Joseph Lawler
Vladimir Putin accuses Hillary Clinton of encouraging protests in Russia (Politico) Chris Christie’s pitch for Romney in Iowa: he won’t “embarrass” America (Boston Globe) Newt Gingrich holds double-digit leads over Romney in three of four early primary states (The Hill)…
It seems that the upshot of last week’s revelations that the Fed provided enormous emergency loans to the biggest names on Wall Street is a controversy over whether the Fed loaned out $7.7 trillion, as some outlets have reported. That’s…
With Mitt Romney’s campaign embracing the Ryan plan for Medicare today more closely than he has before — surrogate John Sununu called it a “conservative litmus test” — it’s worth considering that Romney’s platform is now far more defined than…
Mitt Romney will skip Trump-moderated debate, leaving only Gingrich and Santorum RSVPed (Boston Globe) New York governor Andrew Cuomo cuts deal with legislature raising taxes on higher incomes (Wall Street Journal) Washington braces for Occupy protests of lobbyists and others…
Here’s a clip from yesterday’s Democratic pimary debate between the candidates vying to take on Scott Brown, including Elizabeth Warren: Post-Coakley, Mass. Democrats should be prepared for this kind of thing. But apparently they can’t be bothered.
Mitt Romney sat down for an interview with the Washington Examiner‘s editorial board this morning. Romney deserves credit for doing the interview, because the Examiner staff includes some of his toughest critics. Given the difficulty and wide range of the questions,…
Yesterday, Fed chairman Ben Bernanke sent a letter to members of Congress complaining about “egregious errors and mistakes” made in recent news accounts of the Fed’s emergency loan programs. He didn’t explicitly mention Bloomberg, which has run several important stories…
Walter Russell Mead takes the occasion of President Obama’s attempt to reenact a historic speech by Teddy Roosevelt to reflect on the unchanging nature of political disagreements. Mead argues that political battles in the near future correspond to the Hamilton vs. Jefferson…
Jon Huntsman fielded questions from conservative bloggers today at the Heritage Foundation, including one about meeting global reductions targets that he answered by stating that high-emissions countries need to agree on the need to reduce emissions before the U.S. did…
…But Spectator contributor Joseph Bottum’s e-book Dakota Christmas is currently number one among Kindle Singles and Christmas books on Amazon. By the way, Bottum was one of the many great writers to contribute to our book recommendations for Christmas in…
