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I’m not a big fan of Attorney General Eric Holder. In fact, I think he’s been pretty much a disaster. The DOJ’s position on about a dozen issues has been flagrantly opposed to civil liberties. But this exchange with batshit crazy Rep. Louis Gohmert is simply awesome. Holder gives an entirely coherent answer to Gohmert’s claim that the FBI didn’t do a thorough investigation of the Tsarnaev brothers due to “political correctness” and Gohmert simply has a meltdown. The funny thing is that the chair of the committee, Bob Goodlatte, is a very conservative Republican himself and he’s trying to get Gohmert to stop. And at the end, Gohmert actually says that Holder has “cast aspersions on my asparagus.” Read more

Rep. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota (state rep, not federal) delivered the commencement address at the University of Mary, which, you may have guessed, is a Catholic college. What he delivered was a series of bewildering non-sequiturs that added up to little more than a list of complaints about how the world wasn’t the way he wanted it to be. Read more

With the Obama administration’s furious war against whistleblowers who reveal abuses and illegality by the government, especially the executive branch, the New Yorker is rolling out a new way for sources to turn over incriminating evidence that the public should know about. It was coded by the last Aaron Swartz, the open-source crusader who committed suicide a few months ago. Read more

If you thought Princess Anna Pierre was bad, wait till you meet Richard Sheridan, a candidate for the Dallas City Council who received a whopping 28 votes for that office and then unleashed a bigoted tirade on a voicemail left for a local reporter. Read more

Tucker Carlson’s The Daily Caller has quickly distinguished itself as an online news source full of people just like Carlson — tired hacks with little intellectual integrity. Patrick Howley, who dubs himself an “investigative reporter,” breathlessly exposes the “strong Obama connections” of the husband of Lois Lerner, the IRS official who apologized last week for that agency’s targeting of conservative groups for additional scrutiny. Here’s what he managed to come up with: Read more