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By MICHAEL BARONE | 06/19/13 06:25 PM
On key measurements, people on Medicaid did not achieve better outcomes than uninsured people
Does having health insurance make people healthier? It's widely assumed that it does.
Obamacare advocates repeatedly said...
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By MICHAEL BARONE | 06/19/13 05:05 PM
The United States is now engaged in negotiations with the Taliban, as the Examiner reports. How successful are these likely to be? Useful guidance comes from the 2009 book by John Bew, Martyn Frampton and Inigo...
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By MICHAEL BARONE | 06/18/13 07:35 PM
The Daily Caller reports that a government-funded study by the New York University psychology department concluded that conservatives are more likely to be racist than liberals. Why? Because, reporter Robby Soave writes,...
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By MICHAEL BARONE | 06/18/13 06:25 PM
Veteran USAToday reporter Richard Benedetto, now with American and George Mason Universities and the Fund for American Studies, has the details–”the carefully chosen, softer words used by the news media when reporting...
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By MICHAEL BARONE | 06/17/13 05:00 PM
Barack Obama’s job approval rating is down to 45% in the lastest CNN/ORC poll, conducted June 11-13, with 54% disapproval; the approval number is down from 53% in CNN/ORC’s May 17-18 poll. Most interesting result:...
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By MICHAEL BARONE | 06/17/13 11:25 AM
Are Americans becoming more libertarian on cultural issues? I see evidence that they are, in poll findings and election results on three unrelated issues — marijuana legalization, same-sex marriage and gun rights....
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By MICHAEL BARONE | 06/15/13 03:10 PM
Like most journalists, I like to point back to predictions which proved true and analyses which proved prescient. Also like most journalists–and unlike the great political reporter and columnist David Broder, who wrote...
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By MICHAEL BARONE | 06/14/13 12:50 PM
Quinnipiac has an interesting poll in Colorado, showing Democratic Governor John Hickenlooper less popular than I had assumed. Hickenlooper is a former brewpub owner and mayor of Denver who has a very appealing...
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By MICHAEL BARONE | 06/13/13 02:45 PM
The Obama administration “strongly objects” to a proposed House amendment to the defense authorization bill which would require, in the words of its sponsor, Rep. John Fleming (R-LA), “the Armed Forces to...
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By MICHAEL BARONE | 06/13/13 02:10 PM
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, who seems like a nice person, got caught making a huge historical mistake; he said George Wallace, the Alabama Governor who defied a desegregation order 50 years ago, was a Republican. Nope. He was...
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By MICHAEL BARONE | 06/12/13 05:25 PM
That’s the title of a very interesting article by Michael Hirsch in The Daily Beast/Newsweek. The don’t-be-evil folks at Google and the kids at Facebook won’t like it, since they don’t like to be associated...
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By MICHAEL BARONE | 06/12/13 03:40 PM
That’s the finding of TaxProf blogger Robert Anderson, who went through the records and reports that in the 2012 presidential campaign, 84 percent of contributions to major party nominees went to Barack Obama and 16...
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By MICHAEL BARONE | 06/11/13 06:35 PM
"Gentlemen do not read each other's mail." That's what Secretary of State Henry Stimson said to explain why he shut down the government's cryptanalysis operations in 1929.
Edward Snowden, who leaked National Security...
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By MICHAEL BARONE | 06/11/13 01:30 PM
James Mann, author-in-residence at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, has been one of the most perceptive and fair-minded commentators on foreign policy. I’ve found his books on...
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By MICHAEL BARONE | 06/09/13 07:45 PM
That’s the message of this paper from the Competitive Enterprise Institute. The writers point out the American safety regulators require passenger rail cars to be much heavier than European regulators do. But over the...
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By MICHAEL BARONE | 06/09/13 05:10 PM
Barack Obama's appointments of Susan Rice as National Security Adviser and Samantha Power as Ambassador to the United Nations have naturally triggered speculation about changes in foreign policy.
Rice and Power have...
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By MICHAEL BARONE | 06/07/13 06:55 AM
Can Democrats gain the 17 seats they need to win control of the House in 2014? Maybe, but the numbers look forbidding. Remember that while Barack Obama was reelected with 332 electoral votes he carried only 209 of the 435...
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