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<title><![CDATA[Nat Hentoff - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15030.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Nat Hentoff]]></description><category domain="15030">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Unpunished for Genocide, Dictator Tries to Come to U.N.]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nat Hentoff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over the years, I have reported often on President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan, against whom the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants on charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. The last offense recognizes his murders of more than 300,000 of his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our Constitution Will Pulverize Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/08/21/our_constitution_will_pulverize_obama_119665.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nat Hentoff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;d previously doubted that the deeply concerned bipartisan rebellion in and out of Congress against President Barack Obama&rsquo;s contemptuous spying on all of us would have lasting impact on him or any of his successors who believe the president is the rule of law.
I spoke too...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Much Do You Know about New Head of FBI?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/08/07/how_much_do_you_know_about_new_head_of_fbi_119536.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nat Hentoff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It takes a lot to shock me during the Obama presidency, but I was stunned when the Senate on July 29, by a vote of 93 to 1, confirmed James Comey as the chief of the FBI.
This is the same former U.S. deputy attorney general who, at the FBI confirmation hearing, &ldquo;forcefully argued...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Second American Revolution Underway]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/07/18/second_american_revolution_underway_119275.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nat Hentoff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Declaration of Independence pledges Americans&rsquo; &ldquo;unalienable Rights&rdquo; through Governments &ldquo;deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed &hellip;
&ldquo;Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Tracks Everything You Say and Do. You're Americans?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/13/obama_tracks_everything_you_say_and_do_youre_americans_118808.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nat Hentoff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[My Jewish parents had changed their lives &mdash; inner and outer &mdash; by coming to America. When their son was old enough to go to school, they were determined not to send him to the prestigious Hebrew school on the street next to where they lived in Boston.
No, the boy was to be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Coming: Judgement Day for U.S. Torture Policies]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/02/coming_judgement_day_for_us_torture_policies_118229.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nat Hentoff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As I&rsquo;ll be turning 88 in June, I&rsquo;d begun to lose hope for at last witnessing in my lifetime some legal accountability for the George W. Bush-Dick Cheney-Barack Obama-CIA-national security torture policy instituted after 9/11, which continues today.
That was until I saw this...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Keeping Low-Income Students From Being Throwaway Kids]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/04/keeping_low-income_students_from_being_throwaway_kids_117801.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nat Hentoff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In many cities, as well as rural areas, low-income students &mdash; not only blacks and Hispanics &mdash; very soon get to feel unconnected to school. They may figure they&rsquo;re stupid or they just don&rsquo;t care. Dropping out, more than a few get involved with neighborhood gangs...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Teachers and Education Reformers Bypass Individual Students]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/28/teachers_and_education_reformers_bypass_individual_students_117707.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nat Hentoff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The March 18 headline in USA Today blares: &ldquo;More teachers are grouping kids by ability.&rdquo; What&rsquo;s wrong with that? Because the actual problems of individual kids are overlooked when students, especially those starting in elementary schools, are tracked as a group by what...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[CIA Shames Us Abroad Beyond Drones]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/02/20/cia_shames_us_abroad_beyond_drones_117089.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nat Hentoff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I am interrupting the end of my series on Barack Obama&rsquo;s nonexistent legal justification for drone killings because of a breaking news story deeply submerged in last week&rsquo;s New York Times.
A former Italian military intelligence chief and his former deputy were sentenced to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Still Shocks Me About ObamaCare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/07/24/what_still_shocks_me_about_obamacare_114891.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nat Hentoff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Amid the huge response &mdash; both triumphant and agonized &mdash; to the Supreme Court&rsquo;s preservation of Obamacare, I was surprised at how little attention was being paid to that law&rsquo;s core purpose: to strongly control health care costs where government funding is involved,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Health Care Rationing: The Real Death Panels Are Coming Our Way]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/12/07/real_death_panels_are_coming_our_way_108157.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nat Hentoff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize winner in economics and an influential New York Times columnist, also has a blog, "The Conscience of a Liberal." On ABC's This Week (Nov. 14), during a discussion on balancing the federal budget against alarming deficits, he proclaimed the way to solve this...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lame Duck Obama Clinging to ObamaCare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/12/01/lame_duck_obama_still_clinging_to_obamacare_108109.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nat Hentoff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The progressive fracturing of President Obama's credibility in the midterm election results was caused primarily by the grim economy and also by the widespread fear of Obamacare - the rationing of our health care through government invasion of the doctor-patient relationship. This will...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Administration's Thuggery Threatens Free Speech...]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/28/administrations_thuggery_threatens_free_speech_107344.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nat Hentoff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On September 9, autocratic Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services secretary, wrote a threatening letter to the national office of America's Health Insurance Plans. Charging these insurance companies with "scare tactics" and "misinformation" about the president's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pols Clueless on Ground Zero Mosque]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/08/26/pols_clueless_on_ground_zero_mosque_106904.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nat Hentoff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The angry national debate over Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf's intention to build a mosque two blocks north of the horror of 9/11 at Ground Zero has been further fueled by supporter Nancy Pelosi declaring, "I join those who have called for looking into how ... this opposition to the mosque is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Health Care Rationing Obama Believes In]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/07/12/health_care_rationing_obama_believes_in_106268.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nat Hentoff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As a reporter, I do not use euphemisms - such as calling murderous terrorists "militants" or "activists." And as an American, I can exercise my First Amendment right to say plainly that President Obama is a liar with regard to our new health-care law, often referred to as Obamacare.
When...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nat Hentoff: Obama Dangerous, Destructive]]></title>
							<link>http://www.rutherford.org/Oldspeak/Articles/Interviews/oldspeak-Hentoff_2009.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nat Hentoff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Interview
America Under Barack Obama
An Interview with Nat Hentoff 
By John W. Whitehead
  December 11, 2009

  "I try to avoid hyperbole, but I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had."&#8212;Nat Hentoff

Nat Hentoff has had a life...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Cold Heart of ObamaCare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/12/07/the_cold_heart_of_obamacare_99441.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nat Hentoff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Much of the press coverage of the Democrats' health care legislation, now fiercely embattled in Congress, focuses on the public option, the actual long-term costs and tax increases, and the amendment barring funding for abortions. But the cold heart of Obamacare is its overpowering of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[I Am Finally Scared of a White House Administration]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/08/20/i_am_finally_scared_of_a_white_house_administration_97969.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nat Hentoff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I was not intimidated during J. Edgar Hoover's FBI hunt for reporters like me who criticized him. I railed against the Bush-Cheney war on the Bill of Rights without blinking. But now I am finally scared of a White House administration. President Obama's desired health care reform intends...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hate Crime Bill Goes Against the Constitution]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/08/01/hate_crime_bill_goes_against_the_constitution_97727.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nat Hentoff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[THROUGHOUT the Bush-Cheney creation of a society under surveillance and unprecedented government secrecy, I have often praised Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., for resisting that administration's penchant for degrading the Constitution. But on July 16, he proudly watched as the Senate passed...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Obama's 'Prolonged Detention' American?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/06/18/is_obamas_prolonged_detention_american_97050.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nat Hentoff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall once warned: "Throughout the world today there are men, women and children interned indefinitely, awaiting trials which may never come or which may be a mockery of the word, because their governments believe them to be 'dangerous.' Our Constitution...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mr. President Here is Common Ground on Abortion]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/06/06/mr_president_here_is_common_ground_on_abortion_96868.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nat Hentoff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama has reneged on an increasing number of his pledges on taking office - from guaranteeing a transparent, accountable administration to ending CIA "renditions" of suspects to foreign nations known for torture. Now, however, he has a golden chance to fulfill his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Thought Crimes' Bill Advances]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/05/13/thought_crimes_bill_advances_96452.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nat Hentoff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why is the press remaining mostly silent about the so-called "hate crimes law" that passed in the House on April 29? The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act passed in a 249-175 vote (17 Republicans joined with 231 Democrats). These Democrats should have been tested on their...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Castros Are Dr. King's Disciples?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/04/28/the_castros_are_dr_kings_disciples_96215.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nat Hentoff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[During the Congressional Black Caucus' guided tour of Cuba, after caucus members' meeting with Fidel Castro, Rep. Bobby Rush of Illinois joyously said, "This is the beginning of a new day! In my household [Fidel] is known as the ultimate survivor."
Fidel himself, in a letter in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Shrugs Off Concerns]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/04/21/obama_shrugs_off_concerns_96089.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nat Hentoff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[During his presidential campaign, a solemn pledge by Barack Obama that almost made me vote for him (but I'm pro-life, and he's a pro-choice extremist) was that his administration would be the most open and transparent in our history, in contrast to the deeply, darkly secret George W....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Teacher Unions vs. Poor Kids]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/03/teacher_unions_vs_poor_kids.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nat Hentoff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The "education president" remained silent when his congressional Democrats essentially killed the Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) in the city where he now lives and works.Of the 1,700 students, starting in kindergarten, in this private-school voucher program, 90 percent are black...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The World's Great Genocide Test]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/03/the_worlds_great_genocide_test.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nat Hentoff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 2005, after I had long been covering the atrocities committed by Sudan's president, Gen. Omar Hassanal-Bashir, on black Christians and animists in the south - followed by his genocide against black Muslims in Darfur - I saw an urgent message in The Washington Post by two senators,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cartoon Protest Pits NAACP Against Free Speech]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/03/cartoon_protest_pits_naacp_aga.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nat Hentoff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For years, New York City's flagship main Public Library has annually honored a group of "literary lions." Long a civil rights and civil liberties lion, Michael Meyers, born in Harlem, is a former assistant director of the NAACP; personal assistant to its late executive director, Roy...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Cost of Criticizing Jihadists]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/02/the_cost_of_criticizing_jihadi.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nat Hentoff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Geert Wilders - a film producer and also a member of parliament in the Netherlands - is facing a prison term there for "insulting" Muslims. His short film "Fitna" in 2008 juxtaposed verses from the Koran with scenes of violence committed by jihadist terrorists. The Dutch appellate court...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Free Speech When It Comes to Islam?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/02/a-free-speech-killer/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nat Hentoff</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Disillusioned About Barack Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.sacbee.com/110/story/1087993.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nat Hentoff</author>
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