West Burlington, Iowa

Click here: Many reporters covering national security and government policy in Washington these days are taking precautions to keep their sources from becoming casualties at the hands of the Obama administration.

Click here: “Whenever I’m asked what is the most manipulative and secretive administration I’ve covered, I always say it’s the one in office now [Obama],” Bob Schieffer, CBS News anchor and chief Washington correspondent.

Click here: Where’s sense of crisis in a 17% government shutdown?

Click here: Almost all voters — 88 percent — say “the government is in charge of the people.”  That includes 83 percent of Democrats, 88 percent of independents and 94 percent of Republicans.  

Only 8 percent feel “the people are in charge of the government.”