Week of December 17, 2012 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, December 17
Groping to Explain the Inexplicable - John Kass, Chicago TribuneObama: "These Tragedies Must End" - Landler & Baker, New York Times
What Comes After Sandy Hook? - Carl M. Cannon, RealClearPolitics
Will Obama Seize the Moment on Gun Control? - Eleanor Clift, Daily Beast
The Media Vultures Gather - Hugh Hewitt, Washington Examiner
Republican Unreason on Health Care - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
The Bureaucratic Nightmare That Is ObamaCare - Mark Steyn, NRO
Federal Reserve Rolls the Dice - Robert Samuelson, Newsweek
CA Dems Begin to Make Plans w/Supermajority - Adam Nagourney, NYT
Time to Own the Election, America - Joseph Curl, Washington Times
2010 Midterms Coming Back to Haunt Blue Michigan - Molly Redden, TNR
Feds Dawdle as States Tackle Fiscal Problems - Michael Barone, Examiner
Obama's Year of Reckoning on Iran - Edward Luce, Financial Times
Al Qaeda Lives - Thomas Jocelyn, Weekly Standard
The Brotherhood Gave Advance Warning - Peter Hessler, The New Yorker
America's First Big Digital Defeat - Gordon Crovitz, Wall Street Journal
No Flying Cars, But the Future Is Still Bright - Virginia Postrel, Bloomberg
Sunday Show Panels: This Week | FOX News Sunday | Meet the Press
Tuesday, December 18
Guns, Mental Illness and Newtown - David Kopel, Wall Street JournalToo Much Misinformation From the Media - Charles Lane, Washington Post
Let's Get M.A.D.D. About Guns - Joe Nocera, New York Times
Anxiety Rises as Americans Face ObamaCare - Byron York, DC Examiner
Why They Came for Susan Rice's Scalp - Stanley Crouch, NY Daily News
Tea Party Fuels Republican Diversity - Josh Kraushaar, National Journal
Tim Scott's Rise--and S.C.'s Long Journey - Carl Cannon, RealClearPolitics
Budget Deal Emerging, But Is It Any Good? - Jonathan Cohn, New Republic
Only Solution Is Cut Spending Here & Now - Gillespie & de Rugy, Bloomberg
Is D.C. Taking Us "Forward" Into the Failed Past? - Thomas Sowell, IBD
Today's Challenges Go Well Beyond Keynes - Jeffrey Sachs, Financial Times
Not Much We Can Do to Prevent Another Massacre - Megan McArdle, DB
On Guns, Take Action Now - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
Law and Order in the Fallen World - Ben Domenech, The Transom
What Drives Suicidal Mass Killers - Adam Lankford, New York Times
Unhitched: The Numbers on Marriage - Kathleen Parker, Washington Post
A More Single, More Childless America - Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe
Wednesday, December 19
Six Ways to Stop Gun Madness - Michael Bloomberg, USA TodayHow We Know Assault Weapon Ban Wouldn't Work - Jacob Sullum, Reason
Even Experts Can't Spot the Next Violent Shooter - Sophie Quinton, NJ
Dems Dismiss Boehner's 'Plan B' - Caitlin Huey-Burns, RealClearPolitics
Person of the Year: Barack Obama, Architect of a New America - Time
Obama's Blue Social Model Is a Failure - Noemie Emery, Wash Examiner
And Now For the Republican Freakout - Steve Kornacki, Salon
It's the Spending, Stupid! - John Stossel, FOX Business
How Big Labor Will Fight MI's Right-to-Work Law - Shikha Dalmia, Reason
Broad Gun Control Efforts Introduced - Adam Nagourney, New York Times
More Gun Control Laws Won't Fix the Problem - Allahpundit, Hot Air
Don't Let Biases Confuse About Newtown - Melinda Henneberger, Wash Post
After Tragedy, DC Thinks Of Political Gain - Charles Hurt, Wash Times
Why I Nuked My Instagram Account - Mat Honan, Wired
Cooling the Fears of Climate Change - Matt Ridley, Wall Street Journal
The Puzzle of Black Republicans - Adolph Reed, New York Times
RGIII, "Cornball Brothers," & the Blackness Code - Lee Habeeb, NRO
Thursday, December 20
How to Measure the Quality of a Budget Deal - Ezra Klein, BloombergThe Fiscal Cliff's Dirty Secret - Sen. Rand Paul, Investor's Business Daily
Four Rebuked in Libya Attack Probe - Gearan & Miller, Washington Post
Where's Obama in the Benghazi Report? - Michael Hirsh, National Journal
America's Perilous Powerball Economy - Arthur Brooks, Wall Street Journal
Looking for Lessons in Newtown - Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
Air Marshals, Armed Teachers & Gun-Free Zones - David Steinberg, PJM
A Middle Ground on Gun Limits - Sen. Charles Schumer, Washington Post
Still Paying the Price for the Borking of Bork - Jeffrey Rosen, New Republic
Puzzling Racism at the New York Times - John Steele Gordon, Commentary
The Liberation of General Motors - Steven Rattner, New York Times
Auto Bailout Failure Is Now Complete - David Harsanyi, Human Events
Is Hagel a Good Fit for the Pentagon? - David Ignatius, Washington Post
Republicans' Recalibration Advances - Erin McPike, RealClearPolitics
The Age of Obama? - Charles Kesler, Claremont Review of Books
What Kind of Tax Code Do We Want? - Michael Kinsley, Bloomberg
Our Moral Cliff - Peter Cove, RealClearPolicy
Video Highlights: Obama | Boehner | Krauthammer | Dean | More
Friday, December 21
Big Business Sells Out Small Business - Kimberley Strassel, Wall St. JournalBoehner Cancels Tax Vote in Face of GOP Revolt - Jonathan Weisman, NYT
The Roots of Mass Murder - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
How to Get Better Gun Control - Jonathan Alter, Bloomberg
What 2012 Population Estimates Could Mean in 2020 - Sean Trende, RCP
No End in Sight as Budget Impasse Drags On - Newhauser & Shiner,Roll Call
Republicans Are Lost, Divided, and Weak - Steve Benen, MSNBC
Conservative Blue: The New Reformers - Christian Schneider, City Journal
It's a Mad, Mad Michigan - Anna Clark, The American Prospect
ObamaCare & Government's War on Innovation - Carl Schramm, Forbes
Will the House Protect the Middle Class? - Sen. Debbie Stabenow, Detroit FP
Absent-Minded Voting - George Will, Washington Post
Robert Bork, an Unrepentant Reactionary - Jeffrey Toobin, New Yorker
Behind the Smears of Robert Bork - Walter Olson, Cato Institute
When Cities Go Bankrupt - Tim Cavanaugh, Reason
Exploiting Newtown - Carl M. Cannon, RealClearPolitics
Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek - John Branch, New York Times
Saturday, December 22
Vain Search for Meaning in Massacre - Mark Steyn, Orange County RegisterWe Wish You a Gun-Free Christmas - Gail Collins, New York Times
The Path to Preventing Mass Violence - Sen. Joe Manchin, Washington Post
Tim Scott: Meet the New Senator From South Carolina - Steve Moore, WSJ
Why Romney and Ryan Didn't Cut It - Mark Hendrickson, Forbes
The Republicans' Animal House - Dana Milbank, Washington Post
Don't Blame Boehner; Obama Will Get His Tax Hikes - Larry Kudlow, IBD
Ambition and Anguish Drive John Kerry - Michael Hirsh, National Journal
Benghazi Failures May Tarnish Clinton's Legacy - Halimah Abdullah, CNN
Running Out the Clock on Benghazi - Wesley Pruden, Washington Times
The NRA's Emperor Has No Clothes - Alec MacGillis, The New Republic
When Childhood Fears Come True - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
The Problem of Evil - William Murchison, Townhall
Republicans' Agenda of Destruction - Michael Tomasky, The Daily Beast
Is Obama Really a Socialist? Let's Take a Long Look - Peter Ferrara, Forbes
Best, Worst Investments of 2012 - Ben Steverman, Bloomberg BusinessWeek
Job Creation's Glum Arithmetic - Robert Samuelson, Washington Post
Sunday, December 23
The Very Troubled State of the GOP - Thomas Friedman, New York TimesGovernment Status Quo Is Simply Unaffordable - Janet Daley, Telegraph
Democrats Must Seize This Moment - Bennett & Cowan, Washington Post
Fiscal Hawks Need to Fight for the Debt Ceiling - Shikha Dalmia, Reason
The NRA's Insane Parody - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
Utopian Fantasies of Gun Control Advocates - Steven Greenhut,OC Register
The GOP Fever Isn't Breaking, It's Rising - Steve Benen, MSNBC
Harry Reid Rewrites History on the Filibuster - George Will, Wash Post
A 2013 Guide to Better Behavior in Business - Gretchen Morgenson, NYT
Benghazi Questions, State Dept. Answers - Debra Saunders, SF Chronicle
Susan Rice Should Not Have Caved - Sophia Nelson, The Daily Beast
What Happened to Obama's Post-Racial Era? - Victor Davis Hanson, NRO
Jerry Brown's Political Revival - Alex Isenstadt, Politico
The Higher Ed Bubble Is Very Real - Walter Russell Mead, American Interest
Sell Steven Rattner! - Mickey Kaus, The Daily Caller
What Obama Can Learn From Lincoln - Frida Ghitis, CNN
A Libertarian Case for Having More Kids - Conn Carroll, DC Examiner