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Having trouble viewing this email? Tuesday, February 8, 2011 Inside RCP Polls Videos Issues Comments Links World Markets Sports February 8, 2011 You can always find the latest political news at RealClearPolitics.com. Top 5 Stories on RealClearPolitics We Need New Ideas on a Grand Scale - Bob Herbert, New York Times The Ronald Reagan crowd loved to talk about morning in America. For millions of individuals and families, perhaps the majority, it's more like tw... Obama's Spending: The Abysmal Results - Rep. Darrell Issa, Financial Times President Barack Obama's $814bn economic expansion has woefully failed to reach each of its self-imposed targets. The president's stimulus p... De-Mystifying the Reagan Mystique - Michael Kinsley, Politico This column is mostly self-plagiarism. Ten years ago, on the occasion of Ronald Reagan's 90th birthday, I tried to make a sober and compact case ... Why Are We Undermining Allies? - Thomas Sowell, Investor's Business Daily While everyone's attention seems to be focused on the crisis in Egypt, a bombshell revelation about the administration's foreign policy in E... The Uprising in Egypt - David Remnick, The New Yorker In 1983, the great writer of Cairo, Naguib Mahfouz, published "Before the Throne," a novella in which Egyptian rulers over five millennia, f... More Opinion and Analysis Gingrich Heading Back to Iowa on Saturday - Scott Conroy Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is making another trip to Iowa to gauge his level of support for a potential presidential campaign, RealClearPolit... Muddled Thinking About Islamic Radicalism - David Cameron Today I want to focus my remarks on terrorism, but first let me address one point. Some have suggested that by holding a strategic defence and secur... Democracy's Birthing Pains - Richard Cohen Every once in a while, I resurrect my Oveta Culp Hobby Award. Hobby was the Texas newspaper publisher who became Dwight D. Eisenhower's secretar... MORE ON REAL CLEAR Egypt, Israel and a Strategic Reconsideration - RealClearWorld The events in Egypt have sent shock waves through Israel. The 1978 Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel have been the bedrock of Israeli natio... Inflation Always Steals the Benefits of Devaluation - RealClearMarkets Though it's very incorrect, the prevailing view inside the political, media and economic establishment is that a weak dollar is helpful to commerce fo... LATEST VIDEO Sen. Rand Paul: $500 Billion Budget Cut Proposal Is "Modest" Rumsfeld: "McCain And I Are Not A Good Fit" Schultz To Big Business: "Man Up" RCP POLL AVERAGES Job Approval Approve Disapprove Spread President Obama 49.8 43.8 +6.0 Congress 24.4 69.0 -44.6 Unsubscribe from this newsletter.