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Week of May 7, 2012 Archives

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Monday, May 7
6 Months Out, It's a Tie in the Swing States - Susan Page, USA Today
Why the Obama Campaign Is So Confident - Mark Halperin, Time
President Obama Is Running Out of Excuses on Jobs - Louis Woodhill, RCM
Why Can't Obama Bring Wall St to Justice? - Boyer & Schweizer, Newsweek
France Just Voted for Years of Decline - Richard Waghorne, Daily Mail
Those Revolting Europeans - Paul Krugman, New York Times
French Vote Should Be Warning to America - Judd Gregg, The Hill
Brace for Ted Kennedy's Revenge - Jonathan Rauch, New York Daily News
A Time for Choosing - James Piereson, The American Spectator
Occupy's "Man Behind the Curtain" - Joel Bleifuss, In These Times
Why Failed Occupy Movement Turned Violent - Lee Harris, The American
Can a Liberal Champion Win in Mass? - Karen Tumulty, Washington Post
Warren and Ridiculous Racial Preferences - Michael Barone, DC Examiner
Battle of the Beards: Bernanke vs. Krugman - Robert Samuelson, Wash Post
Christie for VP? It's Not Out of the Question - Robert Costa, National Review
A Liberal Voice in Peril - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
Bill Keller & the Real Poison in Journalism - Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
Latest 2012 Polls: Battleground: Romney +1 | IBD/CSM: Obama +3
Tuesday, May 8
Obama Ditches JFK's Legacy - Debra Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle
What Would Mitt Do to Revive Economy? - Ed Kilgore, Washington Monthly
Europe Runs Out of Other People's Money - Nile Gardiner, Daily Telegraph
Austerity as a Bridge to Nowhere - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
Romney's Path Is Not Necessarily Narrow - Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics
Swing States Back at Tipping Point - Ronald Brownstein, National Journal
Obama Should Learn From LBJ - Richard Cohen, Washington Post
Justice for Sale at Holder's DOJ - Wynton Hall, Big Government
Edward Conard Says What Romney Won't - Michael Kinsley, Bloomberg
Romney and Race in the 2012 Campaign - Harry Stein, City Journal
Dick Lugar: A D.C. Insider on His Way Out? - Stephanie Condon, CBS News
Americans Elect Sputters in Bid to Field Choice - Alexis Simendinger, RCP
Obama Hits Syria w/Brutal Blast of Adverbs - Jeffrey Goldberg, Bloomberg
2012 Grads Must Tone Down Egos & Shape Up Minds - Bret Stephens, WSJ
Obama Right to Hold Off on Gay Marriage - Michael Tomasky, Daily Beast
The Folly of the American Housing Bubble - Charles Lane, Washington Post
In Search of Americanism - Ned Ryun, The American Spectator
Latest Senate Polls: VA: Kaine 46, Allen 46 | MA: Brown 45, Warren 45
Wednesday, May 9
We Can't Borrow & Spend to Recovery - Raghuram Rajan, Foreign Affairs
Will Nobody Stick Up for Europe in the U.S.? - Alec MacGillis, New Republic
Europe's Failed Tax-Hiking "Austerity" - Michael Tanner, National Review
Roots of Lugar's Defeat Began Back Home - Sean Sullivan, National Journal
Labor Falters in Wisconsin Recall Primary - Ben Jacobs, The Daily Beast
Obama's Ridiculous To-Do List - David Harsanyi, Human Events
Fanatical GOP Could Cause Constitutional Crisis - Jon Chait, NY Magazine
Obama Faces Possibility of Decisive Defeat - Josh Kraushaar, National Jrnl
Romney: The Cowardly Candidate - Dana Milbank, Washington Post
Obama's Real "War" Is Against Elderly - Charles Hurt, Washington Times
Scott Brown Goes Birther on Warren - Nick Baumann, Mother Jones
Warren Ancestor Rounded Up Cherokees - Michael Leahy, Big Government
The Next Arab Spring - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
Libyan Missiles on the Loose - David Ignatius, Washington Post
Military-Crippling Sequester Must Be Stopped - Reps. McKeon & Ryan, RCP
Desamour and Amour - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
The Academic PC Mob Silences a Blogger - Naomi Schaefer Riley, WSJ
Senate Polls: Virginia, Massachusetts Tied | Nebraska GOP Primary
Thursday, May 10
Obama's Evolution Is Complete - Howard Kurtz, The Daily Beast
Biden Forces Obama's Hand on Gay Marriage - Doyle McManus, LA Times
Long, Hard Slog Ahead in Presidential Race - Michael Barone, DC Examiner
Obama's American Exceptionalism - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
The Story Behind Obama's Economic Failure - Peter Suderman, Reason
Lugar's Loss Shows Republicans Are the Problem - Ezra Klein, Bloomberg
A Big Defeat for the D.C. Status Quo - Sen. Rand Paul, Washington Times
Is Warren Becoming a Replay of Coakley? - Alana Goodman, Commentary
Dems Have Real Chance to Hold Senate Majority - Paul Kane, Wash Post
Why the Right Really Hates Obama - Theo Anderson, In These Times
Obamanomics & ObamaCare Will Bring Down Obama - Milton Wolf, WT
The Facts: Gay Marriage Didn't Tilt '04 Election - Matt Dowd, ABC News
Will Obama Pay for Gay Marriage Stance? - Simendinger & McPike, RCP
Obama: Troops "Fighting on My Behalf" - Elliott Abrams, Weekly Standard
Game Over for the Climate - James Hansen, New York Times
Stimulus Spending Keeps Failing - Robert Barro, Wall Street Journal
Why France Has So Many 49-Employee Firms - Greg Viscusi, BusinessWeek
2012 Polls: OH: Obama 45, Romney 44 | FL: Obama 46, Romney 45
Friday, May 11
Obama vs. Romney: A Clash of Capitalisms - Jonathan Alter, Bloomberg
Our Composite President - Matthew Continetti, Washington Free Beacon
Can Romney Breach Dems' Formidable "Blue Wall"? - Ron Brownstein, NJ
Why Jindal May Be Romney's Ticket - Scott Conroy, RealClearPolitics
A Whiff of "Hope and Change" - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
The Antietam of the Culture War - Pat Buchanan, Pitt Tribune-Review
Another Window Into the GOP's Priorities - Jonathan Cohn, New Republic
Trolling for Dirt on the President's List - Kim Strassel, Wall Street Journal
Mitt's Troubling Incidents From Prep School - Jason Horowitz, Wash Post
The Post's Hit Piece on Romney Implodes - Ben Shapiro, Big Journalism
Is Obama Too Brainy to be President? - Meghan Daum, Los Angeles Times
Why Mourdock Defeated Lugar - Jay Cost, Weekly Standard
Partisanship Is Not a Bipartisan Problem - Andrew Rosenthal, NY Times
What Has Made Congress More Polarized? - Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics
America Also Evolving on Gay Marriage - Mary Schmich, Chicago Tribune
Obama's Gay Marriage Move "Bold" in Name Only - Mark Salter, RCP
Israel Unites to Face Iran - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
Saturday, May 12
Obama Returns to Topic of Economic Recovery - Jackie Calmes, NY Times
Gov't Snake Oil Is No Cure for Jobs Ailment - Caroline Baum, Bloomberg
Now We Know The Truth About Wall St. - Henry Blodget, Business Insider
We Must Break Up the Big Financial Houses - Peter Morici, FOX News
The American Dream in an Automobile - George Will, Washington Post
Scott Walker: "Divide & Conquer" Unions - John Nichols, The Nation
What Wisconsin Says About Today's Progressives - Shikha Dalmia, Reason
President Seeks to Energize His Liberal Base - Jonathan Easley, The Hill
Obama's Trying to Win the West, Not Ohio - William Galston, New Republic
Is It Standard WaPo Practice to Quote the Dead? - Bryan Preston, PJ Media
Mitt's Bully Story Not Actually Debunked - Michael Tomasky, Daily Beast
The JournoList Is Alive and Well - John Nolte, Big Journalism
Chris Christie's Remarkable Popularity - Aaron Blake, Washington Post
Campaign Tips from Cicero - Quintus Cicero & James Carville, Foreign Affairs
Gay Marriage, Hollywood Money & Obama's Ego - Tim Stanley, Telegraph
Obama's "Bend Toward Justice" - Robert Borosage, Huffington Post
Book: Bill Clinton Calls Obama "Amateur" - Carl Campanile, New York Post
Sunday, May 13
Obama Loses the Average White Guy Vote - Salena Zito, Pittsburgh T-R
Mitt Romney: The Unlikable Candidate - Michael Tomasky, The Daily Beast
'Life of Julia,' or Life Without Aspiration - Thomas McClanahan, KC Star
How Gay Marriage Might Hurt Romney - Jamelle Bouie, American Prospect
All the Democrats' Diversions - Kathleen Parker, Washington Post
At JPMorgan, the Ghost of Dinner Parties Past - Gretchen Morgenson, NYT
Romney's Jamie Dimon Problem - Andrew Leonard, Salon
Censoring Naomi Riley - John Fund, National Review
Rush to Austerity Will Doom Europe - Joseph Stiglitz, Slate
California Hell-Bent on Becoming France - Mark Landsbaum, OC Register
A Greek Tragedy - Arianna Huffington, New York Times
Obama's Failed Stimulus - Jeffrey Anderson, The Weekly Standard
Romney Uses Carter as Campaign Weapon - Reid Epstein, Politico
Is There a Romney Doctrine? - David Sanger, New York Times
What New York Owes James Q. Wilson - Rudy Giuliani, City Journal
Obama Is His Mother's Son - David Maraniss, Washington Post
Parental Anxiety and That Magazine Cover - John Kass, Chicago Tribune