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<title><![CDATA[Fred Siegel - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16317.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Fred Siegel]]></description><category domain="16317">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Nursing Home Scandal Undercuts Cuomo's Covid Boasts]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/09/10/nursing_home_scandal_undercuts_cuomos_covid_boasts_144163.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This past March, as the threat of COVID-19 intensified, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo employed poignant rhetorical imagery in indicating that he intended to err on the side of caution. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'My mother,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' he intoned, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'is not expendable. And your mother is not expendable.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' He...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Admin's Landmines Are Detonating--on Dems]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/html/nunes-memo-just-opening-act-15704.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' So far, not one Democrat has broken ranks. They will surely find procedural problems with the House memo. They will continue to wage their fight, a la Hollywood congressman Adam Schiff, on behalf of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the resistance.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' But a resistance is not an opposition. The numerous...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Let Us Now Praise Muslim Apostates]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/html/let-us-now-praise-muslim-apostates-15325.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Standing up to political correctness and facing death threats, the Muslim apostate writers Ibn Warraq and Ayaan Hirsi Ali have honored our increasingly endangered Western heritage of free thought, which includes the right'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'indeed, the obligation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'to subject religious dogma to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[My Political Reeducation: New York's Riots, 40 Years Later]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/html/my-political-reeducation-15318.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A few days after the infamous July 13, 1977, New York City blackout, I joined a group of pals setting out from Park Slope, Brooklyn, a neighborhood that hadn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t yet gentrified, for Williamsburg, home to Hasidim and Puerto Ricans in the decades before it, too, became a hipster hot...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is America &quot;Ripe for Tyranny&quot;? Blame President Obama.]]></title>
							<link>http://city-journal.org/html/andrew-sullivans-blind-spot-14431.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan has written an admirably informed'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'though crucially flawed'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'essay on Donald Trump for the May 2 issue of New York, in which he draws attention to the perhaps ironic underside of the liberal triumph in the culture wars:'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' This is an age in which a woman might...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Rises as Government Legitimacy Collapses]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/html/donald-trump-and-americas-post-constitutional-politics-14322.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why has Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s cult-of-personality candidacy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'which so many professionals and pundits at first dismissed as a branding exercise'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'become a fever of sorts? Why has he been able to exploit the failings and foibles of both Barack Obama and of the Republican Party...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[New York Senses Something Changing--Not for the Better]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2016/26_1_snd-public-spaces.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When I wrote about public spaces for City Journal 24 years ago, I called them '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'both the glory and shame of New York.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' The glory because of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the liveliness,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' then and now, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'of our sidewalks and plazas'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'; and the shame because those spaces had become places of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Baltimore, Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Riot Ideology, Reborn]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2015/25_4_riots.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the summer of 1966, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach warned that there would be riots by angry, poor minority residents in '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'30 or 40'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' American cities if Congress didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t pass President Lyndon Johnson'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Model Cities antipoverty legislation. In the late 1960s, New...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[New Riot Ideology: Results Through Coercion]]></title>
							<link>http://www.ocregister.com/articles/black-697305-baltimore-police.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the summer of 1966, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach warned that there would be riots by angry, poor minority residents in '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'30 or 40'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' American cities if Congress didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t pass President Lyndon Johnson'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Model Cities antipoverty legislation. In the late 1960s, New...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democrats Could Be Coming Apart]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2015/eon1006fs.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After nearly seven years in power under the leadership of President Barack Obama, legatee of both the old and new Left, the Democratic Party has managed to hold on to its base. Despite Democrats'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' loss of both houses of Congress, Obama has been successful in using executive,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Liberals Ranting About Rudy Don't Get]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2015/eon0222fs.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s statement about President Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s lack of love for America has set off a firestorm of denunciation. Giuliani has been accused of racism, and he has even received death threats. Defenders of Obama have evoked everything from his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bill de Blasio Needs to Choose a Horse]]></title>
							<link>http://time.com/3644094/deblasio-has-to-choose-a-horse/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 1994, during Bill Bratton'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s first stint as Gotham'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Police Commissioner, he and then Mayor Rudy Giuliani transformed law enforcement with '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'broken windows'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' policing. It led to unprecedented drops in crime. Twenty years later, after a very successful run as the head...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Conflict Within the Democratic Party]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2014/eon1110fs.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Siegel</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stuck in the Racial Resentments of the 1960s]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2014/eon0818fs.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The American understanding of riots and racial violence was shaped a half-century ago, during the insurrections of the 1960s. To judge by the responses to the current rioting in Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, little has changed since then.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Left Come to Grips With Obama's Failures?]]></title>
							<link>http://city-journal.org/2014/eon0411fs.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Chait has written a thoughtful, if debatable, 6,000-word article on race in the Obama years that has stirred a good deal of discussion. It can be read as an advance apologia for the Democrats'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' defeat in the 2014 elections. Chait'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s thesis, as he sums it up in an online...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bill de Blasio's Curious Form of &quot;Populism&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/curious-form-populism_767158.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a city of well over half a million government employees'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'city, state, and federal'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'in which the largest source of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'private sector'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' employment is government-subsidized health care providers, as well as numerous, often government-funded, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'nonprofit'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Future Looks Rocky for New York City]]></title>
							<link>http://www.american.com/archive/2013/september/new-york-after-bloomberg</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The last time New York City had a Democratic mayor (1990-1993), his policies pushed the city to the verge of bankruptcy. David Dinkins increased taxes and spending even as the stock market, upon which the city depends for most of its finances, tanked in the early 1990s. It was only the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Bill de Blasio the New David Dinkins?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/05/is-new-york-city-mayoral-candidate-bill-de-blasio-the-new-dinkins.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bill de Blasio'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s full-throated call for a left turn in New York City politics has vaulted him into the lead among the Democratic candidates for mayor. The public advocate is running a narrowly tailored campaign designed to fit the sensibilities of hard-core Democratic primary voters...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Return of the McGovernites]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/96415/occupy-wall-street-liberalism-socialism-tnr-1968-bureaucracy-mcgovern</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The editors of The New Republic are wiser than they know in trying to keep their distance from the Zuccotti Park protesters. In their zeal to recapture the spirit of the 1960s, the Occupy Wall Streeters are replicating the very processes that produced the current crack-up of liberalism....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Big Government Fuels Wall Street Cronyism]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/10/manhattan-moment-two-distinct-groups-make-occupy-protesters</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Strange to say, but there may be something valuable going on among some of the Occupy Wall Street protesters.Until now, two narratives have defined both the press coverage and public discussion of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators camped out in lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park.The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Century of Palestinian Rejectionism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/09/22/a_century_of_palestinian_rejectionism_111426.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Casual observers of Middle Eastern politics must be somewhat confused by reports that the West Bank Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, currently in the 81st month of his 48-month term, plans to roil the region by having the United Nations recognize Palestine as a sovereign state. Leave...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[New York's Future Is Fleeing the State]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/why_ny_future_is_fleeing_v4535f5BZTMQJSc4maz1qL</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For more than 15 years, New York state has led the country in  domestic outmigration: For every American who comes here, roughly two  depart for other states. This outmigration slowed briefly following the  onset of the Great Recession. But a recent Marist poll suggests that the  rate is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Public Unions Took Taxpayers Hostage]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703909904576052150177439350.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The turbulent years of the 1960s and '70s are best known by the headline-grabbing civil rights and women's rights movements. But there was another "rights" movement, largely overlooked, that has also had a profound effect on American life. The looming public-pension crisis that threatens...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[NY &amp; California: Indebted and Unrepentant]]></title>
							<link>http://city-journal.org/2010/eon1103fs.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The big news from Tuesday's elections - the GOP's gains of 60-plus seats in the House, recapturing the majority that it lost in 2006 - naturally makes one wonder about the divisions that the victories are likely to foment. Pundits are speculating on conflicts between the Tea Party and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Progressives Against Progress]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_3_american-liberalism.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the first two-thirds of the twentieth  century, American liberals distinguished themselves from conservatives  by what Lionel Trilling called "a spiritual orthodoxy of belief in  progress." Liberalism placed its hopes in human perfectibility.  Regarding human nature as essentially...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[New York on the Precipice]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/05/31/new_york_on_the_precipice_96745.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Modern Washington, with its vast powers and giant bureaucracies, was created in the wake of the 1929 stock market crash and the Great Depression that followed. Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal brought an end to New York City's reign as the nation's unofficial capital and gave Washington...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bloomberg is a Mayor Run Amok]]></title>
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