Tag: Michael Barone

Det. Anthony Mannuzza, left, and Police Officer Robert Martin, right, simulate a street stop during a training session at the New York Police Department's training facility on June 20, 2012. (AP File)

‘Stop and frisk’ doesn’t target minorities, it protects them

Michael Barone · August 21, 2013 4:00 am

Pervez Musharraf must be wishing that he had not left what the Telegraph describes as âa life of comfortable exile near the Edgware Road,â a thoroughfare lined with heavily Muslim-patronized shops. (AP Photo)

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A retirement village for tyrants?

Michael Barone · August 20, 2013 4:00 am

Economist Pete Klenow

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I’m closest to an economist I’ve never heard of

Michael Barone · August 20, 2013 4:00 am

Benjamin Wittes of the Brookings Institution, writing in the New Republic, strongly defends the NSA surveillance program. (AP File)

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Brookings scholar defends NSA surveillance, contra Washington Post

Michael Barone · August 19, 2013 4:00 am

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‘Bambi versus Godzilla’

Michael Barone · August 18, 2013 4:00 am

A federal gas tax financed 90 percent of the cost of Interstate highways, with states paying the other 10 percent. (AP/Ed Andrieski)

Use private capital for roads and bridges, not taxpayer money

Michael Barone · August 18, 2013 4:00 am

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A common delusion: Only the US has sprawl

Michael Barone · August 16, 2013 4:00 am

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Read Almanac of American Politics 2014 introduction online

Michael Barone · August 15, 2013 4:00 am

Detroitâs huge population loss was a response to the cityâs high rates of violent crime and the inability or unwillingness of city government to reduce them drastically over the years. (AP File)

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Unions hurt Detroit but crime killed it

Michael Barone · August 14, 2013 4:00 am

Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli, left, greets Democratic challenger Terry McCauliffe at the start of the Virginia Bar Association convention debate at the Homestead in Hot Springs, Va. Saturday, July 20. (AP/Steve Helber)

Off-year elections will turn on personal factors, not issues

Michael Barone · August 14, 2013 4:00 am

Why did so many people move out of Detroit? The quick answer: crime abetted by welfare. (AP File)

Crime bankrupts Detroit, public unions mug two California cities

Michael Barone · August 11, 2013 4:00 am

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Not everyone wants to be CEO

Michael Barone · August 9, 2013 4:00 am