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  • 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...

  • More data on higher-education administrative bloat

    Michael Barone

    Published: Thu, May 9, 2013

    In my Washington Examiner column yesterday I wrote about the bursting of the higher education bubble. Government student loan and grant programs have been pumping money into colleges and universities, which have been spending much of it on hiring new administrators. For some facts and...

  • Michael Barone: Mideast won't love us if we leave

    Michael Barone

    Published: Wed, May 8, 2013

    “The Obama administration thought that reducing the American presence in the Middle East would contribute to the demobilization of religious radicals and a reduction in international tension. Looking back, that increasingly appears to be exactly the wrong approach.” So writes Walter Russell...

  • Mark Sanford's win in SC-1: Ideology trumps celebrity

    Michael Barone

    Published: Wed, May 8, 2013

    Republican Mark Sanford won yesterday’s South Carolina 1 special election by a 54%-45% margin over Democrat Elizabeth Colbert (the alleged comedian Stephen Colbert’s sister) Busch. The turnout of 143,357 was pretty high . This was less than the 62%-34% reelection victory of Republican Tim...

  • Michael Barone: College bubble bursts after decades of extravagance

    Michael Barone

    Published: Tue, May 7, 2013

    Markets work. But sometimes they take time. That's the uncomfortable lesson that proprietors of America's colleges and universities are learning. For many years market forces didn't seem to apply to them. There was a widespread societal consensus that a college education was a good economic...


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