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  • Coolidge author speaks at length

    Michael Barone

    Published: Tue, Mar 12, 2013

    Here’s a link to my American Enterprise Institution interview of Amity Shlaes on her new book entitled simply (and, unusually these days, with no subtitle) Coolidge. And here’s a link to my February 24 Examiner column on the notoriously taciturn 30th president. Shlaes believes and...

  • Michael Barone: Obama flails as Republicans stand firm on sequester

    Michael Barone

    Published: Sat, Mar 9, 2013

    They're flailing. That's the impression I get from watching Barack Obama and his White House over the past week. Things haven't gone as they expected. The House Republicans were supposed to cave in on the sequester, as they did on the fiscal cliff at the beginning of the year. They would be...

  • Census Bureau: Portuguese not Hispanic

    Michael Barone

    Published: Wed, Mar 6, 2013

    In response to my recent blogpost on reports that the Census Bureau was going to classify people of Portuguese origin as Hispanic, I received the following email from Michael C. Cook of the Census Bureau:   “We have received calls about this topic over the past week or so and...

  • Michael Barone: Spending cuts may be answer to slow economic growth

    Michael Barone

    Published: Tue, Mar 5, 2013

    The Dow set a new high on Tuesday, but the larger economy is a different story. What if today's sluggish economic growth turns out to be the new normal? That's the unsettling question asked by some of our most creative economic thinkers. And the people asking it are not necessarily partisan...

  • Are we stuck in a “new normal” economy?

    Michael Barone

    Published: Mon, Mar 4, 2013

    Low growth may be here to stay.” That’s the dispiriting headline on one of Megan McArdle’s latest blogposts. Most Americans grew up in a country in which economic growth averaged nearly 4%. Now it seems like we’re stuck in an era—or at least a half-decade—in which growth has averaged...

  • Are Portuguese Hispanic?

    Michael Barone

    Published: Sat, Mar 2, 2013

    The Census Bureau is planning to categorize people of Portuguese descent as Hispanic, but some Portuguese-Americans don’t like that a bit (h/t Steve Sailer). Evidently the leaders of this group did not try to ascertain opinion among Brazilians or those of Brazilian residing in the United...

  • Michael Barone: For Obama, politics always trumps governing

    Michael Barone

    Published: Sat, Mar 2, 2013

    Do we have a president or a perpetual candidate? It's not an entirely unfair question. Even as Barack Obama was warning of the dreadful consequences of the budget sequester looming on March 1, he spent days away from Washington, apparently out of touch with Democratic as well as Republican...

  • Mexicans less interested in immigrating to US

    Michael Barone

    Published: Wed, Feb 27, 2013

    Attention, Mickey Kaus! Andrew Malcolm of Investors Business Daily (h/t Glenn Reynolds’s Instapundit) highlights Gallup polls that show that the same percentage, 11%, of Americans and Mexicans in 2012 said they were willing to move to another country. In 2007 about twice as many Mexicans, 21%,...

  • Left-leaning analyst: Republicans not doomed by youth vote

    Michael Barone

    Published: Wed, Feb 27, 2013

    Have Republicans lost young voters forever? Maybe not, writes Harry Enten, a left-leaning American who writes Nate Silver-like analysis for Britain’s left-leaning Guardian. Enten notes that the young voters who entered the electorate in 2008 and 2012 had very liberal attitudes as high...

  • Michael Barone: Discord and disarray won't help Obama's legacy

    Michael Barone

    Published: Tue, Feb 26, 2013

    Barack Obama is said to believe that he can win the political fight over the sequester. That's certainly the conventional wisdom. And there is some evidence to support it. When you ask voters who will be to blame if the sequester occurs, Obama or "congressional Republicans," they're much more...


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