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December 18, 2006 Archives

RealClearPolitics Morning Edition

Send More Troops? Only If We Mean It - Ralph Peters, New York Post
Time to Move Beyond Iraq - Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek
Iraq May Still Be the Issue in 2008 - Peter Brown, Quinnipiac
Obama & the Experience Factor - Michael Barone, US News & World Report
How Will Obama Define Himself? - John Heilemann, New York Magazine
2008 Dem Race Will Pit 2 Goliaths - Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun-Times
Not So Fast: Why Obama May Not Run - John Fund, Opinion Journal
The Democrats' Shrinking Presidential Field - Walter Shapiro, Salon
The Republican Identity Crisis - Michael Gerson, Newsweek
America's Anxiety Attack - Mortimer Zuckerman, New York Daily News
Are Americans Ready for Fiscal Sanity? - David Francis, CS Monitor
Capitalists We Don't Trust - Sebastian Mallaby, Washington Post
Why Bush Has Embraced India - Daniel Twining, Weekly Standard
Big Talk and No Action with China - Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect
Reviving the Bush Presidency - Dick Morris & Eileen McGann, NY Post
A New Mideast, or Wishful Thinking? - Fred Hiatt, Washington Post
Past the Apogee: America Under Pressure - Charles Krauthammer, FPRI

RealClearPolitics Evening Edition

A War That Abhors a Vacuum - Maj. Ben Connable, New York Times
Awaiting Final Word on Iraq Report's Impact - Lee Hamilton, Indy Star
Will Bush Focus on Arab-Israeli Peace? - Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times
Iran's Crocodile Rocked - Pepe Escobar, Asia Times
Pins for Obama's Balloon - Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune
Will They Believe Romney? - Byron York, NRO
Parenting in Uncharted Territory - Cathy Young, Boston Globe
Kirkpatrick Set a Very High Bar - Joseph Duggan, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Teddy Awards, 2006: Kofi Annan, Al Gore & More - Joe Klein, Time
When Jackals Play Watchdog - Peter Brookes, New York Post

Editorials

Comprehensive Reform: A Way to End the Immigration Sham - NY Times
Democratic Double Talk on Immigration - Washington Times
An Rx for Health Coverage - Chicago Tribune
More Campus Thought Police - Las Vegas Review-Journal

Politics & Election News

Obama Forces Shuffle in Early '08 Lineup - Wall Street Journal
U.S. Is Proposing to Cut Medicaid's Drug Payments - New York Times
Powell Says U.S. Is Losing War in Iraq - Washington Post
Reid: Sen. Johnson 'Going to Be Just Fine' - Associated Press

RCP Resource Center

Special Report w/ Brit Hume: Episcopal Church Split, 2008 Dem Race
NewsHour w/ Jim Lehrer: Panel Debates Proposal to Increase Troops
O'Reilly Factor: O'Reilly Goes to Iraq (Video)
Hardball w/ Chris Matthews: DeNiro, Damon Talk Politics & Patriotism