Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:45:45 -0500 06/17/2013/00/00/00 Ron Fournier, National Journal
There is a common element to the so-called Obama scandals"”the IRS targeting of conservatives, the fatal attack in Benghazi, and widespread spying on U.S. journalists and ordinary Americans. It is a lack of credibility.In each case, the Obama administration has helped make controversies worse by changing its stories, distorting facts, and lying.The abuse of trust may be taking a toll on President Obama's reputation.http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/06/17/president_obama039s_credibility_crisis_309912.htmlhttp://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/do-you-trust-this-man-20130617http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/do-you-trust-this-man-20130617 100309912 PM Update Ron Fournier, National Journal President Obama's Credibility Crisis Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:26:31 -0500 06/17/2013/00/00/00 Jonathan Chait, NY Magazine
Part of the fascination of the immigration-reform saga is that it provides a test of the Republican Party elite’s ability to tame its own base. For most of the Obama era, the bulging-eyed mania of the conservative activist base helpfully served the party’s interests. President Obama’s initiatives like reforming health care and stimulating the economy were at cross-purposes with the GOP’s goals, and conservative rage created a passion supporters never matched, helping make those laws unpopular as a whole. The Russian roulette debt-ceiling showdowns...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/06/17/the_immigration_test_for_republicans_309919.htmlhttp://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/06/gaffe-that-threatens-immigration-reform.htmlhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/06/gaffe-that-threatens-immigration-reform.html 100309919 PM Update Jonathan Chait, NY Magazine The Immigration Test for Republicans Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:56 -0500 06/17/2013/00/00/00 Peter Kirsanow, WV Gazette
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The Senate has begun debate on the proposed immigration reform bill. If this bill becomes law, there is one likely outcome for low-skilled West Virginia workers: Disaster.The assurances of the bill's proponents that the bill will somehow help the economy obscure copious evidence that the bill will wreak enormous damage to the employment prospects of American workers who have already seen their wages and employment rates plummet over the last several years.http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/06/17/immigration_bill_a_disaster_for_unemployed_309910.htmlhttp://www.wvgazette.com/Opinion/OpEdCommentaries/201306140130http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.wvgazette.com/Opinion/OpEdCommentaries/201306140130 100309910 PM Update Peter Kirsanow, WV Gazette Immigration Bill a Disaster for Unemployed Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:42:31 -0500 06/17/2013/00/00/00 Ben Domenech, The Transom
What was Marco Rubio sent to Washington to do? The concern among Rubio’s team of the rising chorus of “Marco’s gone Washington” shouldn’t surprise them considering his approach to the gamesmanship of typical Senatorial give and take. The problem is a simple one: Rubio was originally sold to the Republican base as not just a good speaker or an inspiring life story, but as a change agent, one of the few politicians who could actually move the country right. His acceptance of the Gang of Eight’s approach to wheeling and dealing their...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/17/marco_rubios_insider_problem_118839.htmlhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/17/marco_rubios_insider_problem_118839.htmlhttp://dyn.realclearpolitics.com/printpage/?url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/17/marco_rubios_insider_problem_118839.html 200309902 PM Update Ben Domenech, The Transom Marco Rubio's Insider Problem Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:47:48 -0500 06/17/2013/00/00/00 Ian Bremmer & Nouriel Roubini, Institutional Investor
Forget the New Normal. Five years after the financial crisis, we've entered a period of increasing global uncertainty and instability that is almost certain to trigger new crises.http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/06/17/the_new_abnormal_309921.htmlhttp://www.realclearmarkets.com/http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.realclearmarkets.com/ 100309921 PM Update Ian Bremmer & Nouriel Roubini, Institutional Investor The New Abnormal Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:10:26 -0500 06/17/2013/00/00/00 Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker
Since the first week of June, when the Washington Post and London’s Guardian, doing the work that journalism is supposed to do, published detailed news of the National Security Agency’s gigantic programs of cell-phone and Internet information-gathering, the world has been riveted. These were scoops of a high order. Yet they were more in the nature of confirmations than of revelations. The existence and the ambitiousness of what was referred to in this space, two weeks before the Post and Guardian stories, as the N.S.A.’s “data collection and analysis on...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/06/17/tough_questions_on_snoop_scoops_309929.htmlhttp://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2013/06/24/130624taco_talk_hertzberghttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2013/06/24/130624taco_talk_hertzberg 100309929 PM Update Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker Tough Questions on Snoop Scoops Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:12:40 -0500 06/17/2013/00/00/00 Liz Sidoti, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — A member of Congress asks the director of national intelligence if the National Security Agency collects data on millions of Americans. "No, sir," James Clapper responds. Pressed, he adds a caveat: "Not wittingly."Then, NSA programs that do precisely that are disclosed.It turns out that President Barack Obama's intelligence chief lied. Or as he put it last week: "I responded in what I thought was the most truthful or least most untruthful manner, by saying, 'No,' because the program was classified."The White House stands...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/17/when_lying_is_acceptable_the_public_loses_118834.htmlhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/17/when_lying_is_acceptable_the_public_loses_118834.htmlhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/17/when_lying_is_acceptable_the_public_loses_118834.html 200309871 PM Update Liz Sidoti, Associated Press When Lying Is Acceptable, the Public Loses Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:18:28 -0500 06/17/2013/00/00/00 Victor Davis Hanson, NRO
Syria is turning out to be a sort of Spanish Civil War of our age, with Hezbollah and Iran playing the role of fascist Italy and Germany, and the Islamic nations and jihadists that of Stalin’s Russia, as the moderates disappear and the messy conflict becomes a proxy war for greater powers, with worse to come. There were always problems for the Obama administration intervening in Syria besides the usual bad/worse choices in the Middle East between authoritarianism and Islamic extremism and the president’s own preference for sonorous sermons rather than rapid action.http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/06/17/intervention_in_syria_is_a_very_bad_idea_309915.htmlhttp://www.nationalreview.com/corner/351250/intervention-syria-very-bad-idea-victor-davis-hanson 100309915 PM Update Victor Davis Hanson, NRO Intervention in Syria Is a Very Bad Idea Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:19:13 -0500 06/17/2013/00/00/00 Joan Walsh, Salon
Sarah Palin is back! Not only did she get another Fox News contract, she was the star of Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom Conference this past weekend for her slashing attacks not only on President Obama and Democrats but on Republican sellouts (and 2016 hopefuls) like Jeb Bush. Watching Palin gleefully take on Bush, who made a dumb comment about needing immigration reform because immigrants are “more fertile” than native-born Americans, I realized that Palin’s star really is rising again, at a time of heightened racial insecurity on the white far-right....http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/06/17/palin_is_the_smiley_face_of_white_backlash_309916.htmlhttp://www.salon.com/2013/06/17/the_return_of_sarah_palin/http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.salon.com/2013/06/17/the_return_of_sarah_palin/ 100309916 PM Update Joan Walsh, Salon Palin Is the Smiley Face of White Backlash Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:57:14 -0500 06/17/2013/00/00/00 Salena Zito, PTR
Republicans have talked about pursuing a different kind of candidate since what seems like forever. Heck, the national party even convened a special, secret task force just for that purpose late last year, after losing key demographic groups such as women and Hispanics.Yet, given exactly the kind of candidate they hire people to find out in the hinterlands, Republicans are oddly not engaged with helping him cross the finish line in a special election that would significantly stun Democrats.Gabriel Gomez is a Massachusetts Republican running to fill John Kerry's vacated U.S. Senate seat;...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/17/republicans_not_seizing_chance_to_stun_dems_in_massachusetts_118841.htmlhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/17/republicans_not_seizing_chance_to_stun_dems_in_massachusetts_118841.htmlhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/17/republicans_not_seizing_chance_to_stun_dems_in_massachusetts_118841.html 200309913 PM Update Salena Zito, PTR Republicans Not Seizing Chance to Stun Dems in Ma. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:50:37 -0500 06/17/2013/00/00/00 Hilary Hylton, Time
Watching Gov. Rick Perry pitch the wonders of Texas to an audience is a little like sitting in the front row of a ’50s Broadway musical. It’s easy to imagine this good-lookin’ sweet-talkin’ Texas cowboy hooking his thumbs in his pants’ pockets and breaking out in song, perhaps launching into Mary Martin’s “Cock-eyed Optimist” or blasting out “76 Trombones” a la Robert Preston.  The former bible reference book salesman and Aggie yell leader is convincing, charming, and evangelical in...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/06/17/perry_raids_blue_state_jobs_with_new_vigor_309911.htmlhttp://nation.time.com/2013/06/17/revenge-or-revival-perry-raids-blue-state-jobs-with-new-vigor/#ixzz2WTONt8DShttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://nation.time.com/2013/06/17/revenge-or-revival-perry-raids-blue-state-jobs-with-new-vigor/#ixzz2WTONt8DS 100309911 PM Update Hilary Hylton, Time Perry Raids Blue State Jobs With New Vigor Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:49:47 -0500 06/17/2013/00/00/00 Thomas Hoenig, Reuters
"It's horrible, I mean they're horribly undercapitalized," said Federal Deposit Insurance Corp Vice Chairman Thomas Hoenig in an interview. "They have no margin of error." Hoenig, who is second-in-command at the regulator, said global capital rules, known as the Basel III accord, allow lenders to appear well-capitalized when they are not. That is because the rules allow the banks to use complicated measurements of how risky their loans are to determine the capital they must hold, he said.http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/06/17/deutsche_bank_is_horribly_undercapitalized_309892.htmlhttp://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/14/us-financial-regulation-deutsche-idUSBRE95D0X620130614http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/14/us-financial-regulation-deutsche-idUSBRE95D0X620130614 100309892 PM Update Thomas Hoenig, Reuters Deutsche Bank Is Horribly Undercapitalized Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:14:14 -0500 06/17/2013/00/00/00 Cathy Young, RealClearPolitics
Years ago, the government snooped on my phone calls.  It happened in Soviet Russia, where, at 16, I already knew it was dangerous to have politically risky conversations even near the telephone, let alone on it.  Shortly after my parents sought permission to emigrate in 1979, we received startling accidental proof that Big Brother was listening.  While on the phone with a friend, my mother suddenly heard mysterious clicks—followed by a playback of her own conversation.  Moments later a strange voice asked, “Are you recording?”,...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/17/no_simple_answers_on_security_and_freedom_118838.htmlhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/17/no_simple_answers_on_security_and_freedom_118838.htmlhttp://dyn.realclearpolitics.com/printpage/?url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/17/no_simple_answers_on_security_and_freedom_118838.html 200309922 PM Update Cathy Young, RealClearPolitics No Simple Answers on Security & Freedom Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:22:13 -0500 06/17/2013/00/00/00 Albert Hunt, Bloomberg
An immigration bill is likely to pass the Senate by the end of the month. The size and shape of the measure and the tone of the debate will be framed by Republicans in the next 10 days.That may have a small effect on recalcitrant House Republicans. It will have a larger impact on reinforcing or modifying the hostility of Hispanics to Republicans. Party leaders don’t expect to win the Hispanic vote -- they’ve put themselves in such a hole that it may take a generation or two to do that -- but to clear the deck and begin a conversation with these voters on other issues.There...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/06/17/republicans_must_reset_ties_with_hispanics_309876.htmlhttp://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-16/republicans-get-their-chance-to-reset-ties-with-hispanics.html 100309876 AM Update Albert Hunt, Bloomberg Republicans Must Reset Ties With Hispanics Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:11:06 -0500 06/17/2013/00/00/00 Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
The divide over immigration reform is not primarily a Left/Right or Democratic/Republican divide; instead, it cuts, and sharply so, across class lines. Elites blur the distinction between legal and illegal immigration to ensure that the opponents of the latter appear to be against the former. They talk grandly of making legal immigration meritocratic, but fall silent when asked to what degree. They talk darkly of racist subtexts in the arguments of their opponents, but skip over the overt ethnic chauvinism of proponents of amnesty; they decry conservative paranoia over a new demography, but...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/06/17/the_elites_love_cheap_illegal_labor_309879.htmlhttp://www.nationalreview.com/article/351213/illegal-immigration-elite-illiberality-victor-davis-hanson 100309879 AM Update Victor Davis Hanson, National Review The Elites Love Cheap Illegal Labor Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:09:32 -0500 06/17/2013/00/00/00 Neil Munro, Daily Caller
The White House is playing a larger role in developing the Gang of Eight’s immigration bill than its supporters publicly admit, according to a forthcoming article in The New Yorker.“‘No decisions are being made without talking to us about it,’ the official said of the Gang of Eight negotiations … ‘This does not fly if we’re not O.K. with it,’” a senior Obama official told author Ryan Lizza for the pending article.White House officials also believe the emerging bill will be a huge success for President...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/06/17/obama_poised_for_huge_win_on_immigration_309895.htmlhttp://dailycaller.com/2013/06/17/obama-runs-immigration-bill-from-white-house-according-to-new-report/http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/17/obama-runs-immigration-bill-from-white-house-according-to-new-report/ 100309895 AM Update Neil Munro, Daily Caller Obama Poised for Huge Win on Immigration Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:30:08 -0500 06/17/2013/00/00/00 David Rohde, The Atlantic
For the last two years, Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Mark Udall (D-Colo.) have tried to describe to the American public the sweeping surveillance the National Security Agency conducts inside and outside the United States. But secrecy rules block them from airing the simplest details.Over the last few days, President Barack Obama and Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, have both said they welcome a national debate about the surveillance programs. But the president and senator have not used their power to declassify information...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/06/17/washington039s_surveillance_leviathan_309860.htmlhttp://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/06/the-security-industrial-complex/276906/http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/06/the-security-industrial-complex/276906/ 100309860 AM Update David Rohde, The Atlantic Washington's Surveillance Leviathan Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:33:29 -0500 06/17/2013/00/00/00 Bill Keller, NY Times
Several nations, including U.S. allies, have reacted angrily to revelations by an ex-CIA employee over a week ago that U.S. authorities had tapped the servers of internet companies for personal data."We believe the United States should pay attention to the international community's concerns and demands and give the international community the necessary explanation," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a daily briefing.http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/06/17/can_americans_live_with_the_surveillance_state_309854.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/17/opinion/keller-living-with-the-surveillance-state.htmlhttp://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/06/17/opinion/keller-living-with-the-surveillance-state.xml 100309854 AM Update Bill Keller, NY Times Can Americans Live With the Surveillance State? Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:38:18 -0500 06/17/2013/00/00/00 Jed Babbin, The American Spectator
The Obama administration has reached the unenviable stage in which it’s almost impossible to determine where one scandal ends and another begins.The most recent case in point is President Obama’s decision to kinda sorta intervene in the Syrian civil war that is now in its third year.http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/06/17/obama039s_foreign_policy_by_farce_309878.htmlhttp://spectator.org/archives/2013/06/17/foreign-policy-as-farcehttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://spectator.org/archives/2013/06/17/foreign-policy-as-farce 100309878 AM Update Jed Babbin, The American Spectator Obama's Foreign Policy by Farce Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:47:50 -0500 06/17/2013/00/00/00 Hannah Allam, McClatchy
WASHINGTON — After concluding that President Bashar Assad’s regime has used chemical weapons against rebel forces, the White House pledged Friday to send more military and financial aid to Syrian opposition groups to make them “as strong as possible.” But whether they’ll ever be strong enough to topple Assad or assert themselves to govern a post-Assad Syria are unanswered questions.For the past two years, the Obama administration has struggled to identify credible partners among Assad’s many opponents and has worked to help shape...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/06/17/in_syria_is_the_us_helping_al_qaeda_309849.htmlhttp://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/06/14/194001/analysts-obama-is-gambling-on.htmlhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/06/14/194001/analysts-obama-is-gambling-on.html#.Ub4BSPb7008 100309849 AM Update Hannah Allam, McClatchy In Syria, Is the U.S. Helping Al Qaeda? Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:58:44 -0500 06/17/2013/00/00/00 Paul Krugman, New York Times
Last week the International Monetary Fund, whose normal role is that of stern disciplinarian to spendthrift governments, gave the United States some unusual advice. “Lighten up,” urged the fund. “Enjoy life! Seize the day!”http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/06/17/fight_the_future_309864.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/17/opinion/krugman-fight-the-future.html?ref=opinionhttp://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/06/17/opinion/krugman-fight-the-future.xml?ref=opinion 100309864 AM Update Paul Krugman, New York Times Fight the Future Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:00:53 -0500 06/17/2013/00/00/00 Cohen & Rasmussen, Wall Street Journal
Walk into any American high school and nearly one in five boys in the hallways will have a diagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. According to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, 11% of all American children ages 4 to 17—over six million—have ADHD, a 16% increase since 2007. When you consider that in Britain roughly 3% of children have been similarly diagnosed, the figure is even more startling. Now comes worse news: In the U.S., being told that you have ADHD—and thus receiving some variety of amphetamine to treat it—has...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/06/17/a_nation_of_kids_on_speed_309858.htmlhttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323728204578513662248894162.htmlhttp://mobile2.wsj.com/device/article.php?mid=1&CALL_URL=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323728204578513662248894162.html? 100309858 AM Update Cohen & Rasmussen, Wall Street Journal A Nation of Kids on Speed Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:02:52 -0500 06/17/2013/00/00/00 Julia Ioffe, The New Republic
It was the first time in recent memory that the Iowa GOP Lincoln Day Dinner sold out nearly two weeks in advance, and it was on the strength of its headliner, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, who, in turn, was invited on the strength of his 13-hour filibuster against the Obama administration’s use of drones. During the happy hour at a small Cedar Rapids hotel, local donors stood in line to have their pictures taken with Paul, almost completely ignoring their own congressmen, Representative Steve King and Senator Chuck Grassley. They had come to see Paul, and he got a standing ovation...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/06/17/president_rand_paul_309875.htmlhttp://www.newrepublic.com/article/113494/president-rand-paul-hes-becoming-better-politician-every-dayhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113494/president-rand-paul-hes-becoming-better-politician-every-day 100309875 AM Update Julia Ioffe, The New Republic President Rand Paul Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:06:14 -0500 06/17/2013/00/00/00 Joseph Curl, Washington Times
GOP Golden Boy Chris Christie is going to run in 2016, and he might not even do so as a Republican. Seriously.So, will he challenge the highly beatable Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination? Maybe. But all signs point to the whalelike New Jersey governor floating himself as a middleman, neither right nor left — the Chosen One to solve all the discord in the nation’s capital:The Independent.http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/06/17/christie_is_the_great_unknown_for_2016_309872.htmlhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jun/16/curl-christies-no-conservative-and-he-wont-run-one/http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jun/16/curl-christies-no-conservative-and-he-wont-run-one/ 100309872 AM Update Joseph Curl, Washington Times Christie Is the Great Unknown for 2016 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:07:01 -0500 06/17/2013/00/00/00 Robert Samuelson, Washington Post
WASHINGTON -- In the economic history of our time, June 6, 2013, ought to occupy a special place. That's the day the Federal Reserve disclosed that the net worth of American households -- the value of what they own minus what they owe -- hit $70 trillion, a record that exceeded the previous peak before the 2007-09 financial crisis. Higher stock prices and a long-awaited housing recovery are slowly restoring Americans' lost wealth. By all rights, this symbolic crossing ought to improve confidence, prompt consumers to spend more freely and increase the economy's growth.Maybe it...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/17/the_wealth_effect_rip_118833.htmlhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/17/the_wealth_effect_rip_118833.html 200309855 AM Update Robert Samuelson, Washington Post The Wealth Effect, RIP? Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:40:45 -0500 06/17/2013/00/00/00 Matthew Shaer, New York Magazine
The headquarters of Menlo Innovations occupy the basement level of an office complex in downtown Ann Arbor, not far from the main campus of the University of Michigan. The space is airy and bright and capacious, as befits a successful software company, but unlike the standard-issue corporate hive, there are no cubicles at Menlo, and very few walls, and only a couple of doors, one of which leads to a closet full of sensitive legal documents and another that opens into a conference room"”a concession to clients unaccustomed to (or unwilling to fully participate in the spirit...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/06/17/are_you_ready_for_a_quotbosslessquot_office_309880.htmlhttp://nymag.com/news/features/bossless-jobs-2013-6/http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.realclearmarkets.com/ 100309880 AM Update Matthew Shaer, New York Magazine Are You Ready for a "Bossless" Office? Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:15:06 -0500 06/17/2013/00/00/00 Sen. Orrin Hatch, USA Today
The Senate should not consider another nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit until the need to fill this vacancy is clear and while more pressing vacancies on other courts have not been filled. So wrote Judiciary Committee Democrats in July 2006 when objecting to consideration of a D.C. Circuit nominee from President Bush. By their own standard, the Senate should not consider these new nominees to this court.http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/06/17/judges_confrontation_a_made_up_fight_309859.htmlhttp://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/06/16/court-nominees-vacancies-orrin-hatch-editorials-debates/2428853/http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/06/16/court-nominees-vacancies-orrin-hatch-editorials-debates/2428853/ 100309859 AM Update Sen. Orrin Hatch, USA Today Judges Confrontation a Made Up Fight Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:18:51 -0500 06/17/2013/00/00/00 Toby Harnden, Sunday Times
Officials believe the NSA leaker hiding in Hong Kong could be under Beijing's influence, writes Toby Harnden in WashingtonTHE US government is investigating whether Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency (NSA) employee who leaked details of American internet surveillance, has fallen under the influence of Chinese intelligence agents and fear he may even defect to China.Snowden, 29, who has taken refuge in Hong Kong, initially said that it was “not my intention” to harm America and stressed that he had not released specific details of US intelligence...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/16/us_fears_china_may_have_manipulated_edward_snowden_118829.htmlhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/16/us_fears_china_may_have_manipulated_edward_snowden_118829.htmlhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/16/us_fears_china_may_have_manipulated_edward_snowden_118829.html 200309866 AM Update Toby Harnden, Sunday Times U.S .Fears China Manipulated Snowden Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:22:27 -0500 06/17/2013/00/00/00 Harry Enten, The Guardian
Thursday, the Guardian released a poll conducted on Monday and Tuesday nights by Public Policy Polling looking at America's reaction to the National Security Agency (NSA) controversy. The public appears to be reacting negatively to the revelations – and it seems to be hurting President Obama.We found 50% of American voters believe the NSA should not be collecting telephone or internet records, compared to the 44% who think they should. The results hold even when respondents were told that the data the government is collecting is "metadata" (and not necessarily actual...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/06/17/obama039s_real_worry_eroding_trust_in_govt_309862.htmlhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/13/poll-obama-nsa-leaks-trusthttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/13/poll-obama-nsa-leaks-trust 100309862 AM Update Harry Enten, The Guardian Obama's Real Worry: Eroding Trust in Govt Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:30:18 -0500 06/17/2013/00/00/00 Carl Cannon, OC Register
In a sign of our (not very civil) times, Michelle Obama was heckled at a recent Democratic Party fundraiser by a perturbed lesbian activist, Ellen Sturtz. The first lady seemed ruffled. "One of the things I don't do well is this," she said, as she left the podium, moving toward the protester.Looking at Sturtz, but addressing the crowd, Mrs. Obama said, "You can listen to me or you can take the mic, but I'm leaving. You all decide. You have one choice." The Democratic donors understandably picked the woman they'd paid $500 to see, and Sturtz was...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/17/no_need_to_rewrite_history_mr_president_118837.htmlhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/17/no_need_to_rewrite_history_mr_president_118837.htmlhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.ocregister.com/articles/white-512868-obama-house.html 200309823 AM Update Carl Cannon, OC Register No Need to Rewrite History, Mr. President http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/06/17/why_schumer039s_immigration_bill_must_be_stopped_309889.html http://www.unionleader.com/article/20130616/OPINION01/130619413/1004/opinion http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.unionleader.com/article/20130616/OPINION01/130619413/1004/opinion 100309889 Editorials Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:33:52 -0500 NH Union Leader Why Schumer's Immigration Bill Must Be Stopped http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/06/17/climate_change_needs_a_rational_response_309867.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/climate-change-needs-a-rational-response/2013/06/16/00673116-d2db-11e2-9f1a-1a7cdee20287_story.html 100309867 Editorials Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:04:17 -0500 Washington Post Climate Change Needs a Rational Response http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/06/17/what_is_obama039s_plan_in_syria_309893.html http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/move-mr-president-article-1.1373314 http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/move-mr-president-article-1.1373314 100309893 Editorials Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:17:08 -0500 New York Daily News What Is Obama's Plan in Syria? http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/06/17/cash_the_biggest_crop_in_this_farm_bill_309888.html http://www.ocregister.com/articles/food-512813-bill-program.html http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.ocregister.com/articles/food-512813-bill-program.html 100309888 Editorials Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:25:20 -0500 Orange County Register Cash the Biggest Crop in This Farm Bill