Ralph Reed just getting in deeper and deeper.

Is it unreasonable to think that, if the Globe and Mail is going to give American evangelical swindler Ralph Reed this much coverage, they might also, perhaps, just touch a bit on stuff like this?

You'd think that latter stuff kind of counts as, you know, news.

JUST IN CASE YOU NEED THIS EXPLAINED TO YOU, what Reed and company did in the case of Indian casinos in Texas is absolutely breathtaking in its audacity. From the article above:

The ultimate source of Reed's multimillion-dollar fees for this lobby work appears to be a casino operated by the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, which wanted to eliminate competition from Speaking Rock and a small Alabama Coushatta casino in East Texas. The Louisiana tribe hired Abramoff and Scanlon in April 2001, ultimately paying them $32 million.

As soon as Cornyn shut down Speaking Rock in February 2002, team Abramoff pulled off an extraordinary double play. Playing on their close ties to indicted former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (who once had employed Scanlon as a press secretary), the same lobbyists who had worked behind the scenes to shutter Speaking Rock sold themselves to the Tigua tribe as the lobbyists who could press Congress to reopen that casino. The Tiguas-who hired Abramoff's team for an initial fee of $4.2 million-have since accused Abramoff, Scanlon and Reed of fraud.

Make sure you understand what happened here. First, the Coushatta tribe of Louisiana, who operated a casino, wanted to squash any potential gaming competition so they hired Reed and company to get the Texas casino, run by the El Paso-based Tigua tribe, shut down.

Once that happened, Reed and company turned around and signed on with that same Tigua tribe to get their casino re-opened. Is that a delightful scam or what? Man, that takes balls.

And don't forget, you read it here first. 'Cuz you'll never read it in the Globe.

DEAR AMERICANS: BUTT OUT! The meddling of Americans in our national politics knows no bounds, as The Jurist points out here. There was Focus on the Family, there was Ralph Reed, now there's the National Rifle Association.

I'm not clear on this -- are there any Canadian laws that define limits on foreign involvement in national elections?

BETTER AND BETTER: Oh, yeah.