Week of June 24, 2013 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, June 24
The IRS's Best Friend in Congress - Eliana Johnson, Wall Street JournalMake Gun Companies Pay Blood Money - Finley & Culhane, New York Times
House GOP Must Do the Right Thing on Senate Bill - Sen. Chuck Schumer
How About a Simple, Real Solution - Greta Van Susteren, FOX News
House Republicans' Inability to Govern - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
The Big Con: Fraud, Deception & D.C. Arrogance - Hugh Hewitt, Townhall
Dems Unlikely to Target Boehner in '14 Message - Caitlin Huey-Burns, RCP
DC Keeps Getting Worse for Whistleblowers - David Freddoso, DC Examiner
You Don't Have To Like Edward Snowden - Ben Smith, BuzzFeed
The Higher Education Hustle - William Voegeli, Claremont Review of Books
America Is Leaving Black Men Behind - Joshua DuBois, Newsweek
Easy Money Can't Buy Stout Economy - Robert Samuelson, Washington Post
The House's Abortion Game Changer - Cannon & Bell, National Review
Let Shooting Victims Sue - Robert Morgenthau, New York Times
Why Do Liberals Want to Stop Free Speech? - Michael Barone, DC Examiner
Clinton Hype Machine Hits Overdrive - Chris Cillizza, Washington Post
What's the Strategy as We Inch Into Syria? - Bill Keller, New York Times
Massachusetts Senate (Suffolk): Markey (D) 52, Gomez (R) 42
Tuesday, June 25
Court's Tangled Web on Affirmative Action - George Will, Washington PostA Long, Slow Drift From Racial Justice - Lee Bollinger, New York Times
Time to Focus on Facts About Racial Preferences - Taylor & Sander, USAT
Obama to Use EPA for Renewed Push on Climate - Alexis Simendinger, RCP
Hands Off Approach on Snowden Draws Fire - Phil Rucker, Washington Post
Putin Is Cleaning Obama's Clock - Peter Wehner, Commentary
A Rush to Overhype Obama's "Scandals" - Jon Favreau, The Daily Beast
Despite Senate Vote, Immigration Prospects Dim - John Stanton, BuzzFeed
Rubio's Immigration Flip-Flop Could Cost Him - Byron York, DC Examiner
Iowa Family Values Group to Welcome The Donald - Scott Conroy, RCP
On the NSA's "That '70s Show" Rerun - Michael Ames, Harper's Magazine
Too Bad America's Enemies Aren't Republicans - Victor Davis Hanson, PJM
Paula Deen's Worst Ingredients - Frank Bruni, New York Times
In Defense of Paula Deen - Charles Cooke, National Review
Mandela Sets Standard For Us All - Richard Cohen, New York Daily News
How Many Times Must ObamaCare Be Sold? - Peter Suderman, Reason
Jerry Brown Leads a Turnaround in Calif. - Lou Cannon, RealClearPolitics
Obama Job Approval: FOX News 43% | Gallup 45% | RCP Average 45.9%
Wednesday, June 26
Obama's Foreign Policy Crises Are Piling Up - Michael Crowley, TimeThe Court's War on the Great Society - Scott Lemieux, American Prospect
Jim Crow Is Dead. Long Live the Constitution - Ilya Shapiro, Bloomberg
Racism Is Not Over in America - Gary Younge, The Guardian
The Liberal Race Card Is Played Out - Michelle Malkin, Townhall
Markey Keeps Dems' Hold on Senate Seat - Levenson & Phillips, Boston Globe
Republicans' Immigration Blues - Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Does GOP Have to Pass Immigration Bill? - Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics
Why I'm Voting No on Senate Immigration Bill - Sen. Rand Paul, Politico
Why Are College Graduates Driving Taxis? - Peter Orszag, Bloomberg
It's Time to Reform Feminism - Christina Hoff Sommers, The Atlantic
Why America Hates Washington - Erick Erickson, Red State
The Best Presidential Address on Climate Change Ever - Al Gore, Huff Post
U.S. Is Humiliated in the Hunt for Snowden - Simon Tisdall, CNN
Under Obama, America Has Become France - Rich Galen, Mullings
The Chief Justice's Long Game - Richard Hasen, New York Times
Voting Rights Act Is Unjust and Unfair - Charles Hurt, Washington Times
Ohio 2016 (Quinnipiac): Clinton 42, Christie 42 | Clinton 47, Paul 44
Thursday, June 27
The Court's Immeasurable Impact - Frank Bruni, New York TimesJustice Anthony Kennedy's Contempt - Rich Lowry, Politico
Democrats & Gay Marriage: No Profiles in Courage - Carl M. Cannon, RCP
A New Democratic Star Born in Texas - Tumulty & Smith, Washington Post
20+ Week Old Babies Aren't Celebrating - Charles Cooke, National Review
It's a Wendy Davis Nation, Now - Irin Carmon, Salon
Journalists Can't Stop Cheering for Abortion - Mollie Hemingway, Patheos
Reid Slams House "Crazies" on Immigration - Burgess Everett, Politico
'Comprehensive' Immigration Reform? Just Say No - Bill Kristol, Wkly Std
Just Pass the Damn Immigration Bill and Move On - Mark Salter, RCP
Why Obama's Trip to Africa Is Long Overdue - John Campbell, The Atlantic
Obama Embraces Flat Earth Science & Economics - Clark Judge, Townhall
Edward Snowden's Global Hypocrisy Tour - Kurt Eichenwald, Vanity Fair
Carbon Pollution & Wealth Redistribution - Benjamin Zycher, American
Weiner's Surprising Support From Women - Scott Conroy, RealClearPolitics
Aaron Hernandez & Violence in the NFL - Ian Crouch, The New Yorker
If Paula Deen Is Out, What About Maher & Sharpton? - Larry Elder, IBD
Friday, June 28
On Climate, Invest, Divest and Prosper - Paul Krugman, New York TimesEurope Exits Climate Money Pit, Obama Jumps In - Ron Arnold, Examiner
Snowden Saga a Political & PR Debacle for Obama - Rucker & Horwitz, WP
On Immigration, GOP Offers Fear, Not Ideas - Ruben Navarrette, CNN
House Shrugs Off Senate Immigraton Bill - Jonathan Strong, Nat'l Review
GOP & Hispanics: What the Future Holds - Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics
Congress Must Finish Job on DOMA - Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, The Guardian
Will Kennedy & Co Go All the Way Next Time? - Charles Krauthammer, WP
Chief Justice Roberts Plays a Long Game - Adam Liptak, New York Times
ObamaCare & Unintended Consequences - Bethany Mandel, Commentary
Wendy Davis and the Boys - Gail Collins, New York Times
History Will Not Be Kind to Texas Dems - Timothy Carney, DC Examiner
Court Helps GOP Revive the Era of Jim Crow - Bob Cesca, Huffington Post
Liberals' False Racism Narrative - Andrew McCarthy, National Review
Misreporting Rampant in Trayvon Martin Case - Christopher Harper, WT
Crackers, Please... - Joan Walsh, Salon
Missing the Silenced Soprano - John Podhoretz, New York Post
Saturday, June 29
Will & Grace, and a Decade of Change - Reid Wilson, National JournalLet's Divorce Marriage From the Government - Steven Greenhut, Reason
We Haven't Gotten Near the Bottom of IRS Scandal - Peggy Noonan, WSJ
Obama, Snowden & the Surveillance State - Roger Cohen, New York Times
House Republicans' Immigration Insanity - Michelle Cottle, The Daily Beast
No Comprehensive Bill, No Conference - Bill Kristol, Weekly Standard
Senate's Disappointing Vote Is 2006 All Over Again - Nate Cohn, TNR
Mayor Mike Bloomberg Pulls a Paula Deen - Keli Goff, The Root
The Woman Who Fought Racial Preference - James Taranto, WSJ
I'm Black, and I Forgive Paula Deen - Robin Ford, Salon
NFL Says No to Promoting ObamaCare - Sandhya Somashekhar, Wash Post
Bernanke's Bumpy Ride - Larry Kudlow, Investor's Business Daily
Climate Change: The Cost of Inaction - President Barack Obama, OC Register
Krugman and Obama Forget the Poor - Jeffrey Dorfman, RealClearMarkets
What's Really "Immoral" About Student Loans - Glenn Reynolds, WSJ
Did the Zimmerman Prosecutors Overreach? - Mark Pinsky, The Guardian
All the Ingredients for a Miscarriage of Justice - Eric Zorn, Chicago Tribune
Sunday, June 30
The Sprawling, Dimming Age of Obama - Lloyd Green, The Daily BeastA Great Awakening on Gay Rights - Jonathan Rauch, NY Daily News
Battleground Shifts to Religious Liberty - Timothy Carney, DC Examiner
The Real John Roberts Emerges - Linda Greenhouse, New York Times
Obama's Anti-Energy Agenda - Pete Du Pont, Wall Street Journal
New Hope in the Climate Fight - Jim Yong Kim, Washington Post
Washington's Decadent Lawmaking - Mark Steyn, Investor's Business Daily
Nelson Mandela and President Obama - Bill Keller, New York Times
Legalization-First a Non-Starter in House - Byron York, DC Examiner
When Big Government Saved America - Mason Williams, The Daily Beast
Anthony Weiner? The Joke's on NYC - Kyle Smith, New York Post
No, the Voting Rights Act Is Not Dead - Molly Ball, The Atlantic
The Left's Angry Denial on Racial Progress - Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe
Alec Baldwin, Twitter & the End of the Red Carpet - Nick Gillespie, Reason
Best Hope for France's Young? Get Out - Feliz Marquardt, New York Times
Egypt Is Coming Apart - Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest
The Hero of Gettysburg - Ralph Peters, New York Post