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<title><![CDATA[Barton Hinkle - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/19885.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Barton Hinkle]]></description><category domain="19885">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Now They're Coming for People's Knives. No, Really.]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You'd better sit down for this one.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are You a Russian Troll? Take This Quiz and Find Out!]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The federal indictments special counsel Robert Mueller handed down a few days ago confirmed that Russian agents did, indeed, use social media to interfere with the 2016 presidential election &#195;&#162;??]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Worst Monopoly of All: Government]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Barton Hinkle</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Seems Money in Politics Isn't So Bad--When Dems Win]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Political experts have cited many reasons for Democrat Ralph Northam's huge win in Tuesday's elections. Credit has gone to the state's changing demographics. And to high voter turnout. And to]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Americans Agree More Than They Might Realize]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Some days, it can seem as if half the country has come down with rabies. A lot of people seem willing to tear your head off over the smallest thing.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The One Thing the Federal Govt Never Wastes]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barton Hinkle</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Gives Censors Any Right to Censor?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The racist goons in Charlottesville have inspired a fresh debate over whether the government should allow speech by racists, goons, and assorted other troglodytes. For some, the answer is clearly no. &ldquo;The ACLU Needs to Rethink Free Speech,&rdquo; argues a fellow with the UCLA...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Venezuela Descends Into Predictable Dictatorship]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A thousand gleeful obituaries have been written for]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Alien's Perspective on the Decline &amp; Fall of America]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No study of ancient Tellurian civilization can be complete without an examination of political philosophy, for the Tellurians (a/k/a]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Much More to a Job Than Just Making Money]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barton Hinkle</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Do We Mean When We Discuss Equality?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tom Perriello, the Democrats' insurgent candidate for governor, excites the liberal base of the party because he &#195;&#162;?? like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, who have both endorsed him &#195;&#162;??]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Just What America Needs: A Govt Truth Squad]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If there's one thing this country needs, it's a Ministry of Truth. Just ask California lawmakers.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Try Making the Case for (&amp; Against) Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.richmond.com/opinion/our-opinion/bart-hinkle/article_86ee78b9-0908-5dad-96e1-ccee5bd060c6.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Replace Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.richmond.com/opinion/our-opinion/bart-hinkle/article_da7198b4-38a0-50b5-bbff-70a300d869ef.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You can't swing a dead cat these days without hitting someone who has made fun of congressional Republicans for not having a plan to replace Obamacare. And the critics are right: Republicans don't have a plan. They have a whole bunch of plans. House Speaker Paul Ryan has one. Ted Cruz...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Liberal Postmortem Is Not Going Well]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's been two weeks and counting since the larbord side of the country lost a can't-lose election to the worst presidential nominee in American history. Since then, in between the cry-ins and riots, liberals have paused to catch their breath and ask how it could have happened. The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Answer to Obamacare's Woes Isn't More Govt Meddling]]></title>
							<link>http://www.richmond.com/opinion/our-opinion/bart-hinkle/article_eb8f1707-709c-536c-b424-622a14a8ce21.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The troubles besetting Obamacare include the cost of Medicaid expansion, which has blown past projections on both the individual and state-government level. Another ailment: the withdrawal of several major insurance companies from state marketplaces, driven by a lack of individual...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[High Court Delivers Bitter Pill on Religious Freedom]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Should a pharmacy whose owners have moral objections to the death penalty be required to provide execution drugs? The liberal justices of the Supreme Court apparently think so.In one of its last orders of the term, the high court refused to hear a casebrought by a family-owned drugstore...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump &amp; the Sotomayor Defense]]></title>
							<link>http://www.richmond.com/opinion/our-opinion/bart-hinkle/article_e51856f8-3201-5460-b1e8-569f4a5f2d49.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Vindication for a Virginia Gun-Rights Group]]></title>
							<link>http://www.richmond.com/opinion/our-opinion/bart-hinkle/article_05836593-14bb-50d1-9466-96873ecadf4c.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Once in a while the little guys win &mdash; as the Virginia Citizens Defense League did recently. The gun-rights group has achieved a measure of vindication after a Katie Couric documentary about guns tried to make it look bad. Biased coverage of controversial topics, including guns and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[None Dare Call It Treason]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/archives/2016/02/08/none-dare-call-it-treason</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Few might remember it now, but there was a time when certain members of George W. Bush's administration were denounced as traitors. Virginia's current governor, Terry McAuliffe, was among the denouncers. Back then&mdash;in 2004&mdash;McAuliffe headed up the Democratic National Committee....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Left's Religion Schizophrenia]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Based on recent events, the emerging progressive consensus seems to hold that religious beliefs should be forbidden in the public square, except in those cases where they should be mandatory.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Campaign Finance: Why Exempt the Media?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The New York Times has been roundly and deservedly mocked for its shocking expose of Marco Rubio&rsquo;s run-ins with the law. According to the story, the Florida senator and his wife have &ldquo;had a combined 17 citations&rdquo; for traffic violations over the past two decades. A...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who's Looking for Tyrell?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barton Hinkle</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The New Book-Banners]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Justice Anthony Kennedy: Well, suppose it were an advocacy organization that had a book. Your position is that under the Constitution . . . the book itself could be prohibited.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Handouts Corrupt All Governors]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The defense of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell is actually an indictment &mdash; of him, and Virginia politics generally.The prosecution wants to show that Jonnie Williams, the nutritional-supplement salesman who showered McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, with money and pricey gifts,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democratic Shift to the Left]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barton Hinkle</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Mandates for Doctors Come Next?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barton Hinkle</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Survive Supreme Court Hysteria]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barton Hinkle</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[IRS Scandal Implicates Dems]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barton Hinkle</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Progressive Mirage Has Faded]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/02/06/obamas_progressive_mirage_has_faded_121489.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Barton Hinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Progressive America is crestfallen. It had hoped for better things from President Obama, and he has not delivered.
Obama is the &ldquo;Inaction Hero,&rdquo; writes John Dickerson in Slate, who detects a &ldquo;lack of ardor&rdquo; in the Oval Office. He laments that &ldquo;the president...]]></description>
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