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<title><![CDATA[William Murchison - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15684.xml</link><description><![CDATA[William Murchison]]></description><category domain="15684">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Saying Bye-Bye to Beto]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/saying-bye-bye-to-beto/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Murchison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bye-bye, Beto. Well, the self-serving political show-off known to Karl Rove in his Wall Street Journal commentaries as Robert Francis O'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'Rourke, of El Paso, Texas ('&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Roberto'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' in Espa'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('±').';'ol = '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Beto'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';').]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Texas Keeps on Resisting Roe]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/texas-keeps-resisting-abortion-roe/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Murchison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From the material of Texas law came the original federal clampdown on the right of states to protect unborn life as a matter of right]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fugitive Texas Dems Are Self-Promoting Cry-Babies]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/fugitive-texas-democrats-bunch-vain-self-promoting-cry-babies/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Murchison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Texas Democrats prefer PR coups and virtue-signaling to the tedious grind of conventional politics as envisaged in the Constitution]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Texas Energy Blame Game]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.us/topic/texas-energy-blame-game-snow/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Murchison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Life around Texas this wintry go-round has been sufficiently unpleasant and uncertain. Nearly three million homes are without power]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Bad and the Good]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/11/27/the_bad_and_the_good_144733.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Murchison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[And on ... and on ...
... And, yes! One fine day, as with the Noah family's detention on the ark, the damndemic will cease, desist, vanish, take a powder. Masks will disappear in the trash can. Americans will pass days and weeks without a virus-inspired reflection on medical experts or...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Madhouse We Might Consider Ignoring]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/08/04/a_madhouse_we_might_consider_ignoring_143872.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Murchison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The craziness of the craziest times many of us have ever lived through has a bit to do with the lack of an off-ramp. We don't know how to make it stop. We don't know where we're going. We don't know what to do.
Well, sort of. A contemporary of mine, half a century ago, faced with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Schiff, Dems Hunt the Great Orange Whale]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/after-the-great-orange-whale/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Murchison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' a pretty flat declaration as reported by the Apostle Paul, leaving few gaps for politicians to fill at their own discretion. But you know politicians. Here we go with the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['The Longest Day,' Revisited]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/06/04/the_longest_day_revisited_140487.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Murchison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In my capacity as a certified, government-inspected old coot, I have taken particular interest in the bubbling excitement over the 75th anniversary of D-Day. It takes me back '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' not to D-Day itself, when I was in knee pants, but to the 18th anniversary thereof in 1962. Darryl...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Is Here to Save Our Wretched Souls]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/joe-biden-soul-man/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Murchison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The former senator and veep thinks Trump-era America needs some moral straightening out.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What to Expect From the New Dem House?]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/eyes-on-the-progressives/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Murchison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What posturing and positioning we can expect from the next Democratic House.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cruz'in Toward Victory]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/10/16/cruzin_toward_victory_138362.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Murchison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are tides in the affairs of men, we are reliably assured, which, taken at the flood, lead on to fortune. Does that mean Texans may expect the ascent of Rep. Beto O'Rourke to the U.S. Senate, on a flood of antagonism toward Donald Trump?
Hanged if I see any such prospect cresting...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where Did All the Unity Go?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/09/11/where_did_all_the_unity_go_138039.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Murchison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The annual approach of 9/11 brought memories, news recaps and, best of all, in some ways, speculation -- as in, what's the matter with Americans today? Where's now the national unity that marked the aftermath of the attacks, the U.S. flags that decorated pickups and sedans, the spirit of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Socialist Surge That's Not Coming]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/the-socialist-surge-thats-not-coming/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Murchison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bernie and Alexandria went off to see the wizard.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Roe v. Wade &amp; the Confusion of Senator Collins]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/roe-v-wade-and-the-confusion-of-sen-collins/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Murchison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A modern confusion that is more than just embarrassing.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The High Court and Religious Freedom]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/06/05/the_high_court_and_religious_freedom_137198.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Murchison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Supreme Court's 7-2 decision in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case makes clear as day what the justices' careful reasoning merely implies. To wit, the rights of religious freedom and free exercise thereof are anything but elephant traps along the path to cultural peace -- assuming we...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Paul Ryan and Freedom]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/04/17/paul_ryan_and_freedom_136826.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Murchison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Amid the political hullabaloo now engulfing us -- special prosecutors, tell-all memoirs, calls for impeachment, Lord knows what else -- the opportunity to salute Paul Ryan has a cleansing effect, like heavy-duty detergent following a food fight.
The opportunity arises on account of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mr. Zuckerberg Goes to Washington]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/04/10/mr_zuckerberg_goes_to_washington_136757.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Murchison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg will straighten out Congress this week on Communications in the Modern Era -- or Congress will straighten out Mark Zuckerberg. Or maybe both. Or maybe it doesn't matter. Or matters barely. 
The point on which to keep the eye is the revolutionary context wherein Facebook,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Joke's On Us]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/04/04/the_jokes_on_us_136700.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Murchison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I did mention Elvis once in a column, and in the '90s I pointed to one Donald Trump as the TV star you'd least likely want sitting next to you at a dinner party. And yet the likelihood, back then, of ever mentioning Roseanne Barr -- it just didn't compute. But these days... 
I haven't,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Might Makes Might]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/03/27/might_makes_might_136632.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Murchison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A door creaks -- metaphorically, of course -- and a metaphorical breeze slinks into the room.
American foreign policy is beginning to change -- possibly renewing itself after an unprepossessing time of small-beer actions interspersed with grand apologies for past actions.
As always in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Little Ado Over Much]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/03/20/little_ado_over_much_136578.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Murchison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On a single weekend in mid-March, the dictator of Russia was reaffirmed in his official estate with 76.77 percent of the vote, after an election characterized by international observers as "overly controlled"; and the dictator of China was awarded a lifetime lease on power by 2,970 votes...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Language and Anarchy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/03/13/language_and_anarchy_136511.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Murchison</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Yeah, yeah, yeah -- you prude!" I can already hear the accusation coming my way. But who cares? "Yeah, yeah, yeah" right back at you, buster.
Preliminaries out of the way, let's get down to cases. No journalistic titan of the H.L. Mencken variety is "Meet the Press'" Chuck Todd. Yet he...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Heroism in a Dark Theater]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/03/06/heroism_in_a_dark_theater_136446.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Murchison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The explicable story of "Dunkirk" lost the Academy Award for best picture to the wholly inexplicable tale of how an underwater critter and a mute janitor fell in love -- which shows you the inexplicable dimensions of the world the movie industry imagines itself as inhabiting these...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rest in Peace, Billy Graham]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/02/28/rest_in_peace_billy_graham_136390.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Murchison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The rap on Billy Graham -- and it wasn't much of one, given the essential sweetness, you might say holiness, of his character -- was that he hung around politicians, and especially presidents, too much: to the point of joining the power elite and dissipating his witness.
A certain kind...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Against Gun Control: the 'I Want To' Factor]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/02/20/against_gun_control_the_i_want_to_factor_136321.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Murchison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So, let's imagine that in response to the Parkland, Florida, mass shooting, the government, federal or state, strongly tightens control of firearms. 
And then what? No more shootings? No more Nikolas Cruzes and such like, taking out their personal malice on the innocent and unwary?
I...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[... And Don't You Dare Disagree -- Hear?!]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/02/13/_and_dont_you_dare_disagree_--_hear_136258.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Murchison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I returned just now from a memorial service, at a packed Presbyterian church, for an 86-year-old orthodontist who was loved. Loved? That's not quite the measure of it. Friends and family spoke of a man who smiled perpetually and, better yet, sincerely; who always saw the good in others;...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We'll Send You Home Again, Kathleen: Energy and Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/02/06/well_send_you_home_again_kathleen_energy_and_politics_136197.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Murchison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From The Washington Post, Feb. 4, 2018: "The White House has withdrawn its controversial nominee to head the Council on Environmental Quality, Kathleen Hartnett White, whose selection failed to gather momentum with some Senate Republicans raising questions about her expertise."
Herewith...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Trumpian (or Something) Achievement]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/01/30/the_trumpian_or_something_achievement_136131.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Murchison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The media will make of the State of the Union speech what it will -- which won't be much, given the media's agenda to discredit or oust the president delivering the speech.
We might turn our eyes, briefly at least, in another direction: what could be called American capabilities. These...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Calling All Wimps]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/01/23/calling_all_wimps_136073.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Murchison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On now to Chapter MLXII in our Chronicles of National Disarray: "Congress Solves Immigration Perplexity."
Or, far likelier, "Congress Kicks Can Down Road."
With the federal government coming back to listlessness -- if not exactly life -- Republicans and Democrats are set for corrosive...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Feeling Demoralized Lately?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/01/16/feeling_demoralized_lately_136015.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Murchison</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Demoralization" is the word that currently burbles up at 3 a.m. like the red pepper flakes from a second helping of spaghetti. Demoralization is afoot. We must define it. We must think about it. We must, in the end, worry about it. We need, for starters, a moral Alka Seltzer.
The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Really Tackle Sexual Harassment]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/01/09/how_to_really_tackle_sexual_harassment_135963.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Murchison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The first thing to do about sexual harassment is get the pronunciation right. Accent's on the first syllable, not the second: Never mind what they say on TV.
That point acknowledged, we may proceed to considering the rout of the very old codes designed for the honoring and protection of,...]]></description>
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