The State Department admitted Thursday it fired two contract employees and suspended a third because they snooped into Sen. Barack Obama’s passport files.
The Department confirmed the firings today but admitted the repeated breaches of Obama’s files occurred in January, February and March of this year. There was no immediate explanation for the delay in action or announcement of the action.
By Maggie Van Ostrand
Television news suffers from an appalling number of errors. I’m not talking about the frequent ones in spelling and grammar, or even the misidentification of people in photographs onscreen, I refer to misrepresenting the news itself.
First it was bacteria, then it was medicine and drugs, now its poison. Ooh what’s next, typhoid? the plague?
Happy Easter!
Colorado salmonella outbreak linked to tap water
…Officials said that the tap water tested positive for bacteria believed to be salmonella…
Move would provide $84 million, but could put him at a disadvantage to a better-funded Democratic opponent.
I came across this man-in-the-street video and thought I would share it with you all.
But first, a word from James Madison…
It’s never exactly been a secret that Vice President Cheney operates by his own rules and thinks he knows better than the American public. But yesterday, he made it official.
Hillary Rodham Clinton was home in the White House on at least seven days when her husband had sexual encounters there with intern Monica Lewinsky, according to Sen. Clinton’s schedule, released Wednesday among 11,000 pages of papers from her years as first lady.
Let’s face facts and admit that whichever of the three becomes the President, the war will continue. It is a cash cow for the Chief Executive and the VP, and they will milk it for as much as they can. If you listened closely to the speech on racism that so many readers fawned over, Obama did not say he would end the war. He said that “…we must find a way … to bring the troops home…”
I had to share this with you guys. I know you will appreciate this analogy.
Credit Crisis For Kindergarteners
David Leonhardt notes that it’s pretty hard to explain what’s going on in the financial world these days (ht Felix). Here’s how I’d tell the tale to a child:
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