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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.

The hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, revolution has had the effect not only of swelling the domestic supply of gas, but of slashing the domestic price. (Photo: Thinkstock)
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Audacious wildcatters trigger fracking revolution

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Should the U.S. have just two time zones?
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Should the U.S. have just two time zones?

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JFK and Obama: Personal similarities, policy differences
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JFK and Obama: Personal similarities, policy differences

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President John F. Kennedy rides in a motorcade with his wife Jacqueline moments before he was shot and killed in Dallas, Tx., Nov. 22, 1963. Texas Governor and Mrs. John Connally are also in the car. (AP Photo)
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How JFK’s assassination changed American politics

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The state of Oregon, faced with limited Medicaid funds, held a lottery in which the winners got Medicaid coverage and the losers did not. This provided the opportunity to conduct a randomized study of the effects of Medicaid coverage.
Beltway Confidential

Is Obamacare based on a false assumption?

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Texas's low-tax, light-regulation policies have produced a highly diversified economy that from 2002 to 2011 created nearly one-third of the nation's highest-paying jobs. In those years, its number of upper- and middle-income jobs grew 24 percent. (Photo: Thinkstock)
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Americans keep moving to states with low taxes and housing costs

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If you think the Obamacare IT screwup is bad, …
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If you think the Obamacare IT screwup is bad, …

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Foreign troops, part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, investigate the site a day after an assault on an international compound in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP/Ahmad Jamshid)
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Little wars turn messy because of politics on the ground

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Early this summer, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was willing to agree with House Speaker John Boehner to let the sequester spending cuts continue with slight modifications, without demanding tax increases in return. (Photo: Thinkstock)
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In shutdown fight, the dog that didn’t bark: Taxes

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Terry O'Sullivan, president of the Laborers International Union, said he wanted Affordable Care Act
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Unions turn on Obamacare, but don’t call them hypocrites

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