Joseph Lawler

On an upcoming trip to India, President Obama will not visit the Golden Temple, a Sikh holy site, because visitors…

One-time populist hero Paul Volcker is leaving the White House (The Atlantic) …As is Zeke Emanuel (Kaiser Health News) Chickens…

The past few days have seen some serious conservative-on-conservative violence. It started when Indiana governor Mitch Daniels contemplated a VAT…

To follow up on a point in my previous post, this New York Times chart illustrates the spending problem facing the…

With the news that last night’s boring regular-season blowout of the Titans over the Jaguars outdrew the Rangers-Yankees ALCS game…

Michael Cooper reports in the New York Times that most Americans are unaware that the stimulus bill included tax cuts…

Andrew Ferguson has reviewed Dinesh D’Souza’s new book, The Roots of Obama’s Rage, in the Weekly Standard. He goes into…

Roger Kaplan’s article this morning is a thoughtful meditation on how far our public schools are from providing real education,…

…and so he will probably not be attending President Obama’s next State of the Union Address, the AP reports.  Justice…

Eric Cantor, the House minority whip from Virginia, went on The Daily Show two nights ago to plug his new…