Justice Department’s Illegal Hijinks

The Washington Post reports that the Inspector General’s report indicates that high ranking Justice Department officials routiney violated civl service and Federal ethics standards in their hiring and promotion practices. I have two initial reactions to this. The first is that the impropriety of the Machiavellian literalness (see Harvey Mansfield’s books on “Taming the Prince” and “Manliness” to see the intellectual underpinnings) of this administrations governing philosophy has ecome sickeningly clear. Second, it would be nice if the Washington Post article would refer to what the report is and who wrote it somewhere within the first four paragraphs of the story as opposed to referring to it as “a report” for the first half of the article.The online version could really stand to lik to the actual report since it is available to the public.

For a direct link to the PDF of the report, click here.

Forever in your debt…

The Federal Deficit has skyrocketed. The Vice President was on record as saying “deficits don’t matter.” I suppose we will find out.