Joseph Lawler

Bad news, Spectator fans. It turns out that “tax-averse” Colorado Springs’s budet shortfalls have served as a natural experiment, and…

Today the administration released its budget. It calls for a $3.83 trillion budget in FY 2011 and a $1.6 trillion…

The economy grew at a 5.7 percent annualized rate in the last quarter of 2009, according to the Department of…

A recent Pew survey found that only 26 percent of Americans know that it takes 60 votes in the Senate…

Meanwhile, the GOP does have some procedural Congressional advantages that actually will hurt the Dems’ image at no cost to…

I don’t have a very high estimation of Barack Obama as a president: I think he’s a careerist and a…

Veronique de Rugy points to Daniel Klein’s study summary in which he investigates why there are so few conservative and…

A year ago, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal gave the Republican response to Obama’s first state of the union address. Famously,…

Phil: I agree that it’s important for Republicans to get behind this, even if it is mostly symbolic. Of course…

Here’s some crazy news: apparently James O’Keefe, one of the masterminds of the ACORN undercover videos, has been arrested for…