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<title><![CDATA[Wesley Pruden - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14544.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Wesley Pruden]]></description><category domain="14544">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Lynching of the Only Democratic Hope]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jul/8/democrats-go-after-joe-biden-for-segregationist-co/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wesley Pruden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Joe Biden got it right, it's just that he said it in the wrong country. In Joe's country, getting it right is wrong, and the unwary pay for it. In Joe's country a sucker never gets an even break, and everybody's a sucker.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joe Biden's Empty 2020 Rhetoric]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/may/20/joe-biden-uses-empty-rhetoric-in-2020-presidential/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wesley Pruden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Pity good ol' Joe Biden. He's eager at last to master the hounds, to impose order in the kennel. He wants to encourage the amiable golden retrievers, collies and cocker spaniels in his care, and he has to throw a little raw meat to the rabid pit bulls. How can he do that and escape with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Most Important 44 Words in the Constitution]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/may/16/freedom-of-speech-is-absolute/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wesley Pruden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The First Amendment to the Constitution, the most important 44 words in that priceless and precious promise of liberty and freedom, does not guarantee civil, wise or even responsible speech. It guarantees free speech, however goofy, dumb or even irresponsible.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Ghost of McGovern Haunts 2020 Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/apr/4/pete-buttigieg-beto-orourke-other-no-name-democrat/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wesley Pruden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's the first rule of politics that you can't beat somebody with nobody, but the Democrats are determined to repeal that rule in the year 2020. If anybody can do it, the Democrats think they can. They've got a lot of nobodies to choose from.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Best and Worst Times for America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/24/the-best-and-worst-times-for-america/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Wesley Pruden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[These are the best of times, these are the worst of times. (Charles Dickens only thought his age was confused.) You only have to read the newspapers to see why.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Run Their Playbook on Cindy Hyde-Smith]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/26/only-a-public-hanging-for-the-senator-will-do/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Wesley Pruden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re losing an election and you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re not sure there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s anything you can do about it, the modern Democrats have a sure-fire strategy: Cry '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'racist!!'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' (with not one but at least two exclamation points), and count on the illiterates in the media to do the rest....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Doesn't Anybody Here Respect Us Journalists?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/8/doesnt-anybody-here-respect-us-journalists/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Wesley Pruden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The snowflake disease is catching. Donald Trump, of all people, tried to teach a couple of White House reporters a little needed manners this week and you might have thought he had repealed the First Amendment with an executive order.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump a Master at Calling Out 'Them Lyin' Newspapers']]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jul/26/making-sport-calling-out-them-lyin-newspapers/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wesley Pruden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Calling out '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'them lyin'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' newspapers'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' has been standard stump speech since the first cave-man candidate invited the mob to start chunking rocks at the village blowhard. The chunking was such fun the custom survives.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats In a Lather Over the Good News]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/21/democrats-in-a-lather-over-the-good-news/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wesley Pruden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama is miffed because he thinks he collected the tinder for a booming economy, and events ignited a booming economy and the Donald gets the credit.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is California Too Much of a Good Thing?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/18/is-california-too-much-of-a-good-thing/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wesley Pruden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This is all very fanciful, as many things are in California, but Californians will vote in November whether to split in three. Some Californians, first among them Tim Draper, a billionaire high-tech venture capitalist, thinks it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a bully idea.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Panic Time at Camp Mueller]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/7/panic-time-at-camp-mueller/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wesley Pruden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If this is June, it must be time to indict Paul Manafort again. The clock is ticking, and the tic-tocs are getting louder.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kerry Colludes With the Mullahs]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/7/john-kerrys-57-varieties-of-mischief/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wesley Pruden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[John Kerry has spent all his life getting things wrong.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democratic Terror of a Miracle in North Korea]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/19/the-democratic-terror-of-a-miracle-in-north-korea/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/19/the-democratic-terror-of-a-miracle-in-north-korea/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wesley Pruden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trying to spark a new romance, or even arrange a weekend tryst, is not always easy. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s impossible with the help of spectators eager to throw things, not orange blossoms but sticks and stones with sharp edges. But that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s how Washington tries to conduct diplomacy, circa 2018.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Critics From Left &amp; Right Agree: Comey IS a Slimeball]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/16/still-waiting-for-the-garlic-bullet/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/16/still-waiting-for-the-garlic-bullet/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wesley Pruden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' called'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' James Comey'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'slimeball,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' which is not a very presidential way to talk. But just this time we might have to forgive the president.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' James Comey'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' really is a slimeball. Just about everybody says so.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Hero Only to a Lynch Mob]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/19/a-hero-only-to-a-lynch-mob/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/19/a-hero-only-to-a-lynch-mob/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wesley Pruden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Only a few days ago Andrew McCabe was nobody'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s idea of a hero, except to'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' James Comey'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and maybe'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Robert Mueller. They think Mr. McCabe, tarnished or not, cashiered or not as the deputy director of the FBI, purveyor of fibs, stretchers and lies with and without varnish, might...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can California Do What the Confederacy Couldn't?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/12/can-california-do-what-the-confederacy-couldnt/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/12/can-california-do-what-the-confederacy-couldnt/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wesley Pruden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[California has no cannon guarding San Francisco Bay, and it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not likely that anybody at City Hall would know how to use one if there were, but Jeff Sessions, the U.S. attorney general, nevertheless has some wise words along with his lawsuit against California'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s sanctuary...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Worm Overturns the Immigration Debate]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/8/the-worm-overturns-the-immigration-debate/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/8/the-worm-overturns-the-immigration-debate/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Wesley Pruden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The worm doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t turn often, but when it does nothing is more satisfying that watching it blush. Nobody likes know-it-all worms.Americans, including presidents, have warned for years that out-of-control immigration threatens to overwhelm national security, welfare agencies, schools...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mueller Gets His Ham Sandwich, Doesn't Lay a Glove on Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/feb/19/everybodys-playing-the-new-game-in-town/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/feb/19/everybodys-playing-the-new-game-in-town/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Wesley Pruden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Washington measures everything and everyone by politics, and dysfunction is the new game in town. Rant and rage has become the lingua franca of the nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s capital. Taking the measure of Robert Mueller'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s indictment of 13 Russian cybernauts for interfering on'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Vladimir...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Big Media's Sad and Extremely Horrible Week]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/11/big-medias-sad-and-extremely-horrible-week/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/11/big-medias-sad-and-extremely-horrible-week/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Wesley Pruden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Newspapermen were rarely whiners. Whining became fashionable only after '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'journalists'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' overran newsrooms. The best newspapermen, so the folk wisdom went, were Southerners, Jews and the Irish.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Crashes the Gasbag Party at Davos]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/25/donald-trump-crashes-the-gasbag-party-at-davos/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Wesley Pruden</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Decree Death in the Swamp for the Dreamers]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/15/democrats-decree-death-in-the-swamp-for-the-dreame/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/15/democrats-decree-death-in-the-swamp-for-the-dreame/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Wesley Pruden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi and their Democratic followers laid a careful trap for their Republican tormentors, and then fell in it. The Republican leadership can keep them from climbing out if they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re smart and show a little courage.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sorehead Losers of 2016 Suggest a Familiar Solution]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/11/angry-assertions-trump-crazy/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/11/angry-assertions-trump-crazy/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Wesley Pruden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' goes in for his annual physical Friday, and the doctors will only look at things like his blood pressure, listen to his heart, bang on his knees with a little rubber mallet and turn him around for the ever-popular prostate exam.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Looking for Mueller's Red Meat Main Course]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/28/mueller-watchers-hunger-red-meat-indictments/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/28/mueller-watchers-hunger-red-meat-indictments/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Wesley Pruden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The conspiracy theorists are hungry, and'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Robert Mueller'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' owes them dinner. His pantry is apparently barren of groceries, and he has spent nearly $7 million of the grocery money. So far he has only served up a cheese plate. We deserve a little red meat soon.Ham, ram, lamb, bull, beef...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ice of Media's Anti-Trump Freeze Shows Cracks]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/25/the-media-ice-begins-to-crack-a-little/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/25/the-media-ice-begins-to-crack-a-little/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Wesley Pruden</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'It ain'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t braggin,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' said Dizzy Dean, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'if you can do it.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'Ol'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' Diz was the Hall of Fame pitcher, full of Ozarks folk wisdom, and a philosopher to rival Yogi Berra. So who could argue with that?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[All the Dems Need Now Are More Child Molesters]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/14/all-the-democrats-need-now-are-more-child-molester/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/14/all-the-democrats-need-now-are-more-child-molester/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Wesley Pruden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democrats are feeling ruff, tuff and ready for the coming battle, and why shouldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t they? They proved in Alabama that with a little help from the other side, a Democrat can still defeat a child molester.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Stench of the Sixties Lives With Us Still]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/nov/27/charles-manson-stink-of-the-60s-lives-with-us-stil/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/nov/27/charles-manson-stink-of-the-60s-lives-with-us-stil/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Wesley Pruden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Charles Manson, perhaps the most wicked killer since the Nazis set up their abattoir in the Germany of the previous century, is gone now, banished by death to a decision at the judgment bar of God, from which there is no appeal. But we can measure the damage he and his times did here on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lessons About Trade From Trump's Trip to Asia]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/nov/13/donald-trumps-trip-to-asia-teaches-us-about-trade/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Wesley Pruden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No one should be rude. Bad manners are not nice. Doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t everybody'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s mama teach him that?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Donald Trumpcertainly knows how to overdo it, but sometimes a president must be strategically rude to make a necessary point.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Derangement Syndrome Only Gets Dems So Far]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/23/trump-derangement-syndrome-only-gets-democrats-so-/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wesley Pruden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Fear and loathing can be great fun, but the Democrats are learning to their chagrin that resistance, estrangement and alienation can only take a party so far.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Without Bombast or Bravado, a Presidential President]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/5/donald-trump-is-a-presidential-president/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wesley Pruden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump promised in his barnstorming campaign for president, with bombast and bravado, that once elected he would tone everything down and be presidential. He was elected and we learned that, candidate or president, the Donald doesn't do presidential.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reducing Disaster in Puerto Rico to Politics]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/2/puerto-rico-disaster-used-for-political-ends/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wesley Pruden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Politics is the name of the game in Washington, and Washington can make a game of anything, even charity, compassion and Christian mercy.]]></description>
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