<![CDATA[ - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]> http://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/rss/archive/0.xml Author <![CDATA[Analysis: Obama Plan Leaves Iraq Mostly On Its Own]]> Fri, 20 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500 WASHINGTON (AP) -- For years, the U.S. has been clear about its intent to step back from Iraq. The restrained American military aid now being offered to defend Baghdad against a ferocious Sunni insurgency reaffirms the Obama administration's mantra that Iraq is still largely on its own.

What hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops, during more than eight years of war, apparently could not achieve in training Iraqi forces to defend the nation's vast deserts and dusty towns is now being tasked to a few dozen teams of Green Berets and other SPECIAL forces and stepped-up surveillance.

On Thursday, President Barack Obama ordered 300 special forces soldiers to advise joint...]]> <![CDATA[PA: Democratic Candidate Touts Manufacturing Plan in Oakmont]]> Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500 <![CDATA[Biden: Senators to Vice President: We Want Hillary Clinton]]> Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500 <![CDATA[Senate Majority Might Not Be Decided Until December]]> Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500 <![CDATA[NY: Republican Rob Astorino Visits Buffalo]]> Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500 <![CDATA[OK: Tom Coburn's Potential Replacements Jockey for His Mantle]]> Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500 <![CDATA[AZ-7: Arizona Congressional Candidate Changes Name to Cesar Chavez]]> Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500 <![CDATA[Perry: If I Run, "I Will Be Prepared"]]> Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500 <![CDATA[Perry Getting Ready for a 2016 Campaign]]> Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500 <![CDATA[NY-22: Will Eric Hanna Be The Next Eric Cantor?]]> Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500 <![CDATA[CA-31: Recount Planned on Behalf of Third-Place Lesli Gooch]]> Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500 <![CDATA[MD: Heather Mizeur's Progressive Politics Deeply Rooted in her Past]]> Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500 <![CDATA[MD: Maryland's Snoozefest: "Oh Right, There's an Election"]]> Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500 <![CDATA[Decision Against Redskins Is a Victory for Tolerance]]> Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500 SHORTLY AFTER the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced Wednesday that it was canceling the Washington Redskins’ trademark registration because the team name disparages Native Americans, team owner Dan Snyder waved off a reporter’s question about the decision and walked away.

]]> <![CDATA[Iraq: How Did It Come to This?]]> Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500 TENSION had long been mounting in Sunni-majority parts of Iraq. When it broke on June 10th, violence spread with the force of a flash flood in the desert. Within 48 hours of seizing Mosul, Iraq’s second-biggest city, Sunni rebels had barrelled down a 200-mile stretch of the Tigris river valley, scattering troops loyal to Iraq’s Shia-dominated central government and threatening Baghdad, the capital.

]]> <![CDATA[Bera, Peters Say They're Eager to Debate Challengers]]> Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500 <![CDATA[Patent Office Comanches]]> Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500 From J. Edgar Hoover's FBI to Lois Lerner's IRS, we thought we'd seen everything in the politicization-of-government file. But now even the lowly patent clerks are following liberal orders and deputizing themselves as George Custers to drive the Washington Redskins out of America.

]]> <![CDATA[Is Hillary Clinton Imploding?]]> Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500 By just about every account, her book is uninteresting and unreflective, a carefully contrived piece of positioning. Yet instead of owning that, she insisted at an event that she was "done with being really careful about what to say." And that was before uttering inanities about how "the American political system is the most difficult, even brutal, in the world ." (She might look at Egypt, for instance. Or Venezuela. Or China. Or Greece. Or Russia. Or any country where instability and chaos is the norm and the children of former presidents aren't given $600,000 sinecures from independent_"independent"?_media conglomerates.)

]]> <![CDATA[MS: GOP Rivals Locked in Tight, Nasty Runoff]]> Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500 <![CDATA[Lois Lerner's Vanishing E-Mails]]> Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500 The IRS’s claim that it lost the e-mails of multiple key employees, at precisely the moment that Congress began looking into the agency’s unethical and illegal political persecutions, challenges even the most credulous mind.

]]> <![CDATA[Republican Calls for Recount in CA-31]]> Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500 <![CDATA[Clinton Navigates Balancing Act as Obama Leadership Questione]]> Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500 <![CDATA[Schweitzer: How Much Can You Run Your Mouth While Running for WH?]]> Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500 <![CDATA[CA-52 (SurveyUSA): DeMaio Leads Peters]]> Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500 <![CDATA[Jindal Plans to Cut Ties to Common Core in Louisiana]]> Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500 <![CDATA[Justice Much Delayed in Benghazi]]> Wed, 18 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500 As the consequences of President Obama’s feckless policies in the Middle East and North Africa become ever more obvious, the administration had one bit of good news to share with the nation yesterday.

]]> <![CDATA[Scalia's Uncommon Sense on Guns]]> Wed, 18 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500 U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has just slyly pointed out how crazy U.S. gun laws are. Scalia's typically scathing dissent in the court's 5-4 decision this week prohibiting straw buyers from purchasing guns, along with the majority's suspiciously reasonable opinion, exposes Congress's legislative failure.

]]> <![CDATA[IRS Scandal: Time for Special Prosecutor]]> Wed, 18 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500 It has been more than a year since IRS official Lois Lerner admitted that the tax-collection agency had targeted conservative groups for special scrutiny before the 2012 presidential election. In his initial reaction, President Barack Obama expressed dismay and vowed to get to the bottom of what the IRS had done. Soon afterward, however, the president called this a “phony scandal.”

]]> <![CDATA[A Balancing Act on Iraq]]> Wed, 18 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500 President Obama has, so far, struck the right note on Iraq, where Sunni extremist militants are seizing territory and threatening the existence of the state. He has been cautious — emphasizing the need for political reform in Iraq and reaching out to other countries that could have an impact on its fate.

]]> <![CDATA[Obama Will Headline Two 2014 Fundraisers Next Month]]> Wed, 18 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500