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<title><![CDATA[Dan McLaughlin - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/23856.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Dan McLaughlin]]></description><category domain="23856">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Time Is on Trump&rsquo;s Side Versus Iran, but Not Forever]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2026/04/24/opinion/time-is-on-trumps-side-versus-iran-but-not-forever/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump says, I don't want to rush it. I want to take my time, while Pete Hegseth said, we have all the time in the world, and we're not anxious for a deal when it comes to ending the w'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Turning Themselves Into Enemies of Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/democrats-turning-themselves-enemies-democracy-160104387.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats are talking themselves into forcing a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' government shutdown. But they can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t seem to agree on why.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Doves &amp; Rightwing Anti-Semites Against Iran Regime Change]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/06/the-horseshoe-coalition-against-israel-on-iran/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'restrainer'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' right and the progressives sound an awful lot alike on Israel and Iran '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' but they are on the margins.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Challenges Facing Leo XIV: China, Finances, Culture Clash]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2025/05/08/opinion/china-finances-and-a-culture-clash-challenges-facing-pope-leo-xiv/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the first time, we have an American pope.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Fleeing Biden's Border Madness]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2025/01/12/opinion/laken-riley-vote-has-senate-dems-fleeing-bidens-border-madness/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dan McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats aren't very good at learning lessons. But there are some things even they can figure out.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Win Proves America Fed Up With Dems' Disaster]]></title>
							<link>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14047421/reason-Kamala-lost-election-Trump-win-DAN-MCLAUGHLIN.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dan McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Vice President Kamala Harris was carried along on a brilliantly orchestrated handoff, to be sure. But she picked a dud of a running mate in Tim Walz instead of Josh Shapiro.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Harris Unable To Answer Basic Questions on '60 Minutes']]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2024/10/08/opinion/kamala-harris-is-unable-to-answer-basic-questions-on-60-minutes/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even with a sympathetic questioner in CBS's Bill Whitaker and a lot of editing, her prerecorded 60 Minutes sit-down that aired Monday didn't go well.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Debate Confirmed: Trump's Combative, Harris Is Dishonest]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2024/09/11/opinion/trump-harris-debate-confirmed-what-we-know-hes-combative-shes-dishonest/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nobody came away wondering what Trump thinks are the most important issues of the day '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' but the moderators repeatedly changed the subject when things got uncomfortable for Harris.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Dug a Hole for Himself and Can't Get Out]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2024/04/03/opinion/joe-biden-cant-get-out-of-the-hole-hes-already-dug-for-himself/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After losing to President Joe Biden in 2020, polls consistently show Donald Trump leading ahead of the current president.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If Biden Is Unfit To Stand Trial, He's Unfit To Be President]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2024/02/13/opinion/if-joe-biden-is-unfit-to-stand-trial-hes-unfit-to-be-president-its-that-simple/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dan McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Special counsel Robert Hur's nearly 400-page report is full of damning evidence of Biden's carelessness with vital national-security secrets.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Media Whitewashes Biden Family Corruption]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2023/08/04/liberal-media-bends-over-backward-to-dismiss-new-joe-biden-revelations/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I used to work as a lawyer. There's a lot more money in defending criminals in the law than there is doing the same as a reporter. The whole point of becoming a journalist is to dig fearlessly for '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If Biden Wants To Pay Student Loans, He Needs Congress]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2023/02/28/biden-is-not-a-king-if-he-wants-to-pay-student-loans-he-needs-congress/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dan McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We used to teach our kids that the Constitution separates powers between Congress, which makes the laws, and the president, who carries them out.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Latest Terrible, Horrible, Very Bad Polling]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/joe-bidens-latest-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-polling/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since April 2021, Biden's approval rating has held steady or gotten worse in every single Monmouth poll.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Asylum Policies for Migrants Are Insane]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2021/09/21/bidens-asylum-policies-for-migrants-at-the-border-are-insane/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Asylum-seekers from the Caribbean, such as Haitians and Cubans, are packed onto planes and sent back where they came from.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Eight Reasons to Love the Constitution]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/09/eight-reasons-to-love-the-constitution/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On this 234th Constitution Day, conservatives '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' indeed, every American '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' should reflect on our great Founding text.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stop Pretending Biden Is Fit to Lead]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/08/joe-biden-is-who-we-said-he-was/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nobody should, any longer, pretend that Joe Biden is fit to lead this nation.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pelosi Likely to Bow to Far Left on $3.5T Spending Bill]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2021/08/22/pelosi-might-bow-to-far-left-to-push-3-5t-in-spending/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nearly 20 Senate Republicans have foolishly signed on to a bipartisan bill with $550 billion in new infrastructure spending.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kamala Harris Utterly Flubbing Her Job as Veep]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2021/08/08/kamala-harris-is-utterly-flubbing-her-job-as-veep/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Kamala Harris isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t very good at this. The vice president has never won an election on her own outside of the hothouse of California politics, and it shows.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' On paper, she was a strong contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. Once the campaign started, she...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Hyperbolic, Offensive Speech on Voting Rights]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2021/07/14/sorry-joe-thats-no-gettysburg-address/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In his speech on Tuesday about'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Republican election laws, Joe Biden said, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'We'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re are facing the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War. That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not hyperbole. Since the Civil War.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cy Vance's Case Is Straight Out of a Banana Republic]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2021/07/01/cy-vances-trump-case-is-straight-from-a-banana-republic/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump has long claimed that investigations of him are a partisan witch hunt.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Media Keep Trying - and Failing - to Take Down DeSantis]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2021/06/29/media-keep-trying-and-failing-to-take-down-floridas-ron-desantis/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Like Wile E. Coyote, the self-anointed geniuses in the political media just keep trying to spring new traps on Florida Gov.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Ron DeSantis. And like the Road Runner, DeSantis keeps escaping with his head high while his pursuers'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' plans detonate in their faces.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[CNN Can't Whitewash Biden Opposing Osama bin Laden Raid]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/cnn-cant-whitewash-joe-biden-opposing-the-osama-bin-laden-raid/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On the biggest moment of decision of Obama's presidency, Biden was there, and Biden was wrong.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joe Biden Botches the Georgia Voting Law]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/03/joe-biden-botches-the-georgia-voting-law/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[His claim that the law prohibits giving water to voters standing on line is way off base.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Court-Packing Commission Should Fool Nobody]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/joe-bidens-court-packing-commission-should-fool-nobody-and-satisfy-nobody/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The best way for conservatives to stop Court-packing, even if the Democrats take the White House, is to hold the Senate.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court Fights Are What GOP Majorities Are For]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/09/supreme-court-fights-are-what-republican-majorities-are-for/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If there ever was a time to do what's right, this is it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What the Electoral College Saves Us From]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/what-the-electoral-college-saves-us-from/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The system of electing presidents with 50 statewide elections (plus D.C.) rather than a raw national popular vote isn't going anywhere, and it shouldn't.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Will the Senate Races Break?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/midterm-senate-race-polling-breakdown/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A detailed look at the numbers.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democratic Desperation On Kavanaugh Is Showing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/democratic-desperation-on-kavanaugh-is-showing/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How can you tell that Democrats are flailing in their efforts to stop Judge Brett Kavanaugh'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Supreme Court nomination and don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t currently have the votes or a good plan to do so? Let'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s look at the arguments they are trotting out right now.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why There Are No Easy Answers to Stop Mass Shootings]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mclaughlin-parkland-shooting-20180215-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dan McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Accept the unacceptable, or restrict our freedoms.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's 'Treason' Joke &amp; Dem Double Standards]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/456123/trump-says-democrats-are-treasonous</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dan McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By now, we're all familiar with President Trump's remarkable gift for saying outrageous things that create controversy entirely for its own sake. These controversies generally feature his liberal critics overreacting by many orders of magnitude and his diehard fans getting a thrill at...]]></description>
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