Tag: Michael Barone

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Supreme Court offers mixed verdict to conservatives and liberals

Michael Barone · June 26, 2013 4:00 am

In the Fisher v. University of Texas affirmative action case, opinion of the 7-1 Court written by Justice Kennedy said that strict scrutiny should be applied to the use of racial classifications in college and graduate school admissions, and remanded the case to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals for reconsideration. (Photo: Thinkstock)

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The Supreme Court’s Waughian jurisprudence

Michael Barone · June 25, 2013 4:00 am

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Poll shows Obama numbers plummeting in Massachusetts

Michael Barone · June 24, 2013 4:00 am

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Health insurance rates are set to increase even in Washington state, which has had health insurance regulations that work much like Obamacare.

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Will health insurance rates go way up even in Wash. state?

Michael Barone · June 23, 2013 4:00 am

According to a survey, more Americans remember George W. Bush approvingly than negatively. (Photo: Examiner file)

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Comparing the Republican vote in 2004 and 2012

Michael Barone · June 22, 2013 4:00 am

In this Jan. 20, 2012 photo, people hold signs during a gathering on the anniversary of the Citizens United decision in Montpelier, Vt. First, it was the Vermont senator with socialist leanings. Then it was Jerry of Ben & Jerry's ice cream fame. Now there are about 50 Vermont communities ready to chime in on a proposal to pass a Constitutional amendment to clarify that corporations do not have the same rights as human beings., (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

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Why does the left want to suppress free speech?

Michael Barone · June 22, 2013 4:00 am

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‘Detroit: An American Autopsy’

Michael Barone · June 20, 2013 4:00 am

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Afghanistan

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Negotiations with Taliban likely to succeed only when they are defeated

Michael Barone · June 19, 2013 4:00 am

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A study from Oregon has cast doubt on the notion that access to insurance makes people healthier.

An Oregon study casts doubt on whether health insurance improves health

Michael Barone · June 19, 2013 4:00 am

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President Obama described himself as black on on his 2010 Census form.

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University study, unknowingly, calls President Obama a racist

Michael Barone · June 18, 2013 4:00 am

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President Obama

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MSM avoids linking Obama to NSA surveillance

Michael Barone · June 18, 2013 4:00 am

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Is Obama losing young voters?

Michael Barone · June 17, 2013 4:00 am