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							<title><![CDATA[French Alliance of Leftists, Muslims Is a Warning]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2026/10/05/the-riots-in-france-are-a-warning-for-america/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Red-Green alliance of leftists and Muslims is staging a show of force, rioting in the streets of France. Pay attention, we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re next.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Left Doesn't Know What Education Is Supposed To Be]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2026/09/23/nikole-hannah-jones-doesnt-know-what-an-education-is-supposed-to-be/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In classical terms, the purpose of education is to impart not just knowledge but also virtue. For NHJ, it's just a credentialing mechanism.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Learning Wrong Lessons From Third World]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2026/08/12/the-problem-with-dsa-democrats-isnt-socialism-its-third-worldism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Decades of immigration from Muslim-majority Third World countries has turned the Democrats into the party of militant anti-Americanism.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Can't Recover Until Fauci Is Held Accountable]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2026/07/29/unless-fauci-is-held-accountable-america-will-never-recover-from-his-lies/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Because of Fauci, the U.S. government's disastrous pandemic response was based on a tangled web of lies and subterfuge.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Victory in Iran Depends on More Than Military Dominance]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2026/03/19/victory-in-iran-depends-on-more-than-u-s-military-dominance/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[American strategic power has always been a question not just of battlefield prowess but also of public opinion.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Go to War If We 'Obliterated' Iran's Nukes Last June?]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2026/02/27/trump-said-we-obliterated-irans-nuclear-program-last-june-so-why-are-we-about-to-go-war/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The administration's justifications for action against Iran keep shifting. Why can't we get a straight answer?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Agitating for Insurrection, Political Vigilantism]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2026/01/08/top-democrats-are-agitating-for-insurrection-and-political-vigilantism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats seem to think that laws and policies they don't like can be thwarted by an angry mob or an insurrectionist governor.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Maduro Raid a Win for America First Anti-Interventionism]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2026/01/06/the-venezuela-raid-was-a-win-for-america-first-anti-interventionism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[American military power should be used to secure and safeguard American interests. That's what happened in Caracas.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Bush, McConnell GOP Want Their Foreign Policy Back]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2025/11/04/the-attacks-on-heritage-and-kevin-roberts-are-really-about-foreign-policy-and-j-d-vance/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Genuine concern about antisemitism on the right is being hijacked by neocons to attack J.D. Vance in hopes of re-taking control of the GOP.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Intelligence Community Needs To Be Dismantled]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/24/the-intelligence-community-needs-to-be-dismantled/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Revelations about the Russia collusion hoax confirm our intel agencies are incompatible with democratic self-government and the rule of law.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Was Never Fit for Office]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/15/biden-was-never-fit-for-office-to-begin-with/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Who approved the Biden administration's 11th-hour clemency decisions and authorized use of the autopen? Because it certainly wasn't Biden.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Not Everyone Can Become an American]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/11/it-should-be-obvious-by-now-that-not-everyone-can-become-an-american/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We have to reject the toxic multicultural ideology, popular for many decades, that degrades citizenship to mere process neutralism.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Discredited Neocon Talking Points From Iraq War Are Back]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2025/06/18/discredited-neocon-talking-points-from-the-iraq-war-are-back-lazily-re-purposed-for-iran/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[All the same regime-change rhetoric used to sell the Iraq war in 2003 is now being used to push us into the Israel-Iran war.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Warning About the Left's True Intentions]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/16/the-left-ultimately-just-wants-to-throw-conservatives-in-prison/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The story of a Yale graduate charged for allegedly using a racial slur should stand as a warning about the left's true intentions.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Heralds the End of Failed Neocon Foreign Policy]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/14/trumps-riyadh-speech-heralds-the-end-of-failed-neocon-foreign-policy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Truly looking out for American interests means refraining from trying to remake foreign countries in our own image.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bari Weiss Should Stick To Policing the Woke Left]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/06/against-bari-weiss-ism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Anti-woke liberals are positioning themselves as gatekeepers on the right. We should reject their fake process neutralism, and ignore them.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Immigration Without Assimilation Is Recipe for Suicide]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/30/mass-immigration-without-assimilation-is-a-recipe-for-national-suicide/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If we don't insist on the total assimilation and Americanization of our immigrants, we'll cease to be America and become something else.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Papal Conclave Is a Battle for Civilization]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/24/the-papal-conclave-is-a-battle-not-just-for-the-catholic-church-but-for-western-civilization/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On one side are the aging liberal revolutionaries. On the other side are faithful cardinals determined to protect the Catholic faith.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What We Know and What We Don't About January 6]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/04/05/what_we_know_and_what_we_dont_about_january_6_152593.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The following is adapted from a talk delivered at a Hillsdale College luncheon in Anchorage, Alaska, on January 22, 2025.
Just hours after his inauguration on January 20, President Trump pardoned more than 1,500 people convicted of offenses related to the events of January 6, 2021. He...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Can't Help But Admit They Support Censorship]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2025/03/26/senate-dems-claim-censorship-industrial-complex-never-happened-and-if-it-did-it-was-a-good-thing/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At a Senate Judiciary hearing, Democrats can't help but admit they support government censorship of free speech.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Border Bill Was Never Necessary]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2025/03/05/trump-proves-the-border-bill-pushed-by-gop-leaders-under-biden-was-never-necessary/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In just six weeks under Trump, illegal immigration has fallen to record lows. Turns out we didn't need Congress to act to secure the border.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Start Treating Mexico Like a Hostile Foreign Power]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2025/01/30/its-time-to-start-treating-mexico-like-a-hostile-foreign-power/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We're never going to have peace and security on our southern border until we deal with the corrupt and criminal elements that run Mexico.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Birthright Citizenship Is a Pernicious Lie]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2025/01/24/birthright-citizenship-is-a-pernicious-lie-thats-destroying-america/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Beyond the legal arguments about the 14th Amendment is the moral argument: who is America for, and what makes someone an American?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Could Have Secured the Border at Any Time]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2025/01/21/trumps-executive-orders-on-immigration-prove-biden-could-have-secured-the-border-at-any-time/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Chaos on the border and mass illegal immigration were policy outcomes the Biden administration chose on purpose.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dispatch, Bulwark, Liz Cheney Grifters Facing Hard Times]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2024/11/12/hard-times-ahead-for-the-dispatch-the-bulwark-and-the-rest-of-the-liz-cheney-grifters/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The dwindling Never Trump faction has nothing left to offer but contempt for Trump voters and fantasies of destroying the Constitution.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Harris Believes America's Foundation Was Slavery]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2024/10/07/kamala-harris-claims-to-love-america-but-her-record-shows-she-hates-it/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For years, Harris has consistently held anti-American views and pushed policies that undercut her claim to love America.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Scary Lack of Accountability After Trump Almost Killed]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/23/with-joe-biden-out-of-sight-we-effectively-have-no-president-right-now/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's not just that Democrat Party elites ended Biden's reelection campaign, they also ended his presidency.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Supreme Court Is Not Going To Save You]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2024/06/26/the-supreme-court-is-not-going-to-save-you/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Don't repose your hopes for the survival of the republic and our Constitution in an elusive conservative majority of black-robed justices.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrat Lawyers Are Running Rings Around Republicans]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/31/after-trumps-conviction-republicans-should-do-to-democrats-what-they-did-to-him/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Either you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re willing to jail Democrats on the same terms they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re using to jail Trump, or you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re merely controlled opposition.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If GOP Loses House Majority, It's Speaker Johnson's Fault]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2024/04/18/if-the-gop-loses-its-house-majority-its-speaker-johnsons-fault/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[And actually, we'd be better off with a Democrat-controlled Congress (and an actual GOP opposition) than whatever this is.]]></description>
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