Of us. Over us. Local elected leaders in times past thought of themselves of the former. Today, most seem to think of themselves as the latter. The latest manifestation of that unfortunate ...

Like pigs waiting in line to get their snouts in the feeding trough, come many of the nation’s governors — on the heels of the mayors — asking Washington for bailout money. Democratic governors from ...

We are selling our country to the already rich. Our congressmen are allowed to do insider trading without penalty, yet Martha Stewart went to prison for the same thing. There is also the PAC money ...

I could be wrong, but I think the whole conservative thing is over. No longer are we willing to sit idly by while another corporate executive takes his $50 million bonus with his left hand while ...

A recent letter used the offensive phrase “take away the hog trough and the pigs squeal” to describe Democrats. Doesn’t the writer know that the phrase could easily apply to Republicans?

The boys at the Tennessee Center for Policy Research have released their second annual Tennessee Pork Report, claiming to have identified more than $125 million "in waste, fraud and abuse" of tax ...

Most Americans may not be fluent in the language of economics, but thanks to our Puritan heritage ("waste not, want not") we understand waste quite well. Recommended for you ...