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<title><![CDATA[Bob McManus - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/22263.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Bob McManus]]></description><category domain="22263">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Latest Migrant Poll Should Scare the Hell Out of Dems]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2023/10/24/opinion/latest-migrant-poll-should-scare-the-hell-out-of-democrats/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A new poll says 84% of New Yorkers think the state's migrant mess is a serious problem. The remaining 16% are zombied-out addicts living in parks and subway tunnels.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Moderates Must Choose Zeldin Over Hochul]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2022/10/16/crime-the-economy-more-why-moderates-must-choose-zeldin-over-hochul/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rep. Lee Zeldin is a savvy politician, well-versed in New York and its problems and strongly inclined to buck the state's insanely progressive headwinds.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why America Is Paying Such a Violent Price]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2022/07/05/were-paying-the-violent-price-for-refusing-to-jail-and-treat-people/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Certainly all Americans have rights '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' but they should include the right to be protected from the armed and dangerous: Urban gangbangers and psychotic loners with rifles both.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Liberal Manhattan DA Just Gave a Green Light for Anarchy]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2022/01/04/alvin-braggs-green-light-for-anarchy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you can't do the time, don't do the crime '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' unless you're in Manhattan where progressive District Attorney Alvin Bragg can get you back on the streets, Bob McManus writes.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cuomo On Verge of Being Done For Good]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2021/02/28/gov-cuomo-is-on-the-verge-of-being-done-for-good/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Andrew's in the soup, that's for sure. Wrap your head around this: The New York Times is'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' reporting that Gov. Cuomo'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' took time out from coronavirus hot-dogging last June to offer tattoo-placement advice to a just-turned-25-year-old female aide of no particular expertise during a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Welcome to the Summer of Slay, America]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2020/06/22/welcome-to-the-summer-of-slay-america/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the blood-slicked sidewalks of summer. It's going to be a long one. And hot. Shootings in Gotham were running at the rate of one an hour for much of the weekend, with final numbers up in'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cuomo Managed to Kill Grandma and NY's Economy]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2020/05/25/andrew-cuomo-managed-to-kill-grandma-and-new-yorks-economy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So Gov. Cuomo killed grandma and cratered New York'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s economy. But he looked good doing it. Too harsh? Well, report cards are snapshots, and the pandemic is an evolving event. Numbers are shifting, and surely things will look different down the road.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sharpton Is a Fraud, and the Rats in Baltimore Are Real]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2019/07/29/trump-is-absolutely-right-about-con-man-al-sharpton/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, when I was editing this newspaper's opinion pages, somebody decided that it wouldn't hurt to have a slightly more cordial relationship with the Rev. Al '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'Sharpton. So there we were'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Never That Great']]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/html/andrew-cuomo-16114.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Andrew Cuomo's widely panned comments say more about him than about America.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Race Hoax at Air Force: Judgment First, Facts Afterward]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/html/wild-blue-yonder-15576.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America has been at war for more than 16 years now. For the most part, the nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s armed forces have performed brilliantly, but cracks are beginning to show. Underfunded, over-extended, and often buffeted by purely political civilian goals, the services are suffering from...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Weinstein Silence]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/html/weinstein-silence-15484.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Liberal entertainers laud themselves for speaking truth to power'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??so long as the targets are safe.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Avoidable Mayhem in Charlottesville]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/html/avoidable-mayhem-15394.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why did Virginia's political leadership order the police and National Guard to stand down?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Comrade de Blasio Doesn't Care About New York]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2017/07/07/comrade-de-blasio-doesnt-care-about-new-york/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Kaiser Wilhelm is on the road again, hanging with his peeps in Hamburg and waxing nostalgic for the glory days '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? when all the cool kids lived on the east side of the Wall and the socialist revoluti'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Silencing a Hero: The Shame of the Naval Academy]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2017/03/29/silencing-an-american-hero-the-shame-of-the-naval-academy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jim Webb knows fighting, which is what the US Naval Academy is supposed to be about. But perhaps no longer. Webb, a member of the Annapolis class of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'68, brought a Navy Cross, a Silver Star and two Purple Hearts home with him from Vietnam, among other decorations. That was just the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Liberals Just Love to Set Terrorists Free]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2017/01/18/why-liberals-just-love-to-set-terrorists-free/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What is it about progressives like President Obama '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? and even pretend progressives like Gov. Cuomo '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? that makes them so forgiving of terrorists? Obama, on his way out the door, Tuesday commuted the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Moral Equivalence Between Dallas &amp; Baton Rouge, St. Paul]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/html/no-equivalence-14637.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Much remains to be learned about the why and the how of Thursday night'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s massacre in Dallas, but there is scant mystery about the what: at least 11 police officers were calmly marked for execution for no other reason than that they were cops. When the firing was over, five lay dead...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Push Against Policing Is Top Threat to Black Lives]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2016/03/30/the-dangerous-push-against-policing-is-the-top-threat-to-black-lives/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nice city you got here, New York Assemblyman Charles Barron (D-Brooklyn) seemed to be saying ominously. Shame if something were to happen to it. Last week, when Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson recommended'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump is Doing America a Service]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2015/10/20/donald-trump-is-doing-america-a-service/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and the as-always-irrepressible Donald Trump make for an odd couple (in the fullest sense of the term).They have sharply differing worldviews, yet they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re joined at the hip on one critical point: Neither seems to care if their words, which...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Protesters Get Their Wish: Dead Cops]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2014/12/21/there-is-blood-on-hands-of-those-who-demanded-dead-cops/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'What do we want?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' drones the blood chant.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Dead cops!'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' comes the reply.Done.Thus does rhetoric have consequences.There may have been just a single shooter in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Saturday afternoon. But New York'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s failure to denounce without nuance the bloodlust...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rudy Got It Right: Cops Save Minority Lives]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2014/11/24/rudy-got-it-right-cops-save-minority-lives/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Leave it to Rudy to stir the pot. God bless him.New York City'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s esteemed former mayor went on national TV Sunday morning to offer his view on police-community tensions. To wit:'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'Minority communities typically are subject to more crime,'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' he said. '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'They need law enforcement more than...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Union Feeding Time in New York City]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So much for the progressive commitment to transparency in government. If nothing else, the bargaining to determine a successor to departing city council speaker Christine Quinn demonstrates that the backroom backslap remains a Big Apple mainstay. Not that there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s anything wrong with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will History Repeat Itself in New York City?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2013/eon1115bm.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[History may not repeat itself, but sometimes it whispers warnings. The wise will pay heed.Whether the ice-rink shooting at New York City'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Bryant Park, an arduously restored urban jewel at 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue, was an aberration or a harbinger remains to be seen. But the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[de Blasio an Obama-like Train-Wreck for NYC]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2013/09/14/meet-barack-de-blasio/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[That was a big wide smile on Bill de Blasio'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s face the other night, and why not?He sure as hell earned one.He was the only Democrat in a cluttered primary field to recognize '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and then to capitalize on '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' the lesson Barack Obama taught the nation in 2008: That is, it is no...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[De Blasio's Dangerous Class Warfare Bid]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/bill_classy_bid_0fB3vADGh1IxzlBg5EEe3J</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Cue the class warriors.Bill de Blasio'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s startling emergence as the dominant presence in New York City'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Democratic mayoral primary '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' or, at least, at the top of one conversation-setting public poll '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' should surprise no one.Class warfare works everywhere these days...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Public Sector: A Crisis Foretold]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/crisis_foretold_LXlPoe4ajgX8tRM4BtY3jL</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Regarding Wisconsin, Pat Moynihan saw it coming. But did the last of  New York's grand public intellectuals also divine the limits of the  modern American welfare state?The proximate cause of  Wisconsin's high drama is clear: an entitled class -- public-sector  employees -- is pushing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Columbia Stained by Students Jeering Vet]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/columbia_dishonor_SX0VNDvvfdl9SePzswPNbP</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They teach many things at Columbia University -- but common decency appears not to be among them.Nor how to recognize personal honor.Consider the treatment given last week to Anthony Maschek, a Purple  Heart combat vet of the Iraq war, when he spoke up in support of a  return of reserve...]]></description>
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