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Michael Barone

Michael Barone is the senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner, a resident fellow emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute, and the longtime co-author of The Almanac of American Politics.

A customer enters a McDonald's in Chicago, Illinois. (Getty images/Tim Boyle)
Beltway Confidential

McDonald’s: Vive la France!

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Chartres Cathedral (Photo by Wikimedia user Ireneed, used under a Creative Commons license.)
Beltway Confidential

The American hero who saved Chartres Cathedral

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A general view of the Police station in Rotherham, South Yorkshire Aug. 27, 2014 in Rotherham, England. A report released Aug. 26 claims at least 1,400 children as young as 11 were sexually abused from 1997- 2013 in Rotherham Care Homes but no council staff will face disciplinary action. (Photo by Nigel Roddis/Getty images)
Beltway Confidential

Rotherham: The perils of tolerating intolerance

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President Obama speaks in Charlotte, N.C., on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Columnists

Obama’s segue from constructive tax proposals to low-grade demagoguery

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Former Republican Gov. Charlie Crist smiles while speaking to supporters at a victory party after Florida's primary election, Tuesday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (AP/Wilfredo Lee)
Beltway Confidential

Republicans outvote Democrats in Florida primary, but that may not matter

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Noam Scheiber of the New Republic inadvertently admitted what we've long suspected about public employee unions. 
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Letting the cat out of the bag on the role of public employee unions

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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)
Beltway Confidential

Magicians of Main Street: How chambers of commerce have shaped America

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Texas Gov. Rick Perry talks to the media and supporters after he was booked at the Blackwell Thurman Criminal Justice Center on Tuesday in Austin. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Columnists

A decent lawyer should tell liberals they’re damned fools and ought to stop

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Michigan national guardsmen stood at the ready as firemen battled one of the numerous blazes in a riot-torn district of Detroit in July 1967. (AP Photo)
Columnists

Ferguson: Not nearly as daunting as the 1960s riots

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About 1.2 percent of Americans in 1940 year were born in Italy and, lo and behold, the states with the highest percentages were in Max Read's Pizza Belts. (iStock)
Beltway Confidential

Demography is destiny: Pizza department

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