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							<title><![CDATA[Why Is Antisemitism On the Rise Among Gen Z?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Jacoby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The tsunami of antisemitism unleashed in America by the Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom in southern Israel has not abated. If anything, it is gaining strength.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Please Pull Plug on White House Daily Press Briefings]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/please-pull-the-plug-on-the-white-house-daily-press-briefings/ar-AA1jMX9D</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Jacoby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Another daily White House press briefing, another cringeworthy response from Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2 Years On, Exit From Afghanistan Looks Worse Than Ever]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/two-years-on-the-us-pullout-from-afghanistan-looks-worse-than-ever/ar-AA1fYaxJ</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Jacoby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The American withdrawal from Afghanistan was completed two years ago, when the last C-17 transport plane departed Kabul airport just before midnight on Aug. 30, 2021.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Victory, Not D&eacute;tente, Is Right U.S. Strategy Toward Beijing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/victory-not-d%C3%A9tente-is-the-right-american-strategy-toward-beijing/ar-AA1fPHQQ</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Jacoby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[During a visit to Australia in 1958 as the Cold War was heating up, Britain'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Prime Minister Harold Macmillan expressed the hope that diplomacy and negotiation could defuse the worsening hostility between the Soviets and the West.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democratic Party Left Working Class Voters]]></title>
							<link>https://jeffjacoby.com/26874/working-class-voters-didnt-leave-the-democratic</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Jacoby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Marcy Kaptur,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the longest-serving female member of Congress in US history, has represented Toledo, Ohio, in the House of Representatives since 1983. Nicknamed "Glass City" because of its many glassmaking companies, Toledo is known to fans of TV's "M'&#'.ord('*').';'A'&#'.ord('*').';'S'&#'.ord('*').';'H" as the hometown of Corporal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Making of America's Worst President]]></title>
							<link>https://jeffjacoby.com/26768/https-wwwbostonglobecom-2023-02-19-opinion-how</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Jacoby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 2024 election'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' is a long way off, but hopeful presidential candidates are already beginning to campaign. Former president Donald Trump announced in November that he is running again. Nikki Haley, a former South Carolina governor and ambassador to the United Nations, formally...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Excluding Taiwan From WHO Is Political, Medical Outrage]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/31/opinion/excluding-taiwan-who-is-political-medical-outrage/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Jacoby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is no excuse for denying one of Asia's freest and most advanced nations a seat at the table in the world's foremost public health forum.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[As MLK Foresaw, U.S. Racism's Been Largely Overcome]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Jacoby</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I have no despair about the future,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' wrote the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in his 1963 '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Letter from a Birmingham Jail.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I have no fear about the outcome of our struggle in Birmingham. . . . We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Chelsea Clinton's Deep Thoughts on Abortion &amp; Economic Growth]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2018/08/22/chelsea-clinton-twisted-argument-about-abortion-and-economic-growth/6ajP713rANYAOizO30hLeN/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Jacoby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Clinton said that legalized abortion has been a powerful economic stimulus. But her argument doesn't hold water.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Are Climate-Change Models So Flawed?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/columns/2017/03/14/why-are-climate-change-models-flawed-because-climate-science-incomplete/hekwjPBTScRpFyXaXnrWhI/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Jacoby</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'DO YOU believe,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' CNBC'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Joe Kernen asked Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s new director, in an interview last Thursday, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'that it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s been proven that CO2 is the primary control knob for climate?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Replied Pruitt: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'No. I think that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Land Where Jews are Welcome, Anti-Semitism on Rise]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/columns/2017/03/12/land-where-jews-feel-welcome-anti-semitism-rise/2Vt8fgBAuIrdGj6eo5wK9L/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Jacoby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America is experiencing an alarming surge in anti-Semitic menace.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare Drafters Could've Learned From a Hairdresser]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2017/02/15/what-obamacare-drafters-could-have-learned-from-hairdresser/4qQLCwTHsrqCo8uIebuKHK/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Jacoby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After a long career in Congress, former senator George McGovern tried his hand at running a business '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' a small hotel in Connecticut. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'In retrospect,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' McGovern wrote after the inn went bankrupt, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I wish I had known more about the hazards and difficulties of such a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[At Home &amp; Abroad, Obama's Trail of Disasters]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2017/01/08/home-and-abroad-obama-trail-disasters/YOaU1KuAT3hSHaGHkmGCeN/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Jacoby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the 44th president departs, he leaves behind a world more dangerous, a country more divided, and a national mood more toxic.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Socialism Shattered Venezuela; Useful Idiots Applauded]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2016/12/25/socialism-shattered-venezuela-useful-idiots-applauded/ZoQnAX5WksuCTauiAjCx4M/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Jacoby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When the Cold War ended 25 years ago, the Soviet Union vanished into the ash heap of history. That left the West'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'useful idiots'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Lenin'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s term for the ideologues and toadies who could always be relied on to justify or praise whatever Moscow did '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[I Choose Not to Be Offended, and You Should, Too]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2016/11/27/choose-not-offended-and-you-should-too/EAd9cQM6maMkDmu8itj0NN/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Jacoby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the rules I try to live by is not to take offense when no offense is intended.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Has Shed His Vanity. Just Ask Him]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/09/27/obama-has-shed-his-vanity-just-ask-him/PpdenejOINXTqKFCxCrdPN/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Jacoby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The world is more dangerous under Barack Obama. But he is confident that no one else could have done better.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Making College 'Free' Will Only Make It Worse]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/07/12/making-college-free-will-only-make-worse/YVonfawas70nG1CPZy8ctJ/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Jacoby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Like Santa Claus and time travel, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'free'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' college tuition sounds great in theory but doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t actually exist in real life. For much of the past year, Bernie Sanders'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' promise to make public higher education free for all attracted multitudes of enthusiastic supporters to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Elie Wiesel's Love of America]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/07/04/elie-wiesel-love-america/zi5ebDhxdcuKDgqYowgMeO/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Jacoby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is a bittersweet poignancy to the timing of Elie Wiesel'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??s death just as Americans were embarking on the Independence Day holiday.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Leave Campaign of 1776 Reverberates to This Day]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/06/30/the-leave-campaign-reverberates-this-day/B4AzRvpGUbTSKXyHOGQ3wM/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Jacoby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Americans were the first nation in history to declare independence, replacing rule by a king with rule by consent of the governed.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gun Culture? U.S. Government Arming Itself to the Teeth]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/06/25/the-fda-stockpiling-military-weapons-and-not-alone/iGbHhnnkTbsSMnnO23obiI/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Jacoby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The arms race has metastasized to federal agencies with strictly regulatory or administrative functions.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Clinton, Americans Don't Trust]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/05/31/clinton-americans-don-trust/DJl9BnFupS7l4BONMY7iAM/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Jacoby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[ONE YEAR AGO, a Quinnipiac University poll of voters in three swing states highlighted a looming problem for Hillary Clinton'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s presidential campaign: More than half the respondents in each state regarded her as dishonest. A nationwide CNN poll the same month yielded similar...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Policies Have Made the World More Dangerous]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/04/16/the-obama-doctrine-has-made-world-more-dangerous/T4POP5pZtQBI2dXziK5JtM/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Jacoby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In Libya, Iraq, and Syria, the Obama Doctrine has been a disaster.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why There Are Muslim Ghettos in Belgium, But Not Here]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/columns/2016/03/27/why-there-are-muslim-ghettoes-belgium-but-not-united-states/zek1CSRR0epWhLmSCiPWKK/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Jacoby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The US has been far more successful at assimilating Muslim immigrants into American society than Western Europe.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Regrets Polarized Rancor. He Should.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2016/01/24/obama-vowed-healer-chief-never-made-effort/0XR8wPoJwRVkFoPMVJaD2H/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Jacoby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Obama routinely speaks of his critics as if their motives couldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??t possibly be rational or decent.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Confidence in the Obama Economy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/01/06/the-obama-recovery-has-been-weakest-ever-should-have-been-strongest/aOpf5ZO3ToyQlBUl1mb5pI/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Jacoby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even in boom times, any president can expect candidates from the opposing party to subject his record to pitiless scrutiny. The economy under Barack Obama isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??t exactly filling voters with confidence, so it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??s not surprising that presidential hopefuls are pretty severe in their...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Milestone for a Magazine, and for Conservatism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/11/22/milestone-for-magazine-and-for-conservatism/wP8HwFvpTHGtGkM8X9FzdL/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Jacoby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[IF GRATITUDE IS the quintessential conservative virtue, then Thanksgiving must be the quintessential conservative holiday. And with Thanksgiving 2015 comes an additional reason for gratefulness on the right: National Review has turned 60 and is marking the occasion with a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.N. Should Have Jeered Abbas Off Stage]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/09/30/mahmoud-abbas-should-have-been-jeered/TKpARl3mYBkhqVbtAnedsI/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Jacoby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mahmoud Abbas addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday in his capacity as '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'president of State of Palestine,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' or so the official text posted on the UN website identifies him.In reality, Abbas is no more the lawful president of Palestine than George W. Bush is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bulger Wasn't Innately Evil. That's the Point]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/09/22/whitey-bulger-wasn-innately-evil-that-what-makes-him-evil/TvrrF1LDA76iSatY5815UM/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Jacoby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On the Jewish calendar, Wednesday is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. It marks the culmination of the Days of Awe, the solemn period of introspection that began 10 days ago on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Like many Jews, I have been thinking about the themes of this season '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Iran Deal Is a Bait and Switch]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Jacoby</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[American Politics Needs More Civility, Not Less]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/08/15/politics-needs-more-civil-actions/9veifba6uL56iwWjGBS1II/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Jacoby</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Rendezvous with Destiny,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' his superb chronicle of Ronald Reagan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 1980 presidential campaign, Craig Shirley quotes a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'remarkably candid'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' assessment that appeared in The Washington Post eight months before the election. It was written by reporter Lou Cannon,...]]></description>
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