Week of January 14, 2013 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, January 14
What's Inside America's Banks? - F. Partnoy & J. Eisinger, The AtlanticJack Lew: From K Street to Wall St to Treasury - Tim Carney, DC Examiner
Immigration Reform: The Time Is Now - Antonio Villaraigosa, Politico
ObamaCare's Health-Insurance Sticker Shock - Matthews & Litow, WSJ
What's Next for Obama & Boehner? - Caitlin Huey-Burns, RealClearPolitics
The Entitlement Era Is Winding Down - Michael Barone, DC Examiner
Meet the Problem Solvers - Joe Manchin & Jon Huntsman, Washington Post
Obama Blinks: No Emperor's New Coin - Bill Frezza, RealClearMarkets
The Isolation of the American South - George Packer, The New Yorker
Prescription for an Ailing California - Joel Kotkin, Orange County Register
Japan Steps Out - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Guns, Walmart, and Crony Capitalism - Matt Lewis, The Week
How Tech Can Help Fight Gun Crimes - Maureen Mackey, Fiscal Times
Obama Boosting Biden's '16 Prospects - Richard Benedetto, RealClearPolitics
The Ron Paul Legacy - Brian Doherty, Reason
Invasion of the Data Snatchers - Bill Keller, New York Times
When Babies Disappear - Heather Wilhelm, RealClearBooks
Tuesday, January 15
No More Mr. Nice President - Dana Milbank, Washington PostObama's "Magical" Debt Limit Answer - John Podhoretz, New York Post
GOP's Destructive Game of Chicken - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
A Government Shutdown Would Help the GOP - Ed Morrissey, The Week
President Eyes Executive Orders on Guns - Shear & Steinhauer, NY Times
Obama Is Not King - Sen. Rand Paul, Christian Broadcasting Network
The NRA's Democratic Helpers - Steve Kornacki, Salon
Totally, Unequivocally Hagel - William Kristol, Weekly Standard
Borking Chuck Hagel - James Antle, The Daily Caller
The Foreclosure Fiasco - Joe Nocera, New York Times
Against Government Debt - Sheldon Richman, Reason
Real Debt Danger Is People's Sense Of Entitlement - Samuel Gregg, IBD
Sorry, Middle Class, You're About to Be Crushed - Shawn Tully, Fortune
Liberalism Versus Blacks - Thomas Sowell, Investor's Business Daily
Jodie & Lance: Master Media Manipulators - Michael Wolff, The Guardian
The Man Who Banked on Lance Armstrong - Andrew Ross Sorkin, NY Times
Think You Own Your House? Think Again - Roger Kimball, Wall Street Jrnl
Wednesday, January 16
Obama's 1-2 Punch? - Thomas Friedman, New York TimesPresident Obama Owns the Debt Now - Glenn Reynolds, USA Today
Next Fight Shifts Focus to Spending Cuts - Charlie Cook, National Journal
For "Party of Business," Allegiances Are Shifting - Jackie Calmes, NYT
Who's the Fed Helping? Not the Little Guy - Rich Danker, RealClearMarkets
Neocons Should Heed Hagel's Eisenhower Model - Evan Thomas, Bloomberg
Cuomo's Leadership on Gun Control - Mike Lupica, New York Daily News
The Purpose of the Second Amendment - Erick Erickson, RedState
What Is the Future of Conservatism? - Mark Steyn, Commentary
Republican Party Resembles a Failed State - Paul Begala, The Daily Beast
Jack Lew's Signature - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
WH Press Corps Going Through the Motions - Debra Saunders, SF Chronicle
For Obama, It Takes One to Tango - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
Obama's Execrable Use of Kids to Sell Gun Control - Keith Koffler, WHD
Are We Ready to Reduce Gun Violence? - Sen. Tim Kaine, Washington Post
Jindal's Bold Plan to Abolish La.'s Income Tax - Daniel Mitchell, Townhall
Zero Dark Thirty & the Hunt for Bin Laden - Kathryn Bigelow, LA Times
More on RCP: Ten Memorable Presidential Inaugural Addresses
Thursday, January 17
Obama Takes on Extremism on Guns - E.J. Dionne, Washington PostPhoto-Op President Shooting Blanks - Michael Walsh, New York Post
Gun Plan Faces Tall Odds in Congress - McPike & Huey-Burns, RCP
Obama Can Break House Republicans - Noam Scheiber, The New Republic
How GOP Should Wage Debt-Ceiling Fight - Keith Hennessey, Wall St. Jrnl
Let Republicans Hit the Debt Ceiling First - Joe Conason, National Memo
Jack Lew's Campaign of Deception - Sen. Jeff Sessions, National Review
Obama's Necessary Show of Leadership on Guns - Gary Younge, Guardian
On Guns, an Abuse of Power - David Harsanyi, Human Events
For Democrats, Unity and Its Pitfalls - Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Some Questions for Chuck Hagel - George Will, Washington Post
Clinton Supporters Eager for 2016 - Paul Alexander, The Daily Beast
American Blood Paid for 'Gangnam Style' - Mark Sauter, RealClearHistory
New Purpose of Government Is Better Government - Ezra Klein, Bloomberg
The Wages of Unemployment - Richard Vedder, Wall Street Journal
Now What, Liberalism? - Thomas Edsall, New York Times
Truth About Te'o Hoax Hidden Under Baloney - John Kass,Chicago Tribune
Video Highlights: Paul | Dean | Krauthammer | Morgan | Gutfeld
Friday, January 18
A New Strategy for the GOP - Charles Krauthammer, Washington PostWhat to Expect From Obama's Second Term - Jonathan Alter, Bloomberg
"Too Big to Fail" & the Legacy of Tim Geithner - Simon Johnson, NY Times
Ending Too Big To Fail: A Proposal for Reform - Richard Fisher, Dallas FRB
Obama Was Right to Go Big on Guns - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
An Infantile Spectacle on Guns - Rich Lowry, Politico
Mr. President, What About Chicago? - Tom Bevan, RealClearPolitics
Fiscal Fight Is One for the Generations - Mort Kondracke, Roll Call
House Republicans Plot a Path Forward - Robert Costa, National Review
The House GOP Majority Is In Danger - Steve Kornacki, Salon
Life After Blue - Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest
Taxachusetts, Here We Go Again - Julie Mehegan, Boston Herald
There Is No Deficit Problem - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Obama and the End of Liberalism? - Charles Kesler, National Review
Defending Democracy by Teaching History - Jeremi Suri, RealClearPolitics
How the Media Missed the Te'o Girlfriend Hoax - Howard Kurtz, Daily Beast
What Lance Armstrong Wants You to Believe - William Saletan, Slate
Saturday, January 19
To Cement Legacy, Obama Must Destroy the GOP - John Dickerson, SlateThe Time Bomb in ObamaCare? - George Will, Washington Post
The Second Coming: Can Obama Inspire Us? - Evan Thomas, Newsweek
Trillion-Dollar-Coin Fever - Mark Steyn, National Review Online
Less an Inauguration Than a Tepid Rerun - Dana Milbank, Washington Post
Obamas Kick Off Inaugural w/Donor Receptions - Alexis Simendinger, RCP
Debt Ceiling Hostage Crisis Is Over! - Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine
Note to GOP: Cut Spending or Lose the House in 2014 - Larry Kudlow, IBD
Obama's Army: Activists & Corporate Cash - Jonathan Karl, ABC News
Not Your Father's Republicans - Noemie Emery, The Weekly Standard
Escaped Hostages Recount Horrors in Algeria - Birnbaum & Faiola, WaPo
Why Algeria Didnt Warn US About Its Hostage Raid - Eli Lake, Daily Beast
Does France Know What It's Doing? - Steven Erlanger, New York Times
McCain and The Neocons' Mideast Blunders - Andrew McCarthy, NRO
Nuclear Option Key to Passing Gun Control - John Nichols, The Nation
PolitiFact's "Lie of the Year" Turns Out to Be True - Mark Hemingway, WS
Te'o: "I Wasn't Faking It. I Wasn't Part of It." - Jeremy Schaap, ESPN
Video Highlights: Obama | Krauthammer | Maher | Rove | Glover | More
Sunday, January 20
Obama 2.0: Smarter, Tougher--But Wiser? - David Gergen, CNNThe President and the New Power Class - Joel Kotkin, New Geography
How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size - Gretchen Morgenson, New York Times
Jack Lew's Questionable Stint at Citigroup - Paul Roderick Gregory, Forbes
Why Republicans Caved on Debt Ceiling - Chris Cillizza, Washington Post
In Gun Push, Obama Abandons Data & Logic - Tim Carney, DC Examiner
Sheriff Andy of Albany - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
William Bratton: The Real Cures for Gun Violence - David Feith, WSJ
Our Tangled Foreign Policy - Jim Hoagland, Washington Post
Chaos Reveals Grim Side of Arab Spring - Robert Worth, New York Times
Quiet Ceremonies, Oath-Taking for Obama - Alexis Simendinger, RCP
The Frightening Math for Republicans - Charlie Cook, National Journal
ObamaCare: We Told You So - Robert Tracinski, RealClearMarkets
One Wise Latina - Ruth Marcus, Washington Post
Sonia Sotomayor's Disappointing Memoir - Damon Root, Reason
Present at the Revolution - Barry Strauss, City Journal
How Gun Culture Won Over Liberals - McKay Coppins & CJ Lotz, BuzzFeed