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The Spirit of Resistance

Feature Article by , December 21, 2012

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The Fiscal Cliff Agenda

Note by , December 11, 2012

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20th Century Lite Gets Heavier

Feature Article by , November 9, 2012

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The Other Side Gets a Vote

Feature Article by , November 7, 2012

As I write this, it is approaching midnight, and it is clear that President Obama has very narrowly won re-election. I mean very narrowly. As I write, he is only one-tenth of a percentage point above Mitt Romney in the popular vote count (49.3% to 49.2%). Many votes from the West Coast are still being [...]

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Why Mitt Romney Is Winning

Commentary by , October 24, 2012

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The Moral Case for Romney-Ryan

Feature Article by , October 10, 2012

What is most astonishing about the debate over the economics of entitlements and the national debt is the complacency on this issue among the political and economic establishment. President Obama has adopted the Alfred E. Neuman Doctrine: “What, me worry?” Paul Krugman, who seems to be on a personal crusade to devalue the Nobel Prize [...]

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The Economic Case for Romney-Ryan

Feature Article by , October 8, 2012

Editor’s Note: Now that we’re in October and past the first debate, it is time for my official recommendation for the presidential race. The article that begins below is not just the case against Obama—I’ve been presenting that for five years. This is the case for Romney and Ryan. (There’s a reason for the “and [...]

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Notes on the Republican Convention

Commentary by , September 2, 2012

I provided quite a lot of coverage of the Republican convention last week in my RealClearPolitics newsletter, The Daily Debate. See my comments on Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3. I want to draw your attention to a few highlights from that coverage that are particularly important, add a few points that I didn’t [...]

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The Tea Party Era

Feature Article by , August 25, 2012

The Todd Akin case in Missouri—the Republican Senate candidate who declared that women can’t get pregnant from a “legitimate rape”—is a bit of a sideshow and a distraction, since almost no one in the party is backing him. In fact, for all the blustering outrage against Akin from the left, the most accurate and devastating [...]

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High Risk, High Reward

Feature Article by , August 15, 2012

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