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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>The XX Factor : National Review</title><link>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/National+Review/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: National Review</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61129.2)</generator><item><title>Obama Is a Commie</title><link>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2009/01/30/obama-is-a-commie.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:38:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b38b617e-fbf1-4816-b2a6-f11ec83af8cb:4486</guid><dc:creator>Susannah Breslin</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/comments/4486.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/commentrss.aspx?PostID=4486</wfw:commentRss><description>Yesterday, Eve pointed out that Dan Quayle speechwriter turned National Review blogger Lisa Schiffren took a swipe at the XX Factor bloggers -- something about the audacity of our dislike of Sarah Palin and love for Michelle Obama. (Je stands accused!)...(&lt;a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2009/01/30/obama-is-a-commie.aspx"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="http://www.slate.com/blogs/aggbug.aspx?PostID=4486" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/communism/default.aspx">communism</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/Dan+Quayle/default.aspx">Dan Quayle</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/gay+marriage/default.aspx">gay marriage</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/Lisa+Schiffren/default.aspx">Lisa Schiffren</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/National+Review/default.aspx">National Review</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/politics/default.aspx">politics</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/XX+Factor/default.aspx">XX Factor</category></item><item><title>Sarah at Home</title><link>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/10/21/sarah-at-home.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:23:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b38b617e-fbf1-4816-b2a6-f11ec83af8cb:3886</guid><dc:creator>Bonnie Goldstein</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/comments/3886.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3886</wfw:commentRss><description>Anne, thanks for sending me to Jane Mayer's New Yorker essay " The Insiders ." My lasting image from the piece is one of Gov. Palin hijacking two boatloads of conservative pundits and charming them with her wiles. This is the quick study Sarah Barracuda...(&lt;a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/10/21/sarah-at-home.aspx"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="http://www.slate.com/blogs/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3886" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/conservative+pundits/default.aspx">conservative pundits</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/juneau/default.aspx">juneau</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/National+Review/default.aspx">National Review</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/Sarah+Palin/default.aspx">Sarah Palin</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/weekly+standard/default.aspx">weekly standard</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/william+Kristol/default.aspx">william Kristol</category></item><item><title>Conservatives Should Not Cast Out Their Own</title><link>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/10/14/conservatives-should-not-cast-out-their-own.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:59:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b38b617e-fbf1-4816-b2a6-f11ec83af8cb:3841</guid><dc:creator>Rachael Larimore</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/comments/3841.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3841</wfw:commentRss><description>Melinda, I'm so glad you posted on Christopher Buckley leaving the National Review . I was saddened to read his column in the Daily Beast saying he'd left. Also, I had just been conjuring up a post in response to your post and Ellen 's from earlier today,...(&lt;a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/10/14/conservatives-should-not-cast-out-their-own.aspx"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="http://www.slate.com/blogs/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3841" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/Christopher+Buckley+endorses+Obama/default.aspx">Christopher Buckley endorses Obama</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/intellectualism/default.aspx">intellectualism</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/National+Review/default.aspx">National Review</category></item><item><title>Rich Lowry, What Is You Thinking?</title><link>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/10/14/rich-lowry-what-is-you-thinking.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:51:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b38b617e-fbf1-4816-b2a6-f11ec83af8cb:3838</guid><dc:creator>Melinda Henneberger</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/comments/3838.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3838</wfw:commentRss><description>It's unbelievable that Christopher Buckley has been asked to clean out his cubby at the magazine his father founded—"briskly'' allowed to resign for the sin of endorsing Obama. Where the National Review thinks it'll find another writer who can throw around...(&lt;a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/10/14/rich-lowry-what-is-you-thinking.aspx"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="http://www.slate.com/blogs/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3838" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/_2700_08+election/default.aspx">'08 election</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/anti-intellectuals/default.aspx">anti-intellectuals</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/Christopher+Buckley+endorses+Obama/default.aspx">Christopher Buckley endorses Obama</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/intellectuals/default.aspx">intellectuals</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/National+Review/default.aspx">National Review</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/Rich+Lowry/default.aspx">Rich Lowry</category></item></channel></rss>