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May 22, 2013 | 07:22 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 http://washingtonexaminer.com/there-is-a-lobbying-organization-for-superyachts/article/2530285 that the United States Superyacht Association has hired a Washington lobbyist. But they have at...

  • 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...

  • Question: What do female medical students think of abortion?

    Michael Barone

    Updated: Sat, May 18, 2013

    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

    Updated: Fri, May 17, 2013

    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...



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