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<title><![CDATA[Peter J. Wallison - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/34555.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Peter J. Wallison]]></description><category domain="34555">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Flawed Jan. 6 Committee Raises Legitimate Questions for Trump Supporters]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter J. Wallison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Although the Jan. 6 committee has been unable to show that Donald Trump was directly responsible for the attack on the Capitol, they have come close enough to make it a serious question. Although Mr. Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s tweet attacking Vice President Pence for rebuffing his demands on Jan. 6...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Must Recognize Material Change in Ukraine War]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/04/26/biden_must_recognize_material_change_in_ukraine_war_147519.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter J. Wallison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It seems incredible, but President Biden appears to have accepted the possibility that the war in Ukraine will end with Russia controlling substantial portions of Ukraine. This week he said that NATO was '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'sending an unmistakable message to Putin: He will never succeed in dominating...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Harsh Coverage of Afghan Exit May Reflect Buyer's Remorse]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/09/02/harsh_coverage_of_afghan_exit_may_reflect_buyers_remorse__146339.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter J. Wallison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Joe Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Afghanistan debacle came to light only a few weeks ago, many Republicans assumed that the media would play down the issue with favorable headlines about ending the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'endless war'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' or stories that emphasized Biden simply following President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s plan...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mail-In Ballots: What Could Go Wrong?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/08/25/mail-in_ballots_what_could_go_wrong_144045.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter J. Wallison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a speech last week, President Trump said this about mail-in ballots for the coming election: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'This will be the greatest catastrophe. One of the greatest catastrophes in the history of our country, that's how serious it is.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'
Although this president is often given to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s Time for an Oval Office Speech on COVID-19]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/07/18/its_time_for_an_oval_office_speech_on_covid-19.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter J. Wallison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not a surprise that Donald Trump is in so much political trouble because of the COVID-19 epidemic. Normally, when something as serious as a pandemic affects the country, the president gives a formal,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' nationally televised address from the Oval Office, in which he explains to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Divide Over Division]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/06/17/the_divide_over_division_143469.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter J. Wallison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump has been charged with many derelictions, but one that stands out as the unkindest cut of all is the statement by retired Gen. James Mattis in late May. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I have watched this week'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s unfolding events, angry and appalled,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' said the former secretary of defense....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Low U.S. COVID-19 Death Rate Means Efforts Are Working]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/04/01/low_us_covid-19_death_rate_means_efforts_are_working.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter J. Wallison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the number of coronavirus cases has grown in the United States -- and is now the highest of any country -- one of the themes of the left is that this increase is the result of the incompetence of President Trump and his administration.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Last Sunday, Chuck Todd of NBC asked Joe Biden...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[WH Lawyers Have Already Closed the Case on Impeachment]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/01/27/wh_lawyers_have_already_closed_the_case_on_impeachment_142242.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter J. Wallison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s over.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  Although there is still more to hear from White House lawyers this week, their short presentation on Saturday made clear that the House impeachment case is a loser.
The House managers'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' argument is simple. It alleges that President Trump withheld military...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reagan, Trump Have More in Common Than Attacks on Gadhafi, Soleimani]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/01/15/reagan_trump_have_more_in_common_than_attacks_on_gadhafi_soleimani_142146.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter J. Wallison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s successful attack on Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Quds Force and a major international terrorist, has produced a number of comparisons between President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s policy in attacking Soleimani and a similar action in 1986 by President Reagan. In April of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Evidence Against Trump vs. the Evidence Against the FBI]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/12/13/the_evidence_against_trump_vs_the_evidence_against_the_fbi_141950.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter J. Wallison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The House of Representatives, if the pundits are right, is about to impeach Donald Trump for attempting to use his position as president of the United States for his personal political benefit. Everyone should agree that impeachment is a serious matter, simply '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' if not for any other...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Factually Weak Impeachment Will Alter the Nature of Our Government]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/10/30/factually_weak_impeachment_will_alter_the_nature_of_our_government__141612.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter J. Wallison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The current effort to impeach President Trump is not only factually weak, but if it results in a House impeachment vote it will endanger the functioning of our government in the future. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' First, the Constitution is clear, as Professor Alan Dershowitz has argued, that an impeachable...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Much Is at Stake in the CFPB Court Case]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/10/22/why_much_is_at_stake_in_the_cfpb_court_case_141546.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter J. Wallison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s decision to consider the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau gives the conservative majority on the court yet another opportunity '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' thus far unrealized -- to validate and re-enforce the Constitution'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s separation of powers.
The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fallacy That Trump Acted With 'Corrupt Intent']]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/09/19/the_fallacy_that_trump_acted_with_corrupt_intent_141298.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter J. Wallison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Corey Lewandowski'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s congressional testimony this week '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' confirming that President Trump had directed him to contact Attorney General Sessions and ask that the Mueller investigation be shut down -- excited interest among some commentators. For them, this confirmed that the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[DeVos Rule on Sexual Harassment Restores Primacy of Law]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/12/20/devos_rule_on_sexual_harassment_restores_primacy_of_law_138981.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter J. Wallison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Department of Education'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s new rule on sexual harassment has been challenged as protecting schools but not students. In reality, however, DOE'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s proposal brings its sexual harassment rules back into compliance with the Constitution and laws. This should be an example for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rein In the Administrative State -- and Preserve Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/11/01/rein_in_the_administrative_state_--_and_preserve_democracy_138515.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter J. Wallison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With Brett Kavanaugh now settled in at the Supreme Court, academics and others on the left have begun to worry that the court will reduce the power and reach of the federal government'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s administrative and regulatory agencies'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'often called the administrative state.
Eric Posner, a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Trump Tower Meeting Shows No Collusion]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/08/11/why_the_trump_tower_meeting_shows_no_collusion.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter J. Wallison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s media and congressional opponents continue to see great significance in the now-famous June 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer. Since the meeting was revealed, over year ago, it has provoked Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s opponents to feats of overstatement...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Popular Vote Plan Would Do More Harm Than Good]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/05/25/popular_vote_plan_would_do_more_harm_than_good.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter J. Wallison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election with a majority in the Electoral College but only a minority of the popular vote, ideas for somehow reforming the presidential election system have received a lot of attention. One of the most successful of these is a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The President Can End the Standoff With Mueller]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/05/13/the_president_can_end_the_standoff_with_mueller_137032.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter J. Wallison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Mueller investigation of President Trump has reached an impasse. The special counsel wants to interview the president. The president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s lawyers -- well aware of cases in which prominent people have been convicted of perjury about their sworn statements instead of the crime for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If You Dislike Partisanship, Don't Engage in It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/12/06/if_you_dislike_partisanship_dont_engage_in_it_135693.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter J. Wallison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Norman Ornstein and Tom Mann are at it again, selling the idea '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' this time in the accommodating New York Times on Sunday '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' that the Republicans have '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'broken Congress.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Their article describes an earlier book, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The Broken Branch,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' in which they had...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Realtors &amp; Homebuilders Put Profits Over Middle Class]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/11/01/realtors__homebuilders_put_profits_over_middle_class_135422.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter J. Wallison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two powerful lobbying groups that advertise themselves as helping Americans buy homes have announced that they will oppose the Republican tax plan. Their reason? Because it will lower housing costs. Seldom have any denizens of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the Swamp'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' shown their true colors quite so...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nunes' Disclosures May Signal a Watergate-Level Scandal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/04/04/nunes_disclosures_may_signal_a_watergate-level_scandal_133515.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter J. Wallison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes should not have gone first to tell President Trump what he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d learned about the possible surveillance of the Trump campaign by the intelligence community during the Obama administration. As a matter of comity, at the least,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Cost of Trump's War on the Media]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/02/24/the_cost_of_trumps_war_on_the_media_133173.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter J. Wallison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The war between President Trump and the media has obscured an unprecedented effort in the Senate to scuttle the president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s agenda. Without the numbers to defeat Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s nominees to top Cabinet positions, Democrats have adopted a strategy of tying up the Senate'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s advice...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Politics Behind NYT's Misuse of Language]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/01/26/politics_behind_nyts_misuse_of_language.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter J. Wallison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s wide political divisions are causing a serious corruption of the language we use daily in the United States. Important and descriptive words that once had a clearly understood meaning are now being distorted for political or ideological use, and nowhere more so than in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why We Need the Electoral College]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter J. Wallison</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s election with fewer popular votes than Hillary Clinton has raised again the question of why the presidency is decided through an Electoral College and not a popular vote. Mr. Trump himself said in a recent interview said that a popular vote seems more sensible.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'...]]></description>
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