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							<title><![CDATA[How Trump Can Defeat the Xi Jinping Batflu]]></title>
							<link>https://www.davidwarrenonline.com/2020/04/16/the-world-cannot-be-fixed/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Warren</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mister Trump, the president of a neighbouring country, likes to win. This is his reputation, and it is enhanced by his public enthusiasm for winning, and the fact that he frequently wins. One might almost call him an embodiment of American optimism.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pretend Democracy in Egypt]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/06/22/pretend_democracy_in_egypt_114578.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Warren</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With conflicting reports of Hosni Mubarak'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s passing Tuesday, Cairo'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s streets were filling again. But some clarity may emerge, as the man himself is separated from the legacy he served.
Long before Mubarak, Egypt had laws banning sectarian political parties. That is why a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Terrible End of Europe's Nanny State]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/06/13/the_terrible_end_of_europes_nanny_state_114468.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Warren</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Austerity is the mot-du-jour almost everywhere at the moment. It reigns in Spain, for instance. ('&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Austeridad.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';')
As Jim Flaherty said, in hailing the Spanish bank bailout, it '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t solve the problem but it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a step in the right direction.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'
Let us examine...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Can't Export Democracy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/03/03/we_cant_export_democracy_113345.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Warren</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When one cannot trust one'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s own allies not to murder one, one is in a fix. It is not an unusual fix, as the history of this planet goes, and particularly the history of Afghanistan. But the circumstances in which two American officers at the Interior Ministry in Kabul lost their...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There Is More Than One Path to War With Iran]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/16/there_is_more_than_one_path_to_war_with_iran_113157.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Warren</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'What if?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' question has been quietly reformulating itself as the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'When?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' question, while politicians, diplomats, and the news-absorbing public have been trying hard to look another way. Revolutionary Iran is, by general consensus, now on the cusp of becoming a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Europe Digs Still Deeper]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/12/11/europe_digs_still_deeper_112364.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Warren</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When you've dug yourself into a hole, so far down you can't see the sky any more, the answer is to dig faster. You never know, you might come out in China.
This is the primaeval advice upon which Europe's politicians are now working: to dig their own grave, gratuitously deep. At 5 a.m....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Europe Is Beyond Rescue]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/10/31/europe_is_beyond_rescue_111884.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Warren</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Europe's latest summit rescue plan appeared to score with the markets, this week, on both sides of the Atlantic, and yet this appearance is deceptive. Many investors were covering short positions.
They had bet the summiteers could agree on nothing at all; and they were wrong. This alone...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Islamism Fills the Vacuum Left by Socialism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/10/26/islamism_fills_the_vacuum_left_by_socialism_111823.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Warren</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The message that "we will see" is not what readers turn to pundits for; yet it has to be said before proceeding to general observations on the advance of Islamism through the "Arab Spring." Everything I know about the world tells me that what looks like good news often proves lethally...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Ignominious End, a Ghoulish Celebration]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/10/24/an_ignominious_end_a_ghoulish_celebration_111789.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Warren</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One marvels, in retrospect, at the order the U.S. military brought to Iraq, wherein Saddam Hussein was brought to his trial alive and intact. For, while one may not care very much whether murderous tyrants receive all the gracious attentions of correct legal procedure, it is nevertheless...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Republic of Anti-Israel]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/09/04/the_republic_of_anti-israel_111203.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Warren</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We are waiting patiently, as the fuse burns down on another Middle Eastern powder keg. On Sept. 20, as the next United Nations session opens, Mahmoud Abbas will present a declaration of statehood to the General Assembly, on behalf of the Palestinians of Gaza and the West Bank. Though...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Libyan Good Guys and Bad Guys]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/08/27/libyan_good_guys_and_bad_guys_111112.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Warren</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The reappearance of Seif al-Islam, Col. Moammar Gadhafi's second son, before journalists at the Tripoli hotel where they are holed up, provided a fine instructive moment to journalists. Apparently he had not been captured, as all media had reported. Things are not always as they appear,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rick Perry Keeps It Simple]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/08/21/rick_perry_keeps_it_simple_111037.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Warren</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rick Perry, the governor of Texas, made waves this week, upon entering the Republican presidential fray, by suggesting that Ben Bernanke, of the Federal Reserve, would be treacherous if he continued to "print money" to grease the government's way out of the solvency crisis. Perry's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bit Players]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/08/10/bit_players_110889.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Warren</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We are in Ramadan again, and yesterday was the first Friday in the Muslim holy season of fasting. As a priestly friend points out, it was also the feast of the dedication of St. Mary Major in Rome, but the purpose of this column is not to supply calendar notes. Instead, even when...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Public Stops Listening to Political Class]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/07/31/the_public_isnt_listening_to_political_class_110777.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Warren</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The American "debt ceiling" has, like everything else, a history. And like so much else in what I persistently call Nanny Statecraft, it goes back to the First World War. Once upon a time, the U.S. Congress had to authorize every single bond issue. That meant finding a political...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Post-Modern Pact With the Devil]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/07/28/a_post-modern_pact_with_the_devil_110746.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Warren</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here is the father of Anders Breivik speaking, to a television interviewer, who asked if he thought his son was insane:
"He must be, he must be, there is no other way to explain it!"
Alas, there is another way to explain it, that contemporary man does not like to think about, just as we...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Acquitted of Political Incorrectitudes]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/06/26/acquitted_of_political_incorrectitudes_110367.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Warren</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The acquittal of Geert Wilders by an Amsterdam appeals court is a significant victory for free speech everywhere. This is the prominent Dutch politician who was charged with inciting hatred against Muslims.
Prime evidence was a documentary film he had produced, entitled, "Fitna"...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Deep Shame of Vancouver]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/06/19/the_deep_shame_of_vancouver_110270.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Warren</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Anyone who loves this country -genuinely loves her, as opposed to the many gestures and emotions that ape love -will have felt deep shame at the rioting in Vancouver this last week. It gave the lie to so many pretences.
I was impressed with a remark by Bob Rae, who has grown old enough...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Panic Cycle]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/06/06/the_panic_cycle_110097.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Warren</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Thanks largely to advances in technology -or more precisely, to the marketing of technology -it is no longer a simple thing to get away from it all. Your average modern urban Canadian is as fully wired as the average occupant of an old-fashioned electric chair. He cannot easily walk...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rudeness vs. Murder]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/04/06/rudeness_vs_murder_109468.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Warren</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A culture that puts a high value on selected printed matter, and a low value on human life, is not yet one we are prepared to deal with. But we are dealing with it, in the worst possible way: by ignoring violence; by condemning book-burning while overlooking murder.
There was a brief...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What in God's Name Are We Doing in Libya?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/04/03/what_in_gods_name_are_we_doing_in_libya_109441.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Warren</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The question, "What in God's name are we doing in Libya?" has yet to be asked on the campaign trail, except perhaps sotto voce.
Goaded by France, Britain, and Hillary Clinton, the Obama administration suddenly went to war there. Like nice running dogs, the Harper government immediately...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Are We Doing in the Middle East?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/03/24/a_liberal_war_in_libya_109337.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Warren</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the days pass, and the intervention in Libya grows longer, my alarm also grows. The West digs itself into a position that is contrary to western interests, and can only advance the interests of our worst enemies in the Middle East. If I were to characterize the effect of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Don't Know What We Are Doing]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/03/20/barack_obama_united_states_libya_war_109284.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Warren</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Does anyone remember the Powell doctrine? A relic of Colin Powell's days in the Pentagon, this held that any U.S. military incursion into a foreign country must meet three criteria of success. It must enjoy broad international support, employ overwhelming force, and deploy a clear exit...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Tsunami of Information]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/03/14/a_tsunami_of_information_109215.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Warren</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On the topic of "reductio ad absurdum" (always a topic in the daily news), I called up a Twitter search yesterday, on the word "tsunami." My screen immediately filled with tweets logged "10 seconds ago," with a few at the bottom logged "20 seconds ago." Within a few more seconds, a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Most Ruthless Usually Triumph]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/03/02/the_most_ruthless_usually_triumph_109087.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Warren</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Libya retains the focus of the moment, for the media need a headline, but the background story is so much larger. The entire region is on fire, or very close to ignition, from Morocco to Pakistan, and we need to start thinking on this larger scale.
It does not follow, from the fact...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Permissions]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/02/28/permissions_109051.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Warren</author>
							<description><![CDATA[That Moammar Gadhafi is a monster has been known for some time -- even better to his own people than to those out of harm's way. But there was never much doubt, in any foreign office, that his regime was behind various terrorist enterprises, or that his own unpredictability made the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democracy and the Mob]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/02/17/our_incoherent_response_to_middle_east_chaos_108923.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Warren</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You cannot argue with a mob -- the choice is between feigned obedience and defiance -- and the Egyptian army chose to dispense with Hosni Mubarak last week. It is trying to play the forces loosed on Cairo streets and elsewhere as a bull; with a cape of promises, revised daily to keep up...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nothing Learned]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/02/06/nothing_learned_108796.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Warren</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are two, and only two, credible sources of power in Egypt, at the national level. One is the army, and the other is the Muslim Brotherhood. The former seized power in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, overthrowing the royal dynasty of that extraordinary Albanian, Muhammad Ali, which...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Face in the Crowd]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/02/03/face_in_the_crowd_108750.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Warren</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Four days ago I wrote that, "No one can predict what will come of" the Egyptian demonstrations, "until fresh factors come into play." Let me update that. Mohamed ElBaradei -- the man who ran interference for the Iranian regime, against Bush, when he was chief UN atomic weapons inspector...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Watching Egypt]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/01/31/watching_egypt_108713.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Warren</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The surprising success of demonstrations in Tunisia -- a despised president fled the country, but leaving his despised government largely intact -- has inspired "us, too!" demonstrations around the Arab world. Clamouring continues in Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, Lebanon. No one can predict what...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Words, Deeds &amp; Political Insinuations]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/01/13/words_deeds__political_insinuations_108514.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Warren</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While it did not quite rise to a blood libel, the headline in Monday's Guardian (U. K.) did not fail for want of trying: "Gabrielle Giffords shooting reignites row over right-wing rhetoric in U.S."
Elsewhere in the Guardian, the distance was bridged. Consider this heading (over a piece...]]></description>
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