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							<title><![CDATA[What Else Doesn't Obama Know &amp; Why?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Gurwitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[During Watergate, former Sen. Howard Baker framed the definitive question for any scandal that encroaches on the White House: &ldquo;What did the president know and when did he know it?&rdquo;Four decades later in the Obama era, that question has to be reformulated: &ldquo;What else...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Fall for Liberals' Rewrite of History]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Gurwitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The only good conservative president is a dead conservative president. Or at least one so far removed from office that his political influence is limited. That's the conclusion that can be drawn from the recent media love-fest with George H.W. Bush and, before him, the late Ronald...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Spending, Deficits, Debt: When Does It All End?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Gurwitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Veterans Day. This year, it is also a once-a-century numerical curiosity &mdash; 11-11-11. As fans of the film &ldquo;This Is Spinal Tap&rdquo; know, that makes it Nigel Tufnel Day.The movie is a spoof documentary &mdash; a &ldquo;rockumentary&rdquo; &mdash; about a fictitious heavy...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[False Racism Charges Reach Ridiculous Level]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Gurwitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;You don't get people to like you by attacking them or demeaning their success,&rdquo; a critic of President Barack Obama said last week on &ldquo;Fox News Sunday.&rdquo; &ldquo;I've earned my right to fly private if I choose to do so. And by attacking me, it is not going to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Scare Tactics Reek of &quot;Falsiness&quot;]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Gurwitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Comedian Stephen Colbert coined the word truthiness in 2005 to describe things that might not be  factually correct but that nonetheless have the feeling of correctness.  With truthiness, you suspend your cognitive functions and allow your  gut to make value judgments.&ldquo;What about...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Perry's Perfect Positioning]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Gurwitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One way of looking at Rick Perry's political career is to conclude that he is extraordinarily lucky.
He first ran for and won statewide office in 1990, just as Republicans were beginning their historic takeover of Texas state government. As lieutenant governor, he was able to move into...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Say Something, Unless It Embarrasses TSA]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Gurwitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you are Julian Assange, and you put hundreds of thousands of classified documents on the Internet, you become a folk hero who is somehow beyond the reach of the U.S. government. But if you are a licensed commercial pilot who posts a handful of cell phone videos that show potential...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Net Neutrality Anything But Neutral]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Gurwitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Perhaps  you've noticed that the Internet is a real dud. No one much uses it as a  medium of communication, it hasn't added anything to mankind's search  for knowledge, and despite the government's vast investment in the  infrastructure of the Internet, myopic telecommunications...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Try Behavioral Profiling]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Gurwitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The state of the art in terrorist explosives isn't the bomb hidden in a  shoe. It's not peroxide-based liquid explosives spirited onboard  aircraft in containers of 3 fluid ounces. And it's not undershorts with a  special packet of plastic explosive designed by al-Qaida in the Arabian ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Public Will Punish Dems for Arrogance of Power]]></title>
							<link>http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/gurwitz_gops_biggest_electoral_advantage_is_not_being_democratic_102657174.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Gurwitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's still time for Republicans to snatch defeat from the jaws of  electoral victory. Now that BP has largely exonerated itself for the  gulf oil disaster, Rep. Joe Barton of Ennis, the ranking Republican on  the House Energy and Commerce Committee, may feel compelled to augment  his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Border Security and Terror]]></title>
							<link>http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/border_security_must_be_viewed_with_an_eye_on_terrorists_98634369.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Gurwitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Border security is national security. The latest confirmation of what  should be an obvious statement came last week from Uganda. What does the  East African nation have to do with America's porous borders?Terrorists  struck in the capital Kampala as fans watched the World Cup ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Holder Should Be Honest About Radical Islam]]></title>
							<link>http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/failure_to_recognize_radical_islamic_threat_dangerous_94614594.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Gurwitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The double act is a staple of American comedy. Oliver Hardy and Stan  Laurel, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Tommy Chong and Cheech Marin are  among the varied comedians who have employed the straight man-comic  pairing to great effect.No duo may have refined the act to a  higher art than...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where do 3 SEALS Go to Get Reputations Back?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/columnists/jonathan_gurwitz/ridiculous_prosecution_of_navy_seals_ends_with_acquittal_93804069.html?showFullArticle=y</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Gurwitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ray Donovan, who served as Ronald Reagan's labor secretary, was indicted  on 10 counts of corruption in 1984. That was the beginning of a  three-year ordeal, culminating in a nine-month trial that was largely  superfluous. A good portion of the American media and public had already ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tea Party Activists Get No Respect]]></title>
							<link>http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/columnists/jonathan_gurwitz/Tea_party_activists_get_no_respect.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Gurwitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Aretha Franklin sang about it. Sacha Baron Cohen's fictional character  Ali G exalted it. Kids are supposed to show it. Members of the tea party  movement don't get any of it. Respect, that is.And why should  they? Tea partiers are assault-rifle-toting religious extremists,  down-and-out...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Progressives Gone Wild?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Gurwitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Angry rhetoric is out of control, fueling hatred that will inevitably result in violence. When in the name of all that is good and progressive will liberals condemn the extremists in their midst?You see, the bricks were thrown through the windows of Republican Party offices in Virginia...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Conservative Texans Want More Than Photo-Ops]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republican Showdown in the Lone Star State]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/03/01/republican_showdown_in_the_lone_star_state_104596.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Gurwitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One year ago, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison had a commanding lead over incumbent Rick Perry in the race to become GOP nominee for Texas governor.  Public Policy Polling found Hutchison 25 points ahead of Perry among likely GOP primary voters, with 56 percent support.
One year later, as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Ask, Use the Best]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Gurwitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the early 1990s, I had the privilege of working for a small think tank under the chairmanship of Gen. Bernard Schriever. Schriever, who grew up in San Antonio, served as a bomber pilot in World War II then became the father of the U.S. ballistic missile program and an adviser to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Broken Promises Hurt Obama's Standing]]></title>
							<link>http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/columnists/jonathan_gurwitz/After_one_year_Obamas_trail_of_broken_promises.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Gurwitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans haven't been disappointed by Barack Obama's first year in the Oval Office. They set appropriately low expectations for the former community organizer, state senator and partial-term U.S. senator. And with the notable exception of Afghanistan &mdash; which he eventually got...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[SEALS Are Heroes, Not Criminals]]></title>
							<link>http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/columnists/jonathan_gurwitz/Is_this_US_justice.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Recall Heroic Deeds That Changed the World]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[You Might Be a Racist If.....]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Scot Free in Libya]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Faith in the American People]]></title>
							<link>http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/columnists/jonathan_gurwitz/The_greatest_degeneration.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Wasn't Blagojevich Called Out?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Conservative Reckoning]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Petraeus Was Right About the Surge]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Show of Moral Relativism]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama, Wright and King's Legacy]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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