Donald Lambro is chief political correspondent for The Washington Times. His twice-weekly column, which he has written since 1980, appears in newspapers nationwide. One of the most frequently quoted political reporters in Washington, Lambro has interviewed most of the major political leaders of our time and has covered numerous presidential campaigns. He 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 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, 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. 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, 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. 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) 2008 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:01:00 GMT Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ WASHINGTON -- There's a big difference between listening to one of Barack Obama's speeches, as inspiring as they may sound, and carefully reading them and weighing each passage. There is less there than meets the ear.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DonaldLambro/2008/08/16/obama_economics_new_taxes,_more_regulations b4d1ed70-9614-4dd4-ba3f-3f8d9dd8e7f8 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- When President Bush first met Russian President Vladimir Putin, he looked into his eyes and said he could trust him. About the same time, John McCain said, "When I look into his eyes, I see a K, a G and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DonaldLambro/2008/08/13/mccain_seizes_on_russia-georgia_conflict 29202dbe-7213-4f7b-b4dc-4662dfa7e796 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- When Barack Obama was seeking AFL-CIO support in the primaries, he promised to sign a bill that would effectively deprive workers of a private-ballot vote in unionization drives. The bill, which is No.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DonaldLambro/2008/08/08/obama_supports_union_ploy_to_drop_secret_ballots 83651e1f-c915-41ab-8a9e-6a73e12fc1f7 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- When Democratic leaders shut down Congress last week for the rest of the summer to avoid dealing with record oil and gas prices, they may have committed the biggest political blunder of the 2008... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DonaldLambro/2008/08/06/offshore_drilling_a_potent_issue_for_mccain,_gop 286a0538-9a3c-4717-96ae-4e3475c4a427 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama, who went to Iraq in search of foreign-policy experience, came home last week sounding a bit more like John McCain. After being told by a key tribal leader in Ramadi that "you have to keep... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DonaldLambro/2008/07/30/the_remedial_student 6b176768-ba5a-4a62-b0b9-3ad59a2e1b7e Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Is the U.S. economy coming to the end of its slump? There are a number of signals that suggest it is, and some economists are saying we may already be in a recovery. If so, that would be welcome news to http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DonaldLambro/2008/07/25/its_always_darkest_before_the_dawn fa41c4d5-5582-456f-bf4b-eb2ced9670c9 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama got more than he bargained for from Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki barely after his military crash course in the Middle East's war zones began. The freshman senator, making only his... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DonaldLambro/2008/07/23/foreign_tour_highlights_obamas_inexperience ab4ac2fa-92d5-487c-a4a7-c7dc01b41b99 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Gasoline prices are flattening consumer wallets and hobbling our economy, while the Democrats sit back and play politics with the issue. Voter surveys show that the economy and gas prices top the list... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DonaldLambro/2008/07/18/energy_woes_could_mean_dems_oil_washed_up 684287e3-64c9-43ff-b5ad-d4a4ec3b1f5e Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- About a week ago, I reported in this column that a top defense adviser to Barack Obama was proposing that a large "residual" U.S. military force remain in Iraq under his mercurial troop-withdrawal... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DonaldLambro/2008/07/16/obamas_iraq_policy_still_a_work_in_progress 51279e50-3301-4048-8d25-f19a64ab63a5 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama likes to use the word "investment" in his campaign speech on getting the U.S. economy growing again, but it means something very different for him than it does for most people. To the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DonaldLambro/2008/07/11/for_business,_shortchange_is_more_like_it 0b94e0cd-9900-4516-9b60-27c68cf02c84 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:28:42 GMT WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama is coming under increasingly heavy fire from his left flank for abandoning long-held liberal positions in an abrupt swing toward the center that threatens his candidacy. After racing away... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DonaldLambro/2008/07/10/obama_flip-flops_anger_the_liberal_base 6fdbfa25-797a-4f27-a46e-1ce2cd4c0637 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON - Violence has drastically declined in Iraq, the chief Sunni Muslim political bloc is ready to rejoin the Shiite-led government, and Obama campaign advisers are talking about a more gradual troop pullout... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DonaldLambro/2008/07/04/improvement_in_iraq_makes_barack_go_back b74c0f63-ca91-4054-8b5c-457dd1ebc05e Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Soon after Americans for Democratic Action endorsed Barack Obama last month, its leaders were e-mailing deep concerns over his flip-flops on the ADA's bedrock liberal beliefs. With his party's president http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DonaldLambro/2008/07/03/obamas_right_turn_leaves_left_in_the_lurch 09b335d7-e7d1-4cbc-9981-7aaa3d434099 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- If the presidential election hinged on who could best protect us from terrorism, veteran Sen. John McCain would probably defeat freshman Sen. Barack Obama. The Arizona Republican beats the Illinois... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DonaldLambro/2008/06/28/on_many_issues,_americans_favor_mccains_solutions 829374ca-91e0-4977-9ffd-fe7df421a3a2 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- America's paralysis over the oil crisis is a textbook example of the ideological divide that has polarized our politics and hurt our economy in the process. Reducing the price of $135-a-barrel oil and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DonaldLambro/2008/06/26/offshore_drilling_a_potent_issue_for_mccain aae0df0e-315a-4d2c-aebe-4a1595ed046d Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT