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Abundance Versus 'Everything Bagel' Liberalism

Abundance Versus 'Everything Bagel' Liberalism
28.03.2025 8

Townhall

Michael Barone

Trump must restore Medicare Advantage

Trump must restore Medicare Advantage
27.03.2025 3

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Reviving impoundment: A fiscal fix or power grab?

27.03.2025 1

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Wisconsin Supreme Court race could determine control of the House

27.03.2025 20

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

There is no question Houthi Signal chat included classified information

27.03.2025 3

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Abundance versus “everything bagel” liberalism

27.03.2025 5

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Experts Have Only Themselves to Blame for the Distrust of Institutions

Experts Have Only Themselves to Blame for the Distrust of Institutions
21.03.2025 7

Townhall

Michael Barone

Abortion groups want to see state bans work, in part

20.03.2025 4

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

The real motivation behind Trump’s attack on Canada

20.03.2025 3

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Experts have only themselves to blame for the distrust of institutions

Experts have only themselves to blame for the distrust of institutions
20.03.2025 4

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

A Formidable President Storms Ahead

Some thoughts spring to mind after President Donald Trump’s 100-minute address to Congress. The first is that this 78-year-old man has amazing...

08.03.2025 7

The Daily Signal

Michael Barone

A Formidable President Storms Ahead

07.03.2025 10

Townhall

Michael Barone

The Democratic Party has betrayed women and girls again

05.03.2025 3

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

More capitalism is the only answer to poverty and environmental problems

05.03.2025 3

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Will Iran give Trump what he wants?

05.03.2025 5

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Inauthenticity will foil Democrats’ ploy to woo voters

05.03.2025 4

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

A formidable president storms ahead

05.03.2025 5

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Getting to Denmark

Sooner or later, The New York Times catches on to the news. In the case of immigration policy, the news it has caught up with... Read More The post...

02.03.2025 10

The Daily Signal

Michael Barone

Getting to Denmark

28.02.2025 7

Townhall

Michael Barone

The Policies of European Elites End in Tears

If you follow these things closely, you may have seen a clip of the chairman of the Munich Security Conference breaking down in tears, unable... Read...

22.02.2025 6

The Daily Signal

Michael Barone

The Policies of European Elites End in Tears

21.02.2025 3

Townhall

Michael Barone

Why Were Hopes of the 1990s Dashed?

14.02.2025 10

Townhall

Michael Barone

Why were hopes of the 1990s dashed?

13.02.2025 10

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Trump Rides the Vibes, for Better or Worse

After a flurry of activity—the president’s tariff threats and showdowns with Mexico and Canada, his expressions of interest in Greenland, the...

09.02.2025 7

The Daily Signal

Michael Barone

Trump Rides the Vibes, for Better or Worse

07.02.2025 9

Townhall

Michael Barone

Trump Is Moving Fast and Breaking Things

31.01.2025 30

Townhall

Michael Barone

Is Donald Trump the Second Coming of Andrew Jackson?

The portrait of Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Donald Trump as he... Read More The post...

26.01.2025 6

The Daily Signal

Michael Barone

Is Donald Trump the Second Coming of Andrew Jackson?

24.01.2025 6

Townhall

Michael Barone

For Now at Least, Trump Is Succeeding While His Opponents Fail

“It is not enough in life that one succeed,” the droll economist John Kenneth Galbraith is supposed to have said. “Others must fail.” We’re...

18.01.2025 5

The Daily Signal

Michael Barone

For Now, Trump Is Succeeding While His Opponents Fail

17.01.2025 40

Townhall

Michael Barone

China’s sixth-generation jet is a strategic threat

15.01.2025 6

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

For now, Trump is succeeding while his opponents fail

15.01.2025 5

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Facebook Embraces Free Speech: The Masses Win, the Experts Lose

The times, they are a-changing. The balance of power in the perhaps eternal battle between the experts and the masses has been shifting starkly,...

12.01.2025 8

The Daily Signal

Michael Barone

Facebook embraces free speech: The masses win, the experts lose

09.01.2025 3

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Toward a Political History of the Last 75 Years

New Year’s Day is a good time to take a long look backward with a cautious eye toward possible futures. My guide here is RealClearPolitics analyst...

06.01.2025 9

The Daily Signal

Michael Barone

Toward a political history of the last 75 years

New Year’s Day is a good time to take a long look backward with a cautious eye toward possible futures. My guide here is Real Clear Politics...

01.01.2025 3

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Time for Trump to Drop Lawsuits and for the Press to Apologize

Maybe the lesson this Christmas season is that even if turnabout is fair play, at some point, enough is enough. Start with the specious lawsuits...

27.12.2024 5

The Daily Signal

Michael Barone

Time for Trump to Drop Lawsuits and for the Press to Apologize

Maybe the lesson this Christmas season is that even if turnabout is fair play, at some point, enough is enough. Start with the specious lawsuits...

27.12.2024 20

Townhall

Michael Barone

The winners and losers of 2024

With Christmas in the rearview mirror, the end of the year is fast approaching, and it was a doozy. It’s hard to argue that 2024 was anything other...

26.12.2024 3

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Time for Trump to drop lawsuits and for the press to apologize

Maybe the lesson this Christmas season is that even if turnabout is fair play, at some point, enough is enough. Start with the specious lawsuits...

26.12.2024 5

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Even before taking office, Trump may have brought down the Canadian government

Even before his inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump is either, depending on your perspective, projecting power or spreading chaos beyond...

18.12.2024 4

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

NCAA president thinks men deserve priority in women’s locker rooms

NCAA President Charlie Baker apparently thinks that female athletes are more of a burden to college sports than they are equal members who deserve...

18.12.2024 8

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Trump’s success: Who’d a-thunk it?

Who’d a-thunk it? The Assad regime collapses in Syria after 54 years. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hold on power seems undermined by imperial...

18.12.2024 4

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Free Speech: Why a Tech Titan Backed Trump

Why did Marc Andreessen—inventor of the first internet web browser and perhaps the prime venture capitalist in Silicon Valley today—switch from his...

16.12.2024 20

The Daily Signal

Michael Barone

Free Speech: Why a Tech Titan Backed Trump

Why did Marc Andreessen -- inventor of the first internet web browser, and perhaps the prime venture capitalist in Silicon Valley today -- switch...

13.12.2024 20

Townhall

Michael Barone

Free speech: Why a tech titan backed Trump

Why did Marc Andreessen, inventor of the first internet web browser, perhaps the prime venture capitalist in Silicon Valley today, switch from his...

11.12.2024 4

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Politics of Economic Redistribution, RIP

Whatever happened to the Democrats’ reputation as the party favoring the working man? Put another way, what happened to the Democrats as the party...

07.12.2024 4

The Daily Signal

Michael Barone

Chicago antisemitic hate crime suspect was an illegal immigrant

04.12.2024 3

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

Politics of economic redistribution, RIP

04.12.2024 4

Washington Examiner

Michael Barone

The Groups and Barista Proletariat of the Democratic Party

Postmortems of the Democratic Party’s loss, running well beyond the defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., are starting...

01.12.2024 7

The Daily Signal

Michael Barone