For more than a year, the congressional corruption scandal triggered by former lobbyist Jack Abramoff has focused attention on earmarks secured by lawmakers on lobbyists' and government contractors' behalf. Now watchdog groups are combing through lawmakers' land holdings and legislative activities, searching for earmarks that may have boosted the value of those investments. (Washington Post, Thursday)
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
–Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar
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The Golden Calf of Democracy by Lawrence W. Reed