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<title><![CDATA[Gene Healy - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14520.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Gene Healy]]></description><category domain="14520">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Goodbye, Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2017/01/10/goodbye-obama</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Healy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The outgoing president leaves a loaded gun in the Oval Office.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare Doesn't Work, But the NSA Does?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/10/29/obamacare_doesnt_work_but_the_nsa_does_120498.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Healy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When it comes to Healthcare.gov, President Obama and his minions look like the gang that couldn&rsquo;t code straight. But don&rsquo;t fear for American ingenuity: Other parts of the federal government remain capable of tremendous technological feats.
In one month in late 2012, for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Deceptive Letter to the NSA's &quot;Spy Family&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/09/24/a_deceptive_letter_to_the_nsas_spy_family_120073.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Healy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Dear NSA/CSS family,&rdquo; begins a Sept. 13, 2013, letter to employees and &ldquo;extended family&rdquo; of the nation&rsquo;s largest spy agency from NSA director Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander, the boss of the family (CSS stands for Central Security Service, an NSA subagency).
In...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The High Cost of Obama's Libya, Syria Debacles]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/09/18/the_high_cost_of_obamas_libya_syria_debacles_119966.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Healy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There&rsquo;s an unhealthy dose of &rsquo;80s nostalgia in the media reaction to the emerging Vladimir Putin-brokered settlement of the Syrian chemical weapons attack crisis.
The punditocracy seems transfixed on Cold-War era concerns like, &ldquo;Have the Russians made our president look...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Thinks Americans Don't Need to Know]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/08/07/obama_thinks_americans_dont_need_to_know_119538.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Healy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden leaked the existence of a massive spying program siphoning up Americans&rsquo; personal phone records earlier this year, President Obama declared: &ldquo;I welcome this debate and I think it&rsquo;s healthy for our...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Chris Christie Does Bellyflop on NSA Spying]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/07/30/chris_christie_does_bellyflop_on_nsa_spying_119429.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Healy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rep. Justin Amash&rsquo;s unsuccessful July 24 effort to defund the National Security Agency&rsquo;s dragnet collection of Americans&rsquo; call records failed in a close vote, 205 to 217.
Thursday morning, New Jersey&rsquo;s Chris Christie threw a punch at surveillance skeptics like the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Liz Cheney Senate Run Could Save - Or Kill - Neoconservatism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/07/10/a_liz_cheney_senate_run_could_save_-_or_kill_-_neoconservatism_119147.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Healy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of former vice president Dick Cheney&rsquo;s erstwhile fly-fishing buddies, Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., told the press last week about his recent phone conversation with Cheney&rsquo;s eldest daughter, Liz.
&ldquo;She called me and said that she&rsquo;s looking at it&rdquo; &mdash; that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Spying's the Story, Not Edward Snowden]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/25/spyings_the_story_not_edward_snowden_118959.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Healy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I promised myself to stay away from Orwell metaphors for the duration of the latest surveillance-state controversy. But the punditocracy&rsquo;s recent &ldquo;two-minutes hate&rdquo; against National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has me backsliding already.
Judging by the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Impeachment' Is Not a Four-Letter Word]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/22/impeachment_is_not_a_four-letter_word_118514.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Healy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You may be appalled about IRS inquisitions for Tea Party groups and dragnet subpoenas for investigative reporters, but what&rsquo;s really outrageous, according to some commentators, is that a couple of Republicans recently dared to use the &ldquo;I-word&rdquo; &mdash;...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[These Days, Millennials Are Growing Less Gullible]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2013/05/07/obama-wants-millennials-to-love-big-gove</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Healy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's a specter haunting America's youth, President Obama warned in his commencement address to Ohio State University graduates Sunday -- the specter of "cynicism." In Obama's account, sinister (but unnamed) "voices" have been busily corrupting the once-idealistic Generation Y with a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Coolidge: The Minimalist President]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2013/04/19/the-minimalist-president</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Healy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If there was ever a time when the president could simply preside, it has long passed. As early as the Eisenhower era, political scientist Clinton Rossiter observed that the public had come to see the federal chief executive as &#194;&#147;a combination of scoutmaster, Delphic oracle, hero of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Brothers Tsarnaev Are &quot;Losers,&quot; Not &quot;Enemy Combatants&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/24/brothers_tsarnaev_are_losers_not_enemy_combatants_118101.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Healy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From the Twittersphere to CNN, last week&rsquo;s frenzied theorizing about the Boston Marathon bombing was an object lesson in the dangers of premature speculation.
But there&rsquo;s one assessment of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for which we already have enough information....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[More Gun Laws Will Not Prevent Next Newtown]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/17/more_gun_laws_will_not_prevent_next_newtown_117994.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Healy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How do you solve a problem like mass shootings? The answer is one that, understandably, few people want to hear: You probably can&rsquo;t.
That&rsquo;s the logical, if grim, conclusion to be drawn from a new Congressional Research Service Report on &ldquo;Public Mass Shootings in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Let's Not be So Eager for War in Korea]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/10/lets_not_be_so_eager_for_war_in_korea_117891.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Healy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Welcome to &lsquo;This Week&rsquo; &mdash; on the edge!&rdquo;&mdash; ABC&rsquo;s George Stephanopolous practically lunged through my TV screen Sunday morning.
He cut to a clip of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel warning of a &ldquo;real and clear danger&rdquo; from North Korea, and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Shame on Us If Newtown Panic Leads to Unwise Gun Laws]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/03/shame_on_us_if_newtown_panic_leads_to_unwise_gun_laws_117766.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Healy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, flanked by mothers of shooting victims, President Obama sought to evoke the terror and revulsion Americans felt in the aftershock of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings.
&ldquo;We need everybody to remember how we felt a hundred days ago,&rdquo; he said when images of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Bad Week for Drone Lovers]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/27/a_bad_week_for_drone_lovers_117679.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Healy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post&rsquo;s Chris Cillizza gave his most recent &ldquo;Worst Week in Washington Award&rdquo; to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., whose assault weapons ban got stripped from a Democratic gun control package last Tuesday for lack of support. Fair enough, but if nonhumanoids...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rand Paul vs. the &quot;Forever War&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/13/rand_paul_vs_the_forever_war_117401.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Healy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The cruelest thing about politics is that it occasionally gets your hopes up. Sometimes, just when you&rsquo;ve almost concluded that the best D.C. has to offer is ringside seats at the latest legislative catastrophe, you get an unexpected outbreak of political courage and common...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[D.C. Is Capital of the Absurd]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/06/dc_is_capital_of_the_absurd_117313.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Healy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Like most of this company town, I&rsquo;m addicted to Netflix&rsquo;s Beltway &ldquo;telenovela,&rdquo; &ldquo;House of Cards,&rdquo; starring Kevin Spacey as a conspiratorial House majority whip. But the show unwittingly flatters D.C., depicting a city of ruthless, steely competence....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America in Denial as Fiscal Tsunami Approaches]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/02/26/america_in_denial_as_fiscal_tsunami_approaches_117169.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Healy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's hard to hear yourself think over all the caterwauling on Capitol Hill about the looming sequestration "crisis." For opponents of the spending cuts -- at $85 billion, 2.3 percent of the $3.6 trillion federal budget -- the rallying cry is half Lord Keynes, half St. Augustine: "Grant...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's &quot;Second-Term Blues&quot; Have Begun]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/gene-healy-obamas-second-term-blues-have-begun/article/2519890#.UQdQNqViF8w</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Healy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last Wednesday marked the anniversary of President Clinton's historic pronouncement, in the 1996 State of the Union, that "the era of big government is over." "Not by a long shot," President Obama seemed to say in his second inaugural last week.It was "a surprisingly liberal speech"...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Five Worst Op-Eds of 2012]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/gene-healy-the-five-worst-op-eds-of-2012/article/2517275#.UOQ0cW9ZWgs</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Healy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For three years running, I've closed the Old Year with a seasonal burst of bile, my annual Five Worst Op-Eds column.As before, this year's malicious listicle rewards bad arguments and bad writing, with extra points for warped values.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Parasite City: It's Boomtime in Washington]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/take-me-down-to-the-parasite-city/article/2504159</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Healy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Have you seen the latest jobs report? Major buzzkill: creeping unemployment, anemic growth, and the recovery's totally stalled. But not here: The District is booming! "Washington may have the healthiest economy of any major metropolitan area in the country," says New York Times D.C....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Descends Into Self-Parody]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2012/07/17/obama-descends-into-self-parody</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Healy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After much soul searching, Barack Obama has figured out where his presidency has gone wrong"&#194;&#148;and he shared it with CBS's Charlie Rose and viewers across the fruited plain Sunday morning."The mistake of my first term"&#194;&#148;couple of years," the president allowed, "was thinking that this job...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Drones Pose Threat to Americans' Privacy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/24/drones_pose_threat_to_americans_privacy_114263.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Healy</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Don't drone, me, bro!" &mdash; that's one way to sum up Charles Krauthammer's heated reaction to last week's news that the Federal Aviation Administration had loosened restrictions on local police departments' use of surveillance Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
"Stop it here, stop it now,"...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Carterization of Barack Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/article/now-its-obama-irrelevant/238921</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Healy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If our fashion-conscious president still finds the time to read the lad-mags, December's GQ had to hurt.Obama made the magazine's list of "The 25 Least Influential People Alive," along with Tiger Woods's ex-caddie, the prosecutor who couldn't convict Casey Anthony, and MTV tart Tila...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rigged Game: Obama's Solyndra Silence]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/11/executive-privilege-claim-ahead-solyndra</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Healy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Friday, citing "longstanding and important Executive Branch confidentiality interests," White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler refused a House panel's demand for "all communications among White House staff and officials" relating to Solyndra.Solyndra is one of the administration's pet...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Walker, Christie Talking Like Adults on Budget]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/02/adult-conversation-budget-means-no-more-fibbing</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Healy</author>
							<description><![CDATA["An adult conversation" -- that's what we need to  have about spending, President Obama proclaimed at a Feb. 15 presser.  The president's hardly the first to use that cloying,  self-congratulatory phrase: so many House Republicans mouthed it in  November that Jon Stewart put together a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Letting the Facts Catch Up to Twitter Feeds]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/01/gene-healy-politicians-solutions-violence-only-harm-citizens</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Five Worst Op-Eds of 2010]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/12/29/the_five_worst_op-eds_of_2010_108381.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Healy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This time every year, the New York Times' David Brooks writes a column lauding the year's best magazine articles -- a nice gesture from every liberal's favorite nice-guy-on-the-Right.
For my last column this year, I'd rather tap into my inner Scrooge for a list of the worst op-eds of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Chummy Press is Too Interested in &quot;Access&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/White-House-press-challenges-pols-with-___-squirt-guns_-96324524.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gene Healy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hollywood for the Ugly was in full-frolic mode a week ago Saturday,  when Vice President Biden brought D.C. reporters over to the Naval  Observatory for a "pool party." "There was pizza and watermelon," the  Politico's Mike Allen enthused, "Supersoakers and a rock climb."The New York...]]></description>
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