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.

Success in relief and recovery operations will depend in no small part on the strength of the Japanese government, but a very weakened premier must lead Japan through what Naoto Kan rightly calls its greatest crisis since World War II.

Kim Jong Il was nothing less than an economic catastrophe for North Korea. His political ascent, in fact, tracks almost precisely with that ill-fated nation's shift to economic stagnation and then its frightening free-fall into abject mass misery.

In a NRO symposium, Veronique de Rugy offers her advice to the Republican minority leadership.

How Congress is using "emergency" supplemental bills to fund pet projects.

Simple reforms would be enough to address the supplemental spending shell game that Capitol Hill and the White House have been playing for years.

Amar Bhide says, "To fix our banks, we must go back to the 70s." He must not remember the 1970s very well.

Politicians may cry crocodile tears about deficit spending, but their actions demonstrate that they remain addicted to big government.