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							<title><![CDATA[Is a UK Crackup Ahead?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Pat Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[David Cameron is the most successful Tory Party leader since Margaret Thatcher.
Yet history may also record that his success led to the crackup of his country, and Great Britain's secession from the European Union.
How did Cameron's Tories capture their majority?
First, they compiled a strong record to run on.
More critically, they attacked the Labour Party of Ed Miliband as too far left to govern, and warned that a Labour government would be hostage to a secessionist Scottish National Party, without whose votes Miliband could never reach a majority in Parliament.
Labour could not shake off the charge, because it was true.
The attack on the SNP as a subversive party secretly allied with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On a Fast Track to National Ruin]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/05/08/on_a_fast_track_to_national_ruin_126522.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Pat Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the first quarter of 2015, in the sixth year of the historic Obama recovery, the U.S. economy grew by two-tenths of 1 percent.And that probably sugarcoats it.
For trade deficits subtract from the growth of GDP, and the U.S. trade deficit that just came in was a monster.As the AP's Martin Crutsinger writes, "The U.S. trade deficit in March swelled to the highest level in more than six years, propelled by a flood of imports that may have sapped the U.S. economy of any growth in the first quarter."
The March deficit was $51.2 billion, largest of any month since 2008. In goods alone, the trade deficit hit $64 billion.As Crutsinger writes, a surge in imports to $239 billion in March,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary Blames the Cops]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/05/01/hillary_blames_the_cops_126450.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Pat Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Had Freddie Gray been robbed, beaten and left to die in the streets of his Baltimore neighborhood, no one would be mourning him today.
No one would be marching for Freddie. No one would be using Freddie as the new poster child of "Black Lives Matter!"
No one would care, three weeks later, but his family and friends.
It was the manner of his death, suffering a fractured spine in police custody, that makes Freddie matter. For he can now be credibly cast in the victim's role in the great new narrative against America -- that ours is a society of unequal justice where racist cops routinely brutalize black men and boys and are rarely called to account.In this narrative, the liberal is always the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biblical Values -- or Vegas Values?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/04/28/biblical_values_--_or_vegas_values_126407.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Pat Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Almost all of the declared and undeclared Republican candidates for 2016 could be found this weekend at one of two events, or both.
The first was organized by the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition, and held in Point of Grace Church in Waukee.
Dominated by Evangelical Christians, who were 60 percent of Republican caucus-goers in 2008 and 2012, the Point of Grace Church event drew no fewer than nine Republican hopefuls.
Ex-Gov. Mike Huckabee and ex-Sen. Rick Santorum, past winners of the Iowa caucuses, were there. So, too, were Sen. Ted Cruz and Gov. Scott Walter. Cruz and Walker are sons of Christian preachers.
All nine GOP hopefuls espoused Judeo-Christian values, and all nine pledged...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Is Yemen Our War?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/04/24/why_is_yemen_our_war_126374.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Pat Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For a month now, the Saudi air force has been bombing Yemen to reverse a takeover of that nation of 25 million by Houthi rebels, and reinstall a president who fled his country and is residing in Riyadh.
The Saudis have hit airfields, armor and arms depots, and caused a humanitarian catastrophe. Nearly 1,000 dead, 3,500 wounded and tens of thousands homeless. The poorest nation in the Arab world is near collapse. Dependent upon imported food, Yemen faces malnutrition and starvation.
And the United States has been an accomplice in the Saudi bombing of Yemen.
Why? Why is Yemen's civil war America's war?
What did the Houthis ever do to us?
While they bear us no love, their Houthi rebellion was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Republican Collaborators]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/04/21/obamas_republican_collaborators_126335.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Pat Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The GOP swept to victory in November by declaring that this imperial presidency must be brought to heel, and President Obama's illicit seizures of Congressional power must end.
That was then. Now is now.
This week, Congress takes up legislation to cede His Majesty full authority to negotiate the largest trade deal in history, the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership, and to surrender Congress' right to amend any TPP that Obama might bring home.
Why the capitulation? Why would Republicans line up to kiss the royal ring? Is Middle America clamoring for "fast track"?
Are blue-collar workers marching in the streets to have Congress grant "Trade Promotion Authority Now!" to Barack Obama?
No....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A U.S.-Russia War Over Ukraine?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/04/17/a_us-russia_war_over_ukraine_126296.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Pat Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Could a U.S. response to Russia's action in Ukraine provoke a confrontation that leads to a U.S.-Russia War?"
This jolting question is raised by Graham Allison and Dimitri Simes in the cover article of The National Interest.
The answer the authors give, in "Countdown to War: The Coming U.S. Russia Conflict," is that the odds are shortening on a military collision between the world's largest nuclear powers.
The cockpit of the conflict, should it come, will be Ukraine.
What makes the article timely is the report that Canada will be sending 200 soldiers to western Ukraine to join 800 Americans and 75 Brits on a yearlong assignment to train the Ukrainian army.
And train that army to fight...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Bob Corker Save the GOP?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/04/07/will_bob_corker_save_the_gop_126174.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Pat Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Pat, sometimes it seems like our friends want me to go over the cliff with flags flying," President Reagan once told me.
Today, it is "Bibi" Netanyahu and the neocons howling "kill the deal" and "bomb Iran" who are shoving the Republican Party toward the cliff.
The question, which may decide 2016, may be framed thus:
Should a Republican Congress meticulously point out the flaws and risks of this nuclear deal with Iran and, if the Iranians do cheat or attempt a breakout, be rewarded for their skepticism and statesmanship?
Or should the GOP sabotage and scuttle the deal and let itself be held politically liable for the diplomatic and strategic disaster that would follow?
Consider the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Diversity -- or Meritocracy?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/04/03/diversity_--_or_meritocracy_126137.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Pat Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A voracious and eclectic reader, President Nixon instructed me to send him every few weeks 10 articles he would not normally see that were on interesting or important issues.
In 1971, I sent him an essay from The Atlantic, with reviews by Time and Newsweek, by Dr. Richard Herrnstein. My summary read:
"Basically, (Herrnstein) demonstrates that heredity, rather than environment, determines intelligence -- and that the more we proceed to provide everyone with a 'good environment' the more heredity will become the dominant factor ... in their success and social standing."
In a 1994 obituary, The New York Times wrote that Herrnstein, though he "was often harassed ... and his classes at Harvard...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stand Up for Indiana!]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/03/31/stand_up_for_indiana_126095.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Pat Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In what has been called the "Catholic moment" in America, in the late 1940s and 1950s, Catholics were admonished from pulpits to "live the faith" and "set an example" for others.
Public lives were to reflect moral beliefs. Christians were to avoid those "living in sin." Christians who operated motels and hotels did not rent rooms to unmarried couples.
Fast forward to 21st-century America.
Indiana just enacted a law, as have 19 other states, to protect the rights of religious people to practice their beliefs in how they live their lives and conduct their businesses.
And the reaction? Nearly hysterical.
The head of the NCAA, the founder of Apple, chief executives of SalesForce and Yelp,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Enemy of My Enemy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/03/27/the_enemy_of_my_enemy_126065.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Pat Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The forces that do not want a U.S. nuclear deal with Iran, nor any U.S. detente with Iran, are impressive.
Among them are the Israelis and their powerful lobby AIPAC, the Saudis and their Sunni allies on the Persian Gulf, a near unanimity of Republicans and a plurality of Democrats in Congress.
Is there a case to be made for a truce in the venomous conflict that has gone on between us since the taking of U.S. hostages in 1979? Is there any common ground?
To both questions, President Obama and John Kerry believe the answer is yes. And they are not without an argument.
First, the alternative to a truce -- breaking off of negotiations, doubling down on demands Iran dismantle all nuclear...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are NGOs Agents of Subversion?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/03/24/are_ngos_agents_of_subversion_126024.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Pat Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Though "Bibi" Netanyahu won re-election last week, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations will still look into whether the State Department financed a clandestine effort to defeat him.
Reportedly, State funneled $350,000 to an American NGO called OneVoice, which has an Israeli subsidiary, Victory 15, that collaborated with U.S. operatives to bring Bibi down.
If we are now secretly pumping cash into the free elections of friendly countries, to dump leaders President Obama dislikes, Americans have a right to know why we are using Cold War tactics against democracies.
After World War II, my late colleague on CNN's "Crossfire," Tom Braden, delivered CIA cash to democratic parties...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Would Ike Do?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/03/20/what_would_ike_do_125990.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Pat Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In November 1956, President Eisenhower, enraged he had not been forewarned of their invasion of Egypt, ordered the British, French and Israelis to get out of Suez and Sinai. They did as told.
How far we have fallen from the America of Ike and John Foster Dulles has been on painful display this March.
An Israeli leader told a joint session of Congress that President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran is stupid and dangerous and must be rejected. Congress gave him 40 ovations.
Bibi Netanyahu then went home and told the world there will be no Palestinian state, and was re-elected in a smashing victory.
"Perhaps it's time for Americans, especially those in the White House, to recognize this new...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will the GOP Kick It Away?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/03/17/will_the_gop_kick_it_away_125954.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Pat Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With Hillary Clinton scrambling to explain her missing emails, much of America is wailing, "Please don't make us watch this movie again!"
Why, then, would the Republican Party, with a chance to sweep it all in 2016, want to return us to the nightmare days of George W., which caused America to rise up and throw the party out in 2006 and 2008?
Do Republicans really believe that America wants a return to the Cold War with Moscow and new and larger hot wars in the Middle East?
With President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry seemingly about to conclude a deal to freeze Iran's nuclear program, House Speaker John Boehner invited Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu to use the State...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is the European Union Dying?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/03/13/is_the_european_union_dying_125922.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Pat Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the European Coal and Steel Community of Jean Monnet evolved into the EU, we were told a "United States of Europe" was at hand, modeled on the USA. And other countries and continents will inevitably follow Europe's example.
There will be a North American Union of the U.S., Canada and Mexico, and a Latin America Union of the Mercosur trade partnership.
In an essay, "The E.U. Experiment Has Failed," Bruce Thornton of Hoover Institution makes the case that the verdict is in, the dream is dead, the EU is unraveling, One Europe is finished.
Consider, first, economics. In 2013, Europe grew by 1 percent compared to the U.S.'s 2.2 percent. In December, unemployment in Europe was 11.4 percent. In...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Does Iran Really Want a Bomb?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/03/10/does_iran_really_want_a_bomb_125878.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Pat Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America, we have a problem.
In the blood-soaked chaotic Middle East, with few exceptions like the Kurds, our friends either can't or won't fight.
The Free Syrian Army folded. The U.S.-armed Hazm force in Syria has just collapsed after being routed by the al-Nusra Front. The Iraqi army we trained and equipped fled Mosul and ran all the way to Baghdad.
The Turks could annihilate ISIS in Syria, but they won't fight. Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Arabs have sent zero troops to fight ISIS. A handful of air strikes is it.
Now consider what our old enemies have done and are doing.
Hezbollah and Iran have sustained Bashar Assad's Syrian army for four years and have ISIS and the al-Nusra Front on the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Darren Wilson: Free At Last!]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/03/06/darren_wilson_free_at_last_125843.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Pat Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Eric Holder's Justice Department has completed its investigation into whether Ferguson cop Darren Wilson killed Michael Brown in cold blood for racist reasons when he shot the black teenager last August.
What did the massive six-month FBI investigation discover?
According to the Washington Post, "after canvassing more than 300 homes and reviewing physical, ballistic, forensic, medical and crime-scene evidence" and examining "Wilson's personnel records, audio and video recordings," Justice concluded Wilson told the truth about what happened that Saturday in Ferguson.
Officer Wilson is innocent of the endless libels and slanders in the press and on television, and by street demagogues and the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Best of Times or Worst of Times?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/03/03/best_of_times_or_worst_of_times_125796.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Pat Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, John Kerry seemed to be auditioning for the role of Dr. Pangloss.
Despite jihadi violence across the Middle East and ISIS terror in Iraq and Syria, Kerry told Congress, we live in "a period of less daily threat to Americans and to people in the world than normally -- less deaths, less violent deaths today than through the last century."
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper appeared to undercut Kerry the next day when he testified, "When the final accounting is done, 2014 will have been the most lethal year for global terrorism in the 45 years [since] such data has been complied."
From January through September 2014, said Clapper, there were 13,000 terrorist attacks...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hanging Rudy Out to Dry]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/02/24/hanging_rudy_out_to_dry_125710.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Pat Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Back in 1987, this writer was invited by friends to advise them on a press conference they had called to oppose President Reagan's signing of an INF treaty to remove all nuclear missiles from Europe.
My advice: Deplore the treaty; do not attack the president.
The next day, Howard Phillips declared that Ronald Reagan had become a "useful idiot for Soviet propaganda."
Howie captured the headlines, as did Rudy Giuliani after that dinner at 21 Club for Gov. Scott Walker, where the mayor spontaneously rose to declaim, "I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America. ... He wasn't brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up, through...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Putin Paranoia]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/02/17/putin_paranoia_125627.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Pat Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hopefully, the shaky truce between Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Petro Poroshenko, brokered in Minsk by Angela Merkel, will hold.
For nothing good, but much evil, could come of broadening and lengthening this war that has cost the lives of 5,400 Ukrainians.
The longer it goes on, the greater the casualties, the more land Ukraine will lose, and the greater the likelihood Kiev will end up an amputated and bankrupt republic, a dependency the size of France on the doorstep of Europe.
Had no truce been achieved, 8,000 Ukrainian troops trapped in the Debaltseve pocket could have been forced to surrender or wiped out, causing a regime crisis in Kiev. U.S. weapons could have begun flowing in,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Ultimate Enemy of ISIS]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/02/13/the_ultimate_enemy_of_isis_125588.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Pat Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president's request for the authorization to use military force against the Islamic State has landed in a Congress as divided as the country.
That division was mirrored in the disparate receptions Obama's resolution received from The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.
To the Times, Obama's AUMF is "alarmingly broad. It does not limit the battlefield to Syria and Iraq."
Moreover, Obama "seeks permission to attack 'associated persons or forces.'" This would give the White House "virtually unrestricted power to engage in attacks around the globe as long as it can justify a connection, however tenuous, to the Islamic State."
To the Journal, Obama's resolution ties America down the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rev. Wright's Star Pupil]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/02/10/rev_wrights_star_pupil_125545.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Pat Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA["A steady patriot of the world alone,
"The friend of every country -- but his own."
George Canning's couplet about the Englishmen who professed love for all the world except their own native land comes to mind on reading Obama's remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast.
After listing the horrors of ISIS, al-Qaida and Boko Haram, the president decided his recital of crimes committed in the name of Islam would be unbalanced, if he did not backhand those smug Christians sitting right in front of him.
"And lest we get on our high horse ... remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Whose Job Is It to Kill ISIS?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/02/06/whose_job_is_it_to_kill_isis__125515.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Pat Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Seeing clips of that 22-minute video of the immolation of the Jordanian pilot, one wonders: Who would be drawn to the cause of these barbarians who perpetrated such an atrocity?
While the video might firm up the faith of fanatics, would it not evoke rage and revulsion across the Islamic world? After all, this was a Sunni Muslim, in a cage, being burned alive.
As of now, this cruel killing seems to have backfired. Jordan is uniting behind King Abdullah's determination to exact "earth-shattering" retribution.
Which raises again the questions: Why did ISIS do it? What did they hope to gain? Evil though they may be, they are not stupid.
Surely, they knew the reaction they would get?
Several...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S.-Russia Clash in Ukraine?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/02/03/us-russia_clash_in_ukraine_125482.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Pat Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Among Cold War presidents, from Truman to Bush I, there was an unwritten rule: Do not challenge Moscow in its Central and Eastern Europe sphere of influence.
In crises over Berlin in 1948 and 1961, the Hungarian Revolution in 1956 and the Warsaw Pact invasion of Prague in 1968, U.S. forces in Europe stayed in their barracks.
We saw the Elbe as Moscow's red line, and they saw it as ours.
While Reagan sent weapons to anti-Communist rebels in Angola, Nicaragua and Afghanistan, to the heroic Poles of Gdansk he sent only mimeograph machines.
That Cold War caution and prudence may be at an end.
For President Obama is being goaded by Congress and the liberal interventionists in his party to send...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Derail Fast Track!]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Pat Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last November, Republicans grew their strength in Congress to levels unseen since 1946. What united the party and rallied the nation was the GOP's declared resolve to stand up to an imperious president.
Give us powerful new majorities, said John Boehner and Mitch McConnell, and we shall halt these usurpations of Congressional power.
And, so, what is the first order of business now in the Ways and Means Committee of Paul Ryan and Senate Finance Committee of Orrin Hatch?
"The first thing we ought to do," says Ryan, "is pass trade promotion authority." Trade promotion authority, or "fast track," is a synonym for Congress's surrender of all rights to amend trade treaties, and a commitment to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Persians Are Coming!]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/01/27/the_persians_are_coming__125402.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Pat Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA["The Iranians are on the march," warned John McCain Sunday.
"Iran is building a new Persian Empire," echoed Col. Ralph Peters.
So alarmed is Speaker Boehner, he invited Bibi Netanyahu to come and challenge U.S. policy toward Iran from the same podium where the president delivered his State of the Union address.
Bibi will make the case for new U.S. sanctions on Iran; sanctions that Obama has said he will veto as they would sabotage talks on Iran's nuclear program and potentially put us on the road to war.
Why are Bibi's insights needed?
Because, says Sen. Robert Menendez, the outgoing chairman of foreign relations, White House statements sound like "talking points from Tehran." This beloved...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Against Terrorism -- But for What?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/01/23/against_terrorism_--_but_for_what_125361.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Pat Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Following the Charlie Hebdo massacre, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said that France "is at war with terrorism, jihadism and radical Islamism." This tells us what France is fighting against.
But what is France fighting for in this war on terror? For terrorism is simply a tactic, and arguably the most effective tactic of the national liberation movements of the 20th century.
Terrorism was used by the Irgun to drive the British out of Palestine and by the Mau Mau to run them out of Kenya. Terrorism, blowing up movie theaters and cafes, was the tactic the FLN used to drive the French out of Algeria.
The FALN tried to assassinate Harry Truman in 1950 at Blair House, shot up the House of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[To Die for Charlie Hebdo?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/01/16/to_die_for_charlie_hebdo_125278.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Pat Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA["I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it."
That maxim of Voltaire was among those most invoked by the marching millions in Sunday's mammoth "Je Suis Charlie" rally in Paris.
This week, in the spirit of Voltaire, French authorities arrested and charged Cameroonian comedian Dieudonne M'Bala M'Bala, and 54 others, with "hate speech."
Yes, Monsieur Voltaire, there are limits to free speech in France.
Dieudonne's crime? He tweeted, "I am Charlie Coulibaly," the last name of the killer of four innocent Jews in that kosher market.
A wounding wicked remark.
And what are now the limits of free speech in France?
Prime Minister Manuel Vals lists...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Paralysis of Europe]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/01/09/the_paralysis_of_europe_125198.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Pat Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The massacre in Paris of the staff of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo was an act of terrorism, but also a successful act of war in the clash of civilizations between Islamism and the West.
Nor were we lacking for warning signs.
In 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, a license to kill author Salman Rushdie for his anti-Muslim novel "Satanic Verses."
Danish cartoons of the Prophet with his turban in the shape of a bomb caused riots across the Middle East. Charlie Hebdo published them. The vulgarian Theo Van Gogh was carved up alive on a street in Amsterdam for insulting Islam in his 10-minute film "Submission."
Have we not known that millions of Muslims now take their faith so...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Party at War With Itself]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/01/06/a_party_at_war_with_itself_125151.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Pat Buchanan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the third time, the cops of the NYPD have turned their backs on the mayor of New York.
The first time was when Mayor Bill de Blasio arrived at Woodhull Hospital where mortally wounded officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu had been taken on Dec. 20. The second was when the mayor spoke at Ramos' funeral. The third was at Liu's service on Sunday.
Detestation of de Blasio among the NYPD and the cops who came from across the country to stand in solidarity with their slain brothers is broad and deep.
And, in a way, de Blasio served as stand-in for Al Sharpton, Eric Holder and President Obama. For all four gave aid and comfort to the war on cops that has raged since Ferguson last August when...]]></description>
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