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<title><![CDATA[Charles Kesler - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15981.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Charles Kesler]]></description><category domain="15981">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Pilgrim Roots of American Liberty]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/12/09/charles_kesler_recovering_forefathers_day_and_the_pilgrim_roots_of_american_liberty.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Kesler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On October, 23, 2025, Encounter Books honored Charles R. Kesler with the Encounter Prize for Advancing American Ideals during its annual gala at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, DC.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Red Shift: Now Who's on the Wrong Side of History?]]></title>
							<link>https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/americas-red-shift/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Kesler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump and the Republican Party had a triumphant Election Day, gaining ground in all parts of the country and among almost all voting sectors.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Facing Mount Rushmore]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/08/06/facing_mount_rushmore_143894.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Kesler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Statues of great men that the Left regards as blameworthy and shameworthy continue to be purged from the public square. Alexandra Ocasio Cortez'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s recent tweet targeting the U.S. Capitol'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s statute of Father Damien of Molokai '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' the immigrant priest who gave his life caring...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Call Them the 1619 Riots]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2020/06/19/call-them-the-1619-riots/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Kesler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America is burning. Rioters set fire to police stations and restaurants. Looters'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' have ravaged shops'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' from coast to coast. And now they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re coming for the statues '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' not just of Confederate generals, but the republic'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Founders, including George Washington, whose statue...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Abundance of Caution]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/05/02/an_abundance_of_caution_143096.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Kesler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If it goes on long enough, a crisis generates its own clich'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('©').';'s. Sometimes, as in the current coronavirus crisis, these are cant words drawn from a specialized discipline or body of knowledge like public health. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Flattening the curve'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' is one of those already. Ditto,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Prepare to Meet Donald Trump, Defender of Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/prepare-to-meet-donald-trump-defender-of-democracy/ar-BBZXBqu</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Kesler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Addressing his cheering supporters in New Hampshire, Bernie Sanders declared, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'This victory here is the beginning of the end for Donald Trump.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[God Bless America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/05/14/god_bless_america_140322.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Kesler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Star-Spangled Banner'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' is hard to sing. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not those treacherous high notes, however, that have caused some pro football players to take a knee during the singing of it. Their problem is with the flag; more precisely, with the notion that it flies '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'o'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'er the land...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Faking It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/08/08/faking_it_137751.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Kesler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Thomas Jefferson defended freedom of the press as essential to an informed public, and thus to democracy. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' he wrote in 1787, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Know Trump's Vices, What About His Virtues?]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2018/05/16/thinking-about-trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Kesler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two months before the 2016 presidential election, the Claremont Review of Books published (in its digital pages) an essay that began: 2016 is the Flight 93 election: charge the cockpit or you die.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Among the Never Trumpers]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/03/05/among_the_never_trumpers_136432.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Kesler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As a teenager in 1941, William F. Buckley, Jr., heard his father and Albert Jay Nock, the eloquent libertarian essayist who was a family friend, discuss politicians'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' endemic failings. William Sr., his son later recalled, expressed regret for suspending his boycott of the voting...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Draining the Swamp]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/10/23/draining_the_swamp_135329.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Kesler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For a businessman it must be frustrating to sit at the Resolute desk in the Oval Office and realize how unbusinesslike is the government surrounding you.
President Trump issues executive orders, which can be stayed immediately by some obscure federal judge in a deep-blue state. He can...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Old New Left and the New New Left]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/08/28/the_old_new_left_and_the_new_new_left_134853.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Kesler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Summer of Love'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' turns 50 this year. The hippies who flocked to San Francisco with flowers in their hair are now aging boomers who have long given up LSD for blood pressure pills. Today'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s youth couldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t tell a hippie from a Yippie, and today'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s campus...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is a Real Republican, and That's a Good Thing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/opinion/donald-trump-is-a-real-republican-and-thats-a-good-thing.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Kesler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What kind of conservative is President Trump? He must be some kind of conservative, because for nearly 100 days and counting, liberals have poured on him the kind of vitriol they do not reserve for moderates or ideological nobodys. Inside the Beltway, some famous conservatives have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Change-Makers]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/08/05/change-makers_131432.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Kesler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Now that the Democratic national convention is over, we can look forward, not necessarily in every sense of that term, to the campaign. The major Democrats have previewed their arguments for the fall, and we can at least steel ourselves for the upcoming exchanges.
For President Obama,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why &quot;Never Trump&quot; Critics Are Wrong About Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-never-trump-conservatives-are-wrong-about-trump/2016/06/30/0ae53e30-3d5e-11e6-84e8-1580c7db5275_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Kesler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To Trump or not to Trump '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' that is the question. Conservatives divide over it, though many conservative intellectuals inside the Beltway have decided against Donald Trump in no uncertain terms, and by opposing him hope to end his candidacy.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' But this is still a democracy, not a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump and the Conservative Cause]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/06/10/trump_and_the_conservative_cause_130813.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Kesler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A political party that allows 17 candidates to compete for its presidential nomination is not a serious political party. A political party that allows its would-be presidents to debate one another silly'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and I mean that in every sense of the term'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'is failing in its job, too....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[War Without Victory]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/02/18/war_without_victory_129701.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Kesler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Almost a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson addressed the Senate, offering his services as a disinterested peacemaker to the warring nations of Europe. With his assistance the Great War could be ended, he predicted, on the humane, negotiated basis of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'peace without victory.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When the College Madness Came to My Campus]]></title>
							<link>http://on.wsj.com/1OeehBK</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Kesler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Claremont McKenna College was once deliberately out of step with academic fashion. I used to tell prospective students and their parents, liberal or conservative, that one of the best things about CMC was that it refused to enforce the little catechism of political correctness....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Outsiders' Appeal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/11/16/the_outsiders_appeal_128741.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Kesler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dr. Ben Carson and Donald Trump have dominated the polls for several months now. The instinct of many Republicans has been to disdain them as amateurs, arrivistes, or worse, and to dismiss their supporters as political idiots or, at best, political romantics. After all, the presidency of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[You're Fired!]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/08/17/youre_fired_127782.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Kesler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I never thought reality TV was going to work out well. If a show couldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t afford a good script and good actors, why should anyone watch it? But millions did, and here we are, wondering what Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s campaign, more improvised than his television show, tells us about the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[I'm Offended]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/06/03/im_offended_126814.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Kesler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t teach at an American college these days without wondering if'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and at some schools, let'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s face it, you wonder when'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s going to happen. A student, fellow faculty member, or administrator is going to charge you with offending him.
For 30 years in my...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Five Rounds With Harry Jaffa]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2015/01/16/five-rounds-with-harry-jaffa/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Kesler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In his youth in New York City, Harry V. Jaffa was a Golden Gloves boxer. His pugnacious ways didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t stop there. When he died last Saturday, aged 96, his decades in the intellectual ring with fellow conservatives had reshaped modern American conservatism'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'although not enough, he...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Red Tide Rising]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/11/09/red_tide_rising_124612.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Kesler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans are ready to party like it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 1929.
In the House of Representatives, they will hold a majority nearly 250 seats strong, their largest showing since Herbert Hoover won the presidency in 1928. Though final numbers are not in, the GOP now controls both houses of the state...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mount Rushmore Expansion Plans on Hold]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/09/02/mount_rushmore_expansion_plans_on_hold_123830.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Kesler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In his most recent colloquy with the president, David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker, noted that in the Oval Office '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'you could hear, between every long pause that Obama took, the ticking of a grandfather clock.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Could you ever! The clock is ticking on this administration,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Apology Game]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/06/03/the_apology_game_122824.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Kesler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Apologizing is rampant these days. Hardly a week goes by without some public figure (or unlucky private citizen, become a public figure) offering to apologize, usually at the demand of some group or other who has taken offense at something said or done. If extorting apologies were an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Unsmiling Faces]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/02/17/unsmiling_faces_121598.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Kesler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In this year that marks not only the centennial of the beginning of World War I, but also the sesquicentennial of the Civil War'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s climactic battles, we ought to think more about war than we do.
The grainy old black and white photographs that served to immortalize those enormous,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Tea Party and the Constitution]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/11/25/the_tea_party_and_the_constitution_120770.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Kesler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The original tea party was neither a political organization nor a populist movement. It was a one-night stand, an evening uprising. Nevertheless, the young John Adams judged it so intrepid and consequential as to mark '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'an epocha in history.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'
The British government agreed. Lord...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Congress Should Reject Obama's Syria Ploy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/357658/no-thanks-mr-president-charles-r-kesler</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Kesler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama has asked the Congress for authorization to use military force against Syria to punish Bashar Assad'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s regime for its use of chemical weapons. Yet what he asks of Congress is not easy for it to do, and is perhaps neither necessary nor proper.In almost every...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Low Can We Go?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/18/how_low_can_we_go_117490.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Kesler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Though it wasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t the filibuster heard round the world, it certainly reverberated around Washington. Rand Paul'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s nearly 13-hour talkathon not only extracted from the Obama Administration a rare constitutional limit to executive power, it made the senator from Kentucky a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama and the End of Liberalism?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/337798/obama-and-end-liberalism-interview</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Kesler</author>
							<description><![CDATA['He was much more liberal than his presidential campaign let on,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Charles Kesler writes of Barack Obama in 2008. You can say that again. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Liberals like crises, and one shouldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t spoil them by handing them another on a silver salver. The kind of crisis that is approaching'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'...]]></description>
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