Week of June 16, 2014 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, June 16
What Democrats Can Learn From Cantor's Loss - Howard Dean, PoliticoThe Dog Ate My IRS Emails, for Two Years - John Fund, National Review
This Is the Obama We've Been Waiting For - Paul Krugman, NY Times
On Immigrant Surge, WH Story Falls Apart - Byron York, DC Examiner
Wider War: The Crisis in Iraq - Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker
No, President Obama Didn't Lose Iraq - Colin Kahl, Politico
Obama's Wish-Fulfilling Prophecy - Robert Tracinski, The Federalist
The New College "Thought Police" - Jay Parini, CNN
The Unelectable Whiteness of Scott Walker - Alec MacGillis, New Republic
Liberal Myths About Partisanship Busted - Kevin Glass, Townhall
Dangerous Divisiveness - Charles Blow, New York Times
Dems Should Be Talking More About Mobility - Josh Kraushaar, Natl Jrnl
The Roar of Europe's Protest Vote - George Will, Washington Post
Lady Mags Are Terrible for Mothers - Elissa Strauss, Salon
Tech Industry Looks Ahead, D.C. Clings to Status Quo - Scott Rasmussen
The True Cost of Hidden Money - Jacques Leslie, New York Times
End Corporate Welfare? Start With the Ex-Im Bank - Tim Phillips, WSJ
Rasmussen: Generic Ballot: Dems +2 | Health Care Law: Opposed 54-42
Tuesday, June 17
Iran Offers Iraq 'Everything it Needs' to Fight ISIS - Eli Lake, Daily BeastRussia Cuts Natural Gas Supply to Ukraine - Neil MacFarquhar, NY Times
Foreign Policy Fiascoes One After Another - Bret Stephens, Wall St. Journal
Sorry George W. Bush, This Is Your Fault - Paul Rosenberg, Salon
A Question for GOP Presidential Aspirants - George Will, National Review
IRS Commissioner to Testify on Lerner Emails - David Joachim, NY Times
Lois Lerner: The Modern Day Rose Woods - James Taranto, Wall St. Journal
Now Census Emails Go Missing? - John Crudele, New York Post
Hillary Hits Some Speed Bumps - Julian Zelizer, CNN
5 Reasons Hillary Won't Run - Tom Bevan, RealClearPolitics
Obama's Instincts Right on Iraq - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
The President Golfs While the Middle East Burns - Byron York, Examiner
Brian Schweitzer Gets Noticed But Hurdles Remain - Scott Conroy, RCP
Why Do GOP Pollsters Suck? - Kristen Soltis Anderson, The Daily Beast
Red State Dems Risk Becoming Carbon Heretics - Kyle Smith, PJ Media
What If Rick Perry Is Right About Gays? - Eric Sasson, The New Republic
How Obama Can Get a Little Relief - Wesley Pruden, Washington Times
Senate '14: NC (PPP): Hagan+4 | MS GOP: Polls Split | Map: 46D, 46R, 8TU
Wednesday, June 18
Obama's Double Asterisks on the IRS - Glenn Reynolds, USA TodayTea Party Is Still at the Kids' Table - Margaret Carlson, Bloomberg
President Obama's Support Erodes in Poll - Mark Murray, NBC News
What to Do With Iraq and Syria? - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
The Collapsing Obama Doctrine - Dick Cheney & Liz Cheney, Wall St. Jrnl
Iraq Crisis Is Not Obama's Fault - Kirsten Powers, USA Today
A Bitter After-Taste - Thomas Sowell, Investor's Business Daily
Largess Helped Thad Cochran, Until It Hurt Him - Richard Fausset, NYT
Hillary's Purpose Driven Book Tour - Alexis Simendinger, RealClearPolitics
Rick Perry's "Groundhog Day" - Mark Leibovich, New York Times Magazine
Veteran Blasts VA's "Lie, Delay, Deny" Abyss - Michelle Malkin, Townhall
On Gay Rights, Obama Has Built a Legacy - George Condon, National Jrnl
New Republic's Toxic World of Baloney - Christian Schneider, Milwaukee JS
Cutting the Poor Out of Welfare - Thomas Edsall, New York Times
Clinton's Defense of an Accused Rapist - Melinda Henneberger, Wash Post
How to Respond to the Abduction of Israeli Students - Peter Berkowitz, RCP
What Keeps You Up at Night - Betsy Morais, The New Yorker
NBC/WSJ: Obama Approval 41% | Public Opposes Bergdahl-Taliban Deal
Thursday, June 19
IRS Scandal & the High Price of Obama Fatigue - Daniel Henninger, WSJThe Truth About Our Libertarian Age - Mark Lilla, The New Republic
Poll Is Bad for Obama, But Worse for Liberalism - Phil Klein, DC Examiner
The Gall of Dick Cheney - Charles Blow, New York Times
A Cautious Obama Misreads History - Ruth Marcus, Washington Post
A Third Iraq War? - Robin Wright, The New Yorker
IRS Emails: Nothing Digital Ever Dies - Carl Cannon, RealClearPolitics
Dems Should Want a Special Prosecutor for the IRS - Ed Rogers, Wash Post
It's Official: "Redskins" Is Racist - Robert Silverman, The Daily Beast
Aggrieved White Liberals Yank Redskins' Trademark - Erick Erickson, RS
A Unified Theory of Hillary Clinton - Peter Beinart, National Journal
Is Hillary Clinton Imploding? - Jonathan Last, Weekly Standard
Why Isn't Christie Hit for Being "Testy"? - Eric Boehlert, Huffington Post
Immigration Reform Can't Wait - Rupert Murdoch, Wall Street Journal
What the Calif. Primary Tells Us About November - Sean Trende, RCP
Martin Sklar & the Search for a Usable Past - John Judis, The New Republic
Louis C.K.'s Lesson for Liberals & Conservatives - Andrew Quinn, Federalist
Obama Job Approval: Gallup: 41% | YouGov: 43% | RCP Average: 42.3%
Friday, June 20
Zombie Arguments on Health Care - Paul Krugman, New York TimesObamacare Is Hurting Millions - Byron York, Washington Examiner
Can Iraq Hold Together? - Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post
U.S. Shouldn't Choose Sides in Iraq Civil War - Sen. Rand Paul, Wall St Jrnl
Welcome to White House's Nightmare - James Oliphant, National Journal
The Asset-Rich, Income-Poor Economy - Warsh & Druckenmiller, WSJ
Conservative Bubble Could Sink Walker - Alec MacGillis, The New Republic
Liberals Are Afraid of Scott Walker - Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
Is It Time for a Special Prosecutor in IRS Scandal? - Carl Cannon, RCP
Redskins Apologists on Wrong Side of History - Dave Rappoccio, Guardian
The Redskins Ruling Should Terrify You - Robert Tracinski, The Federalist
On Iraq, Echoes of 2003 - Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
Abdication Has a Price - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
The Left's Quiet Advance in Democratic Primaries - Molly Ball, Atlantic
Date Night at the Abortion Movie - Heather Wilhelm, RealClearPolitics
The Loneliness of the Tyrant - Robert Kaplan, Stratfor
Getting to Bottom of Missing IRS Emails - Sharyl Attkisson, Changing Lanes
Obama Approval: Ipsos 36% | Gallup 41% | RasRpts 48% | RCP Avg 42%
Saturday, June 21
Stopping a Lawless President - George Will, Washington PostObama's Not a Very Good Tyrant - Amanda Terkel, Huffington Post
IRS Chief Refuses to Apologize for Missing E-mails - Kevin Hall, McClatchy
We Can No Longer Believe in the IRS - Rep. Paul Ryan
Dick Cheney's Amazing Iraq Chutzpah - Paul Waldman, CNN
Our Vacuous Foreign Policy - Andrew McCarthy, National Review Online
Why Benghazi Issue Won't Go Away - Timothy Stanley, CNN
In N.H., Christie Winks at 2016 Questions - Scott Conroy, RealClearPolitics
Rape Victim: Hillary 'Took Me Through Hell' - Josh Rogin, The Daily Beast
Why Scott Walker Will Never Be President - John Nichols, The Nation
I Will Not Back Down - Governor Scott Walker, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
What Hillary & Marion Barry Have in Common - Colbert King, Wash Post
Steve Scalise, Rising Conservative Star - Larry Kudlow, Investor's Biz Daily
What We Learned From Cantor's Loss - David Wasserman, FiveThirtyEight
Renaming Redskins? How About DC Drones? - John Kass, Chicago Tribune
Misogynistic Truth about Hipster Cool - Eleanor Margolis, The New Republic
The War That Changed Everything - Margaret MacMillan, Wall St. Journal
Polls: Obama Approval: Gallup 40% | RCP Avg 41.8% | MS GOP Runoff
Sunday, June 22
The Political Challenge in Iraq - Dexter Filkins, The New YorkerWhat Obama's Falling Ratings Mean for November - Jay Cost, Weekly Std
Will Reckless GOP Force Another Shutdown? - Brian Beutler, New Republic
Obama and the IRS' Blatant Coverup - Kyle Smith, New York Post
It's Time to Act on the Senate Immigration Bill - Richard Trumka, The Hill
Immigration Reform's Open Invitation to Children - Ross Douthat, NYT
Why Hillary Clinton Will Win in '16 - Carl Cannon, Orange County Register
Eric Cantor's Loss Jolts Landscape - Alex Isenstadt, Politico
Cochran's Porking Helps K Street But Not Miss. - Tim Carney, DC Examiner
Elizabeth Warren's Mission - Ruth Marcus, Washington Post
Kasich a Doer Who's Nobody's Guy - Salena Zito, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Dan Snyder's Insulting Redskins Logic - Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune
Patent Office Out of Bounds in Redskins Case - Jonathan Turley, Wash Post
Divest From Palestinians Instead - Nolan Finley, Detroit News
Fear Not the Coming of the Robots - Steven Rattner, New York Times
How the CIA Stole "Dr. Zhivago" - Michael Kimmage, The New Republic
"When People Choose, They Choose Wrong" - Sohrab Ahmari, Wall St. Jrnl
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