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<title><![CDATA[Scott McKay - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/28703.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Scott McKay]]></description><category domain="28703">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Sarah Sanders Steps in It With Welfare Ad]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/sarah-sanders-steps-in-it-just-before-the-midterms/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott McKay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[And it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a shame, because her welfare-to-work policy is one worth running on.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mark Carney's Smuggler's Blues]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/mark-carneys-smugglers-blues/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott McKay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Canada'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s tariff tantrum has a China problem.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hong, Kornacki and Milwaukee's Missing Election Results]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/poor-francesca-hong-a-victim-of-milwaukees-missing-election-results/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott McKay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ll admit it '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m shocked and saddened by what happened to poor Francesca Hong on Tuesday night, and I think there has to be accountability for the people who did it to her.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[You Simply Cannot Give Power to Lunatics]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/you-simply-cannot-give-power-to-lunatics/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott McKay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m looking around the world right now, and what I see isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t all bad. In fact, there are lots of indications of positive things happening or about to happen. What strikes me, though, in seeing the hopeful signs, is the contrast between those and the, er'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';' other things going...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Castroist Playbook Comes to America]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/the-castroist-playbook-comes-to-america/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott McKay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani and the DSA'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s vision echoes a revolutionary model forged by Fidel Castro.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Zero Sympathy for Dems&rsquo; Political Death March]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/zero-sympathy-for-the-democrats-political-death-march/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott McKay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After years of empowering the fringe, Democrat insiders are discovering that the monsters they cultivated are now consuming them.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[60 Minutes Is Burning. Bring Marshmallows]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/60-minutes-is-burning-bring-marshmallows/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott McKay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Long-time readers of this space surely know of my delight in the demise of CBS News and 60 Minutes; I give them far too much attention based on the merits. Of late, though, the misfortunes of the elite communists being slowly turned out of the newsroom at the organ Walter Cronkite and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Grifters, Activism and Thomas Massie]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/grifters-activism-and-thomas-massie/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott McKay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t a column about Thomas Massie. Not really. But he does figure into the analysis, especially since the voters of his Kentucky congressional district decided they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d had enough of him and voted him out of office in the Republican primary election Tuesday night.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Ceasefire or a Strategic Pause?]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/it-may-not-be-a-ceasefire-it-might-be-a-strategic-pause/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott McKay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On April 17 over Kharg Island there will be a new moon, perfect conditions for Navy SEALs to do their work.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Grand Senate Bargain?]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/five-quick-things-the-grand-senate-bargain/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scott McKay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' yesterday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s column'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' discussing the utter weirdness of the Democrats'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' gay-preacher Senate nominee in Texas, James Talarico, I floated a rumor that had been circulating that President Trump would endorse incumbent Republican John Cornyn in return for some specific...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Now There Are Truly Two Americas]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/sotu-2026-now-there-are-truly-two-americas/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scott McKay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Leading up to President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s State of the Union address Tuesday night, a speech intended to celebrate 250 years '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' a quarter-millennium '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' of American success, there hadn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t been this much caterwauling about an elected president by Democrats since Richard Nixon.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Absurdities of Birthright Citizenship]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/the-absurdities-of-birthright-citizenship/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scott McKay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, our friends at The Federalist ran a couple of pieces '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' one by Brianna Lyman and the other by John Daniel Davidson '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' on the opportunity currently before the U.S. Supreme Court with respect to birthright citizenship and the legal absurdities our current practice...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kiffin to LSU Is a Big Win for College Football]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/lane-kiffin-to-lsu-is-a-massive-win-for-college-football/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scott McKay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the last 10 days, as the regular season of college football has come to a close, a rumbling earthquake has been building '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' the main tremor of which struck, with a ground zero in Oxford, Mississippi, on Sunday.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Condemn the Texas Hill Country River Ghouls]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/the-texas-hill-country-river-ghouls-must-be-condemned/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott McKay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Exploiting the deaths of innocents to make your political argument is evil.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs a Traitor?]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/five-quick-things-is-katie-hobbs-a-traitor/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott McKay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Boy, we sure are finding lots of items to pick from these days when it comes to the 5QT, aren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t we?It reminds me of that famous Mandy Patinkin line from The Princess Bride'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Take the Win on the Big Beautiful Bill]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/take-the-win-on-the-big-beautiful-bill/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott McKay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This is the Big Beautiful Bill you've heard so much about. And it's certainly big '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' over 1,100 pages. Is it beautiful? Not really. But it is the bill. And it isn't all that useful to complain about the thing. Some of the people out there screeching over its passage need a bit of a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Drug-Price EO Should've Happened Decades Ago]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/trump-drug-price-eo-should-have-happened-decades-ago/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott McKay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What's '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'free market'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' about Americans paying the tab for the rest of the world'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s prescription drugs?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[AOC 2028? Yes, Please!]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/five-quick-things-aoc-2028-yes-please/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott McKay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A few things we can say about this. First, yeah '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' she's going to run for president. And she'll be a top-tier candidate on the Democrat side, which says a great deal more about the expected 2028 field than it does about AOC.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Utterly Contemptuous of the American People]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/the-masochistic-democrats-hate-you-and-beg-you-to-hate-them-back/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott McKay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats will throw all of their money and political power behind you.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Not Getting Better for Margaret Brennan]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/how-much-longer-cbs-going-carry-margaret-brennan/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott McKay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This column has done the not-so-important work of chronicling the ignominious performance of CBS News anchor Margaret Brennan, at least since she made herself]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Chief Justice Roberts Has Made a Mess]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/this-mess-is-your-own-making-chief-justice-roberts/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott McKay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Several days back, when one of the near-countless cases of judicial overreach in which partisan Democrat operatives in black robes issued absurd orders delaying presidential orders involving immigration issues or spending reforms or other changes well within the sole purview of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Entitlement Fraud Now a Stated Aim of Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/entitlement-fraud-now-stated-aim-democrat-party/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott McKay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What kind of a person doesn't support eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse in government spending that ultimately costs taxpayers more?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Evil People Who Surround and Command Zelensky]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/the-evil-people-surrounding-volodymyr-zelenskyy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scott McKay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Zelenskyy blew up this meeting because he was told to by a cabal of globalist elites who are desperate to keep this war going.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bari Weiss Takes a Wrong Turn]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/oh-hush-bari/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scott McKay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'll begin this by saying that I actually like Bari Weiss. I respect the journey she's on, and I think she does some good work. So it's not my intention to]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Glitch McConnell Solo Act]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/five-quick-things-the-glitch-mcconnell-solo-act/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scott McKay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mitch McConnell has a new nickname, and I'm fine with the fact I didn't pick it. I had some pride of ownership in Morphine Mitch, which was my moniker for him, but given the fact that he can't seem to stand or walk anymore without falling down and breaking something, and he definitely...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pharmahontas on the Warpath at RFK Hearings]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/pharmahontas-on-the-warpath-at-the-rfk-jr-hearings/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scott McKay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The other way to regulate economic behavior is within the court system. Namely, that trial lawyers like RFK Jr. take the cases of those harmed by the conduct]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Must Be the End of the Road for McConnell]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/this-has-to-be-the-end-of-the-road-for-mitch-mcconnell/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scott McKay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mitch McConnell has to be finished as the caucus leader for the Republicans in the Senate. Now. He has to resign.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[DeSantis Must Help Destroy Haley and the Corrupt Donor Class]]></title>
							<link>https://1ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fspectator.org%2Fdesantis-must-stay-in-the-race%2F</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scott McKay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[That's why DeSantis shouldn't heed the calls from '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' among others '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' the Wall Street Journal to drop out of the race.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Barack's Lt: The Racism, Revenge &amp; Ruin of Claudine Gay]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/baracks-lieutenant-the-racism-revenge-and-ruin-of-claudine-gay/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Scott McKay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Claudine Gay got the job running Harvard on the strength of identity politics and identity politics alone.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Do Dems Love the IRS More Than They Do Israel?]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/democrats-love-the-irs-more-than-they-love-israel/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Scott McKay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why aren't Democrats willing to slow the growth of the IRS so that the USA can come to Israel's rescue with that $15 billion?]]></description>
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