AUSTIN, Texas — More bizarre appointments by the Bush administration. This problem is reaching tidal wave proportions. It's not so much a matter of setting the fox to guard the chicken coop as it is letting the raccoons loose in the henhouse.

Those of you who know how government works are fully aware of the difference agency heads and other top officials can make in the workings of a bureaucracy. With a president who is notoriously uninterested in details, those in charge of the ...

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