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<title><![CDATA[David Mastio - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/31654.xml</link><description><![CDATA[David Mastio]]></description><category domain="31654">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Dem Darling Pritzker's Record Will Repel Blue-Collar Voters]]></title>
							<link>https://www.kansas.com/opinion/article305854471.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Mastio</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Billionaire Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is enjoying a moment in the soft-focus sunlight of rising national polls and fawning press. He'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s the antidote to Donald Trump for Democrats. That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a mirage.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stop Torching Teslas. It Taints the Liberal Brand]]></title>
							<link>https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/david-mastio/article302389749.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Mastio</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Tesla cars first hit the streets, they sparked a revolution, taking electric vehicles from the laughable Toyota Prius to the sexy Model Y. Now, the sleek electric vehicles, once a granola-crunching, Birkenstock-wearing icon of the future, are being attacked in Kansas City, Las Vegas...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why USA Today Demoted Me for a Tweet]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2022/06/23/usa-today-demoted-me-for-a-tweet-because-the-companys-woke-newsrooms-are-out-of-touch-with-readers/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Mastio</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If I wanted to keep any job at USA Today, my bosses informed me, I needed to delete these offensive tweets because they were causing pain to the LGBTQ activists, journalists on our staff.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Horror Story of Abortionist Ulrich Klopfer Being Ignored]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/09/18/ulrich-klopfer-abortion-gosnell-buttigieg-fetal-remains-illinois-indiana-column/2355359001/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Mastio</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is a story out of a horror movie: A garage full of baby parts, a sketchy rural abortionist and a culture that avoids hard questions.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama Is Right About Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/08/04/obama-trump-unqualified-endorse-republican-ryan-mccain-sisters-poor-executive-order-column/88032392/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Mastio</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama is right. Donald Trump is unfit to be president. Republicans who have already endorsed the volatile nominee need to rethink. Fast.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Just as the current occupant of the White House was in 2008, Trump is dangerously unqualified. But unlike the state legislator turned...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Think Trump's Troopers Are Racist? Don't Be So Smug]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/02/25/donald-trump-supporters-racist-poll-yougov-economist-column/80944446/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Mastio</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Everyone who already thought that Donald Trump and his growing crowd of unwashed supporters were a bunch of racists now has confirmation from The New York Times: Nearly 20% of Trump backers nationwide disapprove of President Abe Lincoln'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Civil War executive order freeing the slaves...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Flint Lead Crisis Getting a Tad Overblown]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/01/22/flint-water-lead-poison-michigan-health-column/79019134/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Mastio</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Now that the leaching of poisonous lead into the tap water of Flint, Mich.,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' has been declared a national emergency, it might be time to dial back the panic just a notch (or two).Flint's'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 8,000 children have not had their lives destroyed.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Jesse Jackson can roll up his crime tape....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Oops! Carson's Not Actually Wrong About Jefferson]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/11/23/ben-carson-jefferson-constitution-column/76271256/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Mastio</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ha, ha, ha.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Boy, that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Ben'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Carson sure made a fool of himself on C-Span the other day. He said Thomas Jefferson "tried to craft our Constitution in a way that it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' would control people's natural tendencies."'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Critics pounced.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Jefferson didn't craft our Constitution, they said. He...]]></description>
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