Democrats talk a lot about the middle class, but we have one of their big names, Vice President Joe Biden, to thank for givi
ng us a definition. If someone is labeled middle class, says Joe, "In Washington, that's not meant as a compliment -- it means you're not sophisticated."

How Your Taxes Are Spent
The National Institutes of Health spent $9,091,409 million to develop a video game about a teenager that must escape a town full of fat people and almost $2 million more for research on how these games can fight obesity.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., viewed as a potential rival of Hillary Clinton's for support from the left, may gain more visibility through a special Senate leadership post. Reports are circulating that the Senate's Democratic leader, Harry Reid, D-Nev., has that idea up his sleeve.