Week of February 9, 2015 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, February 9
Obama's Legacy Will Be Set by Foreign Policy - Albert Hunt, BloombergPresident's Week of Jaw-Dropping Follies - Ed Rogers, Washington Post
Obama on Politics and Policy - Ezra Klein, Vox
The Democrats Should Be Worried - Jay Cost, Weekly Standard
Clinton's Greatest Political Strength - Ronald Brownstein, National Journal
11 Dems Who Could Help Themselves by Running - Byron York, Examiner
Is the Ames Straw Poll Useless? - David Byler, RealClearPolitics
The Facts About Keystone XL - Tom Steyer, Huffington Post
Fiddling With Data Is Biggest Scandal Ever - Christopher Booker, Telegraph
Obama vs. FDR, Year Seven - Bill Scher, RealClearPolitics
The Dangerous Lie That "Bush Lied" - Laurence Silberman, Wall St. Journal
5 Plunging Numbers That Explain the World - Ian Bremmer, Time
Arming Ukraine Is a Really Bad Idea - John Mearsheimer, New York Times
When a State Blocks Obamacare, ERs Close - Michael Hiltzik, LA Times
Is Texas "Crazy" or Is It the Real America? - John Fund, National Review
How Being Governor Prepared Rounds for Senate - James Arkin, RCP
Retreading Memories From a Perch Too Public - David Carr, NY Times
Panels: Face the Nation | Fox News Sunday | Meet the Press | This Week
Tuesday, February 10
Why Political Corruption Matters - Jay Cost, RealClearPoliticsInsured, but Not Covered - Elisabeth Rosenthal, New York Times
Republicans Ready If Court Guts Obamacare - Betsy McCaughey, NY Post
Christianity, Islam Cloaks for Many Sins - DeWayne Wickham, USA Today
President Obama's Moral Idiocy - Dennis Prager, Townhall
Now's Not the Time to Raise Rates - Lawrence Summers, Washington Post
Williams & the Myth of the Evening News - Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
Je Suis Brian Williams! - Roger Simon, Politico
Fear and Loathing at NBC - Lloyd Grove, The Daily Beast
The Dem Majority That Emerged, Disappeared - Michael Barone, Examiner
Why We Must Help Arm Ukraine - Roger Cohen, New York Times
Arming Ukraine Would Be a Disaster - James Carden, The National Interest
How Greens Made a CA Drought Worse - Victor Davis Hanson, City Journal
Talking Like Grownups About Climate Change - Cass Sunstein, Bloomberg
The Greatest Scientific Fraud Of All Time -- Part III - Francis Menton, MC
When America Behaved Like ISIS - Bill Moyers, Salon
Terrible Deeds in the Name of Democrats - James Antle, The Daily Caller
Wednesday, February 11
Obama's Sadder - But Wiser - Foreign Policy - Doyle McManus, LA TimesAnti-Semitic Horrors Don't Exist in Obama's World - John Podhoretz, NYP
Shock & Awe: Williams Suspended - Lloyd Grove, The Daily Beast
NBC's Puffed Up Anchor - Jonah Goldberg, National Review
The Brian Williams Case - The Way It Wasn't - Douglas Brinkley, CNN
What to Make of John Judis' "Republican Advantage" - Sean Trende, RCP
The Bobby Jindal Contradiction - Josh Kraushaar, National Journal
Mainstream Media Scared to Death of Walker - Russ Smith, Splice Today
Bush's Digital Push Might Require Reboot - Scott Conroy, RealClearPolitics
Signs of Trouble in Hillary World - Confessore & Chozick, New York Times
Hillary Clinton's Twitter Campaign - Caitlin Huey-Burns, RealClearPolitics
Lying About Gay-Marriage No Big Deal - Paul Waldman, Washington Post
Obama's a Good BSer, But a Bad Liar - David Harsanyi, The Federalist
'50 Shades' is Campy, Silly, Sorta Sexy Fun - Marlow Stern, The Daily Beast
Movie Is Evidence of Our Damaged Society - Mark Davis, Dallas MN
Beyond "Black Lives Matter" - Charles Blow, New York Times
Still Right on the Black Family After All These Years - Jason Riley, WSJ
Latest Polls: NH: Clinton vs. Bush, Paul | PA Senate | Obama Approval
Thursday, February 12
Obamacare Despair - James Taranto, Wall Street JournalAn Ode to the Health Care Law - Gail Collins, New York Times
ISIS War Authorization Uncertain in Congress - Simendinger & Arkin, RCP
Republican Rhetoric vs. Reality - Sen. Charles Schumer, Huffington Post
Snarking Loudly While Carrying a Tiny Stick - Victor Davis Hanson, NRO
Muslims, Marriage and Bigotry - Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
Some People Don't Want to "Coexist" - Heather Wilhelm, RealClearPolitics
Jon Stewart Shaped Cultural Attitudes of a Generation - Don Aucoin, BG
Myth of Jon Stewart's "Millennial" Following - Ethan Epstein, Weekly Std
The Troubling Sex of Fifty Shades - Emma Green, The Atlantic
Countering Putin's Grand Strategy - Robert Kaplan, Wall Street Journal
The Truth About Obama's Job Record - Andy Puzder, RealClearPolitics
How Dem Progressives Survived a Landslide - Bob Moser, Am Prospect
The Mike Pence Paradox - George Will, Washington Post
War Request Puts Spotlight on 2016 Hopefuls - Caitlin Huey-Burns, RCP
Brian Williams Needs to Step Down - Ruth Marcus, Washington Post
Dancing With Daddy: It's Just a Photo - William Jacobson, Legal Insurrection
Obama Job Approval: FOX News: 45% | Gallup: 46% | RCP Avg: 45.6%
Friday, February 13
Obama's Ambivalent War Logic - Eugene Robinson, Washington PostRepublicans in Disarray Over DHS Shutdown - Simon Maloy, Salon
Unfaithful Executive - Adam White, City Journal
Can the Obama Coalition Be Recreated? - Chris Cillizza, Washington Post
Walker's Bumpy Evolution Education - Byron York, Washington Examiner
An Honest Reporter, and His Antithesis - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
Yep, Obamacare Costs a Fortune - Christopher Flavelle, Bloomberg
Big Health Companies: Obamacare Is Working - Stephanie Mencimer, MJ
Cries of Racism Against Little League Go Foul - Tom Bevan, RCP
How 1 Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco's Life - Jon Ronson, NYT Mag
Global Warming Pause: Is the End Near? - Fred Singer, American Thinker
Climate Change Progress Is Possible - John Podesta, Politico
The See-No-Evil President - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
President Obama and the Crusaders - Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker
We Have to Talk About Obama's Ignorance - Seth Mandel, Commentary
Save the Children's Insurance - Hillary Clinton & Bill Frist, New York Times
Ranking 12 Presidents on Crisis Management - Michael Bohn, RCP
Latest Polls: VA ('16) Dem,GOP | NH,VA ('16) General | Health Care Law
Saturday, February 14
Things a War Correspondent Should Never Say - Peter Kann, Wall St. JrnlScott Walker Weasels on Evolution - Ron Fournier, National Journal
A Bad Faith Question - Jonah Goldberg, National Review
Money Makes Crazy - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Presidents' Day Musings - Larry Kudlow, Investor's Business Daily
GOP Struggles to Work Out a Foreign Policy - Doyle McManus, LA Times
Obama Tries to Shift Blame for Losing Strategy - Andrew McCarthy, NRO
Why Perry Shouldn't Use "Born in the U.S.A." - John Fea, RealClearPolitics
As Public Sours, Obamacare Faces Uncertain Future - Sally Pipes, IBD
"Get Your Government Hands Off My Obamacare" - Julian Zelizer, CNN
Hillary Clinton's Play for Pennsylvania - Emily Schultheis, National Journal
Who Needs a Diploma to Be President? - Megan McArdle, Bloomberg
College's Priceless Value - Frank Bruni, New York Times
A Former Justice Seeks to Restrict Politics - Weber & von Spakovsky, RCP
China Is Winner in Conflict Between Russia & West - Ian Bremmer, Time
The Decline of Europe's Jewish Population - Michael Lipka, Pew Research
Is Letting Kids Out of Your Sight a Crime? - Danielle Meitiv, Wash Post
Sunday, February 15
Both Parties Face Perils in 2016 - David Shribman, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteLet's Not Jump the Gun on Presidential Race - Dan Balz, Washington Post
Handicapping the 2016 Republican Field - Stephen Hayes, Weekly Standard
Clintons' War Room Now a Slime Room - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
Bill's Libido Again Threatens to Derail Hillary - Maureen Callahan, NY Post
Universities Right to Crack Down on Speech, Behavior - Eric Posner, Slate
The Age of Uncertainty - Kevin Williamson, National Review Online
Yes, There Are Christian Terrorists - Dean Obeidallah, The Daily Beast
The Crusades Are Irrelevant - Jack Kelly, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Storytelling: Williams' Strength & Weakness - Roig-Franzia, et al, WaPo
How Jon Stewart's Lies Brainwashed a Generation - Kyle Smith, NY Post
David Carr, Before He Became David Carr - Jennifer Senior, NY Magazine
Lessons of Chapel Hill - Carl M. Cannon, Orange County Register
A Cosmic Quest for Dark Matter - Gautam Naik, Wall Street Journal
Philly's Winning Convention History - Madonna & Young, RealClearPolitics
1984: America's Last Great Political Convention - Phil Hirschkorn, Salon
Grover: The Most Honest President of Them All - Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe