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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.

Barack Obama has built a top-and-bottom coalition -- academics and gentry liberals, blacks and Hispanics, with funding and organizational backing from taxpayer-funded public-sector unions. Those at the top got paid off. Less has gone to those at the bottom. Those in the middle have seen their health insurance canceled by Obamacare and sit waiting for healthcare.gov to function. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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The failure of Obama’s aristocracy of merit

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In this photo provided by the anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center, Syrian men help survivors out of a destroyed building after a Syrian forces warplane's attack in Aleppo, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)
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A blistering assessment of Obama’s Syria policy

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Chattanooga Volkswagen workers reject the UAW
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Chattanooga Volkswagen workers reject the UAW

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Mandatory minimum sentencing was helpful during the crack cocaine epidemic of the late 1980s, but its time has passed. (Thinkstock)
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If mandatory minimums are unjust, why doesn’t the president commute such sentences?

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‘Disparate impact’ doctrine often hurts those it’s intended to help

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President Obama answers a question during a joint news conference with French Prime Minister Francois Hollande in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Tuesday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Beltway Confidential

How far can presidents go in rewriting laws?

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Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., trails Republican opponent Tom Cotton 42 percent to 36 percent according to recent polls by a pro-Republican group. (AP/Danny Johnston)
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Republicans expanding field in Senate contests, but what about the House?

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Why don't luxury shoppers like indoor malls anymore? (Photo: Thinkstock)
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Why indoor shopping malls have lost their cachet

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The United States' immigrant flow as a percentage of population is far below the peak year of the Ellis Island immigration, 1907.
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America needs better-skilled, not fewer, immigrants

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According to congressional testimony by owners of trucking companies and the American Trucking Associations, beginning around 2000, revenue agents from New Jersey's department of taxation began waylaying trucks, demanding that the owners pay the states's $1,100 minimum corporate-franchise tax before letting the drivers proceed.
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Congress needs to stop state tax shakedowns

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