HASTERT HIRED: Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, an Illinois Republican, has agreed to join the lobbying law firm Dickstein Shapiro as a senior adviser, the Washington-based firm said Friday. Hastert “will not be lobbying; he will be providing strategic counseling to our clients,” a spokeswoman for the firm said.
FIGHT CHARGES: A substitute teacher and a student at a suburban Atlanta high school have been charged with disorderly conduct after a fight in class that ended up on YouTube.
3 DEAD: A man shot and killed an elected official and a county employee at an eastern Kentucky convenience store Friday, then turned the gun on himself, a deputy coroner said.
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‘There are miserable creatures like you in every administration who don’t have the guts to speak up or quit if there are disagreements with the boss or colleagues. No, your type soaks up the benefits of power, revels in the limelight for years, then quits, and spurred on by greed, cashes in with a scathing critique.’ – Former Sen. Bob Dole (above), in an e-mail to ex-White House press secretary Scott McClellan, whose new book, “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception,” has stirred up a Washington firestorm
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