Donald Lambro is chief political correspondent for The Washington Times. Donald Lambro's twice-weekly column, which he has written since 1980, appears in newspapers nationwide. One of the most frequently quoted political reporters in Washington, Donald Lambro has interviewed most of the major political leaders of our time and has covered numerous presidential campaigns. Donald Lambro has written widely about the government, the economy and social issues, and won the 1995 Warren Brookes Award for Excellence in Journalism. Economic analyst and CNBC commentator Lawrence Kudlow has called Donald Lambro "the best political economic reporter in Washington today." Lambro earned a national reputation for his investigations into federal spending programs. The author of five books on government and economics, Donald Lambro wrote Land of Opportunity (Little Brown and Co.), an examination of economic growth and entrepreneurs in the 1980s. His FAT CITY: How Washington Wastes Your Taxes won national acclaim and the attention of President Reagan, who quoted from it during his 1980 presidential campaign and gave copies of the book to every member of his Cabinet. Donald Lambro hosted and co-wrote the PBS documentaries "Inside The Republican Revolution" and "Star Spangled Spenders" and produced and moderated C-SPAN's "The Washington Times Forum." His commentaries have been heard on AP Radio and NPR, among others. A graduate of Boston University, Donald Lambro began his career as a reporter for The Boston Herald-Traveler and United Press International. His investigative series on federal spending programs, "Watching Washington," was twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Donald Lambro was named the Heritage Foundation's Distinguished Journalism Fellow in 1981. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DonaldLambro http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DonaldLambro TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2009 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:49:45 GMT Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:49:45 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ WASHINGTON -- The White House remains in deep denial about the growing unpopularity of President Obama's government healthcare plan. Recent polls not only show that a clear majority of voters disapprove of his... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DonaldLambro/2009/09/29/obamacare_pushing_voters_to_gop d99801f3-1d4c-47e2-a2f9-401999f6d888 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:49:45 GMT WASHINGTON -- President Obama recently told the United Nations that the era of George W. Bush's foreign policy was over and that he is taking a bold new approach to international diplomacy and dealing with the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DonaldLambro/2009/09/25/terrorists_can_take_comfort_in_obamas_words 4b4ed7ed-9e70-469e-a6e4-5ae3f8aa4b4f Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- President Obama absolutely refuses to acknowledge there is a huge middle-class tax in the Senate Finance Committee's healthcare bill. The president flatly denies the legislation that the White House... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DonaldLambro/2009/09/23/yes,_health-insurance_mandate_is_a_tax 6d5fc79a-eba1-4c4a-aabe-cbf39596a9d1 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:00:00 GMT Some of Barack Obama's political and media allies are having a hard time coming to grips with what motivates his opponents -- or understanding why their offensive has been so effective. They seem to have even a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DonaldLambro/2009/09/18/this_is_not_about_race 35e2448f-572c-4e63-a881-814e8220fce5 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- President Obama and his top White House advisers have been pushing Democratic leaders for months to bring his problem-plagued healthcare reforms up for a vote as soon as possible. Not because it is... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DonaldLambro/2009/09/15/healthcare_debacle_portends_well_for_gop f2327267-04e9-48d1-9684-a93556e4b2a5 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- There is no question the economy is now in the early stages of recovery, though it has a long way to go before it gets back on its feet again and regains full health. While there are a number of tentative... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DonaldLambro/2009/09/10/thank_obama_for_the_weak_recovery 2a049215-991d-47df-8c07-765ffc6ed611 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:12:59 GMT WASHINGTON -- The armies of "tea party" conservatives who packed town-hall meetings last month to oppose President's Obama's $1 trillion government healthcare plan are bringing their protest movement to the Capitol... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DonaldLambro/2009/09/08/tea_partiers_take_protests_to_washington dde2ce22-6c7e-4d0a-8cd8-822838a52af8 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:21:18 GMT WASHINGTON -- President Obama's government-run healthcare plan 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. The president's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DonaldLambro/2009/09/03/ready_to_pull_the_plug_on_reform 5f421b1c-58fe-430f-9700-34fb175b41ea Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:30:04 GMT 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... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DonaldLambro/2009/09/02/cia_torture_probe_endangers_the_war_on_terror 9d167652-b8f4-441a-a726-07cce7ecb902 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- 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. And four years later,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DonaldLambro/2009/08/27/the_crime_fighter_versus_the_corruption_enabler b17e2af0-8a12-40a6-a475-8ff78721dc73 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:47:56 GMT WASHINGTON -- America's fiscal and economic outlook is looking a lot bleaker under President Obama's impotent and misguided spending-stimulus policies. While there are fragile signs the recession appears to be... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DonaldLambro/2009/08/25/an_anemic_recovery_for_the_us_economy 8ef417ed-c888-406a-b32a-4e8d5e9b29df Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:44:31 GMT WASHINGTON -- Reports that President Obama's Justice Department has begun an "internal ethics investigation" into acting U.S. Attorney Ralph Marra's remarks about the root causes of corruption in New Jersey raised... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DonaldLambro/2009/08/20/no_justice_in_dems_politicizing_health_care 6fbdf73a-a33e-4fb5-85af-ec6a1b46b3d9 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:53:40 GMT WASHINGTON -- 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. The idea of the federal government... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DonaldLambro/2009/08/18/wheels_coming_off_the_obama_agenda 3ecfe4c7-e3b8-47b4-810f-ba1612f53c5a Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:55:25 GMT WASHINGTON -- Angry "tea party" patriots who launched a nationwide grassroots rebellion against an intrusive government, punitive taxes and reckless spending are rallying their troops once again. Their target is... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DonaldLambro/2009/08/13/hands_off_our_health_care,_obama 091b9ce5-42af-428c-baac-66301039c36e Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:39:01 GMT WASHINGTON -- The people showing up at town hall meetings to voice their strong disapproval of President Obama's health care plan have been called thugs, extremists, mobs, terrorists and, this week, "un-American." Ever... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DonaldLambro/2009/08/11/democracy_at_work_is_not_un-american 0859bff8-b78a-4ddd-a626-ae82cfac4900 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:38:08 GMT