Politics: Lawnmower Drag Races and Bush buying the press.

DAILY GRILL

"I wanted to do it because it's something I believe in."
-- Armstrong Williams, on why he accepted $240K from the Bush administration to promote No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

VERSUS

Zero.
-- Number of times Armstrong Williams wrote about NCLB in his syndicated column, according to the Townhall.com archive (http://www.townhall.com/columnists/
armstrongwilliams/archive.shtml) . After signing the contract, he wrote five columns.


DAILY OUTRAGE

The State of Texas used federal money allocated for homeland security "to buy a trailer that was used to haul lawn mowers to ' lawn mower drag races (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&u=
/ap/20050108/ap_on_re_us/
terrorism_spending_2&printer=1) .'"