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<title><![CDATA[Ben Boychuk - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/21300.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Ben Boychuk]]></description><category domain="21300">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Pardon Steve Baker and the Nonviolent J6 Defendants]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/mr-president-pardon-steve-baker-and-the-nonviolent-j6-defendants-on-day-1</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Boychuk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump promised repeatedly to pardon hundreds of people caught up in the events of January 6, 2021. For those who marched peacefully through the Capitol, it's time for the nightmare to end.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[All That Matters Is Harris Loses]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/all-that-matters-is-kamala-loses</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Boychuk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump may overpromise and underdeliver, but a Harris administration would do grave damage to the country. We can't let her win.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When the Protectors Fail To Protect]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2022/05/28/no-duty-to-protect/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Boychuk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After what happened in Uvalde, why on earth would anyone give up their weapons and trust to police to do anything?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nobody Is Coming to Save California]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2021/09/15/nobody-is-coming-to-save-california/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Boychuk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The lesson of the recall election: A solid plurality of Californians is OK with the status quo.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Newsom's in Trouble in California]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2021/07/31/californias-covid-recall/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Boychuk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Governor Gavin Newsom may be in greater danger than Democrats think. He has only himself'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and his hypocritical mask and lockdown policies'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'to blame.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Republic, Not a Giant H.R. Department]]></title>
							<link>https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/ben-boychuk/article225317980.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Boychuk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Schultz says he won't run for president unless I think I can win. Whether he can win or not, he should not run if he doesn't understand that governing a country is not the same as building a successful Fortune 500 company.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Romney Wrong About the President &amp; the Presidency]]></title>
							<link>https://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article223850775.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Boychuk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mitt Romney is auditioning to be the conscience of the Republican Party and a leading critic of Trump. But his appeals to decency ring hollow from a politician who made his fortune dismantling companies and putting Americans out of work.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Obama Is Great for Republicans]]></title>
							<link>https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article218285730.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Boychuk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama is back on the campaign trail, reminding Americans not only why Donald Trump rather than Hillary Clinton sits in the Oval Office but also why Democrats' hopes for a blue wave in the Nov. 6, 2018 election might be overblown.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who's Really Lying About Climate Change?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/ben-boychuk/article164013842.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Boychuk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One can accept that the climate is changing and disagree over the remedies. Schwarzenegger, Brown and their climate co-religionists should stop misleading people and stop insisting there is only one answer to climate change.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Feinstein vs. Gorsuch, Originalism Wins]]></title>
							<link>http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/article140400028.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Boychuk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Neil Gorsuch is no Robert Bork'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??to the great chagrin of the Senate Democrats who are trying to block his confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court. Thirty years ago, Senate Democrats derailed Bork's nomination, claiming the judge's judicial philosophy of judicial restraint was well...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Advance the Greatness Agenda]]></title>
							<link>http://amgreatness.com/2016/11/16/how-to-advance-the-greatness-agenda-a-post-election-symposium/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Boychuk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the wake of Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s victory in the presidential contest of 2016, there are far too many postmortems seeking to explain the question, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'How did this happen?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Though many of us at American Greatness were pleasantly surprised by the extent of Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s victory, we...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Trump Will Win the White House]]></title>
							<link>http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/ben-boychuk/article81455472.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Boychuk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump will win the 2016 presidential election.Not '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'might'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' win. Not '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'could win under the following circumstances.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' He'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s going to win as surely as the sun rises in the east, as certainly as high tide follows low, and as definitively as Steph Curry laid waste...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Mighty Wind: Texas vs. California]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2013/cjc0219bb.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Boychuk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, Texas governor Rick Perry came to California to talk about doing business in the Lone Star State. A dismissive Jerry Brown wanted to talk about the weather. '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'A lot of these Texans that come here, they don'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'t go back,'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' California'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s governor tried to explain to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Taking On &quot;The New Leviathan&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/sep/10/book-review-the-new-leviathan/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Boychuk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Political conventions aren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t ideal venues for rigorous political argument, so maybe it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s unfair to highlight speechifying that qualifies more as burlesque than artful persuasion. Yet without exception, the appeals from the podium at the Democratic National Convention in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[California's Days of Wine and Roses Are Over]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2012/cjc0405bb.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Boychuk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jerry Brown wants Californians to believe that the state, facing a current budget deficit of $9 billion, has a revenue problem. In fact, what the 30 million residents of the Golden State have is an entitlement problem. From health care to state and local public-employee retirement...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Need for Tea Party Has Never Been More Pressing]]></title>
							<link>http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/67644</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Boychuk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What does Occupy Wall Street know? Judging from the manifestos, leaflets, banners and detritus left behind at Occupy camps from Manhattan to Los Angeles, the answer is too little about too much.Perhaps Hanna Appel has the solution. The Columbia University anthropologist will give class...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Civil Servants Become Predatory Interests]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-boychuk-bell-reform-20100810,0,2500740.story</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Boychuk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How do you solve a problem like Robert Rizzo?In the short run,  there will be a push for greater transparency, pay caps and  restrictions on pension benefits. These things may quell the immediate  outrage over revelations that the city manager of working-class Bell and other top...]]></description>
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