On the eve of the dreaded tax payment deadline, we learn this: The federal government is taxing away more of our money, spending more of it and running up a bigger deficit, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton has a new name, courtesy of Sen. Marc Rubio, R-Fla. In announcing his candidacy for president, Rubio declared, "Yesterday is over, and we are never going back." He didn't name names, but headline writers did it for him: "Clinton Was Yesterday."

"Skeptical" "Unpersuaded" Those were some of the words used by lawmakers coming out of a briefing by Secretary of State John Kerry on the Iran nuclear issue as a Senate committee prepared to consider a bipartisan bill giving Congress the right to review the agreement before it's implemented. Iran's leaders used harsher terms.