Joseph Lawler
Pew has produced an interactive news IQ quiz. I scored 12/12, putting myself in the 99th percentile of people taking the test,…
Politico‘s Ben Smith notes, offhandedly, that Virginia attorney general Ken Cuccinelli’s “high profile lawsuits have made him a conservative rock star,”…
New York Times columnist John Tierney describes how he won a bet on the price of oil against a peak…
At Newsweek, Mickey Kaus suggests that if President Obama and liberal Democrats really want to address the problem of increasing…
Experience suggests that belief in the American Dream is nothing more than ballast to be thrown overboard as soon as…
Philip notes that the news reported by Robert Pear in the New York Times — that the Obama administration has issued…
In the Fiscal Times, the liberal economist Mark Thoma points out that the government could have administered a bailout less…
Catherine Rampell of the New York Times flags a new study by the Hoover Institution’s Eric Hanushek, in which he tries…
Megan McArdle thinks through the implications of defending the constitutionality of the individual mandate in Obamacare by arguing it’s just…
Reflecting on outgoing National Economic Council chairman Larry Summers’s farewell speech, John Cassidy of the New Yorker presents the left-wing view…
