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<title><![CDATA[Fred Barnes - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14608.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Fred Barnes]]></description><category domain="14608">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Iran Blinks]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/iran-blinks</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After the killing of Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, Iran'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s military and terrorist mastermind, Iranian leaders vowed to retaliate against the United States. And they did, firing 16 missiles at two bases housing American troops in Iraq. No U.S. soldiers were killed, though several...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's Happening Is Not Business as Usual]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/none-of-this-is-normal</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A front-page headline in the Washington Post the other day declared: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Trump keeps his grip on GOP.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Hardly a scoop. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s normal for a president to have a firm hold on his own party. And President Trump, an outsider who latched onto the Republican agenda, is no exception.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bipartisanship Is Overrated]]></title>
							<link>https://www.weeklystandard.com/fred-barnes/bipartisanship-is-overrated</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In two phone chats after Democrats won the House in the midterm election, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell and likely House speaker Nancy Pelosi broached the subject of bipartisanship'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'or as McConnell put it, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'ways we might be able to find a way forward.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Biggest Midterm Winner: Mitch McConnell]]></title>
							<link>https://www.weeklystandard.com/fred-barnes/the-biggest-winner-senator-mitch-mcconnell</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans lost the House but held the Senate in the midterm election. That puts Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell in the catbird seat.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Hawley Gained the Edge Over McCaskill in Missouri]]></title>
							<link>https://www.weeklystandard.com/fred-barnes/how-josh-hawley-became-a-likable-and-viable-candidate-for-senate-in-missouri</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[But don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t call Missouri'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Josh Hawley a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'golden boy.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Trump Knows That Obama Didn't]]></title>
							<link>https://www.weeklystandard.com/fred-barnes/what-trump-knows-that-obama-didnt</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Obama raised taxes. Trump cut them. Obama was a regulatory zealot. Trump is passionate about deregulation. Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Clean Power Plan killed the coal industry. Trump is reviving it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kavanaugh's Character Assassinated by Cowardly Senate Dems]]></title>
							<link>https://www.weeklystandard.com/fred-barnes/the-character-assassination-of-brett-kavanaugh-by-the-cowardly-senate-democrats</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 11 Republicans were the majority, but Democrats had one big advantage. The media were on their side, ready to help derail Kavanaugh in any way they could.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Tries Something Surprising: Self-Control]]></title>
							<link>https://www.weeklystandard.com/fred-barnes/trump-tries-something-surprising-self-control</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Now, with the midterm election six weeks away, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s time for Trump to tighten his grip on his emotions again, limit any distractions, and act like a gentleman. He has a big incentive to do so. If Democrats win the House by a big margin'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'40 or more seats is possible'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'he will...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Desperate Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://www.weeklystandard.com/fred-barnes/desperate-democrats</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Leaving out the legal issues reflects how Democrats see the Court. They are results-oriented. Legal niceties are beside the point. Whatever strategy is most likely to win a case, as long as it comes out the way they want, they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re for. They'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re not crazy about the Constitution....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nothing Good Ever Comes From a Special Counsel]]></title>
							<link>https://www.weeklystandard.com/fred-barnes/nothing-good-ever-comes-of-a-special-counsel-investigation</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So Mueller'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s quest goes on. It seems endless. Mueller is under pressure not to give up, even if he keeps coming up empty-handed, as appears to be happening again and again.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Chuck Grassley's Moment]]></title>
							<link>https://www.weeklystandard.com/fred-barnes/chuck-grassleys-moment</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The chairman of the Judiciary Committee is no longer Senator Bipartisan.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems &amp; the Dossier: They Almost Got Away With It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.weeklystandard.com/fred-barnes/three-leaders-are-better-than-one</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Three leaders are better than one]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Devin Nunes Was Right About Page and the Dossier]]></title>
							<link>https://www.weeklystandard.com/fred-barnes/the-devin-nunes-memo-about-carter-page-and-the-steele-dossier-was-right</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, is an exception to the rule that committee chairs, male or female, are allowed to run things as they choose. Democrats, left-wing groups, and those who obsess about Trump won'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t let him.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Will Go to War vs. Court Pick, Without Much Hope]]></title>
							<link>https://www.weeklystandard.com/fred-barnes/fight-preview</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats are in a state of high anxiety over the likelihood that departing Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy will be replaced by a more conservative and much younger justice. And they ought to be.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Remembering the Bravery of Charles Krauthammer]]></title>
							<link>https://www.weeklystandard.com/fred-barnes/he-was-brave</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When I told Charles I would lead him out of the auditorium, he waved me away. For nearly an hour, he chatted with them and, as he sat in his wheelchair, had his picture taken with them at his side.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Does It His Way]]></title>
							<link>https://www.weeklystandard.com/fred-barnes/trump-does-it-his-way</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In February, then-secretary of state Rex Tillerson was informed by a North Korean envoy that Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un wanted to meet with President Trump. Tillerson favored accepting the invitation quickly. Trump didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Makes the Midterms Exciting]]></title>
							<link>https://www.weeklystandard.com/fred-barnes/trump-makes-the-midterms-exciting</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We have President Trump to thank for the noisy and exciting midterm elections. If John Kasich were president, the sound of the campaign would be zzzzzzzzz.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Congressional Republicans' Secret Weapon]]></title>
							<link>https://www.weeklystandard.com/fred-barnes/congressional-republicans-secret-weapon</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats are expecting a landslide in the midterm elections, and it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s lulled them to sleep on Capitol Hill.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Wipeout of Obama's Legacy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.weeklystandard.com/fred-barnes/the-wipeout-of-obamas-legacy</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s legacy is rapidly vanishing. The decision by President Trump to withdraw from the nuclear deal with Iran is the biggest blow, but it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s only the latest.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can West Virginia Republicans Take Down Manchin?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.weeklystandard.com/fred-barnes/trumps-state</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Can West Virginia Republicans take down Joe Manchin?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jeff Sessions and His Enemies]]></title>
							<link>https://www.weeklystandard.com/fred-barnes/jeff-sessions-and-his-enemies</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A rare left-right agreement in Washington: disliking the attorney general.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Decline and Fall of Elizabeth Warren]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-decline-and-fall-of-elizabeth-warren/article/2012052</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Trump era has been tough on Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and no one has been tougher on her than President Trump himself, with his references to her as Pocahontas.With the nickname, the president is playing brass-knuckles politics to remind voters of her undocumented claim to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Larry Kudlow Finally Gets the Nod]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/trumps-top-economics-guy/article/2011969</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Larry Kudlow got blindsided in 2017 when President Trump was putting together his White House staff. He was a Trump loyalist, having announced his support at approximately the moment Trump announced his candidacy. And he and his partner Stephen Moore'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??both longtime advocates of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There's Been a Switch--Dems Are Now the Stupid Party]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/barnes-look-whos-stupid-now/article/2011699</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For decades, Republicans have been stuck with the epithet the stupid party, and they've often deserved it. But there's been a switch in the Trump era. Democrats now are the stupid party.They've adopted several of the foolhardy habits of Republicans'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??for instance, the government...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Man With a Plan: Newt's Strategy for GOP Victory]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/barnes-a-man-with-a-plan-newts-strategy-for-gop-victory/article/2011509</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are many ways Republicans can lose control of the House and Senate in November. But there's only one way they stand a good chance to hold both chambers. It's to run on the tax cuts.One reason is that it's the best thing Republicans have done in the Trump era. But there are bigger...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Republican Triumphs of 2017]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/barnes-the-gop-triumphs-of-2017/article/2011129</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For 37 years, efforts to open the remote Alaskan tundra known as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling for oil and natural gas got nowhere. It's a barren, uninhabitable area that looks like the surface of an asteroid. But environmental groups and their Democratic allies treated...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Feeble Resistance: Look at What Dems Haven't Accomplished]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/feeble-resistance/article/2010954</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Shocked by Donald Trump's election, Democrats adopted a strategy of resistance that's simple and blunt: Anything Trump is for, they're against. It's turned out to be one of the least successful strategies a political party has ever pursued. Yet Democrats have stuck to it.At least...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Scott Pruitt: The Man They Love to Hate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-man-they-love-to-hate/article/2010851</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Every Sunday evening, the press office at the Environmental Protection Agency receives emails from the New York Times and Politico asking for EPA administrator Scott Pruitt's public schedule for the coming week. The press office ignores the emails.The Times hasn't given up. It has sued...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Presidential Report Card Is Not Pretty]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/a-presidential-report-card/article/2010527</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are many ways to judge a president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??polls, approval ratings, legislative successes, foreign breakthroughs, memorable speeches, and historic moments. But there's a better way than any of these, and Fred Greenstein, a professor of politics emeritus at Princeton University, has...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Fight in Virginia Over the Proper Role of an AG]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/politicians-general/article/2010138</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mark Herring, Virginia's attorney general, wanted to run for governor this fall. But Terry McAuliffe, the current governor, thought otherwise. And his endorsement of lieutenant governor Ralph Northam for the Democratic nomination for governor sent a blunt message to Herring: forget...]]></description>
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