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<title><![CDATA[Seth Mandel - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/23388.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Seth Mandel]]></description><category domain="23388">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[What Do Palestinians Think Their State Should Look Like?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/what-do-palestinians-think-a-palestinian-state-should-look-like/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Seth Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's a lively debate on social media today over whether Israel could have avoided much international opprobrium had it simply continued to offer statehood to the Palestinians even after current]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Josh Shapiro and the 'No Free Shots' Rule]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/josh-shapiro-and-the-no-free-shots-rule/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Seth Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the most important aspect of the current debate surrounding Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is that we know about it because Josh Shapiro wants us to know about it. The]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The 'Empathy' Lie and the Erasure of the Hostages]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/the-empathy-lie-and-the-erasure-of-the-hostages/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Seth Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After speaking on the phone with Benjamin Netanyahu, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese defended his plan to recognize a Palestinian state by taking a swipe at his Israeli counterpart: He]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It Isn't So Easy After All To Find 'Proof' of Israel's 'Crimes']]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/when-the-narrative-collapses/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Seth Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week's Mideast discourse was dominated by revelations of falsified accusations of war crimes against Israel, this time regarding the lie that the Jewish state is intentionally starving Gazan children]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Truth Matters]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/why-the-truth-matters/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Seth Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In an episode of the drama House M.D., the patient at the center of the medical mystery is a brilliant physicist who has intentionally made himself dumber.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hamas Has Been Stealing the Food All Along]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/just-say-it-israel-was-right/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Seth Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Don't use seven words when four will do, Brad Pitt's character in Ocean's Eleven tutors a fellow con man. Good advice in general, though yesterday's Washington Post report on Hamas]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Hamas Says vs. What Hamas Means]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/what-hamas-says-vs-what-hamas-means/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Seth Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington this week had a celebratory but unfinished air. The Israeli prime minister and President Trump were somehow chummier and more businesslike than in previous meetings.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bibi Vindicated on 'Jewish State' Demand]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/bibi-vindicated-on-jewish-state-demand/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Seth Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From the beginning of Benjamin Netanyahu's return to the premiership in 2009, he repeatedly insisted that the Palestinian Authority recognize Israel as a Jewish state. Israel expects the Palestinians to]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stanley Fischer Was a Different Kind of Israeli Hero]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/stanley-fischer-was-a-different-kind-of-israeli-hero/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Seth Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When we talk about Jewish statesmen, we usually refer to Israeli prime ministers, diplomats, larger-than-life military figures and the like.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Extinguish the Gaslight Forever]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/extinguish-the-gaslight-forever/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Seth Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No one ever shouts '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Free Palestine'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' while holding up a copy of the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements Including Its Annexes and Its Agreed Minutes.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Green Days of Rage]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/green-days-of-rage/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Seth Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Music has always been political, so I wasn't at all surprised by the, shall we say, expressiveness at this weekend's Coachella festival. Nor was I surprised that the political sloganeering]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Corrupt Education Abdication]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/bidens-education-abdication</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Seth Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president is letting the teachers unions run roughshod over suffering children.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Trump Banished the Ghosts Blocking Path to Peace]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/overcoming-history</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Seth Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A car explodes, bullets riddle their target. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s unclear which happens first, but the end result is the death of the godfather of Iran'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s nuclear weapons program in a convoy east of Tehran in late November. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a senior officer in Iran'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Revolutionary Guard...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Secret of Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2017/09/11/refusing-to-accept-mediocrity-when-childrens-future-is-on-the-line-the-secret-of-eva-moskowitzs-success/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Seth Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What does Son of Sam have to do with New York public education? More than you'd expect '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? and I swear this isn't a joke about unfireable teachers in rubber rooms. It's a lesson in how refusing to ac'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Protest Music Deserves Better Than Katy Perry]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2017/03/09/protest-music-deserves-better-than-katy-perry/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Seth Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Guess what '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? there's something even more vapid than Katy Perry's pop music: Katy Perry's protest music. Sorry to be harsh. Perry's a pop superstar, but as a lyricist she isn't exactly Bob Dylan. (T'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Left Melting Down Over Trump's Pro-Israel Ambassador]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2016/12/21/the-lefts-melting-down-because-trump-picked-an-envoy-who-loves-israel/?utm_content=buffer7997d&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Seth Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's something oddly comforting about the unhinged freakout greeting President-elect Donald Trump's choice for US ambassador to Israel '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? but something discomfiting, too. The reassuring part is t'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Endorsing Clinton Is Latest Sign That Warren Is a Fraud]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2016/06/09/endorsing-hillary-is-the-just-latest-sign-that-warren-is-a-fraud/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Seth Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[American politics may have no bigger fraud than Elizabeth '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Fauxcahontas'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Warren.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' So I got a good chuckle from Politico'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Thursday story saying the Massachusetts Democratic senator had called Donald Trump, among other grade-school taunts, a fraud.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' I don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t know...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Dream of Being a &quot;Transformational Figure&quot; Is Dead]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2015/12/02/obamas-pathetic-failure-to-transform-anything/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Seth Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Poor President Obama. All he wanted was to be a transformational figure. Instead, he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ll be merely a transitional one.For all the talk about Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s grand ambitions to remake the country in his image, current events make it crystal clear his role is as a placeholder.Both Obama...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Did Obama Actually Follow in Lincoln's Footsteps?]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2015/11/15/did-obama-actually-follow-in-lincolns-footsteps/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Seth Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Seven years later, can we finally be honest about President Obama and Honest Abe?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Back when he was still just president-elect, Obama sought to portray himself as Lincoln'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s heir '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' most notably by supposedly making his Cabinet a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'team of rivals,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' echoing the title of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Deal Ensures a Mideast Nuclear Arms Race]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2015/08/21/the-iran-deal-ensures-a-mideast-arms-race-nukes-and-all/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Seth Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s nuclear deal with Iran promises to unleash a new round of chaos in the Middle East, destabilize allies and empower terrorist groups.And he knows it. That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s the upshot of Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s letter to Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-Manhattan-B'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'klyn) to secure...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Liberal Racists Are Attacking Jindal]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2015/06/25/why-liberal-racists-are-attacking-bobby-jindal/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Seth Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Early Thursday morning, an odd story went up on the BBC'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Web site: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Bobby Jindal presidential bid sparks Twitter mockery.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Watch the Democrat Media Sweep Into Action]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/2015/02/20/watch-media-creates-false-race-narrative-real-time/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Seth Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s recent losing streak has been a problem not only for the president but also for the bearers of bad news. As I wrote yesterday, the political media get noticeably uncomfortable when the White House'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s failings can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t be easily spun away. What they...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Have to Talk About Obama's Ignorance]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/2015/02/11/talk-obamas-ignorance/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Seth Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the wake of the controversy over President Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s offensive labeling of anti-Semitic violence as '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'random,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' it became clear that regardless of whether he chose his words carefully, he certainly chose his audience carefully. He was not challenged by his interviewer at...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why They Fear Scott Walker]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/2015/02/12/fear-scott-walker/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Seth Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As I write this, the No. 1 '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'most read'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' story on the Washington Post'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s website is its investigation into the college years of Scott Walker, headlined: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'As Scott Walker mulls White House bid, questions linger over college exit.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Most of the time, you don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Scott Walker Rejects Your Premise]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/2015/01/30/scott-walker-rejects-premise/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Seth Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The conventional wisdom after Republicans lost two presidential elections to Barack Obama was that the GOP needed to concede the premise of certain Democratic talking points. Suddenly immigration reform became urgent enough for a prospective GOP candidate to lead the effort in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[De Blasio's Unforced Errors Pile Up]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/2015/01/12/de-blasios-unforced-errors-pile/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Seth Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bill de Blasio has just completed his first year in office, but his press clips are starting to make him sound like a lame duck. Today'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s New York Times story on de Blasio'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s deteriorating relationship with the police is based on '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'dozens of interviews in recent weeks'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Time to Talk About Serious IRS Reform]]></title>
							<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/10/03/its-time-to-talk-about-serious-irs-reform/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Seth Mandel</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bridgegate, the Media, and Lessons for 2016]]></title>
							<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/09/19/bridgegate-the-media-and-lessons-for-2016/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Seth Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The apparent exoneration by federal investigators of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in the scandal over the lane closures on a bridge last year may be good news for Christie, but other prospective 2016 GOP candidates should take notice. The media'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s unhinged obsession with hyping...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Eric Holder Trying to Protect the IRS?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/09/10/is-eric-holder-trying-to-protect-the-irs/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Seth Mandel</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Destroying Evidence Work for the IRS?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/08/26/will-irss-strategy-of-destroying-evidence-pay-off/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Seth Mandel</author>
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