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<title><![CDATA[Charles Cooke - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/26027.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Charles Cooke]]></description><category domain="26027">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Talarico's Creepy 'White Skin' Tweets Are Disqualifying]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/james-talaricos-creepy-white-skin-tweets-disqualify-him-from-public-office/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Cooke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Talarico must lose not only because he held such views, but because he has demonstrated his capacity to hold such views.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Harris Is an Idiot]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/10/kamala-harris-is-an-idiot/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Cooke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[She's wildly, catastrophically, incontestably out of her depth.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Another Classic From Google Gemini]]></title>
							<link>https://twitter.com/charlescwcooke/status/1762542956379062334</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Cooke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The best part is where Gemini says that, while he wasn't "officially charged," Reagan's economic policies could have been "addressed legally" and led to "jail time."]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Newsom Has Made California the Butt of America's Jokes]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2022/09/24/california-has-replaced-florida-as-the-butt-of-americas-jokes/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Cooke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Forget Florida Man. Nowadays, if one is looking for a state full of political lunacy, social dysfunction and crumbling infrastructure, one must now look elsewhere. One must look to California.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[New Yorkers Can't Stand That Florida Is New Nexus of U.S.]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2022/06/18/new-yorkers-cant-stand-florida-being-the-new-nexus-of-us/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Cooke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I've been in Florida for five years now, and I wouldn't return for anything.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Dangers of Foreign Policy Wishful Thinking]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2022/03/02/beware-wishful-thinking-when-it-comes-to-the-ukraine-crisis/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Cooke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The sad truth is that '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' myself included, of course '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' we really do not know as much about what is happening in Ukraine as we'd like to.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Dems Are Trying With Budget Will Be a Catastrophe]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/why-arent-americans-protesting-in-the-streets/ar-AAOKOlM</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Cooke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' a question for any American who is capable of thinking past next week: Why, in the ever-loving'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' hell, are you not out in the streets, protesting peacefully against what the Democrats in Washington are trying to do to the federal budget?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Stats Defy Dems' Spin on Mask Mandates and Lockdowns]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/08/the-bitter-truth-theres-still-no-rhyme-or-reason-to-covid-19/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Cooke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The stats defy the spin: This pandemic does not hinge on whether the governor is a Democrat or Republican, whether restrictions are tight or loose. It does not care.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[CNN Makes Itself Complicit in Biden's Flagrant Lawbreaking]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/cnn-makes-itself-complicit-in-joe-bidens-flagrant-lawbreaking/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Cooke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Apparently, Biden violating his oath of office is just one of those 'classic Washington fudges' that 'presidents, especially Democrats, have improvised.']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rebekah Jones, the Covid Whistleblower Who Wasn't]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/05/rebekah-jones-the-covid-whistleblower-who-wasnt/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Cooke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The former dashboard manager alleges a vast data conspiracy in Florida; not a word of it is true.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Biden Con Job]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/04/bidens-con-against-america/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Cooke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One-hundred days in, Biden's radical presidency makes clear that his campaign was, in fact, a fraud.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Flirting With Suicide in the Midterms]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-democrats-are-flirting-with-suicide-in-the-midterms/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Cooke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With such narrow majorities, this really is no time for the Democrats to make a suicide charge. And yet, they persist.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['60 Minutes' Shows No Remorse for Corrupt DeSantis Smear]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/04/60-minutes-shows-absolutely-no-remorse-for-its-corrupt-desantis-smear/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Cooke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What CBS did is similar to what someone staging a fake hate crime does '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' fabricate evidence in an attempt to illustrate a supposedly 'broader truth.']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Takes a Dark Turn on Blowing Up the Court]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/joe-biden-takes-a-dark-turn-on-blowing-up-the-court/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Cooke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Now voters don't deserve to know his position. This transmutes an untenable position into a downright nefarious one.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Media Are Lying About Trump's Mt. Rushmore Speech]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/senator-duckworth-and-most-of-the-press-are-lying-about-trumps-speech/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Cooke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the truth matters, it matters all the time, including when reporting on Donald Trump.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cheers for Britain &amp; the Tory Blowout of Historic Proportions]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2019/12/13/behind-the-tory-blowout-why-british-conservatives-dominated-this-election/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Cooke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is no better word to describe the scale of'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the Conservative Party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s victory in Britain'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s general election'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Thursday than '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'blowout.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' This was a mauling. A drubbing. A pummeling of historic proportions and surprising depth.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Max Boot's Dishonesty]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/max-boots-dishonesty/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Cooke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Max Boot is a narcissistic, dishonest, calculating, manipulative writer who engages in the same willfully dishonorable conduct he claims to disdain in others.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The New Yorker's Grossly Irresponsible Story]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/on-the-new-yorkers-grossly-irresponsible-story/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Cooke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Judge Kavanaugh labels The New Yorker'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s report a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'smear, plain and simple.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' He should be applauded for his restraint. I am struggling to remember reading a less responsible piece of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'journalism'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' in a major outlet.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Press Disgraces Itself in Pursuit of Ron DeSantis]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/ron-desantis-press-gins-up-outrage-disgraces-itself/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Cooke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I second Rich'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s defense of Ron DeSantis, and want to add my own exasperation at the rank dishonesty and profound irresponsibility on display from the media outlets that have run with the attack.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Unserious Face of an Unserious Movement]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-socialist-face-unserious-movement/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Cooke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the Great Young Hope progressives deserve.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Samantha Bee and the Word Games Liberals Play]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/samantha-bee-ivanka-comments-double-standard-clear/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Cooke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Do you ever get the impression that the rules of the game are being made up on the fly?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Memo to Morons: 'Anglo-American' a Common Legal Term]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/456351/those-outraged-term-anglo-american-are-only-betraying-their-own-ignorance</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Cooke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jeff Sessions is under fire today for having used a term correctly, appropriately, and in its entirely proper context. Per CNN, Sessions told the National Sheriffs Association: I want to thank every sheriff in America. Since our founding, the independently elected sheriff has been the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There's No 'Nazi' Exception to the First Amendment]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/450541/piers-morgan-vs-first-amendment-again</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Cooke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Piers Morgan is at it again: I understand the purpose very well. I don't think it should be used to protect Nazis. https://t.co/smPEGEdUNg '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 16, 2017 What these Nazis did in Charlottesville is not free speech. If America doesn't wake up to this...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Of Course Hillary Clinton Wants to Abolish the 2nd Amendment]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/438836/course-hillary-wants-abolish-second-amendment</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Cooke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Before he made his reprehensible '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Second Amendment people'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' joke yesterday, Donald Trump said once again that Hillary Clinton wants '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'to abolish, essentially abolish the Second Amendment.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Whenever Trump says this the press works itself up into a tizzy, the typical...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Clintons: America's Luckiest Political Family]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/438648/hillary-clinton-bill-clinton-lucky-politicians</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Cooke</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'Ability,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Napoleon Bonaparte is said to have proposed, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'is of little account without opportunity.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' In our modern vernacular, this idea would be put a trifle differently: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'You can be good,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' we might posit, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'but you also need to be lucky.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Has there...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Few Thoughts on the Killing of Philando Castile]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/437559/few-thoughts-killing-philando-castile</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Cooke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A horrible story from Minnesota, as reported by the Washington Post:A Minnesota traffic stop turned deadly Wednesday evening when a police officer opened fire on a black driver.The victim, 32-year-old Philando Castile, died at a Minneapolis hospital, a family member told The Washington...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Brexit Vote Was Just the Beginning]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/437082/brexit-uk-eu-referendum-vote-beginning</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Cooke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[London, England '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' So, what now?The immediate answer is: Nothing. As the prime minister made clear in his resignation speech this morning, it will be months before the government triggers Article 50 and initiates withdrawal proceedings, and, even after it has done that, progress is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Britain Is a House Divided]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/436954/britain-european-union-referendum-splits-nation-brexit-vote</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Cooke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[London, England '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? I have been in England for only one-and-a-half days, and it is already clear to me that the Brexit debate has by no means represented business as usual. Customarily, British political affairs are milquetoast affairs, with little of the vitriol or panache that marks...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Time for an Anti-Trump Manhattan Project]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/431858/donald-trump-2016-campaign-must-be-stopped</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Cooke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the last eight months or so, a significant portion of the Republican party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s voters have been in thrall to a bizarre, Occupy-esque conspiracy theory, which holds as its central thesis that sabotage and pusillanimity are the root causes of the Right'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s recent woes. In this...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our Presidents Are Beginning to Act Like Kings]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/428909/royal-presidency-presidents-act-kings</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Cooke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the passage of time were a reliable guarantor of increasing human freedom, we would expect history to look a little different than it does. In school, we would have learned that the Englishmen of Charles I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s reign were better off than their Elizabethan grandparents; that the...]]></description>
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