Big Government

The Department of Defense like other executive branch departments and agencies, is supposed to be able to have its finances in order so it can pass an audit by 2017.

It's commonplace for advocates of bigger, more intrusive, more expensive government to laugh at those who say the government is still plagued by waste, fraud, and abuse.

We've written a lot about guns, politicians, and constitutional rights this week. Now, it's time to look at the other side of the coin: the increasing militarization of the federal government:

Just how fiscally sound is your state? The Mercatus Center has released its 2016 review of all 50 states, plus Puerto Rico, and the verdict is...mixed.

One of the driving issues of Donald Trump's presidential campaign has been stopping illegal immigration. New data releaed this week shows the tide 0f illegals coming to the U.S.

The establishment, left and right, has been wringing its hands over the possibilty of a Donald Trump presidency a lot in recent months.

The Competitive Enterprise Institute is out with its 2016 edition of "Ten Thousand Commandments," its look at how regulations are stifling, if not outright strangling, the American economy.  Among this year's findings:

The pathetic joke that is the TSA continues to get worse:

The IRS still hasn't fixed all the holes in its taxpayer data files, which means sensitive information is still ripe for hackers to plunder. In response to this rolling bureaucratic blunder, Virginia Rep.