By Michael Barone |
By Michael Barone, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
In August 2003, I wrote my first baroneblog post for usnews.com. Today, about 700 blogposts later, I'm writing my last one. Next week, I'm moving to the Washington Examiner, where I'll be writing columns and blogs. It's a great opportunity, and I'm ...
By Michael Barone |
By Michael Barone, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
Last week I wrote a blogpost on cap-and-trade, pointing out that many Democratic senators had a political motive to oppose such a measure: Their states get most of their electricity from coal, and so cap-and-trade would raise their constituents'
By Michael Barone |
By Michael Barone, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
The Quinnipiac poll, whose home base is Quinnipiac College in Hamden, Conn., has a Connecticut poll out showing Democratic Sen. Christopher Dodd's job approval at 33 percent positive to 58 percent negative. In pairings against three Republicans ...
By Michael Barone |
By Michael Barone, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
Attorney General Eric Holder has dropped the charges against Ted Stevens. Here are statements from Holder and from Steven's lawyer, Brendan Sullivan of Williams & Connolly. Clearly there has been prosecutorial misconduct of a major order. Career ...
By Michael Barone |
By Michael Barone, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
What's going to happen when the absentee and military ballots are counted in the New York 20th district, where Democrat Scott Murphy currently has a lead of 25 votes out of 154,409 cast on election day. Still to be counted are absentee and military ...
By Michael Barone |
By Michael Barone, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
Well, it looks like we don't have a final result in the special election held in the New York 20th congressional district yesterday. Democrat Scott Murphy leads Republican Jim Tedisco by 25 votes, with absentee and military votes still left to count.
By Michael Barone |
By Michael Barone, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
Last week, Mickey Kaus exposed some postings on JournoList, the by-invitation-only website for certain young left-wing political writers. I'm glad I haven't gotten an invitation. Many of these writers produce thoughtful and intelligent pieces in print ...
By Michael Barone |
By Michael Barone, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
My U.S. News column this week is on the roadblocks the Obama administration is encountering to its expansive budget and economic policies. Ours is not a parliamentary democracy like Britain's, where the majority party can push its program through the ...
By Michael Barone |
By Michael Barone, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
Bill Galston at the New Republic's blog provides some clear thinking on the prospects for the Obama administration's cap-and-trade legislation. His conclusion: ain't gonna happen. Galston notes that national polls show that on the question of ...
By Michael Barone |
By Michael Barone, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
At the risk of being accused of browning up the boss, let me link to Mort Zuckerman's column from the U.S. News Weekly on Iran. What can we do about Iran's nuclear weapons program, short of military action? Mort has a list:
We must press ...
