Week of August 26, 2013 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, August 26
It's Time to Get Over Race - Gov. Bobby Jindal, PoliticoWhat Would MLK March for Now? - Peter Dreier, Washington Post
The Citizen of the World Presidency - Elliott Abrams, Commentary
Samantha Power on the Duty to Intervene - Jeffrey Goldberg, Bloomberg
Public Strongly Opposes Intervention In Syria - Lesley Wroughton, Reuters
Obama's Racial Imbalance - John Lott, National Review
Chris Lane Killing Is Not a Reverse Trayvon - Jamelle Bouie, Daily Beast
"The Butler" Smears My Father - Michael Reagan, Townhall
Republicans' Defund Obamacare Disorder - Michael Cohen, The Guardian
Is Obama Worse Than Carter? - Hugh Hewitt, Washington Examiner
Challengers to Sen. Graham Lining Up on the Right - Kim Severson, NYT
Grading Obama's College-Ranking Proposal - Carl Cannon, OC Register
Joe Biden's Uphill Road to 2016 - Toby Harnden, Sunday Times
The Digital Threat to the Political Class - Scott Rasmussen, Boston Herald
A Movement for a New Planet - Bill McKibben, The Nation
Up to Our Ears in Climate Snake Oil - Wesley Pruden, Washington Times
The Decline of E-Empires - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Colorado '16 (Quinnipiac): Christie 43, Clinton 42 | Clinton 45, Cruz 42
Tuesday, August 27
Obama Mulling Response to WMD Use in Syria - Alexis Simendinger, RCPPresident Obama's Bad Syria Bluff - George Friedman, Stratfor
Assad Must Be Punished - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
U.S. Needs New Kirkpatrick Doctrine - Robert Tracinski, The Daily Debate
Now That We've Marched, Let's Get to Work - Al Sharpton, Huffington Post
A Discussion On Race, Crime and Inconvenient Facts - John Gaski, IBD
Cory Booker: A Perfect Senator for "This Town" - Jason Horowitz, Wash Post
Stop Privileges For Government Officials - Glenn Reynolds, USA Today
Hamptons McMansions Herald Return of Excess - J. Rutenberg, NY Times
The Obamacare Lobbying Bonanza - Peter Suderman, Reason
Tolerance, Health and Fascism - Dennis Prager, Townhall
Where Are the Moderate Republicans? - Froma Harrop, Providence Journal
A Truly Great Phony - Thomas Sowell, Investor's Business Daily
MSNBC: Must-Agree TV - Erik Wemple, Washington Post
Mommy, What's Hannah Montana Doing? - Todd Starnes, FOX News
Miley Cyrus Is Sexual - Get Over It - Pepper Schwartz, CNN
An American Satyricon - Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
Video Clips: Krauthammer | Axelrod | Cruz | Toure | MO Rodeo Clown
Wednesday, August 28
The Debate Over Intervening in Syria - George Packer, The New YorkerWill Obama Proceed Without Public Support? - Chris Stirewalt, FOX News
Why Obama Will Bomb Syria - Aaron David Miller, Politico
U.S. Must Justify Intervention on Moral Grounds - Ian Hurd, NY Times
The Focus Needs to Be on Our National Security - Sen. Ted Cruz, FOX News
Vice President Julian Castro? - Scott Conroy, RealClearPolitics
MLK: A Modern Founding Father - Nicholas Burns, Boston Globe
King Would Be Alarmed by Black-on-Black Violence - Ben Carson, WT
Is America Out of Ideas? - Daniel Gross, The Daily Beast
A White House of Historic Incompetence - Michael Barone, DC Examiner
The Impeachniks Roar on the Right - Paul Waldman, American Prospect
Colorado's Grassroots Revolt vs. Gun-Grabbers - Michelle Malkin, Townhall
Chris Christie Needs Less Bully, More Pulpit - Maureen Dowd, NY Times
It's Time for the U.S. to Act Forcefully on Syria - Mark Salter, RCP
A Devastating Affirmative-Action Failure - Heather Mac Donald, NRO
The Problem With Colorblindness - Alex Seitz-Wald, Washington Post
"I Have a Dream" - Martin Luther King Jr., March on Washington (1963)
Thursday, August 29
Obama's Words Taking Us to War - George Will, Washington PostU.S. Needs to Reinforce a Norm in Syria - Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
A War With Syria to Save Face - Robert Robb, Arizona Republic
Obama's Syria Agony - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
Embracing the Imperial Presidency - John Fund, National Review
Obama: Work on King's "Unfinished Business" - Alexis Simendinger, RCP
50 Yrs After March, Racial Economic Gap Persists - Michael Fletcher, WaPo
American Obsession With Race Doesn't Help Poor - Clive Crook, Bloomberg
Affordable Care Act Looking Unaffordable - Clara Ritger, National Journal
ObamaCare for Everything - Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal
How the Govt Killed an Education Experiment - Zeitlin & Smith, BuzzFeed
Obama Must Insist on Total Victory Over GOP Loons - Noam Scheiber, TNR
Dems Hope for Trickle Down Obamanomics - Timothy Carney, Examiner
Blue States Buck Abortion Trend - Amanda Marcotte, The Daily Beast
Hate-crime Hoaxes & "Counter-Trayvonism" - James Taranto, Wall St Jrnl
"The Most Dangerous Negro" - Charles Blow, New York Times
MSNBC Now Sharpton's Personal Fiefdom - Brent Bozell, Investor's Biz Daily
Obama Approval: Ipsos 42% | YouGov 41% | Gallup 45% | RCP Avg 43.8%
Friday, August 30
Across the Red Line in Syria - Michael Crowley, TimeBritish Rejection Is the Latest Obama Debacle - Richard Fernandez, PJM
Obama Must Make Assad Pay - Roger Cohen, New York Times
The Worst Possible Reason to Act - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
How Jerry Brown Turned Around California - Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone
Eric Holder's War on Private Schools - Seth Mandel, Commentary
Labor Leaders, WH Discuss Obamacare Fixes - Alexis Simendinger, RCP
Bill de Blasio Could Become a Progressive Icon - Rich Yeselson, Politico
De Blasio's Dangerous Class Warfare Bid - Bob McManus, New York Post
2014 a Test for Dems' Renewed Efforts in Texas - Scott Conroy, RCP
Conservatives Try Again to Unseat Graham - Byron York, DC Examiner
Should Tim Scott Really Have Been at the March? - Alex Seitz-Wald, Salon
What "The Butler" Gets Wrong About Reagan - Steven Hayward et al., WP
Lessons From Kosovo in Syria - Wesley Clark, USA Today
Does U.S. Need Another War in the Mideast? - Cal Thomas, DC Examiner
The Key to Success? Grit - Angela Lee Duckworth, TED Talks
Last Ride of a Storm Chaser - Brantley Hargrove, Dallas Observer
NYC Mayor (Siena): de Blasio 32, Thompson 18, Quinn 17, Weiner 11
Saturday, August 31
A Much Less Special Relationship - Roger Cohen, New York TimesObama an Amateur on the World Stage - Nile Gardiner, Daily Telegraph
The Case for a Military Strike in Syria - William Saletan, Slate
Regime Change: U.S. Has to Be Decisive - Bill Kristol, Weekly Standard
Should We Bomb Syria? No We Should Not - John Hinderaker, PowerLine
GOP Senators Fail to Head Off Primaries - Jennifer Steinhauer, NY Times
What Happens When a Man Takes on the Feds - Sohrab Ahmari, WSJ
How the Republican Party Lost Its Mind - Kim Messick, Salon
This Is "Read My Lips" All Over Again - Erick Erickson, Red State
Enemies Mobilize Against the Dream - Bob Cesca, Huffington Post
The Civil Rights Struggle Is Over, and It Is Won - Walter Williams, WMAL
Is Class the New Race? - John Sutter, CNN
When Good People Use Bad Logic - James Taranto, Wall Street Journal
Decline of Republican Environmentalism - Paul Sabin, Boston Globe
'86 Attack on Libya: Template for U.S. Action - Angerholzer & Cilluffo, RCP
What Are We Trying to Accomplish in Syria? - Mark Steyn, Natl Review
The Seriously Religious Side of Football - Arthur Remillard, Marginalia
Sunday, September 1
Tripping on His Own Red Line? - David Sanger, New York TimesAides Stunned by Obama's Last-Minute Switch - Entous & Lee, Wall St. Jrnl
5 Leadership Lessons for President Obama - James Jay Carafano, FOX News
A Very Wise Decision by Obama - James Fallows, The Atlantic
Obama Desperately Seeks Escape Hatch - Michael Goodwin, New York Post
Going to Congress a Risky Gambit - John Judis, The New Republic
Why Should Lawmakers Back Obama? - Kimberly Atkins, Boston Herald
Dems Hope for Pickup in Georgia Senate Race - Jonathan Martin, NY Times
What the GOP Needs to do to Win in Colorado - Dick Wadhams, Denver Post
Wendy Davis, the Democrats' Big Hope in Texas - Jay Root, Texas Tribune
Buckyballs: The Persecution of an Entrepreneur - Sohrab Ahmari, WSJ
How France Became America's Favorite Shooting Buddy - Y. Dreazen, FP
Obama's Bread and Circuses - Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post
The Onion: The Country's Best Op-Ed Page - Noreen Malone, TNR
An Unsparing History of World War II - George Will, Washington Post
The Internet Has Ruined Summer Vacation - Doyle McManus, LA Times
NY Times Ignores Best Selling Author Mark Levin - Kyle Smith, NY Post