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							<title><![CDATA[Everybody Counts, Not Just the MAGA Faithful]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/18/everybody_counts_not_just_the_maga_faithful_153294.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Raffel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Harry Bosch, the Los Angeles homicide detective created by novelist Michael Connelly, lived and worked by this watchword: "Everybody counts or no one counts." As Bosch explains, "It means I bust my ass to make a case whether it's a prostitute or the mayor's wife. That's my rule."
In...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Senate Kisses Trump's Ring]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/07/31/the_senate_kisses_trumps_ring_153117.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Raffel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Evidence was offered in recent Senate hearings that judicial nominee Emil Bove told subordinates the federal courts might need to be told "f**k you" if they opposed the administration. Nevertheless, in a display of their complete, utter and abject submission to President Donald Trump,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If Independent Press Vanishes, So Do First Amendment Protections]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/05/01/if_independent_press_vanishes_so_do_first_amendment_protections_152733.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Raffel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In addition to guaranteeing freedom of speech and religion, the First Amendment prohibits government action "abridging freedom... of the press."
As President Ronald Reagan declared, "There is no more essential ingredient than a free, strong, and independent press to our continued success...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Depraved Heart Lurks in the White House]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/04/24/a_depraved_heart_lurks_in_the_white_house_152698.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Raffel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[New York courts have found President Donald J. Trump to be a felon and liar. Colorado courts found him to be an insurrectionist (even though the U.S. Supreme Court blocked attempts to take him off the ballot). I'd like to add one more accusation to his rap sheet: attempted murder.
Now, I...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can't Keep Quiet: 100 Columns and Counting]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/04/17/cant_keep_quiet_100_columns_and_counting_152664.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Raffel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This is the 100th Raffel Ticket weekly column I've written. How the heck did that happen?
The underlying explanation has to be my discomfort, my anger, my frustration with the world we live in. I love my family, adore my friends and delight in my students, but I am far from happy with a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[250 Years After Paul Revere's Ride, Boston Still Stands for Liberty]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/04/10/250_years_after_paul_reveres_ride_boston_still_stands_for_liberty__152630.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Raffel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In April 1775, Paul Revere set out on horseback from Boston to warn the patriots that the British king in London was sending redcoats to suppress their demands for liberty. When I was a kid, I dreamt I was there.
In April 2025, nearly 100,000 people rallied in front of Boston City Hall...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When It Comes to Trump, It's Time To Choose]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/04/03/when_it_comes_to_trump_its_time_to_choose__152591.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Raffel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Go along or stand against?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
There's a tendency among Americans to seek compromise, to have a win-win solution for both sides in any controversy, but you cannot compromise with someone like Donald Trump. You either give in or resist.
Since Jan. 20, Trump has issued an executive order...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Chief Justice Roberts Hands Trump the Keys to Power]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/03/27/chief_justice_roberts_hands_trump_the_keys_to_power_152562.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Raffel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Chief Justice John Roberts recently reprimanded Donald Trump for his irresponsible behavior. That's like a parent scolding their 10-year-old son for reckless driving after tossing him the car keys.
So, what am I accusing Roberts of? Of doing more than just about anyone else in clearing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ukraine and Israel: Twin Targets in a Deadly Blame Game]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/03/13/ukraine_and_israel_twin_targets_in_a_deadly_blame_game__152499.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Raffel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Feb. 24, 2022, 190,000 Russian troops invaded Ukraine. Two years later, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, "We did not start this war in 2022."'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists crossed from Gaza into Israel and murdered over 1,200 civilians, many of whom had been attending a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Once Again, Trump Confirms Putin as His BFF]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/03/06/once_again_trump_confirms_putin_as_his_bff_152466.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Raffel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What's more irritating than a columnist saying I told you so?
Forgive me, but I just looked over a full-page opinion piece I wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle in December 2016, the month before Trump took office for his first term. The editors headlined it: "I couldn't write a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time for Americans To Disbelieve Trump and Believe Their Own Eyes]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/02/20/time_for_americans_to_disbelieve_trump_and_believe_their_own_eyes__152389.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Raffel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the 1933 movie farce "Duck Soup," Chico Marx famously asks Margaret Dumont, "Who ya gonna believe, me or your own eyes?"
Trump and members of his team are implicitly asking that same question over and over. They demand to be believed, no matter what Americans themselves see.
Here's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2025 Greenland and 1938 Czechoslovakia: Too Close for Comfort]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/02/13/2025_greenland_and_1938_czechoslovakia_too_close_for_comfort_152357.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Raffel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[History does not really repeat itself, not exactly. But with both a bachelor's and a master's in history, I can't help but make comparisons between current and past events. What Trump is doing with regard to Greenland sure does remind me of what was going on in Central Europe during the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Demands Loyalty, Not Expertise]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/02/07/trump_demands_loyalty_not_expertise_152327.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Raffel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An old adage held that "At least Mussolini made the trains run on time." In other words, everyday convenience partially excused the authoritarian rule imposed by the Italian dictator a century ago.
At the outset of his second term, it appears Trump cannot even make the planes stay in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Just Took Office and I'm Already Mad as Hell]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/01/30/trump_just_took_office_and_im_already_mad_as_hell_152283.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Raffel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What was seen as outrageous during Trump's first term is seen as normal in his second. A Washington Post columnist recently wrote Trump's return to office "marked not just a political transition but the normalization of the man and his movement." The Hill, an insiders' D.C. paper, ran a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Finds His Inspiration in Failed Policies of the Past]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/01/23/trump_finds_his_inspiration_in_failed_policies_of_the_past__152240.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Raffel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Franklin D. Roosevelt promised the American people a "New Deal," and President John F. Kennedy declared America stood on the edge of a "New Frontier." In contrast, the newly inaugurated Donald J. Trump wants to "make America great again," to go back to the good old days. In a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[For Trump, Mission Accomplished Even Before Second Term Begins]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/01/16/for_trump_mission_accomplished_even_before_second_term_begins_152207.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Raffel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since Nov. 5, Trump has done something no president-elect has ever done. He's checked off the top three to-dos on his postelection agenda before taking the oath of office.
No question that staying out of jail was Trump's No. 1 priority.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
Last May, a New York state jury found Trump...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Today's Best Getaway Vehicles Have Pages, Not Wheels]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/12/19/todays_best_getaway_vehicles_have_pages_not_wheels_152113.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Raffel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 1966, Timothy Leary, the psychedelics guru, famously told a crowd of 30,000 hippies in San Francisco to "tune in, turn on, and drop out." In the wake of last month's election, an awful lot of my friends and colleagues are following his advice. After tuning in and turning on to the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Count On Trump Draining the Swamp This Time Either]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/12/12/dont_count_on_trump_draining_the_swamp_this_time_either_152077.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Raffel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the saying goes, even a stopped clock is right twice a day. And even in the river of lies pouring from the mouth of President-elect Donald Trump, occasional truths flow by. He's repeatedly accused Washington, D.C., of being a "swamp" of corruption. That resonates with the American...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rooting for Middle Eastern Peace, But Not Betting on It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/11/28/rooting_for_middle_eastern_peace_but_not_betting_on_it_152015.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Raffel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I stood next to the border between Israel and Lebanon on a hot day in the summer of 2008. When I approached the fence of a lemon grove on the Israeli side, one of my colleagues yanked me back. Look, he said, pointing to a dirt road a few hundred yards away where I could make out the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mirror, Mirror on the Wall]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/11/21/mirror_mirror_on_the_wall_151984.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Raffel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What does Donald Trump see when he looks at his choices for attorney general, secretary of defense, director of national intelligence and secretary of health and human services?
Himself.
To head the Department of Justice, the president-elect has tapped former member of the House of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Again in Driver's Seat, Slams Country into Reverse]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/11/14/trump_again_in_drivers_seat_slams_country_into_reverse_151945.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Raffel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The election is over. So where are we? The calendar says we're in 2024. But the history books say 1924, give or take a few years.
Under the Johnson-Reed Act, aka the Immigration Act of 1924, immigrants from Asia were banned. Entry into the U.S. by Jews and Catholics from Poland, Italy...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Dresses Up as a Fascist for Halloween and It Sure Is Scary]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/10/31/trump_dresses_up_as_a_fascist_for_halloween_and_it_sure_is_scary_151870.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Raffel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In this Halloween season, it's clear what costume former President Donald Trump has donned. He is frightening millions in his getup as a fascist.
What makes him so scary is not just his white shirt, blue suit, orange hairdo and floppy red tie -- it's the sound effects that go with them....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Faces His Own Battle of Waterloo on Election Day]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/10/24/trump_faces_his_own_battle_of_waterloo_on_election_day_151833.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Raffel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Some of the cost for Donald Trump's room and board after the November election will be borne by taxpayers. The key question is whether they'll be paying to accommodate him in the 132 rooms of the White House or the one room of a prison cell.
Last May, a New York state jury found Trump...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump, 2024's 'Beetlejuice' Candidate]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/10/17/donald_trump_2024s_beetlejuice_candidate__151796.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Raffel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's not often that Donald Trump engages in understatement, but he did in his oft-repeated statement back in January 2016: "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, OK, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?" he marveled just before that year's Iowa caucuses. "It's,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Despite Their Best Efforts, Trump's Supreme Court Appointees May Have Thrown Election to Harris]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/10/10/despite_their_best_efforts_trumps_supreme_court_appointees_may_have_thrown_election_to_harris__151760.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Raffel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since the three Donald Trump appointees took their seats, the U.S. Supreme Court has waved its magic wand and come up with pro-Trump rulings in two high-profile cases. Whether or not the intent of Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett in those decisions was to help...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Last October's Surprise Attack by Hamas Was Israel's Pearl Harbor]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/10/03/_last_octobers_surprise_attack_by_hamas_was_israels_pearl_harbor_151725.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Raffel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a surprise attack on Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese planes and submarines attacked American forces on Hawaii, killing about 2,400 persons. The next day, the United States declared war on Japan.
In a surprise attack on Oct. 7, 2023, the terrorist group Hamas crossed the border into Israel and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Must Wish Only White Men Could Vote (Like in the Good Old Days)]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/09/26/trump_must_wish_only_white_men_could_vote_like_in_the_good_old_days_151687.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Raffel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump Must Wish Only White Men Could Vote (Like in the Good Old Days)
It's the job of a conservative to stand before history "yelling stop," said the late political commentator William F. Buckley. Former President Donald Trump and his supporters appear to want to go even further.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
They...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Right and Left Both Want To Cancel Books They Don't Like]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/09/19/right_and_left_both_want_to_cancel_books_they_dont_like_151650.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Raffel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Both the right and the left are waging a war against books.
The right is focusing on schools. According to a PEN America analysis, there were 4,349 instances of U.S. schools banning books in the second half of last year. Utah has banned books by beloved children's author Judy Blume....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Time To Stop the Use of Military-Style Weapons Against Our Schoolchildren]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/09/12/its_time_to_stop_the_use_of_military-style_weapons_against_our_schoolchildren_151606.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Raffel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The beginning of the school year is indeed the season of glorious end-of-summer weather, learning and new challenges.
It also begins another season of innocent young lives lost to assault rifles.
On Sept. 4, two teachers and two students were gunned down by another student using an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Cares What the Calendar Says? Happy New Year!]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/09/05/who_cares_what_the_calendar_says_happy_new_year_151563.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Raffel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We don't need to wait for January. I say a new year has just started.
The sweltering days of summer are gone. Memories of the visit to the beach, to Disney World and to grandmother's house are fading fast. The last morsel of leftover potato salad from the Labor Day picnic has been eaten....]]></description>
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