I am a middle aged white man from a small town in Alabama, third of four born to a small town doctor (himself born in 1921).  Dad worked his way off a farm in rural Jim Crow Georgia in the 30s, a smart guy who got through med school on ROTC and married a small town beauty.  Dad set up practice in rural Alabama in the 1940s.  His patients were black and white country folk.  We saw more things than most white children in our town.

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I was reading Randgrithr's most excellent diary about Henry Waxman's recent salvo concerning Blackwater's income tax-evasion schemes.  For background, go HERE. The diary got a litany of comments like, "Well, so what, as if Blackwater's gonna pay attention to Waxman anyway," and "Bush's DOJ isn't gonna do jack in any event."  Points taken.  All pretty accurate.  They skate again.

But do they?  A perspicacious and highly recced comment by ranger31 about "fraudulent billing" got me thinking.  If the government won't prosecute, why don't we?  More below.

Someone recently said that when you've got your opponent by the throat, kick 'em in the balls.  I'll bet Bush never saw the kick coming from former neocon guru Richard Perle!  In an upcoming Vanity Fair article, under the heading of "Now They Tell Us," author David Rose interviews some of the neocons responsible for the current Iraq quagmire, including the pseudo-intellectual "Prince of Neocon Darkness." Perle wastes no time cocking back his foot, taking aim, and going straight for the President.  Perle defends his theory for invasion (and covers his own butt) by flatly stating that the current disaster is the result of the incompetence and dysfunction of the President and everybody in his administration.  

Keep reading, it gets better.