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<title><![CDATA[E.J. Montini - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/20931.xml</link><description><![CDATA[E.J. Montini]]></description><category domain="20931">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[DOGE Should Cut Musk's Wasteful Government Handouts]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/03/03/elon-musk-doge-trump-social-security/80792856007/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>E.J. Montini</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Before slashing Social Security staff in half, Elon Musk might look at the guy who's gotten $38 billion from the government. Hint: He's in the mirror.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Is Laken Riley's Murder News but Preston Lord's Isn't?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/03/12/laken-riley-murder-trump-republicans-crime-immigration/72937892007/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>E.J. Montini</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What it boils down to, ultimately, sadly, politically, is not who the victim was but who is accused of the killing.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Constitution Should Keep Trump Off the Ballot in 2024]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2023/09/03/trump-ballot-constitution-14th-amendment-disqualification/70727564007/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>E.J. Montini</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Some are challenging former President Donald Trump's eligibility to appear on the ballot in some states, pointing to Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We're Stuck on Biden's Inflation Roller Coaster]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/bidens-inflation-roller-coaster-isnt-stopping-yet-opinion-1820650</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>E.J. Montini</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Inflation accelerated last month, just ahead of the one-year anniversary of the deceptively named Inflation Reduction Act.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Calling BS on Sinema's Bogus Outrage]]></title>
							<link>https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2021/10/03/kyrsten-sinemas-outrage-stalled-infrastructure-bill-bs/5976429001/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>E.J. Montini</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Come on. Politicians in Washington, D.C., play hardball. She knows it. She DOES it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Arizona Dems Would Be Idiots to Censure Sinema]]></title>
							<link>https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2019/09/17/censure-kyrsten-sinema-democrats-would-dopes-do/2356599001/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>E.J. Montini</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Having a pragmatist in their midst isn't something Arizona Democrats should lament. It's something to celebrate.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Harvard Is Correct to Dump Kyle Kashuv]]></title>
							<link>https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2019/06/17/harvard-should-have-dumped-kyle-kashuv/1479950001/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>E.J. Montini</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If this was any other young person this wouldn't be news and we wouldn't be giving it a second thought.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[NFL Owners Are Cowards, Not Patriots]]></title>
							<link>https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2018/05/23/nfl-anthem-rules-protest-policy-chris-long/639610002/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>E.J. Montini</author>
							<description><![CDATA[NFL owners are not protecting the national anthem or the flag. They're protecting themselves from a tweet by the president.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Praise of What Donald Trump Calls 'S'&#'.ord('*').';''&#'.ord('*').';''&#'.ord('*').';'Hole Countries']]></title>
							<link>https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2018/01/11/praise-what-donald-trump-calls-s-hole-countries/1027309001/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>E.J. Montini</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At one time or another, just about any place from which anyone has emigrated to America has been referred to as'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' what Donald Trump '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' the sitting president of the United States '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' referred to as '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'shithole countries.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[McCain Calls Trump a Phony &amp; a Punk (in a Nice Way)]]></title>
							<link>http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2017/10/17/mccain-calls-trump-punk-in-nice-way/771885001/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>E.J. Montini</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sen. John McCain called President Donald Trump a phony and a punk on Monday night. Only he did so with grace and eloquence, speaking like a statesman in a language the president does not understand.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Does ESPN Have a Racial Double Standard?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2017/09/13/espn-racial-double-standard-jemele-hill-curt-shilling/661258001/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>E.J. Montini</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Every American has the right to speak his or her mind, and that would include the hosts and commentators on ESPN.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mom Flies In for Surprise Visit, 20 Years Later]]></title>
							<link>http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2017/05/14/montini-mom-flies-surprise-visit-after-20-years/320443001/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>E.J. Montini</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Did We Become Trolls?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2017/03/04/montini-when-did-we-become-trolls/98701034/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>E.J. Montini</author>
							<description><![CDATA[EJ Montini: The sad need to hide behind pseudonyms and computer avatars.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Killing Cecil Turned Hunter Into Hunted. Good]]></title>
							<link>http://www.azcentral.com/story/ejmontini/2015/07/29/cecil-the-lion-zimbabwe-walter-palmer-minnesota-dentist-jimmy-kimmel/30834619/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>E.J. Montini</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where are the Promised Border Troops?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2010/06/20/20100620border-troops-montini.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>E.J. Montini</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So where are the troops?Last month, President Barack Obama promised to deploy 1,200 National Guard troops to the Southwest border.Sen. John McCain said that 1,200 was "not good enough" and got the Senate Armed Services Committee to approve 6,000 troops. At least that is what we are being...]]></description>
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