(CBS/AP) Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI director Robert Mueller signaled they would resign this week rather than give in to Congress in a dispute over an FBI raid on Rep. William Jefferson’s Capitol Hill office, an administration official tells CBS News.
Top law enforcement officials at the Justice Department and the FBI indicated to their [...]
Posted on May 27th, 2006 by pwyll
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An anonymous comment on an Orin Kerr post led to this very fine graphic at Outside the Beltway. Perhaps someone will make it into a bumper sticker.
Posted on May 25th, 2006 by pwyll
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Representative William Jefferson (LA) graced this blog last September when I remarked on his use of military resources to retrieve personal items from his home during the aftermath of Katrina. Now I realize that he probably just needed to get something out of the freezer.
Mr. Jefferson is back in the news. He has performed [...]
Posted on May 24th, 2006 by pwyll
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After an emotional debate fraught with symbolism, the Senate yesterday voted to make English the “national language” of the United States, declaring that no one has a right to federal communications or services in a language other than English except for those already guaranteed by law.
The measure, approved 63 to 34, directs the government to [...]
Posted on May 24th, 2006 by pwyll
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A reader took me to task for my commentary on a murder recently in the news. The reader calls me a “sanctimonious hypocrite” and characterizes my post as follows: “Human tragedy as political rhetoric. Very nice.”
The political rhetoric allegation puzzles me. I want to know what political end ‘my’ rhetoric promoted. I quoted from the [...]
Posted on May 22nd, 2006 by pwyll
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