Joseph Lawler
Yesterday the Post Office announced a cost-saving proposal that would slow down the delivery of priority mail and cut about 28,000 workers. The plan would be expected to save about $2.1 billion. Timothy Taylor explains that $2.1 billion won’t be…
Wired‘s Spencer Ackerman reports that we’ve spent $50-plus billion on airport security since 9/11, only to have gaping holes remain in the system. The TSA and all its intrusive methods only protect from terrorists who try to board planes. There…
The transcript of Glenn Beck’s interview with Newt Gingrich is remarkable because Beck asks Gingrich a number of different policy questions, which Gingrich answers without any apparent concern for establishing his conservative credentials. He even fails to clearly separate his…
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…
At the Daily Caller, constitutional lawyer Ilya Shapiro runs down President Obama’s top-10 constitutional violations. Of the 10, many are violations that could be based on a misunderstanding or legitimate disagreement on the Obama team’s part about what is constitutional….
On Friday, I wrote about new revelations that many of the trillions in loans disbursed by the Federal Reserve during the financial crisis went to some of the biggest banks on Wall Street. We’re lucky that the information about those…
Politico‘s Manu Raju and Jake Sherman report that the negotations over the payroll tax cut extension are progressing: Senate Democrats updated their offer to decrease the size of both the payroll tax cut and the millionaires surtax that would “pay…
Ron Paul’s campaign is going after other Republicans agressively today. Here’s his new ad that will run in Iowa and New Hampshire: As in-your-face as the ad is, its tenor is deferential relative to the campaign’s scathing response to Newt…
Senate Democrats will release “serious” plan to cut payroll tax today (CNN) Newt Gingrich is the first Republican presidentical candidate to rsvp to a debate moderated by Donald Trump (USA Today) Occupy DC ends in a standoff between police and…
Another month of underwhelming job growth, as the economy adds 120,000 jobs and the unemployment rate falls to 8.6 percent (New York Times) Obama pledged $50 million to AIDS prevention funding yesterday (CNN) The Senate rejected Republican and Democratic versions…
