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Here it is, Scooter Libby’s receipt from the courthouse — evidence that his lawyers cut a quarter-million-dollar check (plus $400 for some fee) from his legal defense fund and had a courier drop it off. THE SYSTEM WORKS, PEOPLE. MORE »

Smithsonian Secretary Lawrence M. Small is out just a month after his obscene expense reports showed up in the Washington Post — Small made off with $2 million in ridiculous “expense reimbursements” in his three short years on the job, including hundreds of thousands of dollars out of “petty cash.” Oh, and when the inspector general started investigating the outlandish expenses, he commanded her to lay off. She didn’t. MORE »

Why did violent, delusional alcoholic Jim Gibbons take the oath as Nevada’s newest and craziest governor at 12:00:12 a.m. on January 1? Initial reports blamed some make-believe terror threat because Saddam Hussein supporters would certainly target some nobody in Northern Nevada to avenge the Iraqi president’s hanging.

But the real reason for the bizarre midnight ceremony in Gibbons’ Reno living room has less to do with the sociopath’s terror fantasies than his cheap mafia casino power grabs and fanatical loathing for the popular, competent and sane outgoing governor, Republican Kenny Guinn.

Learn all about the pig-eyed thug’s latest filthy schemes, after the jump.

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Let’s take a moment to remember California Congressman Richard Pombo, a true nut and total crook who has soiled everything he’s touched for seven long horrific terms in the House. MORE »