Week of February 18, 2013 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, February 18
The Coming Pro-Growth Moment - Steve Forbes, ForbesLet's Celebrate the Income Tax - Molly Michelmore, Washington Post
College Essays Make Kids Stupid, Selfish - Naomi Schaefer Riley, Bloomberg
The Social Trends Behind Gang Violence - Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic
Chicago Murders Complicate Obama Gun Ban - Chris Stirewalt, FOX News
Liberals Are the New Silent Majority - Timothy Noah, The New Republic
Rand Paul's New Populist Libertarianism - Toby Harnden, Sunday Times
Conservatives, Libertarians, and Herding Cats - Heather Wilhelm, RCP
Why Is the U.S. Economy Struggling? - Robert Samuelson, Washington Post
Health Care Law Will Work If We Embrace It - Peter Anderson, USA Today
Massive ObamaCare Sales Tax Increase on the Way - Lindsay Boyd, Forbes
When Republicans Were Problem-Solvers - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
3 Reasons to Build the Keystone XL Pipeline - Nick Gillespie, Reason.tv
Can Another Unknown Reprise Scott Brown's Upset? - Scott Conroy, RCP
The Super Bowl Farmers - Victor Davis Hanson, PJ Media
Catholicism Inc. - Bill Keller, New York Times
Wrestling Should Stay in the Olympics - Donald Rumsfeld, Washington Post
Panels: This Week | FOX News Sunday | Meet the Press | Face the Nation
Tuesday, February 19
Only Spending Can Save Us Now - Dean Baker, New York Daily NewsThe Coolidge Lesson on Taxes & Spending - Amity Shlaes, Wall St. Journal
Obama: The Media Puppet Master - Jim VandeHei & Mike Allen, Politico
President Blackmails Tax Payers, Blames GOP - Peter Morici, FOX News
Obama's Agenda Is a Weapon For Dems in 2014 - Steve Kornacki, Salon
Jack Lew & Obama's Finance-Friendly Status Quo - Lloyd Green, Dly Beast
Can This Man Help Dems Hold the Senate? - Jonathan Weisman, NY Times
Obama's Minimum Wage Welfare State - Brandon Crocker, Amer Spectator
Chicago Reclaimed the Projects, But Lost the City - Kevin Williamson, NRO
Will Tax Hikes Derail CA's Comeback? - Jim Tankersley, Washington Post
Guns and Pensions - Thomas Sowell, Investor's Business Daily
Building Keystone XL Pipeline Is Folly - Bill McKibben, USA Today
How Not to Fix Climate Change - Joe Nocera, New York Times
Send Hagel to the United Nations - Joel Pollak, Breitbart
Christie, Not Rubio, Best Bet in 2016 - DeWayne Wickham, USA Today
CA Regents Deny Critics a Fair Hearing - Peter Berkowitz, RealClearPolitics
Inside the Chinese Cyber War on the U.S. - Sanger, Barboza & Perlroth, NYT
Wednesday, February 20
Only in DC Is Slowing Government Spending Bad - Rick Newman, US NewsObama's Sequestration Strategy: Shame - Brown & Sherman, Politico
The President Has Already Got His Higher Taxes - Rep. John Boehner, WSJ
Hagel's Sharpest Critics Should Self-Reflect - Michael Hirsh, Natl Journal
Conservatives Hyping ObamaCare Apocalypse - Jim Newell, New Republic
Will Only Suckers Buy ObamaCare Insurance? - John Merline, IBD
Rubio: The Electable Conservative? - Nate Silver, New York Times
Obama's Obedient Lap Dog - Michael Goodwin, New York Post
Axelrod & the Media's Dying Credibility - David Ignatius, Washington Post
Delusional Politico Journalists: Is This Mental Illness? - Rush Limbaugh
Florida Wakes From Tea Party Binge - Stephanie Mencimer, Mother Jones
Incredible Disappearing Pension Benefits - Alec MacGillis, New Republic
A Mighty Wind: Texas vs. California - Ben Boychuk, City Journal
The End of Cheap Airfare - Matthew Yglesias, Slate
Robots Are Eating Manufacturing Jobs - Christopher Mims, Quartz
Dependence on the Government Keeps Growing - Nicholas Eberstadt, RCM
Dr. Ben Carson, New Conservative Folk Hero - David Graham, The Atlantic
Thursday, February 21
Experts: Chinese Have Hacked Most of D.C. - Timberg & Nakashima, WPChina at War With U.S. - & We're Not Fighting Back - Ralph Peters, NY Post
Tea Party's Ghost Still Haunts Washington - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
How to Save the GOP - Michael Gerson & Peter Wehner, Commentary
Millions of Voters Orphaned by DC Ruling Class - Angelo Codevilla, Forbes
WH Sees Sequester Cuts as Risk to Economy - Appelbaum & Lowrey, NYT
Sequester Cuts Are Pro-Growth - Larry Kudlow, Investor's Business Daily
The Government Will Grow. Deal With It - Jonathan Cohn, New Republic
Dems' Flawed, Contradictory Views on Spending - Peter Suderman, Reason
Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us - Steven Brill, Time
The Future of Free-Market Healthcare - Holtz-Eakin & Roy, Reuters
Pecking at Crumbs as Obama Feeds the Locals - Alexis Simendinger, RCP
GOP Struggles to Find Right Candidates - Michael Barone, Wash Examiner
'Hip' Young Republicans Can't Change GOP - Joe Conason, National Memo
Shaky Science Behind Universal Pre-K - Charles Murray, Bloomberg
For Jesse Jackson Jr., the Rules Do Apply - Dana Milbank, Washington Post
Hollywood Forgets 9/11 - Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal
Friday, February 22
Obama Confident About Sequester Fight - Zeleny & Weisman, NY TimesGov't by Freakout: Obama Is Overplaying His Hand - Peggy Noonan, WSJ
Spending Cuts Are a "Doomsday Machine" - Chris Matthews, MSNBC
Sequestration: Mindless or Common Sense? - Ben Domenech, The Transom
Rick Scott Accepts Reality on Medicaid - David Firestone, New York Times
Exposing Jack Lew's Citigroup Cronyism - Jonathan Weil, Bloomberg
Can Democrats Mess With Texas in 2016? - Scott Conroy, RealClearPolitics
What Could Divide Obama's Coalition - Ron Brownstein, National Journal
The Electric Car Is an Abomination - Robert Tracinski, RealClearMarkets
Case for a Higher Gasoline Tax - Valerie Karplus, New York Times
Conservatives Question Pentagon's Panic - Byron York, DC Examiner
When Will the GOP Stop the Madness? - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
Do Republicans Like Lower Spending or Not? - Chris Stirewalt, FOX News
Why the GOP Should Embrace Gay Marriage - Eric Sasson, New Republic
An Imperfect Immigration Plan - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
We're Not Ready for Cyber Pearl Harbor - Michael Daly, The Daily Beast
Thucydides, Hobbes and How Wars Start - Robert Kaplan, Stratfor
Saturday, February 23
Are Robots About to Take Over Health Care? - Jonathan Cohn, The AtlanticWhy States Shouldn't Expand Medicaid - Roy & Turner, National Review
Dire Consequences and Denial - Charles Blow, New York Times
Obama's Sequester Deal-Changer - Bob Woodward, Washington Post
"Devastating" Sequester? Politicians Should Shut Up - Bill Wilson, Forbes
Obama a Marker on Post-Racial Path - Donna Brazile, CNN
What's Driving Global Change? - Chrystia Freeland, Washington Post
The Keynesian Depression - Scott Minerd, Outside the Box
The Tax Story They Won't Tell at the Oscars - Glenn Reynolds, WSJ
Andrew Cuomo's Conundrum - Matt Taylor, The New Republic
Media's "Team Hagel" Did Obama's Dirty Work - Joel Pollak, Breitbart
Rathergate, Friends of Hamas & False Rumors - David Freddoso, Examiner
The Coming Atlantic Century - Anne-Marie Slaughter, Project Syndicate
Benedict Face to Face With Islam - Andrew Doran, First Things
Zero Dark Thirty Deserves to Win Best Picture - Jason Michelitch, Wired
Why America Loves Denzel Washington - Virginia Postrel, Bloomberg
Red States Will Profit Most From More Immigration - Joel Kotkin, Forbes
Sunday, February 24
The Manufactured Crisis of Sequester - George Will, Washington PostGOP Blame Game Self-Destructs - Jonathan Bernstein, Salon
The Buck Still Stops With the President - Nolan Finley, Detroit News
Obama's Second-Term Team of Loyalists - David Ignatius, Washington Post
Truth About the Assault Weapons Ban - Sen. Dianne Feinstein, OC Register
The Guns of Chicago - Heather Mac Donald, The Weekly Standard
Will Supremes Dismantle Voting Rights Act? - Andrew Cohen, The Atlantic
To Ensure Upward Mobility, Fix Education System - Sen. Rand Paul, WT
Deluded Republican Reformers - Michael Tomasky, The Daily Beast
Republicans' Biggest Advantage: Time - Noah Rothman, Mediaite
The Future Mr. Speaker? - Robert Draper, The New Republic
Google's Incestuous Ties w/Obama Administration - Erik Telford, The Blaze
Jesse Jackson Jr.'s Pitiful Downfall - Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune
California's Pension Saga - Steven Malanga, Los Angeles Times
How Mexico Got Back in the Game - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
Why the Euro Crisis Isn't Over - Brian Carney, Wall Street Journal
Does Hollywood Have a Foreign Policy? - Joshua Keating, Foreign Policy