - something that gives me confidence for the future, not only for our campus, but of our society as a whole. Truly, it's an exciting week to be a college president.
The American Founders saw that freedom,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/24/new_semester_for_higher_education__and_reason_for_hope_153314.html</link>
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						<author>Jim Gash</author><category>Jim Gash</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/24/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:41:30 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/697910_1_.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ &#039;Fact-Checkers&#039; Pounce on Trump, Skip Over Kamala]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ President Donald Trump's address to the United Nations General Assembly was the latest example of how our "independent fact-checkers" are better defined as Democrat-dependent messaging machines. Their selection bias is transparent.
PolitiFact was live-blogging and throwing "Pants on Fire" rulings on their X account. For example, Trump claimed we were losing 300,000 Americans to fentanyl, which is exaggerated. Trump can't say grocery prices are down. They're up 2.7% in 2025.
CNN's Daniel Dale was on speed dial from Canada for a televised pounce. Like the other "independents," Dale couldn't...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/24/fact-checkers_pounce_on_trump_skip_over_kamala_153324.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/24/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 05:40:12 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/696745_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ New Yorkers Can&#039;t Afford Mamdani&#039;s Climate Dreams]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Climate activists from all over are pouring into Gotham for Climate Week. They are abuzz over the likelihood of electing a climate mayor -- Zohran Mamdani. Some sipped cocktails at a fundraiser Wednesday night to benefit several climate groups and a newly launched PAC backing Mamdani called New Yorkers for Lower Costs.
That name -- New Yorkers for Lower Costs -- is a lie. Plain and simple. The massive decarbonization Mamdani advocates will raise energy costs, not lower them, for businesses, homeowners and renters. Switching to nonpolluting energy sources may be worthwhile, but people deserve...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/24/new_yorkers_cant_afford_mamdanis_climate_dreams_153325.html</link>
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						<author>Betsy McCaughey</author><category>Betsy McCaughey</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/24/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 05:39:56 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/697054_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Will High Court Take a Look at FBI&#039;s Role in Whitmer Kidnapping Case?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's assassination, the media and Democratic Party politicians have pointed to the 2020 scheme to abduct and assassinate Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer as evidence that political violence comes from both sides of the political spectrum.
News organizations routinely cite the plot in a timeline of recent incidents of political violence in this country; Whitmer herself mentioned the plan to "kidnap and kill me" in a video message posted on X last week while condemning Kirk's murder.
But the two examples aren't comparable, and not only because Gretchen Whitmer was...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/23/will_high_court_take_a_look_at_fbis_role_in_whitmer_kidnapping_case.html</link>
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						<author>Julie Kelly</author><category>Julie Kelly</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/23/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 06:35:23 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/63/637147_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The American City Cannot Blossom in Lawlessness]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Last month, 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska was savagely stabbed to death by another passenger on the Charlotte, North Carolina, light rail line. Based on security footage of the act, officials have arrested and charged Decarlos Brown Jr. for the crime.
Due to increasingly lax criminal justice policies and failure to address public disorder, American cities are failing to keep residents safe and make metropolitan living broadly desirable. America is the wealthiest nation in history - our cities should be beacons of innovation, creativity, and human potential. And while most of...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/23/the_american_city_cannot_blossom_in_lawlessness_153321.html</link>
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						<author>Ed Tarnowski</author><category>Ed Tarnowski</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/23/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:00:28 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/697768_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Left&#039;s Triple Threat to Free Speech]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Jimmy Kimmel's return to the nation's airwaves is proof of just how unseriously left-wing violence is taken by the liberal media.
If Johnny Carson had gone on air after the murder of John F. Kennedy and said, "We hit some new lows this weekend with the Democrat gang trying to characterize this kid who killed President Kennedy as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it," what would his network have done?
Kimmel is a hater and a purveyor of disinformation, but he's able to get away with saying that about "the MAGA gang" because his bosses...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/23/the_lefts_triple_threat_to_free_speech_153318.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel McCarthy</author><category>Daniel McCarthy</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/23/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 11:47:12 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/697638_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ How Many Immigrants Have Left the Country?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ About a month ago, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem held a press conference to announce that about "1.6 million illegal immigrants have left the United States population."
That's a fraction of the number of people who arrived in the years that the Biden administration essentially opened the border. But it's a lot of people, and it engendered much eye-rolling among journalists who compared Noem's claim to Attorney General Pam Bondi's declaration that President Trump's drug interdiction policies had saved 258 million lives, roughly 75% of the U.S. total population.
However,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/23/how_many_immigrants_have_left_country_153315.html</link>
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						<author>Bill King</author><category>Bill King</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/23/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 06:35:55 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/697673_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Jerome Powell&#039;s Reign of Error]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ It's hard to believe that a couple years ago Time magazine considered naming Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell as their Person of the Year. He may well have won, if it hadn't been for someone named Taylor Swift.
Powell has been idolized by the Left for one reason: He's been a thorn in the side of President Donald Trump for years. If Trump says "ying," Powell says "yang."
Last week Powell finally lowered the federal funds rate, and better late than never. But his speech to the media was a tirade against Trumponomics. He was filled with doom and gloom in his statement, telling global...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/23/jerome_powells_reign_of_error.html</link>
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						<author>Stephen Moore</author><category>Stephen Moore</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/23/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 06:36:15 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/697725_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Awakening Few See Coming]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ PITTSBURGH -- If you were looking for young people distraught over Sept. 10's brutal assassination of Charlie Kirk here, you were looking in the wrong place.
They went to The Sanctuary church by the busloads. Even Pastor Jason Howard was taken aback by the size and scope of the number of young people who came out on Sunday, Sept. 14, for service.
"I'll be honest with you, I am in my forties, so I was caught off guard by the response from people who are in my church in their twenties. They were much more in tune with Charlie's influence than I was," he explained.
But his assistant pastor, Cole...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/23/the_awakening_few_see_coming_153319.html</link>
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						<author>Salena Zito</author><category>Salena Zito</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/23/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 06:36:25 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/55/558432_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Kirk&#039;s Assassination and the Left&#039;s Elitist Condescension]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ There is no equivalency between the propensity of the left and right to commit, endorse, justify, glorify, and cover up political violence.
In April, the non-partisan Network Contagion Research Institute at Rutgers University issued "Assassination Culture," which explained that based on extensive polling and analysis, "tolerance - and even advocacy - for political violence appears to have surged, especially among politically left-leaning segments of the population.... [W]idespread justiﬁcation for lethal violence - including assassination - among younger, highly online, and ideologically...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/23/kirks_assassination_and_the_lefts_elitist_condescension.html</link>
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						<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author><category>Kenin M. Spivak</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/23/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 10:38:46 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/697663_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Let&rsquo;s Respond to Kirk&rsquo;s Murder by Listening as Well as Speaking]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Last week, after a couple of local public school teachers were suspended for speaking ill of Charlie Kirk on social media, the University of Missouri warned the school's nearly 10,000 employees in a be-afraid-be-very-afraid email to mind what they say, and not only on the job or online, either. Any speech that winds up causing significant "workplace disharmony" or "impaired working relationships," President Mun Choi wrote, "can be a basis for discipline or termination."
Okay, only can you think of any substantive opinion at all that might not at least conceivably lead to "workplace...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/23/lets_respond_to_kirks_murder_listening_as_well_as_speaking_153320.html</link>
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						<author>Melinda Henneberger</author><category>Melinda Henneberger</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/23/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 09:07:38 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/697748_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ King of Denmark]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ You'd think being president of the United States and commander in chief of the nation's armed forces would be enough of a job for anyone. But no, Donald J. Trump spent Monday in his newest self-appointed role - as America's top medical expert. He didn't sound, though, like any physician I've ever met.
"So, taking Tylenol is not good, alright? I'll say it: It's not good," Trump said. "For this reason, they are strongly recommending that women limit Tylenol use during pregnancy unless medically necessary."
That word "they" was a term of art, as the president cited no studies. He then pivoted to...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/23/king_of_denmark_153322.html</link>
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						<author>Carl M. Cannon</author><category>Carl M. Cannon</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/23/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ What Would Charlie Do? The Path Forward After Darkness]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ President Trump wrapped up his speech at Charlie Kirk's memorial by embracing Kirk's widow Erika.
It was a moment of paternal tenderness after Trump vacillated between extolling Kirk as a "martyr for American freedom" and not so subtly suggesting he and his administration would avenge the murder.
In his 42 minutes of wide-ranging remarks, the president described Kirk, who mobilized the youth vote and is credited with helping deliver the electoral victory for Trump, as a "giver much more than a taker" and "master builder of people."
But Trump also embodied the conflicting spectrum of emotions...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/22/what_would_charlie_do_the_path_forward_after_darkness_153312.html</link>
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						<author>Susan Crabtree</author><category>Susan Crabtree</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/22/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 06:11:43 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/697602_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Iryna Zarutska and the Consequences of the DEI Agenda]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ On August 22, 2025, Iryna Zarutska, a young white woman who recently fled Ukraine, was brutally murdered in North Carolina by a black man, Decarlos Brown, who celebrated and declared, "I got that white girl," before Zarutska's blood had a chance to turn cold.
Incredibly, Zarutska's slaying initially received almost no media coverage and remained unaddressed by virtually every left-wing political actor. In fact, various notable media outlets, such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, and CNN, all refused to discuss Zarutska's murder entirely. 
Unfortunately,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/22/iryna_zarutska_and_the_consequences_of_the_dei_agenda.html</link>
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						<author>William Barclay</author><category>William Barclay</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/22/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 13:44:30 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/697535_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Charlie Kirk Is Dead. Long Live Charlie Kirk]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The assassin who took Charlie Kirk's life on Sept. 10 may have thought he could kill Kirk's ideas with the same bullet that he used to steal the lifeblood from the conservative icon, but he was wrong.
The outpouring not just of grief but of fellowship that followed the assassination has shown that people who are vessels for an ideal continue to pour forth inspiration even when the vessel is shattered.
No one under the age of 60 can properly remember the events of 1968, but I was 12 years old that spring when two other icons were brought down by assassins' bullets, and I vividly recall the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/21/charlie_kirk_is_dead_long_live_charlie_kirk_153300.html</link>
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						<author>Frank Miele</author><category>Frank Miele</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/21/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2025 06:38:37 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/697356_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Explaining Israel: The Jewish State, the Middle East, and America]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ This is the Introduction to "Explaining Israel: The Jewish State, the Middle East, and America," by Peter Berkowitz. The book will be released by RealClear Publishing on Sept. 23, 2025.
 
Introduction
In 2014 Israel's future had never seemed brighter. Led by the high-tech sector, the economy was booming. The Israel Defense Forces-with advanced weapons, an outstanding air force, sophisticated intelligence capabilities, and cybersecurity prowess-gave the Jewish state the most powerful military in the Middle East. While not producing warm relations and bustling commerce, treaties with Egypt...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/21/explaining_israel_the_jewish_states_the_middle_east_and_america_153302.html</link>
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						<author>Peter Berkowitz</author><category>Peter Berkowitz</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/21/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2025 07:15:56 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/697418_1_.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Generic Ballot Tracking Poll: Republicans Narrow Dems&rsquo; Lead]]></title>
											<subtitle>ANALYSIS</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ As four of the nation's most accurate pollsters, we recently formed the National Association of Independent Pollsters. The four founding member organizations participated in a joint national survey of likely voters, asking which party they prefer in next year's midterm elections.
Our association will be announcing new members next week. Meanwhile, the four founding firms each surveyed the exact same questions nationwide. Results were combined and then weighted.
The national survey included 2,071 likely voters. It was conducted Sept. 6-13, 2025. The margin of error is plus or minus 2%.
The two...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/19/generic_ballot_tracking_poll_republicans_narrow_dems_lead.html</link>
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						<author>Mark Mitchell &amp; Matt Towery &amp; Robert Cahaly &amp; Rich Baris</author><category>Mark Mitchell &amp; Matt Towery &amp; Robert Cahaly &amp; Rich Baris</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/19/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 06:17:28 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/697419_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Lefty Lower Court Judges Clogging Up the Schedule]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Lower court judges persist in trying to block President Trump's agenda.
The fact that Mr. Trump was overwhelmingly elected by the voters, including in the popular vote and all the swing states, seems to have escaped these various judges on the judicial appeals ladder.  
And even the Supremes weren't elected by the voters.
But the president was.
Mr. Trump has won a few big ones in the courts - on immigration, reducing the federal work force, and firing various Biden commissioners and appointees.
It's a pity the Supremes had to step in and rule on all of these. Essentially, they were...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/19/lefty_lower_court_judges_clogging_up_the_schedule_153309.html</link>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/19/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 06:17:10 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/68/687922_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Left Is Working Hard To Hide the Truth and Create Fantasies]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Just days after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the left is working overtime to hide the truth and create fantasies about his death.
Specifically, leftists alleged that conservatives were going to "pounce" on the death to wage protests and boost radical agendas in the manner of what followed George Floyd's death.
Here are some of the lies that such a ridiculous narrative entails:
One, Charlie Kirk is not conservatives' George Floyd. There were no mass riots after his death of the sort that followed Floyd's demise.
Floyd's death was used by the left to justify five months of rioting, arson,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/19/the_left_is_working_hard_to_hide_the_truth_and_create_fantasies.html</link>
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						<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author><category>Victor Davis Hanson</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/19/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 06:16:43 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/697356_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Understanding and Saving Gen Z To Save America]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Generation Z, those born between 1997 and 2012, stands as a profoundly damaged cohort, scarred by ideological indoctrination, social media's corrosive grip, marginalization of morality anchors like religion and families, and a narcissistic culture that breeds entitlement. Gen Z's alarming psychological fragility - hypersensitivity to "microaggressions," equating words with violence, and an obsession with censoring "misinformation" - amplifies their vulnerability to a perverse rationale for violence. This was starkly illustrated by the assassination of Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10, 2025, at Utah...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/19/understanding_and_saving_gen_z_to_save_america_153299.html</link>
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						<author>Scott W. Atlas</author><category>Scott W. Atlas</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/19/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 06:16:24 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/697392_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ What Kind of China Trade Deal Will Trump Negotiate?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ After eight months in office, almost all of the Trump administration's aggressive trade agenda has come into focus.
Sectoral tariffs have been applied to industries deemed important to national security. A fresh review of the USMCA, negotiated and signed during President Trump's first term, has been announced. And while lots will hinge on the outcome of a U.S. Supreme Court review of their legality, the president has used "reciprocal" tariffs to trigger trade talks and higher rates with almost every major trade partner.
But the biggest trade question remains unanswered: How will the second...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/19/what_kind_of_china_trade_deal_will_trump_negotiate_153301.html</link>
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						<author>Scott Paul</author><category>Scott Paul</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/19/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 06:17:46 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/697412_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Fear, Dread and How America Got to This Point]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ A week before Charlie Kirk's murder, some friends and I were trying to identify the seminal events that have shaped this American century. We all lead happy lives, but the incidents we listed told a story of fear and dread.
We immediately mentioned 9/11 and the economic collapse of 2008, both of which galvanized an aching sense of vulnerability. If JFK's assassination marked the loss of American innocence, those events symbolized the withering sense of safety and security.
We agreed that the Iraq War and COVID-19 intensified the growing belief that our government was not only incompetent but...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/19/fear_dread_and_how_america_got_to_this_point.html</link>
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						<author>J. Peder Zane</author><category>J. Peder Zane</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/19/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 13:30:11 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/697438_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Desecrating Charlie Kirk&#039;s Memory Could Implode MAGA]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Is it really too much to ask that a murdered young man be given the dignity of a proper burial before bad-faith opportunists attempt to posthumously rewrite his legacy to better serve their own nefarious ends? Is it really too much to ask that a murdered young man's family and friends -- to say nothing of the countless individuals whose lives the young man touched and inspired -- be allowed to mourn in peace, without having to fend off charlatans seeking to hijack his memory to advance their pet crusades?
Apparently, the answer is: Yes, it is.
The body of my friend Charlie Kirk, who was...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/19/desecrating_charlie_kirks_memory_could_implode_maga.html</link>
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						<author>Josh Hammer</author><category>Josh Hammer</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/19/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 06:48:31 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/67/673163_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ ABC Has Enough of Jimmy Kimmel&#039;s &#039;Comedy&#039;]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ ABC stunned the media world on Wednesday by announcing they were suspending "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" indefinitely after several ABC station groups withdrew their support for the show. It was a similar shock to CBS setting a cancellation date for "Late Show with Stephen Colbert."
The Left went into conniption fits, grieving both festivals of partisan propaganda. We heard a thousand cries of the "First Amendment" being despoiled and the old reliable screech about President Donald Trump's "authoritarian playbook." ABC's George Stephanopoulos mourned the assault on "independent media," and he's the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/19/abc_has_enough_of_jimmy_kimmels_comedy_153306.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/19/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 06:15:50 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/697429_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Powell&#039;s Mismanagement of the Fed Is Beyond the Pale]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Quite apart from the Fed's rather dovish interest rate cuts - they're signaling two more quarter point drops after today's move - one of the things that struck me about today's announcement is how much the central bank apparently opposes President Trump's pro-growth economic policies.
Mr. Trump's supply-side tax cuts and deregulation moves are going to boost economic growth while keeping prices low.
Already, second-quarter gross domestic product growth has come in at 3.3 percent and the Atlanta Fed's GDPNow is projecting another 3.3 percent in the third quarter.
There's a business and factory...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/18/powells_mismanagement_of_the_fed_is_beyond_the_pale_153297.html</link>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/18/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 05:05:21 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/697336_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Charlie Kirk Showed American Youth How to Be Conservative on Campus]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- "When people stop talking, that's when you get violence. That's when civil war happens because you start to think the other side is so evil and they lose their humanity."
Charlie Kirk said that. I'm not sure when. It was a remark Vice President JD Vance aired during a two-hour tribute to the slain conservative icon on Rumble Monday following Kirk's assassination as he spoke at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10.
Because Kirk was a star -- and happy warrior -- an apparent left-leaning assassin chose to silence Kirk by eliminating him.
I didn't know Kirk well, but it was always a...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/18/charlie_kirk_showed_american_youth_how_to_be_conservative_on_campus_153295.html</link>
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						<author>Debra Saunders</author><category>Debra Saunders</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/18/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 05:05:38 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/64/640421_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Assassination of Charlie Kirk and the Violent Movements We Must Denounce]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ This week, my friend Charlie Kirk was murdered in cold blood in front of a crowd of thousands at Utah Valley University. He was assassinated while debating with students -- something Charlie did frequently, and with aplomb -- by a radicalized leftist with a trans boyfriend. That assassin decided to kill Charlie because of Charlie's belief that men cannot become women, and vice versa; as he allegedly wrote in a text message to that trans boyfriend, "I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can't be negotiated out. If I am able to grab my rifle unseen, I will have left no evidence."
I was in Los...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/18/the_assassination_of_charlie_kirk_and_the_violent_movements_we_must_denounce_153296.html</link>
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						<author>Ben Shapiro</author><category>Ben Shapiro</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/18/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 05:05:55 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/697030_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Everybody Counts, Not Just the MAGA Faithful]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Harry Bosch, the Los Angeles homicide detective created by novelist Michael Connelly, lived and worked by this watchword: "Everybody counts or no one counts." As Bosch explains, "It means I bust my ass to make a case whether it's a prostitute or the mayor's wife. That's my rule."
In contrast, the MAGA movement's motto appears to be that only violence aimed at MAGA members counts. Violence directed against MAGA opponents doesn't seem to count, while Charlie Kirk's death does.
The murder of a police officer by an anti-vax shooter spraying hundreds of rounds outside the headquarters of the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/18/everybody_counts_not_just_the_maga_faithful_153294.html</link>
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						<author>Keith Raffel</author><category>Keith Raffel</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/18/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 05:06:12 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/697298_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Media Aggressively Plays Dumb on the Liberal Hate of Kirk&#039;s Killer]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Once the shock of Charlie Kirk's murder began to wear off, it became easier to notice how today's "news" media routinely fail to live up to their own pompous prattle about their work. They don't "hold people accountable," they don't "uphold democracy," and they aren't "independent" or "objective." They don't produce "news" as much as narrative.
You can see this in their energetic declarations that you couldn't possibly ascribe a leftist motive to Kirk's shooter ... and even claimed you shouldn't try. The story was going in an "unhelpful" direction, so it should be upended.
On CNN's weekend...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/17/the_media_aggressively_plays_dumb_on_the_liberal_hate_of_kirks_killer_153291.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/17/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 04:20:40 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/697216_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ SCOTUS Tasked To Defend Donor Privacy: New Weapon Against Free Speech]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Free speech is the cornerstone of American democracy, and donor privacy is essential to protecting that freedom. The freedom to associate with and contribute to the causes of your choice - and do so privately - is a liberty which has emphatically been protected by the Supreme Court under the First Amendment. Yet the government continues to find ways to pry into private giving, which chills speech and intimidates Americans.
This October term, the Supreme Court will determine whether serving state-issued subpoenas that compel the disclosure of an organization's donor list amounts to a...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/17/scotus_tasked_to_defend_donor_privacy_new_weapon_against_free_speech_153290.html</link>
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						<author>Rose Laoutaris &amp; Nino Marchese</author><category>Rose Laoutaris &amp; Nino Marchese</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/17/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Capitalism v. Mamdani: The Battle Ahead]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ As Zohran Mamdani rides frontrunner status in the final seven weeks before the mayoral election, he's moving rapidly to the left. Despite efforts by the business community to build bridges with Mamdani, he is ratcheting up his anti-capitalist rhetoric, equating profit with greed, rolling out plans for massive tax hikes, and refusing to share any information on who might serve in his administration.
In an interview with Errol Louis on Sept. 8 at Columbia University, Mamdani laid out his radical two-pronged tax hike plan: "One, by raising the state's top corporate tax rate ... and two, by...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/17/capitalism_v_mamdani_the_battle_ahead_153292.html</link>
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						<author>Betsy McCaughey</author><category>Betsy McCaughey</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/17/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 04:20:05 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/696128_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Another Tax Revolt May Be Right Around the Corner]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Anyone old enough to have lived through the mayhem and economic decline of the 1970s probably will recall the tax cut heard round the world. That was the famous California ballot initiative Proposition 13, which slashed property taxes by more than 25% and then screwed a tight cap on future rate increases.
This was the tax cut that saved California, helping ignite the go-go days of Silicon Valley and build what are now trillion-dollar companies. This was also the dawn of the Reagan era of lower tax rates, the conquering of runaway inflation, and skepticism of big government at the state and...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/17/another_tax_revolt_may_be_right_around_the_corner_153293.html</link>
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						<author>Stephen Moore</author><category>Stephen Moore</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/17/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 04:19:48 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/60/602429_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Prove Charlie Right]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ On Sept. 10, 2025, Charlie Kirk was assassinated for the political sin of showing up on college campuses across our country and taking and answering questions. These queries came from students and guests whether they were allies or adversaries - or simply curious-minded Americans engaging in their unalienable birthright to engage in civics openly.
Charlie Kirk was martyred for the free exercise of his First Amendment rights. And the right to free speech, which he championed, was critically wounded in the attack.
The aftermath marks a turning point in our nation's "house divided" future.
Let's...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/16/prove_charlie_right_153285.html</link>
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						<author>David DesRosiers</author><category>David DesRosiers</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/16/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 10:49:11 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/697073_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Britain&#039;s Populist Moment]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Is Great Britain on the brink of a Trump revolution?
The president's visit to the U.K. coincides with indications Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour government is tottering.
Starmer's own party increasingly thinks he has to go -- and if Labour fares as poorly as polls suggest it will in local elections next May, Starmer will be out.
His downfall could arrive sooner: Scandals have taken out three of his key aides and allies already this month.
The British right, meanwhile, is showing signs of renewed vigor.
More than 110,000 people flocked to London last weekend for the hard-right activist...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/16/britains_populist_moment_153287.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel McCarthy</author><category>Daniel McCarthy</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/16/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 05:15:38 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/697114_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Nine Line Takes Being Part of Something Bigger to the Next Level]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ SAVANNAH, Georgia -- Tyler Merritt understands the power of community, belonging and purpose. It's what drew him toward the military as a high school senior, not long after the Sept. 11 attacks. This service eventually led him to become an Apache helicopter pilot in the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, one of the most heavily deployed military units.
Thirteen years ago, Merritt cofounded Nine Line Apparel, named for the nine-line distress call medevacs use for calling in a combat injury. Since the very beginning, the company has donated a portion of its proceeds to a foundation it...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/16/nine_line_takes_being_part_of_something_bigger_to_the_next_level_153286.html</link>
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						<author>Salena Zito</author><category>Salena Zito</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/16/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 05:15:05 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/697113_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Charlie Kirk&#039;s Free Speech, Anti-Violence Legacy]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ For those of us of a certain age, the assassination of Charlie Kirk brought back memories of other momentous assassinations -- the moment of disbelief and then stomach-turning horror on first hearing the news, the sense that events were tilting wildly out of kilter, the fear that more terrible things were in the offing.
I was a college sophomore visiting another school on that sunny Friday afternoon in November 1963 when I heard, and for a few seconds did not believe, that President John Kennedy had been shot and killed in Dallas. I had been intending to attend a Saturday football game,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/16/charlie_kirks_free_speech_anti-violence_legacy_153288.html</link>
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						<author>Michael Barone</author><category>Michael Barone</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/16/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 05:15:22 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/697030_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Why the Left Celebrated Kirk&#039;s Death and What To Do About It]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Something changes when you watch hordes of your political opponents gleefully celebrate the assassination of a man because he believed what you believe.
On Wednesday, Charlie Kirk visited Utah Valley University. He was talking to a crowd of thousands, engaging in civil debate, when he was shot to death.
Even though I didn't know Kirk personally, the news wrecked me. Perhaps it was because he was just 31 and left behind a wife and young children. I hugged my kids extra tight that night -- and I hope you do the same. Perhaps it was the loss of his bold and consistent Christian witness. He...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/16/why_the_left_celebrated_kirks_death_and_what_to_do_about_it_153289.html</link>
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						<author>Victor Joecks</author><category>Victor Joecks</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/16/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 05:15:55 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/697116_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Bet on Small Business: The Case for Aggressive Rate Cuts]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The Federal Reserve faces a stark choice: Act boldly to lower rates, or watch America's job engine stall. High borrowing costs are crushing small businesses, slowing homebuilding, and threatening the very growth that has kept our economy resilient. To stem the tide of job losses, the Fed must move decisively and approve three consecutive 50 basis points interest rate cuts.
The evidence is mounting. May and June 2025 job numbers were revised down by 258,000. On Sept. 9 the Bureau of Labor Statistics revised U.S. job figures down by an additional 911,000 for the 12 months ending March 2025....]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/15/bet_on_small_business_case_for_aggressive_rate_cuts__153284.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel A. Varroney</author><category>Daniel A. Varroney</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/15/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 13:24:42 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/697045_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ On Constitution Day, the Suffragists Show Us How To Save Civics]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Each September, we celebrate Constitution Day, honoring the document that defines our government and secures our rights. But constitutions don't defend themselves. They work only when citizens understand them, test them, and expand their promise. 
Few Americans modeled this better than the suffragists.
For more than eight decades, these women organized, lobbied, protested, and even went to prison for the radical idea that they were citizens worthy of the vote. They studied the Constitution, exposed its gaps, and demanded change until the nation ratified the 19th Amendment in 1920.
We have a...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/14/on_constitution_day_the_suffragists_show_us_how_to_save_civics___153269.html</link>
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						<author>Colleen Shogan</author><category>Colleen Shogan</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/14/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2025 08:49:36 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/60/605220_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ This School Year, Fight for Forgotten Kids and Invisible Needs]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ No child should have to walk into school quietly carrying the burden or embarrassment of not having a backpack, lunchbox, or even basic pens and pencils. While these may seem like small and insignificant items, things the average household should have, to a child already wrestling with anxiety or instability, these visible reminders can deepen feelings of being left out or "less-than."
As a retired D.C. police officer with nearly 30 years on the job, I was used to getting crisis calls. Back then, we could only pause the problem. When I retired and became a pastor, I wanted to keep responding...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/13/this_school_year_fight_for_forgotten_kids_and_invisible_needs__153270.html</link>
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						<author>Dale Sutherland</author><category>Dale Sutherland</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/13/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2025 07:32:03 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/696771_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ If Mental Health Experts Can&rsquo;t Identify Murderers, What&rsquo;s the Backup Plan?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ A profound mental health crisis lies at the heart of violence in America. Decarlos Brown Jr., the man who brutally stabbed to death the Ukrainian woman in Charlotte, North Carolina, was in a mental hospital earlier this year, and diagnosed with schizophrenia. But doctors wouldn't have released him if they had viewed him as a danger to himself or others.
Similarly, the killers at Minneapolis' Annunciation Catholic School and Nashville's Covenant School both struggled with mental illness. Nearly all mass shooters also battled suicidal thoughts.
"We will never arrest our way out of issues such...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/13/if_mental_health_experts_cant_identify_murderers_whats_backup_plan_153281.html</link>
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						<author>Thomas Massie &amp; John R. Lott Jr.</author><category>Thomas Massie &amp; John R. Lott Jr.</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/13/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2025 07:31:41 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/696192_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Secret Service Faces New Scrutiny After Agent Cheers Charlie Kirk&rsquo;s Murder]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Sen. Marsha Blackburn sent a letter to Secret Service Director Sean Curran Thursday, demanding the immediate firing of a special agent who argued in a social media post that Charlie Kirk deserved to die.  
Blackburn, a Tennessee Republican, wrote the letter after RealClearPolitics reported that the agent, Anthony Pough, blamed "karma" for the killing of the founder of the conservative organization Turning Point USA, who was fatally shot at Utah Valley University Wednesday. 
The assassin remains at large, and the FBI is engaged in a desperate manhunt to apprehend the killer. Kirk, 31, was a...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/12/secret_service_faces_new_scrutiny_after_agent_cheers_charlie_kirks_murder__153280.html</link>
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						<author>Susan Crabtree</author><category>Susan Crabtree</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/12/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 06:40:07 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/696853_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Oregon Is Hiding the Truth About Child Sex Changes]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Here's a question my home state of Oregon could easily answer: How many kids have received gender transition surgeries in the last 15 years? The state has this data and is required by law to give it to me. Yet instead of doing so, officials are now telling me that they've been illegally selling Oregonians' health information for years. It's a head-turning argument, but it's also false. It shows how desperate the state is to avoid answering my question.
I have been a volunteer health consumer advocate for more than 20 years. I have led the development and passage of laws that guarantee...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/12/oregon_is_hiding_the_truth_about_child_sex_changes_153271.html</link>
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						<author>Paul Terdal</author><category>Paul Terdal</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/12/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 06:17:16 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/696790_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Europe Faces Four Self-Inflicted Crises]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Europe is plagued by a number of existential crises. Yet they are all self-inflicted -- and by a dominant, therapeutic culture that embraced utopian but lethal bromides.
These suicidal wounds are now nearing the end-stage. Indeed, they are destroying the very civilization that was soon envisioned to be heaven on earth.
The global warming hysterics could not just entertain gradual transformations away from dependencies on traditional fuels and power generation.
Instead, elites have demanded catastrophic and near-instant "net zero" mandates. That radicalism entailed transitioning to unreliable...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/12/europe_faces_four_self-inflicted_crises.html</link>
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						<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author><category>Victor Davis Hanson</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/12/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 06:19:22 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/47/478197_1_.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Martyrdom of My Friend Charlie Kirk]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ It is difficult enough to write about the most high-profile political assassination in this country since the Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy killings of 1968. It is considerably more difficult to do so when the victim was a personal friend. The pain is profound. Charlie Kirk and I had gotten close, and we had spoken less than 24 hours before the fatal bullet struck to discuss his upcoming campus tour. But if there is one thing that I know about Charlie, the quintessential public square warrior, it is that he would not have wanted us to sit on the sidelines.
The stakes are too...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/12/the_martyrdom_of_my_friend_charlie_kirk_153274.html</link>
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						<author>Josh Hammer</author><category>Josh Hammer</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/12/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 06:18:00 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/696820_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ One Great Comic and a Bunch of Bad Actors]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- Comedian Jerry Seinfeld has a clear view of the "Free Palestine" movement. Speaking at Duke University on Tuesday, he said "'Free Palestine' is, to me, just -- you're free to say you don't like Jews. Just say you don't like Jews," he said, according to the Duke school newspaper, The Chronicle.
And: "By saying 'Free Palestine,' you're not admitting what you really think. So it's actually -- compared to the Ku Klux Klan, I'm actually thinking the Klan is actually a little better here because they can come right out and say, 'We don't like Blacks, we don't like Jews.' OK, that's...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/12/one_great_comic_and_a_bunch_of_bad_actors_153272.html</link>
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						<author>Debra Saunders</author><category>Debra Saunders</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/12/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 06:17:35 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/696818_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Civility Should Be Embraced After Charlie Kirk&#039;s Murder]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The shocking assassination of Charlie Kirk on a college campus in Utah looked like the opposite of the Washington Post motto. It's "Democracy Dies in Sunlight." Thousands of people gathered joyfully to hear freedom of speech and saw it end with a bullet to the neck.
The dominant media reaction was horror, as it should be. When the Biden-boosting media can mourn a powerful MAGA voice, sounding the theme that civility should be embraced and not condemned, that instinct should be applauded.
It shouldn't be a difficult political stand to oppose assassinations and other political violence. It...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/12/civility_should_be_embraced_after_charlie_kirks_murder_153273.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/12/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 06:17:52 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/696712_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ A Turning Point]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ "You have to try to point them towards ultimate purposes and towards getting back to the church, getting back to faith, getting married, having children ... I'm trying to paint a picture of virtue of lifting people up, not just staying angry," Charlie Kirk said last week. Now he is dead, assassinated on a college campus.
I started my radio program on Sept. 10, telling my audience that events change things. On Sept. 9, 2025, we woke up to white smoke over Doha, Qatar, a new Hamas leader having been chosen by an Israeli air strike. Before bed that night, Russia had flown drones into Polish...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/12/a_turning_point_153276.html</link>
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						<author>Erick Erickson</author><category>Erick Erickson</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/12/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Israel&#039;s Strike on Qatar Should Have Happened Years Ago]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Israel's precise strike at Hamas headquarters in the petrostate sheikdom of Qatar happened about 23 months too late.
Every one of the reported targets has been sanctioned by the U.S. government for terrorist activities. Each one of them, by any moral or legal understanding, was engaged in war crimes.
Not only did they orchestrate and manage an ongoing war against Israeli civilians, but they also doomed Arabs in Gaza to destitution while sitting on billions of stolen dollars and sleeping safely in their luxurious hotel rooms.
Even if it turns out that Israel missed these targets, Hamas leaders...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/12/israels_strike_on_qatar_should_have_happened_years_ago_153277.html</link>
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						<author>David Harsanyi</author><category>David Harsanyi</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/12/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 06:19:05 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/696833_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Recovering From the Insanity of Summer 2020]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ What a difference half a decade makes. This summer's prevailing ethos, zeitgeist, vibe -- call it any fancy name you want -- was sharply different from the summer, just five years ago, of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter.
Such sudden changes in the moral atmosphere seem to occur every so often. The year 1776, the 250th anniversary of which we are scheduled to commemorate next year, was perhaps one such occasion, when the English-speaking world saw the publication of the Declaration of Independence, Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" and the first volume of Edward Gibbon's "The History of the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/12/recovering_from_the_insanity_of_summer_2020_153278.html</link>
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						<author>Michael Barone</author><category>Michael Barone</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/12/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 06:18:49 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/61/619181_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Horror in Charlotte, and in Utah]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- The Sept. 8 headline in The New York Times said it all: "A Gruesome Murder in North Carolina Ignites a Firestorm on the Right."
The Gray Lady leaped over the warm body of victim Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old immigrant from Ukraine, and led with its usual blame-the-right politics.
The story's subhead: "Security footage capturing the unprovoked stabbing in Charlotte became an accelerant for conservative arguments about the perceived failings of Democratic policies."
The Wall Street Journal was like-minded: "Woman's Stabbing Death Becomes MAGA Talking Point."
Sadly, the headline...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/12/horror_in_charlotte_and_in_utah_153279.html</link>
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						<author>Debra Saunders</author><category>Debra Saunders</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/12/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 06:18:32 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/696834_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ America&#039;s Strength Comes From Unity in the Face of Hate]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Twenty-four years ago, Americans watched in horror as planes struck the Twin Towers and forever changed our nation. What came next would become a topic of deep division in the years that followed, but in those first dark hours, we stopped being Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals. Instead, we were simply American, united in grief to stand against those who sought to divide us.
Twenty-four hours ago, Americans witnessed two separate acts of violence that should have united us in sorrow again. Instead, many have tried to turn these tragedies into weapons in our endless...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/11/americas_strength_comes_from_unity_in_the_face_of_hate.html</link>
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						<author>Brayden Myers</author><category>Brayden Myers</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/11/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:46:53 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/696765_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The BLS Hallucinated a Million Jobs. The Fed Can&#039;t Fix This]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Tuesday morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics dropped a bombshell that should terrify economists and workers alike: They hallucinated nearly one million jobs that never actually existed between March 2024 and March this year. While some revisions are normal, this is a record-setting high in either direction. For the last eighteen months, we've been making policy decisions based on phantom positions that existed only in government spreadsheets.
Revisions to estimated job creation statistics are standard procedure - the BLS always adjusts preliminary estimates when more complete data arrives....]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/11/bls_hallucinated_a_million_jobs_fed_cant_fix_this_153264.html</link>
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						<author>Kyle Moran</author><category>Kyle Moran</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/11/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 05:49:41 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/696378_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ A Society Paralyzed by the Presence of Evil]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ This week, most Americans were shocked by the images of Decarlos Brown Jr., a violent schizophrenic with a 14-count rap sheet, stabbing a young Ukrainian refugee, Iryna Zarutska, to death on a Charlotte light rail commuter train. The video of the incident is absolutely horrifying: Brown, clad in a red hoodie, sits behind Zarutska; then, he rises, removing a knife from his pocket; he quickly leans forward and plunges the knife into Zarutska's jugular vein repeatedly and then calmly walks away, blood dripping from the murder weapon; Zarutska, stunned and confused and terrified and in shock,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/11/a_society_paralyzed_by_the_presence_of_evil_153267.html</link>
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						<author>Ben Shapiro</author><category>Ben Shapiro</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/11/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 05:50:20 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/695035_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ America&#039;s Public Health System in Desperate Need of a Reset]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Last week's Senate Finance Committee hearing was supposed to be about oversight, to ask the tough but necessary questions on how a federal agency is moving toward its authorized mandate. Instead, it became a bipartisan spectacle of scorn aimed squarely at Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Republicans and Democrats alike excoriated him for daring to question the orthodoxy of public health. The outrage was predictable. It was also desperate.
When entrenched interests feel threatened, they attack the messenger. That's what happened Thursday, Sept. 4. Kennedy stood before...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/11/americas_public_health_system_in_desperate_need_of_a_reset_153266.html</link>
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						<author>Armstrong Williams</author><category>Armstrong Williams</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/11/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 05:50:02 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/696683_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ &lsquo;Our Hearts Are Shattered&rsquo;: Charlie Kirk Murder Sends Shockwaves Through White House, GOP]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Charlie Kirk, a lifelong advocate for free speech, the leader of the nation's preeminent conservative youth organization, and a beloved confidant of the first family, was fatally shot Wednesday afternoon while speaking with students at Utah Valley University.
President Trump confirmed the news in a post on Truth Social, writing that Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, "was loved and admired by ALL, especially me, and now, he is no longer with us." Flags at the White House were lowered to half-staff in his honor. Kirk was 31. He is survived by his wife and two young children.
FBI Director Kash...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/10/our_hearts_are_shattered_charlie_kirk_murder_sends_shockwaves_through_white_house_gop_153265.html</link>
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						<author>Philip Wegmann</author><category>Philip Wegmann</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/10/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:24:05 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/696695_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Zohran Mamdani a Red Flag of What a Brainwashed Electorate Will Choose]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Get ready for more Zohran Mamdani-like candidates -- avowed socialists -- to soar to popularity across New York state and the rest of the U.S.
We the public have ceded control of education to the far left. The result is a curriculum that never mentions the brutal consequences of socialist experiments in Eastern Europe, Latin America and elsewhere, and instead brainwashes students with a fairytale definition of "socialism" devoid of any historical context.
Of course young New York voters are troubled by the unaffordability of the city. But that alone does not explain the appeal of Mamdani's...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/10/zohran_mamdani_a_red_flag_of_what_a_brainwashed_electorate_will_choose_153259.html</link>
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						<author>Betsy McCaughey</author><category>Betsy McCaughey</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/10/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 04:45:58 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/696616_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Increasing Opportunity and Hope for Our Children]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ An age-old conundrum regarding raising children is the issue of nature versus nurture.
That is, do genes determine a child's success in life, or is it the environment in which that child is raised?
Or, even more fundamentally, is intelligence genetic, or can education increase IQ?
James J. Heckman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist from the University of Chicago, poses his own variant of this question.
It's not an issue of nature versus nurture, but rather what kind of nurture.
In a departure from what one usually expects to hear from an economist, Heckman's life's work is about the importance...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/10/increasing_opportunity_and_hope_for_our_children_153260.html</link>
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						<author>Star Parker</author><category>Star Parker</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/10/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 04:45:42 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/67/679107_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Stop the IRS&#039;s Stealth 0 Billion Tax Increase]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ President Donald Trump has done an admirable job at defanging the IRS, which was converted into a weaponized agency targeting Democrats' political enemies.
Chief Justice John Marshall famously pronounced early in our nation's history that "the power to tax involves the power to destroy."
The Democrats inside the Biden IRS took that to heart. They hired thousands of new IRS agents to harass businesses, rich people and, in some cases, Republican donors. Some of the officers under infamous former IRS enforcer Lois Lerner, the woman who aimed her agency's auditing guns at conservative groups, are...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/10/stop_the_irss_stealth_700_billion_tax_increase_153261.html</link>
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						<author>Stephen Moore</author><category>Stephen Moore</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/10/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 04:45:23 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/692596_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Disparate Impact Scam]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Though it received less attention than some of President Donald Trump's other executive orders, the principles embodied in EO 14281, "Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy," are fundamental to American ideals.
The April 23 directive prohibits the federal government, to the "maximum extent possible," from using disparate impact analyses to establish discrimination. It also directs the attorney general to take lawful actions to preempt inconsistent state and local laws.
Disparate impact is the precursor to the "equity" in DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion). Both require members...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/09/disparate_impact_scam_153257.html</link>
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						<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author><category>Kenin M. Spivak</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/09/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 04:23:20 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/650494_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Our Civics Teachers Are Afraid To Teach Civics]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ This fall, as millions of students return to school and America approaches its 250th birthday, something troubling is happening in classrooms across the country.
Our civics teachers are going silent.
A new report from the Sandra Day O'Connor Institute finds that nearly 80% of civics teachers say they have self-censored in the classroom out of worry that honest instruction could lead to professional or personal consequences. And 86% say that fear is one of the biggest challenges they face in doing their jobs.
Think about that. In the very subject that's supposed to teach students how to engage...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/09/our_civics_teachers_are_afraid_to_teach_civics.html</link>
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						<author>Liam Julian</author><category>Liam Julian</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/09/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 04:23:02 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/696444_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Who&#039;s Accountable for Autopen Pardons?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ There are too many politicians in America today who think a man like Decarlos Brown belongs on the streets and not behind bars or in a padded cell.
Brown had been arrested more than a dozen times, and convicted of everything from shoplifting to armed robbery, before he plunged a knife into the neck of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a commuter train in Charlotte, North Carolina.
He could have been removed from society years before he murdered her.
Instead, authorities in North Carolina produced a travesty of justice that cost the life of a young woman who fled a war zone only...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/09/whos_accountable_for_autopen_pardons_153255.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel McCarthy</author><category>Daniel McCarthy</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/09/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 04:23:57 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/692628_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Rahm Emanuel: Democrats Have Lost Touch With Roosevelt, Johnson and Truman]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ SPRINGFIELD, Illinois -- In casual conversations with Democrats in August from across the Midwest, I found that their biggest frustration with the national party is that its platform didn't appeal to them. I was not surprised to see that same sentiment captured in a poll by The Wall Street Journal around the same time. It found Democrats' popularity cratering, with a staggering 63% of voters holding an unfavorable view of the party.
One month later, another survey by the Journal showed that people are losing faith that they will achieve the American dream in their lifetime -- and worse, they...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/09/rahm_emanuel_democrats_have_lost_touch_with_roosevelt_johnson_and_truman_153256.html</link>
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						<author>Salena Zito</author><category>Salena Zito</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/09/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 04:23:39 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/696205_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ When AI Grows Weary]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ I'll be a lot more worried about AI when it stops acting like a lazy child.
For the last several months, I've been kicking around a book idea. The biggest hurdle isn't the writing or even the daunting task of creating a way to ensure someone else actually reads it. It's assembling the massive database of information that the book would be based on. I'm looking to collect more than 10,000 total pieces of information on Republican members of Congress.
Now, finding out each individual piece of information is very doable. I'm not digging for deeply buried secrets. But the scale of the project has...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/09/when_ai_grows_weary_153258.html</link>
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						<author>Victor Joecks</author><category>Victor Joecks</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/09/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 04:22:44 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/696531_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Melania, Please Talk to Donald About Epstein]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Last Wednesday, an extraordinary press conference was held in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol by victims of sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein.
Anyone who watched these women pour out their hearts to demand justice for themselves and other victims could not help but be moved.
Unfortunately, President Donald Trump did not watch, and then - almost simultaneously - dismissed the women's heartfelt pleas for a public reckoning of Epstein's abuse as "a Democrat hoax."
No doubt, Trump is a rhetorical genius who has been able to define issues to his own benefit for years, but this was a low point in his...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/08/melania_please_talk_to_donald_about_epstein_153251.html</link>
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						<author>Frank Miele</author><category>Frank Miele</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/08/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 20:04:41 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/696345_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ How MAHA Can Really Save American Lives]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Over 35 years ago, an executive at Monsanto named Harold Corbett delivered a speech titled "Chemical Risk: Living Up to Public Expectations." The 1988 speech called out an industry that delivered miracles and devastating mistakes.
Corbett described two chemical industries. One was responsible for safe drinking water, higher crop yields, medicines, and a better standard of living. The other was responsible for contamination, waste, and health crises: "The public doesn't care how far we've come. They care how far we still have to go." 
It still rings true today. Harold Corbett was my...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/07/how_maha_can_really_save_american_lives_153252.html</link>
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						<author>Ryan Sheridan</author><category>Ryan Sheridan</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/07/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Bad News, Damn Lies, and Revenge Served Lukewarm]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ My summer hiatus is over, but it's not as though the news cycle slowed down. This week's headlines alone seem like an entire season's worth of noteworthy happenings. Let's start with the new employment numbers ...
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Bad News 
The jobs market is stagnant - or worse - according to the numbers released this morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The August labor market produced just 22,000 jobs - in a nation where 100,000 new jobs is treading water - the upshot being that the unemployment rate hasn't been this high since 2021, a COVID lockdown year.
Today's report also included the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/05/bad_news_damn_lies_and_revenge_served_lukewarm_153249.html</link>
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						<author>Carl M. Cannon</author><category>Carl M. Cannon</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/05/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Art of the 80-20 Issue]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Donald Trump's recent floated proposal to deploy the National Guard to crime-overrun blue cities like Chicago and Baltimore has been met with howls of outrage from the usual suspects. For many liberal talking heads and Democratic officials, this is simply the latest evidence of Trump's "authoritarianism." But such specious analysis and manufactured hysteria distract from what all parties ought to properly focus on: the well-being of the people who actually live in such crime-addled jurisdictions.
What's remarkable is not just the specific policy suggestion itself -- after all, federal force...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/05/the_art_of_the_80-20_issue_153247.html</link>
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						<author>Josh Hammer</author><category>Josh Hammer</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/05/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:55:59 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/695923_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump Astride at Seven Months]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ President Donald Trump's greatest achievement within six months was simply ending illegal immigration as we had once known it--without "comprehensive immigration reform" or any other rhetorical trickery.
It remains difficult to find, much less deport, the 10 to 12 million illegal aliens who entered in the last four years.
Those who helped break the law, by design or indifference, now believe it was moral to destroy federal immigration law but immoral to uphold it.
And it is still unclear whether former President Joe Biden's handlers deliberately sabotaged their own border for political and...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/05/trump_astride_at_seven_months_153248.html</link>
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						<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author><category>Victor Davis Hanson</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/05/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:56:17 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/696333_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Judge Lamberth Insists Trump Admin Follow Law in VOA Litigation]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Lower court rulings rejecting the Trump administration's prolific assertions of executive authority come at us so frequently it's difficult to keep up.
In recent days, federal appellate and district courts have knocked back the president's imposition of sweeping tariff policies and invalidated the use of fast-track deportation proceedings. Over the Labor Day weekend, a federal judge temporarily blocked a late-night flight packed with immigrant youngsters whom the administration sought to send to their native Guatemala, even as their attorneys said authorities were violating U.S. immigration...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/05/judge_lamberth_insists_trump_admin_follow_law_in_voa_litigation.html</link>
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						<author>Paul M. Barrett</author><category>Paul M. Barrett</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/05/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:49:10 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/67/676526_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Lisa Cook Has Been Fired]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ When the jobs report comes out on Friday, let's hope the Bureau of Labor Statistics subtracts one government job, namely the former Federal Reserve governor, Lisa Cook. She was fired by her boss, President Trump, even though for some reason she refuses to accept this. 
In the termination letter to Ms. Cook, Mr. Trump noted a criminal referral against her filed by the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Bill Pulte.
In  his letter, Mr. Trump said "there is sufficient reason to believe you may have made false statements on one or more mortgage agreements." 
The president explained that,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/04/lisa_cook_has_been_fired_153244.html</link>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/04/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 06:32:18 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/696188_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Politics Over People: Chicago&rsquo;s Leaders Are Failing Their City]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ There was no Labor Day holiday for Chicago criminals, who murdered nine people and wounded another 51; most (if not all) were black or brown people with names and stories we will never know. Meanwhile, crime is down sharply in Washington, D.C., where three people were shot and wounded, but no one was killed over the weekend.
Rather than learn from Washington, D.C.'s experience, Chicago's leaders are doubling down to frustrate a proposed federal law enforcement surge here that will make Chicago safer for all.  
As the weekend's carnage unfolded, Mayor Johnson issued an order blocking the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/03/politics_over_people_chicagos_leaders_are_failing_their_city_153243.html</link>
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						<author>Richard Porter &amp; John R. Lott Jr.</author><category>Richard Porter &amp; John R. Lott Jr.</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/03/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2025 06:03:44 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/696034_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Democrat Extremism Underwrites Trump]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Democrats' extremism continues to underwrite Donald Trump's agenda. Since 2021, this has been the case, and it shows no sign of stopping. Rather than bolstering them as an alternative, Democrats are giving Trump the leverage to pursue his aggressive agenda.
President Trump remains divisive. While his job approval and favorability ratings are higher than they were eight years ago, they remain low. According to Real Clear Politics' August 28 average of national polling, Trump's approval rating is 45.3%-51.5% for -6.2% net; on August 28, 2017, Trump sat at -16.9%. According to RCP's polling...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/03/democrat_extremism_underwrites_trump__153242.html</link>
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						<author>J.T. Young</author><category>J.T. Young</category><pubdate>2025/09</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>09/03/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2025 06:04:03 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/696027_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Israeli Resilience Amid Wariness]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ TEL AVIV-In mid-June, Israel's 12-day Operation Rising Lion, capped by America's June 22 Operation Midnight Hammer, substantially degraded the Islamic Republic of Iran's nuclear program. Two months later - as tens of thousands of Israelis took to the streets last Tuesday to demand that the government promptly secure the release of the remaining 50 hostages, living and dead, held by Hamas in Gaza and end the war - those remarkable feats of arduous planning, technological prowess, and pinpoint execution felt like a distant memory. They have left little discernible impact on the majority of...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/31/israeli_resilience_amid_wariness_153238.html</link>
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						<author>Peter Berkowitz</author><category>Peter Berkowitz</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/31/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2025 05:12:43 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/695847_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Twenty Years After Katrina: Preparing for the Next Storm]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[  This month marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina devastated Mississippi, Louisiana, and much of the Gulf Coast. For those of us who lived through it, the memories are still raw: entire towns wiped off the map, families left with nothing but a slab where their homes once stood, businesses and schools destroyed, lives lost.
Mississippi bore the brunt of Katrina's winds and storm surge, but we also witnessed something remarkable - neighbors helping neighbors, churches and charities mobilizing, volunteers pouring in from every state, and governments at every level working side by side with the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/29/twenty_years_after_katrina_preparing_for_the_next_storm_153230.html</link>
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						<author>Haley Barbour</author><category>Haley Barbour</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/29/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 06:21:19 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/695779_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Yes, President Trump Has the Authority to Fire Lisa Cook]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ On Monday, President Donald Trump moved to fire Lisa Cook, a Biden-nominated member of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors. He moved to fire Cook for "cause," and that cause is clear enough: According to William Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Cook allegedly committed mortgage fraud by lying about her principal place of residence for purposes of securing more favorable interest rates -- and then failed to report her rental income from the properties, to boot.
Trump's move is the first time a president has ever tried to fire a Fed governor for cause, and Trump's...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/29/yes_president_trump_has_the_authority_to_fire_lisa_cook_153234.html</link>
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						<author>Josh Hammer</author><category>Josh Hammer</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/29/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 06:21:35 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/695659_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ How &lsquo;Fighting Fire With Fire&rsquo; Burns Good Democracy]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ What started as a call from President Trump to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has become an arms race that will reshape congressional districts and determine control of the House of Representatives. But the most troubling aspect isn't the gerrymandering itself, but how willingly our leaders are abandoning the institutions they claim to defend.
Texas Republicans, at Trump's urging, redrew their congressional maps to eliminate five Democratic seats. California Democrats in turn have planned to effectively eliminate five Republican seats of their own. Now Illinois, Ohio, New York, and Missouri are...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/29/how_fighting_fire_with_fire_burns_good_democracy_153229.html</link>
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						<author>Brayden Myers</author><category>Brayden Myers</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/29/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 06:21:58 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/695755_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Pray That We All Don&rsquo;t Become Monsters]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Turns out, President Trump is letting retribution be his retribution.
The candidate who promised that success would be his best revenge upon his tormentors is now governing like Torquemada. As the administration's list of high-level targets - including Sen. Adam Schiff, New York Attorney General Letitia James, former CIA Director John Brennan, Former FBI Director James B. Comey, and former National Security Advisor John Bolton - continues to grow, the president has worked to remove bureaucrats, punish law firms, and attack universities that do not share his priorities. Trump's grievances are...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/29/pray_that_we_all_dont_become_monsters_153232.html</link>
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						<author>J. Peder Zane</author><category>J. Peder Zane</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/29/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 06:21:43 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/695796_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Europe in the Balance?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Almost weekly in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, and Germany, a sensational assault committed by an illegal migrant -- often enjoying some sort of state support or with prior arrests for the same crime -- surfaces.
Until recently, European politicians and the media sought to either ignore such news or accuse those who clamored for tighter borders, more police protection, and stiffer penalties of being "racists" or "xenophobes."
Until recently, that is.
Mass protests are now common in Britain against the Labour Party's open borders policies and generous welfare entitlements for...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/29/europe_in_the_balance_153233.html</link>
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						<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author><category>Victor Davis Hanson</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/29/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Governance by Threat, Not Constitutional Order]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The Constitution of the United States lays out a complex scheme of governance that has mostly worked for the 237 years since it became effective with the ratification of the ninth state, New Hampshire, in 1788.
There have been exceptions, of course. Abraham Lincoln took extraordinary steps to quell the rebellion of 11 Southern states. Franklin Roosevelt disregarded judicial precedent and daily reset the price of gold by whim.
President Donald Trump, in his second term, has been doing something like the same thing by employing threats of actions outside traditional norms to get others to do...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/29/governance_by_threat_not_constitutional_order_153235.html</link>
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						<author>Michael Barone</author><category>Michael Barone</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/29/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Democrats Display Their Flaws in Minneapolis]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ More than 400 elected Democrat Party officials from all 50 states and seven territories huddled in Minneapolis this week before the horrible mass shooting at nearby Annunciation Catholic Church. The proceedings demonstrated a party in the wilderness, and the Democrats in the national media mostly steered clear.
For starters, losing vice-presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was on his usual bender that Kamala Harris "would have been a fantastic president," and that if she had won, "we would wake up to an adult with compassion and dignity and leadership doing the work, not a...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/29/the_democrats_display_their_flaws_in_minneapolis_153236.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/29/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 06:22:34 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/695719_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The President Doesn&#039;t Get to Dictate How We Express Ourselves]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ "If it were up to me," Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia famously told a group of students in 2015, "I would put in jail every sandal-wearing, scruffy-bearded weirdo who burns the American flag. But I am not king."
The late justice was referring to the majority opinion in Texas v. Johnson, the 1989 decision he joined that found flag desecration was constitutionally protected speech. The case revolved around a lifelong commie weirdo named Gregory Lee Johnson, who was convicted of desecrating an American flag during an anti-Ronald Reagan protest outside the 1984 Republican National...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/29/the_president_doesnt_get_to_dictate_how_we_express_ourselves_153237.html</link>
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						<author>David Harsanyi</author><category>David Harsanyi</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/29/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Why Team Trump Wants to Deport Abrego Garcia]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- Some 13 years ago, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, then 16, crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. The Salvadoran citizen did not have a run-in with the law until 2019, when he was first taken into ICE custody. Later, he was released. After President Donald Trump retook the Oval Office, Abrego Garcia was ordered deported.
You probably first learned of Abrego Garcia as the "Maryland man" who was "wrongly deported," as per The New York Times. The "wrongly deported" reference concerned his deportation to El Salvador, the one country he couldn't be sent to, a judge had stipulated. Not the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/29/why_team_trump_wants_to_deport_abrego_garcia_153231.html</link>
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						<author>Debra Saunders</author><category>Debra Saunders</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/29/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Mamdani Could Lose Even in Crowded Field]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ A crowd gathered around New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on Saturday as he lay on his back, struggling to bench press 135 pounds as part of the annual Men's Day event in Brooklyn. New York City Mayor Eric Adams derided him as "Mamscrawny," but almost no one else seemed to care. Weightlifting isn't a requirement for being mayor.
Fighting crime is. That's Mamdani's vulnerability -- and the reason this race is far from over.
As the race stands, Mamdani leads comfortably, with former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in second place, Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa trailing, followed by...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/28/mamdani_could_lose_even_in_crowded_field_153226.html</link>
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						<author>Betsy McCaughey</author><category>Betsy McCaughey</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/28/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Left&#039;s Misdefinition of Americanism]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ This week, Axios ran a fascinating piece about the supposed "redefinition" of Americanism under President Donald Trump. Titled "Inside Trump's American identity project," Axios posited that "President Trump is wielding government power to enforce a more rigid, exclusionary definition of what it means to be American." What would this new definition entail? "In MAGA's telling, America is the heir to ancient European civilizations, built on a Judeo-Christian foundation of white identity, meritocracy, traditional gender roles and the nuclear family," says Axios. "These tenets are cast as...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/28/the_lefts_misdefinition_of_americanism_153227.html</link>
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						<author>Ben Shapiro</author><category>Ben Shapiro</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/28/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:29:26 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/695657_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Dangerous Myth of Juvenile Criminal Ingenues]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ An epidemic of juvenile violent crimes endures. Why? The law presumes juveniles are intellectually and psychologically too immature to appreciate the wrongfulness of their violent ways and deserve leniency. But to borrow from Mr. Bumble in "Oliver Twist," "If the law supposes that, the law is a ass -- a idiot."
Violent juveniles have what Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. characterized as the "bad man's view of the law." The justice elaborated, "If you want to know the law and nothing else, you must look at it as a bad man, who cares only for the material consequences which such knowledge...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/28/the_dangerous_myth_of_juvenile_criminal_ingenues_153225.html</link>
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						<author>Armstrong Williams</author><category>Armstrong Williams</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/28/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:30:02 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/55/550122_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Diagnosis Disconnect: Medical Associations Don&#039;t Speak for All Doctors]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Do American medical organizations reflect the views of doctors? In recent years, the answer has been a resounding "no." Families and lawmakers often trusted these prestigious groups, like the American Medical Association, to represent the views of the medical community and the best medical evidence. Now these organizations are pushing politicized viewpoints, while doctors themselves have been intimidated into silence or indifference.
Nowhere is the disconnect between practicing physicians and the institutions that purport to represent them more apparent than in the debate over transgender...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/27/diagnosis_disconnect_medical_associations_dont_speak_for_all_doctors.html</link>
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						<author>Howard Fenn &amp; Kurt Miceli</author><category>Howard Fenn &amp; Kurt Miceli</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/27/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2025 10:38:49 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/695544_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The American Catholic Moment]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ For the first time in history, an American sits on the Throne of St. Peter. Pope Leo XIV - born in Dolton, Illinois, and formed at Villanova University - now leads the global Church. At the same moment, President Trump's new Ambassador to the Holy See, Brian Burch, heads to Rome.
The Catalyst: Pope Leo XIV. His election electrifies the faithful. His modesty, steadiness, and clarity provide a needed counterbalance to the recent era of confusion.
Conversions surge. Young people - searching for meaning and noble lives of purpose - are returning to the pews (especially men). Conservative...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/27/the_american_catholic_moment_153222.html</link>
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						<author>Steve Cortes</author><category>Steve Cortes</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/27/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2025 07:23:35 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/695605_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Anniversary of Bush-Trashing Hurricane Katrina &#039;News&#039;]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ One reason that many Republican voters took a shine to Donald Trump in 2016 was the way he showed no respect to the national chattering classes of the Democrat-media complex. George W. Bush was a kinder, gentler Republican -- and they compared him to Hitler. No matter which flavor of Republican was elected, the "objective" media savaged him.
We've reached the 20th anniversary of deadly Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico, which killed an estimated 1,836 Americans. But misinformation landed first. NBC and MSNBC tremendously hyped Democrat Mayor Ray Nagin's "Today" show estimate of 10,000...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/27/the_anniversary_of_bush-trashing_hurricane_katrina_news_153223.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/27/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2025 06:36:44 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/658754_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Bed, Bath and Beyond California]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The much-publicized exchange between Bed Bath & Beyond chairman Marcus Lemonis and California Gov. Gavin Newsom is a lesson for the whole country.
We shoppers look back fondly on the marketing acumen that, starting with one store in 1971, built Bed Bath & Beyond into a retail giant that once had 365 stores nationwide.
The shopping experience there was always great fun -- the basics of homemaking at great prices plus innovative trinkets that were always attention-getters at prices attractive enough to get you to buy what you weren't even thinking about when you walked into the store.
The...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/27/bed_bath_and_beyond_california_153224.html</link>
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						<author>Star Parker</author><category>Star Parker</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/27/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2025 06:37:00 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/695606_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump&#039;s Intel Deal Breaks Mold, Builds U.S. Wealth Fund]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Is it Comrade President now?
Some conservatives are up in arms about Trump's decision to have the government buy a stake in Intel.
That's state ownership of the means of production, isn't it? Classic, textbook socialism.
"If there is anyone who was a halfway prominent mainstream conservative ... 10 years ago who now tells me they wouldn't have screamed about incipient 'socialism!' or 'fascism!' about Trump's Intel 'investment'," writes Jonah Goldberg on X, "I presumptively assume they are lying ..."
In fact, a whole school of thought on the right, going back decades, has championed industrial...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/26/trumps_industrial_policy_is_realism_not_socialism_153218.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel McCarthy</author><category>Daniel McCarthy</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/26/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 08:19:31 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/694943_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Genocide-Famine Hoax]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Extraordinarily effective Hamas propaganda has delegitimized Israel's right of self-defense by confirming for a world that scorns Israel that its demon is engaged in genocide. It is not, but the same cannot be said of Hamas, the aggressor which has largely avoided that opprobrium.
According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, there are 5.5 million Palestinians in the Palestinian state, principally the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The bureau estimates that in the last 12 months, Gaza's population declined by 15,423 to 2,114,201, while Palestine's total population grew by 1.17% in...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/26/the_genocide-famine_hoax_153216.html</link>
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						<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author><category>Kenin M. Spivak</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/26/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 08:51:12 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/695399_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Ballad of Clairton: An All-American City in Mourning]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ CLAIRTON, Pennsylvania -- Richard Lattanzi started his morning on Aug. 11 getting ready to take his father to his doctor's appointment at Jefferson Hospital on Coal Valley Road in nearby Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania.
Within hours, the hospital would receive trauma victims from a series of explosions at the U.S. Steel Clairton Coke Works. The former steelworker and mayor of Clairton for the past 16 years would stand in front of the plant, comforting members of the community and waiting for word on how many men had lost their lives that day.
Lattanzi proudly said that Clairton has been his...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/26/the_ballad_of_clairton_an_all-american_city_in_mourning_153217.html</link>
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						<author>Salena Zito</author><category>Salena Zito</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/26/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 06:57:21 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/695493_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ What Did President Biden Know, and How Long Did He Remember It?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- What did the president know, and when did he know it? That used to be the eventual question for most administrations. When it comes to former President Joe Biden, however, the question is: Did the president know much of anything?
The GOP-led House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has been trying to answer that question with a series of behind-closed-doors interviews with former Biden staffers. The transcripts aren't out yet, but after the interviews, Chairman James Comer has been happy to share his observations with the press corps.
Ian Sams, the Biden White House press...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/26/what_did_president_biden_know_and_how_long_did_he_remember_it_153219.html</link>
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						<author>Debra Saunders</author><category>Debra Saunders</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/26/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 06:57:58 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/695495_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Europe Is Dying -- Are We Next?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Let's start with a very simple truism: You can't have prosperity without people.
Human beings are the most valuable resource, because it is human ingenuity that creates, captures and cultivates all other resources. We as human beings are the custodians and protectors of the planet, not the destroyers of the planet (as the radical environmentalists would have you believe). The richer and more technologically advanced we become, the more likely we are to avert a catastrophic event like a giant meteor crashing into the planet and destroying all life.
Which brings us to a potentially ruinous...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/26/europe_is_dying_--_are_we_next_153220.html</link>
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						<author>Stephen Moore</author><category>Stephen Moore</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/26/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 06:58:17 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/57/576716_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Collapse of the Democratic Party and Their Deep State Forces]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ If you take a careful look at the decision of a New York appellate court today to throw out the unconstitutional and disgraceful $500 million penalty on President Trump and his businesses...
And then you keep your nose in the newspapers and watch New York's attorney general, Letitia James, getting busted for mortgage fraud...
And then you go back a bit and look at all the declassified documents released by Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe and Kash Patel that show the entire Russiagate hoax was quarterbacked by President Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton...
And then you just think about this...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/24/the_collapse_of_the_democratic_party_and_their_deep_state_forces_153213.html</link>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/24/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2025 06:34:32 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/695355_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Art of the Deal, Russia-Ukraine Style]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Two months after the breathtaking Operation Midnight Hammer strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities and the ceasefire with Israel that soon followed, President Donald Trump has once again upended conventional foreign policy wisdom. After years of escalatory rhetoric, moral posturing and seemingly endless funding packages, Trump's twin high-profile summits with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other European leaders in Washington, D.C., offer the clearest roadmap yet to finally end the tragic war in Ukraine.
And perhaps the toughest...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/24/the_art_of_the_deal_russia-ukraine_style_153214.html</link>
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						<author>Josh Hammer</author><category>Josh Hammer</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/24/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2025 06:35:29 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/695356_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Is It Time To End Mandated &#039;Majority-Minority&#039; Congressional Districts?]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ The Democrats' hackneyed falsehood that Republican gerrymandering in Texas is racist and will end American democracy is not only hysterical - it's hypocritical. While gerrymandering is ethically impaired, it has been part of U.S. politics for more than 200 years, and a mainstay of Democratic Party election strategy since the 1980s.
When redistricting is designed to favor one group over another, it is referred to as gerrymandering. Prior to the 1960s, court challenges to congressional redistricting plans were generally considered to be political questions outside judicial purview. In 1962,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/24/is_it_time_to_end_mandated_majority-minority_congressional_districts_153212.html</link>
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						<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author><category>Kenin M. Spivak</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/24/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2025 06:34:49 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/695290_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Mail-In Ballots Need To Go]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ "I am going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS," President Trump declared Monday in a Truth Social post. Later that day, he promised an executive order "to end mail-in ballots because they are corrupt. You know we are the only country in the world, I believe, I may be wrong, just about, the only country in the world that uses them because of what happened, massive fraud all over the place." 
Trump has remained consistent; even before the 2020 election, he warned: "There is a lot of dishonesty going on with mail-in voting."
Trump doesn't need to hedge about voting rules abroad....]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/22/mail-in_ballots_need_to_go_153204.html</link>
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						<author>John R. Lott Jr.</author><category>John R. Lott Jr.</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/22/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:20:31 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/66/669995_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Mail-In Voting: Trust the States To Decide]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ For more than two centuries, the U.S. Constitution has left the administration of elections to the states. This principle of federalism is not an accident, nor is it an afterthought - it is central to the balance of powers our founders designed. Yet today, proposals in Washington seek to wrest control of election administration away from the states, including efforts to restrict time-tested practices like voting by mail. That would be a mistake.
Conservatives have long defended the right of states to set their own election rules. The Constitution's Elections Clause gives states the authority...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/22/mail-in_voting_trust_the_states_to_decide_153206.html</link>
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						<author>Jan Brewer &amp; Pat McCrory</author><category>Jan Brewer &amp; Pat McCrory</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/22/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:20:21 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/60/608601_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Americans Still Believe in America&rsquo;s Role in Global Progress]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ A decline in national pride. "Doomerism" within Gen Z. The death of American exceptionalism.
Wherever you look, it is easy to find a pessimistic perspective about the future of America. But the American spirit is still very much alive.
Despite growing political polarization and isolationist rhetoric, the latest research reveals that Americans haven't lost faith in their nation as a force for good in the world. This widespread belief offers a foundation that can unite Americans in continuing to be a driver of human progress. (Yes, it is still possible.)
The Human Flourishing Lab's most recent...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/22/americans_still_believe_americas_role_global_progress_153203.html</link>
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						<author>Clay Routledge</author><category>Clay Routledge</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/22/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:21:06 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/695202_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ What Is the Democratic Alternative to Trump?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The Pavlovian Left goes berserk at the mere prospect of each new Trump initiative.
Its escalating reactive venom and hysteria are calibrated to the success of Trump's latest policy.
Yet the new hard-left Democratic Party offers no counter-agenda to explain its furor. Still less do Democrats attempt bipartisan efforts to craft shared legislation.
Take foreign policy.
Democratic senators trashed the recent Trump-Putin Alaskan summit as a failure. Then they became depressed when, just days later, an entourage of European leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suddenly flew to the...]]></description>
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						<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author><category>Victor Davis Hanson</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/22/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ The &#039;60 Minutes&#039; Squad Was Tick-Tick-Tick Terrific for Biden]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ New York Times reporter James Stewart wrote a big article based on a series of interviews with CBS owner Shari Redstone, and buried deep in the piece was something wild that should have been obvious: CBS settled Donald Trump's lawsuit to keep the public from seeing how they make "news" sausage.
Stewart said Redstone "worried that Mr. Trump's lawyers could cherry-pick raw footage and internal communications and do more damage to CBS News's reputation than any settlement would." She wanted their sale of CBS and Paramount to Skydance Media to get federal approval, and the lawsuit complicated...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/22/the_60_minutes_squad_was_tick-tick-tick_terrific_for_biden_153208.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/22/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:20:03 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/68/687043_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Is Socialism as Popular as the Media Think?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ "Democratic socialists" have been getting the teenage-idol treatment from giddy reporters and editors at legacy media outlets for years.
Their newest crush, as New Yorkers already know, is jihadi-apologist and Marxist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.
In a 4,500-word cover story headlined "The Meaning of Zohran Mamdani," Time magazine paints a caricature of a well-meaning, authentic and not-really-so-radical go-getter. An "ideologue interested in creative solutions" is how Time puts it.
Sure, Mamdani might support genocidal rhetoric, but the Jewish community will be pleased to...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/22/is_socialism_as_popular_as_the_media_think_153209.html</link>
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						<author>David Harsanyi</author><category>David Harsanyi</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/22/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:19:45 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/694614_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Leaking From Anti-Trumpers, It&#039;s as Shocking as Gambling in Casablanca]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- Sen. Adam Schiff, the California Democrat who relied on leakers and big media to go after President Donald Trump, now has his turn on the wobbly three-legged stool of politics, law enforcement and the settling of scores.
Unlike D.C. Democrats, who used their perches to go after Trump by any means necessary, the president isn't even pretending that his goal is justice. His goal in investigating Schiff, I'd say, is payback -- to do unto others as they have done unto him.
Trump's lead is Ed Martin, who could not win confirmation as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, but...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/22/leaking_from_anti-trumpers_its_as_shocking_as_gambling_in_casablanca_153210.html</link>
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						<author>Debra Saunders</author><category>Debra Saunders</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/22/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:19:28 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/61/612904_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Why Would We Want Bad People Here?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ This week, news emerged that the Trump administration has been setting new standards with regard to incoming immigrants. According to Axios, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will not take into account the "positive attributes" of migrants entering the country; such attributes can include community involvement and educational level. Instead of simply seeking to rule out those with records of misconduct, the new system seeks to screen for better immigrants -- immigrants who will enrich America.
Along the same lines, the CIS will now disqualify applicants who engage in or support...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/21/why_would_we_want_bad_people_here_153200.html</link>
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						<author>Ben Shapiro</author><category>Ben Shapiro</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/21/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2025 06:40:38 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/68/689892_1_.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump&#039;s War on Mail-In Voting]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ President Donald Trump is declaring war on mail-in voting. In a recent announcement, the president stated that an executive order to end mail-in voting in federal elections is currently being drafted.
There's been a lot of talk over the past two presidential cycles over mail-in voting and whether or not it contributes to voter fraud. And no doubt Trump is likely still dismayed over his defeat during the 2020 election, which took place during the COVID-19 pandemic, and which saw a significant portion of votes mailed in.
Unfortunately for Republicans, their crusade against mail-in voting likely...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/21/trumps_war_on_mail-in_voting_153201.html</link>
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						<author>Armstrong Williams</author><category>Armstrong Williams</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/21/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2025 06:40:53 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/659908_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump&rsquo;s Impatience With Small Nations and Their Leaders]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ President Trump rolled out the red carpet and other trappings of diplomacy last week to welcome Russian President Vladimir Putin to U.S. soil for what were largely unproductive talks about ending the Ukraine war.
During his time with Putin, an accused international war criminal who in 2022 launched an unprovoked armed invasion of Ukraine, Trump referred deferentially to his guest as "Vladimir" and hailed "a fantastic relationship" he claimed to have with the Russian dictator.
The Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska contrasted sharply with another president's visit this month - that of Karin...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/21/trumps_impatience_with_small_nations_and_their_leaders__153199.html</link>
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						<author>W. Joseph Campbell</author><category>W. Joseph Campbell</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/21/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2025 06:41:11 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/695123_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ ODNI 2.0: With Trump&rsquo;s &lsquo;Greenlight&rsquo; Gabbard Launches Historic Intel Overhaul]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Tulsi Gabbard told President Trump before her nomination that she had come to peace with serving as last director of national intelligence if eliminating the post was necessary to permanently reform the sprawling intelligence community.
Now six months after her confirmation and with the president's blessing, Gabbard will launch a campaign to dramatically overhaul the entire agency by returning it to its original purpose and thereby preserving its future.
According to senior officials who assisted in the review, the plan includes cutting the workforce by 40%, eliminating redundant mission...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/20/odni_20_with_trumps_greenlight_gabbard_launches_historic_intelligence_overhaul__153198.html</link>
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						<author>Philip Wegmann</author><category>Philip Wegmann</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/20/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:38:38 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/692938_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Brian Stelter Underlines CNN Hypocrisy on White House Behavior]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Liberal journalists who decry an allegedly pusillanimous White House press corps under Trump never seem to spend 10 seconds considering how "courageous" this group was under Biden.
CNN "Chief Media Analyst" Brian Stelter tweeted: "The Trump White House has sought to reshape the press corps in its favor this year, and today showcased how well the effort has succeeded." Stelter was unhappy that no one ruined President Donald Trump's Q&A session in the Oval Office with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
"This display, especially in front of foreign leaders, is so embarrassing," Stelter said...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/20/brian_stelter_underlines_cnn_hypocrisy_on_white_house_behavior_153196.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/20/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2025 04:25:27 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/651613_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Zohran Mamdani -- When Will We Ever Learn?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The two most recent polls -- Gotham and Siena -- on the New York City mayoral race, show Democrat candidate Zohran Mamdani leading Andrew Cuomo, running second as an independent, by 18 and 19 points respectively.
Mamdani defeated Cuomo in the Democratic primary in June, garnering 56.39% of the vote.
Mamdani is a New York State Assemblyman, a Muslim born in Uganda and a declared member of Democratic Socialists of America.
Commentators are attributing one major factor in Mamdani's success to large turnout and support from Gen Z voters, ages 18-29.
Aside from Mamdani's unabashed socialism, he is...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/20/zohran_mamdani_--_when_will_we_ever_learn_153197.html</link>
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						<author>Star Parker</author><category>Star Parker</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/20/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump Is Moving at Warp Speed To Get a Peace Deal]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ If anybody can get a peace deal and end the Russian war on Ukraine, as I've said before, it's President Trump.
And, right now, he's moving at warp speed. Bypassing a cease-fire and moving straight to a peace deal, it appears that he has already got a NATO-like security guarantee agreement from President Vladimir Putin.
Presumably, President Volodymyr Zelensky will agree.
The issue of a land swap is still up in the air. If I had to guess, though, Mr. Putin is going to get the better deal.
It could be unfair to give Mr. Putin what he wants on Donetsk and other occupied areas.
Yet there is such...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/19/trump_is_moving_at_warp_speed_to_get_a_peace_deal_153194.html</link>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/19/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2025 03:55:40 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/694986_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ &#039;Drill, Baby, Drill&#039; Is Working]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Well, so much for the vaunted renewable energy "transition" to save the planet. This was always a fable. We get 80% of our energy from fossil fuels, and with Donald Trump now in the White House, that ratio is rising, not falling.
A Reuters headline from recent days tells the real story: "US crude production to hit record 13.41 million (barrels per day) in 2025 before falling."
The data from the International Energy Agency tells the same story about clean natural gas: We're producing more of it than ever before. Why shouldn't we? The U.S. has greater access to clean, cheap, reliable and...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/19/drill_baby_drill_is_working_153192.html</link>
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						<author>Stephen Moore</author><category>Stephen Moore</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/19/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2025 03:55:58 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/45/458152_1_.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump&#039;s Biggest Immigration Win Yet]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Solving America's illegal immigration crisis didn't require amnesty -- just better leadership.
Last week, the Center for Immigration Studies released a study showing America's foreign-born population dropped by 2.2 million from January to July. While the number of naturalized U.S. citizens increased, there was a staggering 1.6 million-person drop among illegal immigrants. CIS estimated that this represented a 10% decline in the country's illegal immigrant population.
While determining the number of illegal immigrants always requires estimation, this drop is supported by anecdotal...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/19/trumps_biggest_immigration_win_yet_153193.html</link>
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						<author>Victor Joecks</author><category>Victor Joecks</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/19/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2025 03:56:15 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/694985_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Christopher Yates Pens Must-Read Thriller for the Summer]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ "The Rabbit Club," the newest novel from Christopher Yates, America's finest writer of thrillers, weaves a tale nearly impossible to put down. It includes Oxford University, secret societies, danger and suspense at every turn, and a sense of anticipation much needed in a world filled with instant gratification.
Yates says penning novels with intricate story details and twists and turns that unravel unexpectedly is sometimes a challenge, given today's way of appreciating storytelling.
"Storytelling is changing because of social media and streaming. Novels are, by their nature, very slow, so...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/19/christopher_yates_pens_must-read_thriller_for_the_summer_153190.html</link>
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						<author>Salena Zito</author><category>Salena Zito</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/19/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2025 03:56:32 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/53/537794_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Is Gavin Newsom the Democrats&#039; Answer to Trump?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Gavin Newsom wants to be the new Donald Trump.
No, California's governor isn't moving to the right or cracking down on illegal immigration -- quite the opposite.
On Monday, the White House blasted Newsom for continuing to offer commercial drivers' licenses to illegal aliens like Harjinder Singh, the trucker accused of killing three people while attempting an unlawful U-turn on the Florida Turnpike last week.
"The illegal alien is an Indian national who was granted a commercial driver's license by the so-called 'sanctuary state' of California," the White House said in a press release.
Newsom...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/19/is_gavin_newsom_the_democrats_answer_to_trump_153191.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel McCarthy</author><category>Daniel McCarthy</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/19/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2025 03:56:48 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/694982_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Dressed for Success: Zelensky Wears Suit to White House]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ This time, he wore a sort-of suit.
When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky packed for the White House, he left his fatigues at home and sported instead a jacket, sans tie. The wartime leader had so ruffled President Trump last time they met in the Oval Office, with his military-style sweatshirt and indignation, that he was unceremoniously kicked off campus. From the start, Monday was different.
The American president put his arm around and pulled close his Ukrainian counterpart the moment Zelensky stepped out of his motorcade. The two smiled; there now seems to be more momentum for peace...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/18/dressed_for_success_zelensky_wears_suit_to_white_house_153189.html</link>
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						<author>Philip Wegmann</author><category>Philip Wegmann</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/18/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2025 20:51:22 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/694973_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Shapiro&rsquo;s Shadow Campaign: Taxpayer Funds Power National PR Machine]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ As speculation around his presidential ambitions swirls, make no mistake: Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is already campaigning. And his national shadow campaign isn't powered by donors - it's bankrolled by taxpayers. 
Shapiro is sitting on a massive war chest backed by megadonors like Steven Spielberg, Reid Hoffman, George Soros, and Mike Bloomberg. But election law bars him from using those funds for a federal campaign. While other potential 2028 contenders have launched leadership PACs to test the waters, Shapiro has taken a different path: weaponizing the machinery of state government to...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/17/shapiros_shadow_campaign_taxpayer_funds_power_national_pr_machine_153185.html</link>
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						<author>Erik Telford</author><category>Erik Telford</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/17/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ New Yorkers: Pay Attention to What&#039;s Happening in Chicago]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Zohran Mamdani attributes his Democratic nomination for New York City mayor to the confidence he has inspired in younger voters.
"I've been heartened in many of my conversations with older New Yorkers, who've told me they were introduced to the campaign by their son or their daughter," Mamdani quipped. "I think it's indicative of a new generation of leadership."
His social media-savvy campaign promises to make NYC affordable and pursue social justice.
We get the appeal as Gen Zers - the generation who led Mamdani to triumph over Cuomo in the primary. We're part of the most housing-burdened...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/17/new_yorkers_pay_attention_to_whats_happening_in_chicago.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel Idfresne &amp; Micky Horstman</author><category>Daniel Idfresne &amp; Micky Horstman</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/17/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2025 13:19:32 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/694766_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The MAHA Commission Must Choose Science Over Rhetoric]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ In an industry that operates at the mercy of Mother Nature and the markets, the last thing farming families like mine - and the thousands more represented by the Modern Ag Alliance - need is more uncertainty, but the conversation in Washington over crop protection tools has American agriculture on edge.
As the MAHA Commission prepares to issue its policy recommendations this week, farmers are watching closely. After the commission's deeply flawed and concerning initial report, recent signals from the administration have been encouraging. We should all applaud the renewed focus on improving...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/16/the_maha_commission_must_choose_science_over_rhetoric_153187.html</link>
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						<author>Elizabeth Burns-Thompson</author><category>Elizabeth Burns-Thompson</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/16/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump Vows Social Security Will Thrive for Another &lsquo;90 Years&rsquo;]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Nearly a century removed, the Republican president heralded his Democratic predecessor for "one of the most significant pieces of legislation ever signed into law," the bill that created Social Security.
The program turned 90 this month. Without reform, its 100th anniversary is not guaranteed.
President Trump still heralded FDR for the program, created at the height of the Great Depression, and vowed in the Oval Office to preserve and improve it "for 90 years and beyond." The president said this was his "sacred pledge to our seniors." Had he not returned to the White House, Trump boasted,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/15/trump_vows_social_security_will_thrive_for_another_90_years__153178.html</link>
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						<author>Philip Wegmann</author><category>Philip Wegmann</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/15/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 04:34:39 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/694694_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Redistricting in Historic Perspective]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ In assessing the current controversy over Texas Republicans' proposed redistricting of the state's U.S. House seats, two historic facts should be considered.
One is that the principle of equal representation by population is well established in American history. In 1787, the Constitutional Convention required the members of the House of Representatives to be apportioned according to population as determined by a census to be conducted within three years and every 10 years thereafter.
This was a remarkable provision -- the first example, so far as I know, in which representation was directly...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/15/redistricting_in_historic_perspective_153180.html</link>
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						<author>Michael Barone</author><category>Michael Barone</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/15/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 04:34:58 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/693907_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Democrats Should Abandon Their Self-Destructive Fixations]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ "Destroying democracy" -- the latest theme of the left -- can be defined in many different ways.
How about attempting to destroy constitutional, ancient, and hallowed institutions simply to suit short-term political gains?
So, who in 2020, and now once again, has boasted about packing the 156-year-old, nine-justice Supreme Court?
Who talks frequently about destroying the 187-year-old Senate filibuster--though only when they hold a Senate majority?
Who wants to bring in an insolvent left-wing Puerto Rico and redefine the 235-year-old District of Columbia -- by altering the Constitution -- as...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/15/democrats_should_abandon_their_self-destructive_fixations.html</link>
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						<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author><category>Victor Davis Hanson</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/15/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 04:36:00 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/68/685851_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Today&#039;s Gen Z Doubts a Sign of More To Come]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ As states like Mississippi proceed with social media age verification laws, technology is in the crosshairs.
Social media's adverse effects are no longer guesswork. For years, American parents have grappled with higher rates of anxiety and depression, with children paying the price in our attention economy - click by click. Researchers like Jonathan Haidt have rightly labeled today's adolescents as "The Anxious Generation.
But even Haidt's research only scratches the surface. Anxiety and depression are just two unintended consequences of social media use. Nor is social media the sole...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/15/todays_gen_z_doubts_a_sign_of_more_to_come.html</link>
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						<author>Amir Kanpurwala</author><category>Amir Kanpurwala</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/15/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 04:35:40 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/63/631647_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ How Dare Anyone Question Wokeness at the Smithsonian Museums?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The central strategy of media bias is defining your terms. The most obnoxious strategy of liberal journalists is defining the Republicans as ideological extremists engaging in culture wars and weaponizing partisan narratives for political victory.
They pretend Democrats are nothing like this. The epic political battles of our time are between the ultraconservatives and the nonpartisans.
The same exercise happens with federally funded messaging, from public broadcasting to national museums. When President Donald Trump demands a review of these taxpayer-subsidized narratives, it's considered...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/15/how_dare_anyone_question_wokeness_at_the_smithsonian_museums_153179.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/15/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 04:35:24 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/694642_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Save the Little Sisters of the Poor!]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ It's enraging.
More than a decade after the Obama administration tried to force the Little Sisters of the Poor to buy contraception for their employees, including abortifacient drugs, states are still hounding the nuns in court.
At its heart, Obamacare was a massive welfare program meant to redistribute health care costs to the middle class. But it was also a social engineering project aimed at coercing religious organizations and businesses to adopt progressive values. The Affordable Care Act mandated employers, including not-for-profits like Little Sisters of the Poor, pay for...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/15/save_the_little_sisters_of_the_poor_153183.html</link>
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						<author>David Harsanyi</author><category>David Harsanyi</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/15/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 04:35:17 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/693211_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ It&#039;s Past Time to Designate the Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Organization]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ On Tuesday, New York City radio host Sid Rosenberg asked Secretary of State Marco Rubio about whether the State Department intends to designate the Muslim Brotherhood and Council on American-Islamic Relations as terrorist organizations. Rubio responded that "all of that is in the works," although "obviously there are different branches of the Muslim Brotherhood, so you'd have to designate each one of them."
Logistics and bureaucracy aside: It's about time.
For far too long, the United States has treated the Muslim Brotherhood with a dangerous combination of naivete and willful blindness. The...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/15/its_past_time_to_designate_the_muslim_brotherhood_a_terrorist_organization_153181.html</link>
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						<author>Josh Hammer</author><category>Josh Hammer</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/15/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 04:36:17 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/48/481821_1_.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump Sees Himself as DC&#039;s Top Lawman]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- In 2024, candidate Donald Trump pledged to "take over the horribly run capital of our nation in Washington, D.C., and clean it up, renovate it, and rebuild our capital city so that it's no longer a nightmare of murder and crime."
On Aug. 11, President Donald Trump announced he would federalize the district's Metropolitan Police Department and deploy the National Guard in D.C.
In response, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser shared that she has a different goal: to "protect our autonomy." Bowser says she is ready to work with Trump to fight crime, even as she maintains that crime in the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/14/trump_sees_himself_as_dcs_top_lawman_153175.html</link>
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						<author>Debra Saunders</author><category>Debra Saunders</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/14/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2025 12:22:29 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/694596_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Silent Majority Is Applauding]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The silent majority in Washington, D.C., and across our nation is applauding. Even one crime is one crime too many.
On Aug. 11, President Donald Trump, invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act passed by the United States Congress, declared a "crime emergency in the District of Columbia" and ordered the deployment of 800 National Guard troops, 200 of whom are earmarked to assist D.C. law enforcement, to the city. The president named Attorney General Pam Bondi and Drug Enforcement Agency Administrator Terry Cole to work with the Metropolitan Police Department.
The D.C....]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/14/the_silent_majority_is_applauding_153176.html</link>
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						<author>Armstrong Williams</author><category>Armstrong Williams</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/14/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2025 12:22:47 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/655463_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ As Many as 1 Million Kids Will Have School Choice This Year]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ This is the dawning of the age of school choice.
The school bells will start ringing in the days and weeks ahead, but a record number of kids -- especially children from low-income families -- will be opting out of the traditional public schools. This year as many as 1 million kids will participate in public school alternatives, including voucher programs, tuition tax credits, scholarship programs or charter schools.
That's a good thing, right? After all, to paraphrase the famous axiom: When schools compete, kids win.
But that's not the way the teachers unions and the education aristocracy...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/13/as_many_as_1_million_kids_will_have_school_choice_this_year_153173.html</link>
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						<author>Stephen Moore</author><category>Stephen Moore</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/13/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 04:44:09 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/67/671206_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Gavin Newsom&#039;s Misguided Redistricting Initiative]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ California Gov. Gavin Newsom is upset with Texas.
There's a reason he should be upset. California companies are pulling up in droves and moving to the Lone Star State and elsewhere.
But that isn't what's bothering him. Newsom cares about politics and power, not markets and business.
He's upset that the Texas state legislature is moving to redistricting that could add up to five Republican seats in 2026. So, Newsom wants to redistrict, which could add another five Democrat seats in California.
California's congressional districts are already gerrymandered to death to favor Democrats -- 17% of...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/13/gavin_newsoms_misguided_redistricting_initiative_153174.html</link>
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						<author>Star Parker</author><category>Star Parker</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/13/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 04:43:48 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/694490_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ WH &lsquo;Plans&rsquo; and &lsquo;Hopes&rsquo; To Continue Releasing Monthly Jobs Reports]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ After President Trump nominated E.J. Antoni, an economist at the Heritage Foundation, to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the White House told RealClearPolitics Tuesday that it is the "plan" and "hope" of the administration to continue to release monthly job reports.
A barometer for growth, few numbers are as fraught in presidential politics.
A good jobs report can buoy an administration. A dismal one can bring headwinds and invite questions about a president's economic agenda. For his part, Antoni suggested that the agency he is slated to lead should suspend the monthly jobs report,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/12/wh_plans_and_hopes_to_continue_releasing_monthly_jobs_reports_153172.html</link>
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						<author>Philip Wegmann</author><category>Philip Wegmann</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/12/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 14:16:30 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/694462_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump Admin Efforts Could Sharply Reduce DC Crime]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ When 10 juveniles brutally attacked former DOGE whiz kid Edward Coristine - nicknamed "Big Balls" - in an attempted carjacking that left him bloodied, Washington, D.C.'s violent crime rate exploded into a political flashpoint. President Trump's decision to federalize the D.C. police and bring in FBI agents and the National Guard to fight crime has upset liberals who attack it as "unnecessary" and the media who fact check Trump's statements on crime as false.
"I'm going to make our Capital safer and more beautiful than it ever was before," President Trump vowed on Truth Social. "The criminals...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/12/trump_admin_efforts_could_sharply_reduce_dc_crime_153171.html</link>
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						<author>John R. Lott Jr.</author><category>John R. Lott Jr.</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/12/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 13:48:39 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/694438_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Economic Element Behind Trump&#039;s Crime-Fighting Push]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Rising Democrats like Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani at New York and Omar Fateh at Minneapolis call for defunding the police, and substituting social workers for cops.
And other leading Democratic lights like Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Elizabeth Warren have never stopped calling for defunding the police. 
And nearly the whole Democratic Party favors no bail, no jail, maintaining their phony sanctuary cities, and fighting the brave efforts by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to capture and deport the worst of the worst illegal immigrants.
Well, here comes President Trump...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/12/economic_element_behind_trumps_crime-fighting_push_153170.html</link>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/12/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 06:13:24 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/694400_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ World Rewards Hamas for Its Atrocities]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas launched a brutal assault on Israel. As 5,000 rockets slammed into civilian targets, terrorists massacred at least 1,200 Israelis, wounded about 3,500, and took 251 hostages. They raped, eviscerated, mutilated, beheaded, tortured, and incinerated their victims. At least 75 hostages have died, and about 20 remain in captivity.
Prior to the attack, 137 UN member countries recognized Palestinian statehood. Apparently unbothered by Hamas' savagery, and distressed by Israel's aggressive military response, 10 additional nations recognized Palestine after the attack. In the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/12/world_rewards_hamas_for_its_atrocities_153167.html</link>
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						<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author><category>Kenin M. Spivak</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/12/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 06:13:43 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/694363_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Mamdani&rsquo;s Biggest Threat to Democrats]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ For the last 10 years, it's been difficult for Democrats to win elections unless the campaigns center on Donald Trump. But the arrival of Zohran Mamdani on the national stage risks carrying the Democratic Party far off message - and derailing its strategy for 2026 and beyond.
With his upset win in the Democratic primary, Democratic-Socialist Mamdani has the inside track in New York City's mayoral race. New York already has a host of problems: crime, illegal immigration, high spending, high taxes, and a declining population and dwindling tax base. Mamdani's radical policy proposals only...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/12/mamdanis_biggest_threat_to_democrats_153166.html</link>
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						<author>J.T. Young</author><category>J.T. Young</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/12/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 06:14:05 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/694362_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Just Say No to More Marijuana]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Will more marijuana use make America a better place?
Not many who've seen and smelled what legalizing the drug has done to cities like New York, D.C. and San Francisco would say so.
Yet President Donald Trump is contemplating a change to marijuana's federal classification that would make it easier to buy and more profitable to sell.
The pot industry is heavily invested in getting its product recategorized from a Schedule 1 to a Schedule 3 drug, and industry leaders ponied up for a $1-million-a-plate Trump fundraising dinner earlier this month to hear what the president had in mind, The Wall...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/12/just_say_no_to_more_marijuana_153168.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel McCarthy</author><category>Daniel McCarthy</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/12/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 06:14:40 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/63/637715_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ How the Left Feeds Hunger in Gaza]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ If Western leftists cared less about starving children in Gaza, there would be fewer starving children in Gaza.
Food shortages have been a major concern in the Gaza Strip. U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee recently said that those living there face "hunger and deprivation and possibly starvation."
Leftists blame Israel.
"The forced famine of more than 2 million people in Gaza, including one in five children, is the direct result of Israel withholding food aid," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., wrote on X. She called it a "genocide."
There are similar sentiments around the world....]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/12/how_the_left_feeds_hunger_in_gaza_153169.html</link>
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						<author>Victor Joecks</author><category>Victor Joecks</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/12/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Russiagate Redux: Can&rsquo;t Keep a Good Hoax Down]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ When intelligence czar Tulsi Gabbard released her report last month accusing major players in the Obama administration of fabricating the Russia collusion hoax used to tarnish Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign and beyond, some of us were not surprised.
Nor were we surprised that the news media has either ignored the story or tried to discredit it. We are very familiar with that playbook, having seen major media outlets use it to perfection when 51 intelligence officials signed a letter falsely claiming that Hunter Biden's incriminating laptop had "all the classic earmarks of...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/11/russiagate_redux_cant_keep_a_good_hoax_down_153165.html</link>
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						<author>Frank Miele</author><category>Frank Miele</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/11/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 11:31:57 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/692926_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ The High Cost of Low Expectations]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Pennsylvania's complacency is driving decline. It's time we stop masking the failures and start building for the future.
If Pennsylvania were a business, would you invest in it? In a July op-ed, senior fellow with the Commonwealth Foundation Guy Ciarrochi didn't sugarcoat anything. Pennsylvania punishes innovation and energy production, traps children in failing schools, and looks the other way as we fall in the rankings. What's worse is that too many have stopped noticing. "If the fifty states were companies," Ciarrochi said, "investors would avoid putting their money in...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/10/the_high_cost_of_low_expectations_153163.html</link>
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						<author>Timothy O&#039;Neal</author><category>Timothy O&#039;Neal</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/10/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2025 04:26:11 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/694256_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Quiet Revolt Against DEI Led by Black and Hispanic Americans]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Black and Hispanic Americans are more likely than their white counterparts to believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts can increase discrimination, according to a new Associated Press-NORC poll.
About four in 10 black adults and about one-third of Hispanics say that DEI increases unintended discrimination against their respective groups, compared to one-fourth of white adults.
These numbers come as universities face growing public and legal scrutiny over DEI-driven hiring and admissions.
George Mason University is scrambling to reverse its DEI hiring policies after a John...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/09/quiet_revolt_against_dei_led_by_black_and_hispanic_americans_153155.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel Idfresne</author><category>Daniel Idfresne</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/09/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2025 05:59:58 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/694136_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ How U.S. Health Care Failed Women on HRT&mdash;And What&rsquo;s Being Done To Fix It]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Across the country, women entering menopause often find themselves in a great battle - biological, emotional, and psychological - accompanied by a cascade of disruptive symptoms including hot flashes, brain fog, insomnia, and mood swings. These changes can be life-altering, yet they're too often met with minimal support from their doctors.
Instead of real solutions, many women are offered platitudes: Try yoga, drink more water, maybe take an antidepressant. Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) - once a common standard of care - is rarely mentioned, and when it is, the treatment is often...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/09/how_us_health_care_failed_women_on_hrt_whats_being_done_to_fix_it_153161.html</link>
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						<author>Adair Teuton</author><category>Adair Teuton</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/09/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2025 06:00:19 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/691516_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Second Acts in America &ndash; Or at Least Second Innings]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Another Pan-Mass Challenge has come and gone. There are thousands of worthy charities in this world and a million noble causes, so it's dicey to single one out, but the Pan-Mass is dear to my heart for several reasons. I'll mention three or four:
First, its origins involve baseball, which is still my favorite sport despite a late-in-life conversion to golf.
Second, 100% of the money raised in the event goes to the charity, in this case the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The origins of this fundraising effort date to the 1940s, but just since 1980, the Pan-Mass Challenge - a long bicycle race -...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/08/second_acts_in_america__or_at_least_second_innings_153162.html</link>
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						<author>Carl M. Cannon</author><category>Carl M. Cannon</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/08/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ What About the Speck in Your Eye?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Anybody who thinks American optimism is dead doesn't know a thing about our cut-throat politics.
Each day the legacy media details President Trump's latest alleged outrage and its devotees cheer, "We got him now."
On the other side of the mirror, the conservative-leaning media reports on the left's latest seeming cover-up and lie, and its fans shout, "They're going down."
Then nothing happens.
Trump is never frog-marched out of the White House. President Obama and his former crew are never tried for treason. Instead of leg-irons, the accused get rewarded.
Through two impeachments, 34 felony...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/08/what_about_the_speck_in_your_eye_153154.html</link>
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						<author>J. Peder Zane</author><category>J. Peder Zane</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/08/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2025 05:44:47 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/694135_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Why DEI Was Already Dying]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ President Donald Trump's executive orders banning Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI)-related racial and gender preferencing have ostensibly doomed the DEI industry.
But DEI was already on its last legs. Half of all Americans no longer approve of racial, ethnic, or gender preferences.
DEI had enjoyed a surge following the death of George Floyd and the subsequent 120 days of nonstop rioting, arson, assaults, killings, and attacks on law enforcement during the summer of 2020.
In those chaotic years, DEI was seen as the answer to racial tensions.
DEI had insidiously replaced the old notion of...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/08/why_dei_was_already_dying_153157.html</link>
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						<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author><category>Victor Davis Hanson</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/08/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2025 05:45:36 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/68/681676_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Learning From America&#039;s Immigrant Past]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ When debating current issues, it's helpful to avoid inaccurate depictions of past policy, especially on immigration, in which both opponents and advocates of President Donald Trump's policies have views based on not altogether accurate renditions of the past.
Many opponents of Trump's policies seem to believe the president wants to cut off legal immigration altogether, to shut America's gates. But in recent times, around 800,000 individuals have taken the oath to become American citizens. In addition, about 1 million people have been granted green cards each year, making them eligible for...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/08/learning_from_americas_immigrant_past_153159.html</link>
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						<author>Michael Barone</author><category>Michael Barone</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/08/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2025 05:45:21 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/68/689892_1_.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Hamas Understands the Myopia and Moral Imbecility of the West]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Just a few weeks ago, it was widely thought that Israel and the terrorist group Hamas were nearing a deal to end the war in Gaza. In that deal, Hamas leadership would agree to go into exile, Israeli hostages would be freed from their hellish captivity and surrounding Arab nations could help fund the rebuilding of a more peaceful Gaza Strip.
That, at least, was the hope.
And then it all fell apart.
It fell apart for one simple reason: Hamas understands the West far better than the West understands Hamas. Hamas understands that if it forces the suffering of its own people, if it maximizes and...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/08/hamas_understands_the_myopia_and_moral_imbecility_of_the_west_153160.html</link>
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						<author>Ben Shapiro</author><category>Ben Shapiro</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/08/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2025 05:45:05 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/68/686402_1_.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ America Must Never Apologize for Dropping the Bombs on Japan]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ This week marks the 80th anniversary of President Harry Truman's fateful decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (respectively, Aug. 6 and 9, 1945). To date, those two bombings represent the only instances in which nuclear weapons have been deployed in war. At least 150,000 Japanese perished -- a majority of them civilians. But the bombings were successful in achieving their intended effect: Japan announced its formal surrender to the Allies six days after the second bombing, thus finally bringing the bloodiest conflict in human history to an end.
For...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/08/america_must_never_apologize_for_dropping_the_bombs_on_japan_153158.html</link>
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						<author>Josh Hammer</author><category>Josh Hammer</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/08/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2025 05:45:52 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/49/494715_1_.png" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Hollywood&#039;s Writers Wage War on &#039;King&#039; Trump]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The entertainment press found it very important to report that Hollywood thinks President Donald Trump is an authoritarian. This is still somehow considered "news." Over 2,300 members of the Writers Guild felt compelled to speak out in an open letter because they believe in their "role in a healthy democracy."
In 2024, democracy was healthy, and Hollywood's candidate lost. "Writers Guild of America West PAC Endorses Kamala Harris for President," they announced. So sad. They can't get over it.
When the Left's feverishly spinning propaganda machines don't work, "now we face an unprecedented,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/08/hollywoods_writers_wage_war_on_king_trump_153156.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/08/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2025 05:46:06 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/691655_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ This Chapter of Left-Wing &#039;Debanking&#039; Is Coming to an End]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Imagine an individual with hundreds of millions of dollars in cash who wants to put his money in a bank, a big bank - in fact, the biggest banks in America - and they won't let him.
Then, imagine this billionaire has a long-term banking relationship with financial giants, but one of them told him, "I'm sorry, sir, we can't have you. You have 20 days to get out."
That's the incredible story President Trump disclosed Tuesday in an interview on CNBC - of how JP Morgan and Bank of America debanked him.
He had done business with them for many decades. He had never defaulted.
When he was president,...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/07/this_chapter_of_left-wing_debanking_is_coming_to_an_end_153151.html</link>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/07/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 09:29:12 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/694086_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Redistricting War Scrambles Loyalties]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Several prominent Trump loyalists have been conscripted into compliance, while others are in outright rebellion.
At least two Republican House members are in the unusual position of putting their necks out and resisting President Trump in his drive to redraw new congressional maps before the 2026 midterms. They say they have their constituents' best interests at heart, but they are also looking out for their own. They're trying to stop a retaliatory war to save their seats in Congress and retain what GOP congressional representation they're clinging to in predominantly blue states like...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/07/redistricting_war_scrambles_loyalties__153152.html</link>
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						<author>Susan Crabtree</author><category>Susan Crabtree</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/07/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 06:11:34 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/694091_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ JB Pritzker&rsquo;s Presidential Ambitions Are Sinking Him at Home]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ JB Pritzker's falling poll numbers in his home state should come as no surprise.
A new poll conducted by M3 Strategies on behalf of the Illinois Policy Institute reveals that Gov. Pritzker is now underwater with Illinois general election voters. The reason? While he's focused on building a national profile and appealing to far-left primary voters, he's alienating the very people who elected him governor.
It's no secret Pritzker has his eyes on the White House. And the first step on that path is winning over national Democratic primary voters. Over the past year, he's made increasingly radical...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/07/jb_pritzkers_presidential_ambitions_are_sinking_him_at_home_153149.html</link>
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						<author>Mark Batinick</author><category>Mark Batinick</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/07/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 13:48:16 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/694021_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Where Are the Heroes?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Following the tragic mass shooting in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, that resulted in the deaths of four individuals, including a New York City Police Department officer, we must confront a vital question: Where were the heroes?
Reports indicate that the shooter walked from the curb to the entrance of 345 Park Avenue, a distance estimated at between 50 feet to 100 feet, with his assault rifle held out to his side. He approached the entrance during peak hours at 6:28 p.m., attracting the attention of numerous bystanders before entering the building and discharging his weapon. In the minute...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/07/where_are_the_heroes_153150.html</link>
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						<author>Armstrong Williams</author><category>Armstrong Williams</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/07/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 06:06:01 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/694069_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Biden DOE Launched Voter Registration Campaign Aimed at Welfare Recipients]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ The Department of Energy targeted low-income households that qualify for federal weatherization assistance as part of former President Biden's executive order to promote voter turnout, RealClearPolitics is first to report.
At the direction of then-Secretary Jennifer Granholm, the Energy Department launched an initiative called "Get Energized to Vote" to boost turnout ahead of the 2022 midterms, despite the fact that the agency had no congressional mandate to do so and no experience running voter turnout campaigns.
As part of that effort, the agency directed approximately 35,000 households...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/06/biden_doe_launched_voter_registration_campaign_aimed_at_welfare_recipients_153144.html</link>
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						<author>Philip Wegmann</author><category>Philip Wegmann</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/06/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2025 10:31:41 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/693983_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Gen Z Women Leaving the Left, Adopting Lifestyle Conservatism]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Disillusioned by the left's empty promises, Gen Z women are abandoning social and political institutions and pursuing aesthetically conservative lifestyles. But can conservative institutions meet them where they are?
Gen Z women are often branded as hyper-liberal and cut off from tradition. But the data tells a more complicated story.
In 2024, 40% of women aged 18-24 were religiously unaffiliated, a sharp rise from 29% in 2013. Just 36% of Gen Z women say they have some or a great deal of trust in organized religion. Broader institutional trust is also low. Just 41% of Gen Z adults express...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/06/gen_z_women_leaving_the_left_adopting_lifestyle_conservatism_153142.html</link>
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						<author>Anna Mays</author><category>Anna Mays</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/06/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2025 06:07:05 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/693930_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Scaring and Bullying Jewish Schoolkids Is on the Ballot This November]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ "From the river to the sea" -- shorthand for the obliteration of Israel. It's a phrase meant to terrorize.
Here in the U.S., from the Hudson River to the Pacific, antisemitism is surging in public schools. The Trump administration, which is cracking down on the abuse of Jewish students on college campuses, needs to also turn attention to the public schools. And people of all faiths need to object. Jews shouldn't have to fight this battle alone.
In New York City, antisemitic graffiti, bullying, anti-Jewish slurs and pro-Hamas propaganda are tolerated in public schools, according to the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/06/scaring_and_bullying_jewish_schoolkids_is_on_the_ballot_this_november_153145.html</link>
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						<author>Betsy McCaughey</author><category>Betsy McCaughey</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/06/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2025 06:07:42 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/690881_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Which Scandal Gets Defined as a &#039;Distraction&#039;?]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ There's something funny in scandal politics when people accuse each other of pushing a "distraction." So if Donald Trump tries to change the subject to Russia collusion-hoaxing, it's a "distraction" from the media's energetic Jeffrey Epstein obsession.
All this really proves is that the liberal media elites get unhappy whenever anyone tries to offer a different topic than the one they demand we all be magnetically focused on. The networks don't want any contrary new information added to their narrative on how Trump won in 2016 with Russian assistance -- if you're not going to accept their...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/06/which_scandal_gets_defined_as_a_distraction_153146.html</link>
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						<author>Tim Graham</author><category>Tim Graham</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/06/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2025 06:06:48 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/693985_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ An Allegedly Civilized World Genuflects to Hamas]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ As the governments of the U.K., Canada and France announce their intent to recognize a Palestinian state, I recall the words of C.S. Lewis, so aptly quoted by President Ronald Reagan in his famous "evil empire" speech:
"The greatest evil is not done now ... in those sordid 'dens of crime' that Dickens loved to paint. It is ... not even done in concentration camps and labor camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered, moved, seconded, carried and minuted in clear, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/06/an_allegedly_civilized_world_genuflects_to_hamas_153148.html</link>
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						<author>Star Parker</author><category>Star Parker</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/06/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2025 06:06:31 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/693988_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ U.S. Sanctions on Brazilian Judge Are Wins for Free Speech and Justice]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes is anything but subtle, and neither are the sanctions slapped on him by the United States government this week. The U.S. is sending a clear and necessary message: If you target American speech and violate our laws, there will be consequences.
The judge, who routinely stymies individual rights and freedoms in the name of "democracy," has been on a crusade for years to silence opposition views. Long on the Trump administration's radar, Moraes is now facing the consequences of his actions and has been financially sanctioned by the American...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/05/us_sanctions_on_brazilian_judge_are_wins_for_free_speech_and_justice_153137.html</link>
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						<author>Chris Pavlovski</author><category>Chris Pavlovski</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/05/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:10:27 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/693868_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Memo to EPA: Let Green Banks Help Solve U.S. Electricity Shortage]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ America is facing a new energy challenge: a shortage of electricity for homes and businesses. Over the next five years, electricity demand is expected to grow 16%. That's roughly three times the rate of increase over the past 20 years.
Renewable energy, which in recent years has become far less expensive and faster to deploy, is a big part of the answer.
Recent moves by policy makers, including presidential orders and the Big Beautiful reconciliation bill, have tried to thwart solar and wind generation. That is a mistake. Wind and solar may no longer need massive tax credits, but these...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/05/memo_to_epa_let_green_banks_help_solve_us_electricity_shortage_153143.html</link>
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						<author>Jorge E. Vargas &amp; Jared Haines</author><category>Jorge E. Vargas &amp; Jared Haines</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/05/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:31:43 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/693932_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Will the GOP Make Liberals Generous Again?]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Before politics overwhelmed the word, the primary meaning of "liberal" was "generous."
President Donald Trump and the Republican Congress have given political liberals a chance to take that meaning back -- by opening their wallets to show just how much they value NPR, PBS and other programs defunded by the GOP.
There's no shortage of cash on the left:
Laurene Powell Jobs, the mega-rich backer of The Atlantic, has a net worth that was estimated above $11 billion a year ago and is thought to be even higher today.
George Soros, at 94, has a fortune in the vicinity of $7 billion, with billions...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/05/will_the_gop_make_liberals_generous_again_153140.html</link>
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						<author>Daniel McCarthy</author><category>Daniel McCarthy</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/05/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:10:40 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/692492_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ You&#039;ve Seen the NYT Image. You Haven&#039;t Seen the Correction It Requires.]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- The New York Times has a credibility problem.
On July 24, the country's newspaper of record published an online story with the headline, "Gazans Are Dying of Starvation," which focused on impending famine among Gaza's' "most vulnerable civilians -- the young, the old and the sick."
But an image from the story that ran on the front page of the Times' July 25 newspaper, leading the article, is what captured the world's attention. In the photograph, a Palestinian mother cradles her 18-month-old child. His arms appear thin, and you can see his spine protruding.
The newspaper's photo...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/05/youve_seen_the_nyt_image_you_havent_seen_the_correction_it_requires_153138.html</link>
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						<author>Debra Saunders</author><category>Debra Saunders</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/05/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:11:32 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/66/666317_1_.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ How to Make Sure the US Dominates 21st-Century Telecommunications]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ Trump's announcement and executive order to ensure that the U.S. dominates the artificial intelligence revolution was a welcome America First policy directive. That mostly means keeping the government out of the way.
But an equally vital industry for our economic and national security interests is telecommunications -- which is also going through warp-speed technology changes.
Here too, the government needs to keep its hands off. No subsidies. No lawsuits. Minimal regulations.
This is why the latest $34.5 billion blockbuster merger between telecom titans Charter Communications and Cox...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/05/how_to_make_sure_the_us_dominates_21st-century_telecommunications_153139.html</link>
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						<author>Stephen Moore</author><category>Stephen Moore</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/05/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:10:57 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/69/693894_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ To Save Civilization, Reject Feminism and Honor Mothers]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ The triumph of modern feminism has put society on the path to demographic collapse.
The U.S. fertility rate dropped to a new low last year, according to recently released CDC data. An earlier report put the country's total fertility rate at around 1.6 births per woman. A country's population will remain stable if the total fertility rate is 2.1 births per woman.
Zoom out and you'll find that a decline in birth rates is a global problem. South Korea currently has 51.7 million people. With its low birth rate, the population is projected to drop to under 25 million by the end of the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/05/to_save_civilization_reject_feminism_and_honor_mothers_153141.html</link>
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						<author>Victor Joecks</author><category>Victor Joecks</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/05/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:11:15 -0500</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/57/575872_1_.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Good News: Child Gender Clinics Are Finally Shutting Down]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Here's some good news you may not have heard. From coast to coast, child gender clinics are shutting down, thanks to the leadership of the Trump administration. Children are safer because of these closures - protected from radical transgender ideology and the sex changes that threaten their bodies, minds, and futures.
The latest gender clinic to announce its closure is at Connecticut Children's Medical Center, which confirmed this news on July 23. Just one day earlier, the gender clinic at the Children's Hospital in Los Angeles closed. The L.A. clinic was one of the first and largest in the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/03/good_news_child_gender_clinics_are_finally_shutting_down_153135.html</link>
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						<author>Kurt Miceli</author><category>Kurt Miceli</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/03/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Why Is Powell Clinging to His Job?]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Why is the Fed chairman, Jerome Powell, stubbornly clinging to his high interest rate policy?
Indeed - why is Mr. Powell clinging to his job?
A Federal Reserve governor, Adriana Kuegler, just announced her resignation today, effective August 8.
I believe President Trump can actually name his own governor to replace her - and then appoint that person as chairman of the Fed. Subject to Senate confirmation.
There are rumors that another Fed governor - Michael Barr - is about to resign, giving Mr. Trump another option.
I don't think we're in a recession. Yet the July jobs report was terrible -...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/02/why_is_powell_clinging_to_his_job.html</link>
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						<author>Larry Kudlow</author><category>Larry Kudlow</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/02/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Dead? Or Just &lsquo;Mostly&rsquo; Dead?]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Congress Confronts Failures in Organ Procurement Oversight
Until recently, anyone who believed there was anything fishy about the U.S. organ donation system was labeled a conspiracy theorist. Yet now the old adage: "What's the difference between conspiracy and truth? About six months," rings true again, as so-called conspiracy theorists have been proven right by none other than the federal Health and Resources Services Administration (HRSA) itself.
The "conspiracy?" That organ procurement organizations (OPOs) and hospitals declare living individuals dead in order to harvest their organs.
The...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/02/dead_or_just_mostly_dead_153132.html</link>
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						<author>Madelynn McLaughlin</author><category>Madelynn McLaughlin</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/02/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ My Brother&#039;s Keeper]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Fifty-nine years ago today, mass murder in the form of a rampage shooting on a school campus blasted its way into the American consciousness - never to leave. This searing event also took place in the Lone Star State, from atop the fabled tower at the University of Texas in Austin.
When it was over, 14 innocent people who started the day by going about their business lay dead, not counting the shooter, Charles Whitman, who also murdered his wife and his mother. Another 31 people were wounded, many of them grievously.
What Americans then considered the unthinkable has become depressingly...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/01/my_brothers_keeper_153133.html</link>
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						<author>Carl M. Cannon</author><category>Carl M. Cannon</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Secret Service Stops Renewal of Former Director&rsquo;s Security Clearance]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ The Secret Service was moving forward with renewing former Director Kimberly Cheatle's top-level security clearance but reversed course after RealClearPolitics inquired about a key senator's opposition, according to multiple sources in the Secret Service community.
Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican who chairs the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and previously chaired the full Homeland Security panel, argued that Cheatle should not have her security clearance renewed after her leadership decisions contributed to the agency's numerous failures surrounding the assassination...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/01/secret_service_stops_renewal_of_former_directors_security_clearance_153130.html</link>
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						<author>Susan Crabtree &amp; James Eustis</author><category>Susan Crabtree &amp; James Eustis</category><pubdate>2025/08</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>08/01/2025/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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