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Superyacht makers really need lobbyists

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:50:02 -0400

Michael Barone My Washington Examiner colleague Timothy Carney, indefatigable chronicler of K Street, points out that the United States Superyacht Association has hired a Washington lobbyist. Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com

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No heterosexual white males need apply

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:50:03 -0400

Michael Barone America’s great universities continue to be bastions of intolerance. They profess to prize “diversity,” which in practice means that everybody must believe the same things. Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com

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Will young people buy expensive Obamacare insurance?

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:15:03 -0400

Michael Barone One essential feature of the insurance policies encouraged by Obamacare is that they require the young and healthy to subsidize the old and healthy. Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com

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Dearth of female CEOs a huge problem?

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:45:05 -0400

Michael Barone The excellent Anne Applebaum has a fine article in the New York Review of Books, reviewing Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In” and Hanna Rosin’s “The Rise of Women and the End of Men.” It makes several interesting points and is definitely worth reading in full. I’ll focus on one point, Sandberg’s argument (in Applebaum’s words) that we have “a serious, important social problem: the lack of powerful women at the very top of corporate America.” Applebaum is not so sure. Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com

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Michael Barone: Low-skill workers may get 'low-benefit' plans under Obamacare

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:50:05 -0400

Michael Barone Would you like to have a "skinny" health insurance policy? Probably not. Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com

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Question: What do female medical students think of abortion?

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:55:02 -0400

Michael Barone Noemie Emery has an excellent article in the latest Weekly Standard on the case of Kermit Gosnell, the abortion provider who has been sentenced to life in prison on three counts of murder. Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com

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Michael Barone: Obama's IRS and AP scandals cast Big Chill on free speech

Fri, 17 May 2013 18:00:04 -0400

Michael Barone Chilling effect. That's the term lawyers and judges use to describe the result of government actions that deter people from exercising their right of free speech. There have been plenty of examples in the past 10 days. The Obama administration's Justice Department issued a sweeping demand for two months of office, cellular and home telephone records from multiple Associated Press reporters and editors to investigate an alleged breach of national security. The AP story in question, on a foiled terrorist plot, had been withheld for days at the request of the CIA. It finally went out on the wire on a Monday, after the AP was told that administration spokesmen would...

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