American politician and lawyer (born 1940)
Virginia Aabram of the Washington Examiner reports on dubious elements of Congress’ latest spending plan. President Joe Biden has signed the omnibus spending law, which funds the federal government for…
Paul Mirengoff of the Power Line blog ponders the impact of age on the nation’s No. 1 deliberative body. The Washington Post reports that the current U.S. Senate is the…
Thirty-one-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez might grab the headlines, but Nstional Review Online’s Jim Geraghty reminds us that many of the U.S. House’s most powerful Democrats are much older. [The] New York…
Joni Ernst and Tom Schatz write for National Review Online about the disturbing return of congressional earmarks. Congress isn’t even waiting to lift the decade-long moratorium on earmarking before starting…
Rich Lowry of National Review Online highlights key problems with the second congressional impeachment of Donald Trump. The problem with impeachment was that it seemed inevitable that it would either…
Mairead McArdle writes for National Review Online about the federal government’s latest pronouncement about the communist dictatorship that sits uncomfortably close to Florida. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday…
Conrad Black helps National Review Online readers look into socialist Bernie Sanders’ bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. Sanders began his long career in third-party left-wing politics in a mélange…
Liam Donovan of Politico assesses U.S. Senate Democrats’ political calculations involving the filibuster of President Trump’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court. After three days of breezily proficient testimony before…
View in your browser. The Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015 was introduced this month by a bi-partisan group of US Senators that includes Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Richard Durbin…
Fans of Peter Scwheizer’s book Throw Them All Out will not be shocked to read an article in the latest Bloomberg Businessweek about Comcast lobbying efforts. On the first night…
11:55 Final update. No call yet, but Republican Pat Toomey has moved past Joe Sestak to take the seat now held by serial party-switcher Arlen Specter. Good night, all. 11:44…
There have been a couple of head-scratch-inducing news stories in the past few days involving the Veterans of Foreign Wars. First, the VFW announced that it was endorsing the opponent…