Ooops!

Today's Washington Post reports that "Republican presidential candidate Fred D. Thompson has been crisscrossing the country since early this summer on a private jet lent to him by a businessman and close adviser who has a criminal record for drug dealing." The Post story reports that Philip Martin was first arrested and plead guilty to drug charges in 1979. In 1983 he was charged with violating probation and plead no contest to cocaine trafficking and conspiracy charges. Apparently, Martin has been providing Thompson with big breaks in transportation costs as the candidate crisscrosses America in his bid to challenge "the nation's mayor" and the country's best known cross-dresser, Rudi G., for the Republican nomination. Looks like Hilly's campaign isn't the only one that criminals like to cozy up to.



It Can't Happen Here:

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule yesterday, suspending the constitution and firing the country's chief justice at the same time. Private television stations have been blacked out and opposition leaders arrested. The Washinton Post reports on the events today.

So far, Bush has only joked about doing something like this.