Donald Lambro

Holiday marked by anti-tax Tea Parties

Fourth of July "Tea Party" rallies, picnics, marches and other demonstrations were scheduled across the country Saturday to protest what organizers say is record federal spending and taxes by the Obama administration that enlarges government and threatens the nation's prosperity.

July 5, 2009

Palin to call it quits as Alaska’s governor

Republican Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska stunned her state and politicos Friday by announcing she will resign at the end of July, igniting speculation about her political future and her viability for the GOP's presidential nomination in 2012.

July 4, 2009

Palin to step down as Alaska governor

Republican Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska announced Friday that she will resign her office July 26, fueling speculation that she intends to spend the next four years pursuing her party's presidential nomination in 2012.

July 3, 2009

Cap-and-trade is a job killer

President Obama's domestic agenda is losing steam in an increasingly contentious Democratic Congress amid growing public doubts about the veracity of raising taxes in a deep recession.

July 2, 2009

Pulitzer-winning journalist Mary Lou Forbes dies at 83

Longtime Washington Times' Commentary Editor Mary Lou Forbes, a trailblazing journalist whose reporting on Virginia's civil rights struggles won a Pulitzer Prize in 1959 and whose editorial leadership helped pave the way for women to rise in a once-male dominated profession, has died after a brief battle with cancer. She was 83.

June 29, 2009

Anti-tax group at odds with Crist

The Club for Growth, a conservative anti-tax group, is considering running ads in the Republican Party's Senate primary race against Florida Gov. Charlie Crist for supporting higher state taxes and President Obama's $787 billion economic stimulus spending package.

June 29, 2009

Tax your employee benefits?

President Obama's original plan to pay for his health care reforms was to limit charitable contributions and mortgage interest payments that people can deduct from their taxable income.

June 29, 2009

BREITBART: Rise and fall of Perez Hilton

Mario Lavandeira, the mean-spirited impresario behind the celebrity- obsessed mega-Web site PerezHilton.com, was left scratching his pink-tinged pompadour last week, wondering aloud in a campy cry-baby YouTube classic why, after being physically assaulted in public, he is now universally scorned and widely considered the villain of an incident that left him appropriately "black eyed."

June 29, 2009

BREITBART: Tweet this movie about Iran

Last Tuesday as I was driving home from a screening of "The Stoning of Soraya M.," a profoundly moving and eerily timely drama that comes out Friday, I found myself stuck in a bizarre late-night traffic jam thinking of ways to spread the word about this potentially transformative movie that thrusts its audience into the day's headlines and draws attention to the plight of those who could potentially topple Iran's cruel and menacing theocracy.

June 22, 2009

Crist rival maps out strategy for 2010 Senate race

Marco Rubio, who is challenging Florida Gov. Charlie Crist for the Republican Party's nomination for Senate, said Wednesday that if the vote were held today, he would lose because he remains largely unknown to most Republican voters.

June 18, 2009

Poll: Conservatives hold lead over liberals

A new poll released Monday found that, even in the Age of Obama, there has been a "slight increase" in the number of Americans who call themselves conservatives, outnumbering self-described liberals by a 2-to-1 margin.

June 16, 2009

BREITBART: Left cries ‘racist’ in crowded country

The Democrat-Media Complex last week seized upon the horrific murder of a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington as an opportunity to ascribe blame to the American conservative movement.

June 15, 2009

LAMBRO: Rein in unspent money

Nearly five months into Barack Obama's presidency, his stimulus program is failing to produce the jobs he promised. And voters are souring on his big-spending, deficit-driving policies.

June 15, 2009

Cornyn seeks Senate seats for GOP in ‘10

Sen. John Cornyn arguably has one of the toughest political jobs in Congress: overseeing the Republican senatorial campaign effort for 2010 in an election cycle when most analysts say the GOP will likely lose more Senate seats.

June 14, 2009

LAMBRO: Suddenly questionable

For a president who promised his actions would be the most transparent in U.S. history, key details in Barack Obama's economic stimulus program have been frustratingly opaque. Some might call them invisible or illusionary, certainly slippery, maybe even tricky.

June 11, 2009

Political sniping begins to replace Army pick

When President Obama picked Rep. John M. McHugh last week to be Army secretary, he opened up a Republican seat in New York's 23rd District, which Mr. Obama carried in November and Democrats are targeting to add to their growing House majority.

June 9, 2009

GOP seeks to trim stimulus, cut deficit

With the economy showing signs of recovery, fiscally conservative economists and Republican lawmakers are suggesting that the large unspent portion of the nearly $800 billion stimulus fund should be redirected to slash this year's nearly $2 trillion annual deficit.

June 8, 2009

LAMBRO: Hopeful signs increase

Something quite hopeful has been happening to the economy, but it's not getting the credit it deserves and little notice from the national news media in terms of its policy implications.

June 8, 2009

BREITBART: Know thy enemy: This is not your mother’s Democratic Party

Democrats invest - with taxpayer money, mind you - in groups like ACORN that, among other sordid tactics, seek out Skid Row bodies and wheel them to polling places.

June 8, 2009

LAMBRO: Obama’s wrong numbers

Nearly four weeks after President Obama met with health-industry officials touting a "watershed" cost-cutting agreement, the goal of slowing the sharp rise in medical care spending is elusive as ever.

June 4, 2009