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Michael Barone: Low-Tax Texas Beats Big-Government California
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Low-Tax Texas Beats Big-Government California
by Michael Barone
“Stop messing with Texas!” That was the message Gov. Rick Perry bellowed on election night as he celebrated his victory over Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in the Republican primary for governor. In his reference to Texas’ anti-littering slogan, Perry was making a point applicable to national as [...]
Michael Barone: Dems’ Health Strategy Doesn’t Add Up to a Win
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Dems’ Health Strategy Doesn’t Add Up to a Win
by Michael Barone
“More talk, no deal” was The Wall Street Journal’s headline on Thursday’s Blair House health care summit. “After summit flop, Democrats prepare to go it alone on Obamacare,” proclaimed the headline here at The Washington Examiner. These were appropriate verdicts if you [...]
Michael Barone: Obama Lacks One Crucial Ingredient - Intuition
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Obama Lacks One Crucial Ingredient - Intuition
by Michael Barone
No president enters office knowing everything he needs to know. His experience is limited to some greater or lesser extent; his knowledge of the people from whom he will choose appointees is incomplete; his mastery of the substance of public policy, after years on [...]
Michael Barone: Under Obama, Crony Capitalism Again Rules the Day
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Under Obama, Crony Capitalism Again Rules the Day
by Michael Barone
In his bestseller “Inside U.S.A.,” the hugely readable journalist John Gunther described America as it was in the last year of World War II. He interviewed hundreds of politicians, businessmen and journalists, but only four men rated a separate chapter — three politicians [...]
Michael Barone: Dems’ Lock on Senate Is Mixed Blessing for Obama
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Dems’ Lock on Senate Is Mixed Blessing for Obama
by Michael Barone
Year One of the Obama administration ends Wednesday. Another era may come to an end the day before, when Massachusetts voters — or at least those of them motivated enough to vote — choose a senator to fill the three years remaining [...]
Michael Barone: When Liberal Dreams Collide With Public Opinion
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When Liberal Dreams Collide With Public Opinion
by Michael Barone
In the Bella Center on the south side of Copenhagen and in the Senate chamber on the north side of the Capitol, we’re seeing what happens when liberal dreams collide with American public opinion. It’s like what happens when a butterfly collides with the windshield [...]
Michael Barone: Professor Obama as Dutiful Commander in Chief
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Professor Obama as Dutiful Commander in Chief
by Michael Barone
Every time I visit the White House, I am struck by its military environment.
Military guards are on duty, the staff has lunch in the White House mess and there’s a helicopter pad for Marine One out on the lawn. You see nothing like this in [...]
Michael Barone: Global Warming Consensus: Garbage In, Garbage Out
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Global Warming Consensus: Garbage In, Garbage Out
by Michael Barone
As Air Force One heads to Copenhagen for the climate summit Dec. 9, it will presumably not make a U-turn while flying over the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at University of East Anglia near Norwich, England. But perhaps it should.
The 61 megabytes of CRU e-mails [...]
Michael Barone: Obama Bows, but the World Refuses to Bow Back
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Obama Bows, but the World Refuses to Bow Back
by Michael Barone
On his 10-day trip to Asia and in his 10th month in office, Barack Obama is beginning to encounter limits on his ambition to change the world. Even as he bowed to the king of Saudi Arabia last April and to the emperor [...]
Michael Barone: Unlike Obama, Americans Reject European Model
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Unlike Obama, Americans Reject European Model
by Michael Barone
An interesting paradox. Last year, America elected a president who, in attitudes and policies, is closer to the elites of Western Europe than any of his predecessors. Yet in the nine months that he has been in office, ordinary Americans have been moving away from [...]