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<title><![CDATA[Mary Katharine Ham - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/19159.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Mary Katharine Ham]]></description><category domain="19159">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[End of the Platner Saga?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/07/09/rcp_podcast_trump_vs_smithsonian.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Katharine Ham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Thursday, July 9th on RealClearPolitics - Joined by Fox News Contributor Mary Katharine Ham and RCP White House Reporter Carolina Lumetta]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Platner's 'Nazi Salute' &amp; Media Double Standards]]></title>
							<link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R4oxSGVWI8&amp;t=1742s</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Katharine Ham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Monday, April 20th on RealClearPolitics - Joined by Fox News Contributor Mary Katharine Ham]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Has a Massive MAHA Opportunity in 2026]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/mary-katharine-ham-republicans-huge-maha-opportunity-2026-dont-blow</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Katharine Ham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The MAHA movement gives Republicans a chance to win suburban moms in 2026 midterms by focusing on food quality, screen time and health transparency.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Picture From the Last Time My Birthday Fell on Easter]]></title>
							<link>https://x.com/mkhammer/status/2040974141344387547</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Katharine Ham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was not a great day for me. I fought back tears at church, and not in the overwhelmed-by God's-great-mercy way. Little did I know at the time, my year was going to take much worse turns.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Public Supports WH Legally Removing Illegal Aliens]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/06/08/mary_katherine_ham_the_american_people_support_the_trump_wh_legally_removing_illegals_aliens.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Katharine Ham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The question is that rioters are not protesters, this is separate from a First Amendment issue. There are explosives going off and rocks and other incendiaries are being thrown at officers, people blocking roadways. That is not protest activity.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Teachers Union Bosses Put Themselves Before Students]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/mary-katharine-ham-teachers-union-bosses-put-themselves-first-teachers-students-last</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Katharine Ham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Teachers unions are out for themselves and not out to help your children. FDR warned Americans against public employee unions and we learned how bad it could get during COVID-19.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[&lsquo;Independent Contractor&rsquo; Rule Latest Dumpster Fire Exported From California]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/01/29/independent_contractor_rule_latest_dumpster_fire_exported_from_california.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Katharine Ham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[California is known for many things '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' beautiful scenery, surfing, wine, movies, singing raisins. But perhaps its biggest exports now are its failed public policies and the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' hundreds of thousands'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' of'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' people leaving the state'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' because they cannot live with those policies.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Case Against the Thanksgiving Dinner Fight]]></title>
							<link>https://thespectator.com/topic/case-against-thanksgiving-dinner-fight-family/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Katharine Ham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A life consumed by politics leaves little room for a family meal, let alone a borough-wide pizza party. Where some see community, others see]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Consequences for Israel-Hating College Kids]]></title>
							<link>https://www.outkick.com/israel-hating-college-kids-cancel-culture/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Katharine Ham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Israel-hating college students shouldn't be victims of cancel culture, at least not before having a chance to realize their missteps.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Maui, Government Failure, Incompetence on Display]]></title>
							<link>https://www.outkick.com/in-maui-were-the-government-and-were-here-to-help-was-as-terrifying-and-tragic-as-ever-mary-katherine-ham/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Katharine Ham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The people of Lahaina got a string of very basic failures and near-criminal incompetence from those in charge during the deadly wildfire.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Weak Economy Is Top Concern for Voters]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/its-economy-stupid-again-gop-candidates-give-voters-what-they-want-opinion-1821898</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Katharine Ham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here's a hint for GOP candidates vying for attention on a stage with eight candidates tonight: Give the voters what they want.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Must Talk About the Daughter the Bidens Reject]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/we-need-talk-about-daughter-bidens-reject</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Katharine Ham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A judge ordered Hunter Biden to take a paternity test, which confirmed the child is his.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Women Are Shutting Down Debate on Trans Athletes]]></title>
							<link>https://www.outkick.com/women-are-shutting-down-debate-on-trans-athletes-and-it-must-stop-mary-katharine-ham/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Katharine Ham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The trans athlete debate needs to continue. And it's women who need to lead the charge, rather than shutting down the truth.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Won the Debt Standoff?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/06/01/who_won_the_debt_standoff_the_bud_light_boycott_and_is_chris_christie_on_a_kamikaze_mission.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Katharine Ham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mary Katharine Ham, writer at Outkick and host of the "Getting Hammered" podcast, and Joe Concha, Fox News contributor and columnist for The Messenger, join RealClearPolitics president and cofounder Tom Bevan and moderator Andrew Walworth on today's RCP Takeaway podcast.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Failure of Journalism Across Most of Sports Media]]></title>
							<link>https://www.outkick.com/matt-araiza-rape-failure-journalism-sports-media-mary-katharine-ham/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Katharine Ham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Matt Araiza fought allegations in three different courts'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' the court of public opinion, criminal and civil arenas.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Fauci Helped Teacher Unions Ruin Kids' Lives]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2023/04/26/randi-weingarten-ruined-kids-lives-but-she-refuses-to-apologize-for-not-following-the-science/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Katharine Ham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Being a powerful advocate of draconian and ineffective COVID responses that hurt Americans means never having to say you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re sorry.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Media Makes Musk a Villain But Lets SBF Off Easy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/why-the-media-makes-musk-a-villain-but-lets-sbf-off-easy/ar-AA14Si0z?ocid=EMMX&amp;cvid=fe4b91314d79435aa44f5ac3d79484db</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Katharine Ham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Sam Bankman-Fried sat down with George Stephanopoulos for a Good Morning America interview this week in his signature t-shirt, it wasn't the first national news appearance the disgraced former crypto wunderkind had given. Since losing tens of billions of dollars in his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Age of Quiet Quitting, CNN Quiet-Suspended Me]]></title>
							<link>https://mkhammer.substack.com/p/in-the-age-of-quiet-quitting-i-was?dg</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://mkhammer.substack.com/p/in-the-age-of-quiet-quitting-i-was?dg]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Katharine Ham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Toobin's wake, professionalism, and the lessons I thought we learned in #MeToo]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Teachers Unions Can't Paper Over Their Failures]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/teachers-unions-are-why-more-parents-want-school-choice/ar-AAZETnt</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Katharine Ham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In August 2021, after area schools had been closed for at least a year, the head of United Teachers Los Angeles, Cecily Myart-Cruz, infamously ruminated on the unique learning experience school closings had given L.A. students.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems' Support for School Closings Comes Back To Bite]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/12/opinions/democrats-problem-parent-voters-education-midterms-ham/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Katharine Ham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, people don't believe me when I say the schools in much of the U.S. were closed for a year. If you didn't see it up close, it would seem absurd, even impossible.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kids Shouldn't Have to Be 'Resilient']]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/kids-shouldnt-have-to-be-resilient/ar-AAT7l2i</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Katharine Ham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Every day, parents have a choice between fear and carrying on.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Carlson Wise to Skip Apology to Speech Police]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/03/14/tucker-carlson-tapes-bubba-love-sponge-apologize-media-matters-column/3164475002/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Katharine Ham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tucker Carlson is not a victim because he refused to act that part, and for that reason he still has his job. Instead, he outlined the outrage cycle.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[7 Reasons Trump Should Pardon Martha Stewart]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2018/04/26/seven-reasons-donald-trump-should-pardon-martha-stewart/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://thefederalist.com/2018/04/26/seven-reasons-donald-trump-should-pardon-martha-stewart/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Katharine Ham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At every turn in the case, she defied the stereotype of a rich celebrity getting special treatment. For that alone, she should officially be forgiven.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Equal Pay Hype Ignores Facts, Women's Feelings]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2018/04/10/equal-pay-day-hype-ignores-the-facts-and-womens-feelings-about-the-workplace/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Katharine Ham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Equal Pay Day can't credibly examine wage gaps while ignoring the choices women make with open eyes and their own best interests at heart.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Media's Credibility Problem Didn't Start With Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2017/12/07/repairing-media-mistrust-means-understanding-it-didnt-start-with-trumps-attacks/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Katharine Ham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This problem did not appear in 2015 when a real estate magnate descended an escalator. The descent began decades ago. The good news is, accountability matters, even to those who trust media least.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Should Get Credit for Bringing Americans Home]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2017/11/16/trump-is-right-he-should-get-credit-for-bringing-imprisoned-americans-home/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Katharine Ham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Three University of California at Los Angeles basketball players are back home in the United States today after being detained for about a week in China for alleged shoplifting. President Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s intervention on their behalf with Chinese President Xi Jinping led to their...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[15 Years Later: 'Sweet Home Alabama's' Baby in a Bar]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2017/10/05/fifteen-years-later-sweet-home-alabamas-baby-in-a-bar-is-a-lifestyle-not-a-laugh-line/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://thefederalist.com/2017/10/05/fifteen-years-later-sweet-home-alabamas-baby-in-a-bar-is-a-lifestyle-not-a-laugh-line/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Katharine Ham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In this classic rom-com romp, Southern belle turned Manhattanite fashionista Melanie Carmichael (Witherspoon) has it all. She'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s just debuted a buzzy fashion line burdened with early-2000s trends to much acclaim. She has a fabulous gay mentor, a cosmopolitan girlfriend with a British...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[After My Husband's Death, Stewarding the Light He Left Us]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2017/09/19/after-husbands-death-stewarding-light-left-behind/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://thefederalist.com/2017/09/19/after-husbands-death-stewarding-light-left-behind/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Katharine Ham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the weeks after Jake died, letters and cards flooded in from friends and strangers alike. With each card'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s arrival, I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d edge open the envelope in a stunned sort of sadness. I sat over the rough-hewn, wooden dining room table we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d picked out together just months before...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[J.J. Watt's $30M Harvey Haul Is Everything Great About U.S.]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2017/09/08/j-j-watts-30-million-harvey-haul-is-everything-great-about-america-the-internet-and-football/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Katharine Ham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[J.J. Watt has raised, technically speaking,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' a mind-blowing amount of money since he started an online fundraising campaign'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' for Hurricane Harvey victims the week the storm hit. Watt has raised so much money so quickly, I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m hesitant to put an exact number in this story as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lena Dunham's Creepy Bullying of 2 Flight Attendants]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2017/08/04/lena-dunham-reporting-people-to-authorities-for-disagreeing-with-you-is-creepy-bullying-not-heroism/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://thefederalist.com/2017/08/04/lena-dunham-reporting-people-to-authorities-for-disagreeing-with-you-is-creepy-bullying-not-heroism/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mary Katharine Ham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This week, famous millennial journaler Lena Dunham was strolling through an airport eavesdropping on a couple of flight attendants. There she was, just a right-thinking individual with fluency in approved language and a desire for a kind and compassionate society, when she heard a...]]></description>
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