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<title><![CDATA[Tony Blankley - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14457.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Tony Blankley]]></description><category domain="14457">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Newt's Past and Future Leadership]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/12/14/newts_past_and_future_leadership_112396.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Blankley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Almost all political commentators agree on one thing. The Republican presidential campaign is unlike any we have experienced. It is not a campaign of steady trends and continuities, but rather of emotional reversals and discontinuities. Perhaps this is so because the last 3 to 4 years...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Secular, Liberal Egypt: We Hardly Knew Ya]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/12/07/secular_liberal_egypt_we_hardly_knew_ya_112301.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Blankley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the nice things about human history is that no matter how much people or their leaders misjudge events and make a hash of things, within a few centuries, the debris is cleared away, and we can have another go at getting things right.
Yes, I am thinking about the Middle East....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Break the Partisan Fever]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/11/30/how_to_break_the_partisan_fever_112223.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Blankley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sunday on "Meet the Press" Colin Powell blamed divisive, poisonous Washington politics on the media and the Tea Party. The essence of Powell's argument was: "Republicans and Democrats are focusing more and more on their extreme left and extreme right. And we have to come back toward the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving 2011]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/11/23/thanksgiving_2011_112164.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Blankley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As we approach the festive season -- the elongated, enchanting month from Thanksgiving through Christmas to New Years -- my mind has been drifting through various memorable past holidays. Some have been personal -- the last one with my father before he died. But one that stands out for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Important New Book on China]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/11/16/an_important_new_book_112083.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Blankley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A just released book, "Bowing to Beijing" by Brett M. Decker and William C. Triplett II, will change forever the way you think about China -- even if, like me, you already have the deepest worries about the Chinese threat. As I opened the book, I was expecting to find many useful...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Primary Deadlock?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/11/09/gop_primary_deadlock_111995.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Blankley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here's a thought: The GOP presidential primaries may well prove to be inconclusive, with the nominee actually being chosen at the convention in Tampa, Fla., in the fourth week of August next year.
True, it has been generations since a presidential nominating convention actually made that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Time for Statesmen]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/11/02/a_time_for_statesmen_111907.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Blankley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Now is a particularly dangerous moment for American national security interests. Not just because threats are growing. Not just because the current administration is making a historic bungle from China to Iraq to Iran to Russia to Europe to Mexico to our historic allies in the Middle...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Administration Slithers Away From Reality]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/10/26/the_administration_slithers_away_from_reality_111820.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Blankley</author>
							<description><![CDATA["No one should miscalculate America's resolve and commitment to helping support the Iraqi democracy.-- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, October 23, 2011
"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Washington Considers China Trade War]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/10/19/washington_considers_china_trade_war_111729.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Blankley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the past few years, fear of China's predatory mercantilism has been steadily growing in America, both amongst the public and in elite business and political circles. But last week, for the first time, one could discern the genuine possibility that America might actually do something...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Euro-Debt Danger]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/10/12/euro-debt_danger_111648.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Blankley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How dangerous is the European financial condition? On Monday, while stock markets from the DAX and FTSE to the New York Stock Exchange were up sharply on report of French and German cooperative murmurs regarding sovereign debt negotiations (and on temporary easing of U.S. double-dip...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Good GOP Flip-Flops]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/10/05/good_gop_flip-flops_111574.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Blankley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[William F. Buckley, Jr., founding father of the modern conservative movement, famously asserted his doctrine of voting for the most conservative candidate who is electable.
Let me presume to add an analytic codicil: The GOP and the conservative movement have tended to support the most...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President's Foreign Policy Failures Increase]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/09/28/presidents_foreign_policy_failures_increase_111498.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Blankley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama, like most American presidents, is lucky that the public pays little attention to foreign policy and rarely casts its votes on the basis of presidential foreign-policy performance. It required something as dramatic as the November 1979 Iranian seizing of our diplomats as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Double-Dip Learning Curve]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/09/21/double-dip_learning_curve_111412.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Blankley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In one of the least needed reassurances in modern political history, President Obama's top political man David Plouffe, "told Democrats late last week that the White House would not suffer from overconfidence. 'What I don't want to suggest is that we're sitting around and thinking...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is It Still Good to be the King?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/09/14/is_it_still_good_to_be_the_king_111322.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Blankley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since the end of World War II, in both the United States and Western Europe, the best way to win a national election has been to be the incumbent political party. But that 3-generation-old predisposition of publics in Western democracies may be coming to an end.
We may well be entering a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Politics Turns Dangerously Rougher]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/09/07/politics_turns_dangerously_rougher_111230.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Blankley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the last few weeks, leading Democrats in Congress have called Tea Party constituents terrorists, said they should go to hell and accused them of wanting to lynch black people. Last weekend, at an event attended by President Obama, the head of the Teamsters Union, Jimmy Hoffa Jr.,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Economic-Policy Last Chance]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/08/31/obamas_economic-policy_last_chance_111135.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Blankley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama&rsquo;s post-Labor Day &ldquo;jobs&rdquo; speech will be his last chance to launch an economic policy with any chance of manifesting its effect - both economic and political - before the November 2012 elections. He has three options. In order of descending likelihood,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Authoritarian Temptation]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/08/17/the_authoritarian_temptation_110987.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Blankley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the weeks during and since the debt-ceiling debate, the media, pushed by the Democratic Party, has peddled the propaganda that our government is broken -- because the Republicans in the House of Representatives negotiated a better deal than the liberals wanted.
While it was President...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[To Recover, U.S. Needs New Leadership]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/08/10/the_end_of_the_world_is_not_nigh_110875.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Blankley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Except according to the Lord's plans -- which are not known to man -- the "end of the world" is not nigh, although to listen to politicians and pundits, we should be packed and ready to go by next Thursday.
Recently, the headlines have read like Woody Allen's 1979 "My Speech to the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Debt Status Quo Triumphs Over Future -- Again.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/08/03/debt_status_quo_triumphs_over_future_--_again_110808.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Blankley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The debt deal, if it sticks, is a triumph for the bipartisan, status quo-clinging Washington establishment. Here is a prediction: Between now and January 2013, total actual spending cuts will be minimal. That will result from the following: (1) The $900 billion deficit reduction is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Government by Coup de Theatre or the Constitution?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/07/27/government_by_coup_de_theatre_or_the_constitution_110723.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Blankley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How have we arrived at this place where the fate of our federal budget -- our economy, indeed our capacity to have a functioning federal government -- seems to depend on what two men (the speaker of the House and the president) may or may not be secretly talking about in an interior room...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No More Washington Tricks]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/07/20/no_more_washington_tricks_110631.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Blankley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In Atlanta, the teachers cheat on exams so the students don't have to. It doesn't raise the knowledge level of our children, but it gets the school system past the next exam -- even as the system continues its death spiral. We will know the spiral has reached its terminal station when...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Avoiding Obama's Road to Europe]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/07/13/after_the_deluge_--_restoration_110549.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Blankley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Some people can spot a slight in every compliment, whereas others -- the happy ones -- find a compliment in every slight. So last week, as a free-market, low-taxes, constitutional conservative, I happily found an apparently unintended compliment from the liberal New Republic.
It is not...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Newt's Ideas Worth Considering]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/07/06/newts_ideas_worth_considering_110471.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Blankley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One would be hard-pressed to find a better example of sheer misguided reporting than the story in The Washington Post last weekend in which it was reported that "Newt Gingrich thinks he can revive his debilitated campaign by talking about Alzheimer's. ... For most presidential...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When It Comes to Oil, Where's the Beef?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/06/29/when_it_comes_to_oil_wheres_the_beef_110395.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Blankley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is said that there are no atheists in foxholes. In that context, the recent rise in oil prices seems to have turned the Obama administration into true believers (at least rhetorically) when it comes to the best method to keep gas prices down and the American economy growing.
With oil...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[McCain Is Wrong: GOP Not Isolationist]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/06/22/gop_not_isolationist_110308.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Blankley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sen. John McCain, whose life is a continuing exemplar of the American heroic ideal, regrettably has got it quite wrong when he says that growing GOP opposition to the Libyan and Afghan wars is evidence of isolationism. In his words on weekend television:
"Well, I was more concerned about...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[&quot;Brother, Can You Spare a Regulation?&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/06/15/brother_can_you_spare_a_regulation_110217.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Blankley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, in a much-discussed, open, live, televised forum, Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, asked Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke the $64 trillion question. While most commentators focused on the apt question, it was Bernanke's answer that shocked me when I heard it -- and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Conservatives Insuperable If Inseparable]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/06/08/conservatives_insuperable_if_inseparable_110121.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Blankley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I had the honor of speaking last weekend at the Faith and Freedom Conference, at which most of the candidates for the Republican presidential nomination were the star attractions. The conference, led by Ralph Reed, brought together the nation's leading (what is called) social...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reality Is Catching Up to World's Elites]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/06/01/out_of_deficit_more_democracy_110043.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Blankley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While Western media continue to rhapsodize about the "Arab Spring democratic revolutions" in the Middle East, it may be that the real democratic revolution is beginning to occur in the European Union and the United States. And if the timing is right, the crisis in the European Union may...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mideast Communications Chaos]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/05/25/mideast_communications_chaos_109976.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Blankley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president's speech last week, which was described by the White House in advance as a speech intended to reach out to the Muslim world, will probably go down as one of the least well-understood major presidential speeches in modern memory. Confusion concerning the president's words...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Middle East Muddle]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/05/18/middle_east_muddle_109903.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Blankley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This White House, like its predecessors, can take some comfort in the fact that the Middle East has been breaking the hearts of diplomats and foreign politicians for at least 2,000 years. Of course, some centuries have been worse than others (Pontius Pilate had a particularly difficult...]]></description>
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