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By Michael Barone | 05/28/13 11:25 PM
Liberal commentators like to spotlight rifts in the Republican party and self-destructive fights among various flavors of conservatives. In this they often have legitimate raw material to work with. But I haven’t seen so much introspection in those quarters when liberals do similar things....
By Michael Barone | 05/28/13 10:25 PM
The Internal Revenue Service has determined that it will issue tax credits in states which have not set up state-run health insurance exchanges under Obamacare–even though the Obamacare legislation does not authorize it to do so. That’s the case David Catron makes over at the American...
By Michael Barone | 05/28/13 07:30 PM
A thoughtful reformer targets the traditional rules of an aging institution that has retarded progress in the past. Time to modernize those rules, the reformer says, and prevent obstruction in the future. The trouble is that such reform efforts often prove counterproductive. New rules...
By Michael Barone | 05/22/13 07:06 PM
There is one problem with the entirely justified if self-interested media squawking about the Justice Department snooping into the phone records of multiple Associated Press reporters and Fox News' James Rosen. The problem is that what the AP reporters and Rosen did arguably violates the...
By Michael Barone | 05/22/13 05:50 PM
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...
By Michael Barone | 05/22/13 04:50 PM
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...
By Michael Barone | 05/21/13 05:15 PM
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...
By Michael Barone | 05/20/13 05:50 PM
Would you like to have a "skinny" health insurance policy? Probably not. But if you're employed by a large company you may get one, thanks to Obamacare.
By Michael Barone | 05/20/13 06:45 PM
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...
By Michael Barone | 05/18/13 01:55 PM
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...
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Read More...The beleaguered Eisenhower Memorial Commission holds its next public gathering later this month, and before its members duck-walk into the hearing room, huddled in a hoplite phalanx against a...
Read More...What was the lesson of the Kermit Gosnell trial? Since the Philadelphia doctor was convicted last month of murdering three born-alive infants, two competing viewpoints have emerged.
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