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DHS Child Sex Sting Official Is A Democrat Earlier today we listed some of the strong reaction to the arrest of Department of Homeland Security deputy press secretary Brian J. Doyle for attempting to arrange sexual relations with what he believed to be a 14-year-old female. Much of the reaction was critical of the Bush administration for not properly vetting one of their appointees. That assessment is dead wrong. Brian Doyle is a career civil servant - NOT a political appointee. Government workers aren't "vetted." Doyle, as a DHS employee probably has a secret or top secret government clearance, but...

Another year has gone into the record books and year-end compilations, re-caps and summaries abound. Why people seem to find such comfort and satisfaction in these lists and round-ups remains a mystery, but nonetheless, it is so. It is particularly fascinating to look back and see which news items didn’t become the big stories of 2005. Herewith, then, is this writer’s top-five list: 5. The Michael Steele garbage-dump scavenger hunt As noted in a prior column, Steele is the Democrats’ worst nightmare—a good-looking, articulate, conservative African-American with seemingly unlimited political potential. In what clearly seemed to be an effort to...