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Church? State? It’s all the same to Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, The Preacher Politician.

Have Fun in Jail, Douchebags:
Skilling was found guilty of 20 of 28 counts against him.
Lay was found guilty on all six counts of conspiracy and fraud.
In a separate bench trial, Judge Sim Lake ruled Lay was guilty of four counts of fraud and false statements.
Related: Our review of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.

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I have decided that both Pelosi and Hastert must be beating their chests non-stop and endlessly going “I can’t believe I said that” ever since they made the following announcement. (That’s the only way I could keep my head from exploding.)
“The Justice Department must immediately return the papers it unconstitutionally seized,” House Speaker Dennis […]

I apologize for a recent mis-statement. Whatever a Democrat can do, Republicans can indeed do much, much better.
What does a Lone Ranger like William Jefferson count for when set against the Republican party’s formidable Culture of Corruption, where wrongdoing snakes its slimy tentacles into the very highest levels of their congressional caucus?
Yes, […]

Tommy Franks thinks he’s the only General with a clue, but rules out politics: The Blessing is All Ours

Funny how the bigwigs in Congress have worked up a fine bipartisan lather over the FBI executing a search warrant at Rep. William Jefferson’s Capitol Hill office. When it comes to the NSA engaging in warrantless wiretaps without probable cause, hardly a Republican has a problem. When it comes to the NSA poking […]

Yesterday morning I watched an interview with an oil company CEO, and going by memory, he made the following argument with great sincerity: “People are angry about gas prices, but they need to understand that oil companies have no control over market prices. Market prices are set by supply and demand. And oil […]

On the same day that the Times ran a hit piece on the Clintons’ sex life, the Post decided that it would be a good idea to run a puff piece on our pal Bill Frist. Funny how that worked out.
In the interest of fairness, I’m going to balance the scales a bit.

First of […]

I certainly don’t claim to possess the wisdom of Solomon, but in my own modest way I would like to make a constructive contribution to the English-as-an-official-language debate.
Since it would be far too ignominious to require the President to go out and learn a new language at his age, the Senate should drop […]

Did the President break his celebrated 1999 promise to never raise taxes? Depends on the Definition of “Any”…