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politico.com - 3/30/2009

"If I'm corrupt, it's because I take care of my district."

— politico.com — Blog: Murtha's eye-popping statement. (more) "If I'm corrupt, it's because I take care of my district."

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hotair.com - 3/31/2009

Murtha: “If I’m corrupt, it’s because I take care of my district”

— hotair.com — The “if” here operates in roughly the same way as it did in the title of that... O.J. [...] Read the rest » (more) Murtha: “If I’m corrupt, it’s because I take care of my ...

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John Murtha

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TPMMuckraker — ... Louisiana is more corrupt that Illinois, the Chicago Tribune boasts. A report by the paper shows that Louisiana is the third most corrupt state in the country, based on the number of politicians per capita convicted of crimes between 1998 and 2007. Louisiana ranks third behind Washington D.C. and North Dakota, whose results are skewed by their small populations, the report said. In the past six years alone, the federal attorney for New Orleans district issued 236 corruption indictments. President of the New Orleans Metropolitan Crime Commission Rafael ...

Louisiana Beats Illinois For Most Corrupt State Honors
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — Chicago Tribune : [F]or genuine, savory, infused-in-the-gumbo style public venality, Louisiana still has Illinois, and most of America, beat. Ranked according to corruption convictions per capita from 1998-2007, Louisiana is No. 3, well ahead of Illinois at No. 19. (Only Washington, D.C., and North Dakota ranked higher--and in North Dakota's case, the results were skewed because of its extremely small population.) Read the whole story: ...

Military Force: Is There Anything It Can’t Do?
Matthew Yglesias — ... : “But what seems to be conspicuously absent from the conversation in the United States is the realization that Afghanistan’s corruption problem, like its security problem, can be best addressed by additional troops.” At long last the case for military occupation of Louisiana that we’ve been waiting for. ...