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<title><![CDATA[Ben Stein - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15871.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Ben Stein]]></description><category domain="15871">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Please, Mr. Trump: Don't Send Our Boys To Die]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/iran-war-is-there-any-hope/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Stein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[First, now it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s incontrovertible: the hope that we were in a worldwide post-Cold War era of peace was just a hope. Not real. Just a hope.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Learning From Jesse Jackson]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/learning-from-jesse-jackson/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Stein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This morning, February 17, I awakened to hear on my radio that Jesse Jackson had died. I have known Mr. Jackson as a colleague and close friend for 40 years. I worked with him since 1984 to help him as the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'ghostwriter'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' of his autobiography.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Saving Is a Must]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/saving-is-a-must/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Stein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Now, for a few humble thoughts on the first day of the last month of 2025.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Only Israel Is Not Allowed To Defend Itself]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/only-israel-is-not-allowed-to-defend-itself/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Stein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Israel is doing self-defense acts that have been standard in war since the 1930s. Only Israel gets smeared for this.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Prosecutorial Bolshevism]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/prosecutorial-bolshevism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Stein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The victims this time are Trump and his friends. But it could be you next time and it will be.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Not Difficult To Reverse Dems' Inflation Disaster]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/inflation-all-fingers-point-to-biden/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Stein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Biden set off inflation by shutting down fracking. He could end inflation by resuming it and changing his other energy policies.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Goodbye, America]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/goodbye-america-and-free-speech/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Stein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Big Tech and its collusion with the White House is threatening our free speech. The American experiment is tenuously maintained.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Incitement: The Latest Crazed Charge From the Media]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/free-speech-trump-parler/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Stein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Free speech is gone in America. The president has been silenced. What happened to our beloved country? Where did we go off the rails?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[My View of Looters &amp; the Media Who Stirs Race Hatred]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/my-view-of-looters/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Stein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Now for a few words about the criminal looters, arsonists, and murderers '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and the good people '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' of today: 1. Yes, of course black lives matter. But 99.9 percent of the blacks killed violently in this country are killed by other blacks. Very few are killed by the police....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sheer Madness From Ms. Ocasio-Cortez]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/sheer-madness-from-ms-ocasio-cortez/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Stein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Who made her national suicide consultant?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Sad Facts: Some Women Lie. Politicians Lie]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/stalin-would-approve/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Stein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Stalin would approve.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Thank God That Trump Won. And 3 Cheers for Nunes.]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/thank-god-that-trump-won/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Stein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Wow, wow, and double wow. Now we are starting to get a look at a conspiracy so immense it can scarcely be believed. The media, the Democrat National Committee, a genuinely brain dead FISA judge, and now the media over and over again are shown to be working night and day to destroy the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Answer His Questions, Mr. President]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/dont-answer-his-questions-mr-president/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Stein</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[There's No Institutional Racism in America at All Anymore]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/10/22/ben_stein_theres_no_institutional_racism_in_america_at_all_anymore.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Stein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[These guys are a bunch of sulking big babies. They don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t know what they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re talking about. There'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s no institutional racism in America at all anymore. If they want to do their free speech thing, God bless them. Let them do their free speech thing. But let's ignore them from...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Human Nature and Mr. Killer Paddock]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/humanity-and-mr-killer-paddock/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Stein</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[My Father Saved My Life, Again and Again]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/my-father/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Stein</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Witch-Hunting for Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/witch-hunting-for-trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Stein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I have heard about '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Witch-Hunts'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' all of my life. When I was a small child, Senator Joe McCarthy (R-Wis.) and the House Un-American Activities Committee were said by the left-wingers to be on a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'witch-hunt'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' for Communists in the government. That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s what the left...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We're Losing the Freedom Our Fathers &amp; Sons Fought For]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/were-losing-the-freedom-our-fathers-fought-for/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Stein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Night after night, I stay up late watching documentaries about World War II. I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m obsessed with it. Not surprising, since it was the biggest event in the history of the human race. My father was in the Navy during the war, though to this day, I am not sure what he did. My...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Just Doing His Job]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/just-doing-his-job/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Stein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A tale told by an idiot. Full of sound and fury. Signifying nothing.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Left's Character Assassination of Trump Is Failing]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Stein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. So the old saw goes, referring to the bravery and discipline of the aristocratic officers the British Army, learned while playing rugby against Harrow.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Terrorism We Refuse to Fight]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/the-terrorism-we-refuse-to-fight/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Stein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you open the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal or turn on your TV or Internet, you are guaranteed to see stories of terrorism in Germany and France and England, in North Africa, in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Nigeria, the Caucasus, the Philippines, all over the earth far away...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Spoiled, Sulking Babies of the Left]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/theyve-gone-insane/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Stein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I just don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t get it. People are going insane about Donald Trump being president-elect. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s beyond the wildest anger and fear I saw even about Richard Nixon, my hero. And, as I say, I just cannot see it. For example, this morning, I got several emails from men who had been my...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The British People Are Done With Political Correctness]]></title>
							<link>http://spectator.org/brexit-was-sparked-by-rape-and-crime/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Stein</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' So supposedly said the Iron Duke of Wellington, referring, of course to the crushing defeat of Napoleon by the Allies on an 1815 Belgian battlefield and the rousing competitive spirit of the British ruling class,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Must It Have Been Like?]]></title>
							<link>http://spectator.org/what-must-it-have-been-like/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Stein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Memorial Day and I keep thinking, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'What must it have been like to fight in the Belleau Woods, charging into German machine gun fire, getting hit by a large caliber shell, spinning around, and lying in the dirt with excruciating pain and dying of thirst, gunshot, lack...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Anger Makes Total Sense]]></title>
							<link>http://spectator.org/articles/65385/anger-makes-total-sense</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Stein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Anger is a perfectly valid response to seeing a President endlessly scold about gun violence and never, not once as far as I can tell, mention the words '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Crips'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' or '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Bloods'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' or use the power of his mighty office to speak to the gang bangers and tell them it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama: Climate Change Fraudster]]></title>
							<link>http://spectator.org/articles/64926/climate-change-fraudster</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Stein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s get this straight: any halfway intelligent person wants to breathe clean air. We don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t want little carbon or wood particles taken into our lungs, giving us lesions and cancer. We don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t want China and India to burn immense amounts of soft coal that put gases in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Happened to Real Racism?]]></title>
							<link>http://spectator.org/articles/64704/what%E2%80%99s-happened-racism</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Stein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I am getting to be a pretty old guy. I just had my 71st birthday. There are some terrible things about getting old. You have to get up often in the middle of the night. You get tired walking through the airport. Instant romance becomes a sad joke. But you do get a sense of perspective,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There's No Defense for Clinton and Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://spectator.org/articles/64460/there%E2%80%99s-no-defense-these-two</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Stein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Now, for a few notes about the world we live in. Ever since I learned about Barack Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s tormented childhood, I waited for the wackiness to come out. Abandoned by his black father and his white mother. Coddled and loved by his white grandparents. Trying to be white for years, then...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Refugee Crisis? Let's Focus on Crisis in Black America]]></title>
							<link>http://spectator.org/articles/64295/black-america</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Stein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At this moment, voices are raised in controversy about taking in immigrants from the chaos and violence in the Near East and Africa. Just for little me, it is a bit too complex to understand. Why would we, broke as a government, take in hundreds of thousands of new dependents whom the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iran &amp; Obama: A Day That Will Live in Infamy]]></title>
							<link>http://spectator.org/articles/63457/apropos-iran-and-obama</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Stein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A few notes on Iran and its pal, Mr. Obama.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';'1. Does anyone think that the Iranian deal that Barack Hussein Obama has just agreed to will really keep Iran from getting a nuclear bomb?]]></description>
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