Michael Barone

What the Democratic trifecta hath wrought

Published by admin on Mon, 01/16/2023 - 1:19am

DEMOCRATS: January 13, 2023

America has just exited a biennium of Democratic trifecta — control by the nation’s and the world’s oldest political party of the White House and majorities in the Senate and House of Representatives. It is only the third such biennium in the last 40 years, since 1993-95 and 2009-11, the first two years of the Clinton and Obama administrations.

Let’s base policy on real facts, not misleading

Published by admin on Sun, 01/08/2023 - 7:16pm

ECONOMY: January 6, 2023

From all those lists of best books of 2022, here’s one with the potential to change public policy debate and discourse for the better. It’s “The Myth of American Inequality,” and the three authors are two Ph.D. economists, former Sen. Phil Gramm and his long-ago Texas A&M colleague Robert Ekelund, and former Bureau of Labor Statistics assistant commissioner John Early. Their subject is government statistics — and how they present a misleading picture of recent economic history.

COVID only accelerated the blue state exodus

Published by admin on Sat, 12/31/2022 - 1:21pm

PANDEMIC: December 30, 2022

Where are Americans moving? And where, to make things more specific, have Americans been moving since the sudden onset of COVID lockdowns? Answers to these questions come from the annual Christmastime release of the Census Bureau’s estimates of the population of the 50 states and the District of Columbia as of last July.

Three big surprises of 2022: Weakened Russia, weakened China, weakened American economy

Published by admin on Sat, 12/24/2022 - 9:31pm

POLITICS: December 23, 2022

2022 was a year full of surprises. Important things didn’t work out as many people had expected on just about every point on the political spectrum.

Are the Silicon Valley fraudsters today’s robber barons?

Published by admin on Sun, 12/18/2022 - 6:07pm

CRIME: December 16, 2022

Will Silicon Valley go down in history the way of the robber barons? There’s been plenty of raw material in the headlines for a sharp downgrading of the San Francisco Bay area tech industry’s reputation these last few weeks.

The downward spiral of disgraceful misconduct

Published by admin on Sun, 12/11/2022 - 3:43pm

DONALD TRUMP: December 9, 2022

When John Quincy Adams was informed by a committee that he was elected president by the House of Representatives, for the first and only time through the procedure set by the 12th Amendment of the Constitution, he responded in writing. “The answer was not very gracious,” writes historian George Dangerfield. “If it were possible, wrote Mr. Adams, by declining the office to cause an immediate election that would bring about a clearer result, he would gladly do so. But since this was not Constitutionally permissible, he accepted the Presidency.”

In a winter of discontent, Americans vote for the status quo

Published by admin on Sat, 12/03/2022 - 11:05pm

POLITICS: December 2, 2022

Are we living in an era of political contentment? Most Americans would answer that question with a bellowing “No!” But there’s a case to be made that American voters, for all their negative talk, actually don’t want a set of public policies markedly different from what we have today.

Give thanks for the Northwest Ordinance

Published by admin on Fri, 11/25/2022 - 7:15pm

FREEDOM: November 25, 2022

Unsure of what to be thankful for this Thanksgiving season? Here’s a suggestion of something to be thankful for: the Northwest Ordinance.

A House popular vote majority produced few seats but is a good sign for Republicans in 2024

Published by admin on Fri, 11/18/2022 - 10:45pm

ELECTION: November 18, 2022

One of the puzzles in this year’s surprising and unpredicted (including by me) off-year election results is why the Republicans’ 51% to 47% win in the popular vote for House of Representatives did not produce a majority bigger than the apparent 221-214 result. (All numbers here are subject to revision in line with final returns.)

Trump and Biden big losers, DeSantis big winner in 2022

Published by admin on Fri, 11/11/2022 - 10:04pm

ELECTION RESULTS: November 11, 2022

One way to look at this election is as a repudiation of Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

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