Getting Real on Budgets—and Who Won’t Budge

Now’s the time to shake off the slumber and look—gasp—look at who’s really benefitting from the shutdown threat.

UBS or Just Plain BS?

The Obama Justice Department has just floated a trial balloon to see if it can drop a legal effort to force the Swiss Bank UBS to disclose the names of 52,000 rich Americans suspected of using the bank to evade US taxes. Back in February, the Justice Department sued the bank in an effort to force it to name...