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							<title><![CDATA[Cover-Up]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/10/cover-up_118362.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver North</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- We all know about the notorious Obama "kill list." CIA Director John Brennan proudly told us about that last year when he described how the O-Team decides which Americans should be executed by Hellfire missiles fired from remotely piloted aircraft. Why hasn't the White...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Being Presidential]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/03/being_presidential_118233.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver North</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- On April 30, 1789, at Federal Hall in New York, George Washington took the oath of office as the first president of the United States. He and the members of both houses of Congress then assembled in the unfinished Senate chamber, where Washington took less than 20 minutes...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Marathon Manhunt: The Movie]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/20/marathon_manhunt_the_movie_118048.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver North</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- It's sure to be a major motion picture worthy of the talents of Michael Moore and Oliver Stone. If the FBI does indeed have the right suspects, the docudrama screenplay -- "based on a true story" -- will begin with FBI public-domain footage of two young men carrying...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Boston Massacre]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/19/boston_massacre_118035.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver North</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- We don't know why two bombs were set near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three and wounding more than 170 others Monday, April 15. In an era of instant information, a 24/7 news cycle, ubiquitous social media, countless smartphones and tens of thousands of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Korean Craziness]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/05/korean_craziness_117817.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver North</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- On Sunday, June 25, 1950, the Korean People's Army attacked across the 38th parallel, captured Seoul -- capital of the Republic of Korea -- and began driving south. The battered South Korean army and their U.S. military advisers quickly were pushed into the "Pusan...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Greater Friend ...]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/29/no_greater_friend___117727.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- On the eve of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the commanding general of the 1st Marine Division distributed a one-page "Message to All Hands." It was a succinct warning to those going into battle about what to expect from the enemy and his expectations for them. His instructions...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Was It Worth It? (Part 2 of 2)]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/22/was_it_worth_it_part_2_of_2_117589.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver North</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- It's the question asked by Gold Star families -- the loved ones of our fallen -- when I meet them at funerals or public events. It is spoken quietly by the spouses of grievously wounded soldiers, sailors, airmen, guardsmen and Marines when I visit military and veterans...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Operation Iraqi Freedom 10 Years On (Part 1 of 2)]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/15/operation_iraqi_freedom_10_years_on_part_1_of_2_117470.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver North</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Some holidays are unforgettable. If I sit down and think about it, I can recall where and with whom I celebrated nearly every Christmas of my life. That's not the case with St. Patrick's Day -- an inexcusable lapse, given my maternal Irish heritage. But wait! There is one...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reassuring Words]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/08/reassuring_words_117349.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver North</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- In my New York Times best-seller "Heroes Proved," the president of the United States orders the execution of an American citizen in the United States by using precision munitions fired from a remotely piloted aircraft, or RPA -- incorrectly referred to by our media as a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sequestration and Stupidity]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/01/sequestration_and_stupidity_117226.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver North</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The screeching you hear in Washington is the sound of politicians slamming their mouths into reverse as they back away from their previous positions on the misnamed "budget sequester." For weeks now, we have been told that an $85 billion reduction in the rate of increase in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tyrannical Twins]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/02/22/tyrannical_twins_117118.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver North</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Last year, the Obama administration announced to the world that it was planning to pursue a new Asia/Pacific-oriented national security strategy. Since then, North Korea has countered with a strategy of its own. In December, Pyongyang successfully launched a multistage...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Presidents and Promises]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/02/15/presidents_and_promises_117035.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[YORBA LINDA, Calif. -- On Tuesday evening, Feb. 12, a capacity crowd filled a replica of the White House East Room for a presentation at the Nixon Presidential Library &amp; Museum. After that, they stood in line to buy autographed copies of my latest New York Times best-seller, "Heroes...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Send in the Clowns]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/02/08/send_in_the_clowns_116959.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver North</author>
							<description><![CDATA[TIBERIAS, Israel -- Atop the Golan Heights, there are thousands of fruit trees, vineyards, acres of wheat, vegetables, herds of cattle and a half-million or more land mines. The livestock and produce were brought here and cultivated by Israeli citizen-soldiers -- people who beat their...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Surrounded by Enemies]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/02/01/surrounded_by_enemies_116880.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver North</author>
							<description><![CDATA[JERUSALEM -- Until Jan. 30, I was working on a story about reaction here in Israel to the Obama administration's decision to provide advanced F-16 aircraft to Egypt. All that changed early Wednesday, when I received a call from an Israeli friend who told me: "Last night, the (Israeli air...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Changing the Guard]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/01/26/changing_the_guard_116815.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver North</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is changing the guard. Minutes after the president retook the oath of office, he formally submitted nominations for his new secretary of state, secretary of defense and CIA director. Two days later, remnants of red, white and blue inaugural bunting,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Guns]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/01/18/guns_116728.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver North</author>
							<description><![CDATA[CLARK COUNTY, Nev. -- Official Washington has the collective attention span of a fruit fly. This condition is exacerbated by the Obama administration's proclivity for declaring selective events and issues to be crises that require immediate action. The problem is aggravated because the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Revenge of the O-Team]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/01/11/revenge_of_the_o-team_116653.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver North</author>
							<description><![CDATA[(SET ITAL) A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. (END ITAL)
WASHINGTON -- Full disclosure right upfront: I'm a proud life member of the National Rifle Association. I am on the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kicking the Can]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/01/04/kicking_the_can_116589.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver North</author>
							<description><![CDATA[PAWLEYS ISLAND, S.C. -- It seemed like a good idea at the time. After Christmas, my wife, Betsy, and I planned to head south to this lovely barrier island in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Our plan included celebrating New Year's quietly with as many of our kids, their kids and our...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Christmas 2012]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/12/22/christmas_2012_116500.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver North</author>
							<description><![CDATA[EPHRATA, PA -- Five years ago, this annual Christmas column was written while our Fox News "War Stories" team was embedded with the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division south of Baghdad. A year earlier, the Christmas 2006 column was written in Ramadi, Iraq, while we were embedded with 1st...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Decision Deficit Disorder]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/12/15/decision_deficit_disorder_116433.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver North</author>
							<description><![CDATA[QUANTICO, VA -- Until I joined the Fourth Estate, it was my experience that most soldiers, sailors, airmen, guardsmen and Marines usually eschewed contact with members of the media. Regard for the potentates of the press used to be about equal to that of chiggers, ticks, scorpions and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[More Than a Game]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/12/07/more_than_a_game_116361.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver North</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Philadelphia, PA -- For most football fanatics, this is the time of year for watching the big conference championship games and wondering whether their favorite college team is going play in a major postseason bowl. Many of the players in these contests will be hoping to shine for the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Meeting 'We the People']]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/11/30/meeting_we_the_people_116292.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver North</author>
							<description><![CDATA[SAN ANTONIO -- One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people. Don't get me wrong; I love what I do at Fox News. My "beat" is keeping company with soldiers, sailors, airmen, guardsmen,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[You're Fired!]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/11/02/youre_fired_116020.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver North</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- When Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston and Roger Sherman sat down to draft the Declaration of Independence, they began with a "Bill of Particulars" against King George III. They accused the monarch of "repeated injuries and usurpations, all...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Then and Now]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/10/26/then_and_now_115923.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver North</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- For better than a month, the Obama administration has been dodging and weaving over what actually transpired in Benghazi, Libya, on the night of Sept. 11-12. Questions have been posed about why Ambassador Christopher Stevens was there and not at his embassy post in Tripoli....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Be Inspired]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/10/19/be_inspired_115836.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver North</author>
							<description><![CDATA[HELMAND PROVINCE, Afghanistan -- "Don't either of them even know we're still fighting over here?" That question was posed by one of the U.S. Marines with whom we have been keeping company in southwestern Afghanistan. His query followed this week's presidential debate at Hofstra...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Be Afraid]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/10/12/be_afraid_115751.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[WARDAK PROVINCE, Afghanistan -- "If you leave here like you left Iraq, I am a dead man," says the blunt-speaking district governor. His district chief of police, a newly appointed civil judge and the chief of the Afghan Local Police detachment all nod their heads in assent. None of them...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Defeatism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/10/05/defeatism_115675.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver North</author>
							<description><![CDATA[HELMAND PROVINCE, Afghanistan -- When our Fox News team left for Afghanistan last week, there was a palpable sense of imminent calamity in the air. Gloom and doom news from here is now a staple in our so-called mainstream media. Reports of "green-on-blue," or insider, attacks by our...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Advice From the Hindu Kush]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/09/28/advice_from_the_hindu_kush_115606.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver North</author>
							<description><![CDATA[EN ROUTE TO AFGHANISTAN -- Dear Gov. Romney,
It seems as if every pundit, campaign consultant and professor of political science has been on the air or in print lately, offering advice on how you can "jump-start," "turn around" or "reset" your presidential campaign. Most of them say that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Useful Idiots]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/09/21/useful_idiots_115519.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver North</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Ever since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2012, the Obama White House has sought to lay blame for deadly and destructive anti-American attacks in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Lebanon, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan and more than two dozen other countries on someone else. The O-Team -- and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[September Surprise]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/09/14/september_surprise_115447.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Oliver North</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The storming of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and the brutal murders of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, produced chaos this week in the so-called mainstream media. Instead of asking about how the heck this could...]]></description>
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