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<title><![CDATA[Jeremy Lott - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16872.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Jeremy Lott]]></description><category domain="16872">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Why America Is Tuning Out Impeachment]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-s-impeachment-trial-being-tuned-out-america-because-no-ncna1126996</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeremy Lott</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The stock market isn't freaking out, everyone sees Washington as corrupt, and Congress is too partisan to deliver a surprising outcome.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Day of Birth, Day of Mourning]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/day-of-birth-day-of-mourning/article/2008611</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeremy Lott</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I.Lives of babies as we tend to think of them have a path, an aim that they are ultimately directed toward: a telos. The term comes to us through Aristotle, yet the experience of telos is widespread.Little Jimmy or Juan or Jiang can't walk or say one word now, but pretty soon he will...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Does Clinton Have a Blumenthal Birther Problem?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/does-clinton-have-a-blumenthal-birther-problem/article/2602090</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeremy Lott</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What did Hillary Clinton know about former aide Sidney Blumenthal's toxic anti-Obama innuendoes and when did she know it? That question emerged from a day of back-and-forth between the Republican and Democratic nominees for president Friday. GOP nominee Donald Trump is known to have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Eric Garner's Widow Is Right]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2014/12/10/eric-garners-widow-is-right-to-reject-the-race-card/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeremy Lott</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Stephen Colbert parodied conservative calls for colorblind government policies by claiming, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t see race.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' He took that statement to its unintended and ridiculous conclusion for laughs. Colbert had a friend named Alan whom he only knew to be black based on the say-so...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Sebelius Is President Obama's Rumsfeld]]></title>
							<link>http://rare.us/story/why-sebelius-is-obamas-rumsfeld/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeremy Lott</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Kathleen Sebelius is the Obama Administration'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Donald Rumsfeld, though the comparison is a little unfair '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' to Rumsfeld. He won a war and lost a peace. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s hard to say yet, as Sebelius departs the Department of Health and Human Services, exactly what she'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s won.As...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Do You Have to Do to Make Page 1?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/14/kermit_gosnell_media_abortion_trial_117943.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeremy Lott</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Gosh, who do you have to decapitate to make Page 1 around here?" That was Michael Kinsley's question his first day on the job as opinion editor of the famously stuffy Los Angeles Times in 2004.
The story went: a bum had broken into the house of an elderly Hollywood screenwriter, hacked...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Please God, Not an American Pope]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearreligion.org/articles/2013/03/08/please_god_not_an_american_pope_106661.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeremy Lott</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let me begin with a necessary admission of ignorance: I have no earthly idea who will be crowned the next pope sometime next week. But then, most of the experts who are providing commentary about the closed-door, burnt-ballot papal elections that begin in the Sistine Chapel next Monday,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[God and Man and William F. Buckley]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/william-f-buckley-against-the-world.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeremy Lott</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After the walloping Republicans took in the 2012 elections, my first printable thought was, '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'Man, where is William F. Buckley when you need him?'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' The likely answer to that question is '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'in Heaven'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' or at least well on his way through Purgatory. If he were still with us, he would turn...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Romney Chose Ryan]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/08/12/why_romney_chose_ryan_115080.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeremy Lott</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Paul Ryan for vice president." Just a few years ago, those words were practically a thought crime. To suggest that Mitt Romney, that Massachusetts mush, would ever go for the controversial Wisconsin congressman would get you laughed out of the room.
Ryan is not a tea partyer. His...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hold the Hallelujahs]]></title>
							<link>http://spectator.org/archives/2012/04/06/hold-the-hallelujahs</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeremy Lott</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If one were to travel back in time to tell most observers of the events on the original Good Friday that the day would be remembered as "good," they would have thought it a sick joke and you a madman. It was wall-to-wall awful.Judaism of the first centuries was a messiah-rejecting...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Ron Paul Win New Hampshire?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/12/19/can_ron_paul_win_new_hampshire_112436.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeremy Lott</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Unlike Mitt Romney, I am not a betting man. But if I were, I might go to Intrade right now and bet a bundle that Ron Paul will win the New Hampshire primary. The bettors there give that an 10 percent chance of happening, which would make for a pretty good payday.
Ron Paul can win New...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Can't Do Without God]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearreligion.org/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeremy Lott</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Secularizers in America have had a rough go of it. "Robert Ingersoll died yesterday. Perhaps he knows better now," mocked The Charleston News and Courier in memory of Ingersoll, the 19th century's most rabid Republican and apostle of agnosticism. Atheist firebrand Madalyn Murray O'Hair...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Martin Rees Snags the Templeton Prize]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearreligion.org/articles/2011/04/06/martin_rees_the_realclearreligion_interview_106232.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeremy Lott</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Today the Templeton Foundation announced that Cambridge cosmologist Martin Rees has won its annual Templeton Prize. Rees is author of 7 books, former president of the Royal Society, and a life peer in the House of Lords. The announcement will be followed by a formal presentation by...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Paul Revere's Revolutionary Religion]]></title>
							<link>http://www.yaliberty.org/the-original-tea-partier-paul-revere-finally-gets-his-due</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeremy Lott</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Joel Miller is a vice president at Thomas Nelson who oversees the  publisher's nonfiction line (full disclosure: that includes my new book William F. Buckley). He had written books about the drug war (Bad Trip) and overweening government (Size Matters).  For his third book, he decided to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Walter Mondale: Stagflation's Veep]]></title>
							<link>http://spectator.org/archives/2010/12/06/stagflations-veep</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeremy Lott</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Every career has a low point: a time when things go so badly that you begin to wonder, what am I doing in this line of work again? For me, that point came while I was serving as the Warren Brookes Journalism Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. On one...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Washington Senate: Can Dino Do It?]]></title>
							<link>http://spectator.org/archives/2010/10/08/can-dino-do-it</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeremy Lott</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LYNDEN, Washington -- Dino Rossi came through Washington State'sprimary on August 17 just a little more bruised than he might havehoped. Though several candidates quit the field when Rossi made hislate May announcement that he would run for Patty Murray's Senateseat, businessman Paul...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Revisiting the Contract With America]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/08/28/revisiting_the_contract_with_america_106742.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeremy Lott</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ever since the first Obama stimulus bill last year, Republicans have been dogged by charges that they are the Party of No. Critics go so far as to invite Big Lebowski-inspired mockery by calling them "nihilists." (So far nobody has followed my suggestion to form a Republican Nihilist...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Grandstanding Green Guinta in Trouble?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/07/15/granstanding_green_guinta_in_trouble_106345.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeremy Lott</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Former  Manchester, New Hampshire, Mayor Frank Guinta has been accused of  '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'granstanding'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' of late, but maybe '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'kegstanding'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' or at least  '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'flip-flopping'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' might be more to the point.
Guinta is one of several candidates running in the Republican primary  to take...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Murray Worried?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/07/15/is_murray_worried_106326-2.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeremy Lott</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Maybe now Dino Rossi can afford  some yard signs. Evergreen State Republican Senatorial hopeful  Rossi this week announced that his campaign has raised  $1.4 million in about a month to take on Senator Patty Murray.  That's serious money for such a short period of time.
Even if a good...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Hard Choices for Other People]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/07/07/obamas_hard_choices_for_other_people_106220.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeremy Lott</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At the recent G20 summit, President Barack Obama announced that next year he would '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'start presenting some very difficult choices to the country,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' and hoped that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'these folks who are hollering about deficits and debt'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' would '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'step-up.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' In any event, he was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joe Biden's Summer of Love]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/06/28/joe_bidens_summer_of_love_106124.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeremy Lott</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Joe Biden, God bless him, has been sent by the White House to spend the summer talking up the economy. The vice president's efforts may call to mind a bit of mocking verse from a Florence King poem, "We had scrapped the national anthem / To sing 'We're In Recovery,'" but his intent is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mickey Kaus's Boxer Rebellion]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/06/08/mickey_kauss_boxer_rebellion_105876.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeremy Lott</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Legendary labor leader Samuel Gompers was once asked what, exactly, organized labor was after. What was the end game? How much would be enough? Gompers answered "more." He explained "when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Chicago v. Self Defense]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/06/02/chicago_v_self_defense_105806.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeremy Lott</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Talk about your inconvenient truth. Five days after Chicago Mayor Richard Daley had held a press conference touting the benefits of the city's handgun ban by brandishing a rifle with a bayonet and -- I swear I am not making this up -- cracking a joke about shoving it up a reporter's bum,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Redistricting Away Consent]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/05/23/redistricting_away_consent_105612.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeremy Lott</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America was founded on the bedrock notion of the consent of the governed. In the past, that consent was often and easily withdrawn by the governed. Pollster Scott Rasmussen points out in his new book, In Search of Self-Governance, that high incumbency reelection rates are a recent and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Does the Future Hold for Rand and Ron?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/05/20/rand_paul_ron_paul_kentucky_senate_president_2012_105662.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeremy Lott</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Listen to Rand Paul talk and you will hear the unmistakable echoes of his father. His voice, intonation, and gestures indicate that this is the son of Rep. Ron Paul. But Tuesday night, the son pulled off a political feat that the father could never quite manage. He captured the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Searching for Self-Governance in America]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/05/11/searching_for_self-governance_in_america_105518.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeremy Lott</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In Search of Self-Governance is not the sort of book you would expect the head of a major polling firm to write. Scott Rasmussen, the president and founder of Rasmussen Reports, has written a slim volume that is admittedly "not filled with polling data," and that's putting it too mildly....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Arizona Law May Be Flawed, But Federal Remedy Will Be Worse]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/05/07/arizona_law_may_be_flawed_but_dems_federal_remedy_will_be_worse_105493.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeremy Lott</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama has declared himself deeply troubled by Arizona's new immigration enforcement bill. He warned that it "carries a great amount of risk that core values that we all care about are breached" and implied that it will lead to rampant racial profiling and God only knows...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Ron Paul Moment]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/04/20/a_ron_paul_moment_105227.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeremy Lott</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When it was announced last Sunday that Rep. Ron Paul had lost the presidential straw poll at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, many of his supporters were either livid or kicking themselves. On the Campaign for Liberty blog, Matt Collins wrote that Wilson-Research...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time to End Recess Appointments]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/04/04/time_to_end_recess_appointments_105046.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeremy Lott</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Congressional Republicans are furious over President Barack Obama's recent slate of recess appointments, but one in particular chafes. Senator John McCain called the appointment of Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'clear payback by the administration to organized...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Making - and Unmaking - of History]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/03/26/the_making_-_and_unmaking_-_of_history_104917.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeremy Lott</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nearly everybody agrees, President Barack Obama "made history" by ushering healthcare reform into law. In the New Republic, Jonathan Chait offered the admittedly "ludicrously premature opinion" that "Barack Obama has sealed his reputation as a president of great historical import."...]]></description>
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