Week of May 13, 2013 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, May 13
Confusion, Cover-Up & the Lingering Questions - Michael Scherer, Time4 Americans--& the Truth--Died in Benghazi - Tim Carney, DC Examiner
Benghazi Is a Phony Scandal - Jackson Diehl, Washington Post
Watch Out for Petraeus in Benghazi Scandal - Joe Curl, Washington Times
Deficit Deal a Long Way From Reality - Albert Hunt, Bloomberg
IRS Targeted Groups Critical of Government - Juliet Eilperin, Wash Post
George Will: How Stupid Do They Think We Are? - Jeff Poor, Daily Caller
Oregon Medicaid Study: Good, Bad & Ugly - Jonathan Cohn, New Republic
Eyeing 2014, GOP Pushes ObamaCare Repeal - Caitlin Huey-Burns, RCP
Multiculti University - Heather Mac Donald, City Journal
Has the Future of College Moved Online? - Nathan Heller, The New Yorker
Dark Heritage: A Think Tank Attacks - Bill Keller, New York Times
The Corrupt Incestuousness of Today's Washington - Mark Steyn, NRO
Obama Offers Little Hope for Progress on Jobs - Zeke Miller, Time
Gun Control: We Aren't Going Away - Jackie Barden, et al, Huffington Post
Democrats Misfire on Guns - Salena Zito, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
A Bipartisan Cause: Employing America's Veterans - Carl M. Cannon, RCP
Sunday Panels: Meet the Press | FOX News Sunday | This Week
Tuesday, May 14
The Problems Pile Up for Obama - Alexis Simendinger, RealClearPoliticsIn IRS Scandal, Echoes of Watergate - George Will, Washington Post
Our Ceaseless Circus - Frank Bruni, New York Times
Lies About Libya - Thomas Sowell, Investor's Business Daily
The GOP's Scandal Playbook Is So '90s - Joan Walsh, Salon
Obama's Bogus "Act of Terror" Claim About Benghazi - Glenn Kessler, WP
Gosnell Jury Saw the Truth - Christine Flowers, Philadelphia Daily News
Why Women Went to Kermit Gosnell - Michelle Goldberg, The Daily Beast
Time to Ask Obama About Gosnell - Mollie Hemingway, USA Today
My Five Biggest ObamaCare Anxieties - Jonathan Cohn, The New Republic
Levin: Beltway GOP Bought Into Tea Party Slander - Charles Johnson, DC
Obama's Government Microtargets Americans - Ben Smith, BuzzFeed
The Real Scandal Is GOP Obstruction - Jonathan Bernstein, Washington Post
America's New Tech Oligarchs - Joel Kotkin, The Daily Beast
Obama's One-Sided "Reset" With Russia - Mark Salter, RealClearPolitics
Why I Had a Double Mastectomy - Angelina Jolie, New York Times
How Fishing Helps Veterans Heal -- and Land Jobs - Ed Nicholson, RCP
Wednesday, May 15
IRS Tried to Squash Tea Party Mojo in Early 2010 - Greg Korte, USA TodayPresident Obama's Dangerous New Narrative - Burns & Harris, Politico
Scandals Expose the Truth About Obama - John Kass, Chicago Tribune
Benghazi: A Desperate GOP Attack - Sen. Barbara Boxer, Huffington Post
Just Tell Us the Truth, Mr. President - Sen. Ted Cruz, Washington Examiner
Jay Carney Hangs on For Dear Life - Eleanor Clift, The Daily Beast
Hillary Has Most to Lose From Scandals - Josh Kraushaar, National Journal
What's a Person Got To Do To Get Fired Around Here? - Charles Hurt, WT
Did the IRS Actually Do Anything Wrong? - Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker
A Brief History of IRS Political Targeting - James Bovard, Wall St. Journal
Will Obama's Scandals Save Entitlements? - Greg Sargent, Wash Post
IRS Scandal Raises Fears About ObamaCare - Byron York, DC Examiner
Obama Making Potent Case for Conservatism - John Dickerson, Slate
400 ppm! We're Doomed - James Delingpole, The Telegraph
Cascading Confessions - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
Gosnell's Crimes Not Uncommon - Mark Rienzi, USA Today
Businesses Must Hire More Veterans - Michelle Obama and Jill Biden, RCP
Videos: Holder | Fournier | Krauthammer | Carney | Hume | Reid
Thursday, May 16
White House Struggles for Its Footing - Karen Tumulty, Washington PostRepublicans' Gleeful Scandal Lust - Charles Blow, New York Times
The IRS Helped Democrats Win Elections - Michael Barone, DC Examiner
Benghazi Is a Scam, Not a Scandal - Joe Klein, Time
Misleading the American People Matters. A Lot. - Ed Krayewski, Reason
Questions Rise About Obama's Leadership - Peter Baker, New York Times
Why Republicans Lost the Vote But Kept the House - Sean Trende, RCP
Mitch McConnell Enabled Obama - Isaac Chotiner, The New Republic
My Top-Notch Illiberal Arts Education - Danielle Charette, Wall St. Journal
Gosnell: The Killer Had Help - Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest
Will Rand Paul Alienate Libertarians & Evangelicals? - Nick Gillespie, DB
Sebelius & the Vast New Powers of ObamaCare - Philip Klein, DC Examiner
The Real IRS Scandal - Krumholz & Weinberger, New York Times
Time for a Special Prosecutor to Probe the IRS - Keith Koffler, WH Dossier
Republicans' Hispanic Opening - Arthur Brooks, Wall Street Journal
'Race Is a Social Construct': An Explanation - Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic
N.D. Proves Obama Doesn't Get Energy - Thomas Pyle, RealClearEnergy
Friday, May 17
Obama's Tapped-Out Trust - George Will, Washington PostBehind the IRS Mess: A Campaign-Finance Scandal - Steven Rattner, NYT
This Is No Ordinary Scandal - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
Scandals Could Backfire on Republicans - Howard Fineman, Huffington Post
Benghazi E-Mails Unleash Flood of Questions - Oren Dorell, USA Today
White House Should Try the Truth - Charles Krauthammer, Wash Post
Nope, Still No Cover-Up - Andrew Rosenthal, New York Times
Strange Goings-On at the White House - John Fund, National Review
3 Years In, ObamaCare Faces Steep Challenges - Susan Page, USA Today
What's at Stake If the Health Law Is Repealed - Kathleen Sebelius, Huff Post
Don't Blame Big Government for Scandals - Alec MacGillis, New Republic
IRS Scandal Started at the Top - Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal
Republicans' Desperate Measures - Robert Shrum, The Daily Beast
The Ultimate Ad Hominem President - Peter Wehner, Commentary
AP Incident: What Will Press Advocate Clinton Say? - Scott Conroy, RCP
Gay Marriage and the Right to Be Ordinary - Gov. Deval Patrick, Wash Post
Feds to Students: You Can't Say That - Greg Lukianoff, Wall Street Journal
Saturday, May 18
Obama Seeks Path Forward Beyond Troubles - Landler & Shear, NY TimesThe Autocrat Accountants - Mark Steyn, National Review
The IRS Non-Scandal Comes to Congress - John Cassidy, The New Yorker
Disturbing Abuses of Power - Colbert King, Washington Post
Benghazi Email Dump Raises Questions - Stephen Hayes, Weekly Standard
Public Could Care Less About Obama's "Scandals" - Charles Blow, NY Times
Why America Should Stay Shocked - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
How the GOP Could Screw Up Obama's Scandals - Ana Marie Cox, Guardian
Special Counsel Only Way to Clean Up IRS Rat's Nest - Larry Kudlow, IBD
Obstruction Will Ruin the GOP - Jonathan Bernstein, Salon
Why the IRS Scandal Is Worse Than Watergate - Matt Kibbe, FOX News
Nixon Was Far Worse Than Obama - Matthew Dallek, Washington Post
President Asterisk - James Taranto, Wall Street Journal
The Lethality of Loneliness - Judith Shulevitz, The New Republic
Gosnell Not as Unique as We Thought - Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage - Jonathan Rauch, USA Today
Swearing in the Enemy - Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Wall Street Journal
Cartoons of the Week: Best Political Cartoons From May 11 - May 17
Sunday, May 19
Obama's Trust-in-Government Deficit - Dan Balz, Washington PostWhite House Is Engaged in Misleading the Public - Fred Barnes, Weekly Std
The False Nixon Equivalence - Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune
Disengaged Obama Adds to Aura of Scandal - David Rohde, The Atlantic
Evidence Emerges Administration Knew - Margaret Brennan, CBS News
Benghazi E-Mails and Backside-Covering - David Ignatius, Washington Post
This Is Not the President Obama We Voted For - Heather Long, Guardian
Pin the Fail on the Donkey - John Podhoretz, New York Post
A Tough Week, But Obama's Agenda Isn't Dead - Eleanor Clift, Daily Beast
How Psychiatry Went Nuts - Carol Tavris, Wall Street Journal
Ben Carson and the Gay Marriage Police - Michael Kinsley, New Republic
How Many Illegal Border Crossings Are There? - Byron York, DC Examiner
Republicans' Selective-Memory on AP Scandal - Kirsten Powers, Daily Beast
A Time for Humility From the President - A.B. Stoddard, The Hill
Why Can't Obama Give a Straight Answer? - Michael Goodwin, NY Post
Don't Link IRS Scandal With ObamaCare - Jonathan Cohn, New Republic
The Campaign to Silence ObamaCare Dissent - Bernie Marcus, CS Monitor