When you hear a politician tell you they're cutting spending, they're actually referring only to reducing the growth of spending. Rarely, if ever, do they actually reduce the level of spending.

Tax hikes won't balance the budget … but spending cuts will.

Could the 14^th Amendment prove to be a way for the Obama administration to get around a congressionally approved hike of the debt ceiling?

Obama's top political adviser says that Americans won't cast their votes in the next presidential election based on the unemployment rate.

A must-read from Walter Williams: Gross Media Ignorance.

Are taxes at their lowest rates since the 1950s?  Um, no.

We can’t cut spending?  Here’s an easy way to save $1 trillion.

Is the economy worse off than it was when Barack Obama became president?  Looks like Mitt Romney was right.

Ohio cuts spending and taxes—and still balances the books.  Imagine that!

The EPA has issued new rules targeting coal-fired power plants.

Here’s how the Boeing situation in South Carolina could have a real impact on … the hotly-contested Senate race in Virginia.

The House Judiciary Committee is launching an inquiry into whether Elena Kagan is required by law to recuse herself from judging cases challenging ObamaCare.

The ObamaMedia seems to be turning a blind eye to the corporate-government coziness of the Obama administration.

The Justice Department blocked senior ATF leaders from cooperating with Congress in its investigation of the “Fast and Furious” weapons operation.

A South Florida legislator is working on a bill that would make it a felony for a parent not to report a missing child.

Here’s the latest in the battle between Fox News and Media Matters.

From the American Thinker: Lynching Palin, Cain, West, and Bachmann.

The taxpayers of Massachusetts have spent $44 million on clothing, with the majority of those purchases tied to longstanding union contracts.

Atheists in New York are still fighting to have the city remove a street sign honoring 9/11 firefighters because it has the word “Heaven” on it.

Michele Bachmann is the first 2012 candidate to sign The Family Leader’s pledge “The Marriage Vow – A Declaration of Dependence upon Marriage and Family.” [pdf] Good idea, bad idea? 

Warren Buffet on raising the debt ceiling.