Kicking the can down the road. That's been the Obama administration's response on issues from Iran's nuclear weapons program to America's entitlement systems.

Eight years after the 9/11 attacks, the Continuity of Government Commission will discuss the continuity of Congress, the lack of progress we have made, and where we might go from here.

Before taking a further hatchet to defense, Congress could make a more serious effort to reverse increases in domestic spending put in place by the Obama Administration.

The co-chairmen of President Obama's fiscal commission, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, have shown that the welfare-state entitlements designated in America's tax code weaken both the efficiency and fairness of the tax system.

Do conservatives just want to cut government willy-nilly, not only reducing its overall size but endangering its ability to carry out its proper functions?

Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles are challenged with unrealities in handling the country's toughest economic truths.

The Bowles-Simpson plan to reduce the federal deficit is as good as economics gets.

The chances of solving the country's fiscal problems, like the federal budget deficit and increase in entitlement spending, seem a little better after the release of two sets of proposals in the weeks after the election.