Ears marked

Last week, in a development that went almost unnoticed amid the national furor over health care reform, two of Washington’s nonpartisan watchdog organizations released a comprehensive database of how Congress spent $19.9 billion on 11,286 earmarked projects in fiscal year…

So, some blogs (lefty blogs, if you insist, and I know you will) are making a big deal out of Sarah Palin’s umpteenth repeat of the “So, I said ‘thanks but no thanks to that bridge to nowhere” claim.

I think it’s…

Sarah Palin’s hunting skills are marvelous. Joe Biden’s mom is a hoot. John McCain’s wisecracks are hilarious and Barack Obama’s three-point shot is deadly. So stipulated.

Also stipulated: Ms. Palin may have over-reacted to in-law troubles. Mr. Biden was at times too…

The pork-busters who work for Citizens Against Government Waste were against earmarks back in the mid-1980s, before being against earmarks was cool.

A familiar pattern emerged: The fiscal watchdog organization’s annual spring release of its “Pig Book” would result in a…