Week of August 25, 2014 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, August 25
Disconnected Obama Needs to Reengage Voters - Chris Cillizza, Wash PostObama's Iraqi Mission Impossible - Toby Harnden, Sunday Times
Wrong Way Nation - Paul Krugman, New York Times
A Simple Tax Reform Can Help Families - Shlaes & Edwards, WSJ
A Legacy in Question - Ruth Marcus, Washington Post
Making Excuses for President Obama - Noemie Emery, Weekly Standard
Racial Divide in U.S. Defies Easy Change - Albert Hunt, Bloomberg
Is Criminal Justice Act of 1964 a Failure? - George Will, Washington Post
Club Med for Terrorists - Ron Prosor, New York Times
The Meltdown - Bret Stephens, Commentary
Was Putin Right About Syria? - Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post
The Right's Obamacare "Cancer" - Simon Maloy, Salon
This Year, It's Dems Embarrassing Themselves - Andrew Stiles, FreeBeacon
Experts' Eyes Turn to Colorado - Juan Williams, The Hill
Going for the Gold in New Jersey - Andrew Ferguson, Weekly Standard
The Strange Tale of the Last True Hermit - Michael Finkel, GQ Magazine
Letter to the Jackie Robinson West All-Stars - John Kass, Chicago Tribune
Panels: This Week | FOX News Sunday | Face the Nation | Meet the Press
Tuesday, August 26
The New Face of Evil - Richard Cohen, New York Daily NewsObama Doesn't Get Radical Islam - Jennifer Braceras, Boston Herald
Lost in America - Frank Bruni, New York Times
The Madness of 2008 - Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
Democrats Slowly Learning to Love Obamacare - Sam Baker, Natl Journal
Dems Worry GOP Has Momentum in Senate - Carl Cameron, FOX News
The Importance of Scott Walker's Reelection Bid - Noam Scheiber, TNR
Too Detached to Lead? - Michael Gerson, Washington Post
Stop Complaining About Obama's Golfing - Bill Burton, Politico
Why the Latest NH Poll Should Be Taken Seriously - Sean Trende, RCP
Is Polling Industry In Stasis Or In Crisis? - Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight
Reid's Gaffes Just Keep on Coming - Debra Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle
When Mistakes Become Deadly - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
Correlation Is Not Causation - Thomas Sowell, Investor's Business Daily
Send Your Own Sons and Daughters to War - Dan Rather, CNN
Return Of The 'Chickenhawk' Smear - David Harsanyi, The Federalist
A Tribute to Robin Williams - Billy Crystal, The Emmys
Senate '14: MN (SUSA): Franken (D) +9 | AK (Ras): Sullivan (R) +2 | Map
Wednesday, August 27
Obama's Back-to-Work Challenge - David Ignatius, Washington PostPresident's Killer Rabbit Moment Approaches - John Kass, Chicago Tribune
How Dems Can Hold Senate Majority - Caitlin Huey-Burns, RealClearPolitics
Between the World and Ferguson - Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker
Why Are We Listening to Sharpton & Jackson? - Ron Christie, Daily Beast
He Has a Dream - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
Will Destroying Evidence Work for the IRS? - Seth Mandel, Commentary
Burger King Backlash Could Hurt the GOP - Danny Vinik, New Republic
The Left's Ridiculous Burger King Freakout - David Harsanyi, Federalist
The Making of a Mideast Disaster - Roger Cohen, New York Times
What We Must Do About ISIS - Sen. Dan Coats, RealClearPolitics
Hickenlooper & Death Penalty Politics - Mike Littwin, Colorado Independent
Rubio's Course Correction on Immigration - Byron York, DC Examiner
The Climate Swerve - Robert Lifton, New York Times
Government's Green Monster - John Stossel, FOX Business
Tough-Guy Pols Let Wives Take the Fall - Eleanor Clift, The Daily Beast
Two Wongs Don't Make a Right - Tom Bevan, RealClearPolitics
IA (Suffolk): Huckabee 13, Christie 11, Perry 8, Bush/Paul 7 | Clinton +56
Thursday, August 28
Countdown to Kicking Out Harry Reid - Karl Rove, Wall Street JournalWhy Kay Hagan Wins North Carolina - Brent Budowsky, The Hill
Will 2014 Midterms Be a Wave Election? - Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics
When Journalists Go Missing - Steve Coll, The New Yorker
How U.S. Interventionists Abetted the Rise of ISIS - Sen. Rand Paul, WSJ
Finding Al Franken - Josh Kraushaar, National Journal
Obama's Problem With Military Voters Is Growing - Ed Rogers, Wash Post
The End of the Scott Walker Experiment? - John Dickerson, Slate
Constitutional Chutzpah - Seth Lipsky, New York Post
2014 and the Limits of Rage - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
No, Our Immigration System Is Not Broken - Byron York, DC Examiner
The Biggest Tax Scam Ever - Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone
Bring Back the Welfare Stigma - Daniel Payne, The Federalist
The Extreme Partisanship of the Roberts Court - Garrett Epps, Atlantic
Navy With a Mission in Mind - George Will, Washington Post
Is Everyone a Little Bit Racist? - Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
Tacos, Beer, and the Banality of Evil - Heather Wilhelm, RealClearPolitics
Governor Polls: MI: Snyder (R) +1 | AR: Ross (D) +2 | SC: Haley (R) +15
Friday, August 29
Another Shutdown? Not Gonna Happen - Byron York, DC ExaminerWhite House Is Spoiling for a Fight on Immigration - James Oliphant, NJ
What If There's No There There? - Jay Cost, Weekly Standard
Putin Will Never Admit Russia Has Invaded - Linda Kinstler, New Republic
President Obama Is Not a Realist - Paul Saunders, The National Interest
The Republican Obamacare Battle Plan for 2015 - Lanhee Chen, Bloomberg
Climate Change: We're Almost Too Late - Rebecca Leber, New Republic
The Continued Farce - Erick Erickson, RedState
ISIS: Surprise or an Enemy Hidden in Plain View? - Dan Lungren, RCP
Racism Is Real. The "Conversation" Isn't. - Francis Wilkinson, Bloomberg
Blacks Must Confront Reality - Walter Williams, Townhall
Al Sharpton Does Not Have My Ear - Brittney Cooper, Salon
The Answer to "Inversion" - Charles Krauthammer, National Review
Dethrone "King Dollar" - Jared Bernstein, New York Times
Solving Immigration: It Need Not Be So Difficult - Mark Salter, RCP
She Was the Wrong Kind of Christian - Rod Dreher, American Conservative
A Dark Obsession With Vigilante Justice - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Time
Senate '14: Polls: MI,IA,AR | Map: 45D, 46R, 9U | RCP Avgs: GOP +7 Seats
Saturday, August 30
The Assembly of a New World Order - Henry Kissinger, Wall Street JournalThreat of ISIS Demands a Global Coalition - John Kerry, New York Times
White House Flunks History 101 - Victor Davis Hanson, Investor's Biz Daily
Summer 2014 Was the Worst Ever - Dean Obeidallah, The Daily Beast
Democrats Take Low Road in Arkansas - Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard
After Election, More GOP Dysfunction - Michael Cohen, Boston Globe
A Desperate Effort to Obstruct Justice at IRS? - James Robbins, USA Today
War in Europe Is Not a Hysterical Idea - Anne Applebaum, Washington Post
Stop Dithering in Iraq & Syria - John McCain & Lindsey Graham, NY Times
Obama, McCain & Graham Don't Get It - Andrew McCarthy, Natl Review
Ferguson Is About White Rage - Carol Anderson, Washington Post
Liberals Will Never Fulfill MLK's Dream - Willis Krumholz, The Federalist
New West Renaissance - Timothy Egan, New York Times
Addressing the Education Crisis Too Liberally - Peter Berkowitz, RCP
America's Real Ice Bucket Challenge - Dana Milbank, Washington Post
Why Climate Deniers Are So Afraid of Obama - Simon Maloy, Salon
Good-Bye, Climate Change Treaty - Rupert Darwall, National Review
Sunday, August 31
Obama Sets Own Pace in World Beset w/Crises - DeYoung & Balz, WaPoA Dangerously Aimless Foreign Policy - S. Huntley, Chicago Sun-Times
Why the "Do Something" Critics Are Wrong - Michael Cohen, NYDN
Obama Refuses to Decide, Fails to Act - Janet Daley, The Telegraph
Whites Just Don't Get It - Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
Where to Start Honest Talk on Race - Linda Chavez, New York Post
Obama's Inner Reverend Sharpton - Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune
At Risk in Senate, Dems Seek to Rally Blacks - Jonathan Martin, NYT
Will Jews Turn on Obama & Dems in 2014? - Zev Chafets, FOX News
Small Ball in Wisconsin - John McCormack, Weekly Standard
5 Takeaways From Hillary's Summer - Amie Parnes, The Hill
Paul Ryan's Way Forward - George Will, National Review
Sexism in the Senate - Ruth Marcus, Washington Post
Handouts Corrupt All Governors - Barton Hinkle, Times-Dispatch
Why Uber Must Be Stopped - Andrew Leonard, Salon
Most of Us Reject Dawkins' Morality - Naomi Schaefer Riley, NY Post
The Man Who Hunted Osama, Saddam & Pirates - Peter Bergen, CNN
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