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May 18, 2013 | 07:53 PM
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  • Question: What do female medical students think of abortion?

    Michael Barone

    Updated: 4 hr ago

    Noemie Emery has an excellent article in the latest Weekly Standard on the case of Kermit Gosnell, the abortion provider who has been sentenced to life in prison on three counts of murder. She raises the issue of whether the spotlight on this late-term abortionist–a spotlight shined only...

  • Michael Barone: Obama's IRS and AP scandals cast Big Chill on free speech

    Michael Barone

    Published: Sat, May 18, 2013

    Chilling effect. That's the term lawyers and judges use to describe the result of government actions that deter people from exercising their right of free speech. There have been plenty of examples in the past 10 days. The Obama administration's Justice Department issued a sweeping demand...

  • The higher ed bubble is bursting (continued)

    Michael Barone

    Yesterday

    Higher education enrollments this spring are down 2.3 percent  from spring 2012, according to the National Student Clearinghouse. That’s more than the 1.8 percent decline between fall 2011 and fall 2012. One reason may be that the job market is getting (slightly) more favorable. But I...

  • Michael Barone: In defense of Jason Richwine and Charles Murray

    Michael Barone

    Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

    My American Enterprise Institute colleague Charles Murray came to the defense of our former colleague Jason Richwine, who resigned from the Heritage Foundation amid protests about his Harvard Ph.D. thesis, on nationalreview.com. Charles was entirely accurate in stating that Richwine’s...

  • Who’s ahead in Virginia governor race? No one

    Michael Barone

    Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

    With a Chris Christie victory in New Jersey’s governor election a foregone conclusion, the one question mark in the November election is who will win the race for governor of Virginia? Recent polls suggest this is very much up for grabs. A Washington Post poll conducted from April 28 to May 2...

  • Justice flak in regular contact with Media Matters

    Michael Barone

    Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

    It’s not entirely a coincidence that the left-wing Media Matters has been parroting and advancing Obama administration talking points. It turns out that the Justice Department’s lead spokesman has been in frequent email contact with Media Matters personnel. The Daily Caller has the story.

  • Michael Barone: Benghazi, IRS scandals constitute politics by other means

    Michael Barone

    Published: Tue, May 14, 2013

    What do the Benghazi cover-up and the IRS scandal have in common? They were both about winning elections, under false pretenses. Winning elections, after all, is something Barack Obama is good at. He obviously loves campaigning and delivering grand orations to enormous adoring crowds. He...

  • Watching Obamacare unravel

    Michael Barone

    Updated: Tue, May 14, 2013

    That’s the title of New York University Law Professor Richard Epstein’s blogpost on the difficulty of implementing Obamacare. It’s as good a summary as I’ve seen of the problems faced by an administration headed by a president who prefers campaigning to governing and who finds...

  • Michael Barone: Did Clinton and Obama believe their Benghazi baloney?

    Michael Barone

    Published: Sat, May 11, 2013

    What were President Barack Obama and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton thinking? Why did they keep pitching the line that the Sept. 11, 2012 Benghazi attack that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans started as a spontaneous protest against an anti-Muslim video?...

  • Michael Barone: More Hispanics going to college

    Michael Barone

    Updated: Fri, May 10, 2013

    The Pew Hispanic Center reports that more Hispanics are going to college these days — indeed, that a larger percentage of Hispanics than of non-Hispanic whites are enrolling in college. Optimistic interpretation: Hispanics are placing a higher value on education. A possibly offsetting...


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