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<title><![CDATA[Matt Labash - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/17240.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Matt Labash]]></description><category domain="17240">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[How the News Is Destroying Us]]></title>
							<link>https://mattlabash.substack.com/p/anger-management?s=r</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Labash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In my defense, I am half-Sicilian. One of my great grandfathers hailed from Corleone - Godfather country. So by blood and temperament, grudge-holding and revenge culture come naturally to me.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[P. J. O'Rourke, 1947-2022]]></title>
							<link>https://mattlabash.substack.com/p/p-j-orourke-1947-2022?r=16zgq&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=email</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Labash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This past Tuesday morning, the news broke hard and cruel that another of the good guys had left us. Though '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'good'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' guy is a sinful understatement in the case of P.J. O'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'Rourke. He was the best guy. Anyone who knew him would readily admit this, even if hating to do so while...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Unemployed Fishing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.drakemag.com/back-issues/2019/summer/2032-unemployed-fishing.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Labash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This past December, I received an unwelcome holiday surprise. Our corporate overlords rounded up the staff at the magazine where I've worked since its inception, twenty-three and a half years prior, to announce our new direction]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Meet America's Preeminent Right-Wing Guerrilla Street Artist]]></title>
							<link>https://www.weeklystandard.com/matt-labash/meet-sabo-americas-preeminent-right-wing-guerrilla-street-artist</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Labash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Street artist Sabo may just be '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'some guy who lives in some dump,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' but he is taking on and taking down the likes of Jimmy Kimmel and Meryl Streep]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Book That Ate Washington]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-book-that-ate-washington/article/2011125</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Labash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Like any dutiful Washington swamp creature, I've spent the last few days holed up with Fire and Fury. Which is not, if you've been in news-cycle hibernation, the new fragrance from Ivanka. Rather, it is a book by Michael Wolff about life inside Mar-a-Lago North, aka the Trump White...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Beating in Berkeley]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/a-beating-in-berkeley/article/2009498</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Labash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BerkeleyAs white supremacists go, Joey Gibson makes for a lousy one. For starters, he's half Japanese. I don't feel like I'm Caucasian at all, he says. Not to be a stickler for the rules, but this kind of talk could get you sent to Master Race remedial school.And it gets worse. The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Defense of Cigarettes]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/in-defense-of-cigarettes/article/2009188</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Labash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Have a question for Matt Labash? Ask him at askmattlabash@gmail.com or click here.Dear Matt,I had this thought that America was more civil when everyone smoked. You learned from an early age that people will do something you don't like but there wasn't much you could do other than walk...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Valentine's Day: A Dissent]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/valentines-day-a-dissent/article/2006813</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Labash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Have a question for Matt Labash? Ask him at askmattlabash@gmail.com or click here.Dear Matt,What do you think about Valentine's Day?Cheers,AmandaLike most American males, I try not to think about Valentine's Day. At least not until it's on me, like a tax deadline or microvascular...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Debriefing Mike Murphy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/debriefing-mike-murphy/article/2001632/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=t.co&amp;utm_campaign=20160318_TWS-blog-mike-murphy-3_twitter&amp;utm_content=TWS</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Labash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Los AngelesOn a pleasant Super Tuesday afternoon '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? one of 10 or 11 Super Tuesdays we seem to be having this March '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? I am standing in the bloated carcass of that much-maligned beast known as The Establishment. In the unmarked suite of a generic mid-Wilshire office building (The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nine Tales of Trump at His Trumpiest]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/nine-tales-of-trump-at-his-trumpiest/article/2000697</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Labash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's that magical time in the presidential cycle again, when all the preelection year'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??s wild conjecture, clueless handicapping, and abject foolishness has ended, so that the election year's wild conjecture, clueless handicapping, and abject foolishness can begin. It's that time when...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Growing Old Without Growing Up]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/growing-old-without-growing-up/article/2000379</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Labash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sanger, Calif.On this late October day, as I wheel into the Wonder Valley Ranch Resort nestled in the foothills of the spellbinding if drought-scorched Sierras, I'm struck by the notion that it's a bit late in the season to be going to a summer camp for adults. But then, it would seem a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Keep it Moving, No Islamists to See Here]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/terrorism-has-no-religion_1063958.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Labash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As a committed, long-standing Twitter detractor, I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve exhaustively bashed the social networking site for all imaginable crimes, and even unimaginable ones. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' But through the gift of hindsight, I admit giving Twitter short-shrift in one department: it tends to work like they say old...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Crossing the Microaggressions Minefield]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/cocked-fist-culture_1035805.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Labash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t take this the wrong way, but are you offended? I know I haven'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t said anything yet, but it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s never too early to be aggrieved. Studies I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve invented, since we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re all entitled to our own facts these days, show that 4 out of 10 Americans are offended by...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Transjennered America]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/transjennered-america_964980.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Labash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For as long as I can remember, I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve been ignoring Bruce Jenner. As a child of the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'70s, I ignored him in the cereal aisle, where his Olympic-champion mug couldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t entice me to pick his terminally bland Wheaties over more healthful Sugar Smacks. I ignored him in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[James Traficant, 1941-2014]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/james-traficant-1941-2014_806245.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Labash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s the matter with Kansas? It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a decade since Thomas Frank launched a thousand headlines with his book of that title, itself a reference to a famous 1896 essay by Kansas journalist William Allen White. Frank'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s thesis was simple: Kansans, and by extension the rest of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Through a Google Glass, Darkly]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/through-google-glass-darkly_787020.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Labash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The first time I saw someone wearing Google Glass in the wild, I was standing at a friend'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s party at South by Southwest Interactive in Austin'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the place where the tech world gathers each year to gleefully discover what next big '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'innovation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' will eventually displace...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hard Sell: Going Door-to-Door for Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/hard-sell_769096.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Labash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Standing here on the streets of Hollywood with two comely Obamacare cheerleaders by my side, I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m feeling fired up and ready to go. I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m feeling like the change I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve been waiting for. I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m feeling like whatever Obama clich'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('©').';' you can think of. And all I want to say,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Hitchless World]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/hitchless-world_613396.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Labash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No secrets are being divulged when I report that Christopher Hitchens liked a drink every now and then. Preferably now. He wasn'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'t sloppy about it. In fact, he always seemed in perfect control. (I once saw him steer a beach bike through the streets of Key West without spilling his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Semper Fly: Fishing With Wounded Warriors]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/semper-fly_574087.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Labash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nearly every fly fisherman I know is a celebrator of the absurd. You  have to be to spend years of your life standing in cold water, flogging  it endlessly with a plastic stick, hoping to outsmart a fish with a  chickpea-sized brain by duping it with feather and fur. If you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Living Like A Liberal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/living-liberal</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Labash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This is a story about living the good life. Or not the good life,  exactly, in the Italian, dolce vita understanding of the term.  It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s more about living the better life, a comparative way of  living. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s about living better than I was before, living better than I  once...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Adventures of Low Impact Man]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/017/244kzbgg.asp</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Labash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Increase Font SizePrinter-FriendlyEmail a FriendRespond to this articleRemember that old Mac Davis song, "Oh Lord, it&#39;s hard to be humble"? I was ten at the time of its release in 1980. I didn&#39;t understand it. But I hadn&#39;t yet planted my flag on the summit of major...]]></description>
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