TAPSCOTT TWO-FER THURSDAY: First on The Washington Stand today, President Donald Trump is doing more with a smaller, less costly White House staff than any of his three predecessors, according to spending and personnel data compiled by Open the Books.

Second, again on The Washington Stand, Open the Books dug deep into foia.gov data on response times of federal departments and agencies and found some stunning statistics about lengthy delays. At the Department of Commerce’s Office of the Undersecretary for Economic Affairs, for example, the average wait time for “simple” FOIA requests is 836 days!

And while we’re at it, whaddya say, let’s just go ahead and make it a three-fer: Over on HillFaith, J. Warner Wallace, the cold-case murder whiz, examines claims that whole Jesus thing is a product of ancient pagan myths.