Donald Lambro

Debate rages over ‘tea party’ crowd size

A fierce numbers battle has erupted in the aftermath of Saturday's Capitol Hill rally by "tea party" conservatives that is about the size of the crowd.

September 17, 2009

Race on for Kennedy’s seat

Massachusetts is in a state of mass confusion as the state tries to fill the seat of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, with a crowded field of Democratic hopefuls jockeying to replace a political legend in a special election while Gov. Deval Patrick's hopes of naming an interim replacement appear to be fading.

September 15, 2009

Early stages of recovery

There is no question that the economy is in the early stages of a recovery, though it has a long way to go before it gets back on its feet again and regains full health.

September 14, 2009

Independents key in Obama’s health pitch

As lawmakers and voters ponder the impact of President Obama's prime-time appeal for his health care reform, no group will be more pivotal to his plan's fate than independents who have deserted him in droves in recent months.

September 11, 2009

A march on Washington

The armies of "tea party" conservatives who packed town-hall meetings last month to oppose President Obama's $1 trillion government health care plan bring their protest movement to the Capitol on Saturday to urge its defeat.

September 10, 2009

Tea Party Express roars to D.C.

When the "tea party" movement kicked off in April to protest record federal spending bills, trillion-dollar deficits and higher tax burdens, its members were fiercely independent and opposed any suggestion that they bond with a larger umbrella group, preferring to work within their local communities.

September 8, 2009

BREITBART: Couric should look in mirror

Now that White House "Green Jobs Czar" Van Jones has resigned, what's next?

September 7, 2009

Ready to pull the plug on reform

President Obama's goal of health care reform has been hooked up to life-support systems as he prepares to make one more desperate attempt to pull it back from the brink of death.

September 7, 2009

White House war on the war on terror

The Justice Department's decision to investigate the interrogation methods used by the Bush administration's war on terrorism sent a chilling message to CIA agents that they could be prosecuted for protecting our country from another attack.

September 4, 2009

Polls: Corzine trails GOP rival

New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine appears to be losing support in his bid for a second term against Republican challenger Chris Christie, despite a monthlong barrage of Democratic attack ads against the former U.S. attorney, several independent polls show.

September 2, 2009

BREITBART: End to two grim fairy tales

With the deaths of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and Michael Jackson, the summer of '09 marked the merciful ends to Camelot and Neverland, iconic American fairy tales whose story lines should have come to merciful ends long ago when their charismatic protagonists took dark and irredeemable turns.

August 31, 2009

Weeding out the Garden State

Democrat Jon Corzine won the governorship of New Jersey four years ago pledging to bring needed change to a state defined by corruption and the highest property taxes in the country.

August 31, 2009

Obama tack not helpful

America's fiscal and economic outlook is looking a lot bleaker under President Obama's impotent and misguided spending stimulus policies.

August 27, 2009

Fiorina eyes upset for Sen. Boxer

Sen. Barbara Boxer's bid for a fourth term next year was not showing up on the political hot lists until polls revealed last month that former Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Officer Carly Fiorina was just four points behind the veteran California Democrat.

August 25, 2009

BREITBART: Boycotting the boycotters

John Mackey - the founder, CEO and marketing genius behind Whole Foods - finds himself in an organic, unsustainable mess with his carefully cultivated affluent, liberal customer base after penning an Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal titled, "The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare."

August 24, 2009

U.S. attorney investigated

Reports that President Obama's Justice Department has begun an "internal ethics investigation" into acting U.S. Attorney Ralph J. Marra Jr.'s remarks about the root causes of corruption in New Jersey raised suspicions in certain political circles last week.

August 24, 2009

N.J. governor’s race a GOP ‘bellwether’

Republican candidates are showing new political strength in some states this year, but none seems more improbable than conservative Republican Christopher J. Christie's big lead over embattled Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine's bid for a second term in deep-blue New Jersey.

August 23, 2009

Now an option to fail?

The gutsy admonition that "failure is not an option" has turned into the failed "public option" in President Obama's trouble-plagued, government-run health care plan.

August 20, 2009

GOP hopes to rebound with Ayotte

New Hampshire Republicans have lost most of the state's top offices in recent years, but the losing streak could be nearing an end in a critical 2010 Senate contest that early polls show is up for grabs.

August 18, 2009

BREITBART: George W. Bush-by-proxy syndrome

There is an extensive body of writing from both sides of the political aisle that has analyzed the extraordinary depths of hatred leveled at former President George W. Bush.

August 17, 2009