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							<title><![CDATA[Dear God, Not This National Divorce Thing Again]]></title>
							<link>https://thespectator.com/topic/dear-god-not-this-national-divorce-thing-again/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Purple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Marjorie Taylor Greene wants Americans to get a national divorce. The only question is who gets custody of Puerto Rico]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Fail To Pay a Price for Their Extremism]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/democrats-fail-to-pay-a-price-for-their-extremism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Purple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Exit polls found that 51 percent of voters thought Democrats were too extreme, along with 52 percent for Republicans]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Court Finally Rectifies a Hideous Legal Blunder]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/a-pro-life-revolution/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Purple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Dobbs decision has reversed Roe v. Wade, forcing progressives to do the last thing they want to do: debate abortion]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Party of Late-Term Abortion Extremists]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/democrats-party-abortion-extremists-schumer/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Purple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, in the US Senate, Democrats let their abortion extremism hang out. No more faking it about "safe, legal, and rare": the new standard is "I mean, do you feel like it?"'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When the Establishment Cries 'Treason!']]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/when-establishment-cries-treason-gabbard-romney/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Purple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, former Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard released a video calling for a ceasefire in areas around American-funded biolabs in Ukraine. She also called for the United States to reconsider its support for these facilities, which experiment with pathogens that could be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joe Biden Daydreams About Civil Rights]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/joe-biden-daydreams-civil-rights/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Purple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Biden's supposed civil rights record is an empty fabrication, like so much of his presidency '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and it's catching up with him.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Plague Doctor Who Stole Christmas]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/fauci-plague-doctor-who-stole-christmas/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Purple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Anthony Fauci wants to flatten the curve over the holidays, but Americans are no longer listening]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's History Tour From Hell]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/joe-biden-history-tour-hell/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Purple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Instead of a new day, the Biden presidency has been more like a museum ride tour through some of America's darkest moments]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nicki Minaj Blasphemes Against the Woke]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/nicki-minaj-blasphemes-woke-vaccines/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Purple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's difficult to see what Nicki Minaj did wrong on Monday night. Are not women, especially women of color, supposed to speak out?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Last Neocons on the Island]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-last-neocons-on-the-island/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Purple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Those saying all we need to do is stay in Afghanistan a little longer both tip their hands and demonstrate their lack of seriousness.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Becoming a Father Is the Best Sacrifice You'll Ever Make]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/life/becoming-father-parenthood-childcare-dad/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Purple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They say immersion journalism is dead, but I just might have proven them wrong. The night before I wrote this column, I took on a most unfamiliar role, one my wife has been playing for the past two months: waking up in the night to take care of our baby son. We recently started...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Biden's Inflated Presidency About to Burst?]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.us/topic/inflated-presidency-about-burst-inflation/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Purple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even left-wing economists agree that inflation acts as a curb on federal borrowing. If it continues, it could force Biden to cut back]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Could This Be the End of Roe v. Wade?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/dobbs-v-jackson-this-is-the-big-one/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Purple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the Supreme Court doesn't strike down Roe v. Wade now, it's unlikely it ever will.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Critical Race Theory's Battle in the Burbs]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/critical-race-theorys-battle-in-the-burbs/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Purple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A Virginia county becomes ground zero in the fight against wokeness, complete with lies, blacklists, and creeping authoritarianism.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Jon Stewart Killed Comedy]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.us/topic/jon-stewart-killed-comedy-daily-show/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Purple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Daily Show's heyday came at the turn of the century, just after Stewart had taken it over from Craig Kilborn. His approach back then was]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Left's Lizard-Brained Hatred of Tim Scott]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/when-cruelty-actually-is-the-point/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Purple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's no calculated plan behind the attacks on Senator Tim Scott. In a culture war, it's sheer lizard-brained hatred.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gov. Whitmer's Crumbling Kingdom]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/gretchen-whitmers-crumbling-kingdom/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Purple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In Michigan, a puzzling COVID surge and a cautionary tale about the exercise of power.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[George W. Bush: Still Puzzled Over Iraq War Legacy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/state-of-the-union/george-w-bush-how-ever-did-the-gop-become-so-isolationist/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Purple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m occasionally tempted to view Bush, with his paintbrush and his easel haunted by the dead, as a tragic figure. Certainly many of the worst ideas to come out of his administration didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t originate with him, even if he was ultimately The Decider. But come on, man. It takes...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fauci: Cable-News Star First &amp; Scientist Second]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.us/topic/mask-slipping-dr-fauci/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Purple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rand Paul was puzzled that Fauci was wearing a mask at their congressional hearing. Paul pointed out that Fauci had been fully vaccinated]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democrats' Covid Heroes Are Falling Fast]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.us/topic/andrew-cuomo-the-princess-di-of-the-plague/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Purple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The rise of the New York governor never had anything to do with reality]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No To Policing the World]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.us/topic/policing-world-change-biden-foreign-policy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Purple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Biden's foreign policy is rooted in the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' mythology of the Cold War, when there was'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' an antithetical global adversary in the Soviet Union]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Here Come the Bourgeoisie Bolsheviks]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/here-come-the-bourgeoisie-bolsheviks/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Purple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As with the Weather Underground, America's privileged are now lashing out at their own self-loathing.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Beware Those Insisting We Can't Go Back to Normal]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/we-dont-need-to-live-in-a-post-coronavirus-world/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Purple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Beware those who insist everything must change following a crisis.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dem Candidates Are Floundering on Foreign Policy]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.us/global-warning-2020-dems-floundering-foreign-policy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Purple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For those of us who want a real rethink on foreign policy, this crop of Democrats don't offer much in the way of confidence]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Two-Faced Elizabeth Warren]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-two-faced-elizabeth-warren/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Purple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[She's a Harvard elite yet her economic ideas land well in a populist age. Which image will stick?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[DC Melts Down Over Trump's Syria Withdrawal]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/washington-melts-down-over-trumps-syria-withdrawal/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Purple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Their obsession with Vladimir Putin misses the point and obscures the hard costs of our military misadventures.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Light Touch on Iran]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/a-light-touch-on-iran-nuclear-deal-protests-trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Purple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump's response to protests should be one of cautious restraint. And no, the nuclear deal hasn't been discredited.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Ideologues Who Wrecked Libya]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-ideologues-who-wrecked-libya/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Purple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As lawlessness reigns, those who pushed us into toppling Gaddafi are due for a reckoning.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Carson Is Rising (and Why It Matters)]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-ben-carson-rising-the-polls-why-it-matters-13827</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Purple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Armstrong Williams has resurfaced. The controversial political commentator'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'best known for his lucrative promotion of No Child Left Behind during the Bush administration'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'called the news site Talking Points Memo last week to clarify his friend Dr. Ben Carson'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s position on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Daily Show Lies All the Time]]></title>
							<link>http://spectator.org/articles/60556/what-makes-jon-stewart-more-insufferable-bill-maher</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Purple</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Recently four members of that least-recognized Indian tribe '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Redskins Nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' agreed to participate in a Daily Show segment discussing the controversy surrounding their team name. Their conversation with comedian Jason Jones was stretching into its third hour when eight Native...]]></description>
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