Ever feel like politicians are taking your hard-earned tax dollars and throwing them into a ginormous money pit? Well, in this case they literally are. That hole the government ate in your pocket just got a little bigger -- try the 5 acre, 580,000 square-foot, 3 level underground Capitol Visitor Center.The initial cost estimate for constructing this dig was $71 million, to be supplemented with private donations, but the price has since risen.

On Townhall today Jacob Sullum fisks Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson's defense of using eminent domain on economic development grounds:

Thanks to the heartfelt number crunchers at the Census Bureau, we have a very useful set of facts to amuse us during this most important of days. Thank goodness the government has allocated our tax dollars for this most important of public services! Top Ways to Celebrate Valentine’s Day Household participation rates

An editorial in Saturday's Appeal-Democrat (Marysville-Yuba City, California) tells it like it is:

A bipartisan handful of Senators (10 to be exact) with plans to introduce the Pork Barrel Reduction Act at 10:30 a.m. today may mean that the Earmark Favor Factory will be shutting down its operations for good.