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. 

Gallup-poll date imply that the more lobbyists there are working in Washington, the lower will be Congress's approval.

Japan's economic performance has largely been written off over the past two decades. It shouldn't be—reform could build on the country's strong fundamentals.

President Obama is reportedly gearing up to "kill" Mitt Romney in the general election. He may not get the chance. Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who entered the presidential race Saturday, gets to take the first shot at the GOP front-runner-and if history is any indication, Romney won't know what hit him.

The Congressional Budget Office's baseline is a contrivance without any economic merit that was clearly conceived by politicians who despise tax cuts and love spending.

Rebuilding New Orleans should be done in an efficient manner, free of politics and pork-barrel spending; Senator Landrieu's proposal does not represent that kind of solution.

After Americansrushed to send billions to victims of Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana legislators served us all with a federal tax bill that would fund yet more pork barrel spending in their state.

There is nothing like a transportation bill to get congressmen dreaming about their reelection campaign.