Week of February 4, 2013 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, February 4
The Stimulus Trap - Robert Samuelson, Washington PostGood for Washington; Bad for the Rest of Us - Aaron Renn, City Journal
Who Decided Megabanks Are Too Big to Jail? - Simon Johnson, Bloomberg
The Trouble With Wall Street - Michael Lewis, New Republic
Gun Control: Founding Fathers vs. Today's Lawmakers - Carl Cannon, RCP
Fewer Dollars, Babies Threaten Public Policies - Michael Barone, Examiner
Immigration Reform Can Clear Congress This Year - Bill Keller, NY Times
Clinton in 2016: Be Afraid, Republicans - Lloyd Green, The Daily Beast
Republicans Are Thriving at the State Level - Conn Carroll, DC Examiner
Obama the Bargainer - Jay Cost, Weekly Standard
New Dems Offer Solutions for Congress - Tauscher, Roemer & Davis, Politico
On 100th Birthday, Income Tax Going Strong - Joseph Curl, Wash Times
Friends of Fraud - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Where Are the Liberal Lions? - Juan Williams, The Hill
On Thought and Our Political Rhetoric - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
Do We Live in a Post-Truth Era? - Ronald Bailey, Reason
Real Heroes: Four Died So Others Might Live - Bob Greene, CNN
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Tuesday, February 5
On Guns, Unfinished Business - Eugene Robinson, Washington PostFifty Years of Failing America's Mentally Ill - E. Fuller Torrey, Wall St Jrnl
Government's Legitimacy Crisis - Glenn Harlan Reynolds, USA Today
The Winter of the Neocons' Discontent - Michael Hirsh, National Journal
Journalism's Jed Clampetts - James Taranto, Wall Street Journal
New Term, New Truthers, Same Obama - Paul Waldman, American Prospect
Fiscal Sanity Starts With Stopping ObamaCare - N. Owcharenko, Heritage
Kasich Gives Away the Game on Health Care - Ed Kilgore, Wash Monthly
Gun Control: Public Opinion & the Firearms Paradox - Carl Cannon, RCP
Prophets and Losses - Thomas Sowell, Investor's Business Daily
Republicans Versus Consumers - Andrew Rosenthal, New York Times
Democrats Eye Unlikely Georgia as Senate Pickup - Scott Conroy, RCP
Ex-Charlie Crist Backers Take On Conservatives - Erick Erickson, RedState
The Origins of Our American Creed - Brian Vanyo, RealClearHistory
John Kerry, Finally Where He Belongs - Dana Milbank, Washington Post
The Philosophy of Data - David Brooks, New York Times
My Break With the Democrats - Michelle Rhee, The Daily Beast
Wednesday, February 6
Obama Urges Congress to Act to Stave Off Cuts - Shear & Calmes, NY TimesRepublicans Will, & Should, Force Cuts - Charles Krauthammer, FOX News
Eric Cantor's Empty Happy Talk - Dana Milbank, Washington Post
The Coming ObamaCare Recession - Brandon Crocker, American Spectator
Reform Wall Street Before the Next Crisis - Admati & Hellwig, Bloomberg
The Case for Too Big to Fail Banks - Neil Irwin, Washington Post
Dodd-Frank Helps JP Morgan - Timothy Carney, Washington Examiner
Rove, Establishment Must Give Way to New Leaders - S.E. Cupp, NYDN
Clinton's Next Great Challenge? - Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post
Senator Menendez's Bad Company - Michelle Malkin, New York Post
House Searches for Immigration Middle Ground - Caitlin Huey-Burns, RCP
Mortgage Interest Deduction Has to Go - Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Prophets and Losses: Part II - Thomas Sowell, Investor's Business Daily
Who Are You Calling a Liberal? - Michael Kazin, New Republic
Big Dangers as Obama Dems Flout Budget Law - Chris Stirewalt, FOX News
India vs. China vs. Egypt - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
Children Deserve School Choice - Richard Garnett, Public Discourse
Thursday, February 7
The President's Colossal Politics - Daniel Henninger, Wall Street JournalTalking Nice Won't Revive Republicans - Ezra Klein, Bloomberg
Rand Paul's Silly Speech - Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post
Return to a True Conservative Foreign Policy - Sen. Rand Paul, Heritage
Obama's Sequester Plan: Hope GOP Blinks - Stein & Siddiqui, Huff Post
At Last, Republicans Make Case to Main St. - Michael Barone, DC Examiner
GOP: Rebranding vs. Rethinking - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
Marco Rubio: The New Voice of the GOP - Michael Grunwald, Time
Obama Nears 2nd Term Tipping Point - Erick Erickson, Red State
The Obama Admin's Chilling Legal Memo - Glenn Greenwald, Guardian
The President's Wise Kill-Don't-Capture Policy - Ralph Peters, NY Post
Water on Face Bad, Missile to Face Good - Jim Treacher, Daily Caller
Obama's Second Political Honeymoon - Chris Cillizza, Washington Post
Why GOP Should Back Immigration Reform - Al Cardenas, Politico
Will Youth Vote Seal GOP's Minority Status? - Stu Rothenberg, Roll Call
Shackling the Spenders - George Will, Washington Post
How Bush's Dog Became a Web Star - Jimmy Orr, Los Angeles Times
Friday, February 8
Call Obama's Sequester Bluff - Charles Krauthammer, Washington PostJust Kick the Can Down the Road - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Geithner Doctrine Lives On in Libor Affair - Neil Barofsky, Financial Times
Public Focuses on Jobs, D.C. Changes the Subject - Byron York, Examiner
Obama Must Fight One More Campaign - Robert Shrum, The Daily Beast
President Did Nothing to Save Lives in Benghazi - Joel Pollak, Breitbart
GOP's Resistance to Medicaid Expansion Is Eroding - Ron Brownstein, NJ
Liberal Media Hypocrisy on Obama's Kill List - Nick Gillespie, Reason
Guns--Not the Mentally Ill--Kill People - Abby Rapoport, American Prospect
When Reid, Obama Sunk Immigration Reform - Michael Barone, Examiner
The Persistence of Racial Resentment - Thomas Edsall, New York Times
Is a Franken-Bachmann Showdown on the Horizon? - Scott Conroy, RCP
Fertility and Immigration - Jonathan Last, Los Angeles Times
The Declining-Fertility Non-Crisis - Ruy Teixeira, The New Republic
So God Made a Fawner - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
Pop Vitamin C Tablets, Get a Kidney Stone - Alex Berezow, RealClearScience
Clint Romesha, the Bravest of the Brave - Jake Tapper, CNN
Saturday, February 9
How the Post Office Made America - Richard John, New York TimesTime to Break Up the Big Banks - George Will, Washington Post
Rand Paul's Seminal Speech - Robert Merry, The National Interest
Is the Fever Breaking? - Jonathan Cohn, New Republic
No Mandate for Obama on Spending - Chris Stirewalt, FOX News
Rocky Reboot for Republicans - A.B. Stoddard, The Hill
Clinton and the Ghosts of Benghazi - Kathleen Parker, Washington Post
A Lefty Killer? - James Taranto, Wall Street Journal
The Scary Truth About Climate Change - Coral Davenport, Nat'l Journal
Sorry, Chicken Little: The Sky Isn't Falling - Mark Landsbaum, OC Register
The "Suicide Conservatives" - Charles Blow, New York Times
Christie Struggles With Politics of His Weight - Maggie Haberman, Politico
Happy-Face Statism - Wesley Smith, First Things
How the Gun-Control Movement Got Smart - Molly Ball, The Atlantic
Voting Twice in Ohio - John Fund, National Review
Illinois: The Troubled State of the State - Jeff Carter, Points & Figures
Run Your Family Like a Business - Bruce Feiler, Wall Street Journal
Sunday, February 10
State of the Union to Pivot Back to Economy - Ron Fournier, Nat'l JournalSuddenly, Obama Cares About Jobs - Byron York, Washington Examiner
Perry Swoops In On Calif., Brown Not Impressed - Ross Ramsey, NY Times
"Trust Me" Not Enough on Drone Warfare - Dana Milbank, Washington Post
Nobody Wake Barack - Michael Goodwin, New York Post
The GOP Is the Party of White People - Sam Tanenhaus, The New Republic
A Problem the Democrats Can't Solve - Jay Cost, Weekly Standard
After Ron Paul, What Next for Libertarians? - Brian Doherty, NY Times
Many 2011 'Cuts' Had Little Effect - David Fahrenthold, Washington Post
No Bending on the Sequester - Paul Roderick Gregory, Forbes
Democrats Sharpen Their Political Knives - John Stanton, BuzzFeed
GOP's New Weapon: Bob Woodward - Eliana Johnson, National Review
The President Needs to Come Home - Carol Marin, Chicago Sun-Times
The Coming Battle Over the Ballot Box - James Taranto, Wall St. Journal
Killing Nemo: Storm Name Irks NWS - D. Brady, Bloomberg BusinessWeek
Did the CIA Betray Syria's Rebels? - Mike Giglio, Newsweek
Was Petraeus Brought Down by Palace Coup? - Michael Zennie, Daily Mail