Must reading today is an insightful Chicago Sun-Times op-ed by Mary Laney, entitled 9/11 PANEL MEMBER SHOULD STEP DOWN!. It concerns the 9/11 Commission hearings which have recently deteriorated into a modern version of the Salem witch trials, except these days the wicked witch is the Bush administration, including such alleged sorcerers as George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Condaleeza Rice. Talk about a rigged anti-Bush proceedings. The New York Times couldn't be happier. The problem is that an appearance at the hearings by the always forthright U.S. Attorney General, John Ashcroft, revealed a blatant conflict of interest on the...