In a recent column, The Washington Post’s Fact Checker declared Rep. Ron Paul votes against “virtually every piece of legislation that could be interpreted as government overreach or interference with the free market.” There one small problem with the analysis: It ignores the fact that Paul is one of the biggest pork-barrel earmarkers on Capitol Hill. 

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.

The proposed construction of a mosque near the 9/11 terrorist attack site is a test to see if we have the resolve to face down an ideology that aims to destroy religious liberty in America, and every other freedom we hold dear.

Construction projects across the nation have been delayed because bureaucrats, activists, and politicians are not ready to hand them out.

President Obama's charge for NASA to tell Muslims how good they are at math is representative of the catch-22 facing liberalism, as the reality of hyper-mission creep undoes the dream of a nimble, focused, problem-solving government.

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

The problem of border security is evidence of the damage done by a Congress that years ago abandoned a deliberative process and serious oversight.

Even with few questions on the nation’s fiscal position and foreign policy, most of the Republican candidates performed pretty well. If that’s the way the Republican primary voters and caucusgoers see things, the result may be to tighten the race for the nomination.