Today's RCP Articles

Today's RCP Articles


The Left Before The Fall
Posted: 04 Aug 2007 01:46 AM CDT
From a distance of nearly 50 years, the liberalism of 1960 is hardly recognizable. It was comfortable with the use of American power abroad, unabashedly patriotic, and forward-looking. But that was...


Bill Steers Clear of Hillary-Barack Feud
Posted: 04 Aug 2007 01:29 AM CDT
The clearest indication that Hillary's direct and personal attack on Obama last week was a failure is the fact that Bill sounded the retreat in his speech this week at the Democratic Leadership...


Barack Obama: Back to the Minors?
Posted: 04 Aug 2007 01:25 AM CDT
Politicians often make asses of themselves, but rarely with the premeditation of Sen. Barack Obama. Sen. Obama was stung by Sen. Hillary Clinton's description of him as "irresponsible and naive"...


A Modest Proposal: Let Consumers Know Costs
Posted: 04 Aug 2007 01:22 AM CDT
Consumers have an insatiable appetite to learn more about all things related to their health. Last year, some 113 million of them used the Internet to get health information. Each day, eight million...


Who Are Our Friends? Who Are Our Enemies?
Posted: 04 Aug 2007 01:21 AM CDT
SAG HARBOR, N.Y. -- I was so amazed and angry when the White House began talking about invading Iraq that I joked, sort of: "Well, if we're determined to attack Arab countries, why not start with our...


Majority Leader's Leader
Posted: 04 Aug 2007 01:17 AM CDT
WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid shrugged off White House complaints that the Senate's delay is curtailing U.S. monitoring of international terrorists by putting the blame on a fellow...


Live Free and Vote
Posted: 04 Aug 2007 01:17 AM CDT
PETERBOROUGH, N.H. -- Take the quiet drive from Ossipee to Peterborough of a summer Sunday morning and along the piney roadway you may see these signs and symbols: An older woman in a patterned...


Edwards Turns Left, and Finds Howard Dean
Posted: 03 Aug 2007 11:30 AM CDT
While Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton had it out last week, John Edwards was the forgotten man. Even though the Politico's veteran reporter Roger Simon gave the June 23 CNN/YouTube debate to...


The GOP, Ron Paul & Non-Interventionism
Posted: 03 Aug 2007 08:30 AM CDT
In politics, ideas frequently spread like viruses. Even if their host succumbs, the ideas that animated them can survive to infect the body politic. Such was the certainly case with Arizona Senator...


In Defense of Drunken Astronauts
Posted: 03 Aug 2007 01:37 AM CDT
WASHINGTON -- Someone's gotta do it. No one's gonna do it. So I'll do it. Your Honor, I rise in defense of drunken astronauts. You've all heard the reports, delivered in scandalized tones on...


Reluctant Class Warriors
Posted: 03 Aug 2007 01:35 AM CDT
Back in the hot summer of 1990, Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell proudly engineered the infamous "luxury tax," a nasty little tithe on everything from furs to jewelry to yachts. Democrats were...


Onward -- Into Waziristan!
Posted: 03 Aug 2007 01:33 AM CDT
With Hillary Clinton's lead growing, Barack Obama appears to be overreaching to keep the spotlight and highlight their differences. His suggestion that sex education begin in...


Does Edwards Need an Ivy Education?
Posted: 03 Aug 2007 01:33 AM CDT
John Edwards's campaign seems to have hit a roadblock that could seriously hurt his chances of securing the Democratic nomination. And it has nothing to do with any of his perceived screw-ups that...


The Rise of Kos
Posted: 03 Aug 2007 01:30 AM CDT
Perhaps you missed it, but Wednesday was the 19th anniversary of Rush Limbaugh's radio show. Limbaugh was celebrating his ripe old age, in media years, in the same week that liberal blog fans were...


What Matters About Romney's Religion
Posted: 03 Aug 2007 01:30 AM CDT
The first Mormon to run for president was the first Mormon. Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, formally announced his candidacy on Jan. 19, 1844, urging his...