In case anyone wondered, Newt Gingrich hasn't run out of off-the-wall ideas. Now the former House speaker is saying he'd like to "turn the Pentagon into a triangle." He's not really suggesting that two sides of the five-sided building be chopped off. He means cutting down the "paper-based" bureaucracy and using the savings for combat troops and equipment.



President Obama apparently is thinking about doing an end run on his Central American Chld Care program. The New York Times reports the administration is considering allowing children and young adults from Honduras into the U.S. without making the dangerous journey through Mexico. How? Give them status as refugees.



It's one thing for members of Congress to talk about spending cuts but another when it comes to actually doing it. In last year's session, House members authored 496 spending bills, compared with 112 bills that would save money. Senators proposed 332 increase spending measures and 56 savings bills. That's according to an analysis by the National Taxpayers Union Foundation.