Arizona Congressman Rick Renzi has just been indicted for allegedly profiting from a crooked land deal.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Rep. Rick Renzi was indicted Friday on charges of extortion, wire fraud, money laundering and other matters in an Arizona land swap scam that allegedly helped him collect hundreds of thousands of dollars in payoffs.
A 26-page [...]
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February 22, 2008
More GOP Crime and Punishment
January 23, 2008
Cutting Your Own Throat to Save on Groceries
NBC CEO Jeff Zucker, in what has to be some kind of Zen riddle, has announced that his network will stop producing pilots for TV shows.
I’m still trying to get my head around that. Is a TV network still a network if the TV network does not make TV shows?
How did this go down in [...]
January 22, 2008
Wrong About Everything, Part 2
I’m no fan of Mitt Romney. But today, as one great big fat media crush, Fred Thompson, drops out of the Presidential race, and another, Rudy Giuliani, looks like he’s about to do the same, it’s worth examining why the media keeps calling John McCain the front-runner.
Romney has almost twice as many delegates as McCain. [...]
January 3, 2008
Bearing Fruit
This is why I admire my friend Bill.
I abandoned investigative reporting, and later, daily journalism altogether. I found it far less frustrating to make stuff up from the comfort of my own home rather than muck about in courthouses and government offices looking for, you know, actual facts.
Bill never gave up. Which is probably why [...]
