Joseph Lawler
Jeff Lord’s complaints about Ron Paul leave me confused. It doesn’t strike me as wrong or hypocritical that Paul accepts campaign donations — as opposed to personal payments — from large companies. Has Paul ever publicly denounced allowing corporate funding of campaigns? …
On Sunday evening, Bloomberg News published a story that confirmed the worst suspicions of bailout critics. The article revealed that trillions of dollars of emergency loans the Federal Reserve disbursed during financial crisis went to the biggest banks, ultimately providing…
Strong move by Jon Huntsman today: after learning that, absurdly, Donald Trump will be moderating the December 27th Newsmax Republican debate, Huntsman’s campaign immediately announced they’d be skipping it. A spokesman emailed The Business Insider: “Lol. We look forward to watching Mitt and…
The Boston Globe has picked up on a trend: Senate Republicans keeping rejecting Cambridge academics. They’ve blocked the nomination of Harvard faculty member Donald Berwick to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and Berwick’s not alone in being left out…
National Review‘s Ramesh Ponnuru argues in favor of the former Massachusetts governor here.
Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli intends to run for governor (Politico) Gary Johnson contemplates a run on the Libertarian Party ticket (Politico) Hillary Clinton pushes reforms in Myanmar (AP) HUD secretary Shaun Donovan to announce that the FHA will require a…
Today the Wall Street Journal published a piece by SEIU president Andy Stern praising China’s economic model. Stern doesn’t come right out and say it, but he certainly implies in every way that China’s communist system works better than America’s…
In Politico, Senators Richard Burr and Tom Coburn present a criticism of Obama’s health care policies that is all too rare among Republicans. They do warn that health care is becoming too expensive and that Medicare is unsustainable, but they…
After suggesting that Jon Hunstman, not Newt Gingrich, is the most conservative GOP hopeful electable, Ross Douthat recaps Huntsman’s missteps: But his salesmanship has been staggeringly inept. Huntsman’s campaign was always destined to be hobbled by the two years he…
This web ad from Ron Paul marks both the professionalism of the Paul campaign and the precariousness of Newt Gingrich’s recent surge:
