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May 25, 2013 | 02:41 PM
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  • Superyacht makers really need lobbyists

    Michael Barone

    Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

    My Washington Examiner colleague Timothy Carney, indefatigable chronicler of K Street, points out that the United States Superyacht Association has hired a Washington lobbyist. But they have at least some reason to do so. Back around 1990 congressional Democrats slapped an excise tax on the sale...

  • No heterosexual white males need apply

    Michael Barone

    Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

    America’s great universities continue to be bastions of intolerance. They profess to prize “diversity,” which in practice means that everybody must believe the same things. The campusreform.org blog has the story of how the Northwestern University Student Senate refused to allow student...

  • Will young people buy expensive Obamacare insurance?

    Michael Barone

    Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

    One essential feature of the insurance policies encouraged by Obamacare is that they require the young and healthy to subsidize the old and healthy. Policies available to young people, especially for young men, will be much more expensive than currently. The question is: will they choose to buy...

  • Dearth of female CEOs a huge problem?

    Michael Barone

    Updated: Mon, May 20, 2013

    The excellent Anne Applebaum has a fine article in the New York Review of Books, reviewing Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In” and Hanna Rosin’s “The Rise of Women and the End of Men.” It makes several interesting points and is definitely worth reading in...