Week of January 7, 2013 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, January 7
Eunuchs of the Universe: Return to Wall Street - Tom Wolfe, NewsweekHow Both Sides Wound Up Losing Budget Battle - Al Hunt, Bloomberg
The Education of John Boehner - Stephen Moore, Wall Street Journal
Are "Grand Bargains" Still Possible? - Chris Cillizza, Washington Post
In California Voters Say Yes to More Taxes - Sasha Abramsky, The Nation
What Is the Future of Conservatism? - Jonah Goldberg, Commentary
Gov. Christie: A Standard-Issue Republican - Ana Marie Cox, The Guardian
States Still Walking the Fiscal Cliff - Lou Cannon, RealClearPolitics
D.C. Can't Even Kill Farm Subsidies? - Robert Samuelson, Washington Post
The Republican Foreign Policy Cocoon in D.C. - Peter Beinart, Daily Beast
Obama Supporters Shocked at New Tax Hikes - Joseph Curl, Wash Times
Why Republicans Are Such a Bad Date - Stanley Crouch, NY Daily News
INcoming: Mike Pence - Craig Fehrman, Indianapolis Monthly
Inconvenient Truths About Al Jazeera - Gordon Crovitz, Wall Street Journal
After Pinpointing Gun Owners, Paper Is Target - Christine Haughney, NYT
Drone Cold Truth - Ralph Peters, New York Post
Big-Bank Regulator Targets the Little Guy - William Cohan, Bloomberg
Tuesday, January 8
Time for a Reality Check on Spending & Taxes - Cliff Asness, The AmericanFinished With Taxes? Not Even Close - Jonathan Cohn, The New Republic
A Debt-Ceiling Fight Is Good for the Country - Ramesh Ponnuru, Bloomberg
The GOP's Empty Threats - William Saletan, Chicago Tribune
Tables Are Turned in Debt Ceiling Fight - Grover Norquist, Human Events
Obama Drawn to Shared Views in Picking Hagel - Alexis Simendinger, RCP
The Tarring of Chuck Hagel - Richard Cohen, Washington Post
Chuck Hagel's Phony Political Courage - Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal
Hagel Was Picked to Downsize the Pentagon - David Brooks, NY Times
AIPAC Decides to Make Friends With Hagel - Eli Lake, The Daily Beast
California: Living the Turquoise Dream - Walter Russell Mead, Am. Interest
Debt Ceiling Hostage Taking Is Absurd - Greg Sargent, Washington Post
On Taxes, Liberals Are the Real Extremists - Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
Fighting Gun Violence - Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly, USA Today
"Educators" Undermining American Society - Thomas Sowell, IBD
How Media "Fact-Checkers" Give the President a Pass - Matt Welch, Reason
Author Richard Ben Cramer Dies at 62 - Michael Schwirtz, New York Times
Wednesday, January 9
Here We Go Again - Ruth Marcus, Washington PostOur Obsolete Constitution? - Richard Epstein, Defining Ideas
The Market and Mother Nature - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
Hobby Lobby Fights the Good Fight vs. ObamaCare - Bill Flax, Forbes
Veteran Dems to Shepherd Hagel Nomination - Erin McPike, RCP
Chuck Hagel Is No Susan Rice - Margaret Carlson, Bloomberg
How to Waste a Decade in Afghanistan - Frederick & Kimberly Kagan, WSJ
Why Is GOP Defending Neo-Conservatism? - Paul Mulshine, NJ Star-Ledger
Is Gabby Giffords the New Jim Brady? - Matt Vasilogambros, Natl Journal
I Will Not Be Intimidated - Steve McCann, American Thinker
A Fed Dissenter Hopes He's Wrong - Binyamin Appelbaum, New York Times
A Case of Wall Street Greed Gone Too Far - Susan Antilla, CNN
Psychological Toll of High Joblessness - Gary Burtless, RealClearMarkets
Can We Aim Higher Than Honey Boo Boo? - Kathleen Parker, Wash Post
Pop Goes the Culture - Andrew Ferguson, Weekly Standard
The Radical Visions of St. Francis of Assisi - Joan Acocella, The New Yorker
Harry Reid's Corrosive Words - Carl Cannon, RealClearPolitics
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Thursday, January 10
Time for a Balanced-Budget Amendment - George Will, Washington PostHow Obama Can Avoid the Debt Ceiling - Edward Kleinbard, NY Times
On Spending, Obama & Co. Just Don't Get It - Tom Bevan, RealClearPolitics
A Second Chance for President Obama - Joe Klein, Time
Obama to Name Loyalist Lew to Head Treasury - Alexis Simendinger, RCP
Pick Ratchets Up Tax and Spending Fight - Hans Nichols, Bloomberg
Sessions: Jack Lew Must Never Be Treasury Secretary - Kara Rowland, FOX
Why Eric Holder Is Obama's Indispensable Man - Ben Smith, BuzzFeed
An Unserious Afghanistan War Plan - Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post
Why You Should Care About the Hagel Nomination - Justin Logan, Cato
The Truth About the Hagel-McCain "Rift" - Mark Salter, RealClearPolitics
Gun Sanity Needs Bipartisanship - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
Guns & Freedom - Andrew Napolitano, FOX News
Gun Control: Cuomo's 2016 Presidential Play - Michael Catalini, Natl Jrnl
GOP Needs Change in Culture, Not Just Tactics - Jon Ward, Huffington Post
Chris Christie: The Boss - Michael Scherer, Time
PMS at ESPN - Larry Thornberry, The American Spectator
Friday, January 11
Washington's Economic Boom, Financed by You - Annie Lowrey, NYT MagWhen Big Deficits Became Good - Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
GOP Obstructionism & Our Endless Civil War - Robert Shrum, Daily Beast
Launching a Conservative Revival - Jim DeMint, Washington Post
Vile Absurdity of the Debt-Ceiling Fight - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Defense Spending Can and Should Be Cut - Byron York, DC Examiner
Biden Hints at "Universal" Gun Background Checks - A. Simendinger, RCP
The Real Gun-Control Consensus - Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal
Obama Should Play Hardball in Second Term - Robert Reich, Huff Post
ObamaCare Is Republicans' Savior in 2014 - Nolan Finley, Detroit News
Great and Terrible News About Health Care - Paul Waldman, Am. Prospect
Who Will Be Obama's Next Chief of Staff? - Eleanor Clift, The Daily Beast
The Meaning of Hagel - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
Hagel Brothers Still Burdened by Vietnam War - Leigh Munsil, Politico
The EPA Pushes the Envelope, Again - A. Barton Hinkle, Reason
Now Can We Talk About Climate Change? - Eugene Robinson, Wash Post
Blue States' Fiscal Woes Test Obama - Brian Barry, Bloomberg
Saturday, January 12
President Has Already Cemented Legacy - Jill Lawrence, National JournalObamaCare's Other Shoe - Mark Steyn, National Review
GOP Isn't Serious on the Debt Ceiling - Jamelle Bouie, American Prospect
Obama's Phony Default Drama - Caroline Baum, New York Post
Yes, Your Paycheck Just Shrank - Neil Irwin, Washington Post
Marco Rubio: Riding to the Immigration Rescue - Matthew Kaminski, WSJ
Rockefeller's Retirement Isn't Bad for Dems - Nate Cohn, The New Republic
Defeating Christie a Tall Order for N.J. Democrats - Scott Conroy, RCP
Lew Had Major Role at Citi When It Nearly Imploded - Jia Lynn Yang, WP
Ruling Class Remains Wedded to Euro Folly - Peter Oborne, Telegraph
Coin Idea Wouldn't Have Been Goofy to FDR - Jonathan Alter, Bloomberg
What Happened to All of That Money? - Jeffrey Snider, RealClearMarkets
Right-Wing Paranoia and Gun Control - Charles Blow, New York Times
Joe Biden's Political Posturing on Guns - J.D. Tuccille, Reason
Report: Climate Change Is Really Scary - Tim McDonnell, Mother Jones
GOP's Lone Star Rock Star - Ruben Navarrette, San Diego Union-Tribune
The Afghanistan Con Job - Jed Babbin, The American Spectator
Sunday, January 13
The Promised Land of Fracking - Ronald Bailey, ReasonCollaborate vs. Collaborate - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
Setting Expectations for Obama's 2nd Term - Philip Klein, DC Examiner
We Need a Ban on "Assault Magazines" - George Gascon, Politico
Our Interrogation Legacy - George Will, Washington Post
The Three Biggest Races of 2013 - Juan Williams, FOX News
Republican Establishment Declares War on GOP Voters - Scott Rasmussen
Ted Cruz and the 47 Percent - Erica Grieder, Texas Monthly
Sonia Sotomayor: A Justice's Journey - Dahlia Lithwick, Washington Post
Have We Lost the Drug Wars? - William Murchison, Townhall
There's More to Life Than Being Happy - Emily Esfahani Smith, Atlantic
Our Economic Pickle - Steven Greenhouse, New York Times
There's No Sin at This Inauguration - Ben Domenech, The Transom
The Draft Barney Frank for Senate Campaign - Ruth Conniff, Progressive
From Al Gore to Al Jazeera - Clifford May, National Review
Hillary Clinton's Next Drama - Meghan Daum, Chicago Tribune
The Obama Synthesis on Foreign Policy - Ross Douthat, New York Times