Joseph Lawler
Jared Bernstein, formerly Joe Biden’s economic adviser, is determined not to be cynically partisan: A journalist just asked me what…
The Senate will vote on amendments to S. 679, including one by Sen. Vitter that eliminates funding for the salaries…
Introducing a new member of the Spectator blog: J.P. Freire of New Media Strategies. Readers may remember J.P. from his…
In yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, Stephen Moore suggested that Sen. Marco Rubio is nearly a lock to be the vice…
Here’s the clip Rep. Paul Ryan wanted: Congressional Budget Office director Doug Elmendorf explaining that there’s no estimate of an…
Lovisa Stannow’s Reason magazine piece on “Rape Factories” is a eye-opening look at both the scope and the nature of sexual…
Now that the debt ceiling talks have reached the point where Democrats are demanding tax increases, Eric Cantor and Jon…
Princeton professor Robert George proposes a kind of Rorschach Test for self-identified liberals: George Washington law professor John Banzhaf is suing…
Today the Congressional Budget Office released the Long-Term Budget Outlook. The report gives a clear picture of the country’s fiscal…
The New York Times reports that President Obama will announce tonight that he will withdraw 10,000 troops from Afghanistan this year,…
