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<title><![CDATA[Eric Spitz - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/44107.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Eric Spitz]]></description><category domain="44107">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Decapitating Amalek: Iran, Purim, and the Obligation to Act in Time]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/03/decapitating_amalek_iran_purim_and_the_obligation_to_act_in_time_153904.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Spitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The joint United States and Israeli strikes on Feb. 28, 2026, did more than destroy military infrastructure. They decapitated the ideological command center of a regime that has spent four decades promising Israel'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s annihilation and financing America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s enemies. The death of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Blood on the Sand: Australian Massacre Exposes Hollow Core of Anti-Zionism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/19/blood_on_the_sand_australian_massacre_exposes_hollow_core_of_anti-zionism_153653.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Spitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bondi Beach is meant to be neutral ground. A place without history. A democratic stretch of sand where politics dissolves into sunlight, surf, and families pushing strollers toward the water. That illusion died when Jews gathered there to light Hanukkah candles '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' and were...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America&rsquo;s New Fiscal Trap]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/07/17/americas_new_fiscal_trap_153060.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Spitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
In a post-midnight vote along party lines, bleary-eyed Republican members of Congress passed a tax-and-spend bill that will define America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s fiscal reality for decades. In their rush to strike a deal by Independence Day, GOP lawmakers reassembled the architecture of federal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Last Confession]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Spitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On April 3, 2025, Theodore McCarrick died in quiet exile. No Mass. No eulogy. No public mourning. Rome responded through two of America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s most important bishops, who offered clinical statements about the ex-cardinal who was exposed as a serial predator after decades of sexual abuse...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[MIT Must Meet the Moment: Accountability on Campus Antisemitism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/04/11/mit_must_meet_the_moment_accountability_on_campus_antisemitism_152635.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Spitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In Cambridge, brilliance is a given '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' but moral courage is not. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where equations are solved at light speed and robots teach themselves, the administration has yet to master the basic principle of protecting its students from hate. For all...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Funding Showdown Is a Warning: America Nears &lsquo;Cascade&rsquo;-Style Collapse]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/03/18/funding_showdown_is_a_warning_america_nears_cascade-style_collapse.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Spitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Americans just faced the prospect of another government shutdown until a fragile deal emerged. House Republicans passed a stopgap bill Senate Democrats decried as overreach but voted for anyway, under the theory that it was the lesser of two evils. When the GOP left Washington, expecting...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Biden Promised a Bridge but Left a Gulf]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/01/15/president_biden_promised_a_bridge_but_left_a_gulf_152203.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Spitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When historians look back at Joe Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s presidency, they will see failure wrapped in good intentions, marked most poignantly by the absence of a succession plan. Getting old is not a crime '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' it happens to every mortal. But Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s unwillingness to face that fact of life,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hunter&rsquo;s Pardon]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/12/18/hunters_pardon_152102.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Spitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I first met Hunter Biden when he was 17 years old, and I was a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania, living next door to his brother Beau in the Quad. I remember Hunter as a bright, confident teenager with a magnetic personality and a hot streak. Like the Bidens, my family has also...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Confronting Hamas, Iran and the Universal Lessons From Amalek]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/10/04/confronting_hamas_iran_and_universal_lessons_from_amalek_151727.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Spitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The last of the 613 commandments listed in the Old Testament is brutal and ruthless, and it has confounded scholars for centuries. The Torah commands in Deuteronomy 25:17, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Remember what the Amalekites'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' did to you along the way when you came out of Egypt. They had no fear of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Journey From Narragansett Brewing to Israel&rsquo;s Swim Team]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/08/01/journey_from_narragansett_brewing_to_israels_swim_team_151372.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Spitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The International Olympic Committee oversees one of the world'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s most powerful brands, which it guards strenuously. In the early 1980s, when Peter Ueberroth was serving as chairman of the Los Angeles Organizing Committee, he transformed the prospect of hosting the Olympics from...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Does the International Olympic Committee Prioritize Athletes Over Politics?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/07/25/does_the_international_olympic_committee_prioritize_athletes_over_politics_151328.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Spitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With only a few days left before the start of the world'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s largest sporting event, the athletes have begun arriving in Paris. Our host, the International Olympic Committee (IOC), likes to emphasize the unifying power of sport and the organization'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s commitment to athlete...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Rape of the Innocents]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/06/18/the_rape_of_the_innocents_151118.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Spitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Evil is like a shadow. It has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[IOC Leaders Must Make Difficult Decisions]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/12/29/ioc_leaders_must_make_difficult_decisions_150258.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Spitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, CNN aired a segment on '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The Lead with Jake Tapper'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' about the abdication of leadership at yet another major global institution. The International Olympic Committee won'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t even acknowledge the safety and security concerns of Israeli and Jewish athletes who are...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Symbols Matter: Move the Games Out of Qatar]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/10/29/symbols_matter_move_the_games_out_of_qatar_149978.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Spitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Due to their long history of funding and abetting Islamic fundamentalist militias, Qatar became the Mecca for Arab terrorism in the 21st century. The estimate of Qatari funding for Hamas topped $1.8 billion in 2021, and they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve lent their political support to branches of Al Qaeda,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Drug Peace]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/07/14/the_drug_peace_149488.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Spitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[My brother Sam was an uncle for more than half his life, and he was born on the Fourth of July. Like so many broken souls, he succumbed to death by fentanyl in 2020, during the first summer of COVID. Now, my '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'little'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' brother, Sam Spitz, is dancing backstage with the band in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The President Weighs In on Cannabis]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/12/05/the_president_weighs_in_on_cannabis_148559.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Spitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the Democrats retaining control of the Senate in a divided Congress, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer needs bipartisan issues that can generate enough Republican support to pass both chambers. It may be counter-intuitive, but cannabis legalization works for both sides.
On Oct. 3, help...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Federal Legalization of Cannabis Is Finally Here]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/09/06/why_federal_legalization_of_cannabis_is_finally_here_148146.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Spitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If weed fails in the Senate, and no one hears, does it make any noise? On July 21, 2022, the three most ambitious U.S. senators ever to pay attention to cannabis sheepishly launched federal cannabis legislation into the future, with the introduction of the Cannabis Administration and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Federal Legalization of Cannabis Is Finally at Hand]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/07/14/why_federal_legalization_of_cannabis_is_finally_at_hand_146075.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Spitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The silliness of Sha'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'Carri Richardson'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s disqualification from the U.S. Olympic track team for legally smoking marijuana shines a bright light on the civil liberties spot where we find ourselves in 2021 in the United States of America. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Our country wants legal cannabis, and we...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Need More Joy. Legalize Marijuana.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/04/03/we_need_more_joy_legalize_marijuana_145510.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Spitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the first months of the Biden administration, news about cannabis is erupting everywhere. New York and New Jersey have agreed to legalize recreational cannabis, and in mid-March Rep. Ed Perlmutter, a Colorado Democrat, re-introduced the SAFE Banking Act, which promises to reduce...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Data-Based View of Legalized Cannabis Use]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/02/13/a_data-based_view_of_legalized_cannabis_use_145219.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Spitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To cannabis watchers, 2020 was the pivot year in the long and inevitable march toward federal legalization of adult-use cannabis in the United States. Thirty-eight states currently allow medical marijuana, and 15 of these have made it legal for adults over 21 to consume cannabis freely....]]></description>
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