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<title><![CDATA[Tim Rutten - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14712.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Tim Rutten]]></description><category domain="14712">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[America's Murdoch Problem]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-0716-rutten-20110716,0,2507487.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Rutten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Anglo-American democracies owe their durability to many attributes,  but two of the most crucial involve restraint: No exercise of authority  without accountability; no expression of liberty without limits.The ongoing meltdown of News Corp. mogul Rupert Murdoch's  British newspaper...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jerry Brown Risks Being 3rd Failed Governor in a Row]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-0618-rutten-20110618,0,434589.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Rutten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In April 1519, Hernan Cortes landed near what's now Veracruz, Mexico,  and scuttled his ships so that his potentially mutinous troops would  have no choice but to follow him into battle against the Aztecs.  Gov. Jerry Brown's  veto Thursday of a budget passed by his own party's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Pope John Paul II Fit for Sainthood?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Rutten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, an estimated 1.5 million people crowded into St. Peter's  Square and surrounding streets to celebrate the beatification of Karol  Wojtyla, who as Pope John Paul II reigned for more than a quarter of a century as pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.  Beatification is the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Libya, 'Mission Creep' Sets In]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-0423-rutten-libya-20110423,0,7863159.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Rutten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the think-tank argot popular in foreign policy circles, "mission  creep" is an idiom for one of the garden-variety mistakes most people  were warned against at their mother's knee. Think "don't throw good  money after bad" and you've pretty well got the essence of the thing. ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Beware the Islamists in the Wings]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-0205-rutten-20110205,0,5817727.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Rutten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From the American perspective, the transition now underway in Egypt confirms John Kenneth Galbraith's famous appraisal of politics as a choice between "the disastrous and the unpalatable."What the Obama administration must dread is not the prospect of Cairo repeating the disaster that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Internet is Great Enabler of Incivility]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-rutten-rhetoric-20110115,0,1914508.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Rutten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is our political speech really more bitter and poisonous than it's ever been?No, though it's certainly more debased and lacerating than it was just a  few short years ago. We've been through eras of bitterly expressed  politics more often than we'd probably care to admit. The Federalists...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Tea Party Strength Can't Last]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-rutten-column-election-tea-part20101016,0,6920185.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Rutten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Though the actual voting is still 17 days away, it seems clear that  this midterm election cycle will be defined by a surprising presence and  a remarkable absence.The presence, of course, is the "tea party,"  and what's absent are the social issues that so bitterly divided the ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Glenn Beck's Liberation Theology Obsession]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-0901-rutten-20100901,0,2864011.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[At least Glenn Beck isn't among the nearly one in five Americans who believe President Obama is a Muslim. Nor, as far as he's yet admitted, is he among the majority of Republicans who actually told Newsweek's pollsters that they believe the president hopes to impose Sharia, or Islamic...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Going for Broke? L.A. May Face Bankruptcy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-rutten14-2010apr14,0,5438508.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Rutten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Former mayor Richard Riordan has been roiling the civic waters by  arguing that the surest -- and perhaps the only -- way out of Los  Angeles' fiscal crisis is a declaration of municipal bankruptcy, which  he believes ought to come sooner rather than later.In a  conversation with The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jihadism and the Cold War]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-rutten30-2009dec30,0,1984482.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Rutten</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Climategate is Silly]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-rutten12-2009dec12,0,2096153.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Deserves Prize for His Noble Words]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-rutten10-2009oct10,0,6945839.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Rutten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Within hours of Friday's announcement that President Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize, commentators and politicians all over the map were denouncing the award as "absurd."  At first blush, that seems the only reasonable response, because the president has yet to bring peace anywhere,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The President's Tough Choices]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/features/health/medicine/la-oe-rutten30-2009sep30,0,4715291.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Rutten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's easy to see why President Obama is so eager to fly off to Copenhagen to boost Chicago's chances of winning the Olympic Games. After all, if there's one thing at which he's already shown himself to be a master, it's selling.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Real 'Outrage' Behind AIG's Bonuses]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-rutten18-2009mar18,0,3290633.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Rutten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama and his administration have made a complete shambles of the AIG bailout, and the failure won't be papered over by the chief executive's populist campaign rhetoric.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ending Bush's Extra-Legal Means Against Terrorists]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-rutten21-2009feb21,0,2312163.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[More on LATimes.comPartnersClassifieds]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Moral of Madoff's Tale]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-rutten17-2008dec17,0,5635106.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Rutten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In one of his more melancholy moods, Isaac Newton mused that he could measure the movement of distant celestial bodies but could not gauge the magnitude of human folly.  It's a reflection with a certain compelling relevance given the stunning news that one of the country's most respected...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Idea Lost on Fanatics]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-rutten29-2008nov29,0,1385510.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Obama &amp; Clinton Solve the Middle East Riddle?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-rutten22-2008nov22,0,4254280.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Seismic Shift in the Catholic Vote]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-rutten29-2008oct29,0,6174226.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Greenspan's Blind Spot]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-rutten25-2008oct25,0,3402305.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Rutten</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ahmadinejad Means What He Says]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-rutten1-2008oct01,0,7697646.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Afghan 'October Surprise'?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-rutten13-2008sep13,0,1586694.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Rutten</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Perils of Palin]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-rutten30-2008aug30,0,5588978.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Corsi Cashing In on Hate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-rutten16-2008aug16,0,472577.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Old Media Dethroned in Edwards Scandal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-newrutten9-2008aug09,0,3175773.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jackson Gives Obama His Sister Souljah]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-rutten12-2008jul12,0,1259015.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Marriage Amendment May Backfire on GOP]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-rutten4-2008jun04,0,3957506.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Swans in this McClellan Sewer]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-rutten31-2008may31,0,603653.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Historic Speech Was Obama's Lincoln Moment]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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