Senator Tom Coburn thought that he was being awfully clever earlier this week when he spoke about wasteful pork barrel spending in the Omnibus Appropriations Act, and cited, as an example, spending for a program to deal with pollution coming from pig farms in Iowa. Pork barrel spending on pigs…...

I got this off Senator John McCain’s Twitter (yes, he now tweets). Over the last few days, the Arizona lawmaker has been tweeting his version of “The Top Porkiest Projects� in the Omnibus spending bill. Here are science/genetics projects that Sen. McCain consider earmarks or pork-barrel: “$8...

While campaigning for change, Barack Obama said, “We need earmark reform, and when I’m President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.” But now the President is about to sign a huge 2,697 page spending bill with over 9,000 unnecessary and was...

Ed Morrisey at Hot Air comments on and links to Fox News announcement of The new Commander-in-Chief's latest order to the Department of Defense. Mr Obama wants the Defense budget cut by more than 10%. The Obama administration has asked the military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff to cut the Pentagon’s b...

This ain't your grandfather's Depression. Lake Havasu, Arizona, known mostly for drinking, boating, Spring Break, and girls gone wild, is also the home of London Bridge. Although there are often London Bridges falling down in Lake Havasu, the out-of-place structure is not one of them. However it has...

It’s been interesting to follow the debate over earmarks in appropriations bills. Everyone knows that they increased dramatically in recent years, to the point where public anger at the practice led Congress to consider ‘reforms.’ There seems to be little confidence that Congress h...

    Former GOP presidential candidate, John McCain was on C-SPAN  today discussing earmarks, one of his signature issues. This is the first time I’ve seen John McCain in any significant capacity since he lost to Obama. Oh wait.. he was on Letterman but that doesn’t really count does i...

James Pethokoukis points to an item in the Wall Street Journal on Democratic concerns that the timetable for the stimulus may slip as Barack Obama’s transition team fails to deliver its requests on time: Democratic leaders are increasingly concerned that they won’t be able to offer an ec...

John McCain’s web site features a challenging video game called “Pork Invaders,” which is designed to illustrate how he will balance the $900 trillion budget deficit by cutting hundreds of millions of dollars in earmarks and “waste.” And because he is John McCain, he wi...

GOVERNMENT AT WORK: The Supreme Court has ruled that foreign terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under our constitution. This should underscore the importance of electing a Republican president in ‘08. If Obama gets in, he might just appoint Muslim terrorists to the court. As America...