Joseph Lawler

Reacting to Shannen Coffin’s article examining Elena Kagan’s role in drafting a politically important partial-birth abortion statement by the American College of…

New home sales plunged to the lowest level in four decades in May, according to Howard Gleckman at the Tax…

After the U.S. bowed out of the 2006 World Cup in an embarrassing 2-1 loss to Ghana, I complained about…

University of Chicago philosopher Martha Nussbaum has a big problem with Mike Huckabee: he referenced an interview she gave with…

It’s a bit capricious to add economy-changing amendments to bills regulating entire industries, and in general bad for the country….

On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner went before the Congressional Oversight Panel and testified that the big banks have repaid…

…Michael Gerson has a good one in today’s Washington Post. 

Yesterday I noted Majoirty Leader Steny Hoyer’s hypocritical admission that the House Democrats would not pass a budget. His hypocrisy…

So it looks like Pres. Obama’s OMB director Peter Orszag is set to fade from the limelight, tragically before we…

It was going to be hard to justify the decade of near-trillion dollar deficits, so the Democrats are now planning…