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							<title><![CDATA[Bannon Is Not the Imaginary Hobgoblin as Portrayed]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/steve-bannon-is-not-the-imaginary-hobgoblin-portrayed-by-the-media-elite/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Benko</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The elite media is currently awash with fascinated hogwash about Steve Bannon, President Trump&rsquo;s White House strategist. Time magazine devotes its current cover to an intentionally unflattering cover photo of and snarky cover headline about him. Time is joining the elite media...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Boehner Checkmate President Obama?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphbenko/2014/07/25/faithful-john-boehner-to-faithless-barack-obama-checkmate/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Benko</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is a quiet gap in the U.S. Constitution. There is no explicit mechanism to discipline a president who fails to carry out his Constitutional duties. This gap sat there, barely noticed, for centuries. Barack Obama, apparently, noticed it. He is exploiting it. That exploitation is a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Krugman Leaving Princeton in Quiet Disgrace?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphbenko/2014/07/14/is-paul-krugman-leaving-princeton-in-quiet-disgrace/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Benko</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Professor Paul Krugman is leaving Princeton.  Is he leaving in disgrace?Not long, as these things go, before his departure was announced Krugman thoroughly was indicted and publicly eviscerated for intellectual dishonesty by Harvard&rsquo;s Niall Ferguson in a hard-hitting three-part...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[McConnell Preps to Give Dems Political Shellacking]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphbenko/2013/04/01/mitch-mcconnell-prepares-to-give-barack-obama-the-political-shellacking-of-a-lifetime/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Benko</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Coming up next: a political Battle of Armageddon over repealing Obamacare.  The Republicans are attempting to take the majority in the Senate.  The Democrats ambitiously wish to take the majority in the House.  All hangs on about two dozen races. Winning these races is not the main...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Romney's Loss Clears Way for Return of Reaganites]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphbenko/2012/11/12/the-end-of-the-karl-rove-death-grip-signals-a-reagan-renaissance/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Benko</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Liberals do not grasp the distinction between Ronald Reagan and (either) George Bush.   This blind spot creates a massive confusion and hazard to their ambitions. Obama defeated neither the Reagan Narrative nor Team Reagan.  Team Bush appropriated, and then marginalized, both.  Obama...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Advocating Gold Standard a 2012 Game-Changer]]></title>
							<link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/blom_benko_advocating_gold_standard_could_change_outcome_of_2012-211309-1.html?pos=oopih</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Benko</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Scott Rasmussen, in October, polled 1,000 voters on gold and found it popular, especially if characterized as a way to constrain big government and big banks.In November, American Principles in Action commissioned the Polling Company to drill deeper into the implications for the early...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Gingrich Represents a Dramatic Shift]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphbenko/2011/12/12/gingrich-vs-obama-american-exceptionalism-vs-the-reconquest-of-america-by-europe/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Benko</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Political professionals sometimes speak of &hellip; &ldquo;the mood of the electorate.&rdquo;  This subtle force goes beyond ideology, policy and even character. The ability to read and respond to the public&rsquo;s mood often represents the difference between winning and losing.The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Constitutional Populist Realignment of 2012]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphbenko/2011/08/22/the-constitutional-populist-realignment-of-2012/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Benko</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How to create tens of millions of jobs, good jobs? Much hinges on the answer to this question. Long gone are the golden Reagan-Clinton years that saw almost 40 million new positions created.  In the decade since Clinton left office America created a paltry 3 million under George W. Bush,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Schramm's Law: The Key to Restoring Growth]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/OpEd-Contributor/Schramms-Law-reveals-key-to-restoring-Americas-economic-growth-107034974.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Benko</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Economist  Dr. Arthur Laffer&rsquo;s famous curve provided an earlier era with the  recipe for prosperity. It was a simple, irrefutable, axiom, showing that  too high tax rates, by throttling economic activity, would stifle  government revenue. (President Kennedy made the identical...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Small &quot;r&quot; Republicans Against Elitist Dems]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/OpEd-Contributor/Ralph-Benko--88954692.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ralph Benko</author>
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