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<title><![CDATA[Linda Chavez - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15915.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Linda Chavez]]></description><category domain="15915">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Ron DeSantis&rsquo; Big Mistake]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/07/21/ron_desantis_big_mistake_149527.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Linda Chavez</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ron DeSantis seems to believe that his best chance of becoming the GOP presidential nominee is to be more extreme than the guy he needs to defeat, Donald Trump. And what better issue to flex his MAGA bona fides than immigration?
Florida'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s draconian new immigration restrictions,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There&rsquo;s Still Time To Get a Compromise Bill on Immigration]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/12/09/theres_still_time_to_get_a_compromise_bill_on_immigration_148587.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Linda Chavez</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With just days to go before the 117th Congress adjourns, a bipartisan compromise on immigration seems a longshot, but it might happen if the White House makes it a priority. Republican Sens. Thom Tillis and Democrat Kyrsten Sinema have crafted language that would give each side in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Liz Cheney Can Win Reelection]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/01/04/how_liz_cheney_can_win_reelection_146977.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Linda Chavez</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The term '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'principled Republican'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' is quickly becoming an oxymoron in the post-Trump GOP, but Liz Cheney still fits the bill. The question is: For how long? Cheney'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s principles aren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t at risk, but her ability to be reelected in Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Republican Party is.
Wyoming...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Threats to Democracy Come From the Left and the Right]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/10/28/threats_to_democracy_come_from_the_left_and_the_right_146639.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Linda Chavez</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Like many '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Never-Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' conservatives, I see the assault on democratic institutions and norms launched by the former president and his followers as a clear and present danger to our republic. But I also fear that many progressives pose an equal threat, albeit one that will...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Leaving the GOP: Why I'm Now Politically Homeless]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/01/17/leaving_the_gop_why_im_now_politically_homeless_145049.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Linda Chavez</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It took a MAGA-draped mob storming the U.S. Capitol and five deaths for a handful of Republicans in Congress finally to have the courage to stand up to Donald Trump. Ten GOP House members joined all their Democratic colleagues to impeach Wednesday, making Trump the only president ever to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Systemic Racism Trap]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/07/23/the_systemic_racism_trap_143779.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Linda Chavez</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is America a deeply racist society, whose very institutions perpetuate the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow? Unfortunately, to answer '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'No'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' -- even a qualified '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'No'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' -- is becoming harder by the day. Since the horrific killing of George Floyd, millions have taken to the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Not Just Be 'an American'?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/02/09/why_not_just_be_an_american_139419.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Linda Chavez</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sen. Elizabeth Warren's insistence that she is Native American has drawn racial taunts from President Donald Trump, who frequently refers to her as "Pocahontas," as well as reprimands from tribal leaders, who note that tribes themselves determine tribal membership. She has frequently...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Hillary's Sore-Loserism Helps Vladimir Putin]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2017/06/04/how-hillarys-sore-loserism-helps-vladimir-putin/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Linda Chavez</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton may be the most tone-deaf politician in modern history. Repeatedly over the course of a 41-year career as a political wife, candidate and appointee, she's said and done things that '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No to a Deportation Force]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/04/16/no_to_a_deportation_force_133613.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Linda Chavez</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump has been flip-flopping right and left recently -- much of it for the good. He's abandoned his promises to label China a currency manipulator, withdraw from NAFTA, repeal Obamacare and stay out of Syria. But he seems to be digging in on his pledge to create a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Real Obstacle to Peace]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/01/06/the_real_obstacle_to_peace_132728.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Linda Chavez</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Shortly after Benjamin Netanyahu won his bid for re-election as prime minister of Israel in March 2015, I wrote a column describing President Barack Obama as being "on track to go down as more hostile toward Israel than any president in the past 68 years." I warned that President Obama...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton Foundation Scandals Will Haunt Hillary If She Wins]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2016/08/12/clinton-foundation-scandals-will-haunt-hillary-if-she-becomes-prez/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Linda Chavez</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton is leading in the polls, but the public still doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??t entirely trust her. This week, those suspicions focused on the candidate'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??s relationship to the organization her husband founded'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Schilling Got Fired for Common Sense on Bathrooms]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2016/04/22/curt-schilling-got-fired-for-his-common-sense-on-bathrooms/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Linda Chavez</author>
							<description><![CDATA[ESPN decided to fire sports commentator and former Major League Baseball pitcher Curt Schilling for making allegedly '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??transphobic'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? comments on Facebook. For the record, I believe an employer has '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Policies: Recipe for US Economic Decline]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2015/10/02/trumps-policies-are-a-recipe-for-american-economic-decline/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Linda Chavez</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump may have a reputation for making things bigger, but when it comes to his plans for the United States, he wants to shrink it. He says his tax plan will spur economic growth to 6 percent a year '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' a level not seen in more than a decade. But it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s hard to imagine how he...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Carly Fiorina a Feminist?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/10/01/is-carly-fiorina-a-feminist</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Linda Chavez</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Carly Fiorina has written that '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'it is time for a new definition'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' of feminism. Some feminists have said that while they admire her forcefulness, her political positions are too divergent for her to be considered in any way an ally.Must feminism be seen as a political movement...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Pope Missed an Opportunity on Abortion]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2015/09/25/the-pope-missed-an-opportunity-to-stand-up-for-life/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Linda Chavez</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton's Immigration Hoax]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2015/05/08/hillarys-latest-hoax-deepening-the-immigration-divide/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Linda Chavez</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Like her former boss Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton is more interested in goading Republicans on immigration than in actually fixing our broken system.This week, Clinton announced that she would expand on Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s executive action, which would defer deportation and grant work permits...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton Greed]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/04/26/clinton_greed_126393.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Linda Chavez</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Clintons have always had an uneasy relationship with money. Bill never had any. And although Hillary had a comfortable upbringing, she didn't take the path to riches that her Yale Law degree might have provided, choosing instead to do public interest law right out of law school and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Another Obama Bungle and Capitulation]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2015/04/03/the-iran-nuke-deal-another-obama-bungle/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Linda Chavez</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Boy do I have a deal for you. Give me enough money to build a fancy new house, and I promise I won'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t try to blow up yours.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton Is Too Old to Run]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2015/03/27/hillary-is-too-old-to-run/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Linda Chavez</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A new CBS poll on Hillary Clinton this week suggests that the former first lady, New York senator and secretary of state faces a steeper road to the White House than her supporters might think.Only 26 percent in the poll of the adult population had a favorable view of Clinton, while 37...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Holder Leaves a Sorry Legacy of Racial Division]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2015/03/13/salt-in-our-race-wounds/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Linda Chavez</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Another shooting has taken place in Ferguson, Mo. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and this time, two police officers were the victims.The violence should not come as a surprise, given the ugly tone set by the nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s top law-enforcement officer, Attorney General Eric Holder.The most divisive attorney...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ferguson v. New York City: Facing the Facts]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2014/12/05/ferguson-v-new-york-city-facing-the-facts/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Linda Chavez</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The grand jury system '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' indeed, the criminal jury system overall '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' is not perfect.And while I think the grand jury in Ferguson got it right by not indicting Officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown, based on the physical evidence and credible testimony from actual...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Colorado Bellwether]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/colorado-bellwether/article/2555538</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Linda Chavez</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where to Start Honest Talk on Race]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2014/08/29/where-to-start-honest-talk-on-race/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Linda Chavez</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After weeks of national angst generated when a white police officer shot an unarmed black man on the streets of Ferguson, Mo., perhaps it is time we have an honest discussion about race in America.But if we do so, the voices should not be restricted to those who carry a sense of racial...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Eric the Arsonist: Holder Fans Ferguson Flames]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2014/08/23/eric-the-arsonist-holder-fans-ferguson-flames/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Linda Chavez</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Selective Outrage When It Comes to Racism]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2014/05/05/our-selective-outrage-on-racism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Linda Chavez</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Racism is ugly, no matter who is spewing it. But there does seem to be a double standard when it comes to public outrage on the subject.It was less than a week after LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s racist comments to his girlfriend in a private conversation became public that he...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sotomayor Proves Herself Not So Wise]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2014/04/26/justice-sonia-sotomayor-proves-herself-not-so-wise/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Linda Chavez</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Justice Sonia Sotomayor this week took the unusual step of reading her dissent in a case involving state-sponsored affirmative action in Michigan. In doing so, she showed herself not only petulant to be on the losing side in a 6-2 decision, but unable to divorce her legal reasoning from...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sex, Booze &amp; Quotas: Troubles at Dartmouth]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2014/04/18/sex-booze-and-quotas-the-troubles-at-dartmouth/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Linda Chavez</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Obama Gets No Respect in the World]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/remaking_america_image_zZt1K4GKcBccok6tv77QzL</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Linda Chavez</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s decision to cancel his planned trip to Moscow to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin was the right thing to do in light of Russia'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s decision to grant asylum to Edward Snowden. But it also illustrates problems of the president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s own making.One of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Decline &amp; Fall of American Liberal Education]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/the-decline-and-fall-of-american-liberal-education/article/2526354</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Linda Chavez</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Liberal education once stood for something grand and good: the study of the arts, humanities and sciences with the aim of improving the mind through the acquisition of knowledge and the pursuit of truth. But some of America's most elite colleges and universities have all but abandoned...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The College Racket: The Bubble Needs to Burst]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_college_racket_0DphQDDiqoTted3qZzNn0K</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Linda Chavez</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When President Obama gives his state of the union address next week, you can count on his making a big pitch for education. In last year'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s speech, he said, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by...]]></description>
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