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<title><![CDATA[Debra J. Saunders - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/31125.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Debra J. Saunders]]></description><category domain="31125">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA['Free Media' for Trump Feels Like 2016 Again]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/01/18/free_media_for_trump_feels_like_2016_again_150340.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Debra J. Saunders</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- When The Associated Press called Monday's Iowa caucus for Donald Trump around 5:30 p.m. Pacific -- a half-hour into the voting and before many Iowa Republicans had cast their ballots -- it must have felt like a slap in the face for the other candidates in the race.
Ron...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hunter Biden: Too Little Too Late]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/06/22/hunter_biden_too_little_too_late_149387.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Debra J. Saunders</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The outrage isn't that President Joe Biden's son Hunter got a comparatively light sentence for paying his 2017 and 2018 taxes late -- late meaning after Dad got elected president -- when he earned more than $1.5 million annually. Or that Biden the Younger is poised to plead guilty to a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Return to Soft on Crime?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/04/20/a_return_to_soft_on_crime_149130.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Debra J. Saunders</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 1993, Richard Allen Davis, an ex-con with an 11-page rap sheet, broke into a Petaluma home, kidnapped Polly Klaas, 12, then strangled her to death.
It was a horrific crime -- a sweet child snatched during a slumber party so that she could die at the hands of a random pervert -- that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bud Light: Know Thyself]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/04/13/bud_light_know_thyself_149102.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Debra J. Saunders</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Bud Light partnership with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney prompts right-wing backlash," reads an NBC headline.
No wonder so many Americans do not trust the news media. If many Americans are taken aback when shown Bud Light's new spokesperson Dylan Mulvaney -- who has documented her...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Your Audience Wants You To Lie]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/02/23/when_your_audience_wants_you_to_lie_148899.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Debra J. Saunders</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What happens when a news network believes that its viewers want anchors and reporters to lie rather than report the truth?
The answer can be gleaned in communications between Fox News stars and suits released last week by Dominion Voting Systems as part of its $1.6 billion defamation...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[IOU USA]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/02/09/iou_usa_148837.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Debra J. Saunders</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We're all guilty. President Joe Biden is guilty. Former President Donald Trump was guilty. Both parties are guilty. I am guilty, and you are, too.
We all are guilty, because we have done little to nothing while the nation's national debt exceeds $31 trillion.
The result: The share of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Antifa Means Pro-Riot]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/01/26/antifa_means_pro-riot_148776.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Debra J. Saunders</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Atlanta Police are not sugar-coating the violent protests that have plagued the city this month. Saturday the department charged six individuals on eight counts that include "interference with government property" and "domestic terrorism," both felonies.
They are terrorists, Atlanta...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dead Names and Gender Dysphoria]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/01/19/dead_names_and_gender_dysphoria_148754.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Debra J. Saunders</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Amy says her daughter was 15 --and just broken up with her boyfriend -- when her daughter told her, "I'm tran, and I need a new name." It didn't seem real to Amy. "This was coming from somewhere else. It wasn't organic," Amy revealed in a new documentary.
When Helen's son Jonas, then 4,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Last Days of Pompeii]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/12/29/trumps_last_days_of_pompeii_148666.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Debra J. Saunders</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The base believes President Donald Trump won in 2020 in part because the base thinks that Trump believes he won in 2020. The House Jan. 6 report, produced by an overwhelmingly Democratic committee, however, documents the many times Trump was informed that his claims of fraud were bogus,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Elon Musk for House Speaker]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/12/22/elon_musk_for_house_speaker_148640.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Debra J. Saunders</author>
							<description><![CDATA[RINO stands for Republican in Name Only, although lately the term means something far different than a Republican who votes like a Democrat. For many in the pro-Trump base, it seems, RINO is a Republican who can win elections. Like that's a bad thing.
Now apparently, House Minority...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Prepare for Legal Marijuana]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/12/08/prepare_for_legal_marijuana_148578.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Debra J. Saunders</author>
							<description><![CDATA[New House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos he believes the soon-to-be GOP-controlled House could pass marijuana reform in the next term.
Yes, legalization could be a bipartisan issue -- just the sort of measure Jeffries says he wants to make...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Keep the Statute of Limitations -- for Women's Sake]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/12/01/keep_the_statute_of_limitations_--_for_womens_sake_148537.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Debra J. Saunders</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Forget the statute of limitations in New York. On Thanksgiving, the Empire State's Adult Survivors Act became law -- which gives adults who were sexually assaulted outside the statute of limitations a year to file civil lawsuits against their alleged assailants and their...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Should Not Run Again. Trump, Too]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/11/10/biden_should_not_run_again_trump_too_148452.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Debra J. Saunders</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Former President Donald Trump did not have a good night Tuesday.
As President Joe Biden noted during a Wednesday press briefing, "While the press and pundits are predicting a giant red wave, it didn't happen."
The fact that Democrats outperformed the usual midterm losses apparently gave...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's Worse: Big Government or Big Tech? Both]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/10/27/whats_worse_big_government_or_big_tech_both_148377.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Debra J. Saunders</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When the federal government gets together with social media giants to censor critics of the government, is that free speech or censorship?
A case moving its way through the federal court system argues it's censorship -- a violation of Americans' First Amendment right, not only to free...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[End Homelessness, Inc.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/10/13/end_homelessness_inc_148313.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Debra J. Saunders</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A not small percentage of homeless adults first experienced homelessness as children. The figure is 20% for homeless adults in Los Angeles, 18% for Seattle and Santa Cruz and 15% in San Francisco, according to the Department of Education.
They grew up sleeping on other families' couches...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[First the Pandemic, Then the Purge]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/10/06/first_the_pandemic_then_the_purge_148288.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Debra J. Saunders</author>
							<description><![CDATA["The pandemic is over, but the purge continues," Stephen Crampton, senior counsel for the conservative Thomas More Society told me.
We were talking about Zach Loesch, a Coast Guard aviation survival technician -- a real hero about to lose his job because he won't betray his deeply held...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Loan Forgiveness With Other People's Money]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/09/29/loan_forgiveness_with_other_peoples_money_148261.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Debra J. Saunders</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There was a time in America, more than a decade ago, when horror stories of six-figure student debt racked up by graduates with faint prospects and no idea how they'd repay the money led to a rethinking about the cost of higher education.
The average student debt at the time was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Department of Justice? Hardly]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/09/22/biden_department_of_justice_hardly_148222.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Debra J. Saunders</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Joe Biden's Department of Justice is going after conservatives in a way eerily reminiscent of the tactics employed when the state of Alabama went after the NAACP in the 1950s.
In 1956, Alabama did not pass a law to shutter the civil rights group; it simply asked for the group's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stop the Twitterverse, I Want To Get Off]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/09/15/stop_the_twitterverse_i_want_to_get_off_148194.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Debra J. Saunders</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Everyone hates Twitter. Twitter users hate Twitter.
I hate Twitter, and I've posted nearly 65,000 tweets and retweets.
Republicans and Democrats hate Twitter -- which tells you something.
Everyone knows the San Francisco based social-media platform leans left. At a Senate Judiciary...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Loser Party]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/09/08/the_loser_party_148158.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Debra J. Saunders</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Former President Donald Trump is not on the ballot as a Senate candidate this year. And yet Wednesday, Trump's mug was all over the website for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the GOP organization that is supposed to help flip the Senate back into Republican hands.
During...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No One Left to Trust]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/08/24/no_one_left_to_trust_148096.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Debra J. Saunders</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump's Florida home, big media have been churning out stories about how the raid on Trump's turf has pushed some conservatives to abandon their support for law enforcement.
"GOP Trump supporters escalate dark rhetoric after FBI...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats and Their Dirty Tricks]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/08/03/democrats_and_their_dirty_tricks_147992.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Debra J. Saunders</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Cynical Democrats have cause to rejoice.
They decry Republican voters who embrace GOP candidates who spout the lie that former President Donald Trump won the 2020 election.
At the same time, they do their utmost to make sure big-lie believers win GOP primaries so that Democrats are more...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Like a Dystopia, Only California]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/07/27/like_a_dystopia_only_california_147960.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Debra J. Saunders</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There were 195 fires in homeless encampments in Oakland, California, over two years that ended in March. In April, someone died in a fire sparked by the toxic-stew squalor in the area known as Wood Street.
There are frequent fires under freeways, where an interchange near the Bay Bridge...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Rehabilitation of a Pariah]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/07/20/the_rehabilitation_of_a_pariah_147928.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Debra J. Saunders</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Former President Donald Trump dispensed with the usual handwringing usually on display when U.S. presidents have cozied up to Saudi Arabia. He purposefully began his first trip abroad in Riyadh.
The author of an executive order known as the Muslim ban even joined in during a ceremonial...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Voters Prefer to Think Elections Are Corrupt]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/07/13/gop_voters_prefer_to_think_elections_are_corrupt_147887.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Debra J. Saunders</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Many on the right have bashed the House Committee looking into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot for having too few Republicans and leaning heavily on edited videotapes of former Trump staffers. There's so much editing, viewers don't know what they're missing.
The hearings nonetheless have been a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Defund the Cartels]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/06/29/defund_the_cartels_147820.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Debra J. Saunders</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After a tractor-trailer packed with more than 60 migrants was found abandoned in San Antonio, reporters pressed White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre for a reaction. As of this writing, 53 have been declared dead.
En route to Madrid with President Joe Biden, Jean-Pierre rightly...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Red-State Badge of Courage]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/06/22/the_red-state_badge_of_courage_147789.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Debra J. Saunders</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens recently released perhaps the most tasteless political ad ever as he runs in the GOP primary for U.S. Senate.
The ad begins with the Republican hopeful, who resigned the governorship amid revelations of an extra-marital affair in 2018, standing with a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Student Loan Party]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/06/08/the_student_loan_party_147720.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Debra J. Saunders</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Joe Biden is poised to forgive $10,000 in student loan debt for borrowers who earn less than $150,000 per year, or $300,000 per couple, according to multiple news reports.
The median household income in America was $67,521 in 2020 according to the Census Bureau. The very fact...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Spark the Next World War?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/06/01/will_russias_invasion_of_ukraine_spark_the_next_world_war_147680.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Debra J. Saunders</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For years, Jonas Ohman, who founded the Blue/Yellow NGO after Russia invaded Crimea in 2014, believed the West considered Ukraine as "a nuisance." He believed he understood the constant Russian threat to Ukraine, but the West underappreciated the danger.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Misses the Mark]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/05/25/biden_misses_the_mark_147655.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Debra J. Saunders</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After President Joe Biden returned to the White House from an overseas trip Tuesday night, he addressed the horrible mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Tuesday that left 19 elementary school students and two teachers dead.
"I am sick and tired of it," Biden said...]]></description>
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