Integrity and Efficiency, Bush-style
Clay Johnson, deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget and chairman of the President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency, the man in charge of all inspectors general in the federal government, offers his assessment of the Bush administration:
By almost all accounts, this Administration has done more to improve government effectiveness [...]

RIP:  Irony. You will be missed.
Death often comes unexpectedly. Even when the deceased has been unwell for a long time, it can still be a surprise. Irony had been ailing ever since 1973, when Henry Kissinger, a war criminal, won the Nobel Peace Prize, and the audience at the awards ceremony didn’t burst out laughing. [...]

Emergency agency issues fake apology for fake news conference
Paul Brennan has blogged extensively (here and here) about last week’s press conference in which FEMA employees played the roles of reporters asking questions about the agency’s handling of the California wildfires. Today, in yet another press conference, Homeland Security boss Michael Chertoff called FEMA’s fake news [...]