Week of September 16, 2013 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, September 16
The Plot to Kill Obamacare - Jonathan Chait, New York MagazinePoll: Obamacare Opposition Hits New Highs - Susan Page, USA Today
Obamacare for Thee--But Not for Congress - John Fund, National Review
Give Jobs a Chance - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Putin Exposed Secrets of Liberalism - James Piereson, American Spectator
Obama's Meanderings Border on Incompetence - Albert Hunt, Bloomberg
Syria in the Age of Myth - Victor Davis Hanson, PJ Media
Colorado & the Fight for Sane Gun Laws - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
Biggest Loser of 2013: the Political Class - Scott Rasmussen
The Alarming Rise of Ted Cruz-ism - David Brooks, PBS Newshour
Stop Picking on the D.C. Elite! - Nicholas Lemann, The New Republic
The Myth of Live-and-Let-Live Liberalism - Jonah Goldberg, NRO
Summers Is Out. But Who Is In? - Robert Kuttner, Huffington Post
Time Magazine Tries to Protect Obama - John Hinderaker, Power Line
No Solution in Syria Without Iran - Bill Keller, New York Times
When Democrats Go to War - James Antle, The Daily Caller
Into the Wild: How Chris McCandless Died - Jon Krakauer, The New Yorker
GOP 2016 (CNN): Christie 17, Ryan 16, Paul 13, Bush 10, Rubio 9, Cruz 7
Tuesday, September 17
Navy Yard Shooting Hits Home - Eugene Robinson, Washington PostDetails Surfacing, But Motive Remains Unknown - Mark Thompson, Time
Obamacare: The Play Is Delay - Capretta & Anderson, Weekly Standard
The GOP's Debt Ceiling Insanity - Jonathan Capehart, Washington Post
Obama Blasts GOP "Irresponsibility" on Budget - Justin Sink, The Hill
Our Non-Serious President - William Murchison, The American Spectator
How Kerry Got Played by Minister Nyet - Herszenhorn & Gordon, NY Times
Who's Afraid of Barack Obama? No One. - Ruth Marcus, Washington Post
Elizabeth Warren Gets Summers' Scalp - Margery Eagan, Boston Herald
Rules Over Politics at the Fed - Larry Kudlow, Investor's Business Daily
Benghazi, as Seen From the Grassy Knoll - Dana Milbank, Washington Post
Get to the Bottom of the IRS Scandal - Glenn Reynolds, USA Today
The Use & Abuse of Polling in U.S. Politics - R. Buckwalter-Poza, Pacific Std
Minimum Wage Madness - Thomas Sowell, Investor's Business Daily
The Flight From Dallas on November 22, 1963 - Chris Jones, Esquire
On Constitution Day, a Push for Civic Education - Rep. Mike Honda, RCP
How to Keep the Constitution - Rep. Justin Amash, American Conservative
Latest Polls: VA (Harper): McAuliffe +5 | NJ (Rutgers): Christie +20
Wednesday, September 18
Obama Loses the Room - Maureen Dowd, New York TimesNo President Should Be Underestimated - Purdum & Harris, Politico
Defenseless in D.C.'s Gun Control Utopia - Charles Hurt, Washington Times
Gun Sickness Diminishes America - Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian
Stubborn Facts and Bothersome Polls - Ed Rogers, Washington Post
Republican Debt Ceiling Strategy Courts Doom - Julian Zelizer, CNN
Can Republicans Be the Party of the People? - Tim Carney, DC Examiner
President's Setbacks Are Accumulating - Jill Lawrence, National Journal
Pols, Media Red-Faced Over False Gun Reports - Chuck Ross, Daily Caller
Gun Laws Still a Tough Sell - Huey-Burns & O'Neal, RealClearPolitics
Maryland vs. Texas - Gov. Martin O'Malley, Washington Post
Obamacare's Desperate Defenders - Seth Mandel, Commentary
Reaping Profit, After Assisting on Obamacare - Sheryl Stolberg, NY Times
Crowded Senate Field Muddles GOP's Iowa Chances - Scott Conroy, RCP
Ideology Trumps American Strategy in Syria - George Friedman, Stratfor
Obama Blindsided by Putin and America - Thomas Friedman, NY Times
The Return of Anti-Americanism - Russell Berman, Defining Ideas
Virginia Governor (Quinnipiac): McAuliffe (D) 44, Cuccinelli (R) 41
Thursday, September 19
The Obama M.O.: I Think, Therefore You Do - Daniel Henninger, WSJRepublican Party Is Destroying America - Kirsten Powers, The Daily Beast
Obamacare Is Going to Come Tumbling Down - Peter Roff, U.S. News
Federal Reserve Made the Right Call - Dean Baker, USA Today
The Money Crisis Washington's Ignoring - Seth Lipsky, New York Post
Our Gun Insanity Claims More Victims - Leonard Pitts, Miami Herald
Now Is Not the Time for New Gun Laws - Nick Gillespie, The Daily Beast
Could Rand Paul Win the White House? - Jason Horowitz, Vogue
Ken Cuccinelli's Window of Opportunity - Ben Domenech, The Federalist
Martha Coakley Tries to Put 2010 Behind Her - Katie Glueck, Politico
The Irrational War Against Obamacare - Gail Collins, New York Times
Doctor Rationing Begins in California - Lanhee Chen, Hoover Institution
Obama: Republicans Using Extortion - Alexis Simendinger, RealClearPolitics
IRS Corruption Update--Three Key Revelations - Jay Sekulow, FOX News
Winds of Change at Supreme Court? - Linda Greenhouse, New York Times
Russians Deserve Better Than Putin - Sen. John McCain, Pravda
Sexting, Shame and Suicide - Nina Burleigh, Rolling Stone
Virginia (Roanoke College): McAuliffe 37, Cuccinelli 36 | NJ Gov | NJ Sen
Friday, September 20
Taking the Fight to the Democrats in Virginia - Kimberley Strassel, WSJHouse Republicans' Actions Are Shameful - Norm Ornstein, Natl Journal
Economic Malpractice: The Stagnation President - Fred Barnes, Weekly Std
From the Stupid Party to the Crazy Party - Paul Krugman, New York Times
There Should Be No Spending on Obamacare - Andrew McCarthy, PJ Media
On Debt Ceiling, a Different Feel - Ruth Marcus, Washington Post
Morning Joe Agrees: The GOP Is Doomed...Again - Noah Rothman, Mediaite
The American Dream--Under Threat - Ronald Brownstein, National Journal
Lessons From a Neighborhood List-Serv - Mollie Hemingway, The Federalist
DOJ Sends Poor, Black Kids to Failing Schools - Juan Williams, FOX News
The Real Navy Yard Scandal - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
Ghost of Akin Looms Over Georgia Republicans - Manu Raju, Politico
Dems Hesitant to Follow Unpopular President - Michael Barone, Examiner
Worried About Obamacare? Fear Not - Aaron Carroll, CNN
Trayvon, Hadiya & Racist Social Engineering - Ta-Nehisi Coates, Atlantic
Liberal Myths of a Racist & Homophobic America - Ben Shapiro, Townhall
Pope Francis: A Big Heart Open to God - Antonio Spadaro, America Magazine
Latest Polls: VA Gov | NJ Gov | NJ Sen | Election 2016 | Health Care
Saturday, September 21
The GOP Has Been Hijacked by Zealots - Charles Blow, New York TimesObama's Baffling Intransigence - Larry Kudlow, Investor's Business Daily
As Jobs Vanish, Disability Rolls Swell - Michael Fletcher, Washington Post
Wal-Mart and a "Living Wage" - Carl M. Cannon, Orange County Register
Slouching Toward a Banana Republic - Mark Steyn, National Review
How Ted Cruz Is Able to Bully the GOP - Jonathan Bernstein, Salon
Obama Is No Clinton and Boehner Is No Gingrich - Rich Galen, Mullings
Time to Start Worrying About Banks Again - Jonathan Weil, Bloomberg
Jamie Dimon's Long Day - Joe Nocera, New York Times
Politicians Serving Wall St., Not Main St. - Scott Rasmussen, Boston Herald
Chicago's Bloody Aftermath - Michael Daly, The Daily Beast
Has Rahm Lost Control of Chicago? - John Kass, Chicago Tribune
Obama Wants 'Action' From Iran Ahead of Talks - Alexis Simendinger, RCP
A Kinder, Gentler Iran? - Ray Takeyh, Los Angeles Times
A Nation Built for Immigrants - Michael Barone, Wall Street Journal
Decades Later, Two Marines Honored For Bravery - Tony Perry, LA Times
When Isolationism Ruled the Land - George Will, Washington Post
Videos: McLaughlin Group | HBO's Real Time | Mark Levin vs. FOX News
Sunday, September 22
Where the Jobs Are - and How to Get One - Stephen Moore, Wall St. JournalConservatives' Obama-Scare Politics - Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune
Plenty of Good Reasons to Delay Obamacare - Kathleen Parker, Wash Post
The House GOP's Alternate Universe - Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Washington Is Abnormal, Not Ted Cruz - Star Parker, DC Examiner
EPA Sets Terms for Cleaner Energy Future - Frances Beinecke, Guardian
Climate Scaremongers Blunder On - Christopher Booker, Daily Telegraph
Warren Buffett: America's Billionaire - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
Second Term Diminishing Dems' Prospects - Salena Zito, Pittsburgh TR
Obama Must Say No to the Extremists - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
America Is Waking Up to Nightmare of Obamacare - Sarah Palin, Breitbart
The GOP's "Hunger Games" America - Andrew O'Hehir, Salon
De Blasio's Cuban Vision for New York - Michael Goodwin, New York Post
The Chasm Between D.C. & the Rest of America - Joel Kotkin, OC Register
Pope Francis' Radical Whisper - Frank Bruni, New York Times
How Jeffrey Sachs Failed to Save Africa - Margaret Wente, The Globe & Mail
The Myths of Matthew Shepard's Death - Stephen Jimenez, The Daily Beast