http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ en Copyright 2008 Sat, 25 May 2013 20:22:20 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.33 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 25 May 2013 20:10:29 -0500 05/25/2013/00/00/00 ]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/25/america039s_suicide_epidemic_308433.htmlhttp://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/05/22/why-suicide-has-become-and-epidemic-and-what-we-can-do-to-help.htmlhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/05/22/why-suicide-has-become-and-epidemic-and-what-we-can-do-to-help.html 100308433 Early Morning Update Tony Dokoupil, Newsweek Sat, 25 May 2013 19:41:05 -0500 05/25/2013/00/00/00 ]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/25/the_deep_historical_roots_of_irs_corruption_308428.htmlhttp://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/taxes-revenue-only_729023.html?nopager=1 100308428 Early Morning Update Jay Cost, Weekly Standard Sat, 25 May 2013 20:00:32 -0500 05/25/2013/00/00/00 ]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/25/gop_party_of_crybabies_308432.htmlhttp://www.salon.com/2013/05/25/grand_old_party_of_crybabies/http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.salon.com/2013/05/25/grand_old_party_of_crybabies/ 100308432 Early Morning Update Jonathan Bernstein, Salon Sat, 25 May 2013 12:23:56 -0500 05/25/2013/00/00/00 ]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/25/how_obamacare_endangers_your_breasts_308419.htmlhttp://reason.com/reasontv/2013/05/24/forget-angelina-jolie-how-obamacare-endahttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://reason.com/reasontv/2013/05/24/forget-angelina-jolie-how-obamacare-enda 100308419 Early Morning Update Kennedy, ReasonTV Sat, 25 May 2013 19:38:52 -0500 05/25/2013/00/00/00 ]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/25/the_closing_of_the_conservative_mind_308427.htmlhttp://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/25/the-closing-of-the-conservative-mind/ 100308427 Early Morning Update Paul Krugman, New York Times Sat, 25 May 2013 19:46:50 -0500 05/25/2013/00/00/00 ]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/25/who_are_the_real_climate_deniers_308429.htmlhttp://pjmedia.com/blog/who-are-the-real-climate-deniers/http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://pjmedia.com/blog/who-are-the-real-climate-deniers/ 100308429 Early Morning Update David Solway, PJ Media Sat, 25 May 2013 19:32:55 -0500 05/25/2013/00/00/00 ]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/25/wait_two_months_then_check_obama039s_approval_308268.htmlhttp://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/wait-about-two-months-then-check-the-president-s-approval-rating-20130522http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/wait-about-two-months-then-check-the-president-s-approval-rating-20130522 100308268 Early Morning Update Michael Catalini, NJ Sat, 25 May 2013 19:34:40 -0500 05/25/2013/00/00/00 ]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/25/the_stealth_threat_to_china039s_regime_308426.htmlhttp://irevolution.net/2013/05/21/crowdsource-response-china-quake/http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://irevolution.net/2013/05/21/crowdsource-response-china-quake/ 100308426 Early Morning Update Patrick Meier, iRevolution Sat, 25 May 2013 19:33:06 -0500 05/25/2013/00/00/00 ]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/25/reading_hayek_in_beijing_308405.htmlhttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324659404578501492191072734.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTophttp://mobile2.wsj.com/device/article.php?mid=1&CALL_URL=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324659404578501492191072734.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop 100308405 Early Morning Update Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal Sat, 25 May 2013 19:58:10 -0500 05/25/2013/00/00/00 ]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/25/teens_tire_of_facebook--but_not_enough_to_log_off_308431.htmlhttp://business.time.com/2013/05/25/teens-tire-of-facebook-but-not-enough-to-log-off/http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://business.time.com/2013/05/25/teens-tire-of-facebook-but-not-enough-to-log-off/ 100308431 Early Morning Update Victor Luckerson, Time Sat, 25 May 2013 19:51:40 -0500 05/25/2013/00/00/00 ]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/25/when_we_held_kings_308430.htmlhttp://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9286395/the-oral-history-2003-world-series-poker-which-chris-moneymaker-turned-39-25-millionhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9286395/the-oral-history-2003-world-series-poker-which-chris-moneymaker-turned-39-25-million 100308430 Early Morning Update Eric Raskin, Grantland Sat, 25 May 2013 08:43:03 -0500 05/25/2013/00/00/00 There were times this past week when it seemed like the 19th-century Know-Nothing Party had returned to Washington. President Obama insisted he knew nothing about major decisions in the State Department, or the Justice Department, or the Internal Revenue Service. The heads of those agencies, in turn, insisted they knew nothing about major decisions by their subordinates. It was as if the government functioned by some hidden hand. Clearly, there was a degree of willful blindness in these claims. However, the suggestion that someone, even the president, is in control of today's government...]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/25/rise_of_the_4th_branch_of_government_308409.htmlhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-rise-of-the-fourth-branch-of-government/2013/05/24/c7faaad0-c2ed-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html 100308409 AM Update Jonathan Turley, Washington Post Rise of the 4th Branch of Government Sat, 25 May 2013 08:44:15 -0500 05/25/2013/00/00/00 While it is impossible to predict what might drive voter attitudes in an election 18 months away, there are quite a few signs that 2014 will be nothing like 2010, which produced tremendous success for Republicans. First, the electorate is less conservative. In May 2009, the Tea Party had just begun to flex its muscle and feel its power on a national level. Now, the movement has lost momentum. An April 2012 Associated Press report included a finding from Theda Skocpol, a Harvard professor, that the number of Tea Party groups had fallen from about 1,000 to about 600. And a Washington Post/ABC...]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/25/this_is_not_2009_308401.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/25/opinion/this-is-not-2009.htmlhttp://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/05/25/opinion/this-is-not-2009.xml 100308401 AM Update Charles Blow, New York Times This Is Not 2009 Sat, 25 May 2013 08:45:47 -0500 05/25/2013/00/00/00 And so what? Though the president's fate seems to be the paramount concern of the leftist punditry (a group that now argues that any "real" scandal is only one in which the president had personal knowledge of misconduct in real time -- meaning, one supposes, that Abu Ghraib should be retroactively reclassified as a non-scandal for George W. Bush), it matters not. Even with an adoring public, the chances of Obama's pushing through any substantive legislation before 2014 -- or even 2016 -- were slim at best. Those poll-ignoring obstructionists in the House will see to it....]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/23/obama_may_survive_but_scandals_a_blow_to_left_118520.htmlhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/23/obama_may_survive_but_scandals_a_blow_to_left_118520.htmlhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/23/obama_may_survive_but_scandals_a_blow_to_left_118520.html 200308271 AM Update David Harsanyi, Washington Examiner Why Liberalism Is in Trouble Sat, 25 May 2013 08:47:27 -0500 05/25/2013/00/00/00 On days when the president is coming, the White House press room, the East Room and even occasionally the Rose Garden are ornamented with dozens of objects that perform the decorative and utilitarian purpose of potted plants. They are members of the prestigious White House press corps (a gaggle in which I also plied my craft for many years). These elite journalists are there ostensibly as key participants in a venerated institutional event: a presidential news conference. Much has changed over the years, as the White House sought to end the news-conference clamor of journalists vying to be...]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/25/white_house_press_must_get_back_to_basics_308318.htmlhttp://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/opinion/op_ed/2013/05/white_house_press_must_get_back_to_basicshttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/opinion/op_ed/2013/05/white_house_press_must_get_back_to_basics 100308318 AM Update Martin Schram, Boston Herald White House Press Must Get Back to Basics Sat, 25 May 2013 08:48:38 -0500 05/25/2013/00/00/00 A little context is warranted. There are more than 1.5 million nonprofit organizations in this country, a number that reliably grows by more than 50,000 each year. It’s an incredibly important sector of our economy—not just because it represents more than $1.5 trillion in annual revenues and close to 15 percent of the American workforce, but also because nonprofits dominate critical fields such as education, health care, social services, arts, and, yes, politics. Yet, despite the critical nature of these organizations and their services, the Exempt Organizations Division,...]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/25/the_irs_had_the_right_idea_308415.htmlhttp://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/25/former-npr-ceo-ken-stern-the-irs-had-the-right-idea.htmlhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/25/former-npr-ceo-ken-stern-the-irs-had-the-right-idea.html 100308415 AM Update Ken Stern, The Daily Beast The IRS Had the Right Idea Sat, 25 May 2013 08:49:20 -0500 05/25/2013/00/00/00 When pressed, a president takes on "tough" substantive issues, which are "tough" precisely because they alienate large numbers of voters. Balancing the budget is not hard in itself - it is hard because doing so requires cutting spending or raising taxes. However, even with tough substantive issues, roughly half the electorate often supports a president. Not so with scandals. Scandals alienate all but your most fervent supporters, and in some cases, even them. They are political no-win situations. Second, presidential scandals are concentrated. Because Congress is diffused...]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/25/obama_is_particularly_vulnerable_to_these_scandals_118551.htmlhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/25/obama_is_particularly_vulnerable_to_these_scandals_118551.htmlhttp://dyn.realclearpolitics.com/printpage/?url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/25/obama_is_particularly_vulnerable_to_these_scandals_118551.html 200308393 AM Update J.T. Young, RCP Obama Is Particularly Vulnerable to These Scandals Sat, 25 May 2013 08:51:07 -0500 05/25/2013/00/00/00 The Obama Administration fought to keep a search warrant for James Rosen's private e-mail account secret, arguing to a federal judge that the government might need to monitor the account for a lengthy period of time. The new details are revealed in a court filing detailing a back and forth between the Justice Department and the federal judges who oversaw the request to search a Gmail account belonging to Rosen, a reporter for Fox News. A 2009 article Rosen had written about North Korea sparked an investigation; Ronald C. Machen, Jr., the U.S. Attorney who is prosecuting Stephen Jin-Woo...]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/25/how_doj_fought_to_keep_rosen039s_warrant_secret_308417.htmlhttp://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/05/how-justice-fought-to-keep-rosens-warrant-secret.htmlhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/05/how-justice-fought-to-keep-rosens-warrant-secret.html 100308417 AM Update Ryan Lizza, New Yorker How DOJ Fought to Keep Rosen's Warrant Secret Sat, 25 May 2013 08:51:50 -0500 05/25/2013/00/00/00 That’s the question asked by Katie Pavlich and Jim Hoft after the revelation that Attorney General Eric Holder personally approved the application for a warrant on Fox News’ James Rosen as a potential co-conspirator in espionage. Last week, under relatively friendly questioning from Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) about the Department of Justice seizure of Associated Press phone records, Johnson asked about the potential to prosecute reporters under the Espionage Act of 1917. ”You’ve got a long way to go to try to prosecute the press for publication of...]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/25/did_eric_holder_lie_in_congressional_testimony_308416.htmlhttp://hotair.com/archives/2013/05/24/did-eric-holder-lie-in-congressional-testimony-last-week/http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://hotair.com/archives/2013/05/24/did-eric-holder-lie-in-congressional-testimony-last-week/ 100308416 AM Update Ed Morrissey, Hot Air Did Eric Holder Lie in Congressional Testimony? Sat, 25 May 2013 08:52:32 -0500 05/25/2013/00/00/00 The pattern is sickeningly familiar: After every atrocity committed in the name of Islam, left-wing intellectuals and celebrities, scarcely bothering to conceal their schadenfreude, start lecturing us on the West’s moral failings.So it was this week, when a young British soldier was butchered in broad daylight in the streets of London by men of Nigerian descent claiming to avenge Western violence against Muslims. Before a decent interval could pass, the moral equivocators rushed in to validate the attackers’ claim and say, in effect, it’s all our fault.]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/25/after_terrorism_fools_rush_in__118552.htmlhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/25/after_terrorism_fools_rush_in__118552.htmlhttp://dyn.realclearpolitics.com/printpage/?url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/25/after_terrorism_fools_rush_in__118552.html 200308394 AM Update Will Marshall, RealClearPolitics After Terrorism, Fools Rush In Sat, 25 May 2013 08:59:58 -0500 05/25/2013/00/00/00 In American history, 1963 was a year rich in speeches. But of all the signature speeches that year, it's the one that has been all but forgotten that might have transformed the country the most. Fifty years ago, on Memorial Day in 1963, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson gave a speech in Gettysburg, Pa., that foreshadowed profound changes that would be achieved in only 13 months and that mark us still.]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/25/lbj039s_gettysburg_address_308402.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/sunday-review/at-gettysburg-johnson-marked-memorial-day-and-the-future.htmlhttp://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/sunday-review/at-gettysburg-johnson-marked-memorial-day-and-the-future.xml 100308402 AM Update David Shribman, New York Times LBJ's Gettysburg Address Sat, 25 May 2013 08:54:31 -0500 05/25/2013/00/00/00 While I've been critical of some of Paul's recent comments to an audience of Christian conservatives in Iowa, there's little question in my mind that he is potentially the most transformative national politician on the scene. Between his glorious filibuster, his foreign policy speech at Heritage, his dialogue with students at historically black colleges such as Howard in D.C. and Simmons in Louisville, and his great "free minds and free markets" speech at CPAC, no figure in either party is laying down a generally consistent and principled case for libertarian policies...]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/25/rand_paul039s_hipster_outreach_mofo_party_plan_308397.htmlhttp://reason.com/blog/2013/05/24/rand-pauls-hipster-outreach-mofo-party-phttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://reason.com/blog/2013/05/24/rand-pauls-hipster-outreach-mofo-party-p 100308397 AM Update Nick Gillespie, Reason Rand Paul's Hipster Outreach Mofo Party Plan Sat, 25 May 2013 08:55:13 -0500 05/25/2013/00/00/00 In a little office on the third floor of Metropolitan Police Headquarters on Indiana Avenue NW is a small window to the future — open to some, closed to many. This is where you get your D.C. “police clearance.” If you have never been there, that’s because you have never applied for a job flipping burgers, mowing lawns or cleaning restrooms in the District. Room 3033 is the human resources department for the poor, the young and the disenfranchised. The piece of paper you get there — if you have no criminal record — is what you need to...]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/25/stop_wrecking_lives_over_weed_308408.htmlhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/its-time-for-dc-to-stop-wrecking-lives-over-a-bag-of-weed/2013/05/24/e3bbc8cc-c314-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html 100308408 AM Update Paul Zukerberg, Washington Post Stop Wrecking Lives Over Weed Sat, 25 May 2013 08:57:23 -0500 05/25/2013/00/00/00 Democrats were writing obituaries for California's GOP after winning a supermajority in the state legislature last November, thus gaining veto-proof power to raise taxes. But their legislative lock may have slipped after this week's special election in which Republican farmer Andy Vidak appears to have defeated a Democrat—in a heavily Democratic senate district—who had championed high-speed rail and a higher minimum wage. If Mr. Vidak wins an outright majority—late Friday, he led with 49.8% of the vote and provisional ballots were still being...]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/25/a_farmers039_rebellion_lifts_california_republicans_308406.htmlhttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323975004578501100161015818.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTophttp://mobile2.wsj.com/device/article.php?mid=1&CALL_URL=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323975004578501100161015818.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop 100308406 AM Update Allysia Finley, WSJ A Farmers' Rebellion Lifts California Republicans Sat, 25 May 2013 08:59:06 -0500 05/25/2013/00/00/00 One Friday morning this spring, I drove to Washington’s Dulles airport at dawn, to catch the first nonstop flight to San Francisco. When I got off the plane six hours later, the morning sun still slanting through the terminal windows, my cellphone began ringing practically as soon as I turned it on. “Okay, you’re here!” the man on the other end of the call said, cheerily. I’d been trying to arrange a visit to his office for quite a while, and just the previous evening he’d let me know that if I got there in a hurry, he’d...]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/25/jerry_brown039s_political_reboot_308399.htmlhttp://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/06/the-fixer/309324/http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/06/the-fixer/309324/ 100308399 AM Update James Fallows, The Atlantic Jerry Brown's Political Reboot Sat, 25 May 2013 04:41:44 -0500 05/25/2013/00/00/00 The ongoing IRS scandal has struck such a nerve with the public because it is a clear example of a prying, ever-present government abusing its revenue-raising power and succumbing to the temptation of easy corruption. There are few things more outrageous with regard to the government’s ability to fund its own corrupt practices–but the latest scandal out of Florida may be one of those cases.Media Trackers points to this investigation by Florida’s WTSP-St. Petersburg 10 News, which notes that the Florida Department of Transportation instituted a particularly...]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/22/the_corruption_of_traffic_light_cameras_308249.htmlhttp://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/05/21/the-danger-and-rampant-corruption-of-traffic-light-cameras/http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/05/21/the-danger-and-rampant-corruption-of-traffic-light-cameras/ 100308249 AM Update Seth Mandel, Commentary The Corruption of Traffic Light Cameras Sat, 25 May 2013 09:01:56 -0500 05/25/2013/00/00/00 When I was thirty, I was living my dream. I’d already accomplished most of what I’d set out to achieve professionally: leading scorer in the NBA, leading rebounder, leading blocker, Most Valuable Player, All-Star. But success can be as blinding as Bill Walton’s finger in the eye when battling for a rebound. I made mistakes. Plenty of them. In fact, sometimes I wish I could climb into a time machine and go back to shake some sense into that thirty-year-old me. If I could, here’s the advice I would give him: 1. Be more outgoing. My shyness and...]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/25/20_things_i_wish_i039d_known_when_i_was_30_308266.htmlhttp://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/kareem-things-i-wish-i-knewhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/kareem-things-i-wish-i-knew 100308266 AM Update Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Esquire 20 Things I Wish I'd Known When I Was 30 Sat, 25 May 2013 09:05:51 -0500 05/25/2013/00/00/00 Ernie Pyle, the iconic embedded World War II embedded journalist killed by Japanese machine gun fire in 1945, made famous the adage, "There are no atheists in foxholes." He was making a point that it's better to be safe than sorry when your life is on the line - not letting the Devil get you cornered, he wrote, was the justification for a soldier who dug round foxholes. Atheists are a tiny minority anyway and there are even fewer in a war zone, Pyle felt. And he knew more soldiers than perhaps any journalist ever will. But does war really transform people, or does it simply...]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/25/there_really_aren039t_many_atheists_in_foxholes_308392.htmlhttp://www.realclearscience.com/http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.realclearscience.com/ 100308392 AM Update Science 2.0 There Really Aren't Many Atheists in Foxholes http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/25/the_freedom_to_investigate_308411.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-press-must-have-the-ability-to-ask-questions/2013/05/24/8e9ce4ba-c356-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html 100308411 Editorials Sat, 25 May 2013 09:08:06 -0500 Washington Post The Freedom to Investigate http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/25/special_prosecutor_for_irs_308413.html http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130525/OPINION01/305250016/1008/Special-prosecutor-IRS- http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130525/OPINION01/305250016/1008/Special-prosecutor-IRS- 100308413 Editorials Sat, 25 May 2013 09:09:17 -0500 Detroit News Special Prosecutor for IRS? http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/25/amid_scandals_obama_looks_to_change_the_subject_308414.html http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/opinion/editorials/2013/05/obama_s_flawed_policy http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/opinion/editorials/2013/05/obama_s_flawed_policy 100308414 Editorials Sat, 25 May 2013 09:10:01 -0500 Boston Herald Amid Scandals, Obama Looks to Change the Subject http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/25/how_to_save_obama039s_second_term_308407.html http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21578389-despite-rancour-over-scandals-big-reforms-are-still-possible-how-save-obamas-second-term http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21578389-despite-rancour-over-scandals-big-reforms-are-still-possible-how-save-obamas-second-term 100308407 Editorials Sat, 25 May 2013 09:11:29 -0500 The Economist How to Save Obama's Second Term