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							<title><![CDATA[An Open Letter to the President: Addressing our Debt]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/06/14/an_open_letter_to_president_addressing_our_debt_152920.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas W. Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald J. TrumpThe Mar-a-Lago Club1100 South Ocean BoulevardPalm Beach, Florida
Dear President Trump:
I voted for you in all three of your presidential campaigns. The first time, I cast my vote with cautious optimism. The third time, with enthusiasm. And I contributed financially to your...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Greatest Threat to Our Republic Will Always Come From Within]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/03/19/greatest_threat_to_republic_will_always_come_from_within_152525.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas W. Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For most of the past six decades, the United States has been facing the threat of implosion from a growing federal budget deficit. Today, that threat is no longer lurking. It is here. The annual federal budget deficit has left Americans saddled with unimaginable debt. It has increased...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On Abortion, One Size Won&rsquo;t Fit All]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/12/16/on_abortion_one_size_wont_fit_all__150209.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas W. Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Dobbs v. Jackson Women'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Health Organization decision did not outlaw abortion. The decision asserted that there does not exist a constitutional right to abortion and sent the issue back to the states to resolve with a limited role for the federal government...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Government Waste Thrives in Darkness]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/01/25/government_waste_thrives_in_darkness_145112.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas W. Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the last 20 years, our country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s national debt has exploded. In 2001, when George'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' W.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Bush took office, the national debt was $5.8'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' trillion. It took around 225 years -- booms, busts, depressions, wars, etc. -- to amass that much national debt. In just eight years, Bush and a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[HEROES Act: Democrats' Wasteful Bailout]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/08/28/heroes_act_democrats_wasteful_bailout.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas W. Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Taxpayers of America, you may soon be funding a $500 billion bailout of the 50 states, all U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia. But where is this vast sum of money going?
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'HEROES Act'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' -- more accurately titled '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Pelosi...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Expert Models' + Fear = Stress Pandemic]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/06/13/expert_models__fear__stress_pandemic_143428.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas W. Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s the science, the science, the science, not politics.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' This from leaders calling for the continuation of the shutdown. It is '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the science'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' they say they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re responding to when they tell us how to live every moment of our waking lives. It is the science...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stress Pandemic Rx: Open Economy as Fast as Practical]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/05/11/stress_pandemic_rx_open_economy_as_fast_as_practical.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas W. Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The all-out war on COVID-19 was a full-fledged frontal attack. Close down the economy, something that has never in history been done before. The result: a Stress Pandemic. While the so-called curve of COVID-19 is flattening, which our leading care experts assured us was essential, there...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stress Pandemic Rx: Open Economy Fast]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/05/10/stress_pandemic_rx_open_economy_as_fast_as_practical.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas W. Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The all-out war on COVID-19 was a full-fledged frontal attack. Close down the economy, something that has never in history been done before. The result:'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' a Stress Pandemic. While the so-called curve of COVID-19 is flattening, which our leading care experts assured us was essential,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Stress Pandemic]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/04/16/the_stress_pandemic_142944.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas W. Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Deliberately closing down the economy, which has never been done before, has created a more infectious, possibly more lethal disease than COVID-19. Let'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s call it the Stress Virus. For the Stress Pandemic there can be no vaccine. There is only one cure -- more jobs, more economic...]]></description>
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