Today's RCP Articles

Today's RCP Articles


The Left Before The Fall
Posted: 04 Aug 2007 12:46 AM GMT-06:00
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...


Russia 'Annexes' the North Pole
Posted: 04 Aug 2007 12:45 AM GMT-06:00
Everyone knows that Santa Claus is a citizen of Canada. Innumerable children the world over send their Christmas wishes to him every year, in care of Canada Post. And we all know that Santa lives at...


Bill Steers Clear of Hillary-Barack Feud
Posted: 04 Aug 2007 12:29 AM GMT-06:00
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 12:25 AM GMT-06:00
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 12:22 AM GMT-06:00
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 12:21 AM GMT-06:00
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 12:17 AM GMT-06:00
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 12:17 AM GMT-06:00
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 10:30 AM GMT-06:00
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 07:30 AM GMT-06:00
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 12:37 AM GMT-06:00
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 12:35 AM GMT-06:00
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 12:33 AM GMT-06:00
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 12:33 AM GMT-06:00
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 12:30 AM GMT-06:00
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...