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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...
By Michael Barone | 05/17/13 06:00 PM
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...
By Michael Barone | 05/17/13 01:20 PM
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...
By Michael Barone | 05/16/13 05:30 PM
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...
By Michael Barone | 05/16/13 12:25 PM
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...
By Michael Barone | 05/15/13 01:20 PM
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.
By Michael Barone | 05/14/13 07:20 PM
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...
By Michael Barone | 05/14/13 06:05 PM
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...
By Michael Barone | 05/10/13 03:00 PM
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?...
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Today, speaking at the Brandenburg Gate, President Obama paid appropriate tribute to the brave East Germans who rebelled 60 years ago against Communist dictatorship:
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