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<title><![CDATA[Reed Galen - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14543.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Reed Galen]]></description><category domain="14543">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Sanders vs. Warren Is the Battle to Watch]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/11/07/sanders_vs_warren_is_the_battle_to_watch_141674.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Reed Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In two weeks the Democratic presidential field will gather in Atlanta for its next debate. As the requirements for inclusion ratchet up and the time until the Iowa caucuses shrinks, candidates will sharpen their appeals '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' and their attacks.
The pair to watch, Sens. Bernie Sanders...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Just Admit It, Democrats: You Want to Lose Next Year]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/09/18/just_admit_it_democrats_you_want_to_lose_next_year_141282.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Reed Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Democratic Party leaders aren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t re-watching last week'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s debate in Houston, they should. If they have watched it and aren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t freaking out over what they see, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s fair to ask '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' whether they actually want Donald Trump to win a second term. That session was a debacle...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans: The Whigs of the 21st Century]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/08/04/republicans_the_whigs_of_the_21st_century_140928.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Reed Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 1854, a group of political pioneers gathered in Ripon, Wis., to establish a new national party. Their purpose? To prevent slavery from spreading further west in the United States and to abolish the institution in the South. This small band would soon be known as the Republican Party....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dem Primary: Blurred Views of Our Past, and Path Forward]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/07/04/dem_primary_blurred_views_of_our_past_and_path_forward_140712.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Reed Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The effects of last week'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Democratic Party debates are still making themselves known, reverberating through the large field. At first blush, the biggest winners appeared to be Sens. Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren. Warren took advantage of being the lone star in the first...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Center Must Hold]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/03/16/the_center_must_hold_139764.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Reed Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[News headlines, academic reports and troubling anecdotes highlighting the current division in American politics are now a daily occurrence. Not since the late 1960s have we felt, seen and heard so much ugliness and discord in our national discourse. The truth is, though, the center of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[November Is Coming. Change Isn't.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/10/31/november_is_coming_change_isnt_138508.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Americans are already voting in the midterm elections. Next week, after'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' another'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' ugly election cycle, we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ll achieve some level of clarity on the political direction of the United States for the next two years.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' But a different party in power won'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t suddenly bring about...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kansas Today, America in 2020]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/08/15/kansas_today_america_in_2020_137795.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Even before the results of the Kansas Republican gubernatorial primary have been written in ink'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and indeed, even before ballots were cast earlier this month'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'pressure is rising on independent candidate Greg Orman to drop out of the race, lest the Kansan version of President...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Duopoly Oversteps Its Bounds Again]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/03/14/the_duopoly_oversteps_its_bounds_again_136520.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Reed Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The American people have two main choices when it comes to electing politicians. The Republicans and the Democrats, America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s century-and-a-half political version of the Coke vs. Pepsi challenge, are continually changing the rules of the game to ensure their continued'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Spilt Blood and Sacred Cows]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/02/28/spilt_blood_and_sacred_cows_136391.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shredded the lives of 17 families and forever impacted those of hundreds, perhaps thousands more. The public debate about why America has so many mass shootings, what can be done to stop or prevent them consisted of familiar...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Politics in Decline: Can We Avoid the Fall?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/01/25/politics_in_decline_can_we_avoid_the_fall_136101.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Reed Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In his book '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The Storm Before the Storm,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Mike Duncan outlines the beginning of the end of the Roman Republic in the first century BCE. The political, familial, demographic and military intrigues became wrapped into one unhealthy Venn diagram of parochial and personal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Confuse 'Wave Elections' With Mandates]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/11/10/dont_confuse_wave_elections_with_mandates.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Reed Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This week Democratic leaders and activists are dancing in their respective city streets as they celebrate sweeping victories in off-year elections in Virginia and New Jersey. Breathless commentary veers between a complete repudiation of Donald Trump and a total embrace of Democratic...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We're Past Thoughts and Prayers]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/10/03/were_past_thoughts_and_prayers_135158.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Reed Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Another year, another massacre in an American city at the hands of a disturbed individual armed with military-grade weaponry. Because nearly 20 years ago Columbine wasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t enough to drive us as a nation to action, we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve been cursed with Newtown and San Bernardino and Orlando and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What a Bloomberg Run Might Look Like]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/02/14/what_a_bloomberg_run_might_look_like_129641.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[This is what people who want Michael Bloomberg to run for president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'including, perhaps, Bloomberg himself'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'were waiting for: a decisive win in the New Hampshire primary by a loose cannon and an avowed socialist. If it feels to the Democratic and Republican Party establishments...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A GOP-Controlled Senate: Here's What It Should Do]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/08/14/a_gop-controlled_senate_heres_what_it_should_do_123655.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Reed Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At the end of the classic campaign movie "The Candidate," Robert Redford's character, having just won his U.S. Senate race, looks at his campaign manager and asks, "What do we do now?"
Earlier this week, with the ignominious departure of Sen. John Walsh from the Montana Senate contest,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Obamacare Turned Me Into an Activist]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/12/02/how_obamacare_turned_me_into_an_activist_120825.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Reed Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I want to thank President Obama. Although I've spent most of my life and career in and around politics, I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve never been an activist. I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve never signed a petition or called my legislator out of devotion to a candidate or cause. I was born into the Republican establishment and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gay Marriage: Freedom Should Be Central Issue]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/27/gay_marriage_freedom_should_be_central_issue.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Reed Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This week the Supreme Court hears two cases regarding same-sex marriage and its attendant issues, and the battle lines are no longer neatly drawn.
Following the lead of former Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman, I signed the amicus brief opposing California'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Need to Rethink Their Product Line]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/01/30/gop_needs_to_rethink_its_product_line_116830.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Reed Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As 2013 unfolds, Republicans are still recovering from the results of last November'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s election. The outcome, worse than even most GOP pessimists had predicted, created a shockwave in the party that is still reverberating.
This condition isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t unusual for the party out of power....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gen-X Taxpayers, Forced to Sit at the Kids' Table]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/11/28/gen-x_taxpayers_forced_to_sit_at_the_kids_table_116262.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Reed Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve now entered the holiday season and as family and friends gather together, we all get to watch Washington'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s latest self-made disaster play out. For Americans under age 45, witnessing the decisions being formulated in D.C. is akin to hosting Thanksgiving dinner for the rest...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP's &quot;Modern Family&quot; Problem]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/11/19/the_gops_modern_family_problem_116199.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Reed Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Following their electoral throttling two weeks ago, Republicans across the country, like Odysseus on his journey, began rending their clothes and asking, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Why? What caused such repudiation? Where have we gone wrong?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'
First, we gave up on half the country, 47 percent to be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mitt Romney and the Rise of Practicalism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/10/20/mitt_romney_and_the_rise_of_practicalism_115835.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Reed Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With two presidential debates in the books, two things are clear: First, Mitt Romney has demonstrated a command of the issues the next president will face. Second, of the two candidates, only Romney spends any significant time talking about what he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s going to do when...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Two-Dimensional Barack Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/08/04/the_two-dimensional_barack_obama_114974.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Reed Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Watching the Olympics from Southern California, where I live, I saw my first ad on behalf of Barack Obama's re-election campaign. Titled '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The Choice,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' it is a rubber-mallet contrast spot, with the president speaking directly to the camera.
What I took away from it was how, in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[California's Catch-22: Higher Taxes or Fewer School Days]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/06/28/californias_catch-22_higher_taxes_or_fewer_school_days_114637.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Reed Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here in California we do things differently -- everyone says so. In San Francisco it's cold in the summer, we watch sunsets over the ocean instead of sunrises, and in Los Angeles the regular-people foibles of movie stars lead the local newscasts. And, speaking of movies, we don't...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Normandy's Lessons for Obama -- and All of Us]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/06/12/normandys_lessons_for_obama_--_and_all_of_us.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Reed Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[NORMANDY, France -- Last week marked the 68th anniversary of the D-Day invasion by the Allied Forces in World War II. In commemoration, a bronze statue honoring the leadership of Major Dick Winters -- made famous by the "Band of Brothers" book and miniseries -- was unveiled here. Winters...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Alan Simpson Is Right]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/06/03/alan_simpson_is_right_114330.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Reed Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Following a protest staged by rankled seniors last month outside his appearance at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, Calif., Alan Simpson, co-chair of the Simpson-Bowles Commission on deficit reduction, penned a note to the group expressing, as only he can, his feelings for the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lugar's Fatal Case of Entitlement Syndrome]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/16/lugars_fatal_case_of_entitlement_syndrome_114155.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Reed Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The defeated Dick Lugar, in an impassioned and striking condemnation of the continuing polarization of American politics, blamed the Tea Party and his Republican primary opponent for demanding he submit to a "purification" exercise. Indeed, while the good Indiana senator admits he knew...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Middle Class, Forgotten and Forsaken]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/04/14/the_middle_class_forgotten_and_forsaken__113826.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Reed Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Year in and year out, politicians tell the middle class that they are the "backbone" of the country. Too often, though, these Americans find themselves the first to pay and the last to receive any benefit from that payment -- and that they will soon be asked to do more. If President...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Paucity of Opportunity]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/26/the_paucity_of_opportunity_113214.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Reed Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In breaking away from Great Britain, America's Founding Fathers asserted that it was a providential right for human beings to pursue happiness and, therefore, the duty of government to refrain from interfering with that pursuit.
The Framers never guaranteed that government could make its...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Santorum the Chameleon]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Reed Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Four years ago, the Republican Party needed to do some soul-searching after Mike Huckabee's victory in the Iowa caucuses. Huckabee, an unabashed social-issue warrior, had several left-leaning policy positions (especially on taxes), had no basis for sophisticated thought on foreign policy...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Gingrich Needs to Do Now]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/12/10/what_gingrich_needs_to_do_now_112354.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Reed Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As Newt Gingrich continues his phoenix-like rise in the Republican primary, he is increasingly pushing the contest toward a two-man race. Whether or not he is ultimately the nominee, should Gingrich ultimately succeed, he will find himself with little money, staff, or organization;...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Remembering 9/11]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Reed Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I remember 9/11 like it was yesterday.
I remember walking into a staff office half a world away and watching the beginning end on a small TV screen. I remember watching grown men cry.
I remember being ashamed that I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d been at Wendy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s eating a hamburger when it had started. I...]]></description>
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