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<title><![CDATA[Scott W. Johnson - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14899.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Scott W. Johnson]]></description><category domain="14899">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Speaking of Hate, Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar Promotes It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/11/27/speaking_of_hate_rep-elect_ilhan_omar_promotes_it_138764.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scott W. Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In her Minneapolis Star Tribune op-ed on the FBI&rsquo;s just released 2017 Hate Crimes Report, Minnesota Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar presents herself as a sort of apostle of love.  Omar decries the increase in reported hate crimes.  However, she immediately attributes this increase to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Keith Ellison: Minnesota's Apostle of Hate]]></title>
							<link>https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/10/minnesotas-apostle-of-hate.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott W. Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Keith Ellison is Minnesota's incumbent Fifth District congressman, deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee and DFL candidate for Minnesota attorney general. He was a long-time apostle of hate on behalf of Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam, though the local Minnesota...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fake News: Two Case Studies]]></title>
							<link>https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/10/fake-news-two-case-studies.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott W. Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I was asked by our local chapter of the Cardozo Society -- an affinity group of Jewish lawyers of which I am a member -- to speak as a counterpart to ABA Foundation Fellow and historian Victoria Saker Woeste on the subject of fake news at the society's October 8 continuing legal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Weiner Laptop Revisited]]></title>
							<link>https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/08/the-weiner-laptop-revisited-2.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott W. Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[RealClearPolitics has just posted Paul Sperry's 7,000-word investigation into the FBI's misrepresentations and nonfeasance in the matter of the Weiner laptop and the Clinton emails. Sperry's column runs under the headline Despite Comey Assurances, FBI Failed to Examine Vast Bulk of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Keith Ellison's Troubling Support of Cop Killers]]></title>
							<link>https://www.weeklystandard.com/scott-w-johnson/keith-ellison-is-running-for-attorney-general-in-minnesota-after-defending-cop-killers</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott W. Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here some history is in order: Ellison was an active supporter and local leader of the Nation of Islam in Minneapolis before his election to Congress. Ellison has baldly dissembled about this history since 2006. In his 2014 memoir My Country, &rsquo;Tis of Thee, for example, Ellison...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Brennan Factor and the Russia Collusion Farce]]></title>
							<link>http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/07/the-brennan-factor.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott W. Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I have followed the Trump-Russia collusion farce obsessively, but I forget the critical role played by institutions other than the FBI in the still mysterious origin of the counterintelligence investigation. In his Wall Street Journal column this past Saturday, Holman Jenkins reminds us...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Anti-Israel Seat]]></title>
							<link>https://www.weeklystandard.com/scott-w-johnson/the-anti-israel-seat</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott W. Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ilhan Omar bids to succeed Keith Ellison in Minnesota&rsquo;s Fifth District.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Axios of Weasel]]></title>
							<link>http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/05/axis-of-axios.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott W. Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei are two of the three founders of the news site Axios. Allen came out of Politico via the Washington Post; VandeHei had co-founded Politico after work at the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. They are heavy hitters in the news business. When they...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Susan Rice Lawyers Up, Chooses to Remain Silent]]></title>
							<link>http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/02/the-silence-of-susan-rice.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scott W. Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By letter to Susan Rice dated February 8, 2018, Senators Grassley and Graham posed 12 numbered questions. I posted the Graham/Grassley letter in 'Rice papers the file.' By letter dated February 23, 2018, attorney Kathryn Ruemmler has now responded to the Grassley Graham letter. I posted...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Haidt on the Age of Outrage]]></title>
							<link>http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/11/the-age-of-outrage.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scott W. Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Haidt is the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University's Stern School of Business and author of The Righteous Mind, among other books. He is also cofounder of HeterodoxAcademy. He is a voice of sanity in the asylum of higher education. Steve wrote...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Magical Mystery Tour, Minneapolis Version]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/html/magical-mystery-tour-minneapolis-version-15560.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scott W. Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why take Somali community leaders on an exclusive airport-security tour?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Russia Collusion Gone Missing]]></title>
							<link>http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/08/collusion-gone-missing.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott W. Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The latest Washington Post collusion story is different from the others. The story is 'Trump campaign emails show aide's repeated efforts to set up Russia meetings.' Last night Paul Mirengoff summarized and and deconstructed the story here. If you've been following the collusion...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The New Meaning of Collusion]]></title>
							<link>https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/07/the-new-meaning-of-collusion.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott W. Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Today the New York Times credits four reporters with the story advancing the latest installment of the 'collusion' story involving the Trump campaign and a mysterious Russian lawyer. We are colluding in comedy. In today's episode the Times reports that before Donald Trump, Jr. arranged a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Left's Overreach Extends to a Blogger's Notebook]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/html/dont-subpoena-me-bro-15278.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott W. Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[My former law partner John Hinderaker and I founded the website Power Line over Memorial Day weekend in 2002. Once we attracted a few readers, we found it a helpful vehicle through which to continue our collaboration, writing commentary for newspapers and magazines, that we had taken up...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cardiac Arrest: Howard Root Unbound]]></title>
							<link>http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/06/cardiac-arrest-howard-root-speaks.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott W. Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[John recently hosted our friend Howard Root at a packed Center of the American Experiment lunch forum in downtown Minneapolis. Howard told the story of his experience as chief executive officer of Vascular Solutions in the crosshairs of the federal government when prosecutors sought to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Trouble With Keith Ellison]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-trouble-with-keith-ellison/article/2005488</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scott W. Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the aftermath of the election of Donald Trump and a Republican Congress, Minnesota representative Keith Ellison has emerged as a leading contender to chair the Democratic National Committee. Ellison resides on the far-left fringe of the Democratic party. But perhaps it is a fringe no...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rather Shameful]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/rather-shameful_1039561.html?nopager=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott W. Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When CBS&rsquo;s 60 Minutes Wednesday broadcast its lead story&mdash;reported by Dan Rather and produced by Mary Mapes&mdash;on the evening of September 8, 2004, it was given the anodyne title &ldquo;For the Record,&rdquo; as though it constituted little more than a disinterested...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Updated Racial Hustle]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2015/bc0802sj.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott W. Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Designation as the liberals&rsquo; official angry black man is a lucrative job. The market is upscale, but the job is only temporary. Fashions change, or rather remain subject to a cycle. The job isn&rsquo;t easy; it requires high attainment in the art of performance. Black rage must be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Secretary of State Who Can't Shoot Straight]]></title>
							<link>http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/02/the-secretary-of-state-who-couldnt-shoot-straight.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scott W. Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Secretary of State John Kerry testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday. In response to a question posed by Rep. Gerald Connolly, Kerry cast doubt on the adverse judgment rendered by Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the deal in process with Iran. As...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The JV President]]></title>
							<link>http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/09/the-jv-president.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott W. Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In his interview with Chuck Todd on Meet the Press this past Sunday (transcript here), President Obama responded to a question regarding his notorious characterization of ISIS as the terrorist JV (i.e., junior varsity):]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A New Old Regime]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/384183/new-old-regime-scott-w-johnson</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott W. Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Every day the headlines bring news of the Obama administration&rsquo;s rule by executive edict. From the regularization of illegal-immigrant DREAMers, to the rewriting of Obamacare and of federal drug laws, to the imposition of onerous environmental laws by agency regulation, the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Disorder at the Border]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/disorder-border_796395.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott W. Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Watching the influx of unaccompanied minors crossing our southwestern border daily, a reasonable man could conclude that we are living out the fevered dreams of a dystopian novel. The United States has lost a basic aspect of sovereignty. Control over its borders is a relic of the past.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Roots of Totalitarian Liberalism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/04/roots-of-totalitarian-liberalism.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott W. Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the cashiering of Brendan Eich as Mozilla&rsquo;s chief executive officer last week, we are struggling to understand what we have just seen. There is an important book that remains to be written about the totalitarian imperative at the heart of liberalism, and the insight into the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Baghdad Bobs of Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/10/baghdad-bobs-of-obamacare.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott W. Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The technical issues that have bedeviled the rollout of Obamacare don&rsquo;t go to the root of the law&rsquo;s evil. Nonetheless, the dishonesty with which the administration has publicly addressed them is endemic and representative of the foundational lies of Obamacare.In the rollout...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Climate Change Plan Is Insane]]></title>
							<link>http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/06/84696.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott W. Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the president of the United States wanted to set America back, he would promote and implement the big plans Obama announced yesterday in his so-called climate-change speech (White House text at the link). The climate is changing, alright. Liberalism is killing us. Picking up one...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Win in Minnesota Bodes Well for U.S.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/07/why-minnesota-matters.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott W. Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I started following the story that I called Minnesota Cage Match  for two reasons: I thought, given the constellation of forces at work,  that events here would foreshadow events in Washington, and I found the  slant of the incompetent media coverage driven by the Minneapolis Star ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Moving His Lips, But Not Saying Anything]]></title>
							<link>http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/03/028704.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott W. Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama took the podium tonight  to reiterate the rationale supporting our participation in the limited  attack on the Qaddafi regime.  I was struck by the tone (literally) of  Obama's remarks.  As I heard it, Obama's tone was was angry and  defensive.  The speech was as a result...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Are We Doing In Libya?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/03/028664.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott W. Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Are we protecting civilians?  Are we protecting the "rebels" from Qadaffi's forces?  Are we protecting civilians who support Qadaffi from the "rebel" forces?  Does Qadaffi have to go?  Or merely cease and desist?  Are we seeking to depose Qadaffi?Who are the "rebels"?  Are we seeking...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Revisiting the Assault on Limited Government]]></title>
							<link>http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/07/026865.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott W. Johnson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Reading the scholarly work of Woodrow Wilson is an educational  experience.  It is shocking to read the expressions of his disaffection  for the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United  States.  As R.J. Pestritto has demonstrated,  the intellectual roots of modern...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Treating Abdulmutallab Like a Civilian]]></title>
							<link>http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/01/025303.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scott W. Johnson</author>
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