On the disaster relief front, Cantor's office released a study by the majority staff of the House Appropriations Committee saying that offsets on disaster relief are actually commonplace, if not routine. I dug into their examples a bit, albeit with my limited expertise on what really goes down on the process for supplemental appropriations, and found the examples they used shaky at best.

Why do we have no tangible and workable plans in place to maintain a functioning, viable, and representative Congress if and when a larger terrorist attack takes place?

In the case of the asset backed securities portfolio that the Fed acquired in support of the Bear Stearns acquisition by JPMorgan Chase the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee suggested that the Fed disclose the names of counterparties to transactions, how transactions were priced, the quality and extent of collateralization and the current market-to-market values on those assets.

The cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe may be spreading to other African nations.

Please join us for a lively discussion about Jack Goldsmith's new book, "Power and Constraint: The Accountable Presidency after 9/11," hosted by AEI and the Federalist Society.

The American economy is experiencing a crisis in long-term unemployment that has enormous human and economic costs.

A recentthreat toWashington, D.C., illustrated that the government is uncertain on the proper actions to take if there is a terrorist attack.

There is an urgent need to reform the homeland security grant system toward a risk-based system, which would include removing the provision for minimum state allocations.