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<title><![CDATA[Ace - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/23199.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Ace]]></description><category domain="23199">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[ProPublica Is Well-Funded, Left-Wing Private Smear Operation]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ace</author>
							<description><![CDATA[ProPublica -- which my friend Kyle Sheidler noted was not a journalistic operation at all, but a well-funded anti-conservative private intelligence service -- claimed that it had merely followed up on a hot tip, then abandoned a story when that hot tip turned out to be false.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[National Review Continues To Promote Tech Censorship]]></title>
							<link>http://ace.mu.nu/archives/398322.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ace</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Babylon Bee's Editor In Chief Makes a Joke About Twitter Banning the Bee but Allowing China to Keep Its Accounts; Twitter Then Suspends the Bee's Editor in Chief]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time Magazine: You're Damn Right We Ordered the Code Red]]></title>
							<link>http://ace.mu.nu/archives/392550.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ace</author>
							<description><![CDATA[But will we be deplatformed for noting Time admitted the left rigged the election?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Norman Podhoretz on Trump's Virtues, NeverTrump's Problems]]></title>
							<link>http://ace.mu.nu/archives/380914.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ace</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over at Claremont Review of Books (paywalled and I don't think you can get around it), Norman Podhoretz gives a rare interview and expresses his opinion on Trump, NeverTrump, and, indirectly but unavoidably, his fat, soft-handed, lap-of-luxury decrepit soyspawn Jon Podhoretz.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Conservatives Should Defund National Review]]></title>
							<link>http://ace.mu.nu/archives/379331.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ace</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You know who brought it to the alleged "conservative" Rich Lowry's attention that the Covington video was #FakeNews?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[FBI Must Investigate Christine Blasey Ford's Credibility]]></title>
							<link>http://ace.mu.nu/archives/377326.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Questions that must be asked of Ford, and her lawyers, and Democrats -- under oath.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The New York Times Defends Leftist Anti-White Racism]]></title>
							<link>http://ace.mu.nu/archives/376394.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ace</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The NTY's Defense of Leftist Racism -- It Was Just Some "Counter-Trolling" -- Looks Suspiciously Similar to Claims the So-Called "Alt-Right" Made About Their Trollish Comments; Why Does One Standard Apply to Leftist Racism and another to the "Alt-Right's"]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump-Russia Collusion: A Conspiracy Theory All Along]]></title>
							<link>http://ace.mu.nu/archives/374303.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ace</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hear, hear. Less "Just Asking Questions" about whether fire can really melt steel, and more straightforward declarative assertions about what Trump either did do or did not do. There is a game in politics. The Truthers played this game; some politicians hoping to curry favors with the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Diehard Liberals We Call 'Never-Trumpers' March On]]></title>
							<link>http://ace.mu.nu/archives/373892.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Instincts About the Political War Are Essentially Right]]></title>
							<link>http://ace.mu.nu/archives/373421.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ace</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Short version: The right attempts political persuasion. The left, on the other hand, attempts social persuasion -- basically seizing the commanding heights of culture-making institutions and then deciding that espousing some political claims (being pro-gay-marriage) increase social...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Identity Politics of All Kinds Are Odious and Poisonous]]></title>
							<link>http://ace.mu.nu/archives/371122.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ace</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I think Identity Politics of all kinds are odious and poisonous to the individual -- if your value is your'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' race'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' or'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' gender, well, you have branded yourself as someone of extraordinarily low value, haven't you?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Left-Wing Media Bubble]]></title>
							<link>http://ace.mu.nu/archives/369458.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Mollie Hemingway has written a new Encounter Broadside ("Broadside" being the imprint name for long essays about a subject) called Trump vs. the Media. She talks about the media bubble and daily social media freakouts with Ben Domenech. The book was released early today (like 12am or...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On Media Lies and Political Lore]]></title>
							<link>http://ace.mu.nu/archives/367256.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ace</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Lore is kind of communal bullshit -- bullshit about your family legacy (how many people have "family lore" that tells them they're one thirty-second Cherokee, for example'&#'.ord('*').';'), bullshit about sex, bullshit about how not to get pregnant, bullshit about how to increase your sexual potency...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Destroy Kelloggs]]></title>
							<link>http://ace.mu.nu/archives/367133.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ace</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I think that's what we'd like -- we'd like the Culture War fought in the fewest arenas as possible. We'd like to keep the war at the front lines -- just in the actual fields of politics and political thought. We'd prefer if not every fucking consumer purchase were part of the War. But...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Masks Are Off a Lot of Smug, Well-Fed Faces in the GOP]]></title>
							<link>http://ace.mu.nu/archives/366486.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ace</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This election has been brutal, but it has torn a lot of masks off a lot of smug, well-fed faces.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Let's Talk About Those Very Principled Never Trumpers]]></title>
							<link>http://ace.mu.nu/archives/366089.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[I always had a secret respect for Rosanne Barr's politics. No, not her actual politics -- I thought they were daft.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The #NeverTrumper Pundit Class Should Man Up]]></title>
							<link>http://ace.mu.nu/archives/365576.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ace</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hardest hit: The #NeverTrumper Pundit Class, who are depending on a blowout to maintain that their constant anti-Trump agitations cannot possibly affect the election.Oddly enough, none of these people claim to have zero influence on the conservative population except when they agitate...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Everything Is Awesome, the God-King Proclaimed]]></title>
							<link>http://ace.mu.nu/archives/365004.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[In Germany, nude bathers (at a legal nude beach) had to call police when harassed and threatened by "Mediterranean-looking men" who shouted"Allahu Akbar at them.Anti-semetic attacks and vandalism are rising in Malmo, Sweden. Don't worry, though: The Mayor of Malmo has forthrightly stated...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Dead End #NeverTrumpers Need to Grow Up]]></title>
							<link>http://ace.mu.nu/archives/364874.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ace</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sorry, I was on Twitter. I felt it was necessary to dispel the widely-held myth, adored by #NeverTrumpers, that somehow attacking Trump relentlessly does not aid Hillary Clinton, and that they are not choosing Hillary Clinton by choosing to be NeverTrump.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's Gone Wrong With Conservative Intellectuals?]]></title>
							<link>http://ace.mu.nu/archives/363861.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ace</author>
							<description><![CDATA[But some sort of excused this, or contextualized it.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' I think we're seeing something similar that happened with the Left after 9/11.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The Left became enraged after 9/11 because it's worldview was repudiated and its influence was diminished. "You're all stupid and racists" because their...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why I'm So Absolutely Opposed to Marco Rubio]]></title>
							<link>http://ace.mu.nu/archives/361196.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ace</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Establishment has a gameplan. The gameplan is to manage their voters and leave them with little choice but to accept the agenda they've set for us.Here is what they are hoping: "Sure, the base will squawk and make big noises and rant on the internet, and sure, Rush Limbaugh will hit...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Would GOP Establishment Destroy Party If They Lose Nomination?]]></title>
							<link>http://ace.mu.nu/archives/360610.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Fitting, that the Establishment should be the ones to put the gun to the sick party's head and put it out of its misery.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Jeb Bush is considering making a flat declaration that if Trump should win the nomination, he won't vote for him. Fine, except it's been the Establishment's matra...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[John Oliver, the Cult of the Left, and Ontological Cowardice]]></title>
							<link>http://ace.mu.nu/archives/360110.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ace</author>
							<description><![CDATA[HBO's Progressive Televangelist John Oliver delivered a 17 minute sermon to the faithful last month, telling all the true believers that their enemies were sinful and slothful and that the Kingdom of Heaven of the Strange Gods was at hand.He mocked the idea that terrorists would, or...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[House GOP Needs An Entire New Slate of Leaders]]></title>
							<link>http://ace.mu.nu/archives/359183.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ace</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Per the Rules Jon Stewart Inflicts on Others]]></title>
							<link>http://ace.mu.nu/archives/358059.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ace</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I kind of understand Stewart's reaction -- it is, in fact, annoying to be accused of bad motives (racism has in fact been defined as the worst possible motive in existence) over things that are, or at least seem, harmless, and without harmful intent.On the other hand, this jackass is,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Establisment &amp; Tea Party Need to Learn to Get Along]]></title>
							<link>http://ace.mu.nu/archives/344211.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ace</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Anyone hear anything from the centrist-talking Democrat Leadership Council anymore? No, you don't. The Democrats purged most of its centrists, chiefly by staking out positions so far to the Left (such as voting for the monstrosity of ObamaCare) that all of its representatives from purple...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Is McCain Treated Seriously on Foreign Policy?]]></title>
							<link>http://ace.mu.nu/archives/343167.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ace</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Were anyone but John McCain to offer such reflexively belligerent policy prescriptions, we wouldn't take that hypothetical person seriously at all. And McCain's instincts, which are poor, cannot be saved by his biography, which has nothing at all to do with his probity and judgment.'&#'.ord('*').';' '&#'.ord('*').';' I...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Admin: &quot;Someone Lives and Someone Dies&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://ace.mu.nu/archives/340604.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ace</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Someone Lives and Someone Dies:" HHS Secretary Sebelius Demonstrates Why Who Lives and Who Dies Should Not be Part of the Political ProcessKrakatoa put this in the sidebar.Drudge may or may not have overplayed this -- but this sure seems like a preview into the future, where all...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The NYT's Version of the Anthony Weiner Affair]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ace</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He says he's running for mayor of New York.The New York Times attempts this very Clintonesque defense:"It was a sex scandal without any actual sex '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' more creepy than anything else."No actual sex, but I'm pretty sure the pictures were exchanged with an eye to mutual masturbation over...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[McCain, Graham Need to End the Super-Hawk Crap]]></title>
							<link>http://ace.mu.nu/archives/338189.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ace</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I still consider myself a hawk.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' But I don't consider myself a super-hawk. Post-9/11, I became a super-hawk. I'm not one any longer.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' John McCain and Lindsey Graham are still pushing a super-hawk line that the public widely rejects.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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