Week of December 24, 2012 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, December 24
Stabilization Won't Save Us - Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York TimesHere Comes the Cliff - Michael Barone, Washington Examiner
UBS Is a Disgrace and Should Be Shut Down - William Cohan, Bloomberg
Remembering What Matters at Christmas - John Kass, Chicago Tribune
The Freedom of Faith: A Christmas Sermon - Simon Critchley, NY Times
Troubling Questions About Benghazi - Sens. McCain, Graham & Ayotte, WT
NRA's LaPierre Continues Gun Push w/Lies - Mike Lupica, NY Daily News
Gun Restrictions Have Always Bred Black Markets - J.D. Tuccille, Reason
Washington Hits Rock Bottom - Andrew McCarthy, National Review
When Prophecy Fails - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Will 2013 Mark the Beginning of U.S. Decline? - Simon Johnson, Bloomberg
Republicans: The Party of Color-Blind Equality - Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe
The Zombie Republican Party - Robert Kuttner, Huffington Post
Twas the Night Before Fiscliff - Bill Frezza, RealClearMarkets
For Many Poor Students, College Ends In A Hard Fall - Jason DeParle, NYT
Monica: The Inside Story of an Epic Scoop - Michael Isikoff, Newsweek
Christmas: The Turning Point - Walter Russell Mead, American Interest
Wednesday, December 26
Budget Debate: A Washington Mess - Richard Cohen, Washington PostDemocrats Can't Avoid Blame - Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
How Obama Can Beat the GOP Fanatics - Robert Reich, Business Insider
Journalists Rush to Take Sides in Gun Debate - Byron York, DC Examiner
NRA, LaPierre Selling Snake Oil - DeWayne Wickham, USA Today
Millions of Americans Face ObamaCare Tax Hikes - Sally Pipes, Forbes
A Cleared Bill of Health - Paul Waldman, The American Prospect
Health Law Has Calif. Officials Questioning Cost - Anthony York, LA Times
Give Chuck Hagel a Chance - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
The Multiple Distortions of Wind Subsidies - Phil Gramm, Wall St. Journal
Can Labor Make a Comeback in 2013? - Harold Meyerson, Am Prospect
Unions, Politicians Pact Makes Us Less Safe - Amity Shlaes, Bloomberg
Europe Faces a Difficult Year Ahead - Desmond Lachman, RealClearMarkets
Middle East, North Africa on the Brink - Christopher Dickey, Daily Beast
Free Speech and the Rioter's Veto - Jacob Sullum, Reason
A Gift That We Can All Give - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
The Top Political Moments of 2012 - RealClearPolitics
Thursday, December 27
The President's Obsession With Raising Taxes - Charles Gasparino, NY PostObama & Dems Are Acting Responsibly. GOP Is Not - Jonathan Cohn, TNR
Obama's Legacy: $20 Trillion in Deficits - Paul Roderick Gregory, Forbes
Republicans Rejecting Their Own Ideas - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
The Collapse of Public Policy - Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal
Holiday Doldrums for Republicans - Charles Blow, New York Times
Romney Never Inspired Voters - Michael Barone, Washington Examiner
After 2012, Tea Party's Clout Diminished - Trip Gabriel, New York Times
The Tea Party Has Not Yet Begun to Fight - Joel Pollak, Breitbart.com
Don't Nickel & Dime Our Seniors - Rep. Jerrold Nadler, USA Today
Liberals Press Red Lines in 'Cliff' Talks - Stephan Dinan, Washington Times
Deficit Isn't as Bad as They Want You to Think - Evan Soltas, Bloomberg
Geithner's Warning Nothing But Politics - David Harsanyi, Human Events
Newtown and Toulouse - Cecile Alduy, The New Yorker
Cautionary Tales of Gun Control - Joyce Lee Malcolm, Wall Street Journal
Top Science Stories of 2012 - Berezow & Pomeroy, RealClearScience
The Door-Opener to America - George Will, Washington Post
Friday, December 28
No Deal, But Plenty of Blame - Howard Kurtz, The Daily BeastDo Democrats Want to Go Over the Cliff? - Debra Saunders, SF Chronicle
An Early Battle in a War Dems Will Win - Noam Scheiber, New Republic
Markets Realize a Cliff Deal Is Elusive - Zachary Goldfarb, Washington Post
John Roberts Is the Person of the Year - Philip Klein, Washington Examiner
Mitt Romney's New Year's Resolution - Margaret Carlson, Bloomberg
Questions for Hillary Clinton - John Bolton, New York Post
Do We Need More Elite High Schools? - Robert Samuelson, Washington Post
What I Learned in the Poverty War - Peter Cove, City Journal
Closing Tax Loopholes Isn't Enough - Burman & Slemrod, New York Times
The Liberal God Delusion - Michael Medved, The Daily Beast
Hang Tough, Mr. President - Joan Walsh, Salon
Is Growth Over? - Paul Krugman, New York Times
'13: A Year to Go to Work, Not Go on Disability - Edward Glaeser, Bloomberg
Obama's Zero-Sum Universe - P.J. O'Rourke, Wall Street Journal
The Health Care Fight Is Far from Over - Henry Aaron, Brookings
Misery Is the Humanitarian's Gift to Syria - Walter Russell Mead, TAI
Saturday, December 29
Reid & McConnell Seek Budget Deal - Alexis Simendinger, RealClearPoliticsObama Gives Republicans an Ultimatum - Greg Sargent, Washington Post
DC's Big Spenders Flunk Basic Math - Rep. Darrell Issa, Washington Times
A Better Deal Would Be Worth the Wait - Jonathan Cohn, New Republic
Laws Are For Little People, Not David Gregory - Mark Steyn, Natl Review
Guns and Mental Illness - Joe Nocera, New York Times
A Reluctant Vote in Favor of Armed School Guards - Robert Bernat, WSJ
Inept Congress Has Time to Keep Spying on You - Matt Welch, Reason
A Package Deal for Iran and Syria - Jim Hoagland, Washington Post
They Never Blame Hillary - Aaron David Miller, Miami Herald
Will Hillary Run in 2016? - Suzanne Goldberg, The Guardian
New Year's Predictions for California - Steven Greenhut, OC Register
The Miracle of Wenchi - Fiona Ehlers, Der Spiegel
Better Than Human - Kevin Kelly, Wired
Missing the Point of Judicial Review - George Will, Washington Post
Papers Show Rare Friction for Thatcher & Reagan - John Burns, NY Times
Semper Fi, Unless It's Not Convenient - Bill O'Reilly, Townhall
Sunday, December 30
The Political Class Is a Cloud Over Us All - Michael Goodwin, New York Post2012: Tea Party Movement's Worst Year - Chris Cillizza, Washington Post
Fifty Shades of 2012 - Ron Hart, Orange County Register
Uncertainty Over the Horizon - Rosemary Righter, Newsweek
Lawmakers Trade Offers as Clock Ticks - Montgomery & Kane, Wash Post
How the Fiscal Cliff Fight Will End - Byron York, Washington Examiner
The Republicans' Moment of Truth - Michael Tomasky, The Daily Beast
Lessons From the Bork Debacle - William Murchison, Townhall
Is Tim Scott a Token Senator? - Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker
Scott Brown, Time to Start the Truck - Tom Keane, Boston Globe
Regulating the Militia - Kevin Williamson, National Review
Our Afghan Allies Vow to Kill American Soldiers - Paul Sperry, NY Post
China's New Hatchet Man - David Ignatius, Washington Post
Forget the Cliff. Is U.S. Already in Recession? - Brett Arends, MarketWatch
Modern Science Writers Leave Science Behind - Alex Berezow, PS Magazine
The O'Reilly Factory - Leslie Kaufman, New York Times
It's Different With Kids - Rod Dreher, The American Conservative