Week of May 20, 2013 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, May 20
How Obama Can Rescue His Presidency - Albert Hunt, BloombergFour Federal Agencies Targeted the Tea Party - Jillian Kay Melchior, NRO
Don't Throw the IRS Under the Bus - Peter Beinart, The Daily Beast
Richard Milhous Obama - Carl M. Cannon, RealClearPolitics
Crossing Sacred Lines in Washington - David Shribman, Post-Gazette
Legalization First Bill Unlikely to Pass House - Byron York, DC Examiner
How Obama Handles Crisis - Jon Favreau, The Daily Beast
Benghazi Is Only Scandal That Matters - Joseph Curl, Washington Times
Republican Wolves Have Yet to Draw Blood - Gary Younge, The Guardian
The Big Chill on Free Speech - Michael Barone, Washington Examiner
Inequality & the Modern Culture of Celebrity - George Packer, NY Times
The Higher Education Scandal - Harvey Mansfield, Claremont Review
What's at Stake With Keystone? - Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker
Cool Down Climate Change Rhetoric - Rep. Lamar Smith, Washington Post
How to Legalize Pot - Bill Keller, New York Times
The Good News About Race and Voting - Andrew Kohut, Wall Street Journal
Incremental Goals Are Key in Kerry's Peace Quest - Peter Berkowitz, RCP
Obama Job Approval: Gallup 49% | CNN 53% | Rasmussen 48%
Tuesday, May 21
Obama's Scandals and the Left's Crisis of Authority - James Taranto, WSJThe Scandal Machine Breaks Down - Joan Walsh, Salon
"Nothing to See Here" Is Not a Viable Strategy - Ed Rogers, Washington Post
The White House's Shifting IRS Story - Reid Epstein, Politico
Can We Get a Straight Answer When Obama Knew? - Josh Kraushaar, NJ
Will Republicans Overreach Again? - Stuart Rothenberg, Roll Call
The Life-and-Death Issues of Benghazi - Byron York, Washington Examiner
DOJ's Risk in Targeting of Fox News Reporter - Calderone & Reilly, Huff Post
First They Came for Fox News - Kirsten Powers, The Daily Beast
On Using Parents of Dead Children - Dennis Prager, Townhall
How to Humble a Wing Nut - Cass Sunstein, Bloomberg
A Future So Bright, We Have to Wear Shades - Glenn Reynolds, USA Today
The Myth of Suburban Decline - Joel Kotkin, The Daily Beast
How Michelle Rhee Misled Education Reform - Nicholas Lemann, TNR
Wimps Versus Barbarians on Campus - Thomas Sowell, National Review
America's Strategic Nightmare Coming True - Harry Kazianis, RCDefense
Horror and Heroism in Oklahoma - Jay Newton-Small, Time
Video Highlights: Carney | Paul | Hume | Gibbs | Schieffer | More
Wednesday, May 22
Message to Obama: Come Clean on IRS - Doyle McManus, Los Angeles TimesOn IRS Targeting, White House Adds to Confusion - Dan Balz, Wash Post
IRS Official to Plead the Fifth - Caitlin Huey-Burns, RealClearPolitics
Obama in Charge on Tornado, AWOL on Benghazi - Michael Graham, BH
GOP Blind to Public Disinterest in Scandals - Charlie Cook, National Jrnl
Obama Led Astray by His Friends in the Media - Clark Whelton, City Jrnl
WH Investigates Reporters for Doing Their Jobs - Dana Milbank, Wash Post
Obama's "Idiot" Defense - Jonah Goldberg, National Review
Immigration Bill Clears Senate Panel - Parker & Preston, New York Times
Ted Cruz Versus Marco Rubio on Immigration - Alan Gomez, USA Today
US Forfeits Lead in Nuclear Technology - William Tucker, RealClearEnergy
The Greening Of Al Gore's Bank Account - Larry Bell, Forbes
Weaseling Out of ObamaCare - Jonathan Cohn, The New Republic
ObamaCare, IRS Creating Chaos for Docs, Patients - Charles Willey, IBD
As Job Flow Slows, Americans Get Stuck in Place - Peter Orszag, Bloomberg
The Debt Problem Hasn't Vanished - Gramm & McMillin, Wall St. Journal
Begging, K-Street Style - Grae Stafford, The Daily Caller
Video Highlights: Krauthammer | Maddow | Powers | Carney | Gutfeld
Thursday, May 23
Government Gone Wild - Daniel Henninger, Wall Street JournalWhy 2nd-Term Scandals Are Almost Inevitable - Cass Sunstein, Bloomberg
Obama's Culture of Intimidation - Sen. Mitch McConnell, Washington Post
Issa's Restraint at IRS Hearing May Benefit GOP - Caitlin Huey-Burns, RCP
Just Say No (Special Prosecutor) - Michael Tomasky, The Daily Beast
What's the Real Story on When Obama Knew? - Ed Rogers, Washington Post
House Chair: Senate Bill Repeats Mistakes of 1986 - Byron York, Examiner
Blood on the Streets of Woolwich - Anthony Lane, The New Yorker
Who Has the Edge in Va. Governor's Race? - Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics
Blacks, Conservatives and Plantations - Charles Blow, New York Times
A White House Under Siege - Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal
Why Obama's Scandals Won't Lead to Reform - Ezra Klein, Bloomberg
Targeting Journalists Is an Unconstitutional Act - Nick Gillespie, Dly Beast
Will the Iowa Caucuses Remain First? - Scott Conroy, RealClearPolitics
What Happened to Economic Growth? - Rich Karlgaard, Forbes
Pipe Dreams of Pipeline Jobs - Rep. Conyers & Lennox Yearwood, Politico
Obama's Lawlessness - George Will, Washington Post
Friday, May 24
The Ad Hominem Presidency - Charles Krauthammer, Washington PostHouse Dems Dismiss Existence of Obama Scandals - Kate Nocera, BuzzFeed
IRS Investigation Has Barely Begun - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
Holder OK'd Tap of FOX News Reporter's Emails - Michael Isikoff, NBC News
Obama Admin's Attempts to Intimidate Will Fail - Roger Ailes, FOX News
How Obama Hurts the Press - Leonard Downie Jr., Washington Post
Boston & London Show the World Has Changed - Mike Lupica, Daily News
Britain in Denial About Islamist Threat - Douglas Murray, Wall St. Journal
Obama Refines War-on-Terror Rules - Alexis Simendinger, RealClearPolitics
The Fog of ObamaCare - Robert Samuelson, Washington Post
CA to be Spared the ObamaCare Apocalypse - Jonathan Cohn, New Republic
Key Weakness at the Heart of Immigration Bill - Byron York, DC Examiner
Watch Out for Dodgy Mortgages, Again - Sheila Bair/Barney Frank, Fortune
My Bogus Dilemma on Tornado Aid - Sen. Tom Coburn, CNN
Tesla & Solar: The New Energy Economy - Todd Woody, Quartz
Cheers & Taunts Greet Weiner's Return - Michael Barbaro, New York Times
Charles Hurt on Obama's Scandals - Bevan & Stone, RCP Morning Commute
Saturday, May 25
Rise of the 4th Branch of Government - Jonathan Turley, Washington PostThis Is Not 2009 - Charles Blow, New York Times
Why Liberalism Is in Trouble - David Harsanyi, Washington Examiner
White House Press Must Get Back to Basics - Martin Schram, Boston Herald
The IRS Had the Right Idea - Ken Stern, The Daily Beast
Obama Is Particularly Vulnerable to These Scandals - J.T. Young, RCP
How DOJ Fought to Keep Rosen's Warrant Secret - Ryan Lizza, New Yorker
Did Eric Holder Lie in Congressional Testimony? - Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
After Terrorism, Fools Rush In - Will Marshall, RealClearPolitics
LBJ's Gettysburg Address - David Shribman, New York Times
Rand Paul's Hipster Outreach Mofo Party Plan - Nick Gillespie, Reason
Stop Wrecking Lives Over Weed - Paul Zukerberg, Washington Post
A Farmers' Rebellion Lifts California Republicans - Allysia Finley, WSJ
Jerry Brown's Political Reboot - James Fallows, The Atlantic
The Corruption of Traffic Light Cameras - Seth Mandel, Commentary
20 Things I Wish I'd Known When I Was 30 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Esquire
There Really Aren't Many Atheists in Foxholes - Science 2.0
More on RCP: Morning Commute | Videos | Cartoons | Latest Polls
Sunday, May 26
The IRS Had the Right Idea - Ken Stern, The Daily BeastThe Deep Historical Roots of IRS Corruption - Jay Cost, Weekly Standard
Transparency Not Coming Easy to Obama WH - Parsons & Hennessey, LAT
Obama's Arrogance Is Undoing His Presidency - Steve Rose, KC Star
GOP: The Party of Crybabies - Jonathan Bernstein, Salon
President Obama's Split Personality - Michael Goodwin, New York Post
Is the Bush Administration Finally Over? - Maureen Dowd, NY Times
To the Slaughter - Mark Steyn, National Review
We Must Stop Radical Jihad - Karima Bennoune, The Guardian
The Education Dept. Censorship Scandal - George Will, Washington Post
Wall Street Writes Bills, DC Passes Them - Brianna Ehley, Fiscal Times
Courtesy of ObamaCare, Two-Tier Health Care - John Goodman, Forbes
ObamaCare's Pleasant Surprise - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
Who Are the Real Climate Deniers? - David Solway, PJ Media
New York City's TMI Primary - Garance Franke-Ruta, The Atlantic
Toronto's Mayor vs. the Media For All the Marbles - Chris Selley, Natl Post
Keeping the Past Alive, Honoring the Dead - Diana Reese, Washington Post