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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump: Aim of Killing Iranian General Was to &#039;Stop a War&#039;]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump said Friday he ordered the killing of a top Iranian general "to stop a war," not start one, but in the tense aftermath the Pentagon braced for retaliation by sending more troops to the Middle East. Democrats complained that Trump hadn't consulted Congress, and some worried that the strike made war more likely.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo argued the U.S. case with allies in the Middle East and beyond, asserting that Friday's drone strike killing Gen. Qassem Soleimani was a necessary act of self defense. He asserted that Soleimani was plotting a...]]></description>
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						<author>Zeke Miller &amp; Robert Burns &amp; Lolita Baldor</author><category>Zeke Miller &amp; Robert Burns &amp; Lolita Baldor</category><pubdate>2020/01</pubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Why &#039;Bombshell&#039; Is a Dud]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ There is a great story to be told about the downfall of Roger Ailes. "Bombshell," the recently released movie directed by veteran filmmaker Jay Roach, is not it.
The dramatization of the downfall of the late former Fox News executive Roger Ailes is buoyed by terrific performances from Margot Robbie and John Lithgow. They overshadow a talented cast and share the film's most visceral and disturbing moment. Nicole Kidman also stands out for her portrayal of former Fox host Gretchen Carlson.
However, these performances have not been enough to help "Bombshell" at the box office. It has recouped...]]></description>
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						<author>Becket Adams</author><category>Becket Adams</category><pubdate>2020/01</pubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Congressman John Lewis, Our North Star]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Dear Brother Lewis: You carried us and now we will carry you.  
Like you, I grew up in the rural South where you learn early that when people you love and care about go through something, you go through it too. It is a lesson you learn in triumph and tragedy, and you carry it with you always. 
When the world learned that you, Rep. John Lewis -- lion of the House of Representatives, hero of Selma, inspiration to two generations of African Americans -- had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, the prayers and testimonials poured in. Almost all of them referenced your indomitable will. 
"If...]]></description>
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						<author>Antjuan Seawright</author><category>Antjuan Seawright</category><pubdate>2020/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/04/2020/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jan 2020 04:58:56 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/49/498084_1_.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump Is Remaking the Federal Judiciary at a Historic Rate]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ After weeks of televised hearings, in late December the U.S. House officially impeached President Trump. While those lawmakers were bickering over their trivial vote that is unlikely to remove the president, the Senate was busy accomplishing the more permanent task of confirming Trump's judicial nominees. It's a striking contrast of priorities -- and the statistics are staggering -- as Trump is remaking the federal judiciary at a historic rate.
Two weeks ago, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell got 13 federal district court nominations through the Senate, 11 of which were part of a deal to...]]></description>
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						<author>Cori Petersen &amp; CJ Szafir</author><category>Cori Petersen &amp; CJ Szafir</category><pubdate>2020/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/04/2020/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jan 2020 10:05:16 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/49/497483_1_.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ What to Expect in 2020: Five Predictions]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Dramatic and unpredictable. There's no other way to describe the year in politics in 2019.  A year that began with the longest government shutdown in American history and saw the publication of the Mueller report would be defined by a 30-minute summer phone call with Ukraine's new president. At this time last year, Volodymyr Zelensky wasn't even registered with Ukraine's Central Election Commission as a candidate for president.
So no one can predict what 2020 holds. And yet businesses, nonprofit organizations and industry leaders still must plan for the future, using the best available...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/01/03/what_to_expect_in_2020_five_predictions_142080.html</link>
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						<author>Justin Wallin</author><category>Justin Wallin</category><pubdate>2020/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/03/2020/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2020 09:43:40 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/49/498083_1_.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ As 2020 Dawns, Trump Looks to Boost Evangelical Support]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - In his first campaign move of the 2020 election year, President Donald Trump on Friday will visit a mega-church in Miami to highlight his support among evangelicals as he aims to shore up and expand support from an influential piece of his political base.
The president will host the kickoff meeting of "Evangelicals for Trump" just days after he was the subject a scathing editorial in the Christianity Today magazine that called for his removal from office. But Trump's campaign believes that his record in office, including the installation of two Supreme Court...]]></description>
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						<author>Jonathan Lemire &amp; Elana Schor</author><category>Jonathan Lemire &amp; Elana Schor</category><pubdate>2020/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/03/2020/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Iran Crisis; Trump&#039;s Vulnerabilities; Quote of the Week]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Good morning. It's Friday, Jan. 3, 2020, the day of the week when I unearth a quote meant to be inspiring or evocative. Today's comes from H.L. Mencken, the "Sage of Baltimore." First, I'd point you to RealClearPolitics' front page, which presents our poll averages, videos, breaking news stories, and aggregated opinion pieces spanning the political spectrum. We also offer original material from our own reporters, columnists, and contributors, including the following:
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Trump's Iran Policy Game-Changer. Susan Crabtree assesses the president's decision to order an airstrike that killed...]]></description>
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						<author>Carl M. Cannon</author><category>Carl M. Cannon</category><pubdate>2020/01</pubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump&#039;s Iran Policy Game-Changer]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ President Trump showed restraint in responding to Tehran's downing of an American drone six months ago, calling off U.S. military attacks on a number of targets in Iran at the last minute.
Trump also didn't attack when it was clear Iran was responsible for explosions that disabled two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman last June, though he ratcheted up sanctions and cyberattacks and sent more troops to the region instead. He again didn't go on the military offensive when a drone fleet that U.S. intelligence identified as Iranian proxies in Yemen launched a damaging assault on the Aramco oil...]]></description>
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						<author>Susan Crabtree</author><category>Susan Crabtree</category><pubdate>2020/01</pubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ In New Crises, Our Enemies See How Vulnerable We Are]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ President Trump's bold assassination of Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani has risked escalation of tensions -- or war -- with Iran, as he faces provocation from North Korea following a dark December that cemented the instability and liabilities of his administration. He's a president consumed and distracted by a coming Senate trial, impeached for interfering in next year's election and still using Kremlin talking points to explain 2016 election interference. Trump's also dealing with a recent exodus at the Pentagon and a secretary of state likely to leave for a Senate campaign....]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/01/03/in_new_crises_our_enemies_see_how_vulnerable_we_are__142075.html</link>
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						<author>A.B. Stoddard</author><category>A.B. Stoddard</category><pubdate>2020/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/03/2020/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2020 05:44:15 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/49/498056_1_.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Texas&#039;s Concealed-Carry Law Prevented Mass Murder]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ The same weekend that Orthodox Jews in Monsey, New York, were fighting off another knife-wielding anti-Semite thug with chairs and coffee tables -- they were fortunate that the perpetrator hadn't brought a firearm, like the killer who targeted a yeshiva in Jersey City only a few weeks earlier -- Jack Wilson, a 71-year-old congregant and security volunteer at West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, Texas, took mere seconds to stop a potential mass murderer.
Earlier in the year, to the dismay of the usual suspects, Texas governor Greg Abbott had signed a bill making it explicitly...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/01/03/texass_concealed-carry_law_prevented_mass_murder_142072.html</link>
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						<author>David Harsanyi</author><category>David Harsanyi</category><pubdate>2020/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/03/2020/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2020 20:34:21 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/49/498045_1_.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Facts Are the Antidote to Trump Derangement Syndrome]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Being a conservative in perhaps the most liberal state in the country, Massachusetts, I'm often asked why I support the president by those on the left, some of whom think he's a racist, misogynist, homophobe, criminal and, for good measure, a bully.
I laugh and say, "It's because none of those things are true!" and then hit them with facts, not #FakeNews.
Let's start with the absurd allegation that President Donald Trump is anti-women. "If that were true," I ask, "why has he created millions of jobs for women?" Under the Trump administration, the unemployment rate for women is 3.5%, the...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/01/03/facts_are_the_antidote_to_trump_derangement_syndrome_142071.html</link>
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						<author>Adriana Cohen</author><category>Adriana Cohen</category><pubdate>2020/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/03/2020/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2020 20:31:57 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/49/498018_1_.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Census Numbers Undercut &#039;Ascendant America&#039; Theory]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ From the first years of the one-fifth of this century already completed, we've been told that a new, ascendant America -- more nonwhite, more culturally liberal, more feminist -- was going to dominate our politics for years to come.
Those predictions have partially come true. Barack Obama was elected and reelected president in 2008 and 2012, respectively, and Democrats won majorities in House contests in 2006, 2008 and 2018.
But those are slimmer pickings than were promised. And President Donald Trump's victories in 2016 have made a mockery of the predictions. He wasn't ascendant America's...]]></description>
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						<author>Michael Barone</author><category>Michael Barone</category><pubdate>2020/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/03/2020/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2020 20:27:20 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/48/483554_1_.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ 2020 Vision]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ If you have 20/20 (or better) vision, you probably don't even think about seeing -- unless you previously had worse vision. If your vision has declined over the years (as mine has), you probably wish for the times when you took your vision for granted.
That applies to more than vision; we often take all sorts of things for granted. To be grateful, we must first understand and appreciate the gifts that we have -- even gifts that have been given to us by God.
We often view our personal historical experience and changes as events that happened to us, that shaped us in one way or another. These...]]></description>
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						<author>Jackie Gingrich Cushman</author><category>Jackie Gingrich Cushman</category><pubdate>2020/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/03/2020/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Gertrude Himmelfarb, RIP]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ When I emailed Mary Ellen Bork that our mutual friend, Gertrude Himmelfarb, aka Bea Kristol, had passed away at 97, she replied, after expressions of sadness, "Now she and Irving can resume their conversation."
Irving was Irving Kristol, Bea's husband of 67 years. It was one of the great marriages of our time -- two towering intellects who were also devoted to one another and to their family and friends. Irving would not have been the giant he was without Bea, and vice versa. They were also completely down to Earth.
Born into an immigrant Jewish family in 1922, Bea attended Brooklyn College...]]></description>
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						<author>Mona Charen</author><category>Mona Charen</category><pubdate>2020/01</pubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Our Real Existential Crisis -- Extinction]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ If Western elites were asked to name the greatest crisis facing mankind, climate change would win in a walk.
Thus did Time magazine pass over every world leader to name a Swedish teenage climate activist, Greta Thunberg, its person of the year.
On New Year's Day, the headline over yet another story in The Washington Post admonished us anew: "A Lost Decade for Climate Action: We Can't Afford A Repeat, Scientists Warn."
"By the final year of the decade," said the Post, "the planet had surpassed its 2010 temperature record five times.
"Hurricanes devastated New Jersey and Puerto Rico, and floods...]]></description>
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						<author>Patrick Buchanan</author><category>Patrick Buchanan</category><pubdate>2020/01</pubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump Says He&#039;ll Sign First-Step China Trade Deal on Jan. 15]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - The first phase of a U.S.-China trade agreement will be inked at the White House in mid-January, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday, adding that he will visit Beijing at a later date to open another round of talks aimed at resolving other sticking points in the relationship.
The so-called "Phase One" agreement is smaller than the comprehensive deal Trump had hoped for and leaves many of the thorniest issues between the two countries for future talks. Few economists expect any resolution of "Phase Two" before the presidential election in 2020.
And the two...]]></description>
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						<author>Darlene Superville &amp; Christopher Rugaber</author><category>Darlene Superville &amp; Christopher Rugaber</category><pubdate>2020/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/02/2020/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
					<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2020 08:48:47 -0600</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.realclear.com/images/49/497988_1_.jpg" type="image/jpeg" height="190" width="250" />
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						<title><![CDATA[ Sanders Raises Impressive .5 Million in 2019&#039;s Final Quarter]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON (AP) - Bernie Sanders says he raised more than $34.5 million in the final three months of last year, showing that a recent heart attack hasn't slowed the Vermont senator's fundraising prowess with the start of the Democratic presidential primaries looming.
Sanders' campaign said Thursday that the haul came from more than 1.8 million donations, including from 40,000 new donors on the final day of the year alone. Sanders' total exceeds the $24.7 million that Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, announced a day earlier that he'd raised during the fourth quarter of...]]></description>
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						<author>Will Weissert</author><category>Will Weissert</category><pubdate>2020/01</pubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ 2010s in Review; Big Beer&#039;s Big Foot; Marshall Law]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ Good morning. It's Thursday, Jan. 2, 2019, the first business day of the new decade. Five years ago, Barack Obama welcomed in the New Year by promising "a year of action." Given the exigencies of election-year politics, this prediction proved even more elusive than the 44th  president's additional New Year's resolution: that he would try to be "nicer" to the White House press corps.
It was a generous thought, nonetheless, albeit one I don't expect to hear from the current occupant of the Oval Office (or vice versa). Perhaps President Obama was feeling magnanimous because he'd spent Christmas...]]></description>
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						<author>Carl M. Cannon</author><category>Carl M. Cannon</category><pubdate>2020/01</pubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ The Dangers of Elite Groupthink]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ The Washington Post recently published a surprising indictment of MSNBC host, Stanford graduate and Rhodes scholar Rachel Maddow.
Post media critic Erik Wemple wrote that Maddow deliberately misled her audience by claiming the now-discredited Steele dossier was largely verifiable -- even at a time when there was plenty of evidence that it was mostly bogus.
At the very time Maddow was reassuring viewers that Christopher Steele was believable, populist talk radio and the much-criticized Fox News Channel were insisting that most of Steele's allegations simply could not be true. Maddow was wrong....]]></description>
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						<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author><category>Victor Davis Hanson</category><pubdate>2020/01</pubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Do Americans Even Want Time off?]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ A new Gallup survey finds that about half of Americans who hold second jobs say they don't do it out of financial necessity. Why, then, do they put in the extra hours? Do they just like working?
Europeans, in stark contrast, relish their free time. Workers in Denmark actually went on a general strike because they were entitled to only five weeks of vacation. They wanted six.
Many American workers get a lousy one or two weeks off, if that much. Yet 55 percent of Americans with paid vacation said they didn't even use all the time off, according to the U.S. Travel Association.
John de Graaf, who...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/01/02/do_americans_even_want_time_off_142058.html</link>
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						<author>Froma Harrop</author><category>Froma Harrop</category><pubdate>2020/01</pubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Getting the Goods on Schiff]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ The truth behind House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff's role in engineering President Donald Trump's impeachment may soon come out because a nonprofit group promoting government transparency -- Judicial Watch -- is suing to get the whistleblower's emails.
No matter how the Senate proceeds with Trump's trial, Schiff should be held accountable for the devious means he used to drive impeachment.
The public also needs the truth about the so-called whistleblower. Real whistleblowers deserve to be treated like heroes. But the man identified as the whistleblower by Judicial Watch and many media...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/01/02/getting_the_goods_on_schiff_142062.html</link>
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						<author>Betsy McCaughey</author><category>Betsy McCaughey</category><pubdate>2020/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/02/2020/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ When Anti-Semitism Doesn&#039;t Matter]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ In October 2018, during Sabbath morning services, a white supremacist attacked the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, murdering 11 people and wounding another six. In April 2019, in the middle of Passover, a white supremacist attacked the Chabad of Poway synagogue, murdering one person and seriously wounding another three. Both incidents started absolutely necessary conversations about the prevalence and nature of the white supremacist threat to Jews across the country.
Four people were murdered at a kosher supermarket in Jersey City by self-described Black Hebrew Israelites just weeks...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/01/02/when_anti-semitism_doesnt_matter_142059.html</link>
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						<author>Ben Shapiro</author><category>Ben Shapiro</category><pubdate>2020/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/02/2020/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Killing Ourselves With Hate]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ The recent shooting inside a kosher supermarket in Jersey City, New Jersey is the latest example that we Americans are literally killing ourselves with hatred for our neighbors.
It is just the latest in an ever-lengthening litany of putrid examples showing the terrible consequences of hating the "other" rather than loving in our hearts all of those created in God's image. The facts surrounding the murder of innocents just across the river from New York City illustrate how pervasive this problem is today.
The alleged perpetrators of this heinous crime, a man and a woman, were apparently both...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/01/02/killing_ourselves_with_hate_142060.html</link>
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						<author>Armstrong Williams</author><category>Armstrong Williams</category><pubdate>2020/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/02/2020/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ 20 Years: A Syndication Anniversary Reflection]]></title>
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											<description><![CDATA[ I live to write. I write to live.
The close of 2019 marks two full decades since I entered national newspaper syndication. You are reading the 1,571st column I've filed with Creators Syndicate. The years have flown and so have the words: More than one million of them carefully marshaled each week for the past 1,043 weeks to enlighten, entertain and enrage.
Thank you, Creators Syndicate founder Rick Newcombe, for your steadfast support and friendship.
Thank you to the hundreds of newspaper op-ed and website editors who publish my work.
Thank you to the thousands of readers over the past 20...]]></description>
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						<author>Michelle Malkin</author><category>Michelle Malkin</category><pubdate>2020/01</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>01/02/2020/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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						<title><![CDATA[ Trump&#039;s Top 10 Achievements for 2019]]></title>
											<subtitle>COMMENTARY</subtitle>
											<description><![CDATA[ America stands on the cusp of a new decade that promises to unfold as the new "Roaring Twenties." A review of President Trump's 2019 achievements, building on the successes of 2017 and 2018, provides context for the year and decade ahead, and reasons to expect a resounding Trump reelection next November. Here are my top 10:

Jobs - The stunning recent news on employment proves, more than any other metric, the efficacy of President Trump's growth doctrine of economic nationalism and the diffusion of power. Defying globalist skeptics from Wall Street, academia, and the corporate media, payrolls...]]></description>
						<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/12/31/trumps_top_10_achievements_for_2019_142047.html</link>
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						<author>Steve Cortes</author><category>Steve Cortes</category><pubdate>2019/12</pubdate>
					<fullpubdate>12/31/2019/00/00/00</fullpubdate>
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