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<title><![CDATA[Robert Robb - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14645.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Robert Robb]]></description><category domain="14645">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Bush Made the Bigger Mistake in Afghanistan]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/08/23/bush-and-biden-made-big-mistakes-afghanistan/8238918002/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Robb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[George W. Bush's mistake is the way he stayed in Afghanistan. Joe Biden's mistake is the way he got out.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fatal Conceit: Politicians Aren't Smarter Than Markets]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/12/28/do-republicans-distrust-capitalism-what-marco-rubio-speech-tells-us/2757810001/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Robb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The market is rigged, you often hear the left say. And now, voices on the right are joining the refrain.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Russian Collusion Probe Was, Yes, a Witch Hunt]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/12/15/russia-collusion-investigation-witch-hunt-ig-trump-column/2637744001/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Robb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The investigation quickly got off track and ran into dead ends. It should have never led to a special counsel investigation that convulsed the country for two years.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Do Dems Believe in Open Borders? Sure Looks That Way]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/07/20/democrats-believe-open-borders-immigration-column/1755622001/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Robb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For months Republicans have been falsely claiming that Democrats believe in open borders That's starting to have the ring of truth.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Let Trump Prove He Can Make a Deal on Immigration]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/05/18/trump-immigration-plan-merit-family-column/3706284002/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Robb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump talks a good game on immigration, but does he have the political will or moxie to actually do something about it? We'll see.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biased Judges, Not Trump, a Threat to Constitution]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/nation-now/2018/11/18/trump-daca-ruling-judges-court-bias-column/2025842002/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Robb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Federal judges refuse to let Trump exercise the same powers as past presidents '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' not because he's flouting the law, but because they don't like him.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Arizona See a Blue Wave or Red Backlash?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/robertrobb/2018/11/04/2018-arizona-election-turnout-blue-wave-red-backlash/1836438002/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Robb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats haven'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t won a statewide race in Arizona since 2008.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Restoring Respect for Constitutional Limits]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/nation-now/2017/10/21/donald-trump-restoring-respect-constitutional-limits-reversing-obama-robert-robb-column/780956001/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Robb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[That began with the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. President Barack Obama repeatedly, and correctly, said that he did not have the constitutional authority to grant legal status to "Dreamers," those brought here illegally when they were children, as a class. Then he did...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Will Win in 2020 If Dems Keep Calling Him a Racist]]></title>
							<link>http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/robertrobb/2017/10/02/donald-trump-nfl-protest-race-democrats/717896001/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Robb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Way too early for this kind of stuff, but I had been thinking that there was'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' no way Donald Trump would be re-elected.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Right: McCain Broke His Promise to Voters]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/09/27/john-mccain-ran-repealing-obamacare-he-broke-his-promise-robert-robb-column/708114001/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Robb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[John McCain is clearly on a mission to redeem the U.S. Senate, to save it from what McCain regards as its wayward ways. But when he announced his opposition to Graham-Cassidy, McCain depicted a Senate that is a fantasy. McCain has'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' twice scuttled Republican attempts'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' to repeal and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Conservatives Should Love Trump - But Some Don't]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/06/13/conservatives_should_love_trump_-_but_some_dont_134167.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Robb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Conservatives are frustrated about Donald Trump, but not for the reasons expected.
The expectation was that conservatives would be frustrated about Trump because Trump wouldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t be conservative enough. There was nothing in Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s history or campaign for president to suggest...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Makes Trump's Case for President]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/06/27/obama_makes_trumps_case_for_president_131023.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Robb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As it turns out, the main beneficiary of President Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s attempt to provide administrative amnesty to illegal immigrants is Donald Trump.
Now, I favor providing amnesty to most of those currently in the country illegally. But what Obama attempted was a breathtaking arrogation of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Apple Is Right About Terrorist's iPhone]]></title>
							<link>http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/robertrobb/2016/02/19/robb-apple-right-terrorists-phone/80632188/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Robb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Robert Robb: The government can't require Apple to create something that doesn't exist.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Wasn't Ready to Win Obamacare Lawsuit]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/06/26/gop_wasnt_ready_to_win_obamacare_lawsuit_127124.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Robb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Supreme Court got it right, legally, in upholding Obamacare subsidies in exchanges run by the federal government. And although Republicans are screeching about the decision, the court actually did them a big favor, politically.
Obamacare assumed that states would run exchanges...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ruling Halting Obama Order on Solid Ground]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/02/20/ruling_halting_obama_order_on_solid_ground.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Robb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Supporters of President Barack Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s administrative amnesty are responding to a preliminary injunction against it mostly by attacking the judge, Andrew Hanen.
Hanen, they claim, is an immigration restrictionist zealot. His decision was entirely political. It will get reversed on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Torture Report Shortchanges Moral Ambiguities]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/12/17/torture_report_shortchanges_moral_ambiguities_124993.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Robb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The floor speech John McCain gave in response to the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA detention and interrogation practices was highly acclaimed. It was poignant, coming from a national leader who was himself subjected to torture in the service of his country.
In the speech,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Muddled Thinking About Ferguson]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/12/04/obamas_muddled_thinking_about_ferguson_124839.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Robb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The decision by the Ferguson grand jury not to charge Darren Wilson with a crime occasioned more than the usual quotient of muddled thinking.
Let's begin at the top, with President Barack Obama.
Obama made essentially three points. First, respect for the rule of law requires accepting...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Calculating the National Interest: Ukraine and ISIS]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/09/10/calculating_the_national_interest_ukraine_and_isis_123914.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Robb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s post-Cold War foreign policy has suffered from imprecision in defining national interests and failure to calibrate our involvements in international conflicts accordingly.
The current debates over what to do regarding Ukraine and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria offer...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Limit Carbon Through Democratic Debate, Not Backdoor Regulation]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/06/03/limit_carbon_through_democratice_debate_not_backdoor_regulation_122850.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Robb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Critics of the Obama administration'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s proposed carbon rule for electricity generation are calling it another extra-legal power grab.They aren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t entirely wrong. But they aren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t entirely right, either.
This isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t a case of the administration acting contrary to clear...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Israel Should Encourage New Palestinian Elections]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/05/02/israel_should_encourage_new_palestinian_elections_122507.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Robb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Secretary of State John Kerry worked overtime to try to force-feed a peace agreement to Israel and the Palestinians. The most consequential byproduct of his frenzied diplomacy was a reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas, which blew up what remained of his peace process.That, however,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Dons &quot;I'm a Lame Duck&quot; Sign]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/01/31/obama_dons_im_a_lame_duck_sign_121421.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Robb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s State of the Union address was apparently intended to demonstrate his continued dominance of the political agenda. That presumably was the point of the chest-beating his aides did before the speech about the in-your-face unilateral actions the president was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Worthy Obamacare Alternatives]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/01/17/worthy_obamacare_alternatives_121277.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Robb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As a political issue, health care is driven by two anxieties: fear of not being able to get treatment if you need it; fear of going broke if you can get it.
Rather than deal with these anxieties discretely, President Obama used them as a political fulcrum to transform health insurance...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Guns and Mental Illness, a Germ of an Idea]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/09/25/guns_and_mental_illness_a_germ_of_an_idea_120078.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Robb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On gun control, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s almost universally conceded that attempts to ban certain guns or clips aren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t going anywhere. If the emotional freight train of the Newtown shooting couldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t get such a measure through the Democratically-controlled Senate, there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not much...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Charge of &quot;Isolationism&quot; Losing Its Sting]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/09/11/charge_of_isolationism_losing_its_sting_119903.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Robb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you think that bombing Syria is a bad idea, are you an isolationist?
That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s the charge being hurled with increasing promiscuity by the neoconservative Thors on the right. And even by some on the formerly pacifist left. Secretary of State John Kerry called opposition to bombing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Say No to War With Syria]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/09/04/say_no_to_war_with_syria_119813.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Robb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was right for President Barack Obama to seek authorization from Congress before launching a military attack on Syria. And now, it would be right for Congress to say no.
The Constitution has a clear division of responsibility regarding U.S. involvement in a military fight: Congress has...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A War With Syria to Save Face]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/08/29/a_war_with_syria_to_save_face_119741.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Robb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Apparently the United States is going to go to war, at least sort of, with Syria.
That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not because Syria has attacked the United States, because it hasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t.
It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not because the United States believes that it has strategic interests at stake in Syria'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s civil war that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Misses Mark on Obamacare Mandate Delays]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/07/19/gop_misses_mark_on_obamacare_mandate_delays__119264.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Robb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[House Republicans are trying to score populist points by saying that if President Obama is going to delay the employer mandate under Obamacare, he should delay the individual mandate as well.
That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s probably effective political rhetoric. But it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not a sound substantive...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Discomfort as a War President]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/25/obamas_discomfort_as_a_war_president_118554.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Robb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama intended his speech on counterterrorism last week to offer a thoughtful exposition of where the country stands since 9/11 and where we go from here. And for the most part, he did.It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s clear, however, that Obama has some moral reservations about where we are...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On Terrorism, It's Not Freedom vs. Security]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Robb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Boston bombing reawakens our sense of vulnerability to terrorist attacks and will undoubtedly spark renewed discussions about what measures, if any, should be taken to make us safer.
This is good. After 9/11, Americans worried about another big attack. When one didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t come, we...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Things to Like in Obama's Budget]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Robb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama is in search of a grand bargain with congressional Republicans on debt and deficits. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not in the offering and Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s proposed budget doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t provide even a starting point for such a discussion. Simply put, too much debt, spending and taxes.
That...]]></description>
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