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As politicians scramble to raise as much as they can before the March 31 quarterly deadline, U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson took things to a new level Saturday in a money-bomb event. Buoyed by the support of nationally known progressives, including former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, U.S. Rep.

Barack Obama's decision to postpone his trip to Indonesia and Australia -- to a democracy with the world's largest Muslim population and to the only nation that has fought alongside us in all the wars of the last century -- is of a piece with his foreign policy generally: attack America's friends and kowtow to our enemies.

Following a mostly health care-dominated week on Capitol Hill, both the House and Senate left D.C. with unfinished work in their chambers. The House has in its chambers a bill from the Senate to fully fund the Federal Aviation Administration. This vital government agency hasnt been completely funded since 2007.

WASHINGTON -- A simple reform would drain some scalding steam from immigration arguments that may soon again be at a roiling boil. It would bring the interpretation of the 14th Amendment into conformity with what the authors of its text intended, and with common sense, thereby removing an incentive for illegal immigration.

This week in Congress was once again dominated by health care as all eyes switched chambers to the Senate of the United States.

It seems like it's been quite some time since our National Endowment for the Arts has shocked the public with an outrageous grant for a ridiculous "artist" whose art flourishes only when the taxpayer is forced against his will to subsidize it. Sadly, that means these "artists" must take their talents elsewhere in search of public funding.

"The Jewish people were building Jerusalem 3,000 years ago, and the Jewish people are building Jerusalem today. Jerusalem is not a settlement. It is our capital."

Not many people noticed amid the Democrats' struggle to jam their health care bill through the House, but in recent weeks U.S. Treasury bonds have lost their status as the world's safest investment.

That's right, the Democrats did pass a health care bill that a plurality of Americans opposed. And it is in so many ways an awful piece of jumbled-up law. But it will not be the wedge issue that can in November deliver back to the Republicans those marginally safe seats now held by Democrats.