Donald Trump, who's leading in the polls as a fierce anti-government crusader, is himself the beneficiary of largesse paid for by taxpayers. Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., targeted Trump in a listing of wasteful spending titled "Federal Fumbles: 100 Ways the Government Dropped the Ball." The book says Trump is getting $40 million in taxpayers' dollars to help cover the costs of restoring the Old Post Office building in Washington to become a new Trump luxury hotel. (Trump would call $40 million "peanuts".)


Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., has been Speaker of the House barely more than a month and already he's making history -- with facial hair. Records show Ryan is the first Speaker in nearly a century to sport a beard.

Following the vicious killing of a black youth by a police officer, Illinois State Attorney General Lisa Madigan is calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to conduct a civil rights investigation of the Chicago police (as it did in Ferguson, Mo.) Don't hold your breath. President Obama came to Washington from Chicago and his former top aide, Rahm Emanuel, is the city's mayor.