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<title><![CDATA[Eric Zorn - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14640.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Eric Zorn]]></description><category domain="14640">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Trans Bans in Sports Pose a Hard Question]]></title>
							<link>https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/eric-zorn/ct-column-trans-sports-bans-girls-legislation-complex-zorn-20210401-z6qa452c2janxknz7xkgrr2pzi-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Zorn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When it comes to youth sports, how should we define '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'girl'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'? I posed this question via email this week to the National Center for Transgender Equality because I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m trying to sort out my thoughts on this spate of new and proposed laws around the country aimed at compelling...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Looks Doomed Like in 2016--That Has Dems Worried]]></title>
							<link>https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/eric-zorn/ct-column-trump-biden-clinton-polls-retrospective-zorn-20201015-e4siggpw4vfnbiwddne5az75zu-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Zorn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sure, Joe Biden is sitting pretty in the polls just weeks from Election Day. But so was Hillary Clinton four years ago, so this is no time for Democrats to relax or feel confident]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kim Foxx Must Come Clean About the Smollett Case]]></title>
							<link>https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/zorn/ct-perspec-zorn-kim-foxx-jussie-smollett-geragos-20190405-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Zorn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx is harming not just her political career but the functioning of her office by not giving a full accounting of what happened in the Jussie Smollett case.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kim Foxx Will and Should Lose Her Job]]></title>
							<link>https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/zorn/ct-perspec-zorn-kim-foxx-jussie-smollett-justice-20190328-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Zorn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx will see her political career destroyed by her office's tone-deaf handling of the Jussie Smollett hate-crime hoax case.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Refusing to Stand for Anthem Is Also a Patriotic Act]]></title>
							<link>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/zorn/ct-perspec-zorn-anthem-football-trump-20171001-story.html#nt=oft12aH-1gp2</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Zorn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Some folks online say they do, but it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s got to be a small number. I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve never seen it done at a viewing party or a bar, let alone a small gathering of friends. And the very idea, ideologically consistent though it may be, seems a little obsessive and weird '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' like stopping...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump, Not Campus Radicals, Is Real Threat to Freedom]]></title>
							<link>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/zorn/ct-trump-gop-real-threats-to-liberty-zorn-perspec-0503-20170502-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Zorn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The ignorant, insular snowflakes on college campuses who want to banish conservative speakers are a piddly threat to American liberty. The hand-wringing and pearl-clutching on the political right about the lefty activists who object to their schools providing a forum to conservative...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can America Survive President Donald Trump?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/zorn/ct-donald-trump-wins-disaster-president-zorn-20161109-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Zorn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Founders were wary of demagogues and created a political system of checks and balances to weaken the chance that one would take power. That system has survived centuries of domestic and foreign tumult and the occasional election of buffoons and rascals as commander in chief, despite...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When the Blame Hillary Clinton Crowd Goes Too Far]]></title>
							<link>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/zorn/ct-republican-convention-hillary-clinton-benghazi-perspec-0720-md-20160719-column.html#nt=oft12aH-1gp2</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Zorn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I won't, I can't say a bad word about Patricia Smith.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' She lost her only child, U.S. Foreign Service information management officer Sean Smith, 34, in the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' I can barely imagine the depths of her grief and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton Email Scandal Is Far From a Voter Deal-Breaker]]></title>
							<link>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/zorn/ct-hillary-clinton-voter-loyalty-email-scandal-zorn-perspec-0708-md-20160707-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Zorn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I won't sugarcoat the week's biggest news: Hillary Clinton 's paranoia and arrogance led her not only to being "extremely careless" in her handling of sensitive, classified information via email while she was secretary of state, according to the FBI , but also to lying to the public...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joe Biden: Excellent 'Slip-In' Candidate If Clinton Falters]]></title>
							<link>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/zorn/ct-joe-biden-president-trump-clinton-zorn-perspec-0529-jm-20160527-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Zorn</author>
							<description><![CDATA["I hear they're gonna actually slip Joe Biden in and he's going to take Bernie's place. "]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lessons From a Hate Crime Hoax in Iowa]]></title>
							<link>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/zorn/ct-fake-racial-attack-lessons-perspec-0522-20160520-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Zorn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let's take a look at the recent statement issued by Naperville residents Melvin Owens Jr. and his wife, Rosalind, on behalf of their 19-year-old son, Marcus.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We're Going to Miss President Obama When He's Gone]]></title>
							<link>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/zorn/ct-missing-obama-already-perspec-zorn-0504-jm-20160503-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Zorn</author>
							<description><![CDATA["We haven't seen any groundswell for a third term for Obama."'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Paul Manafort, senior adviser to Donald Trump's GOP presidential campaign, speaking Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation"'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Actually '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' If I may interject some reality into Paul's Manafort-splainin' about why he...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Public Not Fully and Adequately Informed]]></title>
							<link>http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2013/07/gzng.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Zorn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's pretty clear jurors didn't buy '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the idea suggested by prosecutors that Zimmerman actively pursued Martin, confronted him, provoked the fight that he was winning at the time the fatal shot was fired and then made up a bunch of lies to justify what he did.And it may have been that,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[All the Ingredients for a Miscarriage of Justice]]></title>
							<link>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-oped-0630-zorn-20130630,0,5247290.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Zorn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Evidence of innocence explained away with far-fetched theories or else ignored. Evidence of guilt magnified and bolstered with irrelevant detail and innuendo. These are among the key ingredients for all the wrongful convictions I've written about in the last 20 years. Investigators and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Staggering', Even by Illinois Standards]]></title>
							<link>http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2008/12/staggering-allegations-even-by-illinois-standards.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Zorn</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[8 Reasons Obama Will Win]]></title>
							<link>http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2008/10/08-reasons-barack-obama-will-win-next-tuesday.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Zorn</author>
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							<title><![CDATA['08 Reasons Obama Might Lose]]></title>
							<link>http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2008/10/reasons-barack-obama-will-lose-next-tuesday.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Zorn</author>
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