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<title><![CDATA[Christopher Bedford - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/23748.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Christopher Bedford]]></description><category domain="23748">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Why Kirk's Assassination Will Change America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/why-charlie-kirks-assassination-will-change-us-in-ways-this-generation-has-never-seen</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Bedford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Reactions flooded in long into Wednesday night, following the public assassination of Charlie Kirk. Some were angry; others wept; some were numb; others, cautious; and still others openly celebrated. Few, however, grasped the scale of the personal intensity Americans felt.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Johnson Betrays Border Security for More Foreign Aid]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/mike-johnson-betrays-border-security-for-more-foreign-aid</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Bedford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Funny how the pressure works up so often for wars abroad and so rarely for deaths at home. But in Washington that pressure is relentless '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? and one-sided.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[McConnell's Retirement Marks End of Disastrous Bush Era]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2024/03/04/mcconnells-retirement-marks-the-end-of-the-disastrous-bush-era/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Bedford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's fitting that after four decades in the Senate, Mitch McConnell hopes funding the war in Ukraine will cement his legacy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Reason Why McCarthy Still Hasn't Been Replaced]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/house-speaker-fight-reason-kevin-mccarthy-hasnt-been-replaced</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Bedford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted from his role more than two weeks ago. So why haven't Republicans been able to replace him? Here's the startling truth.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Difference Between The Left &amp; Right, In One Arraignment]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2023/04/05/the-difference-between-the-left-and-right-in-one-arraignment/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Bedford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans will yell 'hypocrisy' because that's what powerless people do when actual power is wielded against them.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Year America's Basic Systems Started To Crumble]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2023/02/06/the-year-americas-basic-systems-started-to-crumble/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Bedford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Far from the year America settled into 'normalcy,' 2022 was the year the basic systems we all count on started to break down.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Will Have To Join the Ballot Harvesting Insanity]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/ballot-harvesting-could-save-elections/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Bedford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Whether Republicans joining the ballot harvesting fray will build out the practice or lead to its abolition, voters will win]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Short Life (&amp; Fast Death) of FBI's Mar-a-Lago Play]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2022/08/29/the-short-life-and-amazingly-fast-death-of-the-fbis-mar-a-lago-play/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Bedford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Our country is far from healthy today, but a collective laugh at the FBI's joke of an affidavit is a long-needed step in the right direction.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don&rsquo;t Be Fooled, Biden Has Never Been in Charge]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/12/as-democrats-and-the-media-turn-on-biden-remember-they-are-the-corrupt-regime-that-empowered-him/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Bedford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Joseph R. Biden might be in office, but the media and their Democratic allies are really in charge -- the regime that created him.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Left's Vicious and Violent Anti-Court Campaign]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/27/never-forget-how-vicious-and-violent-was-the-lefts-top-to-bottom-anti-court-campaign/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Bedford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We had to fight hard to get Roe v. Wade overturned, and we can't forget the hell they put us through to stop it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Vance, the New Right and the D.C. Backstabbers]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/05/j-d-vance-and-the-new-right-are-racking-up-wins-while-the-establishment-stabs-at-their-backs/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Bedford</author>
							<description><![CDATA['Confronted with an established revolution, the conservative must seek to change the status quo; he has no other means.']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Washington D.C. Becomes a Crime Capital]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2022/02/10/murder-capital-charles-allen-embraces-the-politics-of-selling-dc-out-to-crime-and-activists/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Bedford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The highspeed operation, launched in broad daylight from an SUV, looks more like Baghdad than the United States.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Year Ago, Big Tech Declared War on America]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/08/one-year-ago-big-tech-declared-open-war-on-america-heres-whats-next/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Bedford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump was permanently suspended from Twitter one year ago this day. In the ensuing turmoil, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s easy to forget why. Ask near-any self-declared politico around Washington, D.C., and you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ll hear an unsure and uncertain allusion to the Capitol riot.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stop Letting Them Test You]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2021/12/30/stop-letting-them-test-you-breaking-the-covid-construct/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Bedford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[COVID means fear, control, and lockdowns because we've allowed people to make it mean fear, control, and lockdowns.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Supreme Court's Abortion Argument Is Not Over]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2021/12/15/the-supreme-courts-abortion-argument-isnt-over-the-left-is-still-fighting-so-we-must-too/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Bedford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's no doubt panic is spreading fast through Democratic ranks, but notice: The left knows the fight is not over. They know they can still pull a win out.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Media Will Help Biden Move On From Exit Debacle]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2021/09/01/the-white-house-hopes-we-can-all-forget-afghanistan-and-the-press-will-help/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Bedford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The right people want to see this administration get back to the things they elected them to do -- and so they're going to, and it's as simple as that.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[SCOTUS Dissent and the COVID Bureaucracy]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/27/unlimited-power-the-latest-supreme-court-dissent-is-a-window-into-the-mind-of-the-covid-bureaucracy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Bedford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The left thinks its power is so broad as to be essentially limitless, and so singularly vested as to be checked virtually solely at its own discretion.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The End of Law  and Order in American Cities]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/25/you-dont-need-to-go-to-kabul-to-see-the-end-of-american-order-its-right-here-among-us/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Bedford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In many of our country's major cities, gangs of masked thugs and criminals do what they please -- and our far-better-armed police aren't allowed to stop it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Is AEI Asking NYT, Atlantic How to Do Journalism?]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/22/why-is-aei-hosting-the-new-york-times-and-the-atlantic-to-tell-us-how-to-produce-honest-journalism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Bedford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The New York Times, The Atlantic, and AEI, a think tank that hasn't had a hit since the Iraq War, are explaining how to succeed in the world they built.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Only Thing Democrats Are Serious About Is Power]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/08/fear-incorporated-6-months-after-jan-6-riot-the-only-thing-democrats-are-serious-about-is-power/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Bedford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The six-month anniversary of the Capitol riot not by Black Lives Matter exposes exactly how unserious the left is about the reality of that day.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Urban Blight Is Back - and It's Going to Get Worse]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/07/when-stores-close-due-to-rising-crime-urban-blight-is-back-and-it-will-get-worse/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Bedford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We've gone down this path before for virtually the exact same bleeding-heart reasons, and we lived through the tremendous pain of the results.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Self-Made Billionaire Sacrificing It All for God]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/01/modern-day-martyr-meet-the-self-made-billionaire-who-is-sacrificing-it-all-for-god/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Bedford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In Western universities and board rooms, souls are cheap.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' But Jimmy Lai's is not. He is willing to lose the whole world for the sake of his soul.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Saving Comedy Is So Crucial to Saving America]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/06/why-saving-comedy-is-so-crucial-to-saving-america/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Bedford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[People aren't dumb. They've looked around, and they see telling the wrong joke -- or even simply laughing at one -- is a quick way to destroy your life.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[White House Knows Its Polices Are About to Crash]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2021/06/24/the-white-house-know-its-police-and-border-policies-are-about-to-crash-but-can-they-stop-it/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Bedford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The only real reason a political party shifts focus so dramatically from its goals to issues it wishes it could avoid is terrible internal polling.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Media Didn't Get Lafayette Park 'Wrong'--They Lied]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2021/06/11/the-media-didnt-get-it-wrong-on-lafayette-park-they-lied-to-america-and-theyre-still-lying/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Bedford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On June 1, 2020 and afterward, corporate media didn't simply get it wrong, they flagrantly and shamelessly lied to Americans in order to hurt the president.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Drug Legalization Is a Disaster]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2021/05/27/drug-legalization-is-a-disaster-and-your-leaders-dont-care-about-you/#.YLA2csGP2Io.twitter</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Bedford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Normalizing drug use is no longer an idea, it's a reality. If you want to see what that reality looks like, walk through once-thriving downtown Denver.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Freedom of Thought Under Attack by Ruling Class]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2021/06/02/dont-let-john-cena-distract-oppression-is-here-at-home-and-politicians-dont-want-to-talk-about-it/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Bedford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's easier to defend Taiwan than it is to defend the people who are vilified in schools, corporations, and by politicians for being white.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Media Attacked the Credible 'Lab Leak' Theory]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2021/05/24/exactly-how-corporate-media-launders-opinion-to-attack-inconvenient-people-and-facts/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Bedford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's called 'the news,' and here's how it worked for Arkansas' Sen. Tom Cotton's completely plausible theory that COVID-19 came from a Chinese lab.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[NYT Manufactures a Lie for Democrats in Virginia]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2021/05/12/behind-the-curtain-how-the-new-york-times-manufactures-lies-for-democrats-to-attack-their-opponents/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Bedford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[These kinds of things aren't one-offs, they're how corporate media and the Democratic Party work in tandem to defeat their conservative opponents.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Case Study: How Our Corrupt Agencies Use Reporters]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2021/05/04/fbis-failed-ron-johnson-set-up-a-case-study-in-how-agencies-use-corrupt-reporters-to-peddle-lies-hurt-their-american-enemies/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Bedford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For years now, a number of the country's most prominent publications have assumed the groveling role of palace guards for the state.]]></description>
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