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							<title><![CDATA[FBI's Investigation of Clinton Foundation Continues]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/clinton-foundation-probe-continues/article/2005261</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Hayes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the days since FBI Director James Comey wrote to congressional leaders revealing new information in the Hillary Clinton email investigation, Clinton defenders have been spinning furiously in an attempt to mitigate the potential political damage. They have attacked Comey, blamed a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Attempted Hillary Email Coverup?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/an-attempted-hillary-email-coverup/article/2004907</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Hayes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A senior State Department official repeatedly pressed the FBI to change the classification of emails stored on Hillary Clinton's private server, according to FBI interview summaries set to be released in the coming days. Patrick Kennedy, the undersecretary of state for management,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Disgraceful Gitmo Exodus]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-disgraceful-gitmo-exodus/article/2004371</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Hayes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As Barack Obama prepared to enter the final year of his presidency, he sat down for an interview with Olivier Knox to discuss a bold new policy change. He had announced a year earlier that the United States would be ending its decades-long isolation of Cuba and seeking rapprochement with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Absolute, Categorical Lies]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/absolute-categorical-lies/article/2004128</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Hayes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On March 10, 2015, Hillary Clinton told reporters at a rare press conference that she had &#195;&#162;??absolute confidence that everything that could be in any way connected to work is now in the possession of the State Department.No parsing required. Absolute confidence, she said. In any way...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Aiding and Abedin: Hillary Clinton's Favor Factory]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/aiding-and-abedin/article/2004014</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Hayes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As Bill Clinton entered the final year of his presidency, his aides put together a legacy-building trip to South Asia&#195;&#162;??the first visit to the region by a U.S. president since Jimmy Carter's in 1978. Early drafts of the itinerary featured a notable exclusion: The president would visit...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Pivot to Normality Isn't Coming]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/trumps-pivot-to-normality-isnt-coming/article/2003599</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Hayes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the 2016 Republican National Convention began, GOP chairman Reince Priebus spoke with confidence about the coming transformation of presumptive nominee Donald Trump. He knows the pivot is important, Priebus said. He has been better and I think he's going to be great moving forward....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Benghazi Lie in Black and White]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-benghazi-lie-in-black-and-white/article/2003058</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Hayes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The final majority report of the Benghazi Select Committee is set to be released later Tuesday morning. Representatives Jim Jordan and Mike Pompeo have signed onto the official majority document and authored a supplemental, 51-page additional views report of their own.Among the most...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ignoring the Reality of Radical Islam]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/ignoring-reality/article/2003013</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Hayes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At 2:35 a.m. on June 12, Omar Mateen called 911 from the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. For 30 minutes he'd been on a killing rampage and he wanted the world to know why. He spoke for less than a minute.In the name of God the Merciful, the beneficent, he began. Praise be to God,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump's Not for Changing]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-mans-not-for-changing/article/2002774</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Hayes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the aftermath of Donald Trump's bigoted attacks on a federal district judge, one Republican leader after another last week condemned the candidate's remarks and then publicly declared their hope that Trump will change.Senator Bob Corker said Trump has two or three weeks to get his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Runaway Train -- Yes, Donald Trump Is a Con]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/runaway-train/article/2002484</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Hayes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Yes, it&#195;&#162;??s a con. In the three weeks since Donald Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee the remains of modern American conservatism have decayed at an alarming rate.Three months ago, most GOP officeholders and conservative opinion leaders understood Trump to be an ignoramus...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our National Dumpster Fire]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/our-national-dumpster-fire/article/2002272</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Hayes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was almost as if Donald Trump wanted to give Republican voters one last look at what they would be getting if they chose to nominate him as the head of their party&#195;&#162;??as if he wanted to show officeholders who would endorse him exactly what they'd have to explain and rationalize over...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When the Time Bomb Doesn't Tick]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/when-the-time-bomb-doesnt-tick/article/2001698</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Hayes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 2014, a former senior interrogator with the CIA's High Value Detainee interrogation program drafted an article on the ticking time bomb scenario and interrogating terrorists. The article was approved by the CIA's Publication Review Board but given the time that lapsed in getting...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Manifestly Unqualified To Be President]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/believing-the-unbelievable/article/2001620</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Hayes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here&#195;&#162;??s the new line from Donald Trump's cheerleaders in the conservative media: A refusal to support Trump is a de facto endorsement of Hillary Clinton. It's an argument they're making out of necessity, not conviction, trying to use peer pressure to achieve the unanimity their...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why I Can't Support Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/no-trump/article/2001405</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Hayes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump walked onto the gilded stage at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Super Tuesday with the air and confidence of a magician. &ldquo;I am a unifier," he said. Ta-dah! Moments earlier, Trump's famulus, Chris Christie, made a similar claim: "He's bringing the country together." The irony...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Christie's Disgrace]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/christies-disgrace/article/2001303</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Hayes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Chris Christie, who ran for president on the sober promise to tell it like it is and whose campaign was built around the urgency of entitlement reform and restoring U.S. national security, on Friday endorsed Donald Trump, a national security ignoramus who is running for president...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Rubio Bounce Back?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/rubio-plays-defense/article/2001054</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Hayes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nashua, N.H.There are better ways to start a day. Thirty-six hours after the primetime presidential debate in which Marco Rubio repeatedly sought to dispel the fiction that Barack Obama doesn&#195;&#162;??t know what he's doing, Rubio stood near the long countertop of Norton's Classic Caf&#195;&#131;&#194;&#169;,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Real Shape of the Race]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-real-shape-of-the-race/article/2000939</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Hayes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The shorthand understanding of the likely three-man race for the Republican nomination goes something like this.Donald Trump is the populist outside agitator, running on economic nationalism and against the entire political system. Ted Cruz is the antiestablishment crusader, running on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Trump Voters in Iowa Balk?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/will-trump-voters-in-iowa-balk/article/2000777</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Hayes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[West Des Moines, IAJust a few days ago, Bryan Moon didn't need to go candidate shopping.Moon, a Des Moines native who works as vice president of a marketing firm in town, was leaning strongly toward supporting Donald Trump. He describes himself as a closet Trump supporter and said he was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If Trump's the Nominee, GOP Will Deserve Its Fate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-nominee-we-deserve/article/2000692</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Hayes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Do Republicans deserve to lose? Consider the state of play as we write this in late January, just days from the first GOP nominating contests.The Republican frontrunner is a longtime liberal whose worldview might best be described as an amalgam of pop-culture progressivism and vulgar...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why is Obama Releasing Islamic Terrorists?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Hayes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration in recent days has proclaimed a &ldquo;milestone&rdquo; in its efforts to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after achieving its long-held goal of reducing the remaining population to fewer than 100 detainees. With the expedited release this...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Cruz Control Iowa?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/can-cruz-control-iowa/article/2000489</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Hayes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ted Cruz was running a few minutes late for his appearance at Dordt College, having to reply to the latest provocation from Donald Trump without angering the erratic businessman.Earlier in the day, Trump had wondered aloud whether Cruz might be ineligible for the presidency because he...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lying About Gitmo]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/lying-about-gitmo/article/2000276</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Hayes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let's begin with the conclusion: Barack Obama is releasing dangerous terrorists against the recommendations of military and intelligence professionals, he's doing so at a time when the threat level from radical Islamists is elevated, and he is lying about it. He is lying about how many...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Missed Warning in San Bernardino?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/a-missed-warning/article/2000125</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Hayes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Law enforcement officials in San Bernardino and Los Angeles may have investigated Syed Farook one week before the shooting on the community development center on December 2, 2015, that left 14 dead and 17 injured, according to a review of police communications immediately following the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama's Intel Scandal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/obama-s-intel-scandal_1070543.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Hayes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama says he wants the truth. On November 21, the New York Times reported allegations that military intelligence officials provided the president with skewed assessments that minimized the threat from ISIS and overstated the success of U.S. efforts against the group. The Times...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Long War Continues]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/long-war-continues_1067079.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Hayes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In many ways, the reaction to the horrific attacks in Paris has been familiar. There were the expressions of solidarity: flowers at French embassies; social media avatars changed from silly selfies to photos of the French flag snapping defiantly in the wind; buildings across the Western...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Improbable Speaker Ryan]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/speaker-ryan_1055591.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Hayes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Overcoming deep personal ambivalence and a battery of attacks from conservative complainers outside Congress, Paul Ryan became the 54th speaker of the House on October 29, 2015. To call this improbable understates the case. Not primarily because Ryan is young (he&rsquo;s 45) or because...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[About Those Hillary Clinton Emails]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/about-those-hillary-emails_1046234.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Hayes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the most memorable moments from the first Democratic presidential debate was an unexpected one. Bernie Sanders, the Democratic-socialist senator from Vermont who is leading the polls in New Hampshire, took a question about the email scandal that has badly complicated Hillary...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Drip, Drip, Drip]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/drip-drip-drip_1042861.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Hayes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There was never any doubt that Democrats in Washington would launch an aggressive campaign to discredit the House Select Committee on Benghazi. The only question was when they&rsquo;d do it.That inevitable effort got under way last week, after House majority leader Kevin McCarthy boasted...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Virtues of Being a Father]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/changing_lanes/2015/08/14/the_dadly_virtues.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where Neocons Stand in the GOP]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/changing_lanes/2015/08/13/neoconservative_resurgence__jeb_bush.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Hayes</author>
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