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...Whitney's standup routine of country rube one-liners is his bread and butter, but he's becoming a box office regular. In 2006, his movie Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector earned $15.6 million, proving that enough of Whitney's fans would show up at the multiplex for the potty humor and Dale Earnhardt Jr. references they knew from the Blue Collar Comedy Tour to make his films profitable. As the voice of the tow truck character Mater in the Pixar movie Cars, Whitney was introduced to some other demographics...
...Department of Justice Inspector General report called ATF's inspection program "not fully effective," adding that "inspections are infrequent and of inconsistent quality." In that report, ATF was told to revise its staffing requirement to meet the three-year inspection goal. ATF spokeswoman Mixell says that while the bureau is far from its goal, some improvements have been made to focus the bureau's limited resources over the past three years. For example, says Mixell, ATF now conducts a face-to-face interview with every new applicant for a license. That is not the case for follow-on inspections, however...
...moves the U.S. government was making were driving a wedge between the various factions in Iraq. [Longtime US weapons inspector] Charles Duelfer was told by an Iraqi friend that, in the past, Iraqis were not accustomed to thinking of themselves primarily as Shia or Sunni. But the way we implemented democracy had led people to believe that they deserved a piece of the pie based on their membership in a certain group. So the whole dynamic was to pull away from the center. The decisions we made tended to fracture Iraq, not to bring it together...
...President Bush and Senate Republicans say they object to the Democrats' draft authorization because of provisions like making the overall intelligence budget public and creating a statutory inspector general for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Bush said last Thursday that unless these and other provisions that add Congressional oversight of the intelligence community are stripped from the authorization, he will veto...
...Secretary Bodman, who will testify Friday April 20 before a congressional oversight subcommittee on security issues, has already taken a number of steps of his own to deal with the problem. He not only commissioned the task force report and reviewed the results of a DOE inspector general investigation, but in January fired the department's top official in charge of nuclear security in response to the latest Los Alamos and earlier incidents. As Bodman put it: "Unauthorized removal of the classified material from the Lab marks a significant breach of security protocol and of the public trust. Unfortunately...