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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 that its expansion of Medicaid would save thousands of lives a year....
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 Gurruchaga, Talking to Terrorists: Making Peace in Northern Ireland and the...
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, “Mixed-race people are more likely to be considered black by...
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 on the Obama program, compared to the inflammatory and alarmist language...
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: Obama is getting only 48 approval from those age 18 to 34, only 3% above his...
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. Start with pot. Last November voters in the states of Colorado and Washington...
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 a column every year setting forth his mistakes–I don’t like to look...
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 personality. But his job approval is only 47%, with 43% disapproving, and he leads...
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 accommodate ‘actions and speech’ reflecting the conscience, moral, principles or...
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 a Democrat and ran in the Democratic presidential primaries in 1964, 1972...
By Paul Bedard | 06/17/13
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By Paul Bedard | 06/19/13
Today, speaking at the Brandenburg Gate, President Obama paid appropriate tribute to the brave East Germans who rebelled 60 years ago against Communist dictatorship:
Read More...The Boston Marathon bombings highlighted, once again, the challenges of assimilating Muslim youth. And while the onus of accountability ought not rest exclusively on Muslim Americans, it...
Read More...The Obama administration announced on Tuesday that it was moving forward with its attempt to negotiate with the Taliban, which has opened a long-awaited political office in Doha, Qatar. The...
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