To free wheeling, big spending politicians, David Walker is the "boogeyman." To those who want ever bigger government, his exposing of their dirty secrets is a nightmare.

So who is this man who has politicos shaking in their boots?

David Walker is our nations' top accountant and auditor. As Comptroller General of the United States, he runs the non-partisan Government Accountability Office and he is going on the offensive.  Read more >>

Within the last week the stock market has reached an all-time high. But wasn't it just weeks ago that the market suffered a one-day decline of over 400 points, the worst since the 9/11 attack?

The higher stock values have memory-challenged market watchers making happy talk, crediting low inflation and interest rates for a healthy economy and booming stock prices.  Read more >>

Several news reports over the last week had me thinking of the 1973 Charlton Heston movie Soylent Green, an "Al-Gorean" view of the earth's future as a dying planet no longer able to provide enough food to sustain the human population. At one point during the film, the mayor of New York treats his children to a visit to Central Park where they get to see the tree. That's right -- the tree, because it is the last one, a feeble specimen ensconced in a guarded geodesic dome.  Read more >>

To many Americans, the word "hypocrisy" is a synonym for politics. Congressman Alan Mollahan is only the latest example. Accusations that he funneled government money to supporters and business partners forced the ranking Democrat on the House Ethics Committee to step down. Will he eventually share a cell with his former colleague, Randy "Duke" Cunningham, a Republican lawmaker and war hero, who recently pled guilty to accepting bribes to influence decisions on defense contracts?  Read more >>

In an April 17 op-ed piece in the San Jose Mercury News, state Senator Don Perata complains that in California we are witnessing the hollowing out of the middle class because of what he sees as an inadequate response to our education, housing, transportation and health care needs.  Read more >>