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<title><![CDATA[Jack Kelly - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14511.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Jack Kelly]]></description><category domain="14511">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Good Guys With Guns]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/10/25/good_guys_with_guns_128546.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jack Kelly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He said he&rsquo;d been waiting to kill people for a long time,&rdquo; 18-year-old Anastasia Boylan told &ldquo;Good Morning America&rdquo; from her hospital bed.
Chris Harper-Mercer, 26, murdered 10 people and wounded Ms. Boylan and six others at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inexperience Isn't a Liability]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/10/11/inexperience_isnt_a_liability_128373.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jack Kelly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The polls make it clear that Americans &mdash; Republicans especially &mdash; are disgusted with political insiders.
There&rsquo;s something to be said for political experience. But as neurosurgeon Ben Carson, one of three outsiders at or near the top of the Republican presidential...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[First-Rate Health Care]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/10/04/first-rate_health_care_128301.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jack Kelly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Every day this week I shaved, brushed my teeth, showered, dressed myself, made my own breakfast. Big steps for a recovering invalid.
I have multiple myeloma, a bone-marrow cancer. Just after I started chemo, I fell down the stairs and tore my left anterior cruciate ligament, complicating...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is a Charlatan]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/09/20/trump_is_a_charlatan_128149.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jack Kelly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;There&rsquo;s a sucker born every minute,&rdquo; said P.T. Barnum (1810-1891), the Donald Trump of the 19th century. These days suckers cluster on the right.
Conservatives love the idea of Donald Trump &mdash; a D.C. outsider who doesn&rsquo;t care about political correctness and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[White Guilt Over Slavery Is Not Helping Black America]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/09/13/white_guilt_over_slavery_is_not_helping_black_america_128065.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jack Kelly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;m glad I live in a time of automobiles, air conditioning, indoor plumbing, the Internet and great medical advances.
But if I had to live in an earlier period, I&rsquo;d want to be a soldier in the Union Army. I can think of no greater cause than to fight to eradicate...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Two Battles Worth Fighting]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/09/06/two_battles_worth_fighting_127997.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jack Kelly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Those who style themselves &ldquo;true conservatives&rdquo; aren&rsquo;t the brightest bulbs in the chandelier, as their constant misuse of their favorite epithet indicates.
&ldquo;RINO&rdquo; is an acronym for &ldquo;Republicans In Name Only.&rdquo; Those who use it think only a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Keep Questioning Planned Parenthood]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/08/16/keep_questioning_planned_parenthood_127787.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jack Kelly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;They covered child sacrifices with loud noises of flutes and drums so the cries of the wailing would not reach the ears of the people,&rdquo; wrote the Greek historian Plutarch (AD 46-120) of religious practices in ancient Carthage.
For most Democrats and &ldquo;mainstream&rdquo;...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Delusions of Competence]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/08/09/obamas_delusions_of_competence_127713.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jack Kelly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Government works better now than probably it ever has,&rdquo; President Barack Obama told the Daily Show&rsquo;s Jon Stewart last month. A partial list:
&bull; Atrocious security at the Office of Personnel Management permitted the Chinese to acquire personal data on more than 21 million...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Giants of the Democratic Party Are Long Gone]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/08/02/giants_of_the_democratic_party_are_long_gone_127629.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jack Kelly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I thought the liberal giants of my youth were usually mistaken, but I never doubted their intelligence, their good intentions or their patriotism.
Those of us who are or were in Army Special Forces will always be grateful to John F. Kennedy for giving us the Green Beret.
No politician...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Tells It Like It Is]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/07/26/trump_tells_it_like_it_is_127536.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jack Kelly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After smashing through the gates of the Naval Reserve Center in Chattanooga in his rented Ford Mustang convertible, Muhammad Abdulazeez, 24, murdered four Marines and a sailor with his AR-15 semi-automatic rifle.
Minutes earlier, Abdulazeez had wounded a Marine during a drive-by shooting...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Appeasement in Our Time]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/07/19/appeasement_in_our_time_127440.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jack Kelly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The differences between the Munich Agreement of Sept 29, 1938, and the Vienna Agreement of July 14, 2015, are considerable. But the result is likely to be the same.
At Munich, Britain and France agreed to the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia in exchange for Adolf Hitler&rsquo;s promise...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Blame Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/07/12/dont_blame_trump_127348.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jack Kelly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Kate Steinle, 32, was walking with her father along the Embarcadero in San Francisco in the early evening July 1 when she was shot &ndash; apparently at random -- by Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, 45, an illegal alien from Mexico who&rsquo;d committed 7 previous felonies in the U.S.
Mr....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If Liberals Really Cared About Black Lives]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/07/05/if_liberals_really_cared_about_black_lives_127249.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jack Kelly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To the &ldquo;Black Lives Matter&rdquo; crowd, it seems that most black lives don&rsquo;t.
Roughly 7,000 blacks are murdered each year &mdash; more than 90 percent by other blacks. To some Democrats, only those shot by white police officers or white bigots seem to matter.
Just 25 percent...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Confederate Flag, Politics, and Forgiveness]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/06/28/the_confederate_flag_politics_and_forgiveness_127158.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jack Kelly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Confederate battle flag had nothing whatever to do with the gruesome murders Dylann Roof committed in the Emanuel AME Zion church in Charleston, S.C. But Gov. Nikki Haley is right to seek its removal from a monument to Confederate soldiers on the grounds of the state capitol....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Media Ignore the Big Story]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/06/21/media_ignore_the_big_story_127065.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jack Kelly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two stories dominated the news last week. One is extremely important. The other is frivolous. The news media focused more attention on the frivolous story.
Hackers stole sensitive information from government databases on an estimated 4.2 million federal employees and contractors, past...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Liberals Fear Marco Rubio]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/06/14/liberals_fear_marco_rubio_126971.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jack Kelly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A Hillary Clinton match-up with Marco Rubio is a scary thought for Democrats,&rdquo; The New York Times reported May 22.
Liberals with bylines are frightened too, hit pieces in the Times and The Washington Post indicate.
Marco Rubio has gotten four traffic tickets since 1997, the Times...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Spare Us From Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/06/07/spare_us_from_obamacare_126887.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jack Kelly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Affordable Care Act isn&rsquo;t.
Some major health insurers seek eye popping rate increases for 2016 &mdash; such as 25 percent in Oregon, 30.4 percent in Maryland, 36.3 percent in Tennessee, 51.6 percent in New Mexico.
Insurance commissioners won&rsquo;t approve all companies ask...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton's Corruption]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/05/31/clintons_corruption_126800.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jack Kelly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Clinton Foundation &ldquo;received as much as $26.4 million in previously undisclosed payments&rdquo; from corporations, foreign sources and other groups in 2014, The Washington Post reported 10 days ago.
That&rsquo;s in addition to &ldquo;millions&rdquo; in foreign donations for the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Iraq Failures as Bad (or Worse) Than Bush's]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/05/24/obamas_iraq_failures_as_bad_or_worse_than_bushs_126710.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jack Kelly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The fall of Ramadi, Iraq&rsquo;s fourth-largest city, 64 miles from Baghdad, to the vicious terrorists of the so-called Islamic State has renewed interest in an old controversy.
&ldquo;Knowing what we know now,&rdquo; invading Iraq was a mistake, say most GOP presidential candidates...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[College Whiners]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/05/17/college_whiners_126619.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jack Kelly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[White masculinity is THE problem for America&rsquo;s colleges,&rdquo; wrote Saida Grundy, professor of sociology and Afro-American Studies at Boston University, in an indiscreet tweet.
Whites have had it better than peoples of color, men have had it better than women, so white male...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Ails Baltimore? Liberalism, Corruption &amp; Incompetence]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/05/10/what_ails_baltimore_liberalism_corruption__incompetence_126544.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jack Kelly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake dawdled while her city burned, let thugs run amok, then apologized for calling them &ldquo;thugs.&rdquo; I didn&rsquo;t think it was possible for a public official to demonstrate greater unfitness for office. I was mistaken.
State&rsquo;s Attorney...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Blame the Democrats for Baltimore]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/05/03/blame_the_democrats_for_baltimore_126474.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jack Kelly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;I think we, as a country, have to do some soul searching&rdquo; about the rioting in Baltimore, President Barack Obama said Tuesday.
Bunk. &ldquo;We, as a country&rdquo; are not to blame.
First and foremost, blame resides with the thugs who looted stores, burned buildings and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Getting Coddled at College]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/04/19/getting_coddled_at_college_126319.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jack Kelly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Center for Campus Involvement at the University of Michigan recently canceled a screening of &ldquo;American Sniper,&rdquo; the Clint Eastwood film about Navy SEAL Chris Kyle. It was canceled after sophomore Lamees Mekkaoui gathered &ldquo;roughly 200&rdquo; signatures (out of a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Intolerance on the Left]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/04/12/intolerance_on_the_left_126235.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jack Kelly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[My fiancee wanted her rabbi, a family friend, to marry us. He refused &mdash; because I&rsquo;d made it clear I wouldn&rsquo;t convert; our children would be baptized.
I admired him for it. The rabbi would have done just about anything for my fiancee &mdash; except that. He took his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare Is Still Failing Five Years Later]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/03/29/obamacare_is_still_failing_five_years_later_126078.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jack Kelly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Monday was the fifth anniversary of Obamacare. Seven Democratic senators marked it by asking to delay yet another provision of the law.
Putting companies with 51 to 100 employees in the costlier &ldquo;small group&rdquo; market could be &ldquo;harmful and disruptive,&rdquo; they said in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Meddling in Foreign Policy?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/03/22/meddling_in_foreign_policy_126004.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jack Kelly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[George Logan of Germantown, Pa., a private citizen at the time, took it upon himself to negotiate an end to an undeclared war with France, which peeved President John Adams and his Federalist Party. So in January 1799, Congress passed the Logan Act, which forbids a citizen &ldquo;without...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Email Scandal Could Be End for Hillary]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/03/15/email_scandal_could_be_end_for_hillary_125932.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jack Kelly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation accepted huge contributions from foreign governments &mdash; including dictatorships hostile to America &mdash; while Hillary was secretary of state, The Wall Street Journal reported Feb. 17.
Ms. Clinton conducted all of her official...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bibi is the Leader of the Free World]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/03/08/bibi_is_the_leader_of_the_free_world_125862.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jack Kelly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Normally what politicians say matters much less than what they do. But sometimes at a critical moment in history, a great speech by a great leader can bolster resolve to do what must be done.
&ldquo;Our policy &hellip; is to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Liberals' Attacks Are Helping Scott Walker]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/03/01/liberals_attacks_are_helping_scott_walker_125777.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jack Kelly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Teachers were laid off in Milwaukee in 2010 because Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker &ldquo;cut state aid to education,&rdquo; New York Times columnist Gail Collins wrote Feb. 13.
&ldquo;Welcome to the big time, Scott Walker,&rdquo; National Journal Editor Ron Fournier tweeted after reading...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Media's Snarky Double Standard]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/02/22/the_medias_snarky_double_standard_125699.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jack Kelly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the 44th minute of a 45-minute news conference, a reporter for the BBC asked Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, while he was in London on a trade mission, if he believed in evolution.
&ldquo;I&rsquo;m going to punt on that one,&rdquo; Gov. Walker replied. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s a question a...]]></description>
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