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<title><![CDATA[Colbert King - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15285.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Colbert King]]></description><category domain="15285">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Trump Has Plenty of Ways To Make Mischief for D.C.]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Colbert King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[City leaders'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' dithering on crime only creates a bigger opening for presidential bigfooting.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rep. Cuellar Joins Hundreds of DC Carjacking Victims]]></title>
							<link>https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/06/henry-cuellar-carjacking-police-dc-crime-victims/#</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Colbert King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar's carjacking is getting the law enforcement attention it deserves. What about the hundreds of other victims this year?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[MLK Would Be Outraged at How We've Backtracked]]></title>
							<link>https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2019/01/21/colbert-i-king-martin/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Colbert King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Martin Luther King Jr. Day, observed Monday, is as good a time as any to take stock of progress made toward establishing "a reign of freedom and a rule of justice" that King called for in his Dec. 10, 1964, acceptance address for the Nobel Peace Prize.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Follow the Russian Money, and Tighten Your Seatbelt]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/follow-the-russian-money-and-tighten-your-seatbelt/2018/08/03/a0397c40-967f-11e8-a679-b09212fb69c2_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Colbert King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What should special counsel Robert S. Mueller III do if his probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election uncovers crimes dealing with or motivated by money? Is he supposed to look the other way?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Laughable Targeting of Security Clearances]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/07/23/trumps-laughable-targeting-of-security-clearances/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Colbert King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The White House just announced a real howler, a thigh-slapper so laughably stupid that it must have everybody in the national-security community rolling in the aisle.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[These Are Your People, President Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/These-are-your-people-President-Trump-11814360.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Colbert King</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is a Mean, Scary, Hurtful Person]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-meditated-on-trump-hes-a-mean-scary-hurtful-person/2016/08/26/c4226dda-6b0a-11e6-ba32-5a4bf5aad4fa_story.html?utm_term=.b3304d31bb16</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Colbert King</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[O'Reilly Response to Michelle Obama Speech Was Racist]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/07/27/bill-oreillys-response-to-michelle-obamas-speech-was-immoral-stop-going-on-his-show/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Colbert King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t a hard call to make at all.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' No need to offer a catalogue of outrageous racial nonsense spewed down through the years by Fox News host Bill O'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'Reilly.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' His response to first lady Michelle Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s convention speech in which she said '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I wake up every morning...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Maybe It's Time for Democrats to Draft Joe Biden]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/clinton-email-scandal-why-it-might-be-time-for-democrats-to-draft-joe-biden/2016/02/05/cd69dfea-cc18-11e5-a7b2-5a2f824b02c9_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Colbert King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Hillary Clinton email issue is developing into a real whodunit, complete with Clintonesque legal semantics. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I never sent or received any material marked classified,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' she said with respect to the discovery of classified information on her private, unclassified email server....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Syria the Beginning of the End of Putinism?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-putinism/2015/11/27/5080978c-9462-11e5-8aa0-5d0946560a97_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Colbert King</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'They all laughed when President Obama warned Russia about getting into a Syrian quagmire.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'They all laughed at Christopher Columbus when he said the world was round.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'They all laughed when Edison recorded sound.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'They all laughed at Wilbur and his brother when they said...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dear Ben Carson: Remember Herman Cain?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/remember-herman-cain/2015/10/30/1aa47126-7e53-11e5-afce-2afd1d3eb896_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Colbert King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Far be it from me to spoil the pleasure of others. Goodness knows, in this vale of tears, enjoyment should be derived wherever it can be found. So please don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t take what follows as the musings of a party pooper.According to a CBS News/New York Times poll, Ben Carson has unseated...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Rising Tide of Crime in the District]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/stopping-a-rising-tide-of-juvenile-crime-in-the-district/2015/10/02/b8ddd700-6847-11e5-9ef3-fde182507eac_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Colbert King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What do 125 victims of assault with a dangerous weapon, 43 victims of aggravated assault, 140 assaulted D.C. police officers, 388 burglary and robbery victims and 26 victims of sex offenses have in common? All of the offenses against them occurred in the District last year and were...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[D.C.'s Summer of Blood]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-silos-that-keep-us-from-seeing-dcs-terrible-homicides/2015/09/11/cc1f0a68-57e5-11e5-8bb1-b488d231bba2_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Colbert King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s take on the current crime spree is that murder victims and suspects have in common previous run-ins with the law. Twenty-one of the homicide arrestees, she reported, were under supervision pending trial or on probation or parole at the time of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[D.C.'s  Lawless Summer]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-summer-so-lawless-in-dc-it-feels-like-the-wild-west/2015/08/28/972b3ffe-4cf3-11e5-84df-923b3ef1a64b_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Colbert King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For a while there, the spirit of the Wild West returned to our nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s capital in the guise of the stagecoach.In its day, the stagecoach epitomized the Wild West. It traveled difficult and dangerous routes transporting drivers and passengers, many of whom were worried sick about...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Getting Away With Murder in the District]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/getting-away-with-murder-in-the-district/2015/07/10/836ed200-2688-11e5-aae2-6c4f59b050aa_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Colbert King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday afternoon, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) and Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier announced with fanfare the closing of a June 23 homicide case in which the victim was found dead in a burning trash bin.One unsolved murder down, countless more to go.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Independence for All]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-american-revolution-was-not-a-whites-only-war/2015/07/03/347ebe5c-20cb-11e5-84d5-eb37ee8eaa61_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Colbert King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are aspects of the American Revolution that are neither well known nor appreciated. To be sure, the signers of the Declaration of Independence were brave and great men, as ex-slave, abolitionist and fiery orator Frederick Douglass acknowledged in his July 5, 1852, speech in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Racism Remains Alive &amp; Well in America]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-racism-still-flourishes/2015/06/26/d0e1f2e4-1b6e-11e5-ab92-c75ae6ab94b5_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Colbert King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In our faltering efforts to deal with race in this country, a great deal of time is devoted to responding to symptoms rather than root causes. That may help explain why racism keeps repeating itself.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Wickedness in Charleston]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/06/18/wickedness-in-charleston/?hpid=z3</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Colbert King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rachel Dolezal, the white former Spokane NAACP branch president who purported to be an African American, has, through her duplicity, hurt herself, her family and all those whose lives are closely linked with hers.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[D.C. Has Same Problems as Baltimore]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-trauma-that-goes-beyond-baltimore/2015/05/08/43cf6d74-f4fd-11e4-84a6-6d7c67c50db0_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Colbert King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s give West Baltimore a rest. No doubt that community 40 miles up the road from the District is, for journalists and talking heads, a paradise of easily obtained stories of rage, anguish, neglect and fear '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' more than enough to satisfy the morbid interests of an audience...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iran Deal Is About Restraining Barbaric Regime]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-iran-deal-is-about-restraining-a-barbaric-regime/2015/04/10/ea5c7074-dedc-11e4-a1b8-2ed88bc190d2_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Colbert King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, writing about Iran in the New Jersey Jewish Standard on April 1, sought to alter perspectives on that country with some speculation about race. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Imagine if Ayatollah Ali [Khamenei] was threatening to murder all blacks in the Middle East,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' he wrote....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Rising Insurrection Against Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-rising-insurrection-against-obama/2015/04/03/d00e39f6-d94f-11e4-ba28-f2a685dc7f89_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Colbert King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a scary thought, but here it is: If some red states were to openly defy the authority of President Obama in the exercise of his constitutional duties, would today'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Republican Congress side with him? Or would they honor the insurrection?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP Takes It a Letter Too Far]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gop-takes-it-a-letter-too-far/2015/03/13/0b4be09c-c91d-11e4-a199-6cb5e63819d2_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Colbert King</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'To the President of the United States,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' intoned the master of ceremonies. Members of an Army advocacy group and active-duty soldiers stationed in the Buffalo area rose to their feet for the toast. The year was 1962, John F. Kennedy was president, and I was among the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[WH Should Call Islamic Terrorism What It Is]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/colbert-king-dont-sugarcoat-islamic-terrorism/2015/01/16/34cb15fa-9d08-11e4-bcfb-059ec7a93ddc_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Colbert King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) was right to speak out on the terrorist attacks in Paris. Washington and Paris have been sister cities since 2000. Those heinous acts against freedom of speech, Bowser noted, only strengthen the bond between the two capitals.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Deep South Justice in Ferguson]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/colbert-king-deep-south-justice-in-ferguson/2014/11/28/23cdb404-75b4-11e4-a755-e32227229e7b_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Colbert King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[She attended Okolona College, where she was taught English and public speaking by James Raspberry, the father of my late Post colleague, William Raspberry. At one time, in my mother-in-law'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s telling, animals on the school'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s farm were falling victim to some invading marauder. A...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Lessons of November 1963]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/colbert-king-the-lessons-of-november-1963/2014/11/21/2685c4e0-70e4-11e4-893f-86bd390a3340_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Colbert King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Most of us who were alive 51 years ago remember exactly what we were doing the moment we heard that President John F. Kennedy had been shot. That day in Dallas significantly changed my perspective on the presidency and American institutions.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Must Maintain His Strong Resolve]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Colbert King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama had better take care in his consultations with Congress on plans to combat the Islamic State. Secretary of State John Kerry may be able to assemble a durable coalition of overseas partners to join with U.S. forces. But any congressional buy-in to Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s strategy is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Right Approach to Islamic State]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Colbert King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In August 1968, many of us in the U.S. Embassy in Bonn, West Germany, read reports with disgust and sadness as Soviet troops with tanks and artillery rolled into Czechoslovakia, closing exit routes and brutally destroying the budding season of freedom that reformers in that country...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Permanent Victories Against Racism]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Colbert King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They came from all over the country: Colorado Springs; Granada Hills, Calif.; Groton, Conn; Chicago; Philadelphia; and Westhampton, N.Y. They were Dunbar High School alumni responding to a call to gather at Bolling Air Force Base last Saturday to celebrate the birthday of Paul Laurence...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare: A Question of Morality]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Colbert King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There was a lot of bloviating about the Affordable Care Act on the talk shows last weekend. The Obamacare critics'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' chief focus was the open-enrollment fiasco, the un-kept presidential promise and the millions of cancellation notices. Overlaying the palaver was the unrestrained glee...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Rise of the New Confederacy]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Colbert King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It took on new force with fears of the federal government in Washington interfering with their cherished way of life. It gathered steam with the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860. And it all came into full flower when shore batteries fired on Fort Sumter. It was the spirit of the Old...]]></description>
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