Donald Lambro

Articles by Donald Lambro

Tariffs and the sad truth

After seven-plus years of President Obama's underperforming, low-wage, part-time economy, Americans are desperate for a new leader to fix what's wrong with our country. Published March 29, 2016

Front-runner fear and loathing

Several presidential polls this week showed that, by large margins, the voters are unhappy with the front-runner choices they have in this election. Published March 22, 2016

America is at war over its politics and the transition from one administration to the next. The U.S. Senate flatly refuses to fill a Supreme Court vacancy until a new president takes office. And the economy appears to have all but stopped growing. Published March 17, 2016

Civil war among Republicans

The deeply divisive civil war among Republicans over Donald Trump's increasingly likely odds of winning the presidential nomination is tearing the GOP apart. Published March 3, 2016

Trying to go it alone

Donald Trump talks in very simplistic, egocentric, combative terms about how he will govern if he wins the presidency, but he never mentions Congress. Published March 1, 2016

Giving low marks to the economy

When Americans go to the polls in November to choose a new president, the economy will be the central issue in their decision. Published February 25, 2016

An about-face on Supreme Court appointments

Senate Democrats are attacking the Republican leadership for having the gall to suggest that any action to fill the Supreme Court's vacancy should be put off until next year. Published February 23, 2016

Surviving until Super Tuesday

Is Donald Trump reaching the limit of his support for the Republican presidential nomination? Published February 16, 2016

A slam dunk for Republicans

A menacing black cloud is looming over our economy that should make the 2016 presidential election a slam dunk for Republicans -- depending on who the GOP nominates this summer. Published February 11, 2016

Pinned to Wall Street

When Goldman Sachs, the powerful, multibillion-dollar Wall Street investment bank, offered Hillary Clinton $675,000 for three speeches, she readily accepted. Published February 9, 2016

Bernie Sanders' grip on the young

The legions of young voters who are flocking to Sen. Bernie Sanders' socialist banner is depressing. Published February 4, 2016

In America, faith matters

The presidential candidates have been talking about God lately, which is understandable because most of them haven't a prayer of being elected. Published January 28, 2016

Cringe-causing candidates

If you are among those voters who think that America's 2016 presidential election has become the laughing stock of the world, you are not alone. Published January 19, 2016

Obama's last State of the Union

President Obama's last State of the Union address to the nation was filled with regrets and disappointments that he hadn't been able to sell his liberal agenda to the American people. Published January 14, 2016

Opportunities during a rocky year

Republicans kept their 2014 promise to the voters who put them in control of Congress, passing legislation to repeal Obamacare. Published January 12, 2016

Choosing the right presidential candidate

North Korea's rogue dictatorship has conducted its fourth nuclear weapons test. Radical Islamic terrorism has declared war on the civilized world, including the United States. And China's vast economy is tanking, plunging our stock market into dangerous new lows. Published January 7, 2016

Dim prospects for a brighter future

We end 2015 on a dismal note when terrorism has become the most important issue facing our country, the economy is limping along at a mediocre 2 percent growth rate, and voters have one of the worst presidential lineups in many years. Published December 22, 2015