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April 16, 2015

Real Clear Politics Thursday

For Better/Worse, Hillary Runs for Obama 3rd Term - Harry Enten, 538
Hillary Shouldn't Escape Blame for Libya - M.B. Dougherty, The Week
Clinton Lifts Populist Spirits - Brent Budowksy, The Hill
Hillary's Liz Warren Impression Not Going Well - Charles Cooke, NRO
Chris Christie Can Win New Hampshire - Drew Cline, NH Union Leader
Kasich Good for GOP, Good for America - Nolan Finley, Detroit News
McConnell's War on Imperiled Wildlife - Jamie Rappaport Clark, RCP
The Iran Deal's Rare Achievement - Nicholas Burns, Boston Globe
Rolling Stone Got it Wrong. Now What? - Eric Dezenhall, RealClearPolitics
The Arrogance of Aaron Hernandez - Brendan Koerner, The New Yorker
Nation Saw More Than a Martyr in Lincoln - Carl Cannon, RealClearPolitics

More From Real Clear

Policy: The Obamas' Tax Return & the 2% - Roberton Williams, TaxVox
Science: 'Middle Age' Now Lasts Until 74 - Sarah Knapton, Telegraph
Education: 5 Questions With John Engler - Emmeline Zhao, RCEducation
Energy: Is Obama's Clean Power Plan Doomed? - Potts & Barnes, RCEnergy
Sports: 'Guilty of Murder in the First Degree' - Dan Wetzel, Yahoo Sports

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RCP Morning Edition

Iran Nuclear Deal Shows Limits of Obama's Power - Peter Baker, NY Times
The Battle of Washington - Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal
Clinton Reaches for Reset Button in Iowa - Dan Balz, Washington Post
Jeepers! Hillary's Run Creepier Than You Think - Heather Wilhelm, RCP
Hillary's Wall St. Backers: We Get It - DeBenedetti, Vogel & White, Politico
In Praising ObamaCare, They Bury It - Cliff Asness, Wall Street Journal
Has ObamaCare Turned Us Off Sharing Wealth? - Thomas Edsall, NYT
Chris Christie's Tilt at Social Security - Charles Lane, Washington Post
The Spirit of Marco Rubio's Father - Caitlin Huey-Burns, RealClearPolitics
Rubio's Fountain of Youth - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
Right-Wing Hostility to Rubio Tax Plan Unwise - J. Pethokoukis, The Week
The Value of All Universities - Frank Bruni, RCP Changing Lanes
Sustainability Gone Wild on Campus - George Will, Washington Post
The Myth of Police Reform - Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic
Cop-Haters Seek to Demonize Law Enforcement - Bill O'Reilly, Fox News
New Abortion Ban the Most Dangerous Yet - Dahlia Lithwick, Slate
Meet the Real Abortion Extremists - David Harsanyi, The Federalist
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Editorials

How Lois Lerner Got a Pass - Wall Street Journal
Putin's Dangerous Moves - New York Times
The Hillary Show - New York Post
Don't Let Hernandez's Fame Overshadow Lloyd's Life - Boston Globe

Real Clear Politics Wednesday

Morning Update
Hillary's Ungainly Glide - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
A Big Security Edge for Hillary Clinton - Kirsten Powers, USA Today
Clinton's Learning the Wrong Lessons From Obama - Josh Kraushaar, NJ
Raise Our Taxes. Please. - Danny Vinik, The New Republic
Rubio Thinks About Tomorrow - Stephen Hayes, Weekly Standard
The Retro Futurism of Marco Rubio - Lawrence Downes, New York Times
The Big Problem With the IRS - Gerri Willis, RealClearPolitics
Hillary Clinton Is a Survivor - Richard Cohen, Washington Post
Why Hillary Clinton Will Likely Lose - Megan McArdle, Bloomberg
The College Admissions Frenzy - Frank Bruni, RCP Changing Lanes
CIA Needs an Iran "Team B" - Mukasey & Carroll, Wall Street Journal
The U.S. and China: What's Up With You? - Thomas Friedman, NY Times
What the U.S. Got From Cuba Deal: Zilch - Ben Domenech, The Daily Beast
Success in the Senate on Iran Deal - Cardenas & McLarty, RealClearPolitics
GOP Offers New Faces, Stale Ideas - Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, USAT
Clinton Is Everything Dems Say They Oppose - Tim Carney, DC Examiner
The One President All of Them Want to Be More Like - Peter Baker, NYT

Afternoon Update
What Hillary Clinton Has Going for Her - John Dickerson, Slate
Hillary Clinton's Joyless Ride - Rich Lowry, National Review
What Are Dems' Alternatives to Clintonland? - Doyle McManus, LA Times
Has Rubio Learned His Lesson? - Byron York, Washington Examiner
The Trials of John Roberts - Jeffrey Rosen, The Atlantic
A Make-or-Break Obamacare Moment - Sen. Ron Johnson, Wall St. Journal
Putin's Iran Game Bests Obama - Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg
Will Senate Become Monty Python's Dead Parrot? - Charles Lipson, RCP
Republicans Push for a Permanent Aristocracy - Dana Milbank, Wash Post
Gwyneth Paltrow's Poverty Voyeurism - Michelle Malkin, Townhall
Does Lincoln Belong to "the Ages" or "the Angels"? - Carl M. Cannon, RCP

Real Clear Policy

The Obamas' Tax Return and the 2 Percent - Roberton Williams, TaxVox
Returning to the Exurbs - Teresa Wiltz, Stateline
Legalizing Free-Range Parenting - Naomi Schaefer Riley, Family Studies
High Deductibles, Narrow Networks: Good? - Uwe Reinhardt, Forbes
Doc Fix May Hit a Wall: Doctors - Megan McArdle, Bloomberg View

Real Clear Markets

Why the Global Economic Recovery Could Stall Out - Eric Pianin, TFT
Why Even High Earners Are Struggling to Save - Kelley Holland, CNBC
The Great Bond Conundrum We Face - The Economist
Where Have All the Consumers Gone? - A. Gary Shilling, Bloomberg View
One Investment You Need Most for a Successful Retirement - Money

Real Clear World

Where Does Hillary Stand on China, Russia? - Steve Clemons, Atlantic
Dynasties: The Troubling Power of Political Families - The Economist
Isolationism and Endless U.S. Concessions - CA Montaner, RealClearWorld
Ukraine Cannot Be Poland - Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Europe
In Exile, Ready to Save Russia - Ilya Ponomarev, New York Times

Real Clear Defense

The Kurds' Heroic Struggle Against ISIS - M. Totten, World Affairs Journal
Why Do the Chinese Hack? Fear - Enrique Oti, War on the Rocks
The Pentagon Says This Man Can Fix Its Personnel System - G Lubold, D1
Pentagon: Gen. in Charge of Syria Program Not Leaving - K. Wong, Hill
Chinese ASAT Test Was 'Successful' - Colin Clark, Breaking Defense

Real Clear Science

Yes, It Is Possible to Catch Insanity - Andrew Curry, Nautilus
Mentally Ill in a High-Stakes Job - Karen Veazey, The Atlantic
Fatal Brain Disease in U.S. Man Likely from UK Beef - R. Rettner, LS
'Mind-Reading' Kids More Popular at School - Anna Salleh, ABC Sci.
Female Chimps Make and Wield Spears - Jennifer Viegas, Discovery

Real Clear Technology

Why Microsoft's Surface 3 is a Game Changer - T. Green, Motley Fool
Netflix CEO: TV Had a Good Run - Jay Yarow, Business Insider
Yes, Netflix, HBO Is a Threat - Julia Greenberg, Wired
Listening To Music In An Age Of Infinite Choice - David Nield, ReadWrite
Key to Apple's Success: Quality or Hype? - A. Leather, Forbes

Real Clear Energy

Laurence Tribe For Coal Vs. The EPA - Brian Beutler, The New Republic
Big Coal Gets its Day in Court - Dan Weissmann, Marketplace
Sustainability Investing is an Empty Pose - George Will, National Review
Halting the EPA's Power Grab - Washington Times
Clean Energy: Gaining but not Winning Yet - Brad Plumer, VOX

Real Clear History

German Collapse on Eastern Front - Peter Chen, World War II Database
Red Army Makes Last Push for Berlin - James McGhee, Military History
McClellan Failure at Lee's Mill - John Rickard, History of War
Masada: A Fortress of Jewish Defiance - Jewish Virtual Library
My Enduring Fascination With Titanic - James Cameron, Der Spiegel

Real Clear Religion

C.S. Lewis's Wit - Michael Ward, School of Christian Thought
When LDS Faith Gets Physical - Jerry Earl Johnston, Deseret News
Good Catholic, Good American? - James Kalb, Catholic World Report
What Anticipated the Holocaust - Michael Weingrad, Mosaic Magazine
The New Episcopal Church? - Seitz & McCall, Anglican Communion Inst.

Real Clear Education

Has America 'Solved Every Problem in Public Ed'? - E. Zhao, RCEducation
Common Core Tests Halted in 3 States over Server Issue - Sally Ho, AP
Common Core Testing Optional in Montana - Caroline Porter, WSJ
Montana's Assessment Snafus Could 'Test' NCLB Law - Alyson Klein, PK12
PARCC May Nix 2-Part 'Core' Tests, Combine - P. O'Donnell, Plain Dealer

Real Clear Sports

Wasted Career Not the Real Story - Gary Myers, New York Daily News
7 NFL Teams That Need a Good Draft - Gil Brandt, NFL.com
How Cal Converted a Conservative Southerner - Jon Solomon, CBS Sports
Yankees Already Looking Like Losers - Ken Davidoff, New York Post
Red Sox Roller Coaster the New Normal - Neil Paine, FiveThirtyEight

Real Clear Books

Move Over, Freakonomics! - Diana Furchtgott-Roth, MarketWatch
The Year that Changed Everything - John Rentoul, The Independent
Was I Wrong About the End of Science? - John Horgan, Scientific American
12 Timeless Lessons From Warren Buffett's Favorite Book - Biz Insider
Book is a Guidepost to Millennial Generation - Anna Wiener, New Republic

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Plan has drawn criticism in conservative circles.

Lincoln: Does He Belong to "the Ages" or "the Angels"?

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The measure was approved unanimously.

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Rasmussen: 48% Approve - 50% Disapprove
RCP Average: 45.3% Approve - 50.1% Disapprove

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S. 905 - An original bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the limitation on eligibility for the alternative tax for certain small insurance companies. more »
Status: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 39. - Apr 14, 2015
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Status: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 40. - Apr 14, 2015
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