Rough Sketch: June 13, 2010 - June 19, 2010

Clinton becomes attorney general; Joe Wilson tastes own medicine; Sarah Palin's take on toking

Some expect Hillary Clinton to become defense secretary. A few conspiracy-minded folks think she'll take out Joe Biden as vice president. But it turns out she's already got a job: attorney general. In an interview June 8 with an Ecuadorean TV station that has just come to light on these...

By Dana Milbank  | June 17, 2010; 10:21 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (9)
 
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Hell's Angels' puppy; Nevada's unwashed; Palin's Norwegian dikes; Honore's finger on trigger; Rand Paul's mistaken identity; Virginia's confederate revival

And you thought things in South Carolina were weird? The sanity quotient appears to be substantially lower in Germany, according to this report out of Europe: A German student created a major traffic jam in Bavaria when he 'mooned' a group of Hell's Angels, hurled a puppy at them and...

By Dana Milbank  | June 16, 2010; 10:03 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (8)
 
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Cheney wannabe, Blackwater-in-exile, Jerry Brown on Goebbels, and the sad plight of Wall Street lobbyists

Dick Cheney sighting? The Associated Press reports that an American man armed with a pistol and a 40-inch sword was caught in northern Pakistan, claiming he was on a one-man mission to kill Osama bin Laden. Authorities identified the man as 52-year-old California construction worker Gary Brooks Faulkner, who had...

By Dana Milbank  | June 15, 2010; 10:28 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (13)
 
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Whitman accused of shoving employee; Steve King says Obama 'favors the black person'; Barbara Bush backs Obamacare; and Democrats back the NRA

Is this what's known as "pushback"? On Monday, Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-N.C.) had to apologize for an altercation on a Washington street in which he swatted at a camera and grabbed a man by the wrist and neck. But now push has come to shove, and word of a Republican...

By Dana Milbank  | June 14, 2010; 11:04 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (33)
 
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