Some Syrian Chemical Weapons Have Gone Missing

By: Jake (Diary)  |  September 29th at 07:00 AM  | 

As the world watches the goings-on in Syria, one of the most pressing fears is that its stock of chemical weapons might go missing and fall into the wrong hands. Today, we find that our nightmare is coming true. We heard in late August that Syrian rebels claimed to have taken over a base with chemical weapons. Now, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has admitted that some of those weapons have gone missing

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Secretary Sebelius, Meet The Anti-Deficiency Act.

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  February 7th at 02:30 PM  | 

It is “unacceptable that HHS fails to maintain accurate financial records and fails to adhere to federal law designed to protect taxpayer dollars from mismanagement and waste,” Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and Rep. Charles Boustany, R-La., wrote in a Monday letter to the department’s secretary, Kathleen Sebelius. (HT:Federal Times) The USG may not appear to have a very tight wrap on how and where it’s | Read More »

Ron Johnson’s Blue-Slipping of Joe Biden’s Victoria Nourse.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 5th at 05:00 PM  | 

Let me tell you a tale of the incompetence of Vice President Joe Biden. Trust me, this one is even better than usual. Once upon a time, back in the days when Joe Biden was a bad Senator instead of a bad Vice President, he had a staffer named Victoria Nourse. Ms. Nourse’s major claim to fame was ‘helping’ to write the (later deemed partially-unconstitutional) | Read More »

The White House *has* been stumbling, Politico.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 3rd at 01:00 PM  | 

Well, this is rich.  In the process of complaining about how the White House seems to be a combination of Mayor Daley and Barney Fife – no, really, that’s explicitly the two figures that they used – Politico reports: One senior House Democrat said it is baffling “how one group of people can be so good at campaigning and so bad at politics” — a | Read More »