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<title><![CDATA[Stanley Crouch - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14499.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Stanley Crouch]]></description><category domain="14499">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[So Long, Tough Guy--Christie Exposed]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stanley Crouch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is so much posturing, fraudulent assertion of factoids and mass amnesia that many in public life believe apologies doused in self-pity and whining to the point of tears will do the job of earning forgiveness. When Melissa Harris-Perry tried to skate across the frozen pond of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Honest Look at De Blasio's Promise]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/honest-de-blasio-promise-article-1.1565849</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stanley Crouch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The image of long, tall Big Bill de Blasio in front of City Hall last week, lined up with his somewhat surprising family on his very first day in office, was striking.I&rsquo;m not speaking only of how the four members of the nuclear family &mdash; father Bill, mother Chirlane, children...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bachmann and Her Demagogue Pals]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/bachmann-demagogue-pals-article-1.1360266</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stanley Crouch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rep. Michele Bachmann is retiring from Congress as investigations swirl regarding her campaign spending.Some applaud Bachmann for backing out before the national media can get in a few more licks and draw a little more blood.This was perfect for her. Bachmann was a very good vehicle for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Of Scandals Real and Imagined]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/scandals-real-imagined-article-1.1347511</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stanley Crouch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We have known for longer than long how excitable some people are. We also know that no aspect of the federal government draws more consistent scorn than the Internal Revenue Service.Hatred and fear of the IRS bring people together across classes, boundaries and ideologies. Polluters, con...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Put Republican Cliches in Their Holsters]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/putting-gop-cliches-holsters-article-1.1253570</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stanley Crouch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The fight in Washington over gun safety pits those who see a responsibility to protect everyone, especially those who are unable to protect themselves, against those who know how to profit from paranoia, no matter how far from the facts their positions might be.The slaughter of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Republicans Are Such a Bad Date]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/gop-bad-date-article-1.1233482</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stanley Crouch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The dearth of women in the Republican Party shows us how those male elephants on the far right have allowed themselves to function a good half-century behind the rest of the nation, where women are increasingly occupying leadership positions and find themselves less and less bound to the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why They Came for Susan Rice's Scalp]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/susan-rice-scalp-article-1.1220678</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stanley Crouch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This is finally about Susan Rice. It is about her skin color. It is also about her being female. Last week, Rice withdrew herself from consideration to follow in Hillary Clinton&rsquo;s steps at the State Department. It was clear that the relentless Republican attacks had taken their...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Base Attacks on Susan Rice]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/base-attacks-susan-rice-article-1.1211265</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stanley Crouch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As a writer, I have always been opposed to joining up with the Republicans or the Democrats. Part of the reason is that growing up in the 1950s meant that you learned to see with nuance, beyond just red and blue. Back then, the Democrats could be proudly racist in the South and liberal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Romney Desperate in Search of Votes]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/a-desperate-man-search-votes-article-1.1170744</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stanley Crouch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Our time is full of remarkable ironies. Among those that loom large today is the career of Mitt Romney.The former Massachusetts governor has long been known as a flip-flopper who constantly changes what he claims he believes &mdash; a political prostitute, legendary for the willingness...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Republicans' Empathy Is Gone]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/republicans-empathy-article-1.1138933</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stanley Crouch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In theory, liberal and conservative perspectives should better each other by making realistic demands the opposition can meet. They should use facts like ice water, dousing those who have grown too hot with their own ideology.Facts do not dissolve under microscopes of serious scrutiny...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nearing the End of Decadence]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/nearing-decadence-ve-lil-wayne-kardashians-celebrities-article-1.992839</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stanley Crouch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the best reasons for happiness during this holiday season is that the nation is making a slow comeback from a terrible state. I mean the spiritual, cultural and moral recession driven by decadent extremes.Decadence disfigures most of modern American life one way or another, hiding...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[NAACP Enters Unholy Alliance]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stanley Crouch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Excessive pay raises and benefits can corrupt unions. This fact does not invalidate their existence, but entitlements can become more important than doing a good job. A prime example is the United Federation of Teachers, which is more concerned with the security of its members than the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cornel West: Lead Huckster of Ivy League]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2011/05/23/2011-05-23_lead_huckster_of_the_ivy_league.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stanley Crouch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Cornel West, the Princeton professor of African-American studies who recently made some crude statements about President Obama, has never been much more than a six-figure entertainer, ready to bite the hand that pays him even while reaching for his check. He has never seen a microphone...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Time for Obama to Battle GOP]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/10/18/2010-10-18_the_battle_bam_refuses_to_wage.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stanley Crouch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Black Americans used to warn their children, sometimes with bitterness but usually with heroic resolve, that they had to be twice as good as whites to get hired and perhaps three times as good if the job was gotten.That is why Barack Obama has been such a disappointment to a country that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Curbing Youth Violence: Obama's Talk is Cheap]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/10/08/2009-10-08_president_obama_talk_is_cheap_when_it_comes_to_curbing_youth_violence.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stanley Crouch</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[These Republicans Remain Outmatched]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/09/14/2009-09-14_obamas_speeches_are_the_stampede_gop_needs.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stanley Crouch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week Barack Obama gave two speeches, one to American children, the other to the nation about health care reform. The way they were reacted to by the Republican opposition, elected or not, said a lot about Obama himself and about the sorry state of intellectual integrity among...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[For the Future of Hip Hop, All That Glitters is Not Gold Teeth]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/12/for_the_future_of_hip_hop_all.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stanley Crouch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It continues to appear that the cool and highly intelligent Barack Obama is going to have a powerful impact on debilitating black popular culture, particularly hip hop. The signs are everywhere.In the wake of Byron Hurt's searing documentary "Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes," hip-hop...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Thug Mugabe Has Friends in High Places]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/07/20/2008-07-20_robert_mugabes_thuggery_gets_help_from_h.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stanley Crouch</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Problem with the 'Elitist' Tag]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/05/elitist_tag_knocks_education.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bill and Hil Are the Next American Idles]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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