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		<title>Fusionism and the Decline of the Real Conservative Alliance</title>
		<link>http://riehlpolitics.com/2013/05/15/fusionism-and-the-decline-of-the-real-conservative-alliance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 23:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Riehl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conservatism has fallen apart over the last decade (plus), as the TheoCons and NeoCons have taken over the intellectual roots of the movement founded in the postwar years. Here is a useful and well composed narrative of the break between the coalition.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riehlpolitics.com&#038;blog=19456100&#038;post=1244&#038;subd=riehlpolitics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My latest over at GOP Insanity</title>
		<link>http://riehlpolitics.com/2013/05/13/my-latest-over-at-gop-insanity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 22:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Riehl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My latest post on GOPinsantity, the news aggregator blog, a watchdog against nutty &#8220;conservatives&#8221; (quotes intentional) who are wrecking the once respectable conservative movement. Did you know that some actual conservatives see the hypocrisy in the the party&#8217;s current rhetoric about budget deficits?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riehlpolitics.com&#038;blog=19456100&#038;post=1239&#038;subd=riehlpolitics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taking on the Anti-Science GOP in North Carolina</title>
		<link>http://riehlpolitics.com/2013/05/07/taking-on-the-anti-science-gop-in-north-carolina/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 22:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Riehl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservatism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Rhetoric]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pat McCrory]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It might have been a bit more &#8220;Hardball&#8221; than NPR is used to, but I went toe-to-toe today with the anti-science Republicans in North Carolina over their rewriting of the state Environment Department&#8217;s rewriting of their mission statement. The full interview is available here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riehlpolitics.com&#038;blog=19456100&#038;post=1236&#038;subd=riehlpolitics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No!</title>
		<link>http://riehlpolitics.com/2013/04/28/no/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 22:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Riehl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We saw a great film recently, with a plotline deeply concerned with politics and rhetoric. The film &#8220;No&#8221; is a Chilean production and is a artistically-liscensed treatment of the 1988 referendum on the Pinochet regime. The protagonist, a communications consultant, argues against using the opposition&#8217;s limited airtime to show images of the regime&#8217;s brutality &#8212; [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riehlpolitics.com&#038;blog=19456100&#038;post=1230&#038;subd=riehlpolitics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans&#8217; Uncivil War</title>
		<link>http://riehlpolitics.com/2013/04/08/republicans-uncivil-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Riehl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My latest here in POLITICO on the GOP crackup, with my collaborator Scot Faulkner. &#160;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riehlpolitics.com&#038;blog=19456100&#038;post=1227&#038;subd=riehlpolitics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Different Sort of Budget Battle</title>
		<link>http://riehlpolitics.com/2013/03/21/a-different-sort-of-budget-battle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Riehl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political Rhetoric]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a rhetorical battle going on in Washington over the word &#8220;balanced.&#8221; In his excellent POLITICO article published today, Jonathan Allen explains how both sides in the budget battle are trying control the word&#8217;s meaning in the ongoing fiscal debate. As Allen writes, one sides wants to talk about &#8221;balanced budget&#8221; while the other wants a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riehlpolitics.com&#038;blog=19456100&#038;post=1223&#038;subd=riehlpolitics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bill and Hillary: A Joint Portrait</title>
		<link>http://riehlpolitics.com/2013/03/04/bill-and-hillary-a-joint-portrait/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Riehl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political Rhetoric]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My review, published yesterday in the Greensboro News &#38; Record, of William Chafe&#8217;s joint biography of Bill and Hillary Clinton. A solid piece of work with some provocative analysis of the personal and public lives of these two remarkable partners in power. And yes, that&#8217;s the Clintons. (Great hair, Bill!) Chafe&#8217;s book has no photo [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riehlpolitics.com&#038;blog=19456100&#038;post=1217&#038;subd=riehlpolitics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Latest on the GOP Meltdown</title>
		<link>http://riehlpolitics.com/2013/02/06/latest-on-the-gop-meltdown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Riehl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservatism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Rhetoric]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My latest column with Scot Faulkner on the sorry state of affairs in the Republican Party. Apparently some other folks are picking up on our idea that all the GOP needs to do is rework its &#8220;messaging&#8221; &#8212; Jon Stewart skewered my old boss Frank Luntz in the first segment of his show last night.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riehlpolitics.com&#038;blog=19456100&#038;post=1214&#038;subd=riehlpolitics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another Know-Nothing Conservative?</title>
		<link>http://riehlpolitics.com/2013/01/31/another-know-nothing-conservative/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Riehl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My op-ed today, written along with Scot Faulkner, on the controversial comments from North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory about liberal arts education &#8212; and how McCrory seems to be just one more conservative shouting into the know-nothing conservative echo chamber. Plenty of folks have commented on this, including many friends and colleagues in academia. Our [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riehlpolitics.com&#038;blog=19456100&#038;post=1210&#038;subd=riehlpolitics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Collapse of Conservatism Continues</title>
		<link>http://riehlpolitics.com/2013/01/11/the-collapse-of-conservatism-continues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 04:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Riehl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My second installment at POLITICO co-authored with my friend and conservative veteran Scot Faulkner, on the total disappearance of anything resembling a conservative movement or conservative leadership. Scot and I share different political viewpoints, but have been coming together to address what we both view as a failure of governance on the national scale.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riehlpolitics.com&#038;blog=19456100&#038;post=1207&#038;subd=riehlpolitics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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