The committee highlighted humor writer Dave Barry's observation: "The Democrats believe that if God did not want them to raise taxes He would not have created the Internal Revenue Service."

Cuts both ways

"Jihad," it turns out, was declared on America by a prominent Middle Eastern thug long before the Taliban and al Qaeda reared their ugly heads.

"Drug Kingpins Across the Decades" is the title of the Drug Enforcement Administration Museum's lecture series taking place this spring celebrating the DEA's 35th anniversary. On Thursday, the audience will learn about Haji Baz Mohammad and his personal jihad, or holy war, against the United States.

Mohammad orchestrated an international heroin trafficking organization that manufactured and distributed millions of dollars worth of heroin from Afghanistan and Pakistan into the United States, confident while doing so that it would lead to an untold number of American deaths.

"He conspired to sell heroin in the United States as a 'jihad' because they were taking the Americans' money at the same time the heroin they were paying for was killing them," explains the DEA, adding that during the course of the conspiracy the kingpin's organization was providing financial support to the Taliban.

The lecture begins at 10 a.m. in the auditorium of DEA headquarters at 700 Army Navy Drive in Arlington, just across from Pentagon City Mall.