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<title><![CDATA[Toby Harnden - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14566.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Toby Harnden]]></description><category domain="14566">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[CIA Comrades Honor Mike Spann By Rescuing Afghan Allies]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Toby Harnden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A quiet descended on the approximately 150 people gathered inside a sleek, open-plan office to enjoy cocktails and hors d'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'oeuvres high in the skyscraper known to New Yorkers as the Freedom Tower. On three sides were breathtaking twilight views from the site that, twenty years...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Easton Ellis to 'Spoiled Children' Liberals: Deal With Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/bret-easton-ellis-tells-spoiled-children-liberals-how-to-deal-with-trump-he-was-elected-president-get-over-it</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Toby Harnden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Now middle-aged, the enfant terrible novelist Bret Easton Ellis, has turned to nonfiction to mock the "childlike fascism" and "demented narcissism" of American liberals that helped put President Trump in the White House and left them facing "mental and emotional collapse."]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Comey on Trump's 'Consciousness of Guilt']]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/04/25/comey_on_trumps_consciousness_of_guilt_136899.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Toby Harnden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It should not have ended this way for James Comey, who bows his head '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' he is 6ft 8in tall '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' as he walks into a shabby publisher'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s office in the Flatiron building, overlooking Fifth Avenue in Manhattan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Midtown. He is wearing an open-neck shirt and introduces himself...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kennedy Clan Tries to Sink Chappaquiddick Film]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/04/15/kennedy_clan_tries_to_sink_chappaquiddick_film_136812.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Toby Harnden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[She could be described as one of the first #MeToo victims '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' an intelligent young woman maltreated by a powerful boss and then dismissed as a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'blonde floozy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' when his career was threatened.
But the desire for truth in what has been hailed as a new era of transparency about...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Did Stephen Paddock Become a Murderer?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/10/09/why_did_stephen_paddock_become_a_murderer_135209.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Toby Harnden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Looking down from room 134 on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay casino hotel, Stephen Paddock had a commanding view of the famous Las Vegas Strip.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' From his perch in the golden skyscraper he could see the country music fans crammed into the open-air venue last Sunday for the final...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Richard Dreyfuss on America's Self-Inflicted Wound]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/06/05/richard_dreyfuss_politicians_are_frozen_in_falsehood_134098.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Toby Harnden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[ENCINITAS, Calif. -- As the earnest marine biologist Hooper, Richard Dreyfuss helped save Amity Island from the great white killer shark in the 1975 blockbuster "Jaws."
He later starred in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" before picking up an Oscar for best actor at age 30 in "The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[McGuinness: The Slippery Shadow in Irish Dirty War]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/03/31/mcguinness_the_slippery_shadow_in_irish_dirty_war___133488.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Toby Harnden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Towards the end of my time as a reporter in Northern Ireland I had a dream in which I was opening an envelope. In it, I had been told, was a list of all the IRA and loyalist paramilitaries who had been secret agents for the British intelligence services.
Even in the dream it felt as if...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Unleashes London Boy to Hit Liberal Media]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/03/10/trump_unleashes_london_boy_to_hit_liberal_media_133308.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Toby Harnden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Briton who counts most in the eyes of President Donald Trump is not Theresa May, even if she was the first foreign leader he invited to the White House. It is not Nigel Farage, welcome though the former Ukip boss is whenever he passes through Washington or New York.
That accolade...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[McMullin Shows Trump Is Too Wild for the West]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/10/28/mcmullin_shows_trump_is_too_wild_for_the_west_132187.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Toby Harnden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Salt Lake City, Utah--Former spy Evan McMullin is on the brink of doing what no presidential candidate has done for more than half a century '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' deprive the Republican nominee of winning the state of Utah.
He is very unlikely to become president but his spirited stand as an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Art of Hillary Dealing With Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/09/26/the_art_of_hillary_dealing_with_trump_131891.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Toby Harnden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton is turning to the man who helped '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'create'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Donald Trump in the hope of unlocking the secret of how to neutralise the billionaire populist in tomorrow night'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s presidential debate.
With the exception of his children and perhaps his wives, no one knows the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Election of the Deplorables: Swing Voters Loathe Both Candidates]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/09/23/election_of_the_deplorables_swing_voters_loathe_both_candidates_131877.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Toby Harnden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Alexandria, VA - In a drab office building in the suburbs of northern Virginia 30 undecided voters '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' carefully selected to represent a cross-section of the US electorate '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' filed into a neon-lit conference room to help pollsters try to make sense of an extraordinary presidential...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Muhammad Ali Never Knew Grandfather Was Jailed for 25-Cent Murder]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/06/13/muhammad_ali_never_knew_grandfather_was_jailed_for_25-cent_murder_130861.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Toby Harnden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[AS the petal-strewn hearse carrying Muhammad Ali's casket drove slowly through Louisville's west end, still overwhelmingly black and wracked by poverty and crime, the inhabitants of the streets where the champion boxer grew up reclaimed him as one of their own.But even after a week-long...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Fossil' Hillary Joins Her Chorus of Critics]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/06/07/fossil_hillary_joins_her_chorus_of_critics_130800.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Toby Harnden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Facing a potentially disastrous defeat in Tuesday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s California primary amid accusations she is a tired establishment politician who cannot relate to ordinary voters, Hillary Clinton and her allies adopted a startling approach at a Los Angeles event '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' they seemed to agree.
After...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kim Barker: That Afghanistan Flirt Is Tina Fey - Not Me]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/05/17/that_afghanistan_flirt_is_tina_fey_-_not_me_130588.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Toby Harnden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Kim Barker has no problem with watching herself enjoying awkward alcohol-fuelled sex of the variety that is rued in the mortifying first fog of a hangover.
That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s because, she smiles, it isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t really her engaging in ill-advised warzone frolics in a grimy bathroom but Tina Fey....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Unbound Delegates Could Hold Key to Stopping Trump at Convention]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/03/08/unbound_delegates_could_hold_key_to_stopping_trump_at_convention_129905.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Toby Harnden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The ultimate result of the 2016 presidential election could yet rest on the likes of Erling '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Curly'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Haugland, 69, a businessman from Bismarck, North Dakota, who will be one of the 2,472 delegates to the Republican party convention in July. And he isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t saying what...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Hatred More Powerful Than a Mother's Love]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/12/07/the_hatred_more_powerful_than_a_mothers_love_128955.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Toby Harnden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Spilt across their cluttered kitchen counter was the last meal enjoyed by Tashfeen Malik and her husband, Syed Farook. Along with orange juice and paratha bread were bottles of Adderall and Xanax pills prescribed to steady the nerves.
Unwashed dishes lay in the sink of the modest...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clown Time Is Over as Trump Crumples]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/09/22/clown_time_is_over_as_trump_crumples_128169.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Toby Harnden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump is not going to be the leader of the free world. That was the reality check delivered to the reality TV star when he was subjected to a pounding in last week'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Republican debate at the Ronald Reagan presidential library.
A summer of bombast from the bumptious...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ten Years On, Devastation From Katrina Remains]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/08/11/ten_years_on_devastation_from_katrina_remains_127732.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Toby Harnden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LOOKING out of her front window down Clouet Street, in the 9th ward of New Orleans, Clothilde Mack, who will turn 99 next month, reflected on how she might have died.
Two doors down from the clapboard house where the widow has lived since 1959, two young women and two children aged seven...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rocking Governor With a Plan to Beat Donald Whatsisname]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/08/05/rocking_governor_with_a_plan_to_beat_donald_whatsisname_127662.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Toby Harnden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ask John Kasich, the governor of Ohio, about Donald Trump, his presidential rival and the Republican party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s current shock frontrunner, and he will fix you with a steely glare and change the subject.
'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t think about it,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Kasich said last week, cutting off a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Air Force Chump Breezes Into Town]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/07/29/air_force_chump_breezes_into_town_127580.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Toby Harnden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It could have been a scene from a slapstick movie parodying the excesses of American presidential campaigns.
Emerging from his Boeing 757 private jet with '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' emblazoned on the fuselage and a giant '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'T'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' on the tail, the billionaire property magnate and wannabe...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Black America Rages as Murder Rate Soars]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/06/09/black_america_rages_as_murder_rate_soars_126911.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Toby Harnden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO - Inside the rectory of St Sabina Church on Chicago'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s notorious South Side, Father Michael Pfleger made no attempt to sugar-coat what was happening on the streets he walks each day.
'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Every day, children pass by a corner where some person got killed,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' he said, his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mad Max-Style Takeover of Ramadi Leaves Obama and West Floundering]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/05/30/mad_max-style_takeover_of_ramadi_leaves_obama_and_west_floundering_126789.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Toby Harnden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The beginning of the end of the battle for Ramadi was signalled by a hulking bulldozer emerging through a swirling sandstorm.
With a suicide bomber at the wheel and armoured plates welded to its chassis, the vehicle crashed through concrete blast barriers surrounding the Iraqi police...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jim Webb's Toughest Mission]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/03/24/jim_webbs_toughest_mission_126032.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Toby Harnden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[COLUMBIA, S.C. - His body is still embedded with shrapnel from Vietnam and as a new senator he confronted George W. Bush in the White House over the Iraq War.
But last week James Webb embarked on what may be his toughest mission yet, touring early primary states for the first time as he...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Navy SEAL Rob O'Neill: Why I Shot bin Laden in the Face]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/02/13/navy_seal_rob_oneill_why_i_shot_bin_laden_in_the_face_125592.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Toby Harnden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was a fraction of a second, but the moment he saw Osama bin Laden is seared in Rob O'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'Neill'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s mind. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Every time I close my eyes I can see it,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' he says. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I remember looking at how tall he was, skinnier than I thought. His beard was shorter. He'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d a crew cut...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[&quot;I Wish I'd Killed More&quot;: Chris Kyle, the American Sniper]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/01/26/i_wish_id_killed_more_chris_kyle_the_american_sniper.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Toby Harnden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Many soldiers are haunted by the lives they have taken. Chris Kyle, the most lethal sniper in American history, was not one of them. Three years ago I interviewed the tobacco-chewing former cowboy about his tally of 160 confirmed kills in Iraq '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' he estimated the true number was 255...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Godly, Gun-Toting 'Rogue' Seeks White House]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/01/19/godly_gun-toting_rogue_seeking_white_house_125299.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Toby Harnden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A leading Republican presidential contender has warned against electing another Bush or Clinton to the White House, saying that installing an aristocratic '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'ruling class'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' in the United States could all but destroy the country.
Mike Huckabee, a Baptist minister and quick-witted...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[James Mitchell, CIA's &quot;Torture Teacher&quot; Hits Back]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/12/16/james_mitchell_cias_torture_teacher_hits_back_124968.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Toby Harnden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a secret CIA prison in Thailand, codenamed Detention Site Green, Abu Zubaydah sat shackled to a chair, naked except for a hood over his head. The windowless cell was painted white and illuminated by four halogen lights.
The terrorist said to have ranked third in al-Qaeda had been...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bush: My Sweet Dad, a Wonderful Father to Bill Clinton and Me]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/11/18/bush_my_sweet_daddy_a_wonderful_father_to_bill_clinton_and_me_124685.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Toby Harnden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No longer in office, a relaxed George W Bush shares quips with Toby Harnden about a surprising friendship and assesses the chances of a third Bush reaching the Oval Office
George W. Bush'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s face creases into a broad grin and his eyes twinkle at mention of Bill Clinton, the man he...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Squander the Sacrifice of Our Veterans]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/11/17/dont_squander_the_sacrifice_of_our_veterans_124678.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Toby Harnden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Veterans Day a decade ago, I was with Task Force 2-2 of the U.S. Army'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 1st Infantry Division'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the Big Red One'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'as it stormed Fallujah. Its men fought house to house rooting out insurgents, some up of whom were pumped up by amphetamines that gave them an almost superhuman...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Piers Morgan: A Failure? The Aston Martin Says Not Yet]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/11/02/piers_morgan_a_failure_the_aston_martin_says_not_yet_124479.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Toby Harnden</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES - Piers Morgan is homesick. He does his best to put a positive gloss on his bruising exit from CNN, which cancelled his nightly talk show in March after three years. But he does little to dispel the sense that this is a man whose plans to conquer America have been...]]></description>
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