Week of June 3, 2013 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, June 3
Why There's a Trust Gap - Robert Samuelson, Washington PostA Bad Report for the Deficit Scolds - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Decline of the Obama Presidency - Fred Barnes, Wall Street Journal
The President and the Press - Steve Coll, The New Yorker
Detroit and the End of "Big Unit America" - Michael Barone, DC Examiner
Gay Marriage: It's Only Fair - Michael Bloomberg, The Guardian
Scandals Erode Obama's Presidency - Glenn Reynolds, New York Post
Will GOP Blow Chance at Senate in 2014? - Reid Wilson, National Journal
Obama's Faith in Geek Elite Who Have Your Secrets - Edward Luce, FT
Google's Washington Insider - Edward Wyatt, New York Times
The Grounding of Big Government - Greg Gutfeld, Breitbart
Bachmann and Her Demagogue Pals - Stanley Crouch, New York Daily News
Al Sharpton's Sordid Past - Stuart Stevens, The Daily Beast
State "Recovery": Figment of Blue Imagination - Walter Russell Mead, TAI
China's Economic Empire - Araujo & Cardenal, New York Times
You're Being Hacked - Michael Moynihan, Newsweek
A Message for the Class of 2013 - Rob Lazebnik, Wall Street Journal
Latest Polls: President Obama's Job Approval Falls to 12-Month Lows
Tuesday, June 4
GOP Accuses First, Asks Questions Later - Dana Milbank, Washington PostWhy the Obama Scandals Matter - John Feehery, The Hill
Obama's Economic Triumph - Michael Tomasky, The Daily Beast
Manufacturing Declines to 4 Year Low - Michael Fletcher, Washington Post
Obama Still an Amateur President - Edward Klein, FOX News
Frank Lautenberg: The Last "Swamp Dog" - Patrick Murray, CNN
Pick Could Help Christie Mend GOP Ties - Scott Conroy, RealClearPolitics
The ObamaCare Blame Game - Tevi Troy, Commentary
Democrats' 2014 Strategy: Own ObamaCare - Alex Isenstadt, Politico
Oppose ObamaCare? You're a Racist - Dennis Prager, Townhall
DNA Ruling Brings US Step Closer to 'Gattaca' - Noah Feldman, Bloomberg
Beyond Abstractions on Immigration - Thomas Sowell, National Review
Why Erdogan Has Nothing to Fear - Steven A. Cook, Foreign Affairs
Central Bank QE On the Wane? Doubt It - Jeremy Warner, Daily Telegraph
The Fierce Urgency of $$$: Obama Aides Cash In - Walter Shapiro, Yahoo!
Reagan and Republican Evolution - Jonah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times
Just Wait, the Clinton Haters Will Be Back Soon - Charles Pierce, Esquire
Wednesday, June 5
Washington Booms at America's Expense - Jeff Jacoby, Boston GlobeOn Scandals, GOP Needs to Take a Breath - Leonard Pitts, Miami Herald
Who Ordered the IRS Targeting? - Charles Krauthammer, FOX News
Doubts About Credibility Take Toll on Obama - Mike Dorning, Bloomberg
Chris Christie's Risky Special Election Gambit - John Cassidy, New Yorker
Why Chris Christie Might Be a Genius - Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics
Libertarian Populism and Its Limits - Ross Douthat, New York Times
The Appeal of the Libertarian Populist Agenda - Ben Domenech, RCP
Cut the Strings to George III - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
The Big Spenders' "Austerity" Myth - John Stossel, FOX Business
Immigration Bill Puts Focus on Red-State Dems - Caitlin Huey-Burns, RCP
GOP Is Clearly, Absolutely, Broken - Jamelle Bouie, The American Prospect
The Galloping Tyranny of the EPA - Charles Hurt, Washington Times
GOP's Sick Position on Medicaid Expansion - Michael Cohen, The Guardian
Obama Admin: "Someone Lives and Someone Dies" - Ace, Ace of Spades
Our Global Financial System Resembles a Sick Patient - Bill Gross, Pimco
Dingell, Lautenberg and the Problem w/D.C. - Tom Bevan, RealClearPolitics
Obama Job Approval: NBC/WSJ 48 | Bloomberg 49 | RCP Average 47.4
Thursday, June 6
Obama Administration Collecting Verizon Calls - Savage & Wyatt, NYTU.S. Surveillance Explodes Under Obama - Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian
Obama's Security State Now Out of Control - Tim Stanley, Daily Telegraph
Hard for GOP to Overplay Their Hand on IRS - John Dickerson, Slate
With Rice & Power, Obama Seeks Conflict w/GOP - Alexis Simendinger, RCP
Obama's Picks Put Politics First, Foreign Policy Last - Ralph Peters, NY Post
All in the White House Family - Dana Milbank, Washington Post
"IRS" Is New Way For Republicans To Say "N***er" - Martin Bashir, MSNBC
They Weren't "Rogue" IRS Agents - Andrew Stiles, National Review
Michelle Right to Not Put Up With Being Heckled - Jonathan Capehart, WP
How the Well Connected Win & the Weak Lose - Thomas Crown, Red State
Eight Firebrand GOP Governors Up for Reelection - Susan Page, USA Today
McAuliffe Tests Obama Playbook in Virginia - Beth Reinhard, Natl Journal
The ObamaCare Debate We Didn't Have - Peter Suderman, Reason
What Is the President Fighting For? - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
Cyber War Casualties Are Piling Up - Michael Joseph Gross, Vanity Fair
The Boys of Pointe du Hoc - Ronald Reagan, June 6, 1984
Friday, June 7
Gov't Mining Data From 9 Leading Internet Firms - Gellman & Poitras, WPStop Freaking Out About Government Surveillance - Will Saletan, Slate
The Government Is Collecting Way Too Much Data - Mark Levin, FOXNews
Obama's Agenda Scorched By Exploding Scandals - Susan Page, USA Today
The Republican Spite Club - Paul Krugman, New York Times
IRS Can't Plead Incompetence - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
Absent Facts, Republicans Still Talk Scandal - Scot Lehigh, Boston Globe
IRS Corruption Is a Systemic, Character, Moral Issue - Rep. Trey Gowdy
The GOP's Tyranny of the Minority - Jamelle Bouie, The Daily Beast
Time for Conservatives to Fix the Rigged Game - Tim Carney, Examiner
Will 2014 Be a "False Positive" for GOP? - Ron Brownstein, National Journal
Why Obama Keeps Losing at the Supreme Court - Ilya Shapiro, Bloomberg
Rice & Power: Right Choices at the Right Time - John Prendergast, Politico
At White House, Liberal Interventionists Ascend - Jacob Heilbrunn, LAT
Message From Ruins of Qusair - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
The Amish Are Getting Fracked - Molly Redden, The New Republic
Did Reagan, Not Obama, Slow the Rise of the Seas? - Rupert Darwall, WSJ
Obama Defends Surveillance: "Nobody Is Listening to Your Phone Calls"
Saturday, June 8
Many Rivals Surge Past U.S. in Job Creation - Nelson Schwartz, NY TimesWhy Is It So Hard to Create a Business in America? - Niall Ferguson, WSJ
Intelligence for Dummies - Gail Collins, New York Times
The IRS' Deliberate Attack on Our Liberty - Bill Kristol, Weekly Standard
Obama's Overdue Reckoning on Secrecy - David Rhode, Reuters
Corruption of the Permanent Bureaucracy Inevitable - Mark Steyn, NRO
Behind the NSA's Dark Star Data Center in Utah - Clive Irving, Daily Beast
On Whistleblowers & Government Threats - Glenn Greenwald, Guardian
Three Challenges to Libertarian Populism - Ben Domenech, The Transom
Competing in California Key to GOP Future - Sen. Rand Paul, Wash Times
At GOP Event Christie Finds Many Unburned Bridges - Trip Gabriel, NYT
Border Security a Primary Concern - Scott Rasmussen, Boston Herald
The Gathering Storm in Syria - Harnden & Hookham, Sunday Times
We're Complicit in Govt's Invasion of Our Privacy - Joan Walsh, Salon
Obama's Thin Ice: Scandals, Jobs & the Economy - Larry Kudlow, Investor's
Why I Confronted the First Lady - Ellen Sturtz, Washington Post
NY Times Criticizes Obama. They're Racists, Right? - James Taranto, WSJ
Sunday, June 9
Snooping's a Slippery Slope - Michael Goodwin, New York PostIs Prism Really a Scandal? - Alan Dershowitz, The Daily Beast
Peeping Barry - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
Let's Get Rid of the IRS - Nolan Finley, Detroit News
Obama's Foreign Policy Reset - Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Why Rice and Power Are So Troubling - David Limbaugh, DC Examiner
On Sunday Shows, Familiar Cast of Characters - Jennifer Steinhauer, NYT
Lindsey Graham's Big Government World - Nancy Mace, RedState
Virginia's New Dominion - Jamelle Bouie, The American Prospect
Dems Try to Turn Court Into Rubber Stamp - Carrie Severino, USA Today
The GOP's Huge, Growing Modernity Gap - Lloyd Green, The Daily Beast
Stay Calm and Let the NSA Carry On - Max Boot, Los Angeles Times
We Have Ceded Too Much of Our Liberty - John Kass, Chicago Tribune
The Internship: Not the Movie - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
Where's the Tough Love for China? - Gordon Chang, The Daily Beast
Why Gay Marriage Matters - Nathaniel Frank, Los Angeles Times
A Plague Called Apathy - Bill Cosby, New York Post