It’s April Fools Day. April Fool’s Day is in two days.* When I was 14 it meant the morning my brother and I taped the sink nozzle down so that when my mother woke up in the morning she would get soaked. Those were the days. Now, it serves little purpose other than to...
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Posts Tagged ‘ Attorney General ’
Hatchet FAIL
In Defense of the Hatchet
The folks over at GW Blogspot opened up a big can of worms with this post, accusing the Hatchet of…well, I’m not sure. Being evil and in cahoots with Stephen Knapp, or something like that. I think the complaint is that the Hatchet has become too close to the University to remain meaningfully “independent,”...
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Michael Mukasey Confirmed
The Senate has confirmed Bush’s nomination of Michael Mukasey as Attorney General. I haven’t the heart to comment, though others better than me certainly have. See Jacob Sullum, writing for Reason, here. Deroy Murdoch, writing for National Review, defended Mukasey (and “waterboarding”) here.
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Al, We Hardly Knew Ye
Following in the little-lamented footsteps of former Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resigned today. The New York Times charitably referred to the man as “embattled,” which would imply that he wasn’t driven from the field in disgrace months ago. Forgive me if I shed no tears for the man.
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Gone-zales?
…as if that isn’t already the most overused pun of the month. Seriously, though, if Attorney General Alberto Gonzales isn’t gone in two weeks thanks to “attorney-gate,” I’ll be a monkey’s uncle. Even this ridiculous conservative rag agrees with me.
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