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							<title><![CDATA[Some Free Advice for Dems on Winning Back Men]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5350036-some-free-commonsense-advice-for-democrats-about-winning-back-men/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernard Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t need a Ph.D. in sociology to know that there is one group in America you can mock, smear and stereotype with impunity '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' without facing cancelation, outrage or any serious blowback.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Has Biden&rsquo;s Electoral Coalition Fractured?]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/4309565-has-bidens-electoral-coalition-fractured/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bernard Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not exactly breaking news that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Joe Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' is historically unpopular, which is why a lot of Democrats from Manhattan to Malibu and everywhere in between just want him to wave goodbye and go home.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Latest Black Conservative to Make Dems Nervous]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/580362-winsome-sears-the-latest-black-conservative-to-make-liberals-nervous</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bernard Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You'd think that by now progressives would have, well, progressed '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' but on matters of race, they're stuck in the past.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Next Victims of Rising Crime? Dems in 2022 Midterms]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/564845-next-victims-of-rising-crime-democrats-in-2022-midterms</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernard Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It apparently is a lot easier for liberal Democrats to blame crime on guns than on the people using them.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's True: There Is a Media Conspiracy Against Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/495927-in-the-age-of-trump-media-bias-comes-into-the-spotlight</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernard Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mainstream media have joined 'The Resistance' and don't appear to be troubled by it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Real Impeachable Offense: Defeating Hillary]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/479466-no-rush-to-judgment-on-trump-its-been-ongoing-since-election-day</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bernard Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To Trump's adversaries, every presidential misstep is a threat to democracy; every gaffe puts our national security at risk.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems' 'Blame America First' Ballad Won't Play Well in 2020]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/478182-democrats-blame-america-first-ballad-wont-play-well-in-2020</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bernard Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nonpartisan swing voters in battleground states who don't ascribe to the Democratic Party's increasingly progressive stance will decide November's election.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Racism Liberals Don't Recognize - Their Own]]></title>
							<link>https://townhall.com/columnists/bernardgoldberg/2018/05/29/the-racism-liberals-dont-recognize--their-own-n2484478</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernard Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Commentators, almost always from the right, have documented liberal media bias for many years now.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Social Conservatives Finally Find an Activist Judge They Can Embrace]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/11/07/social_conservatives_finally_find_an_activist_judge_they_can_embrace_135463.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bernard Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For quite some time now conservative Republicans have been screaming about activist judges who put their own political opinions above the law. And they've been right to complain. But now, thanks to socially conservative voters in Alabama, we learn that they didn't really mean it. What...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Wins in the Fake News War? Not You!]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/10/31/who_wins_in_the_fake_news_war_not_you_135405.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernard Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here's a statistic from a Politico poll that will warm the hearts of many Donald Trump supporters -- and trouble just about everybody else: Nearly half the American people -- 46 percent -- believe journalists flat out make up phony stories to hurt the president and his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Taking a Knee Is Bad For Business]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/10/24/taking_a_knee_is_bad_for_business_135341.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernard Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It started as a one-man protest during the 2016 NFL season. Colin Kaepernick, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback, refused to stand during the National Anthem to make a point about what he saw as racial injustice in America.
A few other players joined the protest, but only a few. Then,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A New Front in the War on Free Speech]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/10/17/a_new_front_in_the_war_on_free_speech_135279.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernard Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hothouse flowers threw another hissy fit on a college campus recently. But this time it was different. This time the target in their progressive crosshairs wasn't some conservative bogeyman whose views were deemed unacceptable and so had to be shouted down. 
This time left-wing students,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Guns!]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/10/10/guns_135217.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernard Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since the carnage in Las Vegas, there's been a lot of talk on TV and commentary in print about gun control. Not just any gun control of course, but "reasonable" and "common sense" gun control.
But since words matter, it matters how you define "reasonable" and "common sense."
And on this,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pouring Gasoline on a Bonfire]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/10/03/pouring_gasoline_on_a_bonfire_135155.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernard Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's been over a week now and the brouhaha without the ha-ha continues -- even if the kneeling on the sidelines is on the way out.
I think it's fair to say that the last thing you'd expect President Trump to talk about at a rally in support of a Republican candidate for the United States...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Freedom From Speech on Campus]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/09/26/freedom_from_speech_on_campus_135095.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernard Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's not exactly a secret that liberal college campuses are among the most illiberal places in America. Liberals talk a good game about diversity -- but it's not diversity of opinion they have in mind. Just ask any number of prominent conservative speakers who got shouted down when they...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The ESPN Double Standard]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/09/19/the_espn_double_standard_135029.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernard Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let's get crazy and play pretend. Let's imagine that a white ESPN male anchor, during the presidency of Barack Obama, put out a series of tweets calling Obama a racist, and said he was ignorant and offensive.
What do we suppose would happen to him? What do we think ESPN would say and do?...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fake News and Fake Innocence]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/09/12/fake_news_and_fake_innocence_134966.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernard Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At a rally in Phoenix a few weeks ago, President Donald Trump went rogue. He stopped reading prepared remarks off the teleprompter and for 30 minutes went on a tirade, taking aim at his favorite target: journalists.
The crowd, of course, loved it.
But as I watched on television, I kept...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Parody Becomes Reality, You Know There's a Problem]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/08/29/when_parody_becomes_reality_you_know_theres_a_problem_134861.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernard Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I recently wrote about the controversy over removing Confederate era statues from public places, and in my column I acknowledged the concerns of those who don't want to honor or celebrate men who fought, at least in part, to preserve slavery.
But then I asked a question: Where does it...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where Does It End?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/08/22/where_does_it_end_134799.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernard Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When I was in high school, in the early 1960s, my family embarked on a car ride south -- from New Jersey to Florida, where we had relatives. Along the way we got hungry so my father pulled his 1954 Plymouth into a parking space outside a country roadside restaurant. Just as we were about...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Is Donald Trump Tougher on 'Fake News' than Real Bigots?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/08/15/why_is_donald_trump_tougher_on_fake_news_than_real_bigots_134753.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernard Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I don't believe that Donald Trump is a racist. I don't think he's a closet white supremacist or a suit and tie neo-Nazi. I don't believe he hates Jews.
So why didn't he flat-out, unequivocally condemn the white supremacist, neo-Nazi, Jew haters whose public rally in Charlottesville,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Say the Wrong Thing and You Can Get Fired. Google It.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/08/11/say_the_wrong_thing_and_you_can_get_fired_google_it_134725.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernard Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On CNBC, an entrepreneur named Marcus Lemonis was asked what kind of people he prefers to hire for his businesses. Here's what he said: "We look for more females than males, by design. I happen to believe that females, particularly in the sales oriented positions, are better. They're...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Guess Who Embarrasses a Majority of American Voters]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/08/08/guess_who_embarrasses_a_majority_of_american_voters_134689.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernard Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Several new polls are out and none of them look good for the president.
Gallup has President Trump with only a 36 percent job approval rating -- and a 60 percent disapproval number.
The news from Quinnipiac University is even worse. In that poll, only 33 percent of American voters have a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[You're Not Humiliating Jeff Sessions, Mr. President -- You're Humiliating Yourself]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/08/01/youre_not_humiliating_jeff_sessions_mr_president_--_youre_humiliating_yourself_134629.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernard Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Turns out there's one more thing we can count on besides death and taxes -- and it's that whenever Donald Trump opens his mouth, it won't be long before he puts his foot in it.
Sometimes it's his dishonesty; he makes a claim that is demonstrably untrue, and very often there's video to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If Arrogance Were a Crime, a Lot of Journalists Would Be in Jail]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/07/25/if_arrogance_were_a_crime_a_lot_of_journalists_would_be_in_jail_134560.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernard Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No matter what he says, no matter what he does, no matter what he tweets -- Donald Trump doesn't surprise me anymore. Nothing he states as fact, no matter how demonstrably untrue, rattles me anymore. No amount of humiliation he publicly heaps on loyalists like Jeff Sessions, shocks me...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Says Sun Rises in East; Dems See Collusion with Putin]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/07/18/trump_says_sun_rises_in_east_dems_see_collusion_with_putin_134492.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernard Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In case you haven't noticed, Republicans and Democrats don't agree on much these days. Donald Trump could call a news conference to declare that the sun rises in the east and Democrats would try to find a link to Vladimir Putin. And if Democrats somehow ever do find a real, nefarious,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Here's an Idea, Mr. President]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/07/11/heres_an_idea_mr_president_134428.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernard Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sometime in 2011, I got a call from Donald Trump. He said he was thinking of running for president and wanted to know what I thought of the idea. I'm guessing he also called a million other journalists, but I had reported on his golf course in Scotland and after it aired he told someone,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A President with a Rare Talent]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/07/04/a_president_with_a_rare_talent__134363.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernard Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I have long believed that Donald Trump has a special knack, a particular gift for making his most dedicated fans look foolish.
These are people like Sean Spicer and Kellyanne Conway and the conservative media loyalists who defend the president even when he's saying things that aren't...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Young Voters for Old Socialists]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/06/27/young_voters_for_old_socialists_134293.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernard Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The thing about old socialist politicians, like Bernie Sanders, 75 and Britain's Jeremy Corbyn, 68, is that they have youth on their side.
Across the pond, the youth vote allowed the British Bernie Sanders to do a lot better than the so-called experts thought he'd do in the recent...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Liberal Media's Double Standard]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/06/20/the_liberal_medias_double_standard_134229.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernard Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 2011, after a severely mentally ill young man in Tucson, Arizona shot Democratic Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, wounded almost 20 more, and killed six, including a 9-year-old girl, it took the liberal media elite a nanosecond to pin the crime on -- who else? -- conservative Republicans...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jim Comey and the Memo That He Didn't Write--or Leak]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/06/13/jim_comey_and_the_memo_that_he_didnt_write--or_leak_134179.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bernard Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Either you believe that President Trump was in cahoots with Vladimir Putin to steal the election out from under Hillary Clinton, that he obstructed justice and, who knows, may even be a traitor, or you believe that liberal Democrats both in and out of the media are out to get him and...]]></description>
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