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<title><![CDATA[David Shribman - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14829.xml</link><description><![CDATA[David Shribman]]></description><category domain="14829">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Dems Must Not Follow Bernie Sanders]]></title>
							<link>https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/david-shribman/2025/04/06/democrats-republican-special-elections-2026-midterms-moderates-bernie-shribman/stories/202504060050</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Shribman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Was Florida whispering? Was Wisconsin shouting? Suddenly these two questions, rooted in states that Donald Trump carried only five...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump Is Two Presidents in One]]></title>
							<link>https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/david-shribman/2025/03/16/trump-policy-views-ukraine-business-david-shribman/stories/202503160066</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Shribman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump is a singular figure in United States political history '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' an elitist at war with the country's elite, the beneficiary of the American...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump Has Changed the World]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/david-m-shribman-donald-trump-has-changed-the-world/ar-AA1zBx4K?ocid=BingNewsSerp</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Shribman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[All over America that Friday in November 1963, college football teams boarded airliners for their Saturday games. They took off in one country, where...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Trump Measures Up to Other Presidents]]></title>
							<link>https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/david-shribman/2025/02/16/shribman-trump-former-presidents-washington-roosevelt/stories/202502160043</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Shribman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Theodore Roosevelt modeled himself after U.S. Grant. Franklin Roosevelt was a great admirer of his fifth cousin, Theodore Roosevelt. Lyndon Johnson and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Presidents Say Before the Super Bowl]]></title>
							<link>https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/david-shribman/2025/02/09/shribman-super-bowl-president-interview-trump-shared-experience/stories/202502090055</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Shribman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One year he used the traditional presidential Super Bowl interview to say that Speaker Nancy Pelosi was]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Acts on Nixon's 'Madman Theory']]></title>
							<link>https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/david-shribman/2025/02/02/shribman-madman-theory-trump-nixon/stories/202502020041</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Shribman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He wanted his aides to tell diplomats, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m sorry ... he is out of control ... you don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t know the man,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' or that he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'dramatically disjointed personality ... capable of barbaric cruelty ... more than a little paranoid.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Coming Great Expulsion]]></title>
							<link>https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/david-shribman/2024/12/01/shribman-acadian-expulsion-trump-deportations-illegal-immigration/stories/202412010031</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Shribman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the middle of the 18th century, Great Britain undertook a deportation program in the New World known variously as the Acadian Expulsion or the Great Upheaval, and it remains a blot on British history and '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' it did not go well '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' perhaps, an object lesson for the new...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Trump Will Do in His Second Term]]></title>
							<link>https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/david-shribman/2024/11/17/shribman-trump-vance-vice-president-administration-nominees-maga/stories/202411170033</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Shribman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The bal'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'lots are counted (and in some few places, re'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'counted). The blame is be'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'ing dis'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'trib'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'uted (but only in one of the two par'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'ties)....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[All the Gaps Between Trump and Harris]]></title>
							<link>https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/david-shribman/2024/10/13/david-shribman-mind-the-gap-trump-harris-presidential-election/stories/202410100083</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Shribman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Three words should guide any interpretation of the 2024 election: Mind the gap. Those three words explain the position the two candidates are in as they...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Three Unknowns May Decide Next President]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/david-shribman-three-unknowns-may-decide-the-next-president/ar-AA1rMf1R#:'&#'.ord('~').';':text=David%20Shribman:%20Three%20unknowns%20may%20decide%20the%20next</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Shribman</author>
							<description><![CDATA["What Lies Beneath'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' is a 2000 horror film that starred Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer. In the movie, what'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s unknown and unseen completely changes a couple'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s lives. Today we examine what lies beneath the 2024 drama that now stars former President Donald Trump and Vice...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Story Will This Election Tell?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/david-shribman/2024/09/29/shribman-trump-kamala-2024-election-story-anger-retribution-joy-tolerance/stories/202409290064</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Shribman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An American political campaign is a mashup of slogans, advertisements, speeches, exaggerations, outright lies, balloons, bunting, brass bands and the occasional...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Has the Heroes We Need]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/david-shribman-america-has-the-heroes-we-need/ar-BB1oje7H</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Shribman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is America losing its heroes? Earlier this month, on the 80th anniversary of D-Day, the country came to realize that only a few centenarians remain from the nearly 160,000 involved in the opening days of the invasion of occupied France. One of them, Robert Persichitti, 102, died en route...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On Memorial Day, Remembering the Rescuers]]></title>
							<link>https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/david-shribman/2024/05/26/memorial-day-world-war-ii-kennedy-pt-boat-rescue-medal-honor/stories/202405260008</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Shribman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Monday is Memorial Day. Thursday would have been John F. Kennedy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 107th birthday. More than eight decades ago this month an American tanker ship was torpedoed off the Florida coast, leaving two men dead. Stay with me. There'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a connection to all this.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Biden and Trump Believe That Isn't True]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/david-m-shribman-what-biden-and-trump-believe-that-isn-t-true/ar-BB1mEErK</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Shribman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is the United States in a Chevalier de Panat moment? He was the obscure French nobleman who said that]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Both Trump and Biden Have Enough Money]]></title>
							<link>https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/david-shribman/2024/03/24/shribman-presidential-election-funding-trump-biden-fundraising/stories/202403240038</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Shribman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump is raising money like crazy. Joe Biden just got a pledge of more than $1 billion from progressive groups. Almost every day news outlets report...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Once, America Was Strong and on the Move]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/david-shribman-once-america-was-strong-and-on-the-move/ar-BB1jfDG8</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Shribman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What if President Joe Biden opened his coming State of the Union Address this way:On this Hill which was my home, I am stirred by old friendships. Though...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Two Great Tides of U.S. Politics Are Going Out]]></title>
							<link>https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/david-shribman/2024/02/25/shribman-american-political-tides-kennedy-roosevelt-nixon-reagan/stories/202402250024</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Shribman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is a tide in the affairs of America, and the big question is whether right now the political seas are at ebb tide or flood tide. American politics...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Presidential Hopes Are Fading Fast for Haley]]></title>
							<link>https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/david-shribman/2024/02/18/oscar-underwood-nikki-haley/stories/202402180031</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Shribman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jerry Brown and Gary Hart did it. So did Ted Kennedy and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Also Henry Jackson and Jesse Jackson. Nelson Rockefeller did it and '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Could NH Pri&shy;mary Push Biden Out of Of&shy;fice?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/david-shribman/2024/01/07/shribman-biden-write-in-lyndon-johnson-new-hampshire/stories/202401050017</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Shribman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is a phony political contest going on here, just below the radar, that Joe Biden can only lose. He almost certainly won'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t, but there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s danger anyhow in the companion to the bruising New Hampshire Primary where four Republicans are desperately trying to defeat a former...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mr. Biden Speaks From the White House]]></title>
							<link>https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/david-shribman/2023/12/10/shribman-biden-speech-address-white-house-2024-reelection/stories/202312100042</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Shribman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is a subterranean conversation going on in the United States that every one of the country's 500 or so political insiders is conducting but...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Political Winter, Storms To Come Revealed]]></title>
							<link>https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/david-shribman/2023/12/03/shribman-2024-election-haley-ramaswamy-christie-trump-desantis/stories/202312030020</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Shribman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The snow, soft and silent, fell overnight, leaving this old ski village covered in white, recasting the landscape, altering the view, adjusting the mood, transforming the outlook.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Three Months to Iowa: Questions To Consider]]></title>
							<link>https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/david-shribman/2023/10/15/david-shribman-iowa-gop-candidates-trump-haley-desantis/stories/202310150011</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Shribman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No longer can we say the 2024 election is in the obscure far-off future. The Iowa caucuses are exactly three months away '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and the first real phase...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['A Fire Bell in the Night' for Biden and Dems]]></title>
							<link>https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/david-shribman/2023/10/01/biden-poll-trump-democratic-party-harris/stories/202310010058</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Shribman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Maybe it was fake news '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' I can't believe I actually typed those five words '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' but it was important news nonetheless.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Un&shy;so&shy;lic&shy;ited Ad&shy;vice for GOP Pres&shy;i&shy;den&shy;tial Can&shy;di&shy;dates]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/david-shribman-un-so-lic-ited-ad-vice-for-the-gop-pres-i-den-tial-can-di-dates/ar-AA1gaq35</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Shribman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Labor Day weekend, and a new phase of the campaign is beginning. You didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t ask for my advice, but here it is:'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP Primary Is Suddenly in Full Swing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/david-shribman/2023/08/27/republican-primary-president-sununu-trump-desantis-new-hampshire-iowa/stories/202308270047</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Shribman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you blinked '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' if you were on vacation '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' if you were buying school supplies for the kids or moving your college-student children into their dorms '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' you just missed the most important week of the 2024 campaign thus far. Maybe the most important week until the Iowa...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The 2024 Political Iceberg: Social Security]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/david-shribman-the-2024-po-lit-i-cal-ice-berg-so-cial-se-cu-rity/ar-AA1fvUnp</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Shribman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[CONCORD, N.H. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Sometimes politics is about chemistry; sometimes it is about mathematics. This presidential campaign is about a little of each.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Noth&shy;ing Is Set in Stone in the Gran&shy;ite State]]></title>
							<link>https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/david-shribman/2023/07/30/new-hampshire-trump-desantis/stories/202307280013</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Shribman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's over. Donald Trump is the inevitable Republican presidential nominee. No it's not. Donald Trump is too flawed...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Labels? 'No Way,' Say Skeptical Dems]]></title>
							<link>https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/david-shribman/2023/07/23/no-labels-primary-joe-lieberman-dick-gephardt/stories/202307230040</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Shribman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Not that they share a mutual dislike, nor that they consider each other a threat to the nation or to democracy, nor even that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[John Kerry, Global Evan&shy;ge&shy;list of Cli&shy;mate Peril]]></title>
							<link>https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/david-shribman/2023/07/16/john-kerry-global-climate-change/stories/202307160041</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Shribman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[John Forbes Kerry, reporting for duty. Again.Actually this is the third time. He enlisted in the Naval Reserve in 1966, at the height of the Vietnam War....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Michigan Republicans' New Style of Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/david-shribman/2023/07/02/michigan-republican-party-trump/stories/202307020064</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Shribman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Come for the stunning Great Lakes views. Come for the strawberries, just beginning to appear on roadside stands. Come for the planked whitefish dinners, fresh from the cool waters of Lake Michigan. Come for the biking on miles of flat trails. Come for the Henry Ford Museum of American...]]></description>
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