How Your Taxes Are Spent
The federal government is spending more than $33,000 to find out if same-sex couples live close to tobacco shops -- theoretically making them more likely to be smokers.

Poor Al Sharpton. His racist rhetoric stirring up hate for white cops after black lawbreakers were killed resisting arrest in Missouri and New York has backfired on him. He's now worried that the backlash over ambush killings of two New York police officers will stall his protest movement.

Here's an alarming statistic: Since President Obama took office in 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency has issued 3,120 new regulations equaling 27,854 pages in the Federal Register and totaling approximately 27,854,000 words. That makes the new regulations 43 times as long as the Bible.