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When then-FBI Director James Comey announced he was closing the Hillary Clinton email investigation for a second time just days before the 2016 election, he certified to Congress that his agency had “reviewed all of the communications” discovered on a personal laptop used by Clinton’s closest aide, Huma Abedin, and her husband, Anthony Weiner. At the time, many wondered how investigators managed over the course of one week to read the “hundreds of thousands” of emails residing on the machine, which had been a focus of a sex-crimes investigation of Weiner, a former Congressman. Comey later told Congress that “thanks...

Apparently, while serving as our Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton "misplaced" $6,000,000,000 of hard-earned American Taxpayer provided funds Have any of you, by chance, seen that money? I looked everywhere for it. I even looked in the junk drawer. You know, the drawer where you put stuff you might need but don't know where else to put it. I didn't find Hillary's missing money there. Found some batteries, though. Now, $6,000,000,000 is a pretty good sum of money. Bill Clinton could buy his own rape island if he had that kind of dough. So, I think we should all look...

So Roger Clemens now finds himself facing significant jail time for lying to Congress about steroid use. Fine. If he did it -- lying and juicing up -- he needs to pay the appropriate penalty. But for Congress to be getting huffy about lies, of all things, is a bit rich. What happens when Congress -- institutionally and member by member -- lies to the people? It happens, of course, every day. Yes, steroid use is wrong -- it's a form of cheating, simple as that. And yes, perjury is beyond the pale. But The Rocket fizzled a long time...

Before we implement any sweeping changes of the American political system, how about cleaning up corruption first? * * * Hardly a week goes by that we don't read about politicians getting their grubby hands into another pile of pilfered pelf. * * * The list goes on and on, including many who were caught with their hands in the till, but will probably never do time. * * * With all these greedy, self-absorbed reprobates making decisions about our future, is it any wonder that people are terrified of handing health care reform to them?