Joseph Lawler
Energy secretary Steven Chu will face a grilling at House hearing on Solyndra (Fox News) The supercommittee’s negotiations grind on (Politico) Rick Perry has issued a debate challenge to Nancy Pelosi (The Hill) Concealed carry vote passes the House (Politico)…
Yesterday, Rep. Jeb Hensarling, a staunch fiscal conservative who’s co-chairing the deficit supercommittee, chided Democrats for refusing to consider a Medicare reform plan with bipartisan origins: Rep. Jeb Hensarling said he believes Democrats “have negotiated in good faith” but so…
Rick Hess has some tough questions for GOP presidential candidates who favor abolishing the Department of Education: It isn’t clear that abolishing the Department would itself end any federal education programs (since they can migrate elsewhere). So, specifically, which programs…
This is the kind of thing to keep in mind as Herman Cain, Rick Perry, and others stumble over their words:
Freshman senator Ron Johnson stressed the need for more “citizen legislators” like himself at a press breakfast hosted by The American Spectator and Americans for Tax Reform this morning. Johnson explained that the lack of decisionmakers with experience outside of politics…
In a White House announcement of a new $1 billion federal program intended to spur health care job creation, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services head Donald Berwick is quoted as saying that “[b]y putting…more ‘boots on the ground,’ these…
A new Bloomberg poll of likely Iowa Republican caucus voters has Cain, Paul, Romney, and Gingrich each only separate by one percentage point. Cain, despite his recent struggles, is the leader at 20 percent. Perhaps most interesting, however, is that…
In the summer issue of National Affairs, George Mason law professor Eric Claeys warned conservatives not to place their hopes in a Supreme Court review of Obama’s health care law. Claeys argues that only Justice Thomas has a record that…
NYPD cleared Occupy Wall Street from Zuccotti Park early this morning at Mayor Bloomberg’s order (New York Times) President Obama will spend the entire day flying to Australia from Hawaii, and will address the Australian parliament on Wednesday (USA Today)…
The Supreme Court is expected to announce this morning that it will take up Obamacare (USA Today) Occupy Wall Street protests all over the country this weekend included confrontations with police and arrests (CNN) Chelsea Clinton will start work as…
