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Michael Barone

The air has seeped out of the Russia-collusion balloon
09/22/2018 - 5:44pm
Michael Barone
RUSSIA COLLUSION: September 21, 2018 “I did not, and of course I looked for it, looked for it hard.” That was Bob Woodward, promoting his book on the Trump White House, “Fear,” replying to talk radio host and columnist Hugh Hewitt’s question “Did you, Bob Woodward, hear anything in your research, in your interviews, that sounded like espionage or collusion?...
A cold wind off Lake Michigan — for Chicago and America
Michael Barone 09/17/2018 - 2:03pm
CHICAGO: September 14, 2018 “It’s the Lord of the Flies on LaSalle Street,” wrote columnist John Kass in the Chicago Tribune. In case the references are unclear, whether because high schools haven’t been assigning the William Golding novel in the last few decades or because out-of-towners unaccountably don’t realize...
Dems’ visions of hand signals from white supremacists
Michael Barone 09/12/2018 - 8:16am
This Weeks Conservative Focus … Democrats The highlight, at least for some television watchers, of the first day of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, came when the young woman seated directly behind the nominee rested her right hand on her opposite elbow and pressed her...
John McCain: Warm remembrance of roads not taken, or taken and now abandoned
Michael Barone 08/31/2018 - 9:32am
JOHN MCCAIN: Ausut 31, 2018 Warm remembrances of Sen. John McCain have been filling the political air since his death last weekend. They’ll continue through his the memorial service in Phoenix, his funeral Saturday at Washington National Cathedral and his interment at the Naval Academy cemetery in Annapolis on Sunday.  Praise has been...
Democrats better off playing by the rules than denouncing the rules
Michael Barone 08/24/2018 - 1:13pm
DEMOCRATS: August 24, 2018 When you lose a game, particularly a game you had good reason to expect you’d win, do you try to figure out how to play better? Or is your first reaction to demand changes in the rules? In the case of the Democratic Party, it’s the latter. Perhaps that comes naturally to a party that takes some pride in...
Has Trump delivered on his economic promises?
Michael Barone 08/19/2018 - 8:21pm
ECONOMY: August 17, 2018 Is President Trump fulfilling candidate Trump’s promises? You can make a case that he is, based on some surprising and widely unexpected economic developments. Vice President Mike Pence, writing in the Des Moines Register, put it succinctly: “The evidence is clear: America is back.” He adds, “It...
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