Gut Check

Last week, Department of Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff announced his “gut feeling” the United States is in for another ter’st attack on U.S. soil this summer.

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Trouble Comin’ Every Day

Beleaguered Attorney General Alberto “Fredo” Gonzales was back on Capitol Hill last week, where he continued to deny that he or anyone else he could think of placed the names of up to nine United States Attorneys on a list of Justice Department employees who were forced to resign their positions last winter after having been identified by “senior leadership of the department” as being insufficiently loyal to White House political objectives.

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The Bright Side Of Life

Prime Minister Tony Blair announced this week nearly one quarter of the British forces deployed in Iraq will be leaving by May, and promised even more would be decommissioned from the war-torn former nation by the end of the year.

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I Pity The Fool

George W. Bush sputtered out his infamous mangling of the old “fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me” saying back in September 2002, when his administration was feverishly spinning suspect intelligence, outright lies, and frightening innuendo to garner public support for its ill-fated adventure in Iraq.

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