Thursday, December 06, 2007

Todays RCP Articles

Today's RCP Articles

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NIE's Upshot: War Is Out, but Iran Is Dangerous

Posted: 06 Dec 2007 12:55 AM CST

The new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran ought to be greeted with cheers and bipartisan agreement on vigorous carrot-and-stick diplomacy to get Iran to open its nuclear program to international...

Romney's Risky Venture

Posted: 06 Dec 2007 12:50 AM CST

WASHINGTON -- Two weeks ago it was settled policy within Mitt Romney's campaign that his speech dealing with his Mormon faith would be delivered much later -- if at all -- and only after primary...

Of Teddy Bears and Cartoons

Posted: 06 Dec 2007 12:45 AM CST

Here we go again. Thousands of Sudanese Muslims took to the street last week to threaten death to a British schoolteacher in Khartoum. Her crime? She inadvertently committed the felony of allowing...

Get Ready for the GOP Playoffs

Posted: 06 Dec 2007 12:45 AM CST

This past week, we reviewed how the race for the Democratic presidential nomination is still Hillary Clinton's to lose. The Republican hopefuls, meanwhile, face a much different type of contest....

Fighting History In Harlem

Posted: 06 Dec 2007 12:42 AM CST

HARLEM (or maybe not) -- Asked whether his brownstone residence is in Harlem, the Rev. Michel Faulkner says, well, that depends. "When something bad happens, the neighborhood is called Harlem. When...

NIE Report is Propoganda Victory for Iran

Posted: 06 Dec 2007 12:41 AM CST

The Islamic Republic of Iran has just achieved a major victory in its battle for dominance of the Middle East. America's military might in the region has largely been neutralized as a threat to...

Facts Derail Bush's Iran Plan

Posted: 06 Dec 2007 12:35 AM CST

Even when George W. Bush tells the truth, he cannot quite bring himself to tell the whole truth. Although the White House released a new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's pursuit of nuclear...

Be Leery Of Mortgage-Meltdown Fixes

Posted: 06 Dec 2007 12:32 AM CST

There will be few winners in the mortgage meltdown. Democrats may be an exception, but they can blow it by trying too hard to fix what pains so many homeowners facing foreclosure. On the campaign...

How the U.K. and U.S. Made the Modern World

Posted: 06 Dec 2007 12:31 AM CST

Ah, the 1990's: those fabled halcyon days of peace, prosperity, and that confident American post-Cold War glow. For those yearning to return to the relative calm of the last decade, last week's...

The Possibility of Contested Conventions

Posted: 06 Dec 2007 12:30 AM CST

It's the dream of every political junkie in America and the nightmare of every presidential campaign: a contested convention that forces the nomination fight beyond the first ballot. But whether...

Rudy Strictly Speaking

Posted: 06 Dec 2007 12:28 AM CST

Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani was in Washington on Tuesday to raise money... and to see me. In a nondescript office building two blocks from the White House, Giuliani answered a...

Obama: The Post-Polarization Candidate

Posted: 06 Dec 2007 12:25 AM CST

BOSTON -- I bow to no one in my distaste for food-fight politics. I don't want to dine with absolutists and ideologues hurling red meat at each other. For that matter, I have long amused myself with...

Secure Iraq Needs Humanitarian Assistance

Posted: 06 Dec 2007 12:20 AM CST

WASHINGTON -- You can call it a lull, a temporary truce, or a fragile beginning of possible rebirth. Renaissance is not a word easily applied to Iraq, where the government is incapable of providing...

Wanted: 'A Five-Cent Synthesis'

Posted: 06 Dec 2007 12:15 AM CST

Once upon a time, the university encouraged students to think big across the centuries, to read and study the best that had stood the test of time. The ivy-covered tower was a place to open the mind,...

They'll Never Forgive You

Posted: 06 Dec 2007 12:09 AM CST

Poor Ron Radosh is still hoping liberals will forgive him. He wrote a good book a quarter-century ago with Joyce Milton -- "The Rosenberg File" -- which was supposed to exonerate Julius Rosenberg,...