Late addition: Herman Cain to hold roundtable discussion with American Muslim leaders

Thomas Sowell comments on this game of debt ceiling chicken that we are witnessing in Washington.

The White House has a message for Fox News: "You should go on the air and tell your viewers there is nothing to worry about."  Here’s the entire exchange … Sometimes you can’t defend the indefensible …

Here’s a must-read from the Wall Street Journal: The Debt Ceiling and the Pursuit of Happiness.

Princess Pelosi says that Republicans are using the budget deficit as a way to “destroy your rights” and “undermine the government.”

From June 2009 to June 2011 Texas added 262,000 jobs, or half the USA's 524,000 payroll gains.

Let New York and Pennsylvania be the example of when one state embraces economic opportunity, while the other lets environmental politics trump development.

The law of unintended consequences: Nearly 30% of San Francisco’s lowest-wage earners reported reduced hours or layoffs after the city passed a paid-leave ordinance.

Voter approval of the job Congress is doing has fallen to a new low of just 6%.

Democrats will officially be losing another Congressman …Rep. David Wu is resigning.

Voters in Ohio will have the chance to vote on an amendment to their Constitution that would allow Ohio to opt-out of ObamaCare.

A member of the ObamaMedia accuses Tea Partiers of engineering a "slow motion succession."

A Republican congressional report was released yesterday with more details on Operation Fast and Furious.  It’s not looking good for the Obama administration.

As children of illegal immigrants grow up in the United States, are they becoming more successful than their parents?

A government school valedictorian is suing the school district after a second valedictorian was named, who had a lower GPA.  What’s the catch?