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Dining on Ashes

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has confessed to planning the brutal attacks on the USS Cole, the World Trade Center and the horrific beheading of Daniel Pearl. This should be a cause for rejoicing in America. We have a confession to some of the most terrible events in recent American history. High fives all around. The Bush administration has come through on one of its main goals and most sincere promises and has brought one of the great monsters in recent memory to justice. Why am I not feeling celebratory?

Alberto Gonzalez has no sense of Justice

Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez must resign.

Newt Gingrich, to no one's surprise, is a hypocrite

Newt Gingrich has admitted to having an affair during the Clinton era.

Sorry, Ann. It's still not funny.

Ann Coulter has reared her Republican head once again. Not satisfied with using an ugly slur specifically meant to demean John Edwards, and also clearly intended to play off of her audience's homophobia, she has now attempted to justify her use of the slur by saying that it was clearly a joke because John Edwards isn't gay.

There are several problems here.

How much do you get for falling on your sword these days?

And so, Scooter Libby has done his duty as a good Roman and fallen on his sword. He stood before the Forum and ended his political career in a dazzling Roman finale, as befits any Consul of the Republic.

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