Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2709 opinion Opinion - RealClearPolitics.com en-us Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:00:00 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2709 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/realclearpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/realclearpolitics/20091125/cm_rcp/how_unemployment_affects_midterm_elections realclearpolitics/20091125/how_unemployment_affects_midterm_elections RealClearPolitics.com opinion Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:00:00 GMT RealClearPolitics.com - It’s become something of an article of faith within the lay punditry that high unemployment and a weak recovery will seriously weigh down the Democrats’ performance in the 2010 midterm elections. People vote with their pocketbooks, the adage goes, and their pocketbooks are likely to be awfully thin in November of 2010. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/realclearpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/realclearpolitics/20091124/cm_rcp/obama039s_failing_too_much_head_too_little_gut realclearpolitics/20091124/obama039s_failing_too_much_head_too_little_gut RealClearPolitics.com opinion Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:00:00 GMT RealClearPolitics.com - Liberals have long sought the professorial president. But Barack Obama is starting to betray some of the vices of that virtue. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/realclearpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/realclearpolitics/20091124/cm_rcp/climategate_the_fix_is_in realclearpolitics/20091124/climategate_the_fix_is_in RealClearPolitics.com opinion Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:00:00 GMT RealClearPolitics.com - In early October, I covered a breaking story about evidence of corruption in the basic temperature records maintained by key scientific advocates of the theory of man-made global warming. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/realclearpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/realclearpolitics/20091124/cm_rcp/justice_the_chicago_way realclearpolitics/20091124/justice_the_chicago_way RealClearPolitics.com opinion Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:00:00 GMT RealClearPolitics.com - Chicago is known for a special brand of justice. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/realclearpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/realclearpolitics/20091117/cm_rcp/gop_dark_horses_for2012 realclearpolitics/20091117/gop_dark_horses_for2012 RealClearPolitics.com opinion Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:00:00 GMT RealClearPolitics.com - Three years before the 2008 election, Barack Obama was a freshman Senator from Illinois who had wowed the crowd with his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/realclearpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/realclearpolitics/20091117/cm_rcp/memo_to_holder_who039s_accountable_now realclearpolitics/20091117/memo_to_holder_who039s_accountable_now RealClearPolitics.com opinion Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:00:00 GMT RealClearPolitics.com - When the Clinton administration prosecuted the blind cleric, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, and nine co-defendants in federal court in New York for their roles in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, much less was known about al-Qaeda and the risks of using ordinary criminal process for terror suspects. Part of the legacy of that trial was the disclosure of information to the lawyers for the defendants that wound up promptly in the hands of al-Qaeda members who eventually would plan and execute the next attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The information, which revealed some of what our government knew about international terrorism and how we knew it, helped shield some of the terror enterprise's deadly planning from those trying earnestly to monitor and stop terrorism. No one will ever know how to apportion responsibility, but there should be no doubt that this was one of many contributing factors to the loss of nearly 3,000 innocent lives in the horrific attacks of 9/11. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/realclearpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/realclearpolitics/20091116/cm_rcp/government_health_fixes_will_leave_us_broke realclearpolitics/20091116/government_health_fixes_will_leave_us_broke RealClearPolitics.com opinion Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:00:00 GMT RealClearPolitics.com - By a razor-thin margin, lawmakers approved the trillion-dollar health reform package proposed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi late Saturday evening. Proponents of the measure claim that it will eventually pay for itself -- and even lower the nation's healthcare costs and the federal deficit. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/realclearpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/realclearpolitics/20091113/cm_rcp/can_the_clinton_coalition_survive_obama realclearpolitics/20091113/can_the_clinton_coalition_survive_obama RealClearPolitics.com opinion Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:00:00 GMT RealClearPolitics.com - John Judis and Ruy Teixeira's well-regarded 2002 work The Emerging Democratic Majority begins with a vignette set in Virginia. They tell the story of a telecom executive named Mark Warner, who runs a moderate campaign that appeals to upper-middle class suburbanites and working class rural voters, and manages to put together a winning coalition that, if imitated in other states, might put the Democrats in power for decades to come. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/realclearpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/realclearpolitics/20091113/cm_rcp/what_white_women_want_surprisingly_the_gop realclearpolitics/20091113/what_white_women_want_surprisingly_the_gop RealClearPolitics.com opinion Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:00:00 GMT RealClearPolitics.com - This week, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Florida Democrat, told reporters the GOP offers a "back-of-the-hand treatment to women." Later she said two conservative female representatives only serve to further "repulse women." You see, Schultz said on MSNBC, Republicans "don't really get very many women when it comes to elections."