Week of February 20, 2012 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, February 20
The GOP's Ideological Hypocrites - E.J. Dionne, Washington PostHow to Reverse Obama's "Soft Despotism" - Michael Barone, DC Examiner
The Painful Debunking of Austerity Economics - Paul Krugman, NY Times
Obama Stimulus Turns Three: What Has It Achieved? - John Merline, IBD
Why Romney's Candidacy May Not Be Salvageable - Walter Shapiro, TNR
GOP Field Not Exactly the Fab Four - Joseph Curl, Washington Times
Could Gingrich Donor Give Romney a de Facto Boost? - Scott Conroy, RCP
Ron Paul's Unique Brand of Libertarianism - Kalefa Sanneh, New Yorker
Liberal Catholics' Betrayal of Religious Freedom - George Weigel, NRO
Obama Nears His Nuclear Moment With Iran - Ed Luce, Financial Times
How the Iran Standoff Looks from Israel - Efraim Inbar, Bloomberg
Debt Ceilings and Dirty Dealings - Joseph Lawler, RealClearPolitics
Obama's Tax Policy Targets The Affluent - John Harwood, New York Times
MSNBC's Purge of Pat Buchanan - James Antle, The American Spectator
Campaign Finance Reform Has Failed - Robert Samuelson, Newsweek
When George Washington Became Great - Myron Magnet, City Journal
Death and Triumph on Iwo Jima - Cyril O'Brien, Military.com
Gallup: Santorum 36, Romney 26, Gingrich 13, Paul 11 | MI, AZ, OK
Tuesday, February 21
Why Romney Is Confident About Winning MI - McKay Coppins, BuzzFeedMr. Right Eludes the GOP - Jonah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times
Will Romney Swing Reagan Dems to Obama? - Andrew Romano, Newsweek
Sex, Lies and Rick Santorum - William McGurn, Wall Street Journal
Adelson Might Give $100 Million to Gingrich - Steven Bertoni, Forbes
The Economy's Numbers Are Ominous for Obama - Gene Epstein, Barron's
How to Defuse the Political Peril of Gas Prices - Ron Klain, Bloomberg
Tense Times Around the Globe - Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
Iran's Energy Blackmail - Niall Ferguson, Newsweek
In January, Mitt Spends Nearly 3 Times His Haul - Gregory Wallace, CNN
The MSM-Generated "Tests" of Romney - Hugh Hewitt, Townhall
Mr. Cordray Comes to Washington - Eleanor Clift, The Daily Beast
Global Warming--the Great Delusion - Matt Patterson, FOX News
Fracking Hurts Global Warming Fight - Bill McKibben, NY Review of Books
Beyond Blue 5: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs - Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest
Is Media Matters Obama's Watergate? - Jeffrey Lord, American Spectator
First Family Is Front & Center in Campaign Ad - Krissah Thompson, WP
Latest GOP Polls: Arizona | Michigan | Washington | Georgia | National
Wednesday, February 22
GOP Candidates Vie for Advantage in Debate - Davis & Lerer, BloombergArizona Contest Puts Pressure on Romney - Erin McPike, RealClearPolitics
The GOP's Desperate Trashing of the Obama Recovery - Jon Chait, NY Mag
If Economy Is Rising, Why Is Dependency Growing? - Eric Singer, Investors
WH Seeks to Deflect Blame on Rising Gas Prices - Alister Bull, Reuters
Dems Delivering on Promise of Expensive Gas - David Harsanyi, Examiner
Rick Santorum's Religious Fanaticism - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
Media All "Wee-Weed Up" Over Santorum - Sarah Palin, FOX News
Romney's Pro-Life Conversion: Spin vs. Truth - William Saletan, Slate
GOP Establishment to Blame for 2012 Debacle - Geoffrey Kabaservice, TNR
Feds Wage War on Hair Dryers, Fresh Milk - Charles Hurt, Wash Times
Egypt's Step Backward - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
The "Fairness" Fraud - Thomas Sowell, Investor's Business Daily
Will Supreme Court End Affirmative Action? - Adam Winkler, Daily Beast
Is Conservative Philanthropy Ignoring the Poor? - William Schambra, CoP
Netflix CEO Seeks Rebound From Disaster - William Cohan, Vanity Fair
Political Correctness Controls the Dictionary - Tommy De Seno, Ricochet
NBC News/Marist (GOP): Michigan: Romney +2 | Arizona: Romney +16
Thursday, February 23
Santorum, Romney Duel in GOP Debate - Zeleny & Rutenberg, NY TimesRomney Hits Santorum as Washington Insider - Toby Harnden, Daily Mail
Nine Takeaways From Arizona Debate - Carl Cannon, RealClearPolitics
And the Winner Is: Barack Obama - Jamelle Bouie, American Prospect
Going Off the Fiscal Cliff: Are We Already Europe? - Michael Tanner, NRO
Greek Deal Leaves Europe on Road to Disaster - Clive Crook, Bloomberg
Exporting Democracy--Importing Trouble - George Jonas, National Post
Getting Iran to Back Down - David Ignatius, Washington Post
Fakegate: Warmists Try to Hide Their Decline - Robert Tracinski, TIA Daily
Mormon Voters Raise Romney's Advantage in AZ - Nate Silver, NY Times
GOP Nominee Will Be From Existing Field - Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal
Romney, Santorum Are Weak Choices for GOP - George Will, Pittsburgh PG
Corporate Tax Plan Presages Election Debate - Alexis Simendinger, RCP
Only Growth Will Save Greece - Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian
Gasoline Prices Aren't Rising, the Dollar Is Falling - Louis Woodhill, Forbes
The Biggest Political Story in China? - Rosemary Righter, Newsweek
The Story of Flag Raising at Iwo Jima - U.S. Marine Corps
Detroit Free Press: Santorum 37, Romney 34, Paul 10, Gingrich 7
Friday, February 24
The Increasingly Worthless GOP Nomination - Bob Shrum, The WeekObama Weaker Than He Seems - Matt Continetti, Washington Free Beacon
Can Michigan Victory Erase Doubts About Romney? - Dan Balz, Wash Post
Three Ways Someone New Could Get the GOP Nod - Conn Carroll, Examiner
Mitt Romney: Closet Keynesian? - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Is Santorum More Goldwater or Reagan? - William Kristol, Weekly Standard
What Democrats Can Learn From Santorum - Clive Crook, BusinessWeek
Two Americas: The Makers vs. The Takers - Michael Graham, Boston Herald
Mitt Romney's "Gotcha" Campaign - Epstein & Abrahamson, Politico
GOP Voters Sour on Republican Field - Byron York, Washington Examiner
Democrats Are Apathetic Too - Jonah Goldberg, National Review
Shut Out by GOP, Roemer Tries New Path - Scott Conroy, RealClearPolitics
Lent and the Science of Self-Denial - Jeffrey Kluger, Time
Minimum Wage Madness in New Jersey - Steven Malanga, New York Post
Stop the Butchery in Syria - Anne-Marie Slaughter, New York Times
A U.S.-Iran Conspiracy to Stop Israel? - Leslie Gelb, The Daily Beast
Obama's On To Something With Algae - Charles Krauthammer, FOX News
Rasmussen Reports: Michigan: Romney + 6 | Arizona: Romney +13
Saturday, February 25
Could Middle East Tensions Boil Over? - Fareed Zakaria, CNNWe Have Officially Lost Our Minds - Andrew McCarthy, National Review
Auto Unions Tap Network for Obama - Jeremy Peters, New York Times
Republican Race's Volatility Is Historic - Alex Roarty, National Journal
Romney Woos Grassroots in Michigan - Stephen Hayes, Weekly Standard
Why Mitt Romney Is Even Weaker Than You Think - Kyle Leighton, TPM
Arizona: Romney's Insurance State - Richard Baehr, PJ Media
President Obama Doesn't Have an Energy Plan - Sarah Palin, Facebook
GM, Chrysler Rescue Was Right Decision - Steven Rattner, New York Times
The Totalitarian Ethics of CA's Public Unions - Steven Greenhut, Reason
GOP Debate Offers Plenty of Material - Bill Maher, Huffington Post
Why Climate Skeptics Are Winning - Steven Hayward, Weekly Standard
Burke Should Hearten Dismayed Conservatives - Peter Berkowitz, RCP
The Specter of Romney's Record - Alec MacGillis, The New Republic
I Tried to Open a Lemonade Stand - John Stossel, FOX Business
Lifting the Veil on Iranian Censors - Michael Atkinson, In These Times
The Emperor of Vanished Kingdoms - Raymond Zhong, Wall Street Journal
Election 2012: Latest GOP Polls | Electoral College Map | Senate Polls
Sunday, February 26
Santorum, Romney Battle for Upper Hand in MI - Rucker & Balz, Wash PostMitt's Tough Sell With Conservatives - Sherman Frederick, Las Vegas RJ
Romney's Canny, Winning Strategy - Lee Siegel, The Daily Beast
Can Any of These GOP Clowns Beat Obama? - Conrad Black, National Post
Obama's Afghanistan Apology Problem - Michael Hirsh, National Journal
Syria, Iran, and the Obama Doctrine - David Sanger, New York Times
The Way to Bring Down Assad - David Ignatius, Washington Post
Putin: Aging, Lonely, Surprisingly Likeable - Brauck & Schepp, Der Spiegel
Climate Alarmists Will Stop at Nothing - Christopher Booker, Telegraph
Ghastly Outdated Party - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
The Paucity of Opportunity - Reed Galen, RealClearPolitics
Romney Steps on Momentum With Detroit Debacle - Molly Ball, Atlantic
GOP Forgetting It's All About the Economy - Nolan Finley, Detroit News
Primary Race Is Tearing the GOP Apart - John Heilemann, NY Magazine
It Will Take a Leader to Reassemble the GOP - Walter Newell, Globe & Mail
Inside Facebook's Cyber Security Ring - Kashmir Hill, Forbes
Broken Trust in God's Country - Diana Henriques, New York Times