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							<title><![CDATA[What Should President Trump Say at his State of the Union on Tuesday?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/19/what_should_president_trump_say_at_his_state_of_the_union_on_tuesday_153855.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Armstrong Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America is tired.
Not tired of debate. Not tired of conviction. Americans can handle disagreement. What they are weary of is perpetual combat. They are weary of the temperature always being set at boiling. They are weary of economic anxiety, cultural distrust and political trench warfare...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Walz, Omar and the Billion-Dollar Minnesota Fraud Scandal]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/11/walz_omar_and_the_billion-dollar_minnesota_fraud_scandal_153617.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Armstrong Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Minnesota is now facing one of the largest documented government service fraud scandals in United States history. Under Gov. Tim Walz's evidently unwatchful eye, federal prosecutors have estimated that approximately $1 billion in taxpayer funds have been siphoned from multiple state- and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Political Rhetoric Becomes a Weapon]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/13/when_political_rhetoric_becomes_a_weapon_153519.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Armstrong Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a recent interview, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared in unequivocal terms that President Donald Trump was "the worst thing on the face of the Earth." You heard that right. Not a threat to democracy, not a danger to civility, the worst thing on the face of the Earth. It was a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Could Amazon Doom the United States?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Armstrong Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Amazon Web Services is the backbone of much of the economy and the government. AWS is a cloud computing platform that enables companies to do a number of things, such as store data and increase their computing power.
Today, AWS underpins a significant portion of global internet...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Myth of Falling Crime: Why Americans Don't Trust the Numbers]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/09/the_myth_of_falling_crime_why_americans_dont_trust_the_numbers_153383.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Armstrong Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Every election season, mayors and governors step before cameras to boast that crime is down. Charts are waved, statistics cited, and carefully crafted talking points deployed to assure anxious citizens that their streets are safer than ever. Yet when you leave the press conference and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Public Health System in Desperate Need of a Reset]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/11/americas_public_health_system_in_desperate_need_of_a_reset_153266.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Armstrong Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week's Senate Finance Committee hearing was supposed to be about oversight, to ask the tough but necessary questions on how a federal agency is moving toward its authorized mandate. Instead, it became a bipartisan spectacle of scorn aimed squarely at Health and Human Services...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Dangerous Myth of Juvenile Criminal Ingenues]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/28/the_dangerous_myth_of_juvenile_criminal_ingenues_153225.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Armstrong Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An epidemic of juvenile violent crimes endures. Why? The law presumes juveniles are intellectually and psychologically too immature to appreciate the wrongfulness of their violent ways and deserve leniency. But to borrow from Mr. Bumble in "Oliver Twist," "If the law supposes that, the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's War on Mail-In Voting]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/21/trumps_war_on_mail-in_voting_153201.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Armstrong Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump is declaring war on mail-in voting. In a recent announcement, the president stated that an executive order to end mail-in voting in federal elections is currently being drafted.
There's been a lot of talk over the past two presidential cycles over mail-in voting...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Silent Majority Is Applauding]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/14/the_silent_majority_is_applauding_153176.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Armstrong Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The silent majority in Washington, D.C., and across our nation is applauding. Even one crime is one crime too many.
On Aug. 11, President Donald Trump, invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act passed by the United States Congress, declared a "crime emergency in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where Are the Heroes?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/07/where_are_the_heroes_153150.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Armstrong Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Following the tragic mass shooting in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, that resulted in the deaths of four individuals, including a New York City Police Department officer, we must confront a vital question: Where were the heroes?
Reports indicate that the shooter walked from the curb...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Moderation in All Things]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/07/31/moderation_in_all_things_153119.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Armstrong Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Moderation in all things is our deliverance from the strife and upheaval of extremism. The Aristotelian means recognizes that wisdom and truth are more chiaroscuro than prime colors. Drawing lines are the heartland of civilized law. It can be said without exaggeration that civilization...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Rotten Core of a Manufactured Scandal]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/07/24/the_rotten_core_of_a_manufactured_scandal_153086.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Armstrong Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Did former President Barack Obama play a role in the fabrication of the Russia collusion narrative? According to National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard -- once a rising star within the Democratic Party and now a gadfly for political truth -- the answer is unequivocally yes. More...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[AI Was Born of Man and May Bury Him]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/05/15/ai_was_born_of_man_and_may_bury_him_152793.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Armstrong Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence has been around for longer than most of us realize. In 1950, Alan Turing proposed the famous "Turing test" in a paper, opening with the sentence "I propose to consider the question, 'Can machines think?'" His test, which he called the "imitation game," was a very...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Real Cost of Student Loan Forgiveness]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/05/08/the_real_cost_of_student_loan_forgiveness_152762.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Armstrong Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Each spring, as tassels are turned and degrees are conferred, college graduates across the country celebrate the culmination of years of study, sacrifice and -- inevitably for many -- debt. Against this backdrop, the idea of student loan forgiveness is touted by many as a compassionate...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Right to Privacy Under Siege]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/05/01/the_right_to_privacy_under_siege_152730.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Armstrong Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The right to privacy -- the right to be let alone -- is the most cherished right among civilized peoples. It was the right that gave birth to the American Revolution in opposition to British writs of assistance authoring petty officials to rummage through homes in search of contraband...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It May Seem That Our Republic Is on Its Deathbed. Have We Been Here Before?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/04/24/_it_may_seem_that_our_republic_is_on_its_deathbed_have_we_been_here_before_152697.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Armstrong Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even in its earliest days, discord was part and parcel of American life. During the American Revolution, families were often divided between Patriots -- pushing for American independence from Great Britain -- and Loyalists. But there was only one Benedict Arnold. No Loyalists fought...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Ornamental Congress]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/04/17/an_ornamental_congress_152665.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Armstrong Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is Congress fulfilling its constitutional duty? I fear not. And so the well-being of our republic is at risk.
The Constitution is clear: Congress is the preeminent branch of the federal government. The powers of the legislative branch are listed in Article One of the Constitution, while...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cut the Bureaucracy, Save Social Security]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/04/10/cut_the_bureaucracy_save_social_security_152632.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Armstrong Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Millions of Americans know the frustration of dealing with the Social Security Administration -- endless hold music on the phone, months of waiting for a simple benefit decision, and confusing paperwork. Even before the latest reforms, the SSA's customer service -- in an agency...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[While Nazi Profiteers Get a Free Pass, the Left Burns Teslas]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/04/03/while_nazi_profiteers_get_a_free_pass_the_left_burns_teslas__152590.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Armstrong Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Civil disobedience practiced by the likes of Henry David Thoreau and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one thing. Crimes against people or property for political ends are quite another. The latter risks return to the law of the jungle, a cure worse than the disease.
That provides the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Profits When Cities Burn? ActBlue, That's Who.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/03/27/who_profits_when_cities_burn_actblue_thats_who_152560.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Armstrong Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What would you call an organization that collects money from the public and distributes it to organizations that fund riots that result in billions of dollars in damages, that transfer the money to bail out criminals who ultimately kill and victimize innocent Americans, that support...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Columbia's Priorities Are Clear, and Jewish Students Aren't One of Them]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/03/13/columbias_priorities_are_clear_and_jewish_students_arent_one_of_them_152496.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Armstrong Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump pulled a staggering $400 million in federal funding from Columbia University, one of many hotbeds of antisemitism and pro-terror protests that have sprung up in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks against Israel by Hamas.
The campus was, for weeks, occupied by rioters...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Socialism Is a False Dawn]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/03/06/socialism_is_a_false_dawn_152465.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Armstrong Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The evidence has been conclusive from time immemorial.
Economic systems flourish with private incentives that gratify the innate craving for material acquisitions. Adam Smith called it an "invisible hand" in his landmark "Wealth of Nations," gospel for the nation's founders. Merchants or...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Moving Fast and Breaking Things Does Not Work in Washington]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/02/27/moving_fast_and_breaking_things_does_not_work_in_washington_152430.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Armstrong Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Elon Musk prefers to move hard and fast. He likes to break things and bend them to his will. He is an experienced entrepreneur. In 1999, he sold his first business, Zip2, for over $300 million. In 2002, he sold PayPal for $1.5 billion. Today, he owns Tesla, one of the largest automobile...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Elon Musk: A Force of Nature]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/02/20/elon_musk_a_force_of_nature_152391.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Armstrong Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Elon Musk is a force of nature. He has assembled the greatest fortune (more than $450 billion) in the history of mankind with a maniacal work ethic and fearlessness in challenging orthodoxies or tradition. He is a one-man show at SpaceX, Tesla and X (formerly twitter), and is poised to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[United Under One Anthem]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/02/13/united_under_one_anthem_152355.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Armstrong Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The NFL has yet again decided to desecrate the sacred American sport of football, a sport that has united Americans for decades, by playing the divisive Black national anthem before the Super Bowl.
The idea of their being a Black national anthem shouldn't rub anyone the wrong way. The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Bursts Into His Second Term]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/02/06/_trump_bursts_into_his_second_term_152316.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Armstrong Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump burst out of the gates into his second term with the speed of a Kentucky Derby winner. Executive orders turning the status quo upside have flown in gusts from the Oval Office ever since Mr. Trump's inauguration on Jan. 20.
Nothing like this has been witnessed since...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will the Government Follow Trump's Lead on Illegal Immigration?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/01/30/will_the_government_follow_trumps_lead_on_illegal_immigration_152284.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Armstrong Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In politics, few figures have demonstrated the kind of transactional decisiveness that Trump exemplifies. His recent dealings with the Colombian government underscore the efficiency of his approach. Regardless of whether you agree with his broader policies, it's hard to deny the fact...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On Inauguration Day, Trump Writes the Next Chapter of America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/01/23/on_inauguration_day_trump_writes_the_next_chapter_of_america_152238.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Armstrong Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Inauguration Day for the 45th and now 47th president of the United States, Donald Trump, featured a host of events in which Trump was in attendance. The inauguration, of course. The inaugural luncheon. The parade at the Capital One Arena. The Commander in Chief Ball and the Liberty Ball....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Insider Trading Game on Capitol Hill Must Stop]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/01/16/the_insider_trading_game_on_capitol_hill_must_stop_152208.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Armstrong Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Members of Congress get a number of generous benefits from their positions. They earn $174,000 annually (nearly three times the salary of the average American), they are provided with a sizable per diem for lodging and meals during their travels across the nation and abroad, they have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump's Last Hurrah]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/01/09/donald_trumps_last_hurrah_152172.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Armstrong Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President-elect Donald Trump's second tour in the White House can be a glorious last hurrah or the last flicker of a dying comet. The choice is his.
Mr. Trump will enter the White House on Jan. 20 free from customary political obligations or ambitions. He has no political debts to pay....]]></description>
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