Week of May 6, 2013 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, May 6
Rise of the Republican Governors - Steven Malanga, City JournalObama's Wake-Up Call - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
Whitewash: On Race & the Republicans - Frank Rich, New York Magazine
Senate Dems Fleeing ObamaCare Disaster - Joseph Curl, Washington Times
Obama: Down, But Not Out - James Warren, New York Daily News
Billionaires--From Koch to Soros--Battle for the Media - Larry Bell, Forbes
Gosnell Puts Late-Term Abortion in Spotlight - Kirsten Powers, Daily Beast
The Chutzpah Caucus - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Bitcoin and a Coolidge Coin That Merits Concern - Amity Shlaes, RCM
Why I'm Uncomfortable with Hookup Culture - Lisa Mogilanski, USA Today
U.S. Must Do the Right Thing in Syria - Bill Keller, New York Times
In Defense of Henry Kissinger's Realism - Robert Kaplan, The Atlantic
Republican Young Guns Eye 2016 - Scott Conroy, RealClearPolitics
Tea Party Troika Gains Clout in Senate - Timothy Carney, DC Examiner
The Mean, Dumb & Angry Crowds of the NRA - Mike Lupica, NY Daily News
Why Liberals Hate Families - Melanie Phillips, Daily Mail
Lessons From Reinhart-Rogoff's Errors - Larry Summers, Washington Post
Sunday Roundtables: This Week | Meet the Press | FNS | Face the Nation
Tuesday, May 7
What the Political Numbers Mean - Michael Barone, Wall Street JournalOn Election Day, Sanford vs. Colbert-Busch a Tossup - Scott Conroy, RCP
America Begins to Notice Ted Cruz - Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post
President Martin O'Malley? - H. Sweetland Edwards, Washington Monthly
Can Gabe Gomez Win Mass. Senate Race? - Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics
Time For a Full, Honest Accounting of Benghazi - Ed Morrissey, The Week
GOP Jumps In NRA's Festering Pool of Anger & Fear - Paul Waldman, CNN
It's a Fact: America Worse Off Under Obama - Ed Rogers, Washington Post
Ted Cruz Has a "Birther" Problem - Noam Scheiber, The New Republic
By the Way, Hillary Is No Barack - Jonah Goldberg, USA Today
Immigration Push Highlights DC's Disconnect - David Frum, Daily Beast
Can Rubio Sell Immigration Reform to GOP Faithful? - Lisa Mascaro, LAT
Gang of 8 Bill Would Cost Nation Trillions - DeMint & Rector,Wash Post
Drones Over America - William Saletan, Slate
The Strategy of a Superpower - Rep. Mike Rogers, RealClearDefense
Mass Incarcerations America's New Jim Crow - Mary Mitchell, Chicago ST
Baltimore Jail Scandal Aided by Union Politics - Charles Lane, Wash Post
Wednesday, May 8
Zero Hour for Obama and Congress - Huey-Burns & Simendinger, RCPFalling Behind in Obama's Economy - Peter Ferrara, American Spectator
Dems Freaking Out on ObamaCare. Good. - Jonathan Cohn, New Republic
Mark Sanford Completes His Comeback - Alex Roarty, National Journal
Clinton's Candidacy May Ride on Benghazi - Chris Stirewalt, FOX News
America's Military Injustice - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
The Madness of Liberal Moralizing - Heather Mac Donald, New York Post
Can Obama Avoid Lame-Duckery? - Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Why the Public Is Skeptical of Immigration Bill - Byron York, DC Examiner
Gabriel Gomez, a New Kind of Republican? - Greg Sargent, Washington Post
Operation Smear Benghazi Whistleblowers - Michelle Malkin, Townhall
Scandal Returns, But Did Republicans Lose Cred? - Alex Seitz-Wald, Salon
Huckabee: Obama Lied to the American People - Jonathan Easley, The Hill
Chris Christie: Fit to Be President? - Marc Ambinder, The Atlantic
Graduates, Your Ambition Is the Problem - Roger Pilon, Wall Street Journal
Al Gore's Golden Years - Steve Fishman, New York Magazine
Dems Didn't Want to "Count All the Votes" in 2000 - Megan McArdle, DB
Virginia Governor (NBC News/Marist): Cuccinelli 45, McAuliffe 42
Thursday, May 9
Diplomat Airs Benghazi Attack Details - Hughes & Entous, Wall St. JournalBenghazi: Incompetence, But No Coverup - Michael Hirsh, Natl Journal
A Coverup Laid Bare - Tom Bevan, RealClearPolitics
President Obama's False Hopes for 2014 - George Will, Washington Post
Pollsters Embarrassed After Sanford's Big Win - Harry Enten, Guardian
Sorry, Bill: Ted Cruz Is Plenty Hispanic - Ruben Navarrette, CNN
How McAuliffe & the Dems Lost Virginia - Michelle Cottle, The Daily Beast
Meet the Unemployed Generation - Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Hires Washington - Ben White, Politico
Krugman's Still Wrong - Michael Tanner, Cato Institute
How Manicures Explain Benefits of Immigration - Tim Fernholz, Quartz
6 Reasons Why Men Are Falling Behind Women - Nina Easton, Fortune
China May Not Overtake US After All - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph
Why Special Ops Weren't Sent to Benghazi - Dustin Walker, RCDefense
No Smoking Guns at Benghazi Hearings - Dana Milbank, Washington Post
Benghazi Shows Dems at Their Most Desperate - Charles Hurt, Wash Times
The Prison Next Door - David Von Drehle, Time
Videos: Krauthammer | Carney | Scarborough | Peters | Maddow
Friday, May 10
The Inconvenient Truth About Benghazi - Peggy Noonan, Wall St. JournalRepublicans' Benghazi Witch Hunt - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
Exclusive: White House Talking Points Scrubbed - Jonathan Karl, ABC
Obama Renews Focus on Jobs, Economic Growth - Jeff Mason, Reuters
The Texas Economic Lesson Obama Refuses to Learn - John Merline, IBD
Is Bernanke Blowing Bubbles? - Paul Krugman, New York Times
The Republican Party's Road Back to Victory - Peter Wehner, RCP
Joe Biden: The Last Guy in the Room - Douglas Brinkley, Rolling Stone
Political Stars May Be Aligning for Christie - Scott Conroy,RealClearPolitics
Can Senate "Gangs" Save Us From Stalemate? - Ron Brownstein, Natl Jrnl
Dems, Gang of 8 Defeat Border Security Measures - Byron York, Examiner
Obama to Invoke Moms in Health Care Pitch - Alexis Simendinger, RCP
Overselling ObamaCare - Robert Samuelson, Washington Post
Obama's Pink Line on Syria - Charles Krauthammer, National Review
Benghazi Isn't Watergate - Frank Rich, New York Magazine
Without Real Journalism, You're on Your Own - David Freddoso, Examiner
Back to the 90s With Hillary Clinton - Melinda Henneberger, Wash Post
Saturday, May 11
IRS Admits Targeting Conservatives - Goldfarb & Tumulty, Washington PostAny Wonder Why People Are So Distrustful of DC? - Sarah Palin, Facebook
Benghazi: A Small Mess, Not a Scandal - David Corn, Mother Jones
The Benghazi Lie - Mark Steyn, National Review
President Got Pass, Thanks to Romney - Richard Benedetto, RealClearPolitics
Obama Has No Magic "Leadership" Wand - Robert Schlesinger, U.S. News
The Myth of a Moderate Obama - Robert Merry, The National Interest
Europe's Careless Dithering - Steven Rattner, New York Times
The Jobs Crisis: Bigger Than You Think - Walter Russell Mead, Am. Interest
Applying for ObamaCare -- Still Not Simple - Grace-Marie Turner, WSJ
Obama: Health Care Law "Is Here to Stay" - David Jackson, USA Today
Does More Regulation Prevent Tragedies? - Steven Greenhut, Reason
The Generals Don't Get It on Sexual Assault - Ruth Marcus, Wash Post
Immigration and Economic Growth - Larry Kudlow, Investor's Business Daily
Right-Wing Media Check Up: Still Crazy - Ana Marie Cox, The Guardian
This Time, the Press Cheered the IRS On - James Taranto, Wall St. Journal
A New Attitude Toward Adoption - Nina Easton, Washington Post
Massachusetts Senate (WBUR): Markey (D) 46, Gomez (R) 38
Sunday, May 12
This White House Keeps on Digging - Stephen Hayes, Weekly StandardWhen Myths Collide in the Capital - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
The White House's Crumbling Credibility - Alex Koppelman, New Yorker
On Immigration, Charles Dickens Matters - George Will, Washington Post
Democrats' Poisonous Mismanagement - Joe Klein, Time
The Taxman vs. the Tea Party - Ross Douthat, New York Times
Americans Will Bail Out Wall Street Again - Bob Ivry, Bloomberg Magazine
The College Bubble Bursts - Michael Barone, Washington Examiner
Class of 2013: Overqualified & Underprepared - Jermaine Taylor, CNBC
ObamaCare Propels Sanford Back Into Office - Bill Pascoe, RealClearPolitics
America the Clueless - Frank Bruni, New York Times
The Myth of the Scientific Liberal - Shikha Dalmia, Washington Examiner
Psychiatry: Lost in Medication - Sarah Mourra, The Atlantic
The Chilling Crucifixion of Jason Richwine - Michelle Malkin, Townhall
U.S. Military's Rape Problem - James Kitfield, National Journal
How Mossad Nabbed Eichmann - Doron Geller, Jewish Virtual Library
Tim Tebow Blackballed by NFL? - David Scott, Christian Science Monitor