CNN: DeMint: "If you have lived a happy, normal, American life, you have probably never heard of something so tedious and alien as a Miscellaneous Tariff Bill. I envy you. But strange as it sounds, the obscure MTB is at the heart of a very small -- but very significant -- fight for American freedom."

INVESTORS: You probably already know that ObamaCare is full of what Democrats these days call "revenue enhancements" — job-killing tax increases on everything they can think of to pay for their health care takeover. What you might not know is that the largest tax increases in the ObamaCare legislation are not indexed for inflation.

National Review Online: As you may have heard, earlier this week President Obama was caught on an open mike asking outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, and by extension, President-elect Vladimir Putin, for “space” on “on all these issues, but particularly missile defense” because “after my election I have more flexibility.” The scandal isn’t really the embarrassing gaffe itself — or the equally embarrassing subsequent endorsement of his reelection by Pravda — but the true substance behind it.

In an op-ed column published today by the Washington Examiner, U.S. Senator DeMint writes that the central problem with ObamaCare "is not how the federal government is abusing its new power in this instance, but that the government – indeed, a single person – suddenly wields this power at all."

Bipartisan compromises on spending got us into this mess, and we'll never get out of it if Republicans don't offer a fiscally responsible alternative to the out-of-control spending that Democrats endorse.