Under current law, the U.S. Department of Defense automatically faces significant spending cuts over the next 10 years—cuts that america's civilian and military leaders have cadidly described as "devastating" and "very high risk."

It is good that we will have some disclosure of the mega-donors to the spate of super PACs that have dominated the landscape and the airtime across the presidential primaries and caucuses so far — but it is ridiculous that reporting requirements are so lame that the first disclosure in six months will not come until after the Florida primary.

Debt of non-budget government agencies is not counted officially as "government debt," which is harmful to American Taxpayers.

The reported debt-limit deal appears to be a victory for the Tea Party: no tax increases, a new precedent that debt-limit hikes must be accompanied by equal or greater cuts in spending, and the potential for a balanced budget in 10 years.

With the congressional "supercommittee" now complete, the stage is set for a very high drama indeed. Now comes the moment when Americans must confront the costs of remaining the world's sole superpower, the guarantor of an international system that has created a generation of great-power peace, widespread prosperity, and unprecedented human liberty.

A resolution to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics would strip it of much of the limited power it now has and silence its ability to release most of the information it gathers, greatly damaging disclosure and the integrity of our political process.

Many commentators have noted that if the Super Committee fails, the sky will not fall, at least not immediately. The sequesters that would be triggered do not take effect until 2013, after all. Here is the starker reality.

House Democratic leaders are planning triage to save their majority because they recognize that American voters are rejecting the Obama Democrats’ big-government policies.