Joseph Lawler

Energy secretary Steven Chu will face a grilling at House hearing on Solyndra (Fox News) The supercommittee’s negotiations grind on…

Yesterday, Rep. Jeb Hensarling, a staunch fiscal conservative who’s co-chairing the deficit supercommittee, chided Democrats for refusing to consider a…

Rick Hess has some tough questions for GOP presidential candidates who favor abolishing the Department of Education:  It isn’t clear…

In a White House announcement of a new $1 billion federal program intended to spur health care job creation, Center…

This is the kind of thing to keep in mind as Herman Cain, Rick Perry, and others stumble over their…

Freshman senator Ron Johnson stressed the need for more “citizen legislators” like himself at a press breakfast hosted by The…

NYPD cleared Occupy Wall Street from Zuccotti Park early this morning at Mayor Bloomberg’s order (New York Times) President Obama…

A new Bloomberg poll of likely Iowa Republican caucus voters has Cain, Paul, Romney, and Gingrich each only separate by…

In the summer issue of National Affairs, George Mason law professor Eric Claeys warned conservatives not to place their hopes…

From SCOTUS Blog: Setting the stage for a historic constitutional confrontation over federal power, the Supreme Court on Monday granted…