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<title><![CDATA[Maureen Callahan - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15897.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Maureen Callahan]]></description><category domain="15897">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Bizarre Lives of Upper East Side Housewives]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Maureen Callahan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In her 26 years in New York, Wednesday Martin has lived in nearly every neighborhood, from Long Island City to Soho to the West Village. Nothing, she says, prepared her for the Upper East Side.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bill's Libido Again Threatens to Derail Hillary]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Maureen Callahan</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Happened to Lady Gaga?]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2013/12/14/what-happened-to-lady-gaga/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Maureen Callahan</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Beat the Press: It's Not Just Woodward]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Maureen Callahan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As coverage of last week&#194;&#146;s flare-up between Bob Woodward and the White House devolved into the granular parsing of words and implications and extrapolations and possible intent, the larger point was roundly missed: the increasing pressure that White House correspondents feel when dealing with the Obama administration &#194;&#151; to follow their narrative, to be properly deferential (!), to react to push-back by politely sitting down and shutting up.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Hunger Games]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/dance_for_us_jobless_TtGPPV0YSKU9BSkMov0xNP</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Maureen Callahan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For all the talk about our slow climb out of the worst recession since the Great Depression, this past week brought some alarming news: The unemployment rate climbed to 7.9 percent, and in the fourth quarter of 2012 the US economy shrunk again. Most distressing is the years-long trend that shows no sign of reversing: The middle class is disappearing. A 2012 study by economists at Duke University and the University of British Columbia found that nine out of every 10 jobs lost during the recession were mid-level and mid-paying &mdash; positions often eliminated due to technology.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Notes Reveal George Washington's Wisdom]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Maureen Callahan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When George Washington&rsquo;s personal, annotated copy of the Constitution sold last week for $9.8 million at auction in New York, it didn&rsquo;t just set a record. It allowed us to see, for the first time, how cautiously our first president assumed the office, his eyes not toward history but the future.&ldquo;This shows that he let the presidency define him, rather than for him to define the presidency,&rdquo; says Edward Lengel, military historian and author of two books on Washington. &ldquo;He was a man who thought scrupulously, and he was very concerned with precedent. He understood that his own approach would define how his successors approached the presidency.&rdquo;]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Public Opinion Turned Against Unions]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Maureen Callahan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This summer, something remarkable happened: 45,000 Verizon workers went on strike, and no one &mdash; save a few customers dealing with service interruptions &mdash; much cared.The communications behemoth wanted more than 100 concessions on health care, pensions, sick days and outsourcing. Unions representing the workers said Verizon sought to void 50 years of collective-bargaining gains for middle-class workers, despite posting a 2.8% jump in revenue in the second quarter, up to $27.5 billion.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Middle Income Jobs Aren't Coming Back]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Maureen Callahan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Anne,  45, has always considered herself middle-class: As a single mom earning  $65,000 a year in ad sales, she was able to rent a one-bedroom  apartment on the Upper East Side for $1,000 a month and send her  daughter, now 12, to private school. &ldquo;I was able to make it,&rdquo; she says.  &ldquo;Even go on vacation sometimes.&rdquo;In the span of 15 months, she has come to define herself as poor &mdash;  even if the government won&rsquo;t, denying her multiple applications for  welfare and food stamps because, she says, she once made &ldquo;too much  money.&rdquo;]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Connecticut Is Ready to Rumble]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Maureen Callahan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Of this season&rsquo;s crazy, contentious, wide-open Senate races &mdash; in  Ohio, Florida, California, Arizona, Nevada &mdash; none is as wild as what&rsquo;s  going on in Connecticut. In one corner: Democrat Richard Blumenthal, 64,  state attorney general since 1991 and favored to win, up by over 40  points in the polls until this spring, when he was caught lying about  having served in Vietnam. In the opposing corner: Republican Linda  McMahon, 61, until last fall the CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment  (WWE), billionaire and political neophyte.Since spending $22  million of her fortune, McMahon beat out GOP contenders Peter Schiff  (campaign slogan: &ldquo;Schiff Happens&rdquo;...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rise of the Mini Qaedas]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Maureen Callahan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For all the confusion about who Faisal  Shahzad is and how he got that way, there is one sure thing the  failed Times Square bomber has shown us: The future of terrorism.&ldquo;Our threat picture in the US just got a lot more complicated,&rdquo;  says Ben Venzke, CEO of IntelCenter, a private group specializing in  counter-terrorism that works with American and European military and  intelligence agencies.In short, it&rsquo;s no longer just al Qaeda  aiming to strike within the United States: &ldquo;Now we have half-a-dozen or  more very skilled groups looking to execute attacks,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;Even  getting close is a success for them.&rdquo;]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why We Should Leave Afghanistan]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Maureen Callahan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Comments: 3By MAUREEN CALLAHAN          Last Updated:          4:48 AM, November 22, 2009          Posted:          1:02 AM, November 22, 2009]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kennedy's Free Pass with Women]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nypost.com/seven/08302009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/kennedys_free_pass_with_women_187139.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[What America's Baby 'Boomlet' Will Mean]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Maureen Callahan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Posted: 4:01 amMarch 29, 2009 The number alone is staggering: Over 4 million babies born in the US in 2007 -- exceeding levels seen during the baby boom, more live births than ever in our recorded history. This statistic and its accompanying data, released by the US Department of Health and Human Services, seems to tell several stories. For example: More single women had babies than ever, and the same holds true for older women. Caesarean births rose by 2%, marking the 11th consecutive year that these rates have increased. Latinos had more babies than any other ethnic group, and the states with the highest birth rates are border states: California, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico. It would seem...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Obama Cut Into the Evangelical Vote?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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