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<title><![CDATA[James Kirchick - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14741.xml</link><description><![CDATA[James Kirchick]]></description><category domain="14741">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[What Russia Means When It Comes to 'Peace']]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/beware-russians-talking-peace-100000059.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Kirchick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was a good rule of thumb during the Cold War that if an organization had the word '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'peace'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' in its name it was either an official organ of, or a front group for, the Soviet Union.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Writers of the World, Denounce!]]></title>
							<link>https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/writers-world-denounce-kirchick</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Kirchick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the most enduring of communism'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s many ignominious contributions to Western intellectual life is the collective letter of denunciation.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Sanctification of George Soros]]></title>
							<link>https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/sanctification-george-soros-district-attorneys-james-kirchick</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Kirchick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How the left stopped worrying about Soros the billionaire and learned to love Soros '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'the Jew'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Hosting Hungary's Orban Encourages the Far Right]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-should-be-isolating-hungarian-autocrat-viktor-orban-not-feting-ncna1004951</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Kirchick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[European Parliament elections are right around the corner, and this visit will only elevate the illiberal forces that Orban and his party represent.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Anti-Americanism Drove Der Spiegel's Fabrications]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/anti-americanism-drove-der-spiegel-fabrications/579307/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Kirchick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A reporter with Der Spiegel fabricated information in more than a dozen articles'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'most of which were meant to reveal America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s brutality.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The 'Russia Collusion' Narrative Undermines Our Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/03/28/how-russia-gate-hurts-american-democracy/?utm_term=.739b2fbc7fd8</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Kirchick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[During the 2016 presidential race, then-candidate Donald Trump signaled his spiritual kinship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, basking in the thought that Putin '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'calls me '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'brilliant.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' A startling web of connections emerged between the Kremlin and various Trump...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Liberal Blindness on Immigration]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2018/03/09/liberal-blindness-on-immigration-could-be-the-undoing-of-democracy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Kirchick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In this age of noisy populist movements, many commentators tend to see anti-immigration sentiment as a threat to democracy itself. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The Muslim ban will make us less safe; worse, it erodes our democracy,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' wrote retired CIA officer Glenn Carle last year after President Trump...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Meet Zimbabwe's New Boss, Same as the Old Boss]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thedailybeast.com/meet-zimbabwes-new-boss-same-as-the-old-boss</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Kirchick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Seeing'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Zimbabweans cheer'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the end of Robert Mugabe'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s disastrous 37-year rule, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s tempting to join in their exultation.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Liberal-Left Heroes Who Treat Women Like Garbage]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-liberal-left-heroes-who-treat-women-like-garbage</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Kirchick</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Transgender Trumps Treachery]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/29/opinion/transgender-trump-chelsea-manning.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Kirchick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The glitterati are feting Chelsea Manning with little regard for the fact that she jeopardized American security and innocent lives around the globe.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Flight 93 Moment Is Now]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/the-flight-93-election-moment-is-now</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Kirchick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The most important intellectual case for'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s candidacy, to the extent that such a thing could even exist, was an essay published last September by the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Claremont Review of Books'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' titled'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The Flight 93 Election.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If Trump Wins, a Coup Isn't Impossible Here in the U.S.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-kirchick-trump-coup-20160719-snap-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Kirchick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Americans viewing the recent failed coup attempt in Turkey as some exotic foreign news story -- the latest, violent yet hardly unusual political development to occur in a region constantly beset by turmoil -- should pause to consider that the prospect of similar instability would not be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bernie Is Like Your Stoner College Roommate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/james-kirchick-bernie-stoner-college-roommate-article-1.2591052</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Kirchick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Remember that guy who lived in your college dorm, always wore a Che Guevara t-shirt, and ranted about '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the system?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s basically Bernie Sanders.Throughout this presidential campaign, a fulsome narrative has sprouted up around the Vermont socialist: That whatever one...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Worst Gay Power Couple]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/08/the-rise-and-fall-of-chris-hughes-and-sean-eldridge-america-s-worst-gay-couple.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Kirchick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge have always been entitled brats. And now the media has finally noticed.Just three years ago, Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge were the toast of the liberal establishment. The Facebook co-founder and his politically ambitious husband embodied all the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Official: Obama Is Worse Than Carter]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/barack-carter-article-1.1847138</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Kirchick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s now official: On foreign policy, Barack Obama is worse than Jimmy Carter.For decades, Carter'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s presidency was synonymous with weakness on the world stage. The late 1970'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s was the era of double-digit inflation, a worldwide oil crisis, Iranian hostages and Soviet...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Rand Paul a Secret Hawk?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/09/is-rand-paul-a-secret-hawk-or-maybe-not-a-total-dove.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Kirchick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is the Republican party'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s most visible dove and skeptic of foreign intervention. So it raised more than a few eyebrows when he added to his nascent presidential campaign a long-time foreign policy hand who has spent years intervening in other countries'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ron Paul's World]]></title>
							<link>http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/29/ron-pauls-world/?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Kirchick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, said that he would not vote for his fellow presidential candidate Ron Paul should Paul become the Republican nominee. The immediate cause of this dissension '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' highly unusual in a party primary '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' was the repugnant...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Russia is a Nuisance, Not a Partner]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/07/04/2010-07-04_i_spy_a_nuisance_not_a_partner.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Kirchick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The FBI arrest last week of 10 alleged Russian spies has produced a shrug of the shoulders on both sides of the Atlantic. On Wednesday, a senior Russian government official told the state-run Interfax news agency that the incident "will not negatively affect Russian-U.S. relations."Such...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are Certain Topics Off-Limits?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/columnists/kirchick/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Kirchick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - When Republicans criticized the Obama administration's handling of the thwarted Christmas Day terrorist attack, complaints from Democrats were as predictable as they were perfunctory. Once again, the GOP was "politicizing" the sacrosanct issue of national security. MSNBC's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will J Street Disavow Its Extreme Left Flank?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/the-fork-j-street</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Kirchick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The self-declared mission of J Street, the dovish "pro-Israel, pro-Peace" lobby that just concluded its first national conference this week, includes redefining the meaning of the term "pro-Israel." For too long, the organization's founders and supporters argue, right-wing elements in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Wins Popularity Contests, Not Much Else]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/obama_wins_popularity_contests_not_eaRSayJOdO1lmm0BIdca2O</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Kirchick</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Left Wing's 'Birther' Obsession]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/08/05/2009-08-05_liberals_birther_obsession.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Kirchick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You could be forgiven for thinking that a serious campaign is afoot - aided and abetted by the national Republican Party - to question Barack Obama's citizenship. Over the past two weeks, an inordinate amount of news coverage has been afforded to "birthers," conspiracy theorists who...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Has Betrayed Israel]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nypost.com/seven/06202009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/israel_betrayed_175238.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Kirchick</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama: The Global Apologist in Chief]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-kirchick28-2009apr28,0,4218519.story</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Kirchick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[More on LATimes.comPartnersClassifieds]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Israel's Hypocritical Critics]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/03/27/2009-03-27_israels_hypocritical_critics_they_rip_ne.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Kirchick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By James Kirchick					   
					
				
				   
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			   With Benjamin Netanyahu set to become Israel's prime minister, critics around the world are proclaiming the death of the peace process. And the fact that Avigdor Lieberman - who has called for all...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Resurgent House Of Kennedy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2008/12/19/caroline-kennedy-senate-oped-cx_jk_1219kirchick.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Kirchick</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Now Democrats, Too, Must Own the War]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16314.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Kirchick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a recent interview, President George W. Bush was asked what he hoped would become of his legacy. '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'I'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'d like to be a president [known] as somebody who liberated 50 million people and helped achieve peace,'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' he said. The president might also have noted that there hasn'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'t been a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Doesn't Fear Enraged, Impotent Netroots]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/11/22/2008-11-22_barack_obama_doesnt_fear_the_enraged_imp.html?print=1&amp;page=all</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Kirchick</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Are Left-Wing Haters to Point Fingers?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/10/21/2008-10-21_who_are_leftwing_haters_to_point_fingers-2.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Kirchick</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[On Iraq, Now Is When Judgment Matters]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/12017.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Kirchick</author>
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