In a letter to the star of the inauguration himself, the Maryland congressional delegation has asked President-elect Barak Obama to see to it that the federal government kicks in an additional $12.6 million to help protect him during the 40-minute Amtrak ride through Maryland on the way to the January 20 ceremony. That $12 million train ticket would rival the $15 million already authorized by Congress to assist the District of Columbia with its inauguration-related expenses. Read more...

President Bush declared that “an emergency exists in the District of Columbia,” in authorizing federal money to assist the District of Columbia in saving lives and protecting public health and safety during the inauguration of President Barak Obama on January 20. Read more...

Let’s hope President-elect Obama’s new Chief Performance Officer, the person who will be eliminating waste in government programs, gets a chance to read this sequestered government report on detecting, reducing and prosecuting fraud in the federal purchasing process. Read more...

President-elect Barak Obama probably has a better chance of changing the way we pick the national champion of college football than Sen. Bill Nelson has of changing how we choose our nation's president, but that hasn't stopped Florida's Democratic Senator from introducing a constitutional amendment abolishing the Electoral College system. Read more...