By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
Army Lt. Col. Don Carlos Faith Jr. will be buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery 62 years after he was killed on a North Korean battlefield.
Reacting to negative views and grassroots opposition to Obamacare – or, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – the Health and Human Services Department has dropped all references to "exchanges" in favor of something that rings more of capitalism.
The Amazing Kreskin, a longtime mentalist, contends that the women who recently accused Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain of sexual harassment should consider taking a polygraph test, as Mr. Cain has offered to do.
"Once again, Republican leadership is negotiating with itself to temporarily bail the big spenders out by lifting the U.S. debt limit for four months, with no immediate accompanying budget reforms or spending reductions," says Dean Clancy, the group's legislative counsel.
"It's been almost four years since the Senate fulfilled its constitutional responsibility to pass a budget. Our government is almost $16.5 trillion in debt. That exceeds the entire annual output of the U.S. economy and equals more than $52,000 for every citizen," he warns.
