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							<title><![CDATA[Is a Tariff a Tax?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/17/is_a_tariff_a_tax_153537.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Samuelson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Many Americans have forgotten that this question, which has been in the news lately, was fundamental to the American Revolution. And among American Patriots, or Whigs, meaning those who supported the colonists'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' claims against Parliament, there was almost universal consensus that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Born American? A Look at 'Birthright Citizenship']]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/02/23/born_american_a_look_at_birthright_citizenship_152403.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Samuelson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Our political class is aflame, and our lawyer-ocracy is up in arms over President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s executive order limiting the scope of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'birthright'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' (or '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'soil-based'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';') citizenship to children of permanent legal residents. Children born to tourists, students from other...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our First Insurrection? The Boston Tea Party at 250]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/12/16/our_first_insurrection_the_boston_tea_party_at_250_150208.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Samuelson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On the evening of December 16, 1773, 250 years ago today, New England colonists disguised as Native Americans calmly boarded three ships in Boston Harbor and dumped 90,000 pounds of tea overboard.
By 1773, the Americans had been pushing back against Parliament'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s efforts to tax the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Woke Support Hamas]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/10/14/why_the_woke_support_hamas_149903.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Samuelson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the wake of the barbaric attack on Israel, many Americans have been shocked, angered, and disgusted to see woke organizations express anything other than condemnation for Hamas. On campuses and in our communities, students and organizations like Black Lives Matter have expressed...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Donald Trump Get a Fair Trial in Washington, D.C.?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/08/08/can_donald_trump_get_a_fair_trial_in_washington_dc_149589.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Samuelson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump is now under indictment in the federal capital on charges alleging that he tried to obstruct the 2020 election. The trial will take place in Washington, D.C. Is that reasonable? From a partisan perspective, of course, the District leans heavily Democrat, and Trump is a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[After Affirmative Action]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/02/15/after_affirmative_action_148865.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Samuelson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The betting odds are that the Supreme Court will soon rule against affirmative action. It is worth asking how we got here, and what we should do about it.
Why is affirmative action in jeopardy? The main reason, ironically, might be the increasing ethnic diversity of the United States. In...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Should Slavery, Jim Crow &amp; Racism Be Taught in Schools?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/07/20/how_should_slavery_jim_crow__racism_be_taught_in_schools.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Samuelson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How should we teach Americans about race in our schools?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  In my Colonial history classes I have had much success teaching Edmund Morgan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'American Slavery, American Freedom.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' The book is aging, but it still provides a good introduction as it shows how the Colony first...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Beware Ad Homonyms]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/09/22/beware_ad_homonyms_144261.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Samuelson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the late 1990s, as a graduate student in history, I had the good fortune of serving as a teacher'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s assistant to Julian Bond. Bond was a gentlemanly presence in the history department at the University of Virginia. He was also an excellent teacher, and the class he taught every...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cancel the New York Times?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Samuelson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Left'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s cultural revolution is in one of its periodic Jacobin phases: statues defaced, beheaded, burned, and torn down; streets and schools and other things renamed; public spaces occupied by gun-wielding thugs. The iconoclasm has spread from attacks on Confederate monuments to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fighting Spirit of the Declaration]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-fighting-spirit-of-the-declaration/article/2003118</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Samuelson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[According to legend, John Hancock signed the Declaration of Independence with a signature so large that the King of England could see it without his spectacles. That bit of bravado has long been a staple of American history classes. I must have heard it several times growing up, and even...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Party Like It's 1773?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/02/17/party_like_its_1773.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Samuelson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Are this year's "tea parties" really tea parties?  What could today's protesters have in common with the "Indians" who dumped 90,000 pounds of tea in Boston harbor in 1773?  Quite a bit, actually.
What do today's tea partiers want? According to the Christian Science Monitor, the movement...]]></description>
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