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Comparing the two most Republican Houses in 70 years
Michael Barone
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December 29, 2014 | 5:00 am
Before Christmas, Arizona finished its 2nd Congressional District recount, showing Republican Martha McSally beating incumbent Democrat Ron Barber by 167 votes. This means there will be 247... Read More…
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Florida, North Carolina up a peg; New York, Michigan down: 2014 Census estimates
Michael Barone
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December 24, 2014 | 5:01 pm
The Census Bureau has sent out its Christmastime gift to its millions — or thousands, or dozens — of fans across the United States: the official Census estimates of the population of each... Read More…
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On transportation, power is flowing out of Washington
Michael Barone
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December 24, 2014 | 8:00 am
Washington is grabbing too much power — just look at Obamacare, environmental regulations and education standards. That has been a constant complaint of conservatives, not only during Barack... Read More…
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Free speech, political correctness struggle to coexist on campus
Michael Barone
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December 22, 2014 | 5:00 am
The total discrediting of Rolling Stone’s story on rape at the University of Virginia has shined a light on one of the least palatable features of American life: the so-called epidemic of... Read More…
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Jeb and Hillary: Dynastic politics in America?
Michael Barone
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December 17, 2014 | 5:00 pm
Earlier this week Jeb Bush announced he was setting up a political committee to explore a presidential candidacy. Hillary Clinton has been exploring a presidential candidacy for months and... Read More…
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Let's learn from Canada's 'bootstrap' immigration policy
Michael Barone
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December 17, 2014 | 2:41 pm
Our friends and neighbors in Canada are giving us good lessons on immigration policy, as you can see from journalist John Ibbitson’s article in Toronto’s Globe and Mail, forwarded by Minnesota... Read More…
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English lord -- 2014 Government IT actually can work, by starting small
Michael Barone
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December 15, 2014 | 3:58 pm
Government is not very good at information technology. That’s something many Americans discovered last year with the rollout of healthcare.gov, but that was only the latest of many botched... Read More…
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Don't look for culture war arguments in campaign 2016
Michael Barone
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December 14, 2014 | 5:00 am
In an earlier column, I looked at the role the abortion issue would play in the 2016 election — not very much, I concluded — and promised another column on other cultural issues. Here goes.... Read More…
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What 2014 means for 2016
Michael Barone
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December 11, 2014 | 5:00 am
The defeat of Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu by Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy in last weekend’s Louisiana runoff ends an election year that has been very successful for Republicans — and... Read More…
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Larry Summers is singing my tune
Michael Barone
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December 9, 2014 | 8:47 am
No, I’m not accusing Larry Summers, the former Treasury secretary, Harvard president and economic adviser to President Obama of plagiarism; not at all. I am only saying that he has noticed,... Read More…



