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		<title>The Racism of the Progressive-Democratic Party</title>
		<link>https://aplebessite.com/2026/07/18/the-racism-of-the-progressive-democratic-party/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 11:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s demonstrated once again, and disgustingly so, by a law &#8220;professor&#8221; at the University of Michigan, Barb McQuade, with this post of hers: By forcing a &#8220;colorblind&#8221; Constitution, Roberts usurps the proper role of Congress. Congress may limit rights if &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/07/18/the-racism-of-the-progressive-democratic-party/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>It&#8217;s Broader than That</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dominic Green, in Wednesday&#8217;s Wall Street Journal&#8216;s Free Expression, wrote of the German government&#8217;s attempt to censor—to bar from public viewing—a movie that was, by most accounts, badly done schlock (Green&#8217;s term). The rationale was that the movie depicted unrepentant &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/07/17/its-broader-than-that/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Iran, the Strait, and Nuclear Weapons</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In Michael Gordon&#8217;s piece on The Battle for Hormuz, he wrote that A stable peace appears elusive, some former officials say, as each side is calculating that it can win the long game in a test of wills…. A stable &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/07/17/iran-the-strait-and-nuclear-weapons/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Finally</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump (R) has had done with trying to negotiate with Iran&#8217;s government. Finally. For now. I don&#8217;t want to negotiate now. I said, &#8220;Let&#8217;s not negotiate. Three days ago, we had a deal. He&#8217;s finally figured out, maybe, &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/07/16/finally-4/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Chatrie v United States and Follow-on</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court ruled in Chatrie that police gatherings of Google location histories constituted a search and so must be subject to 4th Amendment strictures. From that, we get parents pushing back against K-12 school districts conducting surveillance of students&#8217; &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/07/16/chatrie-v-united-states-and-follow-on/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Statesmanship</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The estimable editors of The Wall Street Journal spent an entire column dunking on Vice President JD Vance (R) and his foreign policy miscues. Buried in the text, though, were a couple of nuggets. …hedge-fund magnate Ken Griffin, a major &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/07/15/statesmanship/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Truism, and a Solution</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A letter-writer in Monday&#8217;s Wall Street Journal Letters section wrote this while commenting on Alexis de Tocqueville&#8217;s praise for our nation&#8217;s then-penchant for solving problems locally rather than crying to Mama Government: A statute can&#8217;t manufacture civic energy or entrepreneurial &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/07/15/a-truism-and-a-solution/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Hitting Back</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 11:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After 15 years of being hacked, often severely, by Russian government sanctioned, if not government owned operators, the nations of Europe has finally gotten around to responding. With sanctions. The European Union and the UK said the sanctions would target &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/07/14/hitting-back/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;Black Democrats Fight for Political Survival&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 11:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The lede identifies the source of this political…confusion. The Supreme Court&#8217;s decision to reinstate Alabama&#8217;s congressional map has split the political future for many Black Democratic voters. Black Democratic voters. Not American voters favoring the Democratic Party who happen to &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/07/14/black-democrats-fight-for-political-survival/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dealing with Terrorists</title>
		<link>https://aplebessite.com/2026/07/13/dealing-with-terrorists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the ongoing &#8220;negotiations&#8221; with the Iranian government over the Strait of Hormuz and Iran&#8217;s nuclear weapons program, our politicians are beginning to have rubbed in their faces the utter duplicity of the men and women reigning over Iran. Though &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/07/13/dealing-with-terrorists/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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