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Linda Chavez withdraws her name from consideration as Secretary of Labor. Federal law makes it a crime � punishable by up to five years in prison � to harbor an illegal immigrant, as Chavez apparently did with Guatemalan immigrant Marta Mercado. Link to the full story in the Washington Post.

"Come the millennium, month 12,
In the home of greatest power,
The village idiot will come forth
To be acclaimed the leader."

-- Nostradamus, 1555

Two days after taking office, President Bush signed a memorandum reinstating the full abortion restrictions on U.S. overseas aid that his father and former President Reagan had instituted before him as reported by the Associated Press.

In his Inaugural Address, Bush says "I ask you to be citizens. Citizens, not spectators. Citizens, not subjects." The same day, he had the license plates on the Presidential limo removed because they said "Taxation Without Representation" begging the question "what he consider the definition of 'subjects' to be?". Unlike US citizens in territories like Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, the subjects of DC are federally taxed without representation in Congress.

DC citizens are asked to foot the bill for the crowning of King Bush. The conservative Washington Times reports that the DC government was required to spend $8 million dollars on the Inauguration (security, cleaning, etc), even though Congress appropriated on $2.3 million leaving DC citizens (the ones who are taxed and not represented in Congress) to foot the bill. Click here to read the Washington Times editorial arguing (out of character for them) that the federal government should pay it's own bills.

U.S. Attorney General-designate John Ashcroft testifies in confirmation hearings that he opposed James Hormel's appointment as ambassador to Luxembourg because he believed the gay nominee could not effectively represent the US.

The Washington Post reports that U.S. Attorney General-designate John Ashcroft asked a job applicant if he had normal sex before even introducing himself seemingly contradicting testimony that he does not discriminate based on someone's sexuality.

White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card states in a front page article of USA Today that the White House is closing their offices on race relations and AIDS. Later that day a Reuters story states that White House spokesman Ari Fleischer says this is not the case. Bush failed to say the word AIDS as governor of Texas. The Washington Post in an article characterized the incident as the "first significant stumble of a White House that has basked in mostly favorable reviews for its smooth and disciplined performance."