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            <title><![CDATA[Let the Democrats Win]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Instead of telling Americans who lost their shirts in the financial crisis why Wall Street shouldn't be regulated, why not allow the Democrats to pass the bill and own the victory-and its consequences?
Whoever it was who defined history as "One damned...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:26:15 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Frum Flap]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[It was a grand mistake to fire David Frum. Dad would agree.
Into the tempest-in-a-teapot caused by the firing of David Frum by the American Enterprise Institute, for the sin of bad-mouthing his fellow conservatives and Republicans over health care...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Right Stifles Debate]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Now, the GOP is grousing that Obama has appointed former Sen. Alan Simpson-a Republican!-to a blue-ribbon deficit-reduction panel because he's too "moderate." Christopher Buckley on the latest Washington circus.
The New York Times and Wall Street...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:11:05 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Scrap the Health-Care Bill!]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ In a revelatory Q & A, Christopher Buckley explains that health insurance is well and good, but driving the country into bankruptcy isn't going to help anyone in the long run-and why we'd all be better off if Warren Buffett were president.
For anyone...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:57:25 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Conservatives, Fired Up]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A frisky, fun keynote by Beck, an encouraging straw poll that left Palin with a happily meager 7 percent-CPAC showed that for better or worse, the GOP is fired up and ready to go.
There's a joke they used to tell in Franco's Spain: two guys in bar....]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:01:15 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Quit Redefining Conservatism]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ As CPAC continues its right-wing celebration this weekend, The Daily Beast's Christopher Buckley (politely) takes on his first cousin, Brent Bozell III, and the other signers of the Mount Vernon Statement, for trying to redefine conservatism by...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:56:48 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[One Hell of a Speech]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama didn't deliver a speech so much as a symphony, calling for nukes and zapping the Supremes; thanks for the performance, Mr. President.
It is hard, indeed almost impossible, not to like Mr. Obama. In recent weeks, I've tried-tried my best. But...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:09:56 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Audacity of Oops]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  Daily Beast columnist Christopher Buckley procured an early draft of President Obama's upcoming State of the Union speech.
My fellow Americans,
Tonight I can report to you that the state of the union, on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being excellent, is a...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:57:35 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Too Big to Succeed]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Homeland Security, with its $42 billion budget, is a giant bureaucratic disaster. Christopher Buckley wonders who, really, is in charge.
The phrase "too big to fail" was much in coinage last year during the crash, the idea being that AIG, Fannie Mae,...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:08:10 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Holiday Lesson from Auschwitz]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Last week's theft and recovery of the death camp's famous sign serves as a potent coda to the decade, says The Daily Beast's Christopher Buckley, but also a roadmap to something better.
A lot has been written lately about what a dreadful decade the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Oops, My Mistake]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[George Bush's porn movie, and other errors I regret from 2009.
'Tis the season for the conscientious columnist (in theory, me) to come clean with his or her loyal readers (in theory, you) and cop to various factual errors over the past 12 months.
To...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:39:50 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buckley's Smart 16]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[From Hillary Clinton to David Petraeus, The Daily Beast's Christopher Buckley offers his own nominations for smartest personage of the decade.
Barack Obama, for turning a convention speech into the presidency in four years.
Chesley "Sully"...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:55:39 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Going Rogue: The Index]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Daily Beast's columnist enjoyed Sarah Palin's memoir so much, he created his own index for it. 
Alaska &nbsp;&nbsp; mind-numbingly boring intramural politics of, 1-208 Aristotle,  63 Atlantic Monthly&nbsp;&nbsp; formerly reputable outlet asserts...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:50:38 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lessons from Another War]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Christopher Buckley, in London as Britain marks Armistice Day, reports on how the allies' Afghanistan conundrum looks under the long shadow of World War I.
I arrived in London a bit after noon, having gotten off the Queen Mary 2 in Southampton a few...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:04:41 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[It's Time for Us to Go]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Get out of Afghanistan now, Mr. President. And here's why.
I've lived in Washington since 1981 and have been a faithful reader of The Washington Post ever since. I think I could count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I have seen the...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:36:02 -0400]]></pubDate>
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