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Question: What do female medical students think of abortion?

Michael Barone | Yesterday

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. She...

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

Michael Barone | Published: Sat, May 18, 2013

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...

The higher ed bubble is bursting (continued)

Michael Barone | Updated: Fri, May 17, 2013

Higher education enrollments this spring are down 2.3 percent  from spring 2012, according to the National Student Clearinghouse. That’s more than the 1.8 percent decline between fall 2011...

Michael Barone: In defense of Jason Richwine and Charles Murray

Michael Barone | Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

My American Enterprise Institute colleague Charles Murray came to the defense of our former colleague Jason Richwine, who resigned from the Heritage Foundation amid protests about his Harvard...

Who’s ahead in Virginia governor race? No one

Michael Barone | Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

With a Chris Christie victory in New Jersey’s governor election a foregone conclusion, the one question mark in the November election is who will win the race for governor of Virginia? Recent...

Justice flak in regular contact with Media Matters

Michael Barone | Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

It’s not entirely a coincidence that the left-wing Media Matters has been parroting and advancing Obama administration talking points. It turns out that the Justice Department’s lead spokesman...

Michael Barone: Benghazi, IRS scandals constitute politics by other means

Michael Barone | Published: Tue, May 14, 2013

What do the Benghazi cover-up and the IRS scandal have in common? They were both about winning elections, under false pretenses. Winning elections, after all, is something Barack Obama is good...

Watching Obamacare unravel

Michael Barone | Updated: Tue, May 14, 2013

That’s the title of New York University Law Professor Richard Epstein’s blogpost on the difficulty of implementing Obamacare. It’s as good a summary as I’ve seen of the problems faced...

Michael Barone: Did Clinton and Obama believe their Benghazi baloney?

Michael Barone | Published: Sat, May 11, 2013

What were President Barack Obama and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton thinking? Why did they keep pitching the line that the Sept. 11, 2012 Benghazi attack that killed Ambassador...

Michael Barone: More Hispanics going to college

Michael Barone | Updated: Fri, May 10, 2013

The Pew Hispanic Center reports that more Hispanics are going to college these days — indeed, that a larger percentage of Hispanics than of non-Hispanic whites are enrolling in college....




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