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		<title><![CDATA[Cal Thomas: Who is monitoring the debt?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[People of a certain age will recall a lyric from the Tennessee Ernie Ford song “Sixteen Tons”: “Another day older and deeper in debt.” I thought of that song as Secretary of War Pete Hegseth asked Congress to approve a $1.5 trillion budget...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/calthomas/s-4089500</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/05/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: Inflation has changed -- and so has who pays for it]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[A familiar conservative argument is back: inflation is the result of
government printing and overspending. Too many dollars, too much demand,
not enough goods. It is a tidy explanation, one that has the advantage
of clarity and a long intellectual...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4089364</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/05/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Trump's feud with New York masks Amtrak's spending spree]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump’s long-running feud with New York over the
$16 billion Gateway tunnel masks a turn of events that even executives
at Amtrak didn’t see coming: The administration is largely staying out
of the way as the railroad ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/politicalnews/s-4089403</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/05/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: Plugging gaps with AI]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two truths and a lie: America is getting older, leading to an
increasing number of older Americans relying on a shrinking labor force;
American farmers are in trouble because of a shortage of talent and
shrinking margins; and, artificial ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4089363</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/05/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mark Gongloff: Relax. Solar panels won't give you cancer]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[We live in an age of both scientific miracles and superstition about
science, increasing more or less in tandem. One year we’re creating
novel vaccines that arrest a global pandemic, and four years later
we’ve got measles outbreaks because ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4089358</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/05/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court voting rights ruling set to reshape local power from statehouses to school boards]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Supreme Court’s new decision gutting a key provision of
the federal Voting Rights Act clears the way for state officials to
drastically reshape not only Congress but also state legislatures,
county commissions, city councils and even ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/politicalnews/s-4089356</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/05/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: America's greatest geopolitical blind spot]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The global hierarchy of innovation is undergoing a structural shift
that Washington is dangerously slow to acknowledge. For decades, the
prevailing narrative in the United States was that China was merely the
"world’s factory"—a nation capable...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4089349</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/05/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Trump statue maker from Philly area faces high demand for bronze likenesses of the president after assassination attempts]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Within an hour of an armed man’s attempt to storm the White House
correspondents’ dinner while President Donald Trump and administration
officials were on stage last weekend, Steven Barber said he received 10
calls from people wanting him to ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/politicalnews/s-4089347</link>
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    <pubDate>May/05/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: Watch out when the political class forgets cause and effect]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has spent time in criminal court knows this: One of the
characteristics of lawbreakers is a poorly developed sense of cause and
effect.

At the low end, the folly of the defendants is always on display. The
young man who takes a gun ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4089346</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/05/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Justices Gut Voting Rights to Shield GOP Majority -- and Their Own Disgrace]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[

What a happy coincidence for House Republicans that the Supreme Court's
conservative bloc found an excuse to help preserve their party's
congressional majority, just in time for the 2026 midterm elections.
Without the timely intervention of the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/joeconason/s-4089104</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/05/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cal Thomas Advisory]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 5/5/26 Cal Thomas column has been re-posted. In graf 6, the Balanced Budget Amendment has been changed to Balanced Budget Act. ©2026 Tribune Content Agency, LLC. KeyWords:: adeb1045-0732-4d50-bd8b-7a7527f63783 adeb1045 0732 4d50 bd8b ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/calthomas/s-4089499</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/04/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Trump's quip about sending warship to take Cuba struck a nerve on the island]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cuban leader Miguel Diaz-Canel ramped up his rhetoric this weekend,
calling the current U.S. administration “fascist,” after President
Donald Trump suggested, apparently in jest, that he could send a U.S.
aircraft carrier “on its way back ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/politicalnews/s-4089185</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/04/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[House Democrats' campaign arm takes side in contentious California Central Valley race]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Democratic officials are drawing criticism after a surprising move to
elevate a preferred candidate in California’s 22nd Congressional
District with less than a month before the primary election.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee,...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/politicalnews/s-4089156</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/04/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Massachusetts Senate candidates Deaton, Moulton agree to debate ahead of primary, as incumbent Markey remains silent]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[BOSTON — Republican U.S. Senate candidate John Deaton and Democrat
candidate Seth Moulton agreed Monday to an inter-party debate ahead of
September’s primary — as incumbent candidate Sen. Ed Markey remained
quiet on the challenge.

“I ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/politicalnews/s-4089154</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/04/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Alaska lawmakers fall 2 votes short of overriding Gov. Dunleavy's veto of election bill]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[JUNEAU, Alaska — The Alaska Legislature narrowly voted to sustain
Gov.
Mike Dunleavy’s veto of a sweeping elections reform bill
Monday.

In a 38-22 vote, lawmakers fell two votes shy of the 40 votes needed
to override the veto. Sen. Bert ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/politicalnews/s-4089102</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/04/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court puts hold on ruling that would block mailing of abortion pills]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court took a first step Monday to consider
anti-abortion challenges to medication that has been commonly used to
end early pregnancies for 25 years.

The justices moved quickly to put on hold an appeals
court ruling that...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/politicalnews/s-4089001</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/04/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A democracy or a republic? History shows that some Americans are asking the wrong question]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the nation observes its 250th birthday, historians can help settle
one present-day dispute: Is the United States a democracy or a republic?

For years, advocates have argued the point.

Yet the question itself is misleading. It assumes that the...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
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    <pubDate>May/04/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Real Reason Trump Doesn't Want Congress to Vote on War Powers]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursday marked 60 days since the start of Trump’s failed war in
Iran. The U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 8) gives Congress the
power “To declare War,” and the War Powers Resolution of 1973 —
enacted over Nixon’s veto — mandates...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/robertbreich/s-4088934</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/04/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[US Supreme Court issues temporary stay preserving nationwide abortion drug access]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Supreme Court issued a temporary
stay on an appeals court ruling from Friday that was blocking remote
access to an abortion drug, restoring access until at least May 11.

The administrative stay, issued by Justice Samuel Alito, pauses
...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/politicalnews/s-4088931</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/04/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Modi set for landmark win in key opposition-ruled Indian state]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party was set to secure its
first-ever election victory in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal,
expanding its support base across the country and bolstering his
standing as the nation’s most popular leader.

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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/politicalnews/s-4088850</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/04/2026</pubDate>
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