Mackenzie Eaglen and Michael O'Hanlon explain the disastrous repercussions of defense sequestration. In particular, they highlight the fact that, unless Congress acts quickly, defense sequestration starts today -- not in 2013.

Last year, the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, also known as the “super committee,” failed to agree on over a trillion dollars in budget cuts. This failure has triggered the looming “sequestration” of an additional $500 billion in defense dollar cuts over the next 10 years, among other mechanical cuts to other parts of the budget

Florida governor Charlie Crist has shifted many of his political stances in an attempt garner support for his Senate bid from Democrats and independents, but this strategy may backfire as voters turn against self-serving politicians.

The primary drivers of our growing debt burden are the “Big 3” entitlements of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Yet as part of the debt ceiling deal that created sequestration when the Super Committee failed, politicians effectively fenced off nearly two-thirds of the federal budget and the main source of our over-spending. 

Arlen Specter has left the Republican Party in name as he had already left it in spirit over the stimulus vote.

Arlen Specter's crossover says interesting things about Specter himself and about the state of the Republican Party.

This was the worst jobs report since last October. The economy added 120,000 jobs in March, about half the pace of the previous three months.

Senators should not be dupes for dictators. Not every regime is sincere when it extends an olive branch.