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							<title><![CDATA[The Dwindling NeverTrumpers Remind Us Why Trump Won]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bruce Thornton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Three years after outsider Donald Trump blew up the political world with his implausible victory over the consummate insider, Hillary Clinton, many establishment Republicans still don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t get it. From their elite cocoon, they continue to indulge the hauteur that put off ordinary...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Perils of International Idealism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/05/01/the_perils_of_international_idealism_122480.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bruce Thornton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[American foreign policy could use a dose of hard-nosed realism.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
United States foreign policy has been defined lately by serial failures. Russian President Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea and appears to be preparing a reprise in eastern Ukraine, and possibly in the Baltic states. Syrian...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Watching the Middle East Implode]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/09/12/watching_the_middle_east_implode_119922.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bruce Thornton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The revolutions against dictators in the Middle East dubbed the Arab Spring have degenerated into a complex, bloody m'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('©').';'lange of coups and counter-coups, as have happened in Egypt; vicious civil wars, like the current conflict in Syria; a resurgence of jihadists gaining footholds in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Christian Tragedy in the Muslim World]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/07/26/christian_tragedy_in_the_muslim_world_119393.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bruce Thornton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Few people realize that we are today living through the largest persecution of Christians in history, worse even than the famous attacks under ancient Roman emperors like Diocletian and Nero. Estimates of the numbers of Christians under assault range from 100-200 million. According to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our Race-Hack President]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/07/23/our_race-hack_president_119340.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bruce Thornton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As protests against the Zimmerman verdict spread, along with the vandalism and shopping sprees that progressives call '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'demonstrations,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' the President last Friday made some remarks that reinforced all the race-hack rhetoric keeping this country racially divided and most blacks...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Race-Industry Leeches]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/07/17/race-industry_leeches_119243.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bruce Thornton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The trial of George Zimmerman is over, but the persecution of him by the race industry isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t. The Department of Justice is currently combing through the case to find some pretext, no matter how specious, for charging Zimmerman with a violation of civil-rights laws. No matter that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Senate Immigration Bill: Another Legislative Disaster]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/26/senate_immigration_bill_another_legislative_disaster_118963.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bruce Thornton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'comprehensive immigration reform'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' bill cooked up by the Senate has a decided Obamacare stink to it. Like that disaster, the immigration bill is rushing to solve a whole host of complex problems with a massive, muddled bill few Senators will have the time or inclination to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[John McCain's Syrian Delusions]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/19/john_mccains_syrian_delusions_118876.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bruce Thornton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Following the president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s announcement that we will provide small arms and ammunition to the rebels fighting Bashar al-Assad in Syria, Senator John McCain has intensified his drumbeat for war and demanded even more extensive U.S. involvement, particularly a no-fly zone. But McCain...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Brief History of Media Bias]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/12/a_brief_history_of_media_bias_118781.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bruce Thornton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The revelation that the Department of Justice acquired and read the phone records of Associated Press editors and reporters does not change the obvious fact that the mainstream media have been reliable supporters of the Democratic Party, even if they are unappreciated by the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where's the Patriotic Wrath Over Benghazi?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/07/wheres_the_patriotic_wrath_over_benghazi_118711.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bruce Thornton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Remember Benghazi? When al-Qaeda affiliated jihadists murdered a U.S. ambassador on the anniversary of the al-Qaeda jihadist murder of 3000 Americans? When the jihadists killed two ex-Navy Seals, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, when like the Spartans at Thermopylae they valiantly fought...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Flat-Earth Democrats]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/28/flat-earth_democrats_118584.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bruce Thornton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The victims of the tornado that hit Moore Oklahoma had not even been counted when Democrat politicians made fools of themselves by trying to link the disaster to global warming and Republicans. California Senator Barbara Boxer said, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'This is climate change. We were warned about...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Obama Doctrine: Politics First &amp; American Sin]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/08/the_obama_doctrine_politics_first__american_sin_118289.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bruce Thornton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A segment on Fox News recently raised the question about what constitutes an '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Obama Doctrine'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' on foreign policy, given how feckless and incompetent it has been. The obvious answer is the Obama Doctrine is founded on political expediency, and depends on ad hoc responses to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Signposts on the Road to Decline]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/30/signposts_on_the_road_to_decline_118182.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bruce Thornton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In late 1930 the Tory leadership in Britain'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s governing coalition decided to back independence for India despite the increasing, vicious sectarian violence that graphically showed India was not yet ready for the British to leave. Later, historian A.L. Rowse would link partisan...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Coming Demographic Crisis: What to Expect When No One Is Expecting]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/25/the_coming_demographic_crisis_what_to_expect_when_no_one_is_expecting_118128.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bruce Thornton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For two centuries, overpopulation has haunted the imagination of the modern world. According to Thomas Malthus, writing in 1798, human population growth would always surpass agricultural production, meaning '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'gigantic inevitable famine'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' would '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'with one mighty blow level the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Illusions About Why Muslim Brothers Kill]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/22/illusions_about_why_muslim_brothers_kill_118067.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bruce Thornton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Despite the fervent wishes of the progressive media and the buffoonish David Sirota,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' who hoped'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the culprit was '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'a white guy,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' the terrorists who bombed the Boston Marathon have turned out to be not white, Tea Party, tax-hating bitter clingers, but Chechen Muslims.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Quelle...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[North Korea: A Window Into the Future on Iran]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/19/north_korea_a_window_into_the_future_on_iran_118039.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bruce Thornton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rarely do we get to see the dangerous consequences of appeasing one aggressor unfold at the same time we are appeasing another in exactly the same way. But that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s what we are witnessing today, as our leaders respond to Iran'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s push for nuclear weapons with the same appeasement...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[College: Where Free Speech Goes to Die]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/04/college_where_free_speech_goes_to_die_117271.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bruce Thornton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The value of the university once lay in its providing a nurturing space for what English poet and essayist Matthew Arnold called '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the free play of the mind upon all subjects,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' which would foster the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'instinct prompting [the mind] to try to know the best that is known and...]]></description>
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