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<title><![CDATA[Paul Kengor - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16453.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Paul Kengor]]></description><category domain="16453">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Butler: The Riveting Untold Story]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/butler-the-riveting-untold-story-of-the-shooting-of-donald-trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Kengor</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Growing up in Butler, Pennsylvania in the 1970s and 1980s, I surely at some point must have encountered a book titled'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Butler, but it would have been at the town library at N. McKean Street or maybe the college library at what we call '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'BC3'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Butler County Community...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pope Francis Brings Together Trump and Zelensky]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/pope-francis-brings-together-trump-and-zelensky/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Kengor</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Pope Francis' death the day after Easter Sunday made possible this striking, and perhaps historic, meeting in St. Peter's Basilica.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Russians Are Laughing at Us]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/the-russians-are-laughing-at-us/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Kengor</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Joe Biden has humiliated himself and his country on the global stage. He let the Russians spring from American confinement a Russian arms dealer known as the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Merchant of Death'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' who sells weapons to terrorists and our adversaries in exchange for a WNBA player who had...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pennsylvania's Pivotal Senate Race]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/pennsylvanias-pivotal-senate-race/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Kengor</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Three front-runners are vying to succeed Sen. Pat Toomey in a GOP Senate race the party cannot afford to lose.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[BLM Founders' Mansion Marxism]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/blm-founders-mansion-marxism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Kengor</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The current leadership of BLM remains furious with Patrisse Cullors for her mansion-buying sprees and has demanded investigations.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[MLK, Not CRT]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/mlk-not-crt/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Kengor</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here's a critical question for enthusiasts of critical race theory: How did MLK do what he did without CRT?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Warping the Credit for Trump's Operation Warp Speed]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/trump-operation-warp-speed-biden/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Kengor</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump delivered on his vaccine promise right on time with Operation Warp Speed despite doubts. He got no thanks for it from the media.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pennsylvania Bombshell: Biden 99.4% vs. Trump 0.6%]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/pennsylvania-bombshell-biden-99-4-vs-trump-0-6/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Kengor</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are landslides and then there are landslides. There are lopsided votes and then there are lopsided votes. There are egregious examples of vote manipulation and then there are'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' really'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' egregious examples of vote manipulation. What surfaced during hearings in Gettysburg,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Numbers Don't Add Up in Pennsylvania]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/pennsylvania-voting-doesnt-add-up/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Kengor</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Clarks Mills, Pennsylvania: Driving through this rural area, it's clear the extraordinary enthusiasm for Donald Trump has not waned.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden-Harris Have a Big Problem in Pennsylvania]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/biden-harris-have-a-big-problem-in-pennsylvania/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Kengor</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mercer County, Pennsylvania - Attending the annual Civil War reenactment here this past weekend, I half-expected a mob of crazed progressives to show up shouting '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'RACISTS!!!'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' at the mock Confederate soldiers. But this was clearly a Trump crowd, as evidenced by the guy next to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Trouble With Taking Down St. Junipero Serra]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/taking-down-st.-junipero-serra</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Kengor</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was June 2001, our first trip to California. We had driven down the coast and settled into a quaint little pink-and-green house in the beach town of Ventura. I was in the area for several weeks to do research on Ronald Reagan at the Reagan Library and the Reagan Ranch Center.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On Ronald Reagan's 'Racism']]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/on-ronald-reagans-racism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Kengor</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's a provocative article'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' by NYU professor Tim Naftali in the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Atlantic'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' titled Ronald Reagan's Long-Hidden Racist Conversation With Richard Nixon. It reports an insulting statement made by Gov. Ronald Reagan to President Richard Nixon in October 1971. Naftali lays out the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is the Democrats' Abortion Position Racist?]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/joe-biden-and-the-democrats-racist-abortion-position/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Kengor</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Imagine if Donald Trump announced he would change his longtime opposition to public funding of abortion in order to ensure that black, Hispanic, and poor women can abort their babies. Would liberals need even 10 seconds before foaming at the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Abortion Racism in Pennsylvania]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/abortion-racism-in-pennsylvania/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Kengor</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats are losing it over abortion. Sure, they've long been bad on the issue, but they're suddenly escalating the vitriol. And by Democrats, I'm referring to elected ones. You could always find unhinged pro-choice liberals doing vulgar things. Elected Democrats,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Green On the Outside, Red On the Inside]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/the-green-red-deal/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Kengor</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Leftist environmentalists hate that. And yet, they do little to eschew the label. Quite the contrary, they earn it in spades.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[20 Years Later: The Impeachment of Bill Clinton]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/the-clintons-vs-the-american-spectator/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Kengor</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Clintons vs. The American Spectator]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[John Kerry, Reporting for Duty - Against America]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/john-kerry-reporting-for-duty-from-vietnam-to-iran/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Kengor</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He hasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t changed a lick in 47 years.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Bicentennial of the Man Whose Ideas Killed Untold Millions]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/marxs-apologists-should-be-red-in-the-face-1525388258?shareToken=st1d1a98710a4d4e46a3c8c6da7b3d4a37&amp;reflink=article_email_share</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Kengor</author>
							<description><![CDATA[May 5 marks the bicentennial of Karl Marx, who set the stage with his philosophy for the greatest ideological massacres in history. Or did he?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ranking Obama on Presidents' Day]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/rating-the-presidents-and-obama/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Kengor</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve been getting emails from bewildered colleagues asking about a survey of presidential scholars that determined that Barack Obama is the 12th best president in the history of the United States, putting him near the top quartile of our presidents. How can this be? I, too, was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Still Fronting for Fidel at The NY Times]]></title>
							<link>http://spectator.org/articles/63546/still-fronting-fidel-new-york-times</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Kengor</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The left'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s longtime moral-political blindness to communist dictatorships never ceases to amaze, and few cases have been as consistently and wondrously spectacular as the New York Times, from the likes of Walter Duranty apologizing for Stalin in the 1930s to Herbert Matthews...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Breathtaking Statement on Ho Chi Minh]]></title>
							<link>http://spectator.org/archives/2013/08/07/ho-chi-minh-obamas-freedom-fig</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Kengor</author>
							<description><![CDATA[All I wanted to do last week was enjoy my vacation. Instead, I was assaulted by another breathtaking statement from the president of the United States, provided courtesy of an official White House press release. The occasion was a July 25 meeting between President Obama and the leader of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The End of the Reagan Era]]></title>
							<link>http://spectator.org/archives/2013/01/21/the-end-of-the-reagan-era</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Kengor</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Romney Beats McCain! Barely]]></title>
							<link>http://spectator.org/archives/2012/12/03/romney-beats-mccain</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Kengor</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So has Obama beat Bush?Shortly after the November election, I wrote a piece heretitled, "McCainBeats Romney!" The article focused on initial reports showingthat Mitt Romney received fewer votes in 2012 than John McCainreceived in 2008. That utterly depressing observation...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Smearing Marco Rubio]]></title>
							<link>http://spectator.org/archives/2012/11/26/smearing-rubio</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Kengor</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are questions only conservative Republicans are asked.In a recent interview, Senator Marco Rubio, the Republican front-runner for 2016, was asked, "How old do you think the Earth is?"It's a ridiculous question of utter irrelevance to the status of the country and whether Marco...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[McCain Beats Romney!]]></title>
							<link>http://spectator.org/archives/2012/11/09/mccain-beats-romney</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Kengor</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Pennsylvania story -- how did it and so much else go wrong?Brace yourselves, conservatives. What I'm about to say will hurt, and it should hurt -- and I'm not the first to notice. (Kudos to Rush Limbaugh, who noticed and is hitting this point hard.) Mitt Romney lost the 2012 election...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's the Spending, Stupid]]></title>
							<link>http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/its_the_spending_stupid.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Kengor</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Liberal Democrats have failed to heed the lessons of economic history, and it's killing our economy. In the 1980s, they blamed President Reagan's tax cuts for fueling deficits, when, to the contrary, Reagan's tax cuts had a tremendous stimulative effect, and his deficits were fueled by...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Reagan Stimulus vs. the Obama One]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2011-08-14-reagan-obama-economy-recovery-stimulus_n.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Kengor</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Reagan's initiative was the antithesis of President Obama's $800 billion "stimulus" that didn't stimulate. The 2009 version was the single greatest contributor to our record $1.5 trillion deficit. It was, plain and simple, what Reagan didn't do.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' When Reagan signed the Economic Recovery...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Jimmy Carter Chronicles]]></title>
							<link>http://spectator.org/archives/2011/02/18/the-jimmy-carter-chronicles</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Kengor</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For those of you not entirely certain about where to stand on a complex, dynamic situation in Egypt, fear no more: Jimmy Carter has waded in to add both clarity and certainty."I think that the Muslim Brotherhood is not anything to be afraid of," Carter  told a wide-eyed, admiring...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Christmas with Clarence Darrow]]></title>
							<link>http://spectator.org/archives/2010/12/21/Christmas-with-Clarence</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Kengor</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No, that's not "Clarence the Angel" of It's a Wonderful Life fame. The Clarence in this title is much less inspiring, not exactly angelic -- a humbug, really. I'm thinking of Clarence Darrow, dogmatic defender of atheists.As Christians this time of year absorb another spate of snipes at...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Solzhenitsyn vs. Evil]]></title>
							<link>http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MWE2OTQxYjZkNDBkYWY4NWNjZjRiZjBjNTM1ZTQ1ZmU=</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Kengor</author>
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