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<title><![CDATA[J. Peder Zane - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/33331.xml</link><description><![CDATA[J. Peder Zane]]></description><category domain="33331">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[AI Doom: What, Me Worry?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>J. Peder Zane</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence Doom: What, Me Worry?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>J. Peder Zane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Who knew we were so brave?
Back in the 1950s and 1960s, Americans were freaking out over the threat of thermonuclear war. Books, newspapers, movies, TV shows, and songs warned of the grave threat, inspiring millions to take to the streets to demand peace and sanity. Suburbanites built...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Understanding Islam's Rise in America Without Rancor or Vitriol]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/09/18/understanding_islams_rise_in_america_without_rancor_or_vitriol.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>J. Peder Zane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s unrivaled prosperity and freedom make it hard for us to understand why everyone doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t want to live and think as we do.
Even leftists in the United States who routinely assail our history and institutions share this mindset. Their true ideology might be said to be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Becoming a Peter Pan Nation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/08/28/america_becoming_a_peter_pan_nation_154450.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>J. Peder Zane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I passed some of my happiest days living under communism.
I had no job, but all my needs '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' food, shelter, clothing, education, you name it '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' were provided for. I went to restaurants, took nice trips, and was even given my own spending money. I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m ashamed to say, I even...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Era of Cover-Ups]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/08/07/the_era_of_cover-ups_154399.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>J. Peder Zane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s no mystery in why Dr. Anthony Fauci strove to silence discussion about the origins of COVID-19 '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' he was in full CYA mode because the agency he led had helped fund the Wuhan lab that apparently created the deadly virus. It also seems clear that others in the government...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump and the Authoritarians]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/07/24/trump_and_the_authoritarians_154364.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>J. Peder Zane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A chilling form of authoritarianism has taken deep root across America. Its purveyors claim their high positions make them uniquely qualified to guide the nation. Rejecting the give-and-take of traditional politics, they cast their work as an unassailable sacred trust, delegitimizing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's Truly Radical About America's Revolution]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/07/03/america_needs_a_radical_revolution_154299.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>J. Peder Zane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democratic Socialists are right: This is no time for half measures. If the United States is to thrive for another 250 years, we must commit ourselves to a profoundly radical vision of the future.
Our present divisions, strains, and discontents are so severe, they demand nothing less...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Talking Across the Divide]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/06/12/talking_across_the_divide_154217.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>J. Peder Zane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How we see politics reveals a lot about who we are. But it is less akin to a Rorschach ink blot than one of those reversible images, like the drawing that is both a rabbit and a duck. As messy as society might be, it is not some blob open to any interpretation (at least not yet, anyway)....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Physics of Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/05/29/the_physics_of_politics_154173.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>J. Peder Zane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As conservatives seek to counter the hard-left turn taken by the Democratic Party, it will not be enough to simply point out the grim failures of Marxist-inspired philosophies everywhere they have been tried.
If the soul-crushing and deadly record of Soviet and Chinese communism, of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Left's Disturbing Reaction to a Would-Be Assassin]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/05/01/the_lefts_disturbing_reaction_to_a_would-be_assassin.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>J. Peder Zane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This assassination attempt feels different.
Following the previous attempts on the president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s life, progressives briefly acknowledged that their false and ugly depiction of Donald Trump as a modern-day Hitler with a penchant for rape may have inspired the violence.
One might hope...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[California Dream Turns Nightmare]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/video/2026/04/25/california_dream_turns_nightmare_with_susan_crabtree_1178959.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>J. Peder Zane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On this week'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney speak with RealClearPolitics reporter Susan Crabtree about her new book (co-authored with Jed McFatter) '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Fool'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Pope Plays Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/17/the_pope_plays_politics_154044.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>J. Peder Zane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Chicago politics have taken root in Vatican City.
Pope Leo XIV may be a man of the cloth, but he is also a Southsider, so it is not surprising that he can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t rise completely above the fray. How else to explain his ramped-up criticism of the Iran war right after granting an audience...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Good Information Is Hard To Find]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/03/good_information_is_hard_to_find_154005.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>J. Peder Zane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama pinpointed a central conflict in American politics back in 2004 while talking with a group of Google executives, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Many people '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re just misinformed,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' he said. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'They just don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t have enough information, or they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re not professionals at...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The War Over the War]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/20/the_war_over_the_war_153962.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>J. Peder Zane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I understand why FCC Chair Brendan Carr is threatening the legacy media.
Coverage of the Iran conflict, as with most every other political issue, has become another case study in Trump Derangement Syndrome. War is always messy and mostly unpredictable; the story of success and setback...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Does America Owe the People of Iran?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/04/what_does_america_owe_the_people_of_iran_153906.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>J. Peder Zane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Will President Trump fall prey to the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Pottery Barn Doctrine'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'?
Articulated by Secretary of State Colin Powell in the run-up to the Iraq War, it holds that when you break something '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' in this case, a nation, rather than a vase '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' you own it.
As Trump plans for next steps...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Progressive Protection Racket]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/25/the_progressive_protection_racket_153878.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>J. Peder Zane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Progressives are the last bastion of unbounded exceptionalism. The unblinking moral duty to redeem our country and the world by recasting both in their image reflects a city on a hill, God is on our side sense of manifest destiny that would have made Ronald Reagan and Theodore Roosevelt...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Gordian Knot of Modern Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/06/the_gordian_knot_of_modern_politics_153806.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>J. Peder Zane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Politics is the great leveler: It makes even the most inspired and insightful voices sound banal.
In his hurriedly cobbled-together new song railing against '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'King Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' immigration policies, the supremely talented Bruce Springsteen sounds like a million other angry Blue...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What the Grateful Dead Can Show a Fractured America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/23/what_the_grateful_dead_can_show_a_fractured_america__153746.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>J. Peder Zane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After the last key member of the Grateful Dead, guitarist Bob Weir, died last week at the age of 78, the cascade of loving tributes published far and wide underscored how he and his fellow band of misfits had created a new form of music that personified America.
In our melting pot...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Bold Maduro Raid Achieves Justice]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/09/trumps_bold_maduro_raid_achieves_justice.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>J. Peder Zane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump is the brass-tacks president the world needs now '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' a rare leader who prizes tangible results over empty slogans.
Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s opponents cast him as a dangerous outlier who violates high ideals they claim to embrace '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' international law!'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' global partnerships!! the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Good Book Is Great]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/24/the_good_book_is_great_153665.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>J. Peder Zane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For too many Decembers, I told myself while decorating our tree that I really ought to re-read the gospels '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' or at least the dramatic nativity scene from Luke depicted in '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'A Charlie Brown Christmas.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'
Like a lot of my resolutions, that one died on the shelf. It wasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When You&rsquo;re in a Hole, Stop Digging]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/12/when_youre_in_a_hole_stop_digging_153619.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>J. Peder Zane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump was onto something when he replaced Joe Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s White House portrait with a mocking picture of an autopen. Given our recent history of failed leadership, why stop there?
To truly capture the impact of this century'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s presidents, let'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s replace George W....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats&rsquo; Viral Video Lights Match to the Republic]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/28/democrats_viral_video_lights_match_to_the_republic_153580.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>J. Peder Zane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Despite stiff competition, the Democrats'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' recent attack on President Trump may be their most dangerous to date.
The six members of Congress whose viral video told our armed forces that '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'you must refuse illegal orders'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' crossed a perilous line. By making every soldier a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Shutdown Just Latest Battle in Democrats&rsquo; Long War]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/14/shutdown_just_latest_battle_in_democrats_long_war_153517.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>J. Peder Zane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democrats never miss a beat.
The moment their effort to blame Trump for the government shutdown went poof, they resurrected Jeffrey Epstein to suggest the president is a pedophile.
Of course, the shockingly ugly Epstein smear has no more to do with morality than the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Trump Restore Order to a Broken America?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/17/can_trump_restore_order_to_a_broken_america.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>J. Peder Zane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump is our first Old Testament president.
Where critics view him as a self-absorbed tyrant bent on settling personal scores, he is more akin to the stern Yahweh of the Hebrew Bible who punishes wrongdoers to restore order to a broken world.
His quest for retribution is less a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Progressive Flight From Reality]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/03/the_progressive_flight_from_reality_153363.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>J. Peder Zane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Progressivism isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t just an ideology; it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s also becoming a mental health condition.
Spiraling past the tendentious spin and lies that have long shaped American discourse on both sides of the aisle, the loudest voices on the left are losing the capacity to grasp reality. As a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fear, Dread and How America Got to This Point]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/19/fear_dread_and_how_america_got_to_this_point.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>J. Peder Zane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A week before Charlie Kirk'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s murder, some friends and I were trying to identify the seminal events that have shaped this American century. We all lead happy lives, but the incidents we listed told a story of fear and dread.
We immediately mentioned 9/11 and the economic collapse of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pray That We All Don&rsquo;t Become Monsters]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/29/pray_that_we_all_dont_become_monsters_153232.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>J. Peder Zane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Turns out, President Trump is letting retribution be his retribution.
The candidate who promised that success would be his best revenge upon his tormentors is now governing like Torquemada. As the administration'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s list of high-level targets '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' including Sen. Adam Schiff, New...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What About the Speck in Your Eye?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>J. Peder Zane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Anybody who thinks American optimism is dead doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t know a thing about our cut-throat politics.
Each day the legacy media details President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s latest alleged outrage and its devotees cheer, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'We got him now.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'
On the other side of the mirror, the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Epstein vs. Russiagate]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/07/24/epstein_vs_russiagate_153085.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>J. Peder Zane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a tale of two stories.
The first concerns President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s back-peddling on pledges to release government files connected to the long-dead pervert Jeffrey Epstein.
The second involves the growing evidence that President Obama and his top officials spread the false...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why AI&rsquo;s Siren Song Is So Hard To Resist]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/07/11/why_ais_siren_song_is_so_hard_to_resist__153022.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>J. Peder Zane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Should we say please and thank you to Siri and Alexa?
Sure, it sounds a little nutty to extend courtesy to machines. We don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t say job well done to our dishwashers, robot vacuums, sprinklers, and all the other gadgets that make our lives easier.
But Siri, Alexa, and all the other...]]></description>
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