Michael Barone is a Fox News Channel contributor and co-author of The Almanac of American Politics. He is Senior Political Analyst for the Washington Examiner and a Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Fox News Channel contributor and co-author of The Almanac of American Politics. Michael Barone was formerly a senior writer with U.S. News & World Report. He grew up in Detroit and Birmingham, Mich. He graduated from Harvard College (1966) and Yale Law School (1969), and was an editor of the Harvard Crimson and the Yale Law Journal. Barone served as law clerk to Judge Wade H. McCree Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit from 1969 to 1971. From 1974 to 1981, he was vice president of the polling firm of Peter D. Hart Research Associates. From 1981 to 1988, he was a member of the editorial page staff of The Washington Post. From 1996 to 1998, he was senior staff editor at Reader's Digest. Barone is the principal co-author of The Almanac of American Politics, published by National Journal every two years. The first edition appeared in 1971, and the 17th edition, The Almanac of American Politics 2004, appeared in July 2003. He is also the author of Our Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan (Free Press, 1990), The New Americans: How the Melting Pot Can Work Again (Regnery, 2001) and the just-released Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling and the Competition for the Nation's Future (Crown Forum, May 2004). Over the years, Barone has written for many publications, including The Economist, The New York Times, The Detroit News, the Detroit Free Press, The Weekly Standard, The New Republic, National Review, The American Spectator, American Enterprise, The Times Literary Supplement and The Daily Telegraph of London. He is a contributor to the Fox News Channel and has appeared on many other television programs. Barone lives in Washington, D.C. 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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ While Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid scrambles to assemble 60 Democratic votes for health care legislation that, according to the realclearpolitics.com average of recent polls, is opposed by a 53 percent to 38... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2009/12/17/amid_rumbling_discontent,_dems_head_for_the_exits 8d8a51b9-b935-45a5-9b02-79516b6709dd Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT "Evil does exist in the world." This bald assertion is probably not what the Norwegian grantors of the Nobel Peace Prize expected to hear from Barack Obama. It sounds like something that the definer of the axis of evil... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2009/12/14/could_obamas_speeches_reflect_a_foreign_policy_shift 14bb8d02-0a90-4ed8-ad37-4eac3f7a4aa0 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT "Knowledge is becoming more specialized and more dispersed, while government power is becoming more concentrated," writes economist Arnold Kling in his new book, "Unchecked and Unbalanced." "This discrepancy... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2009/12/10/misusing_knowledge_to_expand_government_power cd8ceada-67bf-4157-89d9-5bd70176abb6 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT Every time I visit the White House, I am struck by its military environment. Military guards are on duty, the staff has lunch in the White House mess and there's a helicopter pad for Marine One out on the lawn. You... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2009/12/08/professor_obama_as_dutiful_commander_in_chief 2eb6268f-e178-4182-926f-f91a5de93157 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT "What have you done for me lately?" It's a question that voters implicitly ask politicians, especially ones they have supported and who are seeking their votes again. And it's a question that young voters in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2009/12/03/big_government_cant_put_young_americans_to_work 1ee8dad9-cea4-42ef-87e8-36b5a358483e Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT As Air Force One heads to Copenhagen for the climate summit Dec. 9, it will presumably not make a U-turn while flying over the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at University of East Anglia near Norwich, England. But... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2009/11/30/global_warming_consensus_garbage_in,_garbage_out 81e88760-55da-49b2-875b-9b168cf174e9 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT Double-digit. That hyphenated adjective has been used most often recently to describe October's 10.2 percent unemployment rate. But it can also be used to describe the federal budget deficit as a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2009/11/25/damn_the_deficit_full_speed_ahead_on_health_care 28f5d47c-634d-42b6-bb21-b6951c8feb6e Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:42:33 GMT Is Congress, behind on Barack Obama's deadlines on health care and cap-and-trade legislation, and flummoxed by the failure of the stimulus package to hold unemployment below 10.2 percent, prepared to address the immigra http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2009/11/24/immigration_looms_as_the_next_test_for_congress 51b2a102-4f79-490a-aacc-e3928ee38197 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT On his 10-day trip to Asia and in his 10th month in office, Barack Obama is beginning to encounter limits on his ambition to change the world. Even as he bowed to the king of Saudi Arabia last April and to the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2009/11/19/obama_bows,_but_the_world_refuses_to_bow_back 5a5e8e2f-a4b2-4a9d-8247-328e0ce23348 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT Barack Obama told the House Democratic Caucus before the roll call vote on health care on Nov. 7 that they would be better off politically if they passed the bill than if they let it fail. Bill Clinton speaking to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2009/11/16/pushing_health_reform_when_job_losses_are_rising 6ff835da-fb7e-4554-a5fe-6973d10af84c Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT Anniversaries are opportunities to reflect on the past and on what it might mean for the future. Monday saw the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, even if Barack Obama could not find time to travel once... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2009/11/12/history_is_calling_--_will_obama_answer d9fa8c47-f6c2-4590-befa-23960993dcdf Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT In November 2008, 658,000 Americans under 30 voted in New Jersey and 782,000 did so in Virginia. In November 2009, 212,000 Americans under 30 voted in New Jersey and 198,000 did so in Virginia. In other words,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2009/11/09/freewheeling_young_voters_scare_both_parties a06019ff-3f30-4419-bca7-4ff1b76ab953 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT As the final votes were being counted, it was possible to draw some lessons from Republican Bob McDonnell's victory in Virginia and the close, three-way governor's race in New Jersey, never mind that White House press... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2009/11/05/virginia,_new_jersey_races_showing_voters_changing_course 256dd9aa-e2b1-44ec-9f6b-555438b9b044 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT The recession is over, we are told. The Commerce Department announced Thursday that the economy grew in the third quarter of 2009 by 3.5 percent. Great, huh? Maybe not. About half that growth came from the Cash for... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2009/11/02/hold_the_champagne_happy_days_arent_here_again 929f572d-ebe8-4109-a3cc-fddaaa935dce Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT Five days from now the voters of New Jersey and Virginia will elect governors. Voters in the 23rd district of New York and the 10th district of California will elect new members of the House of Representatives to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2009/10/29/four_races_will_test_the_strength_of_obamas_majority 5dd252c1-fc41-45ba-be3e-58d144e68a18 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT