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Just call him (or her?) "Senior Administration Official."by KenWith the craziness mounting all around us, we need the occasional guffaw, don't we?

The House Republican Menagerie gathered behind closed doors today and apparently with a bare minimum of opposition chose Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy to be the new majority leader, their No. 2 guy to Speaker "Sunny John" Boehner, then chose LA Rep.

What in tarnation does Edmund Burke have to do with the price of eggs in Egypt and Syria? More than you might think, I think. "We are no better, or worse, at understanding Iraq from instant video than the Brits were at understanding America from salty, soggy mail.

Helen Thomas, who died yesterday at 92, was ready for business in the front row of the White House briefing room this day in August 2006."How the hell do they expect us to believe that?"-- a favorite aside of Helen Thomas during White Housepress briefings, as remembered by CBS News's Bill Planteby KenI'm happy to see how positively Helen Thomas is being remembered -- more positively, prob