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<title><![CDATA[Tod Lindberg - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15669.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Tod Lindberg]]></description><category domain="15669">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Behind the Unique Success of the Federalist Society]]></title>
							<link>https://www.weeklystandard.com/tod-lindberg/kavanaugh-scotus-why-the-success-of-the-federalist-society-is-unique</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tod Lindberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why the success of the Federalist Society is unlikely to be replicated.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans, Use Your Majority While You Still Can]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/a-bucket-list-for-the-house-gop/article/2010425</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tod Lindberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To those feverishly speculating, whether in glee or in terror, that the election results in Virginia and New Jersey portend loss of GOP control of the House of Representatives in midterm elections a year from now, I ask this question: What difference does that prospect make not as of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our Heroes, Ourselves]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/our-heroes-ourselves_1059434.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tod Lindberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At a White House ceremony on November 12, President Obama will award the Medal of Honor to retired Army captain Florent Groberg. When the president fastens the medal&rsquo;s light-blue ribbon behind Groberg&rsquo;s neck, Obama will be doing more than honoring a single American hero. He...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Heroism Is More Saving Than Slaying]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/09/10/us-greatest-asset-lifesaving-heroes-911-anniversary-column/72005144/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tod Lindberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When New York City firefighters rushed into the burning Twin Towers 14 years ago, a day of horror and uncertainty also gave us a glimpse of our country&rsquo;s greatest asset: the life-saving hero.From the beginning of recorded history, heroism has most often been associated with prowess...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Defining Heroism Up Once Again]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tod Lindberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We don&rsquo;t yet know the full story of what a 25-year-old Moroccan citizen was doing on a Paris-bound train from Amsterdam Friday, armed, according to police, with an AK-47, a handgun and a box cutter. The reason we don&rsquo;t is the quick action of two Frenchmen, a Briton...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Legacy Without the Health Law]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120263/obamas-legacy-without-obamacare</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tod Lindberg</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[2014 Midterms Don't Mean Anything]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118704/2014-midterm-elections-wont-change-congress-even-if-senate-flips</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tod Lindberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The political media's handicapping of the November 4 midterm election has contributed to the impression, fostered by many partisans and commentators, that the stakes have never been higher. Jonathan Capehart, the liberal Washington Post columnist, says he wants to &#194;&#147;warn&#194;&#148; Democrats that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There's a New Political Storyline -- and it's Good for Republicans]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/10/21/theres_a_new_political_storyline__and_its_good_for_republicans_120401.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tod Lindberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The story most Democrats and progressive have long told about the GOP is that it&rsquo;s a party that has been captured by its right wing. It&rsquo;s a fairly simple story to tell. You find a firebrand character who is not especially popular, such as Newt Gingrich, and present him as the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Depressed Hyperpower]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/07/02/the_depressed_hyperpower_119064.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tod Lindberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This nation and its leaders have been humbled over the past decade by the ambiguous results of the American military power unleashed in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is customary to think in terms of wars won and wars lost&mdash;but what was Iraq? Certainly not a victory, though Saddam...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The NSA Scandal Was Good for Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/25/the_nsa_scandal_was_good_for_obama_118964.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tod Lindberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The story about extensive National Security Agency monitoring of electronic communications blew through Washington with hurricane force. And, like a hurricane, it fully consumed the attention of just about everybody who fell within its path. Oh, sure, there was a little gang huddling...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's 2nd-Term Liberal Interventionists]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113441/susan-rice-samantha-power-raise-obamas-human-rights-profile</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tod Lindberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rice and Power are both confidants of the president; that they should be moving up in his second term comes as no surprise. After Hillary Clinton formally announced her departure as secretary of state, the White House hinted that Rice was Obama&rsquo;s first choice for the job. But...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An IRS Independent Counsel Is a Terrible, Terrible Idea]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/29/an_irs_independent_counsel_is_a_terrible_terrible_idea_118583.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tod Lindberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You can tell a Washington scandal is nearing ripeness when people startcalling for the appointment of a special counsel to conduct the investigation. So it is today with the IRS targeting of conservative groups. 
The calls to date come from two distinct groups: One consists...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Slippery Slope Arguments: Not Just for Conservatives Anymore]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/03/slippery_slope_arguments_not_just_for_conservatives_anymore_118226.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tod Lindberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Cass R. Sunstein has thought deeply about the regulatory state both as a theorist and as a practitioner, and he also knows a thing or two about practical politics. Now, in response to the successful opposition to Senate legislation expanding background checks for gun buyers, he...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Margaret Thatcher Could Teach Obama-Era Pundits]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/15/what_margaret_thatcher_could_teach_obama-era_pundits_117957.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tod Lindberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Political opponents are wont to describe Barack Obama as a polarizing figure in American politics. In fact, they angrily note, the most polarizing of all presidents. They decry this in the context of his 2008 campaign, during which he presented himself as a figure almost above...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton Would Not 'Clear the Field' for 2016]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/06/hillary_clinton_would_not_clear_the_field_for_2016_117827.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tod Lindberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No one is more preoccupied these days with Hillary Clinton's 2016 plans than the Beltway political class&mdash;not even the former presidential candidate herself. To hear some tell it, her decision will be dispositive for all other Democrats thinking of entering the race. And pundits and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Agenda? No Problem. For Obama, No Second-Term Policy Goals is Shrewd Politics]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/29/no_agenda_no_problem_for_obama_no_second-term_policy_goals_is_shrewd_politics_117712.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tod Lindberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the most interesting features of President Obama&rsquo;s second-term policy agenda is that he doesn&rsquo;t seem to think he needs one.
OK, he got some of his increase in the top tax rate for high earners even before his second term started. He campaigned on it; it&rsquo;s policy;...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bain Could Inflict Considerable Pain on Romney]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/bain-his-campaign_616732.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tod Lindberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you can take Romney down, you take him down; you can make it up to the capitalists later.What was noteworthy about Tim Pawlenty's brief excursion into the GOP field was his inability to pull the trigger against Romney: One day last June, Pawlenty called Romney's Massachusetts health...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Could the Senate Even Pass a Tax Hike?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.advancingafreesociety.org/2011/07/25/taxes-and-the-senate/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tod Lindberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the debt-limit debate, we&#194;&#146;ve been hearing a lot about how a &#194;&#147;grand  bargain&#194;&#148;-style solution with tax increases can&#194;&#146;t pass the  GOP-controlled House. That&#194;&#146;s true. But here&#194;&#146;s the issue that&#194;&#146;s being  neglected: Can a tax increase pass the Democratic majority Senate?  Without a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fair Is Foul in Scotland]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/882cuced.asp</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tod Lindberg</author>
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Since there is so little of it, let&#39;s start with the good news about the release from prison and triumphant return to Libya of Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, the terrorist who was supposedly serving a life...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Center-Left Nation]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/13/AR2008111303550_pf.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Media's Bonfire of the Hypocrisies]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/556rvcjg.asp</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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