Week of December 10, 2012 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, December 10
Is Economy Creating a Lost Generation? - Robert Samuelson, Wash PostObama's Historic Budget Opportunity - Robert Zoellick, Wall Street Journal
Robots and Robber Barons - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Under Obama, Stagnation Is the New Normal - Louis Woodhill, RCM
Fed Likely to Sustain Stimulus Program - Binyamin Appelbaum, NY Times
Real "Fiscal Cliff" Comes From Massive Debt - Jack Kelly, Pitt Post-Gazette
Republican Mischief on Entitlements - Paul Begala, The Daily Beast
ObamaCare Forces Businesses to Make Tough Choices - Dan Danner, USAT
The Viability of My Medical Practice Is In Doubt - Alex Valadka, Roll Call
Big Money Played Destructive Role in 2012 - Albert Hunt, Bloomberg
Why Obama Will Ignore Israel - Peter Beinart, Newsweek
Mexican Migration May Be Over - Michael Barone, Washington Examiner
How Good Was General Petraeus? - Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker
Ignore Greenies: Britain Should Get Fracking - Boris Johnson, Telegraph
Gays Get Their Brown v Board. Will It Backfire? - Linda Hirshman, TNR
Would-Be Internet Regulators Need Deleting - L. Gordon Crovitz, WSJ
Putting Words in Mark Twain's Mouth - Carl M. Cannon, RealClearPolitics
Tuesday, December 11
America Ratifies an Untenable Status Quo - Matt Welch, ReasonRubio and the Coming Conservative Revolt - Jonathan Chait, NY Magazine
Burke Between Liberty and Tradition - Peter Berkowitz, Policy Review
Dems in All-Out Fight for Union Power - Byron York, Washington Examiner
The Resurrection of Liberalism - DeWayne Wickham, USA Today
Obama's Atmosphere of Distrust - Michael Gerson, Washington Post
Why Obama Must Go Over the Fiscal Cliff - Noam Scheiber, New Republic
Republicans Can Win Fiscal Debate with a Retreat - Charles Kadlec, Forbes
Pushing Same-Sex Marriage Ahead - Charles Lane, Washington Post
The U.S. Stock Market Rally Deserves Some Respect - Edward Yardeni, FT
Fed Telegraphs Intention to Rein In Bank Size - Simon Johnson, Bloomberg
Airbrushing an Impeachment - Debra Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle
Did Torture Really Net Bin Laden? - Peter Bergen, CNN
The Left's Domination of the Imaginative Arts - Ace, Ace of Spades
Professor Obama & the Constitution - William Murchison, Townhall
Debt-Ceiling Nonsense Once Again - Froma Harrop, Providence Journal
U.S. Must Reject Law of the Sea Treaty - Edwin Feulner, RealClearPolitics
Wednesday, December 12
Mich. Becomes 24th Right-to-Work State - Chad Livengood, Detroit News"Right-to-Work" Laws Hurt Workers - Harold Meyerson, Washington Post
An Adjustment to Reality in Michigan - Charles Krauthammer, FOX News
Michigan Previews Coming Tests of Labor Power - Josh Kraushaar, NJ
How Higher Taxes Could Lift the Economy - John Judis, The New Republic
Government Gone Bad - John Stossel, FOX Business
Republicans' Damaging Ideas on Medicare - Rep. Nancy Pelosi, USA Today
Dems Continue to Find Out What's in ObamaCare - Tim Carney, Examiner
The GOP's Weak Hand on Entitlements - Joshua Green, Boston Globe
How GOP Can Gain Momentum in Budget Fight - Steve Forbes, The Hill
In Michigan, the Republican Will to Power - Jonathan Chait, NY Magazine
Big Labor Shows Its Ugly Face - James Taranto, Wall Street Journal
GOP in Search of Identity on Foreign Policy - Scott Conroy, RealClearPolitics
Can God Save Egypt? - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
Public Support for Tax Increases Is a Myth - Hanna & Cortes, Roll Call
The Risks for Gay Marriage at Supreme Court - Ruth Marcus, Wash Post
California Leads U.S. Pay Giveaway - Niquette, Marois & Yap, Bloomberg
Thursday, December 13
Republicans Haven't Learned Much - E.J. Dionne, Washington PostA Brief History of American Prosperity - Guy Sorman, City Journal
Will Obama Deal on Spending? - Morton Kondracke, Roll Call
Why Obama Might Be Willing to Go Over Cliff - Michael Barone, Examiner
Middle Class Malaise Complicates Dems' Stance - Annie Lowrey, NY Times
Bernanke Steers Into Uncharted Waters - Terence Corcoran, Financial Post
Fed Decision a Win for Liberal Economics - Jonathan Bernstein, Wash Post
New Michigan Law Will Create Jobs, Growth - Jeb Bush, Washington Times
Strong Labor Movement Is Key to Prosperity - Richard Trumka, USA Today
Far From the Final Defeat in Michigan - Anna Clark, The American Prospect
When Thuggery Is OK - Rich Lowry, Politico
GOP Holding Middle-Class Tax Cuts Hostage - Joe Biden, Kansas City Star
Arguing Over Proper Scope of Government - George Will, Washington Post
GOP Can't Offer Cuts Because Govt Isn't Too Big - Jonathan Chait, NY Mag
The Real Fat Cats - Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
Welcome to the World of "Big Data" - Chuck Raasch, USA Today
U.S. Terror Agency to Tap Vast Database of Citizens - Julia Angwin, WSJ
Friday, December 14
Too Big to Jail: Our Latest Disgrace - Neil Barofsky, The New RepublicThe Working Class Epidemic of Demoralization - Matt Lewis, The Week
After Romney Defeat, Republicans Need to Talk - Peggy Noonan, WSJ
Ready to Jump Off the Cliff - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
Amid Talks, Obama Uses Polls as Pry Bar - Simendinger & Huey-Burns, RCP
Let's Return to Clinton Spending Levels - Veronique de Rugy, DC Examiner
Republicans' Existential Crisis - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Who Are the Real Extremists? - William Voegeli, Claremont Review of Books
After Benghazi, Rice's Days Were Numbered - Eli Lake, The Daily Beast
Why I Made the Right Call - Susan Rice, Washington Post
Deterring Harry Reid and the Nuclear Option - Sen. Rand Paul, Politico
The Coming Trauma of ObamaCare - Byron York, Washington Examiner
Workers' Paradise Lost - Thomas Sugrue, New York Times
Why Michigan Picked This Fight - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
The Liberal Case Against Right-to-Work Laws - Michael Kinsley, Bloomberg
Yucca Mountain: A Post-Mortem - Adam White, The New Atlantis
RG3 Questioned Over Having "a White Fiancee" - Jeff Poor, Daily Caller
Saturday, December 15
Nation Reels After Gunman Massacres 20 Kids - James Barron, NY TimesStillness Shattered in Quiet Town - Cromidas & Mann, Wall Street Journal
If Not Now, When Will We Talk About Guns? - Gary Younge, The Guardian
Confronting the Face of Evil - Erick Erickson, Red State
The Michigan Watershed on Right-to-Work - George Will, Washington Post
We'll All Miss Unions When They're Gone - Michael Kazin, New Republic
Most Governors Refuse to Set Up Health Exchanges - Robert Pear, NYT
Health Care Law Is Still Fighting For Its Life - Scott Rasmussen, RasReports
Stop Drinking the Deficit-Reduction Kool-Aid - Robert Reich, Am Prospect
Printing Our Way Out of Debt - Irwin Stelzer, The Weekly Standard
John Boehner's Backbencher Problem - Dana Milbank, Washington Post
The Coming Regulatory Black Hole - Rick Moran, PJ Media
How Gay Marriage Won at the Polls - Molly Ball, The Atlantic
Obama Walks a Fine Line With Egypt's President - David Kirkpatrick, NYT
Blasphemy and Islam - Andrew McCarthy, National Review
Americans, United in Horror for a Moment - Ted Anthony, Associated Press
Running and Hoping to Find a Child Safe - Jim Dwyer, New York Times
Sunday, December 16
New Details, Few Answers in Newtown - Vogel, Horwitz & Fahrenthold, WPBeloved Daughter, Taken By a Monster - Andrea Peyser, New York Post
After Sandy Hook, Something's Gotta Give - Mitch Albom, Detroit Free-Press
Obama's Trickle-Down Economics - Conn Carroll, Washington Examiner
Life on the Edge of the Cliff - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
The Martyrdom of St. Susan - Michael Goowin, New York Post
After Defeat, Republicans Reevaluate - Karen Tumulty, Washington Post
Tea Party at a Crossroads - Salena Zito, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Note to Dems: You Can Win Without Gun Owners - Steve Kornacki, Salon
One Thing's Certain: Scott Brown Will Be Back - Howie Carr, Boston Herald
Egypt: The Next India or Pakistan? - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
The Lesson of "Zero Dark Thirty" - Kyle Smith, New York Post
The Woes of an American Drone Operator - Nicola Abé, Der Spiegel
The Decline of Evangelical America - John S. Dickerson, New York Times
We Must Celebrate Religious Diversity - Ralph Reed, Washington Times
4 Awful Reactions to the Sandy Hook Massacre - Nick Gillespie, Reason
Remember to Tell Your Kids "I Love You" - Laura Vanderkam, USA Today