Week of January 28, 2013 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, January 28
Hands Off Our Guns - David Mamet, NewsweekThe Return of Liberalism - Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker
Is Republican Reform Real, or Just Talk? - Byron York, DC Examiner
Geithner's Legacy: His Actions Have Been Vindicated - Steve Rattner, NYT
Why History May Be Unkind to Geithner - Arnold Kling, RealClearPolitics
The President and the Secretary of State - Steve Kroft, 60 Minutes
Hillary Clinton's Dodgy Testimony - Jonah Goldberg, Chicago Tribune
Why Obama Picked Hagel - Bob Woodward, Washington Post
Scenes From the Conservative Bunker - Alec MacGillis, New Republic
Republican Annihilation Is Not Likely - Michael Barone, DC Examiner
Obama's Eyes Are on 2014--and Then His Legacy - Richard Benedetto, RCP
Makers, Takers, Fakers - Paul Krugman, New York Times
California Is Becoming Less Family-Friendly - Joel Kotkin, OC Register
Malloy May Face Tough Re-election Fight in Conn. - Scott Conroy, RCP
The Urgency of Growth - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
Mickelson & the Sports Star Tax Migration - Allysia Finley, Wall St Journal
Is the U.S. In Decline? Wrong Question - Robert Samuelson, Washington Post
Tuesday, January 29
The GOP Must Lead (Again) on Civil Rights - Cliff Asness, The AmericanObama, FDR and the Second Bill of Rights - Cass Sunstein, Bloomberg
The Bailouts That Never End - David Harsanyi, Human Events
Marco Rubio's Immigration Reality Show - Dana Milbank, Washington Post
Immigration Bills Take Shape. Can One Pass? - Caitlin Huey-Burns, RCP
The White House Strategy to Silence Dissent - Kirsten Powers, FOX News
GOP Lost in Its Own Wilderness - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
Conservatives Should Snap Out Of It - James Taranto, Wall Street Journal
Republicans Will Never Attract Minorities - Michael Tomasky, Daily Beast
Obama: Skeet Shooter Among the Pigeons - Wes Pruden, Washington Times
Read My Lips: New Taxes - Leo Gerard, Huffington Post
Tax the Revolving Door - Glenn Harlan Reynolds, USA Today
Collective Action Is Overrated - Charles Lane, Washington Post
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey on Conscious Capitalism - Ira Stoll, Reason
With Weak Case, Hillary Shouts Louder - Thomas Sowell, Investor's Biz Dly
Why Clinton & Biden Won't Run in 2016 - Jill Lawrence, National Journal
60 Minutes, Obama & Softball Journalism - Brit Hume, FOX News
Wednesday, January 30
It's P.Q. and C.Q. as Much as I.Q. - Thomas Friedman, New York TimesThe Doctor's Office as Union Shop - David Leffell, Wall Street Journal
The Intertwined Fates of Rubio & Immigration - Ed Morrissey, The Week
Immigration Reform's New Fans - Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Why Immigration Reform Will Likely Pass - Mark Salter, RealClearPolitics
Think Again: The Muslim Brotherhood - Eric Trager, Foreign Policy
It's Too Soon to Celebrate the Economic Recovery - Peter Orszag, Bloomberg
Obama's Economy: The Excuses Begin - Tom Blumer, PJ Media
Hope or Despair? The Future of Culture - W. McClay, University Bookman
Republicans Need a Little Sensitivity Training - Charlie Cook, Natl Jrnl
Let's Meet on Medicaid, Mr. President - Gov. Bobby Jindal, Washington Post
This Is Not Your Father's NRA - Rep. Chris Murphy, Politico
Gun-Free Zones Are for the Little People - Charles Hurt, Washington Times
Is It Safe to Say "Liberal" Again? - Alan Brinkley, New Republic
Twitter Was Once a Vision. Now It's a Prison - Matt Lewis, The Week
Republicans Need to Rethink Product Line - Reed Galen, RealClearPolitics
What Sarah Palin Meant - Chris Cillizza, Washington Post
More on RCP: Key Lawmakers on Immigration | "Push-Polling" in S.C.
Thursday, January 31
Obama's Thunderdome Strategy - Daniel Henninger, Wall Street JournalIn Washington, a Season for Pragmatism? - Ruth Marcus, Washington Post
Under Obama, Stagnation Is New Normal - David Harsanyi, Human Events
The GDP Drop Is No Big Deal - Daniel Gross, The Daily Beast
Jay Carney's Nonsense on the Shrinking Economy - Keith Hennessey
LaPierre Tries to Manhandle Facts & Logic - Dana Milbank, Washington Post
MSNBC Criticised For Editing of Gun Hearing Video - David Bauder, AP
Chris Christie Looking Tougher Than Ever - George Will, New York Post
Rubio Must Sell Immigration Plan to GOP - Drucker & Trygstad, Roll Call
Why I Don't Like Marco Rubio's Plan - Erick Erickson, Red State
Hagel Nomination Will Pass - Michael O'Hanlon, USA Today
Not a Close Call: Hagel Should Be Denied - Jen Rubin, Washington Post
Neocons' Charge of a Jewish Purge at TNR - Jacob Heilbrunn, Nat'l Interest
Science Says 'Good Riddance' to Senator Harkin - Berezow & Campbell, RCS
Ex-CIA Officers Explain Enhanced Interrogations - William Saletan, Slate
WH Curiously Silent on Obama's Skeet Shooting - Glenn Kessler, Wash Post
Kroft's Obama Interviews Diminish '60 Minutes' - C. Friedersdorf, Atlantic
Friday, February 1
Obama Realigns, the GOP Declines - Robert Shrum, The Daily BeastSomeone Should Tell Obama It's Still the Economy - Ed Morrissey, TFT
The President Replants the Goal Posts - Jonathan Alter, Bloomberg
ObamaCare's Broken Promises - Daniel Kessler, Wall Street Journal
Gun Control's Complicated History - Carl Cannon, RealClearPolitics
Chuck Hagel's Credibility Left in Shreds - Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
Hagel Will Be the Next Sec. of Defense - Chris Cillizza, Washington Post
Time Is Money and Money May Be Running Out of Time - Bill Gross, Pimco
Looking for Mister Goodpain - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Spending Sequester Will Grow the Economy - Larry Kudlow, NRO
Schumer Upbeat on Immigration - Caitlin Huey-Burns, RealClearPolitics
Immigration: Getting It Right - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
Here Come the Skeet Shooting Truthers - Bob Cesca, Huffington Post
Ben Nelson Cashes In on ObamaCare Vote - Timothy Carney, DC Examiner
What I Learned Covering Hillary Clinton - Ron Fournier, National Journal
How the South Will Rise to Power Again - Joel Kotkin, Forbes
Edward Koch: 1924-2013 - Robert McFadden, New York Times
Saturday, February 2
The Price of Moral Grandstanding - George Will, Washington PostObama's Liberation Front - Ronald Brownstein, National Journal
Premature Reports of GOP Death - Jonah Goldberg, New York Post
GOP's Gratuitous Hostility Toward Obama - Dana Milbank, Wash Post
Senate Decorum Gives Way to New Discord - Jennifer Steinhauer, NY Times
Why Send Tanks, F-16s to Muslim Brotherhood? - Sen. Rand Paul, Fox News
Goodbye to the Scott Brown Era - Alec MacGillis, The New Republic
Progressive Failure on Display in California - Steven Greenhut, Reason
Hillary Clinton: Secretary of Empowerment - Donna Brazile, CNN
10 Ways Liberal Education Fails Students, Society - Peter Berkowitz, RCP
The Conscience of Tom Harkin - John Nichols, The Nation
Republicans Break the Ice - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
Rosa Parks, Revisited - Charles Blow, New York Times
Stars Align for Chris Christie - Daniel Cirucci, Philadelphia Inquirer
"Am I Going to Die Today?" - Sen. Mark Kirk, Washington Post
Ed Koch, Unavailable at Last - Todd Purdum, Vanity Fair
The Anti-Snobbery of "Downton Abbey" - Raymond Zhong, Wall St. Journal
Sunday, February 3
Big Banks, at Least, Had a Friend in Geithner - Gretchen Morgenson, NYTPay No Attention to That Anemic Economy - Charlie Cook, National Journal
D.C. "Conservatives" Disconnected From Reality - Jerry Bowyer, Forbes
Hillary Clinton's Soft, Uncertain Legacy - Trudy Rubin, Philly Inquirer
The Most Powerful Woman in U.S. History - Michael Tomasky, Newsweek
America's Baby Bust - Jonathan Last, Wall Street Journal
The Great Gerrymander of 2012 - Sam Wang, New York Times
Senate Dems, Please Listen Carefully to NYT - Erick Erickson, FOX News
Washington on Notice - Rep. John Boehner, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Obama, Build a Lasting Urban Legacy - Richard Florida, NY Daily News
Gun Control: Liberals Never Waste a Good Tragedy - Ron Hart, OC Register
What's the Afghanistan Mission? - Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
John McCain & Lindsey Graham's Mideast Idiocy - Andrew McCarthy, NRO
North Dakota Went Boom - Chip Brown, New York Times Magazine
An America Cramped by Defensiveness - Peter Munson, Washington Post
A Lesson From the Scouts' Own Book - Nick Gillespie, Wall Street Journal
How We Can End Our Modern-Day Depression - Mort Zuckerman, US News