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February 8, 2011
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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...
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President Obama 49.8 43.8 +6.0
Congress 24.4 69.0 -44.6
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