An old baseball cliché says that “speed don’t slump.” In Washington, it’s lobbying that don’t slump.

President Barack Obama’s policy proposals may not have created many jobs so far in most sectors of the economy, but the lobbying industry is going gangbusters.…

In a welcome, if belated, decision, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on Wednesday halted the Pentagon’s star-crossed, corruption-tinged seven-year effort to replace its Elvis-era fleet of aerial refueling tankers.
The next president and his secretary of defense now will have the…

Of all the 23 gazillion words written, uttered, blogged, Twittered, texted, broadcast, cablecast, uploaded or downloaded during the first day of the Democratic National Convention, here are some of the more prescient:

• Humorist Dave Barry, writing for The National Journal Online:…

The National Forest Service was created in 1905 by Republican President Theodore Roosevelt, a noted conservationist. It’s run today by Republican Mark E. Rey, a noted timber industry lobbyist.
Since being appointed in 2001, Mr. Rey has made the Forest Service…

Barack Obama sparked considerable controversy in recent weeks when he announced that he would not commit to public financing for the general election campaign, despite his earlier pledge to do so. This makes Obama’s the first completely privately-financed general election campaign since the…