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...Citizens Against Government Waste injects sarcasm and condescension into the serious issue of earmarks hoping to prod politicians and arouse popular anger over untoward spending. CAGW argues that lawmakers circumvent the budget allocation process by sneaking funding for hometown projects into large appropriations bills. This is not entirely untrue, but without investigating the merits of each project - and instead condemning them all in bulk - it's a little hard to take the Pig Book at face value. Still, the book and CAGW's online database are good resources for constituents who want to find out which projects in their communities...
...Clark, a former director of Homeland Security. "You're talking about a huge volume of people, and of dignitaries, so it is potentially a target for every kind of extremist, domestic or foreign." Besides, says Clark, the authors of the assessment report also need to cover themselves for every untoward possibility. "This is as much a political situation as it is a security situation," he says...
Another Congressman, weeks from an election, is accused of untoward sexual behavior, contradicting his public stance as a moral crusader. He initially says as little as possible, offers opaque denials, vague apologies to his family for whatever he did or did not do, and predicts vindication...
...could be argued that it's the other way around. There are many more people around to see if there is something untoward. Why would urban parents need to be more protective? My older son took the subway when he was about nine or ten years old by himself. We were sitting at the dinner table one night and we were talking. He said, "I've figured out that if it ever looks like there's going to be trouble on the subway, I act like I'm a little bit crazy and no one goes near me. Okay?" This...
...Reformer's Burden For most other Senators, especially those lacking presidential ambitions, such untoward appearances would not raise much of an eyebrow. On any given day, thousands of lobbyists work their connections on Capitol Hill, hoping to obtain letters on their behalf or legislation in their favor. But for McCain, such questions become an issue of integrity. He is the one, after all, who regularly breaks the Senate's code of silence by alleging corruption by his peers. "Elected officials do act in particular ways in order to assist large soft-money donors," McCain wrote in a sworn statement from...