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							<title><![CDATA[Slight Relief from Illinois' Predatory Government]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard W. Porter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Among all the bad policy coming out of Springfield, Ill., let'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s celebrate the occasional glimmer of good sense.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
But first, some background:
Illinois'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s legislature passed legislation on policing and related matters last week in the dead of night. The 764-page bill passed the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Protesters' in Name Only: Mob Terrorized Us on D.C. Streets]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/08/29/protesters_in_name_only_mob_terrorized_us_on_dc_streets_144097.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard W. Porter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I met some protesters face to face on Thursday night and I am here to tell you this:
They were not good people '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and calling them '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'protesters'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' is a slur on lawful protest.
I was walking from the White House to my hotel behind an elderly couple. People were milling about...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Poor Governance Fuels the Illinois Exodus]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/08/13/poor_governance_fuels_the_illinois_exodus_143947.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard W. Porter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Illinois has a population problem: Our population has been shrinking faster than any other state (except one). The Chicago Tribune Editorial Board and others call this the Illinois Exodus.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
Population changes are a measure of governance quality. We are free to choose where to live, and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[One Nation, Indivisible]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/11/08/one_nation_indivisible__138599.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard W. Porter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s glaringly obvious that the left believes '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' is a synonym for another six-letter word: racist. And that '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'nationalist'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' is nothing but shorthand for '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'white nationalist.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'
This is startling to those of us on the right -- but it is not a new or...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Open Letter to Holocaust Denier Arthur Jones]]></title>
							<link>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-nazi-arthur-jones-open-letter-holocaust-0211-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard W. Porter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An open letter to Holocaust denier Arthur Jones, from the national committeeman for the Illinois Republican National Committee.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Updating Alinsky's &quot;Rules for Radicals&quot; for the Trump Era]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/01/23/updating_alinskys_rules_for_radicals_for_the_trump_era_132873.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard W. Porter</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Money doesn't buy you class!" the young women at the line's center chanted in righteous unison, their arms interlocked with those of 20 or so other young men and women to block the public way. "Racists!" Others yelled. "Rapists!" "You should be ashamed!" they yelled at the men in...]]></description>
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