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							<title><![CDATA[My Fourth of July]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/07/07/my_fourth_of_july_154308.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I spent my Fourth of July in New York City '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' hanging out in Times Square during the celebration there, attending a Yankees game, and watching fireworks with 500 of my closest friends on a cruise boat on the Hudson River.
Over the course of the day, here is what I saw and heard.
I...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Breaking Down the SAVE America Act: Voter Registration]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/07/01/breaking_down_the_save_america_act_voter_registration_154285.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The SAVE America Act has extensive provisions on the requirements for an individual to register to vote in a federal election. The Act is premised on a simple idea: Anyone registering to vote in a federal election should provide proof of U.S. citizenship. On its face, that seems pretty...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Breaking Down the SAVE America Act: Photo ID]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/06/26/breaking_down_the_save_america_act_photo_id_154264.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the midterm elections rapidly approaching and polls showing Republicans in serious trouble with voters, they have become frantic to pass the SAVE America Act. Twenty-five House members are now promising to vote no on everything until the act is passed. Their panic is based on the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cassidy and Cornyn May Add to Trump's Senate Problem]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/06/02/cassidy_and_cornyn_may_add_to_trumps_senate_problem.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There has been a great deal of speculation about the political consequences of Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'revenge tour'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' against Republicans he considers insufficiently loyal in the midterm elections. But over the last several days, there have been signs that it may come back to haunt...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Population Growth No Longer in Urban Cores]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/05/29/us_population_growth_no_longer_in_urban_cores_154169.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Each year, the Census Bureau publishes population estimates for all municipalities in the U.S. with a population of 20,000 or more. Last week, it released last year'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s estimates, reporting population changes for nearly 2,000 municipalities.
According to the Census Bureau, the US...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Control of the U.S. Senate Now a Toss-Up]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/05/07/control_of_the_us_senate_now_a_toss-up.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For months, polling and prediction markets have forecast that Democrats will retake the House, but that Republicans will retain control of the Senate. However, recently, the prediction markets have moved toward the Senate being a toss-up. The latest RCP Senate Map lists eight toss up...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Has Blown His Immigration Advantage]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/13/trump_has_blown_his_immigration_advantage_153833.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Exit polling from the 2024 election showed that voters were most drawn to Donald Trump for his promises to lower prices and control immigration. For his first two months in office, Americans mostly liked what they saw as border crossings dropped to a trickle. During that time, polling...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Texas Political Shock Republicans Can&rsquo;t Ignore]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/03/a_texas_political_shock_republicans_cant_ignore_153789.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Until Saturday night, Texas Senate District 9 had been represented by a Republican for over 30 years. In 2022, Kelly Hancock won the seat by 20 points. Last November, Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris in the district by 17 points. So when Hancock stepped down to accept the appointment as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can We Let the Sober Middle Drive the Car for a Change?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/12/can_we_let_the_sober_middle_drive_the_car_for_a_change.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Historically, the sitting president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s political party loses congressional seats in a midterm election. That trend has held in 17 of 19 midterm elections since World War II. On average, the president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s party has lost 25-30 seats. The worst loss was in 2010 when the Democrats...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Election Results Are a Five-Alarm Fire for Republicans]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/06/election_results_are_five-alarm_fire_for_republicans_153496.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The warning signs have been growing for months. While President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s overall approval rating has turned negative, it is not atypical of what other newly elected presidents have experienced. But when asked about Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s approval rating on specific issues, the numbers have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Extending the ACA Subsidies]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/14/extending_the_aca_subsidies_153399.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over the last week, the decision on whether to extend the enhanced ACA subsidies has increasingly become the defining issue of the shutdown. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' It is an issue that is fracturing the Republican Party and threatening to derail their midterm election prospects.
Unpacking the numbers
From...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Many Immigrants Have Left the Country?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/23/how_many_immigrants_have_left_country_153315.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[About a month ago, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem held a press conference to announce that about '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'1.6 million illegal immigrants have left the United States population.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'
That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a fraction of the number of people who arrived in the years that the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Does Big Beautiful Bill Eliminate Taxes on Social Security?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/07/08/does_big_beautiful_bill_eliminate_taxes_on_social_security_153004.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump has been boasting that his One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) eliminated income taxes on Social Security. But did it? '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The answer is, sort of.
There is no explicit repeal of taxes on Social Security benefits in the OBBB. However, the bill provides taxpayers over the age of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.N. Quietly Lowers Population Forecasts]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/06/24/un_quietly_lowers_population_forecasts_152945.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For decades, we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve been told that the world'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s biggest problem is too many people. From Malthus in the 18th century to '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The Population Bomb'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' in the 1960s, the warnings were dire: More people would mean more famine, more poverty, more environmental destruction. But...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Was More Added to National Debt During Trump or Biden Administrations?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/04/18/was_more_added_national_debt_during_trump_biden_administrations_152667.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you asked the average person whether the national debt increased more during the first Trump administration or the Biden administration, I would guess that nine out of 10 people would be certain it was the latter. However, as with most issues, the reality is considerably more...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[With No Immigration, US Population Will Fall Over 30% by 2100]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/03/24/with_no_immigration_us_population_will_fall_over_30_by_2100_152547.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Census Bureau makes projections of the U.S. population based on various immigration scenarios. Currently, it publishes four scenarios representing a high, low, medium ('&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'main'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'), and zero-immigration rate.
In its main case, which the Census Bureau considers the most...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Claims of Social Security Fraud Are Absurdly Exaggerated]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/03/01/claims_of_social_security_fraud_are_absurdly_exaggerated_152443.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the last few days there has been a torrent of misleading and, in some cases, outright inaccurate information about Social Security and Medicare. It began with Elon Musk, world'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s richest man and head of the Department of Government Efficiency, posting on X that '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Having tens...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Birthright Citizenship: A Nuanced Examination]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/01/29/birthright_citizenship_a_nuanced_examination_152262.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since the adoption of the 14th Amendment in 1868, the United States has recognized birthright citizenship; that is, if a person is born on U.S. soil, that person is a U.S. citizen regardless of the citizenship of their parents. In one of his first official actions, President Donald Trump...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Congressional Budget Office Lowers U.S. Population Projections]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/01/22/congressional_budget_office_lowers_us_population_projections_152231.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This week, the Congressional Budget Office once again reduced its population projections for the U.S. for 2025-2055. Last year, in its 30-year forecast, the CBO had projected that the U.S. population would be about 383 million by 2054. This week'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s projection lowered the 2055...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Immigration Continues To Drive U.S. Population Growth]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/12/30/immigration_continues_to_drive_us_population_growth_152138.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Census Bureau just released its population estimates for 2024. It estimated that the nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s population grew by nearly 1%, adding about 3.3 million people. Of that increase, however, 84% was from immigration (2.8 million). Without immigration, the population would have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[House Subcommittee Issues Final After-Action Report on COVID]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/12/12/house_subcommittee_issues_final_after-action_report_on_covid_152070.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic recently issued its final After Action Review of the COVID-19 Pandemic. It is an exhaustive 557-page document covering almost every aspect of the pandemic. I could not find any record of the official vote of the subcommittee on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Should Retaliate for Iranian Plot To Assassinate Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/11/19/biden_should_retaliate_for_iranian_plot_to_assassinate_trump_151964.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Iranian plot to assassinate Trump is an act of war. It is a direct attack on our democratic process. It cannot be ignored. And simply bringing an indictment against some low-level individuals involved is not enough. Not nearly enough. Our retaliation should involve direct military...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Blue Wave Broke in Texas &hellip; Again]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/11/11/no_blue_wave_broke_in_texas__again_151925.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ever since I was studying political science at the University of Houston in the 1970s, Democrats have been predicting that a blue wave would eventually sweep the Texas political landscape. Their hopes were pinned to the long-term demographic trend that Texas would eventually become a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Voting Made My Son Sick]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/10/30/voting_made_my_son_sick_151857.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[My son texted me yesterday to tell me that he had voted and that it made him sick to his stomach. I suspect he was mostly referring to the dreadful Hobson'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s choice that we all face at the top of the ballot. But as I look through my sample ballot, it is depressing how few candidates...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Vacuous Vs. Deranged]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/09/18/vacuous_vs_deranged_trump_harris_151636.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last Tuesday night was an embarrassment for our country. How is it that the richest, most powerful, most technologically advanced country that has ever existed on the planet has been reduced to having to choose between the two awful candidates we saw on display?
If the debate proved...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Public School Enrollment Has Peaked]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/08/31/us_public_school_enrollment_peaked_151542.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 31 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the second half of the 20th century, enrollment in U.S. public schools nearly doubled. There was some slowdown during desegregation as enrollment in private schools surged. However, growth resumed by the early 1980s at a little less than 2% each year. But by the late 1990s, the growth...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Most U.S. Pop Growth Last Year Occurred Outside of Largest Cities]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/05/23/most_us_pop_growth_last_year_occurred_outside_of_largest_cities_150988.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are 124 cities with a population over 200,000 in the U.S. According to the U.S. Census Bureau'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s population estimates for last year, over 90% of the U.S. population growth last year took place outside of its 124 largest cities. About a third of those cities lost population last...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Went Wrong With the Third-Party Movement This Cycle?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/05/06/what_went_wrong_with_the_third-party_movement_this_cycle_150893.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With No Labels abandoning its bid to run its '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'unity ticket'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' in 2024, the last hope for a moderate alternative to the duopoly of our incumbent parties for this election cycle vanished. This cycle began with great excitement in the middle of the political spectrum. The parties...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Fatalities in 2023 Return to Pre-Pandemic Trendline]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/04/15/us_fatalities_in_2023_return_to_pre-pandemic_trendline_150792.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[According to the current statistics from the National Center for Health Statistics, the number of fatalities in the United States last year declined to 3,078,290 from 3,269,042 in 2022. That number is very close to the pre-pandemic trendline.
Prior to the pandemic, the number of people...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Law Enforcement&rsquo;s Abysmal &lsquo;Clearance&rsquo; Rates]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/03/18/law_enforcements_abysmal_clearance_rates_150659.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill King</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In Houston, a scandal recently broke when it became public that the police department had closed the investigation of over a quarter of a million crimes with a code indicating the case was being dropped for lack of manpower. The cases closed included thousands of murders and sexual...]]></description>
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