Odds and Ends

Queen's visiting; I don't think King George made a good impression. Here's others news...

We all know that Attorney General Gonzales is nailed down at the Justice Department, but Paul Wolfowitz's grip on the World Bank just got a little less tight: "A committee of World Bank directors has formally notified Paul D. Wolfowitz that they found him to be guilty of a conflict of interest in arranging for a pay raise and promotion for Shaha Ali Riza, his companion, in 2005."

Sweet! Now will some committee find him guilty for starting a monstrously disastrous war?

Hey, speaking of the Justice Department... "Congressional investigators are beginning to focus on accusations that a top civil rights official at the Justice Department illegally hired lawyers based on their political affiliations, especially for sensitive voting rights jobs." {*feigns shock*}

Liberal media uncovers shocking secret... Barack Obama is black!!! OMG!

Meanwhile, on the healthcare front: "Abandoning the business lobby's traditional resistance to healthcare reform, a new coalition of 36 major companies plans to launch a political campaign today calling for medical insurance to be expanded to everyone along lines Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing for California."

And Washington Monthly explores another success failure of the free-market healthcare system.

Finally, let's review conservative constitutional logic: Allowing suspected terrorists to have legal rights to counsel and defense, etc = TREASON!!!!! Allowing suspected terrorists to purchase guns = GOD BLESS AMERICA!!! Conservative America, you are a true peach.