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<title><![CDATA[Kenin M. Spivak - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/52647.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Kenin M. Spivak]]></description><category domain="52647">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The New Face of an Old Hatred]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To an expanding chorus of intensely antisemitic zealots, just 16 to 20 million Jews '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' roughly 0.2% of the world'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s population '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' are behind almost all of the world'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s evils. Jews have uniquely been the targets of this irrational invective for centuries. The hatred is raw...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Smithsonian CEO Resigns. He Should Have Been Fired]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Smithsonian Institution has long claimed a special place in American life as a repository of the nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s accomplishments and a source of inspiration for the world. Lonnie Bunch, who resigned this month as the Smithsonian'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 14th leader, shattered that vision, portraying...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Election Integrity Hysteria Betrays Weakness]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/09/07/election_integrity_hysteria_betrays_weakness_154476.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democrats'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' hysteric reaction to the Supreme Court'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s decision staying premature litigation against a presidential order that might eventually regulate mail-in ballots is unsurprising. From Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s over-wrought dissent alleging the result will be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[DEI Refuses To Die]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/08/24/dei_refuses_to_die_154439.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Although the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and civil rights laws dating back to 1866 prohibit nearly all racial preferences, most Americans oppose these preferences, and Donald Trump was elected vowing to eliminate DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' progressives...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Transgenderism: Earning Acceptance Requires Course Change]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/08/10/transgenderism_earning_acceptance_requires_course_change_154400.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Whether biological men who claim to identify as women should play in girls'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' sports is a matter of opinion. That individuals with XX and XY chromosomes are, respectively, female and male is not. The imbroglio resulting from WNBA Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s softly...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Communism &ndash; It&rsquo;s Back]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/07/27/communism__its_back_154369.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re baaack. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'They'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' being communists, or for the academics, Marxists.
Hairsplitting.
Communism is the implementation of the ideology Karl Marx advanced in his 1848 thesis, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The Communist Manifesto.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'
The resurgence started with intersectionality, cultural...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Can Still Stop Birth Tourism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/07/13/we_can_still_stop_birth_tourism_154324.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[In Trump v. Barbara, the Supreme Court invalidated Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s executive order which sought to end automatic citizenship for children born in the United States to illegal immigrants and temporary foreign visitors.
The high court'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 6-3 feel-good affirmation of birthright...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What the Iran MOU Says Matters]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/06/29/what_the_iran_mou_says_matters_154268.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Support for the Memorandum of Understanding entered into by the United States and Iran to end Operation Epic Fury relies on intentionally imprecise drafting and pronouncements made by the president and vice president that conflict with the MOU and Iran'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s view of it, alignment with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Blinks]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After demonstrating moral and strategic clarity by confronting Iran, Donald Trump folded on a core belief he has held for more than 20 years. To describe the disastrous Memorandum of Understanding signed Wednesday night as a victory, Trump moved the goalposts, then looked at the future...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems&rsquo; Unbridled Pursuit of Power Can&rsquo;t Be Airbrushed Away]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/06/15/dems_unbridled_pursuit_of_power_cant_be_airbrushed_away_154222.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democrats'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' disquieting quest for power at the cost of our democratic principles cannot credibly be denied or rebutted by inapt whataboutisms.
During the 40 years from John Kennedy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s inauguration in 1961, four Republicans served a total of 22 years as president and a like...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Weaponized: The Left&rsquo;s Destruction of America&rsquo;s Sacred Institutions]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/06/01/weaponized_the_lefts_destruction_of_americas_sacred_institutions_154165.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The intense anger, threats of violence, and actual violence cascading through America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s progressives over court decisions, legislation, and executive orders that don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t go their way is the consequence of unaccustomed losses by a movement that for 75 years has grown used to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[California&rsquo;s Democrats Advance China&rsquo;s Energy Dominance]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/05/18/californias_democrats_advance_chinas_energy_dominance_154130.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Many Americans underestimate China'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s threat to the United States. That threat includes the world'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s most aggressive military build-up and provocations in the South China Sea; support for hostile regimes in Russia, North Korea and Iran; cyber operations; its global '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Belt and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[From DEI to Equal Protection: A New Direction in Civil Rights Policy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/05/04/from_dei_to_equal_protection_a_new_direction_in_civil_rights_policy.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Trump administration is restoring the core value of equal opportunity to civil rights enforcement. It is eviscerating the race-baiting, intersectional policies of the Biden and Obama administrations, and giving substance to the Supreme Court'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s unanimous decision in Ames v. Ohio...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Muslim Brotherhood&rsquo;s Stealth Campaign To Transform America Is Winning]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/20/muslim_brotherhoods_stealth_campaign_to_transform_america_is_winning_154046.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The mullahs and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are driven by fervent Islamic fundamentalism. Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s opponents have shifted the focus from the existential threat posed by their ideology, weapons, and indiscriminate attacks on civilians across the Middle East to transient...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Missouri v. Biden Really a Victory for Free Speech?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/06/is_missouri_v_biden_really_a_victory_for_free_speech_154014.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Free speech advocates are elated by the consent decree settling Missouri v. Biden. Proclaiming victory, the plaintiffs and First Amendment defenders lauded the outcome as an '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'historic'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' milestone (see here, here, and here).
Are they right to see it this way? At the risk of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Wisconsin AG Josh Kaul Steamrolls Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/23/wisconsin_ag_josh_kaul_steamrolls_democracy_153961.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[More than 100 Trump family members, supporters, and advisors were targets of Democrats'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' lawfare after the 2020 presidential election, including more than a dozen Trump lawyers who were disbarred, or suffered other financially devastating discipline for giving legal advice to Trump...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Marxist Wing of the Democratic Party]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/16/the_marxist_wing_of_the_democratic_party.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' refusal to fund the Department of Homeland Security has exceeded any hypothesis of good faith. It is an unpatriotic attack on America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s frontline of defense during a time of war and potential Iranian sleeper cells, and an inexcusable burden on the department'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[California Dreamin&rsquo; Isn&rsquo;t What It Used To Be]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/09/california_dreamin_isnt_what_it_used_to_be_153922.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[California'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s elected Democrats can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t move beyond pandering. Gov. Gavin Newsom is fixated on reparations for African Americans, and the legislature'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Democratic Party majority is once again trying to divide Californians by race, sex, and gender orientation.
In 1996,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Arizona AG Kris Mayes Goes to the Dark Side]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/25/arizona_ag_kris_mayes_goes_to_the_dark_side__153874.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In our Kafkaesque world, Democratic elected officials urge protestors to confront federal agents. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz threatened to call out the National Guard to oppose the federal government, and Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes counseled Arizonans on when they could lawfully...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Violence Is Politics by Other Means]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/10/violence_is_politics_by_other_means_153818.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[American progressives often take to the streets when government actions displease them. Of late, many of their demonstrations are coordinated by well-funded Marxist and anarchist groups. Whether an antisemitic encampment at Columbia University, a protest opposing the arrest of former...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Campaign Against ICE Is All About Open Borders]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/26/the_campaign_against_ice_is_all_about_open_borders_153753.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Most of the recent vitriolic opposition to ICE is a feint by unrepentant open-borders progressives. They won the first round when Joe Biden was elected president, lost the second when Donald Trump returned to office, and are back for a rematch.
Democratic leaders portray ICE agents as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[California Restricts Free Speech]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/12/california_restricts_free_speech_153696.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[California'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s far-left Supreme Court has ordered restrictions on the speech and expressive conduct of California'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s lawyers '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'at all times,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' including during their unrelated business activities, political endeavors and personal lives.
Just before Christmas, the even more...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Immigration and Deportation Conundrums]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/15/the_immigration_and_deportation_conundrums_153629.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Americans overwhelmingly favor strong borders, legal immigration, and the deportation of illegal aliens. Yet, fewer than half support President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s immigration policies or ICE. Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s challenge is to reclaim our borders and security, while also fostering economic growth...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Free Speech Requires a Pious Commitment]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/02/free_speech_requires_pious_commitment_153585.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Too many Americans who say they believe in free speech mean only their speech. Adopting progressive dogma, the Biden administration claimed that free speech had limits, and broadly suppressed dissenting views. On his first day in office, President Trump issued an executive order to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Imperial Judiciary Strikes Back]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/18/the_imperial_judiciary_strikes_back_153534.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So far, more than 100 federal court judges have ruled against the Trump administration in hundreds of lawsuits filed by states, unions, nonprofit organizations and individuals.
While some of these rulings are fairly grounded in the Constitution, federal law, and precedent, many are...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom&rsquo;s Divisive Racial Pandering]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/04/gavin_newsoms_divisive_racial_pandering_153485.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Leaders should seek to unify people. Instead, California governor and likely 2028 presidential candidate Gavin Newsom is mired in identity politics, dividing his constituents into those entitled to privileges and subventions by reason of their melanin, sex, or sexual orientation '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Exhibit Amnesia About Biden-Era Lawfare]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/21/democrats_exhibit_amnesia_about_biden-era_lawfare.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats who denounce federal indictments of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James as unprecedented weaponization of the Justice Department exhibit amnesia about the norm-eviscerating, undemocratic lawfare they launched during the Biden...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kirk's Assassination and the Left's Elitist Condescension]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/23/kirks_assassination_and_the_lefts_elitist_condescension.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is no equivalency between the propensity of the left and right to commit, endorse, justify, glorify, and cover up political violence.
In April, the non-partisan Network Contagion Research Institute at Rutgers University issued '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Assassination Culture,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' which explained that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Disparate Impact Scam]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/09/disparate_impact_scam_153257.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Though it received less attention than some of President Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s other executive orders, the principles embodied in EO 14281, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' are fundamental to American ideals.
The April 23 directive prohibits the federal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Genocide-Famine Hoax]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/26/the_genocide-famine_hoax_153216.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kenin M. Spivak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Extraordinarily effective Hamas propaganda has delegitimized Israel'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s right of self-defense by confirming for a world that scorns Israel that its demon is engaged in genocide. It is not, but the same cannot be said of Hamas, the aggressor which has largely avoided that...]]></description>
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