
Joseph Lawler
The Daily Caller reports that Eric Cantor has signalled a willingness to lead Republicans in supporting cuts to entitlement and…
Phil is, of course, right to say that Eric Cantor is not committing himself to any course of action when…
Richard Posner, the influential judge and law and economics scholar, has written a blog reaction to Pope Benedict XVI’s recently…
Three liberal think tanks — Demos, the Economic Policy Institute, and the Century Foundation — have joined together to produce…
In the Weekly Standard, David Skeel presents a plan for forestalling bailouts of insolvent states such as California and Illinois:…
It’s an obvious choice, if you stop to think about it. Or am I forgetting someone?
The Simpson-Bowles deficit commission recommendations (pdf) have raised a sort of philosophical question for free-marketers: do so-called “tax expenditures” count as…
Those were the words Marc Ambinder, then of the Atlantic, used to describe the Obama administration’s efforts to “fashion a…
Before I wrote the previous post, I didn’t realize just how comically manipulative President Obama’s GM IPO victory speech was….
Rep. Ron Paul has introduced the American Traveler Dignity Act, which would strip away some of the TSA’s power over…