Op-Eds/Articles

• By: Lawson Bader
• 04/07/2014

A few years ago, a work colleague departed for a short-term political appointment with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. I told him he could…

• By: Lawson Bader
• 03/31/2014

As the economy has continued to falter under his watch, President Obama’s response has been to try to hang the albatross of the nation’s woes…

• By: Lawson Bader
• 03/24/2014

After many years in Washington, D.C., it’s hard not to notice how little it has changed since President Kennedy called it “a city of Southern…

• By: Lawson Bader
• 03/17/2014

Ostensibly, Spartan mothers, as their sons went into battle, would say, “Come home with your shield, or on it!” I did not say such encouraging…

• By: Lawson Bader
• 03/10/2014

Government spending—everybody’s talking about it. But unlike the weather, everyone wants to do something about it. Last week, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave…

• By: Lawson Bader
• 03/03/2014

I must confess that when asked to speak at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), I was reminded of Tom Lehrer’s classic satirical song,…