The Environmental Protection Agency has come up with yet another way to intrude upon the lives of private citizens. EPA is creating a system to monitor hotel guests to see how much time they spend in the shower. The system will track the amount of water a guest uses as a means of getting individuals to "modify their behavior."

Julia Trant had a question for Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, at an event in New Hampshire. "The whole world's on fire?" she asked, to clarify a charge the GOP presidential hopeful had leveled at the "Obama-Clinton foreign policy." Cruz replied, "yes", but then assured the three-year-old that "everyone's here to make sure that the world you grow up in is even better."

An industry group is sending an angry message to Washington: "hands off my hot dog." The North American Meat Institute is protesting recommendations by the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, a federal panel responsible for helping to develop good nutrition policies. The committee has called for decreased red meat consumption.